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Foreigner living in Berlin. Ticket inspectors are civilized and polite. Altercations and provocations are rare. Given my observations, I will take this news report with a BIG pinch of salt rather than assume discriminatory behaviour.
15-16 inch is my comfort zone. Anything else is too small and my eyes hurt and bigger than that is unwieldy.
Interesting. Worth taking a look at
CloudFormation, with its HORRIBLE YAML templating (whatever dsl/language) and arcane error messages is a horror story. I hate it so much that I'd rather quit my job than debug why CloudFormation decided for no reason to update my RDS instance for a PR that was just a README file update.
Would be an achievement if they even retain 1% of it as active users.
You can be a good Developer AND a nice human being. The choice is not either or. That is the goal one should strive for, not to decide between shooting down a PR or checking-in bad code into the repo.
But isn't BBC itself a propaganda arm for the UK ? So now they simply hate it cause they have competition ?
Salem gundu and banganapalli FTW !
Go nuclear.
So I could be banned for sharing a document that says 'Google is evil' ?
Zerohedge is severely anti-Elon Biased. He might be at fault for many things, but this is just a first gen product that hopefully improves in the next generations.
hardware development as a service. atleast a virtualized micro-controller so that people can build tiny devices with sensors, peripherals etc like we build web apps on AWS. As a software engg. I'd like to get more hands on with processors/controllers and peripherals etc and this is by far the most frustrating part for me as I have no idea how to debug electronics or solder beyond basics. I would absolutely love to work with someone on this, if they can provide a basis for this.
I would differentiate between non CEO founders and founders CEOs. Non-founder CEOs are subject to the whims and fancies of the board (institutions).
I am disappointed that Yale with 30 BILLION USD ! in endowments did not have the same impact a hastily put together fund filled mostly with volunteers did. To weed out the poor capital allocators, you need skin in the game. Not saying it is perfect, but it probably would be way better than what we saw during the pandemic (and still see).
Individuals are more ready to take risks than institutions.
To me this was the most damning indictment of all. Once founders leave a compnay (or an institution), as BalajiS says, they become a shell of their former selves,with the individuals mostly in for self-preservation rather than set out fulfill the purpose of the institution.
Agreed, but irrespective of Librem/PinePhone, companies in general can build much better products when they focus on doing few things good than many things bad.
Unpopular Opinion: I don't want a Linux Desktop (XFCE, KDE, etc) on my phone. I don't care about being able to run terminals or `chown -R user xyz` or `htop` on my phone.
I want a phone with a decently polished OS, smooth (given hardware constraints) that can run apps that I control (deny ads, location info. etc) and provides an alternative to the Android/IOS duopoly.
I just hope that the Pine Community will realize this and focus energy and work towards having a canonical OS on the PinePhone that just works.
IMHO Static typing => structure, not necessarily Map<String, String> (which is also a type). Shaping data is quite important and having an associative array doesn't necessarily means that the data is shaped.
This is what I run into. But that's not exactly a dynamic language problem. It's more of a data-oriented programming (in the Clojure sense) problem.
Yes, all dynamic languages have this problem. I have transitioned to statically typed languages and it has been very peaceful so far :)
``` breaking things up into small isolated components that can be reasoned about independently ``` - This is insufficient for the same reasons unit tests are not enough and you also need integration tests. The moment you cross namespace boundaries, you will end up not setting keys /entries in maps , missing logic etc and end up needing something like Spec/Schema....
I wrote Clojure for 4 years. I understand your pain points. Dynamic types are an impediment beyond a certain code size.
Restrictions apply to plebians only. Patricians are always exceptions :)
"Pending approval from your manager/lead" - Corporate doublespeak for Don't even think about going full time remote. We are going to drag you back kicking and screaming.
When you can't even define `AI` clearly, how do you expect to understand it and regulate it ?
The draft law says any logic or knowledge based systems - This could mean anything from an if-else switch to a neural network.
If waiting till black box AI creates a mess and cleaning it up later is immoral, than so is prematurely killing something before you even get to know what it is.
Regulation has to be clear, simple and easy to understand. This proposal is none of the above. Given the loopholes that Berlin govt. introduced in the law (which btw, got through as it was deemed unconstitutional), even after playing a long, big PR campaign, about combating housing issues, I have no doubts that any such law regulating "AI" will turn into a similar sham.
Berlin tried to "regulate" rent prices and failed spectacularly. Created 2 markets and prices shot through the roof (Source: I live in Berlin)
Eu tried to regulate advertising and it failed spectaculary, leading to nothing but extra annoying pop-ups (Source: Worked for an online advertising company, I know how much we tracked despite those annoying popup banners)
EU doesn't understand that regulation != solving the problem. When the actual law is written down, there will be enough corporate sponsored loopholes that will simply make it harder for startups and new upstarts to displace the incumbents.
Ironic coming from a website like fstoppers. What exactly is the "value" of fine art photography ? Why do people pay exorbitant amounts for basically a few hours of photos during their wedding, given that a wedding might end up divorce ? People pay for whatever has "intrinsic" value to them. If Digitally generated/cryptographic art is it, so be it.
There is a video online from the Finance Minister's talk with Rahul Kanwal in India Today Conclave 2021.
Her words were that they are preparing a note to thee Cabinet on it. The cabinet will then take a call and then propose it to the legislature as a bill.
It is still in early stages, but if Nirmala Sitharaman's words are any indication, they seem to be contemplating allowing crypto currencies to circulate in a regulated manner. Balajis mentioned that crypto could be treated as a foreign exchange currency. You can hold, for example, USD as an Indian resident, but it is not legal tender for exchange and is taxed (not sure about this) if you use it for the purpose of trading.
Germany also treats crypto as private money, not as an asset/investment to be paid capital gains on. I think this is a nice, legal alternative for crypto.
Untaxed, illegal transactions for large sums are a big problem in India (especially in Real Estate/property markets), so the govt. is trying to walk a fine line in regulating without killing the crypto market.
One interesting advantage of crypto to India would be that it will allow India to bypass USD and SWIFT , and whatever scheme China cooks up in the future. This will really dent the ability of the USA to abuse the Dollar's status as the reserve currency to stop printing tonnes of money and raking up public debt in the long term without facing inflationary consequences.
Most likely fake news. The finance minister went on stage on (Mar 14, I think) and said that there will be no blanket ban on crypto.
Source : https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/india-today-conclave-no...
The classic selection bias. If the list of "top" companies is mostly software companies (which is FAANG++ at the moment), then how is it uncommon for a software engg. to lead the company ?
*cough* AMP *cough*
bought mine as well from my pocket. except laptop , nothing was supplied by work. Have to apply for a tax break for all the stuff I bought this year.