tbh - when i noticed, i can't delete my account, i instantly stopped going further.
As an european citizen: it might be interesting for you to cover aspects of GPDR, to attract european users (that are forced to use GPDR-conforming data handling).
i found my love in Trilium what has everything i need and if needed, i can still change the code by myself (AGPL) + files are stored as markdown documents (so i am still able to get into my notes, even if the repo would disappear). see
https://github.com/zadam/trilium
TLDR;
- future proof file format (markdown)
- possible as local standalone + sync to simple cloud storage (like gdrive/dropbox/...)
As someone working in it-consulting for some big companies in germany, i can't confirm. It's usually the other way around - if a company grows too fast, they're tempted to make some smart engineer a manager. usually they will have a hard time coming from a very detailed world into the high level business world. besides being good problem-analysts, they are confronted with politics, strategy, leadership, ... - so all the skills that really matter at ceo level.
That being said, i can't agree with the statement that sw engineers make the best CEOs. But i tend to agree that a basic knowledge of IT/Software/Hardware is a must.
I agree to the topic's message...but...who is a writer? Realeasing a book (and especially in that travel genre) - in my opinion - does not make you a (good/belletristic) writer.
But if it is just about writing for living / journalism and similar stuff, then yes, handbooks exists and do work.
ps: worked as journalist and studied literature, but don't feel like i could write books that come close to what i like to read.
i started a degree in cs last year and i noticed: most cs people i met @ my university have BIG problems with getting their hands dirty by writing some code. excellent in math, but not able to write some simple for-loops. finishing university without being able to code is kind of poor...
but i agree - abstraction is very important to handle complexity.
absolutely agree with huuu. if you're somehow forced to use gimp, there is at least a better gui enhancement/tweak that tries to replicate photoshop's gui:
Hey guys, i'm totally surprised and happy about your awesome replies! I read all of your comments and with each post, my motivation raised to jump over my own shadow.
Thanks to your influence, i applied for a cs-study starting in october. I guess within the study i'll have better chances to get job offers in germany (thx @ ThePhysicist).
I really like the strategy, that tinco advised - i'm leaving to a bigger city next month, enhance my coding skills and try to put sth. on github. Managed to get some used versions of "Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach" by Kurose, and "Operating System Concepts" by Silberschatz (+ some math books) :)
And i appreciate the troels' objection not to study cs just because of being weak in math. lultimouomo, CalRobert, fillskills, qgi and more motivated me to go for cs, even though i have my background in arts.
cool idea, but seems the server has some problems uploading (2-8kb) files? or is that the heavy traffic? anyway, get some error messages, but files are uploaded. savings seem to take a while...better keep your code in another editor, too