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Yeah that's cynical ;). I for example am with my current startup for 5 years now and can hardly find anything to complain about. Previous job was 4 years and was also ok although t…

True. If you got two kids (I do) one can just look for both while the other one can have their shower/toilet/sleep whatever. Actually we are often taking turns sleeping.

Yeah Python culture is generally pretty "direct". I did mostly python the last decade and got so used to "no problem to read the source of pytorch or whatever" that I meanwhile rea…

As I've been mostly using Python for the last 10 years I forgot how nice this dot thing can be ;). True that vscode and pycharm can give you something but I found that it's very of…

Good point. I have been playing with lots of niche languages but in the end I also find that focusing my learning elsewhere is usually a better idea. Even more, I don't know many o…

Recently seen some statistics (if I could just find them) where clojure was one of those languages with more people wanting to work with it than jobs. Compared to something like Go…

Sadly true. How often do I see this bay area etc. "whining" that some house means a couple years of saving up cash. Here most people I know first save up for 10 years and then pay …

Teaching second semester CS students atm I unfortunately see that many students just can't handle it remotely. Although I admit that I'm skeptical if students unable to do some wor…

Well, in Austria you can get up to three years paid leave and freely choose between parents, so not sure if the article is correct. Question is how much the payment is, we get less…

Time for another round of Subnautica

Most I know take off 2 weeks. Many companies even Full close down for a week or two. I'm in Europe so YMMV but still I'm currently working for a US startup and will be gone for goo…

I work 25 hours a week remotely as freelancer (although I'm available in slack more or less all the time) and earn nearly twice as much as during my PhD. Only that in more than 3 y…

Read that article couple years ago, but still I just have to look at the quality of all the electric devices around me... It's not all bridges and hospitals. Heck, even my electric…

Yeah in Vienna, Austria we also got a little hill (and also those holes for ages)

Right ;)

From Gavin Belson we know that you can never ever trust your blood boy.

Personally I liked Andrew Ng’s course much more. While fast.ai seems to have some practical gems hidden, it's just so much noise surrounding it. So much time wasted just by stating…

Yeah especially compared to interrupting the editor, grepping code, parsing results getting back in, opening file and line number.. Find in files/project in Visual Studio makes tha…

2 is a really good point. It's the right wing parties here who talk most about direct democracy bla bla (but in reality only for stuff they would like to have). And present themsel…

Only that basically every right winger I've left didn't call himself right but center. Might be a European thing because they'll quickly call you Nazi otherwise, but still... "I'm …

Most gamers will object to the last paragraph. There are really a lot of strong friendships without ever meeting in person. Back then eben without ever hearing each other's voice. …

Well, I usually don't care for some time. But if you play a lot and you see this crap every evening for hours... it just starts to dampen the mood. For me at least. I can not ignor…

Agree. I think Guild Wars 2 is a good example (in stark contrast to GW1). There are a lot of people but you don't really have to bother dealing with them. But the game itself embra…

While I agree about voice (and that even though I've been working on TTS for 6 years now ;)), I don't think screens and keyboards should be the ultimate goal, but rather something …

Nice, but similar to Scandinavian countries is exaggerated. I'm from Austria and we have up to 3 years of state paid m/paternity leave, contracts must not be terminated before and …