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by misja111 8y ago
That's an interesting question although it's not directly related to the article. I think it is definitely possible to write Scala code that is easier to read than the same Java code. However it seems that a large part of the Scal
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by misja111 8y ago
It's about Scala, not Haskell, but the gist is the same: at my company we're giving new candidates a live coding interview where they get one hour to write a very simple application using either Java or Scala. Candidates are free
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by misja111 8y ago
Comparing to a typical submarine, it's three times as much space per person. Submarines typically have 30 square feet pp, 18m x 17.2m for 30 people is 93 square feet.
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by misja111 8y ago
No it's not. As a Dutch person who moved to Switzerland I can say that it's much easier to bike against the wind than to bike up-hill.
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Many IT projects are failing because their budgets and deadlines are deliberately set too optimistically. The reason for this comes from too sides: on the one hand, there is the client (either internal or external) who wants to have as many
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by misja111 8y ago
The support for Chavez was immense, in particular amongst the poor Venezuelans.
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by misja111 8y ago
"At some point this stops looking like normal relationships and start looking like an act of war" Well, as far as 'normal relationships' are concerned, the USA have quite a reputation to uphold. E.g: https://w
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by misja111 8y ago
Yes and there's more that is wrong in the article: "as demand for a product goes up, supply increases, and price goes down" No, when demand goes up, the price will go up as well unless supply increases by the same amount. The
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by misja111 8y ago
"Interest rates hike do cause short-term inflation" Do you care to expand? This is the first time I'm hearing somebody say this. I've always believed it is exactly opposite; raising interest rates motivates people to sav
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There are a lot of pianists with back problems.
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by misja111 8y ago
Exactly. Reading closely, it seems that funding was not secured at all when Musk posted his Tweet. Also, I'm reading that major shareholders were not aware of the information that Musk was basing his Tweet on. I can imagine that they a
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by misja111 8y ago
I read an interesting article recently related to this, which posted the following problem: that in recent times, moralism has become hijacked by the financial elite. For instance, to protect our environment you should eat local and organic
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by misja111 8y ago
It can't be the only reason. Saudy Arabia and Dubai are not exactly third-world countries. Here's a world map showing population cancer rate: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-population-with-... De
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by misja111 8y ago
1. Why is it such an 'amazing unfair advantage' to be able to offer 'free' lunch to your employees? Because the lunch is not really free, it is paid indirectly from the salary of the employee; new companies can simply of
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by misja111 8y ago
>> Basically, Amazon has no interest in making sure that the reviews are not being gamed I don't agree. First of all, these fake reviews are bad for Amazon's reputation and thus for their business. Second, these frauds lead
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You can order by phone or online in advance so you only have to walk to the restaurant to pick up your food. Maybe you don't like the walking, but then think again: it has been shown many times that some physical movement during the wo
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by misja111 8y ago
I find the article a bit pointless. The concept of infinity is made up by men. Just like the concept of numbers or logic. There doesn't exist something like a 'four' in reality, this only exists in models that we have create
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Why is pancreatic cancer correlated with population size but other cancers not? I would think that any disease is correlated with population size.
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by misja111 8y ago
I witnessed one myself when I was working as a consultant. It was a hospital that chose SAP to automate its invoicing system. When the implementation got stuck, the hospital was unable to send out any invoice for almost a year. In the end t
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by misja111 8y ago
What SAP and Oracle have in common is that they have a very capable sales force, that is able to convince companies that their business case will fit nicely into their model. Then, once the implementation is ongoing and it turns out that th
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by misja111 8y ago
The Jaguar i-Pace is available right now in the showrooms.
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by misja111 8y ago
The cost of living in Switzerland is high, that's true. But in IT the office language is English. And you have to pay your own healthcare insurance but afaik that's the case in most of Europe. In my experience it is a bit more dif
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by misja111 8y ago
Better yet, come to Switzerland and earn > 10K usd/ month; and on top of that, you pay only a fraction of the Swedish taxes.
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by misja111 8y ago
Well that should be easy to fix. Just keep showing up at the office but don't do any work. It shouldn't take too long before your employer gets sick of it.
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by misja111 8y ago
Interesting, would this be a case that shows that basic income wouldn't work?
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by misja111 8y ago
You're right, that line doesn't make sense, although not for the reason that you are giving. It doesn't really matter if you spend your raise or not. If you put your raise in the bank, the bank will spend it by either lending
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Children trapped in cages? Is this happening a lot in the US?
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"At the core […] is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets and communities. This idea […] comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects
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That's not entirely true. He's openly opposed to Amazon and to companies that outsource to factories abroad.
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"an F2F interaction was recorded when three conditions were met: two or more badges (i) were facing each other (with uninterrupted infrared line-of-sight), (ii) detected alternating speaking, and (iii) were within 10 m of each other.&q

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