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by smoe 8y ago
One thing that struck me a bit odd was, that the website makes it look like I have to buy a book or join a (paid?) mooc to get started, because these are the very first sections under "documentation". I was just looking for a basi
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by smoe 8y ago
I think I never had more than 10 apps installed on a smartphone since like 2008. Not for privacy or security concerns, I just never had any use for more than a few core apps and always used the browser for the rest.
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by smoe 8y ago
Here's how apprenticeships work in Switzerland: Before leaving school you try to find a company that is willing to take you on as an apprentice for a four year contract. Time is roughly split 50/50 at work in the company and speci
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by smoe 8y ago
That link only refers to the frontend where they used to have ClojureScript. Judging from their backend job postings they seem to use Clojure and Go. .
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by smoe 8y ago
Never seen Youtube go down on their end. But I have seen it stop working on dozens of workstations at a news site simultaneously when they dropped ie7 support. Magically this enabled the outsourced infrastructure provider to roll out a new
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by smoe 8y ago
At my first ever job, where I was among the first developers after the founders, they got such standard boilerplate template. I asked them to remove that line and some others, and they did without discussion or trying to pressure me into si
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by smoe 8y ago
As far as I know, the way Shazam uses fingerprints it is not supposed to recognize any song this way. Or even when a cover or a live version of a song is played. I remember Adam Neely (A musician/jazz composer/youtuber) mentioning
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by smoe 8y ago
It is quite hard if want to have a weekly overview of what happened in the world, besides some traditional weekly print titles with online versions. Daily is much easier and still much better than real time. I stopped reading "news&quo
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by smoe 8y ago
To my knowledge the police in Germany is not allowed to lie to you during interrogations in the sense you put it. https://dejure.org/gesetze/StPO/136a.html According to this law, deception is a prohibited interrog
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by smoe 8y ago
I think the quote they used in the article puts it pretty well. “When someone tells you there is problem with your game, they are almost always right. When someone tells you how to fix that problem, they are almost always wrong.” I don&#x27
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by smoe 8y ago
That is the other side of the coin. People and especially journalists expect any politician to have a short, quotable statement ready on any topic at any point in time and don't accept "I don't know" as an answer. Which
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by smoe 8y ago
> a man who doesn't understand the laws he's trying to push forward. I think we should stop giving politicians the benefit of the doubt, that they do not understand the laws they are lobbying for. It is their freaking job to do
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by smoe 8y ago
I think it is not as popular as it used to be for web development, but when I started using it around 2005 it was one of the few choices that were somewhere in between writing php/perl scripts and the very heavy weight Java, ASP,and Co
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by smoe 8y ago
I agree with the overall sentiment. Plus almost all cases I run into performance issues with e.g. Python in general web development, that main problems were how the code was written, not what it was written in and being bottle-necked by the
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by smoe 8y ago
Polymath Ventures | Full Stack Developers, Android Developers, Interns | Bogotá, Colombia, Latin America | ONSITE | VISA Polymath Ventures is a company builder for emerging markets active in Colombia, Mexico, Peru and China with headquarte
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by smoe 8y ago
If have had javascript disabled for about four years now, and it was among the best quality of life decisions I ever made in terms of web browsing. I don't think there is a list, but I'd say it heavily depends on your browsing beh
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by smoe 8y ago
I think once the dust settles and it becomes clearer how the law is being handled, it is going to get easier. My first job twelve years ago was at a company similar to yours in Switzerland. A small bootstrapped SaaS targeted at enterprise a
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by smoe 8y ago
"When you get to the client interactions, of course, you have amazing heterogeneity." The heterogeneity of client apps is very superfical. One layer underneath the fancy design and arguably unnecessary custom imteractions, everyth
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by smoe 8y ago
Your last paragraph is how it works in Switzerland. There are no checks when entering busses, trams and trains. Busdrivers in cities will usually not let you pay with them but sent you to the ticket machine placed in the middle of the bus.
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by smoe 8y ago
Agreed, whiteboard are way too useful to leave out. That's why we have them in every room in the office, not to scare candidates when we happen to conduct interviews in them. In my opinion it is all about aligning your questions with t
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by smoe 8y ago
I tried pomodoro for the focus effect, but I keep using it for a different reason. To avoid the "just one more tweak" trap I sometimes fall into. When the timer is up I decide whether the task is done or not. The latter means I co
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by smoe 8y ago
I used to work in the marketing department for a big news site in Switzerland some years ago. I wasn't involved much in normal ads, but building interactive campaigns, contests and such. What you say is being done. Mostly in form of &q
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by smoe 8y ago
I have been living 6 months in Medellín in the first year. While I love the people, the climate and things being much better organized than elsewhere, culturally I prefer Bogotá by quite a margin. But the former is probably better to start
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by smoe 8y ago
I'm half Swiss half Finnish, working in Colombia for a bit over 3 years now. The first year was a semi-sabbatical. I was traveling while on and off working as a freelancer for companies back home. Needless to say, you don't need m
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by smoe 8y ago
> [...] there is a big group of tech people that have no interest in dealing with legal matters more than the bare minimum, and overall deem them risky. Then maybe those people shouldn't be opening side businesses? Running a busines
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by smoe 9y ago
After quickly skimming the terms of service[0]. Do I understand correctly that in the free version, all your content has to be public? I'm not against that model (actually like it), but it isn't at all clear to me from the blog po
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by smoe 9y ago
Yeah, my opinions on this are "slightly" influences by the Rich Hickey talks "simple made easy" and "hammock driven development":) The difficulty I find is, identifying the moment to leave the hammock again in
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by smoe 9y ago
I think it is not necessarily the age but the mindset of focusing on solutions instead of understanding the problem first. It often goes like this: Oh snap, we encountered a problem! Lets find a tool, framework, language that promises to s
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by smoe 9y ago
"HBO GO. It's HBO. Anywhere." click "To access HBO GO℠, you must reside within the fifty states of the United States of America." Some time ago while traveling I actively tried to find a way to pay to watch Game o
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by smoe 9y ago
I'm not sure if the requirement from above is true most of the time. A lot of developers nowadays default to using a SPA as the starting point for everything without even considering if they actually need the whole bouquet of fronted b

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