cseleborg (u/cseleborg)

cseleborg commented on A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn mattgiustwilliamson.subst... · Posted by u/MattSWilliamson

notanormalnerd · 5 months ago

This is my general opinion with regards to bureaucracy in Germany. All the data is most likely already there and all the technical challenges have been solved in the meantime. Why do I have to do the runaround from office to office, when they are physically connected by a piece if wire (aka the internet).

There is a reason why we have so much bureaucracy in Germany (1. because we like it) and second because it is supposed to provide trust, trust that every company I deal with is legit, trust that the system knows who is participating. Without trust nobody would make business or business would be very hard, because you would have to price in the risk of not having trust.

cseleborg · 5 months ago

There is something to be said for trust here. I like that I can go straight to the imprint ("Impressum") to know with whom I'm dealing with online, where the company is located and who the CEO is. This is not always easy to decipher from the "Terms" pages companies in the US and elsewhere provide.

The downside for founders is that you have to divulge your address, unless you take additional steps to give yourself a mailbox address, but this can also be illegal if you're not careful. You can also rent an office of course, but for indie devs and freelancers, this is usually not financially viable.

cseleborg commented on A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn mattgiustwilliamson.subst... · Posted by u/MattSWilliamson

zwnow · 5 months ago

It's also connected to so much bureaucracy that you almost need to hire someone for that alone, because you wont have as much time for your actual business. Founding a company in Germany is so much unnecessary paperwork its crazy. Single handedly the only reason I will never try it in my home country.

cseleborg · 5 months ago

That's a bit exaggerated. I did have a company, and while it did come with bureaucracy, the vast majority of my time was spent on what you expect a founder to do (sales, marketing, product, etc.).

cseleborg commented on Ask HN: What is replacing SEO for discoverability? · Posted by u/jppope

ctrust · a year ago

Trade conferences. (Trade conferences will outlast all digital media.)

cseleborg · a year ago

This piqued my interest. Can you elaborate?

cseleborg commented on AnandTech Farewell anandtech.com/show/21542/... · Posted by u/janice1999

whatever1 · a year ago

Still the GPU barely works

cseleborg · a year ago

There's an excellent podcast called Acquired with a 3-part episode covering the birth and evolution of NVIDIA, highly recommended.

cseleborg commented on AnandTech Farewell anandtech.com/show/21542/... · Posted by u/janice1999

vergessenmir · a year ago

Makes me feel old. I was at uni when Ubuntu came out. But my story was similar to yours in the mid 90s and I got hold of a walnut creek cd with Slackware from some PC mag, a couple floppy disks and discarded hardware and I was off to the races

There was something about discovering tech through dedicated tech sites back then that felt exciting.

Now, any time I find something new it always has a polished marketed feel to it and has none of the secretive clandestine undiscovered power that old tech had.

I guess I am getting old

cseleborg · a year ago

Slackware!!! Dang, I had forgotten that name. That was the first distro I installed as well. Xeyes and stuff. Oh, dear...

cseleborg commented on Start presentations on the second slide tidyfirst.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/andyjohnson0

cseleborg · a year ago

This very technique is why I loved Salman Khan's teaching videos on Khan Academy so much. On any topic, he goes straight to the content, no intro whatsoever.

cseleborg commented on Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go gioui.org/... · Posted by u/gjvc

neonsunset · a year ago

Both frameworks have various packages that add OIDC support to them so that shouldn't be an issue.

As for beginner - there's quite a bit of learning curve in terms of writing GUI applications themselves. Avalonia is kind of like WPF* but good(tm) and cross-platform. Uno platform is more like Xamarin and MAUI except in a better shape as of today. From technical perspective, Avalonia focuses on consistent rendering on all platforms with Skia while Uno tries to use native controls instead. I generally would not advise using Avalonia for mobile over Uno. In mobile case you might actually want to also give MAUI a try as, despite harsh criticism it has been receiving, it has improved significantly.

* either platform supports various declarative UI libraries (that are either part of their ecosystem or community-maintained), so you are not married to XAML thankfully.

cseleborg · a year ago

That's a great answer, very helpful. I just picked up Avalonia for a test drive. Why do you think Uno is better than Avalonia for mobile?

cseleborg commented on Drug resistant bacteria found on ISS mutating to become functionally distinct nasa.gov/centers-and-faci... · Posted by u/typeofhuman

beerandt · a year ago

It's in the title, but the abstract doesn't mention anything specifically about drug resistance, just adaptation/ mutation in general.

Unless I missed it.

I think it might be a (bad journalistic attempt as a) general descriptor for the species/ strain of bacteria studied, but maybe I'm reading it wrong.

cseleborg · a year ago

The strain of bacteria was described as "notoriously drug-resistant". It didn't sound to me like the bacteria became drug-resistant in space.

cseleborg commented on A useful front-end confetti animation library github.com/catdad/canvas-... · Posted by u/blini2077

cseleborg · a year ago

The developer has of course provided a print stylesheet (expect no less from a pro). Just print it, frame it, hang it up on the wall and voilà! A no-JS confetti demo right there in your living room.

cseleborg commented on The purge of German science in 1933 privatdozent.co/p/the-gre... · Posted by u/privatdozent

foobarian · a year ago

The depictions of "wrong physics" in the 3 Body Problem show kinda remind me of that. Any kind of thinking that had even a whiff of going against the party line would cause problems for the author. What a weird time.

I wonder if it's similar to how we look down on e.g. string theory, except I don't know if that's an apples to apples comparison given that we haven't seen any string theory apples yet :-)

cseleborg · a year ago

String theory has, however, been successfully applied to oranges. Here in Germany, these are now routinely sold in nets, made of some sort of string. QED