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Yes, location is becoming less important but there are differences in locally available talent and money. That’s the main reason incubators are forming in Europe too. If you are in…

Thank you, this explains it for me. The situation is still stupid tough...

1) you need a systems programming language (but not for OS development) that is safe and not too hard to learn 2) you need to run “scripts” but don’t like the hassle of lugging aro…

Yea, somewhat disappointing. My mx 3s mouse has problems with the click switches and the mouse isn’t all that old. I’ve also read about others with the problem. I would also like t…

As somebody working in software startups in Europe, what I’ve seen is a pretty broken system. The companies have a wild west attitude towards sales that leads to irregular contract…

I think those numbers are probably based on source code contributions. I can believe those statistics, what is missing is the why. Some people just aren’t good programmers. I knew …

Now I get your point. That would be a good explanation why the arguments are surface level and regurgitated. This is not really something I want to have to look out for.

I would guess that Ruby and Python programmers generally know at least some c, c++ and maybe even objective-c. That was the case where I worked. It is also normal enough to install…

Indentation was seriously being used as a point against Python when I came to Ruby and we had lots of DSLs that where indentation based back then. I always felt that do be BS and I…

The argumentation in the article isn’t very good but the Ruby community was never good at selling itself and used similar arguments to the article for years. The syntax is more ele…

I am a Ruby programmer that came to Ruby as a Python programmer that had do do work mainly in PHP and JavaScript (no jobs in Python where I lived at the time). I sort of liked Java…

I would pretty much remove any sex that doesn’t drive the story in some way and keep it short. You are correct that sex doesn’t hit like it used to hit. I would argue the same for …

I don’t think people mind the sex because of moral. What is bothering me is that I feel they use sex as a filler. To me it is one of the indicators that the story is probably lacki…

I wouldn’t say it is different, but there is a certain amount of stigmatization associated with cheaper cars in richer nations that sort of forces people to pay more than they feel…

Honestly most chips in cars won’t have much to do with the infotainment system. One of the first places that chips got added to cars was fuel injection system. Most of the chips in…

Yes QWERTY works well enough for me, mainly because I’ve been using it for 25 years. (I’ve learned touch typing in school 27 years ago) I often find it harder to find the right key…

The alt keyboard layout thing was once appealing but I’m over it for two reasons. 1) I don’t think it is useful to write faster than I can ‘think’. What I like about writing is tha…

Vim is more of an investment and I tried to really get into vim over the years but I didn’t. I did get good enough with it to use it when sshing into a server. Sublime just clicked…

I used mainly Sublime Text the last years and I know enough vim that it is the most comfortable editor for me on the linux command line. I currently also use Visual Studio Code bec…

If I remember correctly we got the weekends we where on call payed like normal work days, adding 2 days a month per dev (4 or 5 of us doing the work and rotated through) if somethi…

I think you overestimate how “well” things work. I’ve had cases where hardware worked great with Linux and was buggy or unusable with Windows and vice versa. I’ve even had some har…

We might need something like Hanlown’s razor for this. Never attribute to a conspiracy that which is adequately explained by pettiness.

Is the App an old POS? I see a lot of old Java Apps still around that sort of bitrotted to hell. We bitched so much about Java Apps that so many just got abandoned, even if the app…