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Re: Porsche boss faces software woes keeping VW a step behind Tesla

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Post by ptsneves »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #251
jillesvangurp wrote: post #128

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That seems a popular sentiment in this thread. But there are of course quite a few unicorns that emerged out of Europe and there is of course the notion that a lot of the mobile networks in the world are running on software that came out of Ericsson or Nokia, which are the dominant options if you don't want to go with Huawei instead. There is of course the notion that Silicon Valley has produced a lot of amazing comp…

>a lot of the mobile networks in the world are running on software that came out of Ericsson or Nokia Ericsson's and Nokia's software divisions are offshoring bodyshops at this point. They do the complex RF R&D in Finland, Sweden and Germany and the software/firmware is offshored to Eastern Europe and India.

Discarding Eastern European countries like Poland is a mistake. Says a person who sees the country consistently growing their foothold on the global IT market, often with customer satisfaction. Also says a person who is an immigrant to Poland and saw the sector boom in both size as well as international impact.

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Post by jfim »

WalterBright wrote: post #238
jfim wrote: post #234

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Or lack of a profit motive leading to not trying to game metrics as much. If an entity is ranked by some metric, and the better they are that metric, the more profitable they are, then they have an incentive to game it as much as possible.

Metrics are gamed in every organization.

Sure, but I would assume that the priorities for a private university are different than a public one. A private university might optimize for profitability and university ranking, while a public one might optimize for providing the most accessible and highest quality education while staying within budgetary guidelines.

It's like saying that American universities are the best on the "amount spent on American football facilities per student" ranking. It's true, but the other universities might not be competing on that particular metric and focusing on other ones.

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Post by ChuckNorris89 »

ptsneves wrote: post #281
ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #251

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>a lot of the mobile networks in the world are running on software that came out of Ericsson or Nokia Ericsson's and Nokia's software divisions are offshoring bodyshops at this point. They do the complex RF R&D in Finland, Sweden and Germany and the software/firmware is offshored to Eastern Europe and India.

Discarding Eastern European countries like Poland is a mistake. Says a person who sees the country consistently growing their foothold on the global IT market, often with customer satisfaction. Also says a person who is an immigrant to Poland and saw the sector boom in both size as well as international impact.

I never discarded Poland and would never do that. Sincerely, an Eastern European.

The thing with Eastern Europe is, it's still a hub for body shops mostly. Sure, there are also big names there working on cool products thanks to remote jobs and offshoring from the tech scenes of other major tech hubs like SV/London, etc. but most of the jobs are still body-shop style.

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Post by sgjohnson »

kareemsabri wrote: post #103
sgjohnson wrote: post #86

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> Apple has less than 10% of the PC market. What do you think the rest of them are running? If you didn't pay for your copy of Windows (which you most likely didn't, far more likely it was provided to you in another way, such as OEM or your employer), you are not Microsoft's customer. Likewise, if you got the free license from upgrading, you're also not their customer. Pirated Windows? Not their customer. Bought one…

I think it's a very Valley-centric opinion to think Microsoft doesn't have any consumer customers. Even putting aside all their other end user products consumers buy (XBox, the utterly dominant Office). I certainly don't agree with your definition of a customer. People who buy a PC with a Windows OS on it know it's a Windows OS, and make that choice willingly. It's like pretending nobody is an Android customer becaus…

With Google it’s even simpler. You’re generally not their customer because you are their product.

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Post by WalterBright »

jfim wrote: post #282
WalterBright wrote: post #238

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Metrics are gamed in every organization.

Sure, but I would assume that the priorities for a private university are different than a public one. A private university might optimize for profitability and university ranking, while a public one might optimize for providing the most accessible and highest quality education while staying within budgetary guidelines. It's like saying that American universities are the best on the "amount spent on American football…

> while a public one might optimize for providing the most accessible and highest quality education while staying within budgetary guidelines.

That doesn't seem like what they're optimizing for. Public institutions tend to optimize for maximum budget, maximum head count, and maximum power.

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Post by pjmlp »

PicassoCTs wrote: post #279
ahartmetz wrote: post #263

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Which companies in which countries? I'm in Germany and I have never ever seen or (from friends and acquaintances) heard of vacations not taken due to pressure from the employer. It's about as common as an employer arbitrarily deciding to transfer less than the agreed amount of salary at the end of the month - maybe some very dubious employers have done it at some point, but it's not something to worry about. What is…

Im in germany, and the pressure is there. Old employer at least gave vacations, but shifted them as needed. New employer basically denies vacations categorically, cause nobody else can take care of the system. All this talk about labour laws etc. its like people hallucinating, cause in my world this just aint real.

https://www.arbeitsrecht.de/

Complaining without asking for legal help, well don't complain.

And given we are talking about IT here, IG Metal is another place to get help.

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Post by petre »

orangepurple wrote: post #272
petre wrote: post #235

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Dacia Spring is actually a Chinese car. It's called Dongfeng Spring and is available on Alibaba. Dacia makes cheap cars. They're okay but they drive like a cart, the chairs are crappy and the clutch pedal is quite annoying in how it feels.

I drove a brand new SEAT this year as a rental which had a clutch that was almost impossible to actuate smoothly due to a very bizzare non linear bite profile. I wonder if it's similar for Dacia cars. The only Dacia stuff I'm personally interested in is the stuff with the new Renault hybrid drivetrains

No, the Dacia clutch has a very short bite profile, like most Renault cars. I find it annoying after driving mainly Suzukis and VAG group cars. The Seat Leon is quite a nice drive and we also had a rental Skoda Fabia which was ok as well, apart from a too soft suspension that makes you think it's going to flip over. My other car is a previous model Audi A1 1.4 TFSI, which is very stable and much fun to drive on good roads, but it's unreliable, the trunk is useless and Eastern European roads are full of potholes and inequalities, so I'm selling it.

The Captur hybrid is the only Renault PHEV I'm aware of and it has automatic transmission.

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Post by rad_gruchalski »

pjmlp wrote: post #176
petre wrote: post #150

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SAP. But you wouldn't want to work with SAP anyway. Death by a thousand cuts.

Pay and benefits are good, 40 h/w + extra when overtime happens, 30 day vacation,....

In Germany it is: a) 24 days vacation for 6 day working week, and b) 20 days for 5 day working week. That’s a minimum but there are also 11 days statutory national holidays in Germany (some Bundesländern have 12). The end result is a minimum of 31 paid out of work days if your work week is 5 days.

Re: Porsche boss faces software woes keeping VW a step behind Tesla

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Post by orangepurple »

petre wrote: post #287
orangepurple wrote: post #272

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I drove a brand new SEAT this year as a rental which had a clutch that was almost impossible to actuate smoothly due to a very bizzare non linear bite profile. I wonder if it's similar for Dacia cars. The only Dacia stuff I'm personally interested in is the stuff with the new Renault hybrid drivetrains

No, the Dacia clutch has a very short bite profile, like most Renault cars. I find it annoying after driving mainly Suzukis and VAG group cars. The Seat Leon is quite a nice drive and we also had a rental Skoda Fabia which was ok as well, apart from a too soft suspension that makes you think it's going to flip over. My other car is a previous model Audi A1 1.4 TFSI, which is very stable and much fun to drive on good…

The hybrid version of the Jogger will – like Renault’s full-hybrid versions of the Clio and Captur – be based on a 1.6 liter four-cylinder gasoline engine. The E-Tech system uses two electric motors, a starter motor and a drive unit, that are controlled by a clutchless “dog box” transmission.

Dacia did not release horsepower figures or a sales price for the hybrid version, but the drivetrain produces 140 hp in the Clio. Dacia said it will be “the most affordable seven-seater hybrid on the market.”

Renault says the E-Tech system allows for 80 percent of urban driving in electric-only mode, and for a total fuel savings of 40 percent compared with a comparable gasoline drivetrain.

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Post by astrange »

gumby wrote: post #96
zizee wrote: post #84

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> What are Australia and Canada doing in there? Australia has… Atlassian? There are plenty of wellknown tech/software companies originating in Australia. Xero, Freelancer, Canva, REA Group, MYOB, Airtasker, BigCommerce, Afterpay... Many foreign software companies have development teams in Aus as well. Google, Zendesk, Square, Squarespace spring to mind. https://www.smartcompany.com.au/technology/the-top-50-tech-c...

Google maps is from Australia

Google Photos is from Australia. I thought Maps was US and Japan but am not up to date on that.
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