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I've been looking into changing jobs and yes: it is a huge time sink. Traveling to interviews, being available for phone calls, preparing and researching... Especially the smaller companies are struggling to set up a good hiring process. I tried to discuss salary ranges before going into interviews to filter out some companies, but it didn't help. One recruiter put me on a one hour train ride, turns out there was some miscommunication about the job description..

However I really liked the Thoughtworks challenges and couldn't resist coding for eight hours. It's better than spending one hour on-site for a badly designed 'challenge'.

In the past they used it to infect the laptop of a potentially drug trafficking medical doctor.

Of course it's unclear what the secret police is up to. This is mainly for the federal police and customs police.

The funny thing is they don't want to develop an all-purpose trojan. It's only meant to intercept communication before it is encrypted and sent over the wire. This came to happen because they were unable to listen in on Skype calls in the past. So they're basically deploying a trojan which is able to copy VOIP traffic.

From media reports it's unclear if communication includes chat and email, which would make the trojan a keylogger. There are lawyers that argue email, without PGP encryption, is within the 'Quellen-TKÜ' laws reach.

Furthermore the government is not allowed to turn the infected machine into a listening station, by law the flat of a person is under stronger protection than his communication.

Technically this will be really hard to enforce in software...

I never went to Berlin before 1989, but I'm pretty sure that happened afterwards. There was a period of maybe 10 years that changed East-Berlin. Take a look at this article: https://medium.com/matter/our-own-private-germany-6ce44ac93a...

Also there is this 5 year old book "REST in Practice" which defines several levels of RESTfulness

It's perfectly fine to produce boring products. Data entry has never been fun, but it's needed.

Creating new algorithms or data structures may be scientifically creative. I don't know, maybe it's boring for the scientists and they think reasoning and writing about these is much more fun and creative than implementing them. Anyways it just one kind of creativity.

But there is creativity in 'just gluing' stuff together. It's not that simple and there is more choice involved than you suggest.

I think you confuse creativity (to create something new) with self-actualization and visual art. Programming is a craft, often used to create things which are really boring.

Coders often like their craft, they like creating things, even if the final product is not important to them on a personal level.

According to the author programming sucks for the following reasons:

* costs and time, difficult to maintain

* difficult to hire developers, difficult to learn

* no diversity in industry

* users have no influence on product

Well, yes. Software is a labour intensive task. But given the number of jobs digitization has destroyed and the immense gains it provides, I don't think it so bad. Despite the authors criticism it's still an improvement.

I find his argument hard to follow, the author wants to solve 'the problem', but I don't quite get it. The all purpose machine was a good idea, having an evolving eco system, competition, forks, etc. is a good thing.

Gentrification is a scientific term which became very popular. I think it's important to discuss counterarguments, if only to make the term 'gentrification' clearer to a wider audience.

Finally I think the authors last point is important and overlooked in most online discussions of this 12 month old article: Gentrification has become a middle-class fear and does not help to address the problems of the poor. A discussion about rent subsidies would.

I remember an article about redlining in Rotterdam, but this was in the nineties.

I tried to find something on 'hyper gentrification' with google scholar, but nothing came up?

Fact is gentrification is being researched for more than fifty years and it's ok to cite 10 year old research. Because the whole theory builds upon these studies and it might still take some years before enough data is available to cross-examine newer studies.

I don't think it's about absolute numbers, women did not stop coding. It's just more men starting to code, which makes the share of women smaller.

Does http://librelist.com/ match your requirements?

"It is a place for FOSS communities to discuss all the things they want without ads, censorship, signup requirements, bundled apps, or requirements that you use any particular email client or service."

But if an attacker steals your Keepass file and acquires your password you won't notice.

Lastpass can detect logins from new IP adresses and throttle requests, send warning mails etc.

But sure, once their servers are cracked and their plugin is infected with master-password-stealing code it's all game over.

Is that even legal in the EU? Isn't that the same behaviour that got Google into trouble, allegedly putting their own products in front of others?

Ruby isn't that much slower than other slow languages. But compared to the fast ones it is really really slow.

Yes and it's easier too. Well, until your project reaches a certain size, than it's actually very much like working on someone else's code...

So the first version of the Apple watch has failed, but the author hopes for a better second version, which may even be cheaper. Meanwhile he's happy about the software updates.

I guess the "sold more units than the ipod" argument refers to the first generation ipods, too?

> To be fair, the vast majority of the bailouts have gone to paying back debts. Those debts were held with corporate German and foreign banks.

Let me cite from another economist, Hans-Werner Sinn:

"At that time (late March 2010), French banks had a 53 billion euro exposure to private and public instances in Greece, the German ones a 33-billion euro exposure, the US 10 billion, and the UK 9 billion. [....] At the end of March 2015, the sum of current account deficits accumulated since early 2008 was 108 billion euros, equivalent to one-third of the multilateral and intergovernmental loans provided to Greece, which amounted to 325 billion euros. Two-thirds of the public credit was thus apparently used to finance capital flight and one-third to finance the current account deficit – ultimately the living standard that could no longer be financed with the income of the Greek citizenry. Thus, over the entire crisis period it can hardly be argued that barely 10 percent of the public credit benefited the Greek people, as Finance Minister Varoufakis does. Apart from the above, Greek debtors benefited from the fact that the international community helped them meet their obligations towards foreign creditors, and also made it possible for them to bring their wealth out of the country."

I had such high hopes for Varoufakis and now I can't agree with a single word he says.

> The Euro though is a different matter. It is dividing the EU. It is creating the have's and have not's. It is being used as an economic nuclear weapon in order to force the will of one nations economic culture and expectations on to others.

Maybe it is, but the Greek problems started decades ago, years before the Euro.

Yeah, let's split Greek into two countries and micro manage their regimes for a few decades.

Seriously, if anybody got the money to do this.. it really helped Germany.

And why try to distinguish in every discussion? A government acting on behalf of the people doesn't necessarily act for the people. You can't act for all the people. The people aren't a homogeneous group either. And the government is split into several branches (sub-systems) too.

This isn't a sad world. It's just not very romantic.

Wow, I think this 'experiment' was highly unethical.

Yes you are right. I meant if a state can get out of his financial obligations by defaulting. I read somewhere there is nothing like personal bankruptcy for states. Argentina even lost a court case?

Sure there is some debate about a possible debt from Germany to Greece for crimes committed in WW2. That's a big discussion by itself. Doesn't change the fact that the original article ignores the Marshal Plan.

Anyways if Greek was not in the Euro it could devalue its currency. Which would benefit their exports, if they had any. However their debt would still be payable in Euro and the new currency would have a terrible exchange course. So no win. There are scientist who say the real estate market might boom in such a case. Since most Greeks are home owners that may provide some cash in the short run: International investors and rich Greeks who transfered their assets out of the country before the crash will buy in.

It's still unclear if a state can actually default. I guess if you're not dependent on import you could risk not paying back your international partners(/enemies). There are examples of countries regaining some power in isolation.

I agree about the risk of lending money, that's probably the reason why so much of this money was used to decouple Greece finance market and ensure existing (private) contracts were honored.

Germany was rescued after WW2 to drive the European economy. Without German exports the continent would have had no chance to recover. It's sure ironic that Germany first destroyed the continent and then profited by rebuilding it, but history doesn't seem to care about irony much.

I think the 'Germany never paid'-argument is flawed. The Marshall plan would not have worked if Germany had been indebted. Instead this happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_reparations_for_World_W...

If Greek defaults without paying their debt Germany (=tax payers) is about to lose 90 billions. I'm not sure how this is profiting...

I fail to understand this argument. Of course you have to save the banks to save an economy. Greek was bankrupt 5 years ago, yet the cash machines never stopped dispensing money.

I read that as "It doesn't have the same quality as public Google services".

It links to some lengthy blog post about leap seconds, which ends with:

"Google does not offer an external NTP service that advertises smeared leap seconds."

I only skipped through the blog post, though. Maybe there is a more direct rule regarding the servers somewhere.

And rightly so. It's a non issue.