krakatau1

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by krakatau1 4y ago
I have read it. I know what liquidity trap is. That's not the problem. It's incentives. Incentives matter and people in western countries are not incentivized to have children and money isn't all that matters. People care abo
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by krakatau1 4y ago
Of course it's a Ponzi scheme since it promotes freeloading. People without children also expect to receive pension while escaping the effort and time to raise the next generation. When you did this at family level the result was prett
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by krakatau1 4y ago
It's hard to explain people in US but in Central Europe Java is like 70% of software jobs, the rest is Node and .Net and everything else is really niche outside of their domains.
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by krakatau1 5y ago
This thread proves to me that every discussion on US/Europe comparison is the same. There are people from USA who always bash on it (Reddit Bernie Sanders socialist brigades) and Europeans who never visited and feel they have to explai
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by krakatau1 5y ago
Well not million but 500-600k sure.
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by krakatau1 6y ago
I actually hate macos font rendering...Windows has way better fonts on 27" 2560x1440 or 24" 1920X1200 monitors With work issued macbook pro I have 2 4k 24" monitors to get that retina clarity instead and they keep fans on all
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by krakatau1 6y ago
yes, but on mac it will make both apps in separate desktops and in windows is just simple window tiling
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by krakatau1 6y ago
Just go back 50 years, they were 95% single ethnic states with remaining 5% european minorities.
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by krakatau1 6y ago
Visual Studio Code is fast on startup and that's it. It chokes on million LOC project while Eclipse and Intellij work fine.
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by krakatau1 6y ago
USA in 1945 was 91% white so it kinda makes sense that government did it. Homogeneous countries have no political issues with welfare because everyone is alike.
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by krakatau1 6y ago
I work for a large bank, we are rewriting business logic from Cics to Java or SQL/Pl but Db2 zOS stays. It has a phenomenal performance and HA. It also says a lot how relational database models outlive business logic api-s.
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by krakatau1 6y ago
First comment is good: Always appreciate your insights Patrick, but you are completely off base here. USA has far fewer working age combat veterans now than it did in the 1950s through 1980s, and violence isn't anywhere near the level
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by krakatau1 6y ago
This kind of migrations were non preventable before but now we have enough resources and technology to build walls and surveillance to block them entirely. Unfortunately, the only thing that is missing is will to do so.
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by krakatau1 6y ago
Yes, English had crazy fertility rate. At the begining of the Hundred Years’ War France had population of 17 million and Britain(excluding Ireland) had 4 million. By the time of Napoleonic wars Britain(with Ireland) had 17 million people co
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by krakatau1 6y ago
USA spends very little money on military as a percentage of GDP while being the most powerful force in history. I would argue that that money is very well spent.
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by krakatau1 6y ago
Maybe it was 5x. In that period millions of English went to colonies.
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by krakatau1 6y ago
There are two tools nobody mentioned yet. DbVisualizer -> best GUI for databases, you learn it well and use for all databases Editpad -> fastest text editor I’ve ever seen with bunch of useful features and terrific regex (see regexbud
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by krakatau1 6y ago
Yes, nothing compares to USA. I’ve lived in USA and I would gladly live there again but I have a large family here that I am very fond of and it’s not a option for me. Still for developers in central and Eastern Europe Western Europe doesn
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by krakatau1 6y ago
I’m also from Croatia...we actually had population growth in early nineties and we are losing more people to emigration rather than natural decline. It’s myopic to think that population decline doesn’t harm us. It puts rural areas in vicio
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by krakatau1 6y ago
Funny thing about corruption...It's very hard to quantify and as someone who spent couple of years living in China I would say there is no link between corruption and economic growth.
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by krakatau1 6y ago
Yes, I would actually argue that developers earn more than they would in Germany, Belgium or France.
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by krakatau1 6y ago
I don't have a lot of experience with Oracle but I can tell you that Postgres optimizer is shit compared to Db2 zOS or Db2 LUW. When I worked in a large bank we tried to migrate core system from Db2 zOS to Postgres and it went nowhere.
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by krakatau1 6y ago
To be fair I think only Postgres has that feature.
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by krakatau1 6y ago
I still go with Groovy for scripting and tests with Spock. Scripting is better because Kotlin doesn't have simple dependency management like Grape and compilation speed is way faster than Kotlin's. One of Kotlin's downsides i
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by krakatau1 6y ago
Well of course but Javascript is in unique position to do those kind of things, other languages have to be careful not to alienate its communities.
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by krakatau1 6y ago
there is no way that's happening, outside of silicon valley practically no one is using Go, there are millions Java developers who are quite content with language...
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by krakatau1 7y ago
the thing is alot of Cavaliers escaped to Virginia and during the Restoration Presbyterians and Independents fled to New England. New England, with its Puritan settlement, had supported the Commonwealth and the Protectorate. The two groups
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by krakatau1 8y ago
because every Maven project is more or less same while Gradle projects vary drastically...I don't know how anyone can tolerate Gradle and performance benefit is not that great...
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by krakatau1 8y ago
I can't believe nobody mentioned DbVisualizer. It's by far the best db tool and it works with bunch of them. Advanced Query Tool is also good but it's geared more for BA than DBA. Aqua Data Studio is also very good but too ex
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by krakatau1 8y ago
Yes, that's another abnormal labor market. I'm from Croatia, but I've seen similar things with colleagues from eastern and central Europe. IT salaries here are much better than western Europe compared to other professions an

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