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stefanfis

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About stefanfis

Physicist → consultant → indie dev from Germany. Built a search engine from scratch back in the day. Now open-sourcing a native CSV editor.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #44013813

    As long as the content is great, this doesn‘t matter at all. It helps especially non-native speakers a lot to clearly communicate their ideas. And it saves time for the important w…

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    Comment #43743583

    Even if you’ve already learned distributed system design, it makes things much more complicated, is easier to break and harder to maintain. Getting new developers to the project is…

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    Comment #43686375

    I don’t know how 66% compare to other prediction models like the ones based on classical Machine Learning algorithms. Do you have any comparison data?

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    Comment #43679769

    I love the idea, but at least on my iPad it’s hard to discover what I could do on this site. That some menu options are written with Cyrillic letters doesn’t help either. It would …

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    Comment #43679715

    Yes, I see the reasoning, but it really is a tiny fraction of mankind dealing with this issues. And, as you said, there’s tech for that. One design flaw of your solution is the com…

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    Comment #43679102

    Just a clarification as the headline could imply a wrong understanding: It’s not the EU that banned it. Meta itself forbid its use by entities within the EU to not have to comply w…

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    Comment #43676211

    Interesting ideas, but I‘d say no chance for adaption. Mainly because most people have no need for global scheduling. They would have to adapt to a completely unfamiliar system, wi…

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    Comment #43672471

    Isn’t what you call a "sharp name" just a brand-able name? These kind of domain names aren’t parked that often as they are typically some kind of fantasy names or combinations of t…

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    Comment #43672384

    Assuming numbers are just a construct of our minds, we could even argue that unicorns have more existence than numbers. We can’t proof a unicorn doesn’t exist. So there is a probab…

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    Comment #43671913

    I really like the aesthetic of the site and how the principles are shown. IMHO everyone building things, even the nerdiest tool, should know about these laws. One addition I'd like…