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Jonas & der Wolf - https://www.jonasundderwolf.de | Berlin, Germany | Django/Python Developer | ONSITE We're a development team of about 20 working on applications for small and bi…

> Don’t say anything about someone in email you would not be comfortable saying to them directly, because eventually they will read it. Absolutely - I've learned this the hard way …

Dealing with text in software or web projects is always a mess: the customer needs a process for changing and approving content, labels, button descriptions, etc. and we always end…

For understanding the world we're living in and expanding your horizons (substantially): https://www.ecosophia.net

Check out https://fairtransport.eu/ , they've been doing that for over 10 years. The story of Captain Gustaf Erikson is also instructive in that regard: https://postcarbonlogistics…

Not to forget that WWII was a war won by oil. Whoever was able to mobilize the most energy (in the form of oil) could win (a great book about that: Oil, Power and War[0]). Retoolin…

Totally. This was a one-time gift of fifty million years of sunshine and we burned it all off over a time span of about 300 years.

Diesel, fuel oil and coal. Admittedly, the latter mostly goes through a power plant to turn into electricity first - with the concomitant losses on the way.

You're making a big assumption that simply doesn't hold: it's not a matter of "let's switch to renewables and keep everything else the same". Fossil fues have an energy density tha…

[citation needed] Cars are a net negative for societies (see e.g. https://tu-dresden.de/bu/verkehr/ivs/voeko/ressourcen/dateie... ). Just imagine having most (80%+) of goods transp…

I distinctly remember the first time I looked at a overly long and complicated model class and thought: "OMG, this is a state machine!" - a shortish refactor later and it was much …

Judging from context I would guess he/she meant: "I took _the watch_ off when _the company_ was bought"

This is exactly what I need - but I signed up, closed the window and now I get an endless redirect loop after clicking on "Login" on the main page. Please fix so I can try it out! …

> so you need to wait until they leave until you can move into your own property. That's simply false. You can cancel a lease with a renter because of "Eigenbedarf" (personal need)…

Interesting! I actually love using the whiteboard to sketch solutions and architectural decisions. I believe the hate comes from having to code on a whiteboard - which is justified…

Good point. When I notice that people are struggling with finding something, I usually just pick one thing from the resume and try to go more in depth about that.

> It's like they don't trust their own judgement enough to be able to tell apart those who know what they're talking about from those who just talk a good game. Which is usually th…

That's actually not correct. One example from Düsseldorf: http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/duesseldorf/duesseldorf-... (2/3rds of drivers in a 30km/h zone are breaking the speed…

I'm responsible for hiring developers at our company based in Berlin, Germany, and found it best to have a guided interview about the candidate's work experience and interesting pr…

Well, that's a tricky argument since at what point is a population "established"? I concur, however, since I'd prefer it to be distributed among all residents, whether born in that…

This has been espoused a long time ago by German economist/trader Silvio Gesell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Gesell His main work is about reducing the possibility to extr…