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by mediascreen 4y ago
Slightly off topic: What's with HN and the word "orthogonal"? I'm not a native English speaker, but I read a lot in English and it seems like the word is extremely common on HN compared to anywhere else. Isn't usual
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by mediascreen 4y ago
There are a few things I think you could do about it: 1. Find somewhere to work were they use a tech stack you feel is more appropriate. 2. Work at a smaller company where you have more say in the tech stack and tooling. 3. Find a company o
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by mediascreen 4y ago
At least in eu-north-1 the three AZs are located in different towns, about 50 km apart (Västerås, Eskilstuna and Katrineholm).
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by mediascreen 4y ago
As a Swede with pretty much the opposite views, your monolithic EU "we" sounds pretty offensive. The 2008 financial crisis might have started in the US, but outcomes in European countries varied greatly depending on local policies
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by mediascreen 4y ago
At least here in northern Europe the opinion still seems to be solid in support for Ukraine. The invasion is not always the top headline anymore though.
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by mediascreen 4y ago
How does it work in countries with slightly lower incentives? Are there other ways to get people to pay for my retirement? Maybe by attracting well educated immigrants?
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by mediascreen 4y ago
As someone who pays taxes in Sweden and don't plan on having children, I would probably not choose to pay for 480 days parental leave per child, subsidised day care and child allowance payment to the extent they exists today if I had a
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by mediascreen 4y ago
I run 50+ smallish applications on AWS using Bitbucket Pipelines, Fargate, Aurora MySQL, S3, Cloudfront and a few other services. Most of the setup is scripted using very simple Cloudformation scripts. I estimate that I spend maybe 10% of m
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by mediascreen 4y ago
Of course. Companies will not spend money without expecting something back. But the sponsorships are not very obvious and you have to ready pretty far down on the about pages to find out. I would be surprised if 10% of the visitors to the a
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by mediascreen 4y ago
In Stockholm, Sweden, two of the largest arenas are named by companies who paid to have the arena named something not associated with their company. Friends Arena is named after the Swedish anti bullying foundation Friends as part of the Sw
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by mediascreen 4y ago
Sure. On the other hand you can usually chose which companies to interact with. When it comes to governments the relationship is not optional. Your government usually have more ways to affekt your life than most private companies has (like
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by mediascreen 4y ago
I often find that developers with an interest in product development and the business side can make huge contribution by suggesting alternative solutions to writing more code. With some gentle pushback on requirements they can help clarify
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by mediascreen 5y ago
The server locations does not seem to matter as long as American government agencies are able to make the company provide the information. But, companies like AWS claim that they voluntarily bind them selves to to provide much stricter priv
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by mediascreen 5y ago
I agree. Hopefully this is temporary and they can figure out a reasonable compromise. As a Swede I do feel that parts of the EU (with Germany and France) are heading in the wrong direction. Those are not countries famous for their entrepren
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by mediascreen 5y ago
Why limit it to the EU? Shouldn't every country have their own AWS, Azure and Google Cloud? I think we underestimate just how difficult it is just to replicate existing services, let alone keep up with the innovation. It's like th
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by mediascreen 5y ago
I already get a lot of "We are sorry, but for legal reasons we are prevented from providing this service where you live" when I'm accessing American websites. Recent European judgements seems to make it illegal to embed conte
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by mediascreen 5y ago
I think we (in the EU) will soon realise the bizarre consequences of these regulations. European startups will not be able to use standard SaaS or PaaS tools (like AWS, Azure, Mailchimp, PayPal etc) if they are based in the US (like most of
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by mediascreen 5y ago
Well, you might be building inventory systems for lumber yards or scheduling software for transit companies. It might be more abstract and not as direct, but I would still take pride in those tasks.
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by mediascreen 5y ago
I derive most of my job satisfaction from solving interesting technical challenges. I also have an ability to become interested in whatever industry I work in and I take pride in being a small cog in the system that provides goods and servi
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by mediascreen 5y ago
When it comes to agency work, with a lot of small to medium sites or API:s (in the $10k-$200k range) PHP is very convenient and there are a lot of choices when it comes to hosting and deployment. Dedicated WordPress hosts, Laravel Forge and
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by mediascreen 5y ago
I'm no Java developer, but JetBrains Java and PHP editors look very similar in functionality. And VS works fine with PHP.
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by mediascreen 5y ago
To say it's not controversial seems misleading. It may be widely acclaimed, but also hugely criticised. Wikipedia has a short collection of the criticism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_C
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by mediascreen 5y ago
Well, I'm spending the fall in Barcelona right now, but I don't think I'll move somewhere else permanently. As I get older I seem to get more attached to Sweden and have hard time imagining building a permanent life somewhere
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by mediascreen 5y ago
I live in Stockholm and have a beautiful 20 minute walk to the office. It takes about the same by bus or metro. On the other hand I have an 45m2 apartment, since I would rather have a small place in the center of Stockholm than having a big
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by mediascreen 5y ago
I'm pretty sure AWS Textract does that already. https://aws.amazon.com/textract/
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by mediascreen 5y ago
Well, first of all it's 10x compared to Norway and 3X compared to Denmark. There are huge differences in demographics between the Scandinavian countries. Over 20% of the Swedish population have been born outside of the country, mostly
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by mediascreen 5y ago
Got the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate certification two years ago. I started working more with AWS and felt like there was a bunch of services and concepts that I didn't know. My employer paid for a three day course and t
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by mediascreen 5y ago
I think it is very hard to say if it is because if or in spite of its policies that Sweden has been somewhat successful. And I would say that going from the world's highest tax rates (% of GDP) to the world's fourth highest rate d
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by mediascreen 5y ago
Maybe not exactly the same thing, but there are tax auditors, tax audits, access logging (for some administrative systems), "know your customer" bank regulations and public insider registries for example.
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by mediascreen 5y ago
Can a restaurant really afford to waste huge amounts of expensive meat every day? I thought their entire margin was based on minimizing expensive waste.

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