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by mtrimpe 13y ago
There's plenty of info one Google search away, but easiest is probably to just ask one of the providers that will handle the registration for you. I use subsidiefocus.nl, but feel free to shop around. Just keep in mind that there are s
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I think only 500 hours/year in some cases, but even the full 1225 is doable with the 4 months on 8 months off schedule. But yeah, get them through one of the subsidy offices. It'll cost you 700 to 1200 Euros but increases the chan
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Move to Amsterdam; we all speak English and 24-hour work weeks are perfectly normal here. I'm not sure if it's possible if you use the US-NL immigration agreement, but you might even get innovation subsidies in which case you can
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I don't get it. Do you mean that you actually believe that all this women in tech stuff is nonsense and the reason there are so few women in tech has nothing to do with culture but is due to innate biological differences but that you
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
What exactly don't you believe though? That it's harder for women to thrive in tech than men? That more girls would get into tech if it was as less of a "boys thing"? Or perhaps more interestingly: What do you believe?
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Indeed; every geek/programmer already faces quite a bit of societal pushback and being a women adds even more on top of that.
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We'll probably settle for 40% as well if that seems like a natural distribution. The thing is that these initiatives aren't born out of thin air; they're in response to a lot of women coders expressing that it took a lot of d
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
> > And what about using persistent data structures by default > You can do that in CL if you like to. When you do this by default you do get a completely different ecosystem of libraries though, which is one of Clojure's key
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
And what about using persistent data structures by default and having JavaScript as a compilation target? I also haven't heard much about how easy CL's host language inter-op is to work with... Another big thing of course is that
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
We haven't found a good provider yet to do this properly for our use case, but SpeakerText, Koemei and VoiceBase are examples of companies that offer these functionalities. Unfortunately SpeakerText doesn't offer non-post-processe
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Very cool job. However if you ever need something like this yourself and a non-OSS solution is OK then there are plenty of Wowza CDNs where you can just set up VLC to stream to RTMP/RTSP which can be repeated world-wide and handle mult
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You would need a ~50% consensus (measured in compute power) to push through these manipulations though. Never thought I'd find myself calling a distributed cryptocurrency surprisingly democractic...
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At the process level there are already plenty of programs that work this way and it's exactly the kind of thing the Clojure ecosystem is geared towards. That's why the Purely Functional OS is essentially a thought experiment in wh
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I gave an un-conference talk at Clojure days Amsterdam called "Purely Functional OS" on this exact topic and we had an incredibly interesting discussion about the topic. The conclusion we kept coming back to is that it's tech
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Do you offer support for time-coded transcriptions (i.e. video subtitles) as well? We would love a good provider to enrich video with translations (for when we find a good one that offers machine transcription.)
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I know that you're not particularly sensitive to these issues, but there's a huge difference between attending a bar by choice for personal reasons and having to attend a bar to be able to fully participate in all parts of profess
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How about this one from October 2013 where a 25-year old woman gets talked into doing a body shot in a bar and ends up getting fingered by her boss while lying on the bar? http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Codemash_sex
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I find the degree to which you're comfortable using generic statements to define the issue a non-problem for the entire industry quite disheartening. That you personally don't feel the need to spend energy on these issues I perfec
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Something that would quickly come to mind is something like dim-sum or high-tea adapted to evenings and crowds of varying size. Probably just changing the focal point from the bar to the buffet and encouraging seating instead of standing wo
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Of course; drinking establishments make good money on these events so they have a lot of incentive to make this as easy as possible. Come to think of it, that's actually a really good example of an area where we can put in a bit more e
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
There's plenty of actual harrasment to be found in this list of incidents: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/index.php?title=Timeline_of_in... Keep in mind that this is just the subset of women who were strong and determin
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
> If you feel like the event is too immature, don't show up or organize your own events. I don't know how you meant that, but it reads very much like STFU or GTFO to me. > The reason there's so much alcohol is because
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Keep in mind I said many, not all, but based on the conversations I had with older people in the Czech Republic when I lived there for a year I'm pretty sure it's a real thing. It's also good to keep in mind that when you get
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> The majority of the people I talked to pined for the days of the Soviet Union, when bread was cheap, everyone had what they needed, etc. This seems to be the thing most Westerners find hard to grasp. For many people communism was good
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All the more reason for him not to lose Ukraine to Europe at the same time.
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And let's not forget a certain quid-pro-quo which precipitated the deal: http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/12/17/putin-offers-ukraine...
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Likewise (adverb): 1. in the same way; also 2. in a like manner; similarly
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And Russian media is likewise heavily propagandized. The truth is that it's simply a complex issue about a country with a deep ideological divide which is being pulled on by the two super-powers it's wedged between. There's a
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It's not so much about whether they speak Russian or not. Eastern Ukraine is just generally closer ideologically to Russia whereas Western Ukraine prefers to maintain close ties with Europe. You can see that reflected quite clearly in
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When somebody starts victim-shaming people it's very relevant to bring up the fact that they are in a social position where they have the least possible real-world experience with the negative side of the issues they're being dism

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