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I was one of the 16000 protesters in Munich. The message came to me via the evening TV news about germany delayed signing ACTA. It was impressive to see how many people care about …

If you leave aside C-extensions and libraries, CPython is a pretty bad language for number crunching. This is just not the use-case it tries to solve. I am glad they favor simplici…

When you are used to the SVN/CVS workflow, it takes a long time to get over it. It took me a long time to understand why the distributed approach is better, despite having read a l…

Two weeks are quite some time for an automation. But depending on how much time you spend every day, you might want to go for it. It's not only about saving time daily, it's even m…

Whaddaya Mean, You Can't Find Programmers? It is a give and take. If developers are in high demand, it is the companies turn to show their value to the employee in advance.

This is a very biased view and it might become invalid in different market conditions. Just think of a great inflation or any market collapse. If you own a house, you can still liv…

I was thinking about this a lot of times. Having some person to handle the kind of work I dislike. But in the end, I guess it's too hard to realize. Headhunters are supposed to hel…

That's a good sign, but I am still waiting for it to express in the salary range of companies.

Gingerbread has a concurrent GC, so animation should not stop completely. However, on a single core system I wouldn't expect this to have a huge impact. But this is just my persona…

That means you can finally ship 4.x-apps without losing all the iPad owners as potential customers.

I second that. It's not the "rewrite" that is bad, but the "rewrite from scratch". You might end up with a completely different codebase if you do it incrementally.

That was exactly what I thought of when reading the name. Hotpot is great, lets see how well the recommendations will be.

That's the whole trouble about software patents, isn't it?

Maybe this is different in other parts of the world, but in Germany I have never ever been able to do nr 3. Employers over here never set the anchor for negotiating. At least thats…

Another very good posting from coderoom.wordpress.com. I like it especially because this way of thinking is uncommon in the industry but very important.

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/4726/view-faceboo...

The multiplayer mode of my Android game "Laska". There are just not enough active players to make it work. But I like the feature because its based on AppEngine and XMPP, so it doe…

I will not attend a long interview process if the salary is completely unknown. The least I do is to tell the possible employer what my expectations are and check whether this is o…

You will get hired with this approach, yes. But it is the best way to destroy your own value. If someone is constantly asking for a job at this special company, he is also willing …

What about labour costs? I am currently working for a startup that has its development office in eastern germany, with a management office near Frankfurt. Although nobody explicitl…

So you are 27 years old (same as me)?! For how long have you been working now? I'm asking, because I am also thinking about when to quit my current job and what to do next. What ho…

Jena, Germany We are currently scaling up our development team. Looking for app developers for mobile phones (Android, BlackBerry, iPhone) or good generalists. http://www.match2blu…

That sounds great. Does it have any drawbacks like a high startup time?

I think the speedup is mainly because of the JIT compiler. Is there any benchmark against cPython with Psyco? speed.pypy.org gives a timeout for me

Jogging is something I do regularly, as well as inline skating. I also picked up paragliding this year and try to do it as often as possible, but it always depends on the weather.