Beldur

Not sure about you guys, but I plan to not give my kids a phone until they reach at least the age of 14 (7 and 3 atm)

Is this realistic? Any experiences?

Beldur

4년 전discuss

Some month ago they removed the Speed Up option when watching YT on TV. This basically costs me hours of my life as I normally watch videos on 1.5 speed...

Beldur

5년 전discuss

While playing the game of GO, I learned something related:

Don't go on a hunt when your house is on fire

Beldur

6년 전discuss

From the GO Proverbs:

,,A little copying is better than a little dependency."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAAkCSZUG1c&t=9m28s

Beldur

6년 전discuss

I think this is where the "beyond budgeting" movement comes in.

See: https://bbrt.org/what-is-beyond-budgeting/

Beldur

6년 전discuss

In a study that was done by the guys at Manager-Tools, they found out that a 1o1 every 4 weeks is worse than no 1o1 at all.

Beldur

7년 전discuss

Google Sheets is based on canvas. Works pretty good for me.

Beldur

7년 전discuss

In my experience it's important to not ask "easy" questions that can be answered by a simple yes/no.

Instead of: Are you friendly to remote work? Ask: Will I be working with anyone who is remote, or who works from home on a regular basis?

Instead of: Is the work life balance good? Ask: How responsive are people to emails/Slack over the weekends and after 6pm?

Instead of: Can I have a good career path? Ask: Did any of your senior engineers start out as junior engineers here?

Beldur

7년 전discuss

There's a proverb for the Go programming language which says: ,,A little copying is better than a little dependency."

Beldur

7년 전discuss

- They always told the truth (to everybody).

- They knew their stuff (tech, system, user domain).

- They figured out the right thing to do.

- They communicated often and flawlessly.

- They did whatever it took to get the right thing done.

- They smiled almost all the time.

- They made each other person feel special.

- They made work fun.

- They were always teaching something.

- They called bullshit instantly.

- They protected their team.

- They inspired us by showing how good things could be.

Beldur

7년 전discuss

When I visited the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, I was surprised to find out, that Porsche's first car was an Electric one :-)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_P1

Beldur

8년 전discuss

Distributed Monolith

Beldur

8년 전discuss

My personal story from Germany: My 14 month old son got a deaseae in the spine so he could not walk anymore.

We spent 4 weeks in the hospital. 1 week until it was diagnosed in the MRT, 3 weeks with 3 different antibiotic treatment and another two month antibiotics at home.

All this while my wife continued to study for her PHD so I stayed away from work and lived with my son in the hospital.

This whole experience did cost us around 200€ (incl. gasoline to drive to the hospital) while still getting full income from my employer.

Beldur

8년 전discuss

My personal story from Germany:

My 14 month old son got a deaseae in the spine so he could not walk anymore.

We spent 4 weeks in the hospital. 1 week until it was diagnosed in the MRT, 3 weeks with 3 different antibiotic treatment and another two month antibiotics at home.

All this while my wife continued to study for her PHD so I stayed away from work and lived with my son in the hospital.

This whole experience did cost us around 200€ (incl. gasoline to drive to the hospital) while still getting full income from my employer.

Beldur

8년 전discuss

FireFox 61 Release Notes for Developers:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/61

Beldur

8년 전discuss

You also can't buy a cup of coffee with TCP/IP. But with PayPal you can.

Bitcoin is not ment to be used for buying coffee. But software based on it is.

Beldur

9년 전discuss

Google Cloud Platform Blog Post: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/05/istio-modern-ap...

Beldur

9년 전discuss

Here is a very interesting video from 2013 of Martin Schoenert explaining the Google Spanner White Paper (In german though): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QKewyoOSL0

Now he works for Google as an Engineering Manager.

Beldur

9년 전discuss

I just saw this video from 4 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_lfxPI5ObM

Does somebody know if there's a more recent one? It looked impressive even it's age.

Beldur

10년 전discuss

At the press conference after the 4th game it was mentioned that AlphaGo was not trained on professional games at all.

They used strong amateur player games from public archives.

It was also mentioned that AlphaGo needs millions of games to be trained. Even if they added a few hundred Lee Sedol games, the impact would be very small.

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