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by kriro 7y ago
First of all, That seems overly dramatic. I can only speak for Germany but I think 60-80k is more realistic. I think as a good university graduate in IT you should make >50k as that's the entry level pay for someone working in acade
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by kriro 7y ago
Very anecdotal evidence here but I worked in the African Union in the 2000s. There were already many Chinese businessmen around which surprised me a bit. To be honest the difference in the interactions couldn't have been much clearer.
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by kriro 7y ago
I'm generally not a fan of the EU (or bureaucracies in general) but it seems that with regards to digital legislation and rulings they tend to at least work with good intentions (at least imo). One can argue about the implementation bu
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by kriro 7y ago
SJG is also famous for being raided by the Secret Service, having lots of stuff vital to their operations seized and being awarded a nice sum of money in SJG vs. Secret Service, which iirc. was also one of the reason why the EFF was created
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by kriro 7y ago
It seems like I can query BadExit status (which of course makes sense, as the client wants to avoid bad exits) so that makes it a bit useless as a protection mechanism against determined malicious agents that operate at scale. In fact it ma
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by kriro 7y ago
I can't think of an argument that makes sense to me to "not show". Showing the work captures the thought process which is really the only thing that matters from an educational point of view (in my opinion). Mostly because th
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by kriro 7y ago
I wouldn't take this too seriously. Theoretically mathematics is also a "soft science" or no science at all depending on the science theoretical background of the person you talk to (science is only experiments with data, emp
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by kriro 7y ago
I suppose a good solution would be to evaluate the person on the accuracy of the prediction :) Of course that's a nice dream in a management driven environment.
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by kriro 7y ago
I think time estimation can be learned to some degree. As an anecdote a couple of years ago I had some free time and my sister was renovating her home. I volunteered to tear down all the wallpapers (basically an entire apartment). I had no
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by kriro 7y ago
I'd argue Korea is as close to the west, potentially closer.
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by kriro 7y ago
Small scale stuff you want on premise is a decent use case. The prime example being medical/dental. Imagine a patient with a crushed jarbone. You can model and print a custom prosthesis on premise and print it in maybe 16h-38h. Compare
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by kriro 7y ago
I'd settle for better PCB design tooling (or maybe I'm just unaware of good options). I feel like the tools are pretty archaic/inconvenient compared to stuff we have for software. Something like Eagle vs. some IDE feels very
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by kriro 7y ago
I would also argue that asking for some minimum level of education/sophistication like the parent poster might qualify as the type of Platonic elitism which Popper was very much opposed to (The Open Society and its Enemies). But then a
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by kriro 7y ago
Promises made 2009: Widespread broadband for everyone by 2010 2010: At least 50 MBit/s for most households by 2014 2011: 50 MBit/s everywhere by 2018 2014: Let's hope we can reach this 2015: Digital Agenda -> 50 Mbit/
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by kriro 7y ago
Pretty much agree with this sentiment regarding hardware/culture. Also the salaries are acceptable (imo) compared to fairly high paying US jobs if you compare real working hours (vacation time, real 40h workweeks etc.). With a family t
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by kriro 7y ago
I think there's a pretty big gap between "software first" companies and engineering driven ones (car companies, "Maschinenbau" etc.). Sometimes the cultural gap is pretty shocking to me. I made a career decision to
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by kriro 7y ago
Quite frankly, a multi billion dollar software company like Microsoft should be ashamed of themselves for not fixing a 0-day in 90 days. Even with all the non-coding involved and rolling it out properly they should probably be ashamed if th
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by kriro 7y ago
Games give you a nice domain to think about that you get very involved in. I think they are a very good starting point for business-oriented programmers. You are very invested in the "world" and stuff that doesn't work as you
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by kriro 7y ago
One area were overworking is very common practice is academia. There is no time tracking at most German universities (interestingly, universities of applied sciences seem to have them). It would actually be a pretty huge shift in the academ
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by kriro 7y ago
In Germany consumers certainly do not prefer automatic transmissions (I do and it puzzles me why most people don't). So there's at least some culture/history involved in these preferences. I'd assume "wanting contro
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by kriro 7y ago
"""If you have an imbalanced dataset of a ratio 1:10 of positives:negatives, set the bias on your logits such that your network predicts probability of 0.1 at initialization.""" Can someone translate this to Py
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by kriro 8y ago
Humans learn by copying and adapting. Pretty awesome culture we'd have if artists and musicians of days past would have to jump through DMCA-hoops. I can picture it...sorry Mr. Picasso great artists don't steal...they go straight
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by kriro 8y ago
Write more, care about your craft in general terms. Then it'll get better. It's a skill, skills get better with more practice. Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
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by kriro 8y ago
There's a book called Calexit by Matt Pizzolo about this exact scenario. Doesn't seem to be mentioned in the article. Can't say how much overlap it has with the proposed ideas because it's still sitting on my ever increa
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by kriro 8y ago
Quicksearch for Germany for some political parties: SPD: 880 adds FDP: 96 adds Grüne: 3 adds Die Linke: 2 AFD: 2 adds CSU: 1 add CDU: 0 adds (?!) Obviously there's a lot of subpages (youth organisations, state organisations) as well bu
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by kriro 8y ago
"""try to read bad handwriting from records from nuclear weapons plants. It's a dull job a monkey could do but it pays the bills.""" + """For years I worked as a computer guy for an academic
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by kriro 8y ago
I'm no domain expert but there's graphs for all sorts of things when it comes to food (usually used for quality control). You can probably just run computer vision over said graphs and get somewhere reasonable.
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by kriro 8y ago
For comparison, German federal government research grants (from the BMBF) explicitly have a 20% markup that is reserved for non-research stuff. Typically this goes to the university to cover the offices of the employees who work on the proj
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by kriro 8y ago
I roughly interpret the graph as anything being below the line leaning towards the "getting things done" camp and anything above leaning towards "academics". This is a bit distorted because FLOSS projects are favored (th
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by kriro 8y ago
What is the licensing situation for remastering like? It would be a pretty interesting competitive edge if a company like Netflix could improve their entire library with some inhouse remastering magic. Or even a bargaining tool for buying n

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