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passiveincomelg

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About passiveincomelg

Berlin-based freelance code monkey, part-time nomad, dad joke connoisseur

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #21292818

    The real WTF is: Apparently there is a place called "Unalaska" in Alaska !

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    Comment #21219367

    AFAIK, the problem with rice is methane not CO2.

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    Comment #21164623

    I love the optimism in this. Just hope "intellectual property" and corrupt politicians will not fuck this up. Unfortunately the latter is very likely to happen here in Germany. Our…

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    Comment #20273751

    Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

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    Comment #20082765

    The kind kind?

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    Comment #20082750

    Yes, good conferences are fun. Fun and human connections are important for a healthy community. Hybrids could work; Live stream the talks and gather locally to watch them together.…

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    Comment #19807060

    Links from the article: http://www.futureoffood.ox.ac.uk/grazed-and-confused https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4494320/

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    Comment #19581353

    So you are saying it could be worse. However, if they raised those cows properly it would even help with fighting climate change. But I'm sure they are going down the animal factor…

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    Comment #19580901

    China may be on the right side with clean energy, but also on the wrong side with massively increasing their methane output, increasing desertification, etc: https://www.theguardia…

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    Comment #18467460

    But stay away from the yellow variant.

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    Comment #18449847

    If you can answer the question how to measure that value for any given pair of worker and company, I don't think you will need a job anymore. :)

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    Comment #18082990

    Hays, Montash, People Source Consulting, GCS Recruitment Specialists, Glocomms, Third Republic, Citrus Global, Gulp, iPAXX, Modis Contracting Solutions GmbH, Etengo, Templeton Recr…

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    Comment #18077222

    verified how?

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    Comment #18031796

    IMHO "Know your stuff" in this case means specialize (in tech) and find a niche (in an industry/domain and the market/clients you work with). Speaking from experience of doing the …

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    Comment #18004974

    I believe this one should be relevant to your interests. Best non-fiction book I've ever read. https://leanpub.com/developerhegemony

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    Comment #17852248

    You are right, "almost always the case" was a baseless claim and binary wheels are better than nothing. However, how many projects still have "psycopg2" in their setup.py (or is it…

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    Comment #17851599

    Unless C libraries are involved. Which is almost always the case.

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    Comment #17781345

    This is the risk people take when they are too lazy to host their content themselves.

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    Comment #17777629

    AFAIK he was kicked off Youtube. Which I think is fine and not at odds with supporting free speech.

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    Comment #17517245

    In what parallel universe are you and how do I find the next wormhole to get there? :)

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    Comment #17283458

    AFAIK, the design goals of Rust are better security and correctness in general, than C++. Have you looked at Rust and decided that it does not achieve that goal?

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    Comment #17282080

    Are you one of the three people in the world who can write C++ code without security holes? If not, I'd say it's worth it. That was half joking. :) The half serious answer I can gi…

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    Comment #17265935

    Sure, that vaguely makes sense and doing this is better than doing nothing. Maybe it's just the first step in training those juniors to one day work on the big fat deals.