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by wirrbel 8y ago
The great thing about language is that you can choose the level of precision you want to use. Gender and Numerus (Singular Plural) ia usually not the kind of precision valuable in my opinion so I am fine with singular they. Also, as a non-n
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Oxidizing Python: Speeding up URL quoting by 10x using Rust(tech.blue-yonder.com)
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I wish odersky had learned more about keeping things simple from worth.
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As a German it feels like Scots and English might be described as dialects, i think the variety between standard German and swabian or Bavarian dialect (maybe not the accent of Stuttgart or Munich population but what grandmother spoke and t
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He had reasons. I think the reason is called greed. Whether or not you consider greed a good reason is your call.
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I agree. I'd add that a lot of people overlook the complexity of English idioms and vocabulary. It is easy to pick up the basics of English, it is much more difficult to get to proficient level for writing a book for example. Imho as a
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by wirrbel 8y ago
Of course Turkish has its ambiguities and was not designed with the same ideas in mind as Lojban. But it is in many ways more precise syntactically than other languages and almost completely regular. This is also due to some "cleansing
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by wirrbel 8y ago
It's funny how Turkish already is kind of close to a conlang like Lojban
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I think there were license issues involved also. Logan authors wouldn't let the community grow and own the language.
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I think this should mention Lojban. The spin off with a larger community. In my younger yearsi tried to learn some Lojban. But it was hard. The extreme regularity and brevity of the vocabulary made it difficult to remember words. Also the g
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by wirrbel 8y ago
Oh my, someone is doing a little Milchmädchenrechnung here it seems. Of course your "fact" isn't completely wrong in the sense that low performers cannot easily be fired if firing is difficult. You ignore, however, all kinds
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by wirrbel 8y ago
That is not exactly how it works in my IG Metall-run company. Although the range of jobs bound to unionized salary level, if you are außertariflich (i.e. above the union-negotiated salary level) you have a similar system with steps. Of cour
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by wirrbel 8y ago
As a German I spent an abroad term in Canada, so here as a grain of salt the difference between German and the work ethic across the pond. 9am: I arrive in the lab at around, sit at my desk and set up my stuff. Unfortunately there was is on
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by wirrbel 8y ago
It is a word, definitely more something you would hear a teacher say than say as normal person.
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What?
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I liked scons but it is what I would consider a legacy project that I would not introduce in new software or actively switch to. If you like scons check out meson, which feels similar I think.
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Meson is likeable and with ninja has a great user experience. I do think it is much easier to understand than cmake (and I have some years of cmake usage under my belt(
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by wirrbel 8y ago
One major problem is that the employer has the right to monetize work products that are close enough to your jobs work. So if my side project is writing a novel, there isn't much danger and the employer must basically grant the permiss
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by wirrbel 8y ago
As someone who sat in interviews on the hiring side (or in the office with a colleague they hired) I must say that there homework was the best predictor for a candidates performance. CV, resume, does often not say much about a candidates pr
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by wirrbel 8y ago
Don't know about the US but here it would be reason enough for my employer to terminate me right away. This is the default for employments. For work on the side, I need to ask my employer for permission. My employer will then be concer
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by wirrbel 8y ago
> there is less good competition in the field of DataScience In my experience, it is probably easier to differentiate yourself and proof your worth by producing great products in software engineering. Data science is overrun at the momen
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by wirrbel 8y ago
yes and no. From the econometrics I have seen there is a heavy focus on finding correlations and at best argumentations whether such correlations are plausible causal relationships.
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Kind of funny that the first thing I see on this page is Oath begging me to let them spy on me.
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by wirrbel 8y ago
This is why I despise most power point presentations so much and would most of the times prefer a writeup on two pages...
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by wirrbel 8y ago
I would consider myself to be fairly agnostic when it comes to languages (although Python happens to be the language I work most with, which has a lot to do with what my coworkers prefer). What I can say is, that quite often, those large d
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by wirrbel 8y ago
I just remember this feeling "over the big pond" that I was standing in houses of people that I assumed to have a good income looking at things and thinking to myself "if I would buy this now, it wouldn't last me till re
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by wirrbel 8y ago
A more interesting metric would be: You are meeting a buddy for dinner at some pizza place at 18:00. You are there punctual for whatever reasons, at what time would you ask yourself whether you would text your buddy? I think in Germany, the
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by wirrbel 8y ago
This is a funny and entertaining text snippet. I would however not have a problem (except maybe, that it wouldn't be written by a native speaker) to write a similar text about the US, from a German perspective. And think of what a swis
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I have family living in a vilage shown in the snapshot of the map. It's deep black forest so, while I think displaying the steepness is a neat idea, there, you just know that over the mountain is steep, and if you want to avoid it, you
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A monorepo requires a good Continuous Integration infrastructure if it is supposed to work. Unless those small repos are will be unit tested, you will not benefit from a monorepo. Suppose for your projects you have a utility library `lib_a`

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