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Absolutely. That is either "Teileinkünfteverfahren" (60% of 1 Million EUR are taxed, 40% are tax-exempt) or "Abgeltungssteuer" (Government takes a 25% cut). Fun fact: there is no tax on winning the lottery in Germany!

Donated.

Can't agree more. Imagine you own a resource that every one on the planet needs. Pretty much everyone on the planet is your customer. You have a monopoly. Little to no competition. You control the prices. No need to pay taxes. You are the government, the police and in some cases even the religion.

Ellison can't beat that.

...here we go again.

> “Logic doesn't deteriorate,” said Bob England, a COBOL developer and president of England Technical Services. “Until the business rules change, that code is as good as the day it was born.”

True, but the business context always changes. I doubt most of the payroll logic from 50 years ago is still in use today. Therefore someone needs to write new code, or change the old code.

> Many COBOL applications are large; rewriting them isn’t cost-effective—or even necessary.

Yes, your IBM sales rep makes sure of it.

Tricky problem to implement. I tried to compute requests per seconds from multiple threads. Problem gets much harder if you reach a certain threshold. I think it was round 100 requests per second in my case. After this memory contention becomes a problem. Then I learned about LongAdder in Java. It was a really interesting topic.

He had his time.

Oh wow. I played this ages ago. Congrats to the team. This is dedication.

How do rust crates compare with something like maven or npm? It looks like some issues for example Typosquatting can be done in all of these dependency managers.

Where would the world be if we just would stop innovating after the first idea that works?

These algorithms are such a joy for me to code. Much more fun than the whole enterprise application work most of us 'developers' are stuck with.

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AWS released ARM instances in 2018. It is already happening in the datacenter.

Not an expert in HPC, but I think you gain the performance from distributing the data across a vast number of cpu instead of having great cpus to begin with.

Gnome 2 is back

Last time I checked they do not support Switzerland. TLD is .ch. Fun fact: they are opening a AWS region in Switzerland.

Software development is a bit like fashion or music. There is no direction like forward or backwards. Good and bad are often just personal opinions. Some things get out of fasion, just to be discovered years later. Others are are stables.

"38 Years Old", The Tragically Hip.

thank you for the clarification

"EventReduce can be used with relational databases but not on relational queries that run over multiple tables/collections."

Forgive my ignorance, but that is the whole point of working with a relational database. If cannot use JOINS then this solves only a very limited use case.

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Thanks. I wanted to write something similar, but you said it way better than I ever could.

It is always about how we use technology, not the technology per se. For the good, for the bad, for making money. Whatever.

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Yes, maybe it is just me, but that does sound like a good work environment. I do not call myself socially awkward, but at work, I want to work! Getting stuff done.

The BSD wars of '92.

Many articles on Medium are of low-quality. It used to be different. Don't know if this is caused by the monetization efforts.

Could you elaborate? I am really curious how this hardware worked.

Was it a HTML Gui with file upload and everything? Or just some server, port and proprietary protocol?

Maybe these things are on Ebay for cheap. Oh, that looks like fun.

+ 1 Yes, things really changed for me once I started to ask why we implement things. Tried to understand the manager/customer/stakeholder what is their domain? What kind of issue they want to solve? What is the business case we are working on?

I know as a software developer you don't want to do that. More fun refactoring code than dealing with management. More fun writing that piece of SQL than sitting in a meeting. Easier to whine about missing specifications than to understand the big picture.

Once I stepped back from coding and looked at the software from a birds eye view, I had actually a much easier time programming features than before. More knowledge, less writing code.

No idea why someone needs ordered key-value-pairs. I had the please of working with a device that relied upon ordered query string parameters. Why? Because they encrypted the values with RC4.

Justgoogled DataPower, out of curiosity, and I found XML Accelerator XA35. I did not know there is HARDWARE for XML PROCESSING! Blows my mind.

Before Germany had the concept of UG we only had GmbH. For a GmbH you need to bank at least 12.500 EUR. Quite a sum if you wanted to start a business. So it was better to create a Limited in the UK and work in Germany. That construct was totally legal, but not really cheap since all the paperwork was for the UK and you ended up paying someone who knew what to do. The German government then created the UG. At grants you liability like the GmbH but you need only 1 EUR to start with.