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> What kind of innovation did Germany establish besides ABS?

How about: the car (Carl Benz)? And the motorcycle (Daimler)?

All the common (and uncommon) engine types: Otto, Diesel, Wankel.

More recently, always-on four wheel drive (Quattro). I am sure I am leaving out a ton of innovation in engine and drivetrain technologies.

> Germany's car makers are great at marketing

That's a fairly new development. German car companies were (and still are) very much engineering led. See, for example, Ferdinand Porsche or more recently Piëch.

What you are describing is the US car industry, which has been absolutely marketing-dominated since at least the 50s.

In fact, I'd argue that the current problems are, if anything, a result of the engineering-centeredness, which has a hard time dealing with disruptive innovation. A key feature of a disruptive innovation is that it is demonstrably worse than the incumbent, so engineers will dismiss it as "not good enough" and "toy", and be right. They just miss that there are new criteria, at which the new innovation beats the pants off the old.

I am pretty sure that if you discuss the current situation with German automative engineers, they will be able to show to you very convincingly that electric cars are a joke, don't perform adequately and aren't even environmentally superior. And that electric cars and particularly self-driving cars are marketing gimmicks.

But customer sentiment has shifted (marketing side) and technology and engineering will follow.
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I completely agree. This is exactly why I said, if this happens you didn’t choose the right person for the job.

The same person who butchers your UI might be very good for creating print designs that above all need to sell the company CI.

For critical redesigns you need a designer who is mostly about analyzing and rethinking the user experience behind it. Better even, split it in two: one entity should only do the analytical part and guide the direction, the other should implement it with a little bit of wiggle room. Make sure there is some overlap between the two
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lol same day as uber founding date in 2009
Search is hidden behind registration wall AND I was not allowed to register (without affiliation). You should open search or registration.
European English for code. It's sufficiently different from American that it's sort of got its own rules at this point. It's difficult to understand sometimes.

Most docs at my >200 dev shop including contractors are in German though.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-02/the-en...
Oh! So it doesn't let people pay with Bitcoin on any website that accepts credit cards.

It lets any website that accepts credit cards also accept payment in Bitcoin.

There is a big difference.
If the world worked that way, Microsoft would dominate the mobile OS market now. They had plenty of money and were the 2nd largest (by sales, 1st by market cap) software company when they gave up trying.

The Chinese car market is the largest in the world and due to EV popularity, by far the largest and most important EV market. If VW doesn't prevail there, they aren't likely to come anywhere near the position of "biggest EV producer". Perhaps tariffs will save the EU/US markets from getting dominated by Asian EV makers, but the Chinese market is decided for now.
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I don't think the next application of lab grown diamonds will be rings and necklaces:

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/212422-this-new-high-pow...

It's weird. The most popular shape of diamond is about to become a ~10 to 50cm long rod, not even polished (not very shiny at all, it's somewhere between white and light grey and looks like it's covered in fine dust, like a natural diamond in a regular shape). It's already that way for Rubies:

https://youtu.be/KzI3vaIb0aI?t=78

The positive is: those rods aren't very expensive. You want to score this Valentine's day ? May I advise:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3-0-12mm-AAAAA-Quality-Loose...

(this is likely made by buying such laser rods and cutting them up) (corundum is the name of the material, Rubies and Sapphires are the forms of it. These will be cut rubies. They're quite spectacular looking)
About time. I had the "luck" of working for multiple German companies (including Volkswagen) and I'm surprised how these behemoths still function.

As a grunt programmer, it was painful to see how the upper management made decisions based on politics which made no technological sense whatsoever. In my years of working for German companies I saw multiple project reboots, millions of $s thrown out of the window on failed projects and the worst thing is that there is literally no flow of information from bottom to top. No matter how smart you are if someone is above you in the hierarchy you are nothing, no one.

I hope they will fail spectacularly and learn this hard lesson finally.
No sorry this is wrong.

You can import East European labor very easily in Germany, so there is no shortage of developers in German market and there never will be in foreseable future.

Labor comes from outside, this is precisely why the things are kept at the top so that external people don't get the required information to rival the mothership.
> I just want to remind that Teslas with AP1 don't get no more updates. That is breaking his promise that all Teslas, all as in ALL, will improve by OTA. That is how old?

This is simply incorrect. Their Autopilot software doesn't really get updated, but the majority of recent feature additions are probably not Autopilot-related. All of these changes are still provided to Teslas from 2012, for instance.
Indeed, I should have said "CEO who has connections to the Russian oligarchy". I have nothing against Russians as such.
>If it's stolen while in my care or I drive into a tree, no cover. If it catches fire, no cover. If I bash the door on a bollard or seize the engine, no cover. No cover for any of the things that might normally happen lending the thing to a friend.

Yes, we are talking different things.

The one you just described is a kind of "all risk" (which is commonly called "KASKO" here), it is actually rather "rare", only some firms/businesses use it for their fleet and - sometimes - private citizens for "high range" cars (such as a Tesla or a Porsche 911 might be) that are more susceptible to vandalism or theft.

But there is still a difference seemingly.

If a car is insured for fire, it is insured for fire.

If a car is insured for theft, it is insured for theft.

The above two are NOT connected in any way to the driver.

If a car is insured for "own damages" (such as running the car into a tree) , it is insured for "own damages" and in this case there might be limitations on the drivers (or an even steeper insurance tariff/rate for a "anyone driving is covered anyway").
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There isn't a job which strictly requires expertise from a "German developer" which a Romanian or Polish or Crotaian Developer can't do.
Predictably, the title alone is crack to HNers. If only stakeholders and designers would ask our opinion first, we'd save them the trouble!

Between the author patting himself on the back for coming up with "don't do things for no reason" and "don't make things worse," he provides this criteria:

> The only time a UI should be updated is if it impacts the ability of a user to actually use your application.

This criteria can be rewritten "only change to make improvements," but this is an eternal challenge with anything.

The previous UI wasn't handed down by god. It, too, was designed, and the only thing it has going for it compared to the global optimum is that it at least exists. And like any other system, it was built under different requirements with different unknowns. It accumulates debt and falls into the same traps of any other rewrite. Most importantly, it has to interface with actual humans.

I can sympathize with their rant over grating redesigns, but it's too easy to lambast things that go wrong and then plant your flag of "Yep, don't do this. You're welcome." It contributes to the toxic cynicism rife in our field.
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Agree on search, it is now open for non users. Affiliation is to avoid content dilution. Any alternative ideas are welcome (and as you can see with search, implemented)
>The Mac was too expensive for "the rest of us".

That it was.
Something that I've been thinking about, perhaps because I'm a long time Reddit user, is how often when it comes to redesigns the motivations of those people funding and making the decisions do not actually have the interests of the existing users as their focus.
An idiot, in the original sense of the word, is someone who focuses on themselves, showing no interest in the common cause/politics. It's a bit heavy, but reapplied here it could mean someone who focuses completely on visual quality, while not putting their time into other important aspects of the product (almost all of which are more important that visual quality, at least according to OP).
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> I’m sure a maths researcher can handle it

No, not at all. Each maths researcher will understand (and care about) only a fraction of these. Maths research (like most subjects) is broken into highly specialised subfields, and experts in one often cannot readily understand research in others.

New research papers are the cutting edge of the field, pushing out the boundary between known maths and unknown maths, and this boundary is huge. Things there are understood by very few people, at first just those who developed them, and the prerequisites for understanding any individual area of new maths are substantial. Known maths is also huge, far too big for any one person to understand it all.

Source: have maths PhD.
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Interesting tool, but anecdotally the difficult part about database migrations has very little to do with the actual schema changes. Rather, it has to do with:

1. Ensuring the app works properly with the old schema as well as the new one -- not hard by itself, but requires rigor.

2. Minimizing locking during the migration itself. That right there actually is the much trickier part of migrations, because sometimes you really end up needing to rewrite an enormous table and you want to minimize downtime while doing so.
Can be me but its not clair at all what this site is about.
This is what happens when industry is supported by government and whole ecosystem is created around it, this does give competitive advantages but induces complacemenement. Their final resort is politics (protectionism) to preserve their competitive advantage.

In Germany, there is no way for an engineer to become very wealthy through entrepreneurship.

Even if you bought a house, you can't make much money from it through renting or appreciation.

Because whole country is optimized for cheap labor. Okay, labor is not that cheap but upside is rather very limited unlike US or China!

You worked hard at university and became engineer? Well someone fucked up and became a highschool teacher yet makes same wage as you. Suck it up and that's what kill motivation of engineers. Blue collar laborers also make same wage.

Management always have upper hand and laughs you out of door when you suggest anything. Here you can't even get funded and supported to go against a company and compete against them.

It's even worst than US because here companies can bring labor from East Europe to replace you and you won't even get funding to start a new company so game is over.

Also, Germany has weak property rights. Housing is kept cheap, to make labor competitive and cheap.

So, you will always stay a poor labor in this country Germany.

China/US atleast have clear path to mega wealth.
There’s probably quite a bit of overlap between people who buy placebos and are into the organic/nonGMO marketing.
I hope something drastic takes place. Batteries are the only piece of "hardware" without any new discoveries in decades. Li-Ion I had in high school and it still drives my phone today.

Whoever finds a better alternative is going to completely change the automotive industry and mobile. I just don't hear about many researches being made in this field.
Dart already failed once on the browser, Flutter is just its last hope to stay relevant.
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This website attempts to tell me that javascript is required but it's not. They just want users to execute arbitrary third party code. Turning off CSS allows access to the full article text.
> but can add articles and say 'these dogs'

FYI those aren't articles, but demonstrative adjectives, which are part of the language class of determiners, to which articles also belong.
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Indeed, that's why you can filter by category (e.g. math.NT for number theory). You can access the category by clicking on it at the end of each submission title
Venmo has the prerequisite that you have a bank account. That excludes a massive portion of the human population from the get go, and puts various obstacles in people's way depending on their background.

Acquiring bitcoin will become incredibly simple with services like azte.co, which work in pretty much the same way that most people used to top up their pay-to-go phone less than 20 years ago. People forget how rapidly things move.

If you think at the level of "this is how it works now", you will never comprehend the potential of Bitcoin. The exchanges which operate in the bitcoin space now will be about as relevant as phone booths were as a means of making phone calls remotely. People will forget they ever existed.

The way most people will acquire Bitcoin in future is the way they currently acquire fiat money - in exchange for their time and labor. There won't be any other "exchange" process.
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The whole Android ecosystem seems so immensely bloated and convoluted. A repository size of >80GB just to build an embedded OS? Memory requirements are also huge.

The divergence from mainline linux, creating a new HAL interface, so much code and logic duplication which already existed elsewhere as FOSS software.
The problem with those Eastern European developers is not that they are bad developers - they are pretty good value for money in and of themselves. The problem is that they are wrapped up in the structures that are killing German automotive software. They are probably the ones that get hired to implement the crap that architects made up and that """only""" needs implementation, no questions asked. Just write the code.

Good software development just isn't structured like that at all.
This is how I would describe the noun of idiotic design if it existed.
It's called "Your bank's app"
They won't learn. I work for another euro behemoth and it's exactly the situation you describe. As long as they pay me and support my lifestyle I have no problem, but Im already tired of trying to fight the nonsense.

Sadly Im not a programmer so finding other companies with the same conditions is hard.
yeah but it is software: ehy not serve both?
Google (and YouTube specifically) have customer support so atrocious it's literally driven at least one user to a murderous mass-shooting rage.

That's a level of cost externalisation that dumps risk and impacts not only on users, but employees and innocent bystanders of the company in question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_headquarters_shooting

Contacting Google on virtually any matter, as a non-paying or paying customer, is exceedingly difficult and an abysmally poor experience.
Browsing the discussions and research papers sections of that site, it seems great for programming languages. However, that's only a small fraction of CS research.
Seems like they are splitting their tokens wrong. Spaces are just a suggestion.

But seriously, the problems outlined reminded me very much of Japanese and korean, just turned up to 11.

Japanese has endless amounts of homonyms and at least in theory words can go on and on and on with added conjugations. They have a lot of compound nouns, often build from abbreviations of the words compounded.

The author mentions that these compounds are a problem in Finnish NLP because the explode the size of the vocabulary.

Written Japanese does not contain any word boundaries at all. They split on morphemes for NLP tasks, which helps against exploding vocabularies, but also disseminate the parts into their own meaning-unit.

For written Japanese you have characters which can guide you in meaning for a lot of compound words, but they blow up your character space. That is not the case for Finnish, but I can't really decide if that is an advantage or disadvantage.

Also, a spellchecker and a chatbot would rely on completely different techniques, so you can have one without the other. Japanese doesn't even have spellcheckers, but they have a ton of other tools that millions of people rely on everyday for writing faster and better text, like kana-kanji conversion and word suggestions.
I am probably one of those people naturally equipped to deal with this job, but because i don't find this content shocking, i find it hard to empathize with the people who want it to be censored, so i would not want to take the job.
Or Intel would dominate the mobile market for that matter. Instead they just ended up spending $1 billion a quarter for a few years without moving the needle.
I'm 41, I'm from Italy, never used a check in my entire life.
> Businesses don't flagrantly throw around money just to upset people.

But businesses do throw around money for the wrong reasons, and keep on doing so if that's the status quo. No one gets fired for buying IBM.

> Netflix is doing this too.

IBM stuff was bought by a lot of people.

> I think we can assume not all of them are just idiots that haven't figured out they could build this themselves.

That statement is very misguided and misses the problem. For example if you built your infrastructure around a specific solution then you also end up building a team of professionals whose livelihood is tied to a specific supplier of said infrastructure.
>I'm surprised how these behemoths still function.

You haven't seen Brazilian or India companies in comparison with same level of buercracy and lacking in resources and technology.

German companies are still working because rest of the world is soo bad in comparison.

But this is changing as China/US will compete directly head to head in EV segment and both of them already have massive software ecosystem which did not thrive under German executive mindset for now.
While he doesn't write essays that necessarily create or explain fundamental ideas in the academic sense, I'd definitely pitch for David Foster Wallace as an essayist. I picked up a short collection of his essays, "Both Flesh and Not", and the manner in which his writing flows through and around the topics of his choice is extremely satisfying to read.

His opinions, insights and deconstruction of other writers and literary works are also pretty eye opening, even though I come from a hard sciences background, if only to understand what someone so ridiculously well read has to say about those things. His general musings on life, modernity and culture are also pretty great.

The best place to start (in my opinion) is with This is Water, his commencement address to the incoming class at Kenyon College back in 2005:

https://fs.blog/2012/04/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/

It's a great read, but it's even more enjoyable listening to him deliver it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI
You sound like you’re just not the target audience. That doesn’t make it bad. I personally welcome more specialized news aggregator sites. HN is too diluted and a bit of a fad-following monoculture. This kind of site looks refreshing.
Or just switch to Noise already.

http://www.noiseprotocol.org/
I've seen "The Big Short" movie lately and I was flabbergasted about how the finance industry works. I'm beginning to realize that this pattern is universal in all industries.
I also see that we as a species are suffering from the same mechanism. We won't learn until it is too late. I want to understand the pattern so I can find a way out of it somehow.

BTW: where do you work as a CTO?
The shortage of developers in Germany is exactly the reason why people from Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa are hired in the first place. There's plenty of reports and publications discussing this shortage from last 10-15 years - it's not new and it has never been solved.

Just an example: https://www.handelsblatt.com/today/companies/wirtschaftswund...

I don't know what kind of CTO you are (I'm CTO too), but if you were hiring recently in Germany, you should be able to notice the average time to fill a senior software engineer position is several months. This is the reality in which we live.
It's not a waste of energy according to the miners who shell out for that energy.