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dalex00on Microsoft bets on Germany in €3.2B AI push

Conspiracy view... Maybe just an indirect bribe so German government votes in favour for the tech giant on EU level laws...

dalex00on Home Assistant: Three years later

Using Habitat because no internet connection is needed and zigbee, matter and z wave and Google home etc can also be integrated

https://hubitat.com/

Good developer community and helpful forum

UI could be better but really powerful.

dalex00on World's largest aircraft breaks cover in Silicon Valley

So often tried never successful. What si the difference now?

Still wind is the enemy and the airship need to be huge to deliver relevant amount of cargo.

Also super slow normally...

dalex00on Atlassian Acquires Loom

Atlassian gives not much out for free the new whiteboard feature in confluence will also be monetizes like everything.

E.g. automations for their products will cost soon meaning you need to upgrade your product to next tier. After we implemented everywhere...

dalex00on Microsoft Employees Are Hooked on the Company’s Training Videos

Ok and how to watch it ? I hate cliffhanger articles...

dalex00on Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?

I use keepass and the file is stored in gdrive to sync across devices.

dalex00on PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

Also would enjoy such feature for bugger meetings as hangout setting

dalex00on rC3 Fahrplan – The Chaos Communication Congress 2021 schedule

Function one soundsystems are the crisp bomb

dalex00on Automa: A Chrome extension for automating the browser

What is exactly the use case i am Jira admin and curious to know to offer it my team's..

dalex00on Leadership Development Is a $366B Industry: Most Programs Don't Work

Share what is actually working?

dalex00on Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation

From sw development perspective how do you create the public documentation and internal system process documentation? Tools, process and responbilities would be interesting for me for such complex business modell. Hopefully someone can shine a light..

dalex00on COVID-19 Tests Don’t Cost Over $3,000

In Germany I think the test is free if you show enough symptoms and had contact to an ill person or you travelled to a sick area. If you do not match those criteria but still want to be tested them the test costs 500. My company covers those second scenario for free.

dalex00on Ask HN: GSuite users, how do you do Knowledge Management?

Hi interesting idea what is the benefit compared to atlassians confluence?

dalex00on Neonicotinoids disrupt aquatic food webs and decrease fishery yields

Saw a documentary banned in France for certain use as bee population decreases massively e.g. used for corn. Problem goes into the ground kill every life in the ground and get into every plant around the crop and also bird population decreases. Documentary showed that Bayer tried to sabotage the investigation. I think the risks massively exceeds the benefits.

dalex00on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)

ABOUTYOU.com | Backend PHP Developer - for Hamburg’s first Unicorn company (m/w/d) + 40 other open positions see here http://bit.ly/2KaP3tZ | Hamburg, Germany| ONSITE, Relocation/VISA, Fulltime offered - relocation support

Who we are:ABOUT YOU is one of the fastest growing eCommerce startups in Europe. The company was founded in 2014, since then it already got to the place of being the second largest fashion e-commerce retailer in Europe - being live in 10 countries and reached a company valuation of 1 billion $ in 2019.

ABOUT YOU is a fashion online shop, but we are a tech company first. More than ⅓ of our employees are developers. Our > 150 developers originally from 30 different nations ensure that we keep our > 8 million app installs up to date and our over 15 million active users per month happy. When dealing with each other, we believe in flat hierarchies and open and honest communication. We don’t cling to a certain idea. New information leads to new decisions, which we are open to.

5 years old - 7 markets in 4 years 461 million EUR revenue in fiscal year 2018/19 > 1 billion USD company value > 600 employees from over 30 nationalities - office in city center location Short Video about us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=acYbrTxdZtI aboutyou.com & cloud.aboutyou.com

About the Job & Apply at http://bit.ly/2KaBV7Y

dalex00on Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emissions

Any donation organisation which convert donated money into trees and keep them alive or other co2 activities?

dalex00on Productivity Is About Attention Management

Just use the term efficiency because than effort and impact covered.

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

dalex00on On Being an Engineering Manager

How such do s such tech track is defined. I was researching such role path for our company but did not find a description e.g. what are preconditions, role name and stages, responsibilities...

Really looking for help here how to implement such path.

dalex00on Snowboarding for Geeks

Anyone have a similar guide for skiing?

dalex00on Hilma af Klint was the first abstract painter

I stumbled two weeks ago across her through following picture. https://goo.gl/images/EhsqdP

Totally flashed me

dalex00on Scaling Engineering Teams via Writing Things Down and Sharing – Aka RFCs

Any chance you share those?