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by q-big 4y ago
> Yeah, no. Don't get me wrong, Jetbrains IDEs are great. But they're not as easy to extend, its proprietary nature makes it hard to debug when writing extensions. IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition is open source under Apache Lic
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> What I find truly bizarre is how many software engineers, who are aware of how much they earn [...] are so resistant to paying anything for tools that make their job easier and faster. It blows my mind. The property premise that soft
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> Maintenance is stuff like "make an adapter for foo" or "deal with the format change" or "the new version of windows exposess this bug, fix it". This can nevertheless be quite challenging and exciting: such
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> In the end, it turns out that you don't need admin powers to steal lots of money. You just need to know the laws very well to steal a lot of money: this holds both in the "ordinary" world and for cryptocurrencies (there
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> Big companies want people who are smart enough to do the work, but obedient enough to put up with all the bullshit that comes with working at a big company. What person better matches that than someone who's able and willing to st
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> Your website never passed the information to google. Your website is malware that contains code which makes the visitor's browser connect to Google's server.
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> 1) I bet a far fewer percentage of people use Shakespeare, Steinbeck, or any other literature in their jobs. Is this an argument for eliminating literature from the curriculum? Why or why not? At least in Germany, school is for gettin
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> I've always wondered what it would look like [...] if the primes were mapped on to some crazy topological shape? This is easy: consider the spectrum of the ring Z, Spec Z (by definition, the spectrum of a commutative ring consist
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> showing prime factorisation in P will imply P == NP Whether "Factorization is in P" actually implies "P=NP" is another open problem (most researchers in this area don't believe that this is the case). What does
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> Almost exactly 2 decades ago a related theorem, prime factorisation being in P, was proved by a couple of undergrads working with a professor in IIT Kanpur, India It is still an open problem whether prime factorization is in P or not.
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> I don't miss Windows 98. I miss being a child using that, browsing the old internet, the old terrible "web design" and having my friends on the same page I do miss it - having a Windows 98 (or Windows 95) VM is so usef
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> Therefore the proper solution is to start recognising what some of these companies are doing as crimes. You need the law on your side when you act in self-defence. The only difference is who does the concrete fighting : you by yours
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Also "Mittelstand" is already the German word for the whole group of such companies. It thus hardly makes sense to pluralize this word. If you are talking about an individual company of this group, the correct term is "mitt
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It does not assume rationality. Rather, the assumption is that rational behaviour is of your advantage, which is in my opinion a very sensible assumption.
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> but part of the current result is global warming Global warming is rather mostly a consequence of overpopulation. In the past, people often died of starvation or illnesses. "Unluckily" capitalism managed to reduce these probl
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> It resonates very strongly with my belief that VR/Metaverse will continue to under deliver. Just offer VR porn applications, and a lot of people will urge to get a VR headset and a decent computer to support it. For a lot of kinds
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A potential alternative could be that the university provides lodging to its staff for a subsidized rent. This way, salaries don't have to be increased. I mean: a lot of universities provide dorms for their students, why not for parts
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> Somebody who can develop a self-hosting programming language that is useful for anything can probably earn at least $5000 regardless of where they live. I know quite some highly brillant people who have difficulties getting a decent jo
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> There is a third option, a queuing system similar to what Apple does for their product launches. It would not eliminate scalping entirely. I don't see how this solves the problem: what prevents the people who want their iGadget fa
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> But no one says there is a need for this extra liquidity. The fact that scalpers can sell the consoles for a much higher price shows that there is no market equilibrium with respect to the prices that the console vendors set. To achiev
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> as creators are ever more dependent on ever-more-centralized services. as creators decided to make themselves ever more dependent on ever-more-centralized services.
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> Yes, but you absolutely will be able to buy a flat as a single engineer. That would not be extraordinary at all. Considering the current housing and apartment pricing bubble in many German cities, I'd say that as a single person,
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> I don't understand the rationale behind weeder courses. Simple: the idea is that if you will likely fail the degree course, you should better fail fast to decrease your opportunity cost.
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> This type of thinking is exactly what led to mass starvation in the Soviet economy. In this case, the problem was indeed that Soviet "scientists" - as bsedlm postulates - "were making up theories to 'scientificall
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> Later, plug'n'play meant that your PC's BIOS could auto-detect and auto-assign everything to avoid collisions which at the beginning was rather plug and pray.
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> I'm not sure how that would assuage the risk [averse] accountant If the accountant's salary depends on being assuaged, this should hardly be a problem: the accountant will then just tell you that he does not believe this to b
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I would rather say that if such a CPU breaks DRM software, this should be considered a feature.
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Relevant for the readers who are somewhat fluent in German: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4vbdusj7Pk
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> Space partially, the US House of Reps is already pretty packed so to add enough to get to >2 members per district you'd have to add a lot. Then make the districts bigger to compensate for this effect.
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Why not solve the problem of gerrymandering by getting rid of the "winner takes all" property? E.g. instead of having 100 districts selecting 1 representative using the winner-takes-all principle, which are very sensitive with res

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