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Leadership Lessons from the Presidents(terranostra.one)
1 points by veddox 7y ago|0 comments
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by veddox 7y ago
I was really excited to see multitasking coming with iPadOS 13. Unfortunately, it turns out to be absolutely horrible to use and insists on turning itself on with annoying regularity...
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by veddox 7y ago
So am I understanding you correctly that the big advantage of this technique is that it makes the initial reading of the codebase easier? But as soon as you need to do the „real work“ (a.k.a. debugging) you revert to the full source code an
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by veddox 7y ago
So you‘re trying to remove complexity by making it invisible? Sounds great while things work, but doesn‘t that turn debugging into a nightmarish exercise? Because I never get to see the code that‘s actually executing, the pieces of a functi
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by veddox 7y ago
We don't generally celebrate Thanksgiving here in Germany, but perhaps we should :-) I'm thankful for the strength to tackle my tasks and responsibilities, many dear friends near and far and a family that is still (for the most pa
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A Poisoned Democracy(terranostra.one)
2 points by veddox 7y ago|0 comments
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by veddox 7y ago
The article is in no way about classical music (as in Mozart, Haydn, Bach, etc.), but about classical (as in Greek and Roman) literature.
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by veddox 7y ago
"HN" isn't promulgating anything. Jonstaab has shown us a side project, which is a) written in an interesting new language and b) may be of use to the many religious people that are a part of our community.
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Democracy is not about voting(terranostra.one)
4 points by veddox 7y ago|0 comments
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by veddox 7y ago
Hm, I think I know some of the cases you're thinking of. (Specifically, GNU and Stack Overflow come to mind?) But don't you think these were (at least in part) only the visible outbreaks of conflicts that had already been simmerin
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by veddox 7y ago
Well, the EU banned them several years back. One might consider that one of its biggest legislative triumphs :D
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by veddox 7y ago
Yes, I loved that comment!
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Ask HN: Influence at Scale
2 points by veddox 7y ago|0 comments
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by veddox 7y ago
Well, I daresay you created your own :-D A bit more complex than this one, too... Didn‘t know you visit HN - I‘m a great fan of your book!
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by veddox 7y ago
I remember setting up my first VPS a few years ago and finding automated login attempts in the logs within twenty minutes of it going live. Since then, I always install fail2ban as one of the first things I do on a new server. (Not that I d
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by veddox 7y ago
https://terranostra.one My background is ecological modelling, so my blog is a merry mix of ecology, programming, and reviews of books I read.
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Conservation Hypocrisy: Should We Reintroduce Lions to Europe?(ecologyforthemasses.com)
3 points by veddox 7y ago|2 comments
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by veddox 7y ago
> Scientists writing open-source software often lack formal training in software engineering I'm at an institute of computational biology and that is precisely the problem we are tackling right now. We have a lot of clever people do
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by veddox 7y ago
> Additionally, there may still be a certain social impact where people feel that you’re “paying attention” when taking notes on a physical pad, vs they feel they’ve “lost your attention” the second you start to type away on a device. Ne
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by veddox 7y ago
> Why can’t you just take a picture of the diagram? Because the learning effect is zero. (Also, not every professor allows it, and you don't always sit in a location from which you can take a decent picture. But that's beside t
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by veddox 7y ago
No. Learning is very much a multi-sensory process. The act of writing is part of the learning - the two-dimensional shapes your fingers trace actually help cement the memory in your brain. (And no, simply clacking away on the keyboard is
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by veddox 7y ago
I wish you all the best, and thank you for the greetings! :-)
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by veddox 7y ago
That is a danger, although I personally haven't experienced it yet. Actually, we tend to have the opposite problem, that too few people are willing to take on the responsibilities of a leadership role. We have more potentially good lea
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by veddox 7y ago
We are the SMD, an association of Christian student unions in Germany. Although we do have some supporting full-time staff members, all of the work in our local chapters and quite a bit of the work in our national leadership is the responsi
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by veddox 7y ago
That's why democracies have terms of office, and that's exactly what we do in our student organisation. You're right: there has to be a way to get somebody out of a misfitting leadership role without completely humiliating hi
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by veddox 7y ago
> the invisible hierarchy problem I'm not in favour of flat systems for exactly this reason. I think they try to solve the problem of bad leadership structurally, by simply pretending to abolish leadership. IMO, it would better be a
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by veddox 7y ago
> Mainly I just wanted to point out that democracy is also a flat system and has no kings. Having no kings is not the same as being flat. Democracies have no kings, because any leaders are elected (instead of inheriting/being instal
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by veddox 7y ago
> Suddenly everything becomes easy and self organized. Unfortunately not. A technocracy works great works great when choices are straight-forward, but one of the great responsibilities of leadership is taking decisions when things are an
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by veddox 7y ago
Interesting article. You rarely hear about innovations in the agricultural sector, even though it's so fundamental to our society - thanks for sharing!
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by veddox 7y ago
I don't want to argue about the specifics with you. You asked us what we think, and based on the brief information you gave us, I told you my first impression. I am sure you will discuss the whole plot in much more detail with your fut

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