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My brief analysis tells me that there will be some grinding down in Q2 with a negative peak in Q3. While the virus seems to be "managed", the consequences of millions of people dro…

I looked at the data flow paradigm a couple of years ago. Back then I thought that the difference to just a "ordinary" functions is not that big, and for performance (which is impo…

Thanks SAP for letting me feel like it's 2010, when everyone fell in love with REST (again).

I've used Eclipse on and off and always found it to be a bit clunky. Unhelpful error messages coming from the fifty layers of abstraction you did not know about before. Back in the…

It's an artificial scarcity, though. We have the most productive technologies ever - we are just not very good to put a better part of them flow towards common good. The amount of …

I understand that it's a very broad spectrum. However, what I am observing is that 'capital' gets its hand in any aspect of life, the formerly family owned coffee machine maker, li…

Why pretend and cloud the idea, that the main reason a person has a "job" today is to accumulate capital for capital. As long as this notion persists (which will be for many more d…

No, not stupid. It's one scenario, but the time span is absent: do we reach 0.7 in three years or three months? At the current rate probably the latter, which might increase the 0.…

Nobody knows what is coming, but I'm in the 1M+ camp as well. US is so ill-equipped plus administration is very aware, how devastating the economic consequences are even now (2T st…

At current pace the whole US will be infected by May (I wonder, whether the market have priced that in already).

I hope for the best.

How true. I believe the US will see an even worse fallout than Italy - because people who can afford private medical personal tend to question whether healthcare is a business mode…

Spot on. As a consumer of a newer generation: I do not care about 90% of the stuff that's in a modern car. I could not care less about the manufacturer. If it drives and is relativ…

I leave this here for future reference: if we paint a worst case scenario, by the end of summer 2020, we may have 1M+ casualties in Germany alone. It's hard to assess the global co…

Agreed. I remain amazed until today about his progression. He founded a startup to solve a white upper middle class "problem", raised millions for that, was lucky to get a little b…

Anecdata: A guy bought a small usb fan for his laptop, inserted it and bricked this laptop. Not worth the 50% discount in any way. As other comments mentioned, we are entering a hy…

Investors care about making money, period. Whether you burn coal until the planet is inhabitable or John Doe data is sold and packaged up for the next couple of decades without him…

I'm using Firefox for years, after Chrome started to ask me for a login (at around version 40). Never looked back. One day I woke up to a chart showing browser market share of FF a…

That surprised me, when I first saw it. If someone takes a minute to read the docs (e.g. Python), one would never build something knowing that order is not guaranteed (e.g. order i…

In Germany there is a saying that translates to something like: "SAP sucks the blood out of the Mittelstand" - Mittelstand being the SMB up to 50M revenue p.a. There has to be yet …

They claim machine learning, but I'd guess their workhorse is a "grep -f badwords tweets.json | makepdf | send boss@employer" kind of thingy.

Related to that: On many people's mental maps, programming seems to be closeby other things like installing a driver, changing configuration and such. That it is an powerful tool f…