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>AST SpaceMobile does not seem like they are operating a viable business model. They have been publicly traded for several years and the market seems to agree. Why would the stock …

Cool stuff, but it sure looks like they shipped a premature version asap to front-run the competition. AST SpaceMobile is getting ready for commercial ops this year with „full broa…

Back-of-the-envelope approach that should eliminate most branching: int table[256] = {0}; void init() { table['s'] = 1; table['p'] = -1; } int run_switches(char *input, int size) {…

Let's see. ASTS claims to have solved this problem. Apparently their satellites have 30mbit+/s throughput with regular 5G smartphones at Also, I imagine 5G satellites will be of in…

> What's your source for good cost of launching satellite communication networks? - falcon 9 - $2700/kg - falcon heavy - $1400/kg - ariane 5 - $9000/kg > If the current one works -…

Too little, too expensive, too late? Once again the EU is playing catch up with last gen tech. Starlink is almost 10 years old - conceptually even older. Iridium has been around fo…

CPU market fragmentation in the pro-sumer space is not necessarily a bad thing and might pave the way for RISC-V adoption in the coming years. More competition and a more diverse p…

It depends on the project. Java is the goto language in more conservative environments (e.g. insurance, banking, government) and I never had to justify using it there. In small sho…

Vienna, Austria. It has been ranked the most liveable city in the world for some years in a row. Cost of living is low compared to the European average; you can rent a medium-sized…

(Global) notifications are sometimes the only sane way to deliver a message from one part of your application to another one without explicitly wiring them together. If you're work…

Degrees only matter for "serious companies" and are used as a filter by often clueless HR employees without technical background. As long as you can prove practical experience, you…

I don't get the point. Ad-blockers are available for Android and most non-tech people don't even know that ad-blockers exist. So for the large majority, nothing will change unless …

Different things work for different people, and there's a LOT of anecdotal evidence on the internet about that "one routine/diet/..." that will fix your health in a month. That's n…

Never burn bridges. Keep it as formal as possible and be polite. If you have an exit interview, don't complain about former peers or managers.

The formal verification subject is tricky. For a lot of software (especially in the web startup world) it is often not possible to hire someone trained in formal methods to perform…

We use docker extensively to ship a large and complex legacy platform that was designed to run as a hosted service, but was transformed into an on-premise product. The system is co…

>When did you use Haskell? Roughly two years ago. >I think the silliness about PhD's is very very silly. Of course it is. I just wanted to make a point that the "average programmer…

For personal projects or for learning the principles of FP, there is nothing wrong with using Haskell. From personal experience however, I will not be using Haskell again for a lar…

> I've had first-hand experience of how technology choices affect companies and it can be very painful down the road. I've had the same experience. A couple of years ago we decided…

I am from Vienna as well and I have been working for about 5 years in this city. From my experience, almost all numbers in job adverts are merely symbolic. You are supposed to nego…