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by quonn 6y ago
> The discourse about China, misunderstandings about how the Chinese systems functions It functions like a dictatorship functions. The dictatorship of the party. > And it's actually a huge problem for the West that both governmen
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by quonn 6y ago
How is there gradient descent or even a gradient in biological mutations? If anything there could be an analogy to undirected trial & error as in genetic algorithms.
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by quonn 6y ago
What‘s needed is regulation. A lot of regulation that is not questioned based on some free market fundamentalism. That‘s all. Given that, capitalism works fine.
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by quonn 6y ago
Any EU member can always approve any vaccine independently.
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by quonn 6y ago
Is this the same in Europe? I doubt it and at least in Germany an engineer (even a software engineer) is someone who has studied a technical subject at university. It has nothing to do with liability here.
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by quonn 6y ago
Alaska is part of the US. Ukraine is not part of Russia. Everything else in your comment is also factually wrong or even a deliberate lie just like the ones you spread in your other replies here.
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by quonn 6y ago
For Apple, it‘s not about attracting new customers but about reducing costs (on the software side and also in licensing costs for the CPU) to increase profits.
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by quonn 6y ago
It may not have an idea of a picture of a bear. But it certainly knows all kinds of words that would describe that bear. And it relates those to the bear and also to other things. So I would argue that there is some „idea“. It‘s just not a
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by quonn 6y ago
I doubt anyone freezes to death in the EU, US, Australia, and Canada because of loosing power in winter.
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by quonn 6y ago
The web is the greatest software marketing machine and it‘s open and free.
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by quonn 6y ago
So? Those gap years barely register as far as flights are concerned.
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by quonn 6y ago
Only the US part seems to be for sale.
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by quonn 6y ago
Africa has many problems it will not be like China any time soon. And automation? Well, a lack of cheap labor will make more expensive automation as well as research worthwhile. So more will be automated.
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by quonn 6y ago
Why would you hang your career on the fate of a single language? Most of the knowledge transfers just fine between languages. Over a career you can become an expert in several of them.
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by quonn 6y ago
Last year the founder of Shazam told his story at a conference. That‘s a hit app. The effort that went into it is mind boggling. Far more than ever could possibly go into a single hit song.
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by quonn 6y ago
Can you please give an example of this supposed cultural knowledge? In particular one that PoC raised in the same country and having the same education would supposedly have a disadvantage in?
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by quonn 6y ago
It helps a lot with refactoring and many other things even early in the project. For example I‘m using TypeScript with a GraphQL code generator. Now let‘s assume I add a new value to a GraphQL enum. I run codegen, then fix everything until
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by quonn 6y ago
But I rarely use classes in TypeScript. I do think of things as data transformations but the types certainly help a lot.
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by quonn 6y ago
I wish it would be possible to have better studies for that. I believe that static typing has huge benefits as software scales. I also believe that the type system of TypeScript is actually stronger in practice than the Java or C# one (desp
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by quonn 6y ago
It will be similar to offshoring. Yeah, if you can make a precise spec or if you programmers are not willing or capable to think for themselves then it fits. Let me make quonn‘s law: Any software job that cannot be offshored currently canno
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by quonn 6y ago
True but not fully convincing. For example, someone who owns a house on the coast is likely worse off and less flexible than someone who merely rents and apartment. Both can in fact move. It‘s perhaps not a problem with elites in this case.
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by quonn 6y ago
I never got a new phone because the battery was not good enough anymore (and it can be replaced, just not by yourself). Apple charges about $50, obviously 10x cheaper than a new phone.
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by quonn 6y ago
> It‘s a subsidy in part An illegal subsidy. Public contracts require a bidding process, usually across Europe. It‘s unfair that smaller companies don‘t get a chance. I reject the idea that Germany should prop up its biggest companies, e
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by quonn 6y ago
I do work in a corporate setting and have done so, as a consultant, for years. I know the numbers very well, both from what I and others charge and what large companies actually budget.
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by quonn 6y ago
Yeah. It‘s the framework which does pretty much all of the interesting technical work, if I may say so. It does the communication with other phones and determines if there was a contact and generates, stores and maintains the tokens and giv
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by quonn 6y ago
If you would look at what the app actually has to do to „handle the pandemic“ you‘d find most apps would be more complex. Same for what you call concurrent users. Those users have no identity at all and essentially need to anonymously downl
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by quonn 6y ago
I can‘t reply to marvion below so I put it here: The total initial cost is 20 million. As I said SAP gets half. These „operation“ costs by Telekom do not actually include any operations. The actual operation (including the hotlines) is esti
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by quonn 6y ago
I can‘t help but wonder if anyone has actually read the specs published by Apple and Google. If anyone has actually shipped real iOS and Android apps. I have followed this project closely. Checked the protocols. The APIs. And what‘s built o
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by quonn 6y ago
Because it was a mess. A privacy mess. Also because the fact that supporting iOS well requires using the Apple framework was ignored. And also lot‘s of politics.
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by quonn 6y ago
Plural „a few 1000“ When I checked the actual Swift code was just a bit less than 10k. The backend apps are fairly small Spring boot apps. There was a messy attempt before (not finished in time at all) and they fixed and finished that attem

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