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by zmb_ 6y ago
The problem is that because of the way the incentives are set up, it is not important to anyone involved. What is important to the grad students is to produce research papers and to fulfill their mandatory obligations (teaching, project d
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by zmb_ 6y ago
I'm struggling to try to understand what this means for the risks of running a business in the cloud going forward. It was not just AWS dropping them, but many of their other vendors dropped them too, essentially killing their business
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by zmb_ 6y ago
At least in some Orthodox Christian practices you drink an entire glass of red wine at once. Easily enough to get an effect.
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by zmb_ 7y ago
These problems are not new or only affecting MacBooks. I had a 27" iMac for work and it cooked the display panel, HDD and the discrete graphics card. I did drive the system, including the GPU, reasonably hard, but nothing exceptional.
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by zmb_ 7y ago
> one of the main ones related to eu cloud infrastructure is supposed to get around 100 billions euros in 5 years This does not sound right. The entire proposed EU Research & Innovation investment programme for the next 5 years is
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by zmb_ 7y ago
The one multi-window functionality I need is the ability have the iPad in portrait mode and split the screen horizontally. That way I could have a book or movie on top and notes on the bottom. It seems that iPadOS still cannot do this ver
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by zmb_ 7y ago
Let me give you an example of where I think iOS is significantly worse than even the earliest graphical operating systems from Apple: Multitasking. The number one way I would want to use my iPad daily is to have it in portrait mode with a b
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by zmb_ 8y ago
That's true, but only indirectly. Since these companies mainly assemble cars from components designed and built by suppliers, the software engineers are working for suppliers like Bosch. If you talk to the tech people from, e.g., BMW,
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by zmb_ 8y ago
I think we already have the answer in the field of computer science: ACM. I.e., a non-profit professional organization that runs conferences with peer-reviewed content (and some journals and magazines). A cheap membership (<$100) gives y
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by zmb_ 8y ago
The right to movement of workers comes from the treaties and the ECJ decisions[0]. The basic outline is as follows: 1) You have a right to stay in another member state (host) for three months without any restrictions. 2) After three months,
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by zmb_ 8y ago
This is not true. In the EU there is a freedom of movement of workers . EU citizens from another member state need to either have an employment contract or they can be told to leave the country after six months of stay.
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by zmb_ 8y ago
Often it is a favor to a colleague that is serving as the (also unpaid) editor to get a line on their CV. Given that the fields are highly specialized, you tend to work with the same small community of people (writing articles and getting p
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by zmb_ 8y ago
> It seemed that he'd learned some very important lessons and had undergone quite the transformation. "Becoming Steve Jobs" by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli deals with exactly this theme of his personal growth and learn
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by zmb_ 8y ago
If that was the primary reason for a company to take on debt, wouldn't it be preferable to instead run the company debt-free and let the equity holders leverage themselves to their desired risk level by taking on debt themselves?
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by zmb_ 8y ago
I have lived all my life in Europe, in three different countries and with friends and colleagues from many more. and I have never seen or even heard about anyone washing eggs. So if it happens, it is certainly not a Europe-wide norm.
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by zmb_ 8y ago
One-to-one vs. many-to-many messaging. The amount of work you need to do to deliver a WhatsApp message is constant and small -- just route the message to a single recipient's mailbox. The amount of work Twitter has to do to deliver a m
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by zmb_ 8y ago
> "WiFi direct" is yet another completely different thing, that is meant for peer-to-peer connections (note: two communication partners) without needing an AP, which 802.11 consumer standards (b,g,n,ac) all did and do otherwise
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by zmb_ 8y ago
They have also periodically been A/B testing a popup with only two options, login or get mobile app, when clicking on a topic -- as far as I could tell it was not possible to just pass to the comment thread. Luckily that seems to have
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by zmb_ 9y ago
> it will not allow “permission bundling” (eg. allow acces to everything or you can’t use the site) This is something I have not been able to come to terms with. I can understand requiring express consent to each item individually, rathe
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by zmb_ 9y ago
Here it is: https://youtu.be/gKNrOIR0euY?t=2209 Transcript: "I made many, many mistakes as the CEO and I'm glad that the good things we did overcame the mistakes. A typical example is... Did anyone ever use a prod
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by zmb_ 9y ago
> I still maintain that Google gave up too early on Wave. I was just listening to a talk by Eric Schmidt where he used Wave as an example of a mistake he had made -- for not closing it down soon enough despite it losing users right from
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by zmb_ 9y ago
At least on the research side there has been work on GFDM (Generalized Frequency Division Multiplexing) as a possible modulation technique for 5G. I don't follow the standardization enough to know what are the chances of it making it i
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by zmb_ 9y ago
While I completely agree that current big publisher model is broken (which is why I personally don't submit to or review for the big publishers anymore), I wish people would stop making the above argument because it's not helpful
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by zmb_ 9y ago
For me it was very useful to understand that there are three things that need to coincide for an action to occur: 1) motivation, 2) ability, 3) trigger. Remove any one of them and the action won't occur. When trying to get rid of undes
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by zmb_ 9y ago
About 40% of energy production in Germany is still coal, and 15% nuclear. Nuclear will be shut down by 2022 and coal will be shut down more or less quickly depending on politics. This means that Germany will be looking for a replacement for
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by zmb_ 9y ago
> The EU has done great work in this area by trying to standardize the university curriculum across the union. What that means is that a master's degree in computer science from the university of München is mostly comparable to one
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by zmb_ 9y ago
I did exactly this. I waited for the announcements, then went and bought iPhone 7 the next day. iPhone 8 is simply not big enough update to justify the price difference, and iPhone X is not something that I'm interested in (price or fe
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by zmb_ 9y ago
Git isn't centralized so there is no need to "move" the code. You can use Bitbucket, GitLab and GitHub all at the same time -- just add multiple remotes, I do this as a part of my normal setup. You can even pull directly betw
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by zmb_ 9y ago
I booked with AMOMA (another hotel site) and now they email me a "10% off" voucher every week. The only thing is that to claim it I need to follow a link in the email. When I follow the link, the prices of all the rooms increase,
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by zmb_ 9y ago
I have worked with half a dozen Catalans both in and outside Catalonia. All highly educated. All in favor of independence. As far as I have been able to see, they are not in any way xenophobic, or greedy, or anything else you're accusi

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