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by pimmen 9y ago
The stats are a bit misleading maybe for software devolopers because we spend a lot of time reading specs on features and reading about solutions to possible problems on Google before we can implement them.
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by pimmen 9y ago
"Don't compare yourself to your co-workers" I don't agree, I think you should. You're selling your labor, you need to know what the market price is. The article says that you don't know why the other employee
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by pimmen 9y ago
I absolutely agree. I don't know enough about Unicode, but is the Å and Ä very close to the A in the bit pattern or something and the hasty implementation led to this nonsensical autocorrect? Because, if you've ever looked at a ke
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by pimmen 9y ago
Do you have any source for your claim at all?
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by pimmen 9y ago
I don't hate copyright and patent laws, I really don't. But, are you telling me that the choice is between "no patent or copyright, everyone has the right to copy whatever you do and make all the money in the world from it&qu
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by pimmen 9y ago
When tasers were introduced, isn’t this the exact problem they were here to solve? You use them instead of shooting to disable the suspect to de-escalate the same situations?
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by pimmen 9y ago
I started working at my first job as a software engineer, in my free time I spent time building game AIs.
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by pimmen 9y ago
If by "we" you mean the US, you're very wrong. Sweden has one of the lowest rates of "simple jobs" in the OECD, the demands for education and training to enter the Swedish work force are the highest in the EU. Again
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by pimmen 9y ago
Yep, if I had an office and employees in the UK hooking me up with these retailers. Facebook and Google do have offices in the UK selling ad spaces and even some developers in the UK. What's your definition of "operating in"?
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by pimmen 9y ago
I would say that they're "operating in the UK" when UK companies buy ad space from Facebook and Google which they later distribute to consumers in the UK. They do have offices in the UK and it's not like they're jus
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by pimmen 9y ago
Go back 30 years, when your voice in print media was either starting your own newspaper or writing a letter to the editor and the comparison holds. Edit: I meant your way to communicate in the newspaper
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by pimmen 9y ago
Ever used Skype? Spotify? Trivago? Those are EU tech products many people use everyday, just goes to show that intervening from time to time doesn't necessarily mean that we live in some socialist, repressive regime. You're welcom
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by pimmen 9y ago
You absolutely can bring it up. Now, here's the issue though; "fake" implies that they fabricated or exaggerated stuff, not just skewed the coverage. If you can provide solid evidence that the WSJ fabricated this news piece y
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by pimmen 9y ago
I don’t necessarily believe that managers need hard skills relevant to the business (and I say this as an engineer). However, they need to be crystal clear on what they manage (wether it’s just a team, department or entire company) is suppo
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by pimmen 9y ago
What's a victimless crime? That's a very tricky question. Lets say possession of drugs is a victimless crime, but what about selling drugs?
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by pimmen 9y ago
In the author's example of the geometric mean, shouldn't the function return an error if any of the numbers were negative? Because the program shouldn't be sending negative numbers to that function to begin with so he/sh
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by pimmen 9y ago
This is very fascinating. It would also be hard for people to appease legislators to change the laws because if they say "this law is intrusive in my life and puts good people in jail" they just sound like complaining criminals, w
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by pimmen 9y ago
Yeah, and if IOT really takes off, it would be trivial for a car to use the city’s API to do a health check on the light many time faster than a human could. But now we’re introducing dependencies on API’s coded by God knows who to our heav
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by pimmen 9y ago
Well, very extraordinary stuff does happen and sometimes you’ve got to break the law and hope that traffic court will see your case given the circumstances. For example, what if a light breaks right in front of you and is now stuck on red?
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by pimmen 9y ago
Sure, but a trained human would probably pick up that something is not quite right, especially if family situation has been revealed earlier. My neighbor has an identical twin and one day his twin came visiting, but I had no idea he was com
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by pimmen 9y ago
It fixes most of the problems with currencies in general, that’s why basically every single currency has this authority backing it called ”central banks”. As others have mentioned, these institutions is exactly what Satoshi wanted to suppla
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by pimmen 9y ago
When/if Bitcoin becomes accepted everywhere and all bitcoins have been mined, but we keep producing new stuff we can buy, the value of a single bitcoin approaches infinity. That’s why I don’t like them.
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by pimmen 9y ago
No, they will be able to export under WTO rules just fine, with all the tariffs that entails which would favor importing from another EU member rather than the UK. That will hurt the UK a lot, especially the financial services.
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by pimmen 9y ago
My main problem with Bitcoin is that it’s a deflationary currency, that’s really why I hope it doesn’t have a future. I have paid this months bills and rent, I have budgeted some money for groceries and fun, I have put 10% of my pay check
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by pimmen 9y ago
But not about its worth to the UK. The EU is by far the UK's largest market and still has a lot of growth potential (especially in the southern and eastern member states).
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by pimmen 9y ago
You absolutely can just leave! Now, lets say the five times larger economy doesn't accept your unilateral trade position, who just happens to be by far your largest and closest trading partner, what do you think happens then to your co
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by pimmen 9y ago
I would say Facebook and Google does the exact opposite of insulating people from alt-right media, it hobbles their competition quite a bit leaving alt-right media spread unhindered. Serious publications spend a lot of money on research, di
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by pimmen 9y ago
Yeah, I understand, and there's lots of problems left for engineers to work on when it comes to cryptography in general, such as in embedded systems now that self driving cars and IOT devices become prime targets. I think it's goo
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by pimmen 9y ago
But to "just" outlast the wave, you actually need a sound business plan with margins that can survive an industry crisis. Most players are not even close to that and are living at the mercy of their investors.
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by pimmen 9y ago
I actually kind of do hope there is. In a climate of sceptics only the strongest businesses survives. When there's a bear market, I look around at what companies are still doing good and snatch some shares. Intelligent VCs that really

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