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I'm at SAP (and in Germany, too), and our team was migrated to Slack Enterprise Grid just this week. We migrated to Slack (from internal IRC) a bit over a year ago and because a lot of other teams did as well, corporate IT was pushed into investigating company-wide Slack as an option, which now became available in January.

Compared to other tech companies, it took us longer to adopt Slack on the company scale, but mostly because Slack was lacking an on-premise solution until recently.
Ha! I've had the same experience many times as a Mexican American. Usually with Texans and Californians who visit NYC, try say, some actually authentic mexican tacos, and pronounce them lame and "inauthentic" because they do not resemble americanized texmex they grew up on.

Like, what? I'd understand the complaint if we'd gone to a place advertised as texmex.

I guess the annoying thing is they misleadingly refer to texmex food as "mexican" which it is not. It is a separate (and also tasty) cuisine that relies on different traditions and ingredients, eg flour instead of corn tortillas. Food is all great, but lets not use confusing terms
I prefer learning by messing with existing examples rather than watching YouTube videos or reading books, so I created a directory of ML projects that 1) have 'interesting' outputs, 2) are well documented and 3) open source: https://ml-showcase.com
But what stops people from trading real guns on ANY subreddit?
I think it's mostly a combination of the work culture at any given employer or even within a team, and the habits/expectations of the people doing the work.

I keep weird hours due to working remotely and across time zones, and I do encourage people to contact me by phone for anything time-sensitive when I'm offline. But that almost never happens, people are usually OK with waiting until I get back online to answer their queries.

Some form of this is more the rule than the exception on my team, because the people who don't work remotely still have lives (pick up the kids, avoid the rush-hour traffic, whatever) -- and also have to be flexible about their hours due to the multiple time zones.

This includes people with 1 to 25+ years experience FWIW. So I wouldn't worry about it, if you want to have a strict 9-5 boundary you can find good places to work (just not on anything mission-critical). If you prefer to work 40 hours a week on some other reasonable schedule, you can also find good places to work.

I once had a colleague who worked a very strict 9-5 and could have been called in an emergency but we all understood it would have to be a REAL emergency before we bothered that guy. He did a great job and everyone respected him, despite his being probably the only guy in the building keeping such a rigid schedule.
It's still at the proposal phase, but I wouldn't be so sure. It effectively extends the "content ID" system from being Google's voluntary choice to mandatory in the industry.
Because signal does not have features people need?
It remembers the Robocop's robots.
These problems can also be avoided by not owning guns.
> When my data ends up at a third party, especially without my knowledge, I'm much more concerned about it being sold and or shared further.

As stated in the mailing list thread linked in the article, Mozilla has a legal agreement with Cloudflare that the data will not be stored long-term, let alone sold or shared. My reading is that they're keeping information about DNS requests and responses, but not who made the request, for 24 hours for debugging purposes, and then getting rid of all logs. The data they're actually interested in is performance, not the DNS flow itself.

You're welcome to decide that Mozilla's trust in other companies is misplaced even if they get a signed contract, and if you do, that would be a good reason to cease using Firefox (Nightly or otherwise!). But if you're not of that opinion, it doesn't make sense to worry that the data simply happens to go through a third party.

(Also, what third parties see your DNS data today? Do you think your ISP is not tracking this?)
I'm pretty sure the idea is that we're supposed to be killing you, so the people in Sweden end up out of a job and only the frantic, stressed American workers survive. This, for the purpose of making just a few American capital holders impossibly more wealthy for the virtue of holding the reins on the madly charging American workers.

I think you're quite correct that it's insane, but you can also view it through the lens of class war. There are some people in charge who have an unthinkable amount of capital, and they would like it to be this way everywhere.

'Culture' is led by leaders. Company culture comes from the top down. If you had a company leader who earnestly thought hunting down and murdering workers in rival companies was the best way to be a company, AND he was allowed to pursue that unregulated and unrestrained, you'd see a 'culture' straight out of the darkest cyberpunk because others would play copycat and it'd become the new normal. You'd have to deal with it on its own terms.

Of course it's insane, and of course it's killing people: in a sense that's a feature. This is the operating system on which we run. There's only workarounds, or changing the OS out from under the 'culture' it produces.
Sorry, but this is a rewriting of history and the present facts, and I can't let it go unchallenged.

React was first released in 2013, whereas Angular (2) was first released in 2016. React was already a very popular and rapidly growing framework by that point, so the idea that people adopted it simply because of Angular 2 is clearly false.

And while the migration process from Angular 1 to 2 was painful, it's simply untrue to say that nobody bothered, or that every AngularJS developer moved away. If you look at a source like https://hotframeworks.com/, which sources framework popularity data from GitHub and Stack Overflow, you can see that Angular has achieved a significant amount of adoption, and there are plenty of examples of people migrating successfully from 1 to 2+.
In India, there are monks who live without any food (and water as well) for more than a month or so. Initially, I did not believe but then I confirmed from many people and it was true. They basically do meditation during that period and gain their energy from nature.
Participate in the mailing lists, in the bug trackers.

Submit code patches and report bugs.

In short, participate in the Mozilla community.

Mozilla isn't some sort of impenetrable wall of silence, everything they do is open. The initial mailing list thread that start the entire outrage is open. People on it raised these exact concerns. People engaged them. They want to prevent these exact PR disasters.

"Nothing else seems to be working" is simply untrue if you simply look at the bugtracker and mailing list.

I would suggest that you bring "Nothing else seems to be working" to Google and the Chrome dev team. I haven't heard much outcry from that direction yet and they regularly come up with decisions previously undiscussed with the public and then push it through no arguments about it. Mozilla is not like that no matter how much you want to believe it.
There's no way to have a 2 hour commute in Munich unless you live in Salzburg, Austria. The problem with Munich is the lack of good tech companies here.
Does it has channel or something similar? If yes what are the popular ones?

One of the reasons people use Telegran (aside from chats\groups\bots) - is channel, for many people this is new RSS.
Luckily charisma can be learned and overcome all but the most outlying unattractive.

But yea prostitution is the world's oldest profession for a reason - sometimes people just want a transactional sexual encounter. For money, one can have no "equal parts" requirement - no need to reciprocate. It's not for everyone (or for me) but I can understand the attraction.
Well, if the result of the different failure modes means that a machine can't tell the difference between what obviously resembles a turtle and a rifle, or a cat and guacamole, then that's something that anyone who watched the video is better at. You can call it a different failure mode, but these are things no human would misclassify unless seriously ill, and being able to classify simple objects is important to our day to day lives.

Imagine some sort of Robocop deciding to neutralize someone for holding a turtle toy.
I don't live in Washington or New York. I live in Edinburgh.

And I want to read local news from all over the place. I want to read multiple takes on things. I want to read the articles my friends share with me, and not have to go and find the New York Times article which is closest to the thing they want me to read.
I’m inexperienced with deep nets - isn’t this just dropout? Nets with dropout will generalize better? well, ok, nets that generalize better can deal with dropout
Correct. I left church about the time when I got my first paycheck, and church tax has been 0.00 on my tax statement ever since.
What are those 'extremely high salaries in tech' you speak of, outside of a select few Canary Wharf positions? UK salaries in tech are abysmal from what I see - and just last year I heard a UK 'entrepreneur' brag about how cheap engineers are in the UK at a software business conference. Also keeping in mind CoL - who wants to take a London job when it means 2 hour commutes one way in order to have some disposable income left?
Pushing this market off the internet and back onto the streets will increase the murder rate of sex workers. This bill will literally kill people. See Scott Cunningham at Baylor who specializes in the economics of Sex Work and other criminal markets.
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> gain their energy from nature.

lol
the original statement "legalization is the only answer to the problem" is similarly guesswork then
Sure, but there is something between SV 160k and the prevailing tech pay in North-Western Europe.
This argument assumes that autonomous drivers will be safer than human drivers. Which is an unproven proposition. It is possible that autonomous driving may never be safer, or that the rate of improvement may be much slower than expected. How many "more deaths today" do you think are reasonable to test this question? One? ten? one thousand? ten thousand?
key sentence:

> Microplastics make up 94 percent of an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic in the patch. But that only amounts to eight percent of the total tonnage. As it turns out, of the 79,000 metric tons of plastic in the patch, most of it is abandoned fishing gear—not plastic bottles or packaging drawing headlines today.

"only eight percent of the total tonnage"? We are talking about microplastics, that is still an incredible amount of plastic.

What's more interesting is I think this article shows how journalism about environmental destruction has some significant problems. It works as with most other human communication, we want narratives and images that evokes emotion (a kind of mythic/romantic understanding of things). That's why "The Great Pacific Garbage Patch" works so well, we all mentally see an island of trash in our heads that needs "cleaning up" and along comes the hero, a young entreprenour. Other things that work well are pictures of dead birds on a beach with their stomach full of different colored plastics.

The problem is when our "romantic" idea of pollution hides/ignores the more destructive (and more complex) effects. Pictures of flooding being the poster images for climate change is an incredibly shallow view of the problem. And no part of the world is free of plastic, so basically the entire earth is a plastic garbage patch. Even worse, when an image that is built up doesn't fit what it started out as. You have basically made things worse by planting doubt about the problem in general by having an incomplete and shallow image of the problem..
what kind of C help do you need? :)
It depends on your definition but FWIW Flour tortillas, which burritos require, were only invented very recently, after Europeans brought wheat to the americas. Wheat tortillas have caught on in some parts of mezixo, primarily near the UsA border but are barely seen in other parts. Corn tortillas are the older more universal staple and have a revered place in mexican history and culture that wheat products do not.

Time marches on and maybe burritos are a regional cuisine but they are surely not a general national cuisine.

As a comparison, pizza is a USA national dish. Scrapple on the other hand is more of a Philadelphia area regional dish, even if Philadelphia is indeed inside the USA.

Use whatever words you want, I'm just sayin'...
>if Telegram is not banned in Russia in about a week from now they will have complied with the FSB's directives.

Russian here.

FSB is bluffing yet again, just like they were bluffing with youtube block. Too many people use it, too many politicans use it and even troll army based in Olgino use it.

They won't ban it.
What exactly is the intention behind this bill? Do they hope the demand for prostitution will drop, and thus trafficker revenues and incentives? That seems ridiculous, as demand for prostitution existed throughout human history and across civilizations, mainly as a cultural artifact.

So we expect the services to simply shift to use other facilitators. Do they hope the new facilitators will be better for the victims? That, again, seems misguided: we know for a fact that traditional, pre-internet facilitators, like pimps and underground brothels, are exceptionally damaging for victims, physically, emotionally and economically. Any underground, high friction market, will have large margins for the traders (traffickers) and make the producers worse off.

Is the intention to drag prostitutes into legality, in supervised establishments where they can be protected by the state? Shouldn't that start with a nation-wide ban of anti-brothel laws that effectively force prostitutes to work underground?

So what exactly is the point of this bill? Denying independent prostitutes autonomy and forcing them in the hands of traffickers? Did they even ask themselves these questions? Do they even understand the purpose is harm-reduction across a whole at-risk social class, not some crusade against a Hollywood vision of innocence abused?
This sounds rather like Baron Wulfenbach from Girl Genius come to life http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040107
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Work surely was universal, but 2 things are very different now

1. Working outside (as mentioned) just doesn't compare with office job, i.e. it provides physical exercise, fresh air, being close to nature/animals. Now we're simulating all these things with gyms/vacations/zoos (I think the quality of such simulation is out of question?)

2. Work had to be done with your family, now there is no simulation for this in our society at all. And I would guess it was much better option than running as fast as we can (as most corporate people do) at 6:00PM, away from these annoying faces :)
I got 26 days at the local IT company where I started after university, and I now have 30 days at a big IT company (SAP). However, this is an IT worker's privilege. Among my friends in the manufacturing industry, the minimum 24 days seem to be common.
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That would be the only 10 hour youtube video I would pay for. A timelapse of anyone doing that.
Doesn't scale. Firefox is already introducing option to block "notification permission" requests as all sites spam with it, even when it makes little to none sense.
There is no* risk for the acquiring company.

*Obvious simplification is obvious. The risk is they can't keep acquirred company alive long enough to extract a profit before the husk of a company finally implodes.
> What I miss in germany, is developers of ability, sharing their experience in public.

Go to a meetup and you'll see some examples of that

But about the names mentioned, I see some good ideas but mostly empty words and "religious rituals" touted by them
While looking glass was indeed delivered in release (to my knowledge) the code was not active until configuration changes were made, at worst that means mozilla delivered unnecessary bloat to the user.

While I do agree that Nightly is to some extend "we need crash reports with a list of all the pornhub tabs you had open", I think in this case they should inform users that they are doing this. The study only lasts a week so people can fallback to normal mozilla if they don't like the potential to be the 50% being "tracked".

I hope Mozilla takes this as an opportunity to A) give the networking team a lecture on how to not word a shield study proposal and B) do something to avoid people thinking all shield studies are bad. They aren't.

Because the option C) is "people should learn not to only read the first message in a proposal discussion and assume this is how they will do it" I find it unlikely that it will be possible, given the modern outrage culture in social media.
Don't forget that a Diplom in Germany is similar to Bachelor + MS in other countries.

I always have to explain that a Licentiate[0] is more akin to MS than Bachelor, which is a bummer on employment forms that don't expose it as option.

After Bologna, Portuguese universities started giving the option for former Licentiates to request their MS title, given the split into 3 + 2.

Which according to my knowledge also happens in other European countries where CS degrees used to be 5 years duration, before Bologna happened.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licentiate_(degree)
> At the doctor you present your health care ID, you usually don't have any interaction with your health care provider aside from that.

Well, one thing. When your doctor writes you off sick, you get three copies of the sick note: One is for you, one is for your employer, and one is for your insurer. You get all three copies (they're carbon copies of the same form), so you have to mail the latter two. (The version for the employer has all the medical details blanked out.)
I guess I should clarify, by no means did I want to offend german software engineering. Ofcourse there are great products made from german software company or any companies (cars duh.)

Further that, I understand your point but I do not believe it is an issue in new companies. Yes Deutsche telekom might have such issue, but if you dont use Slack you can use HipChat you can use Microsoft Teams, you can use Google hangouts chat.
All with different policies, data centers etc. Hell you can even roll your own with open source projects.
There is always a way out and hiding behind the law for not adapting is bad for them.

BTW I believe DAX companies are more sensitive in terms of data than most companies, lets say soundcloud.
If what you are saying is true (bachelors being valued the same) then this is kind of sad. I still believe that the old diploma degrees were one of the competitive advantages that our industry had. And from personal observation I can tell you that all the physics students I knew continued with a masters degree if they could.
I think the reason why a Tesla is comparable to consumers in price/value to a BMW series 1 model are down the Tesla price being brought down through a combination of subsidies and a clever financing structure which isn't really profitable and sustainable long term. It's a deliberate strategy by Tesla to enter the market and reach critical mass to start benefiting from more economies of scale. It will probably only start to turn into a profitable strategy around 2020. BMW is not pursuing such a strategy to try capture market, as they sell about 2 million cars per year and at a profit. Tesla only made 300k cars, ever, at a loss. At some point BMW will grow their portion of electric cars as it becomes viable to do so profitably and hopefully that will be around the time that Tesla is also doing it profitably.
I'm not a CDU[1] voter by far but the Schröder government really screwed this one up by trying to "modernize" labor laws.

When I started out freelancing I thought consulting agencies were actually viable so I applied to various projects posted by them. Every single time I ended up turning them down because the contracts they'd send me would effectively mean I'd no longer be able to seek clients myself out of the fear of violating the non-compete clause (unless I'd always ask every client "have you recently signed a contract with this consulting agency") yet I'd have no guarantee of actually winning the contract, they'd take a massive cut of my hourly rate, they'd force me to accept payment deadlines of up to three months (my normal limit was 14 days) but I'd effectively get none of the benefits of a regular employee other than having them as a mediator (assuming they'd ever not side with the client).

Being a software developer I was able to reject those offers and instead seek out clients myself. But for many people in less fortunate skillsets this is the kind of crap they have to put up with, especially with companies offloading more and more of their workforce into these agencies to make it easier to hire & fire people as needed. Because they're not regular employees and union contracts and salary laws don't apply, many of them earn well below minimum wage (if they can find contracts at all) and need welfare to "top up" to the same level as someone without a job at all.

A lot of the laws at the time needed fixing but this was a blatant attempt to reduce the unemployment stats without actually helping people. I'd say because it actively obscures the issue without solving it it has actually things worse for the people affected.

[1]: The two major parties in Germany are the left-of-center SPD and the conservative centrist/right party CDU. The current chancellor, Merkel, is a member of the CDU and the government consists of a coalition between the CDU and SPD. The government that passed the labor and welfare reforms consisted of a coalition between the SPD and the Greens, with the chancellor Schröder being a member of the SPD. Many had voted for the SPD at the time hoping for a more left-leaning government, which eventually resulted in a mass exodus of SPD members forming their own minor party which eventually joined the far left party "Die Linke" (the left).
Yes, I share those experiences.
Lots of business-decisions are counter-productive to us software-people.
Maybe it's because software is a kind of craft, with art and engeneering qualities, that is hard to reason about correctly, if you are not "into it".

Short term business decisions, like outsourcing, may indicate a need for higher liquidity within an accute financial situation (which is common for small companies).
I think most managers know the longer term risks, but are somehow forced to do so.

However, I see us "software people" in charge to change the situation, by insiting on disciplines, like knowlegde-sharing, proper testing, etc.
Maybe germany needs a better IT-community...
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Pretty much. There comes a time when it seems hardly worth sugar-coating realities like that. The whole topic is inextricable from the engine constructed to make a few victorious entities, whether they're companies or individuals or both, successful to a degree that justifies their apparent importance.

Funny how that importance is never 'serving people the best way', and is always 'thousands of times more powerful and wealthy than you could even imagine and consuming the blood of young servants in order to live forever'. With some of the most successful Silicon Valley capitalists, the latter is literally true: consuming the blood of the young in hopes of living longer.

I'm not sure how much more on-the-nose it can even get. It's kind of nice to see these things openly talked about. It's legitimate to ask, "This is possible, indeed is happening. Is this good?"