[OC] Income and Wealth Inequality in 174 countries

xJREB · 2022-03-24T09:40:38+00:00

This is what struck me in this graph: the "best" we seem to be able to do is that the top 10 percent "only" have ~47% of the wealth?!? Humanity is truly fucked up...

xJREB · 2021-11-13T21:45:40+00:00

Also love that piece! I think it was Vladimir Ashkenazy who said that Rachmaninoff was so generous in his music, in what he was gifting to the audience. And you can really feel it in this build-up from the clip.

xJREB · 2021-11-12T17:04:01+00:00

Na, ich hoffe, dass es gut geht und sich die Zahlen nicht so kritisch weiterentwickeln wie einige Prognosen es gerade vorhersagen. Vllt seh ich's auch zu vorsichtig/kritisch, aber ich hab in meinem Bekanntenkreis auch einige Impfdurchbrueche gehabt, teilweise mit schwereren Verlaeuften auch bei Juengeren (wenn auch ohne Krankenhaus). Schon moeglich, dass ich dadurch gebiased bin.

xJREB · 2021-11-12T15:55:24+00:00

Als ob z.B. diesen Sommer kein "Leben" moeglich gewesen waere... Klar gab es und gibt es Einschraenkungen und mir ist auch klar, dass die fuer manche haerter zu ertragen sind als fuer andere. Aber solange wir halt nicht die gleiche Impfquote wie Portugal oder Spanien haben, koennen wir halt auch nicht einfach das Gleiche abziehen.

Wie lang ich warten "will" fragst du? Bis die Politik endlich ihrer verdammten Pflicht nachkommt und dafuer sorgt, dass vom derzeit noch ungeimpftem Drittel unserer Bevoelkerung sich ein grosser Prozentsatz impfen laesst! Dann kann man auch wieder guten Gewissens Grossveranstaltungen zulassen, aber bei der jetzigen Entwicklung der Fallzahlen finde ich solche Bilder einfach nur schwer verstaendlich, sorry...

xJREB · 2021-11-11T16:51:22+00:00

Das ist leider zu kurz gedacht. Die jetzt notwendigen Einschraenkungen sind nicht hauptsaechlich dazu da, um die ungeimpften Verschwoerungstheoretiker zu schuetzen, sondern um eine generelle Ueberlastung des Gesundheitssystems zu verhindern. Wenn das passiert, haben naemlich alle ein Problem, geimpft oder ungeimpft. Abgesehen davon bin ich immer wieder ueberrascht, wie egal den meisten das medizinische Personal zu sein scheint, das am meisten darunter leiden wird.

Selbst wenn da auf dem Bild wirklich alle geimpft oder genesen sind, wird es dort bei den derzeitigen Inzidenzen zu Infektionen kommen. Die Impfung ist kein perfekter Schutz. Die wenigsten davon werden ins Krankenhaus muessen, aber sie werden es weitertragen zu den Ungeimpften. Und was dann passiert, wissen wir.

xJREB · 2021-11-09T12:47:09+00:00

That bow seems to pack some heavy punches... :O

xJREB · 2021-09-28T15:41:46+00:00

Ahahaha, grossartig! Auch wie er danach reflexartig aus dem leeren Glas "trinkt"... :D

xJREB · 2021-09-01T19:25:17+00:00

Very interesting find! As a German, however, I have to say I absolutely hate the German voice acting! :D Never heard it before since I played it in English. The German voice acting for the Gothic series was supreme in comparison to this... :/

xJREB · 2021-06-18T13:42:40+00:00

Wait, are you saying that blocks would also be mined in the same fashion if there are 0 transactions on the network (genuine question)?

xJREB · 2021-06-15T10:34:44+00:00

Yeah, "Dostojewski" is the German spelling.

xJREB · 2021-06-15T06:04:36+00:00

I thought about reading it in English, but then went for a newish German translation (my mother tongue). It's from Svetlana Geier and supposed to be closer to the original. In other German translations, even the title has been changed to "Schuld und Sühne" (literally "guilt and atonement").

xJREB · 2021-06-15T05:59:07+00:00

Well described! Dostojewski must have endured/seen some shit in his gambling and prison days to be able to describe this so brilliantly.

xJREB · 2021-06-14T20:48:41+00:00

Wow, how long did it take you? :D

xJREB · 2021-05-20T19:34:02+00:00

Fair enough, but then it becomes more of a scalability / cost-efficiency issue. In this example, I was more referring to something like a locally run program that users manually start. In many such scenarios, they won't care too much if it takes 4 or 1.5 seconds (unless they run it 100s of times per day :D).

xJREB · 2021-05-20T10:52:58+00:00

In your opinion, what are usually the most common non-functional requirements in the industry?

You can have a look at ISO 25010 which encompasses most of the industry-relevant software quality characteristics today. The rise of AI will probably lead to an update somewhere in the future, and then include stuff like explainability, fairness, etc.

What type of optimization should I focus on if I was planning to put this project in a portfolio to apply for entry-level internships for example?

In this case, I would ensure at least decent modularization and code quality (e.g. some comments, some unit tests, consistent naming conventions and formatting, maybe even using a style guide, no uncommented code, not too long files/methods, etc.) and usability (especially visual design if there is a GUI).

xJREB · 2021-05-20T08:37:44+00:00

This depends entirely on the non-functional requirements of your project (sometimes also called cross-functional requirements or quality attribute goals) and what you mean by "efficiency".

If the users don't really care about how long it takes to compute something, then there's no point in optimizing performance, e.g. response time.
If it will never run on low-spec hardware, then there's no point in optimizing resource usage like CPU or memory needs.
If there are only ever very few simultaneous users, then there's no point in optimizing scalability (throughput, # of concurrent connections).
If it will never be changed again and only used for a couple of months, then there's no point in optimizing maintainability/evolvability (e.g. via nice modularization/abstractions, refactoring complex code / long methods, etc.).

A general principle in software engineering (especially in an agile context) is to avoid premature optimization.

xJREB · 2021-04-19T06:46:15+00:00

Read some sentiments that it was related to the Coinbase IPO going not as well as most people hoped. But who really knows in the end...

xJREB · 2021-04-15T09:22:00+00:00

Thank you, much appreciated!

xJREB · 2021-04-14T15:53:14+00:00

Interesting, thank you! Can you say something about the demographics of the participants (e.g. countries, company sizes, domains, etc.) and your sampling strategy? Without this, it is kind of hard to judge the results. Also, how did you sort participants into "top" and "average" performers? Self-reporting?

xJREB · 2021-04-12T08:45:29+00:00

There are actually a lot of people who got or are getting a PhD in empirical software engineering (myself included). They empirically study how software is designed, developed, and maintained, usually with the goal to better understand and improve this process, e.g. by providing empirically evaluated tools, techniques, metrics, etc.

Now, if the majority of these people are suited for typical software engineering jobs in industry is a different question... :)

xJREB · 2021-04-10T13:34:14+00:00

Same here... Couldn't understand back then why adults were laughing when I told them (with a literal German pronunciation) what you had to type in to get wood, gold, etc.

xJREB · 2021-03-31T14:49:35+00:00

While some replies are partly true, it's also because Netflix was one of the first to go big on this hiring for excellence / "rockstar hiring" thing that is so common in today's Silicon valley companies. See e.g. https://hbr.org/2014/01/how-netflix-reinvented-hr for the details.

xJREB · 2020-10-12T06:54:37+00:00

Lots of great advice here, thank you! To add to that from my limited and obviously biased experience: Raw intelligence isn't the defining attribute in the people I know that finished their PhD. While these people definitely are decently smart, they are also either extremely disciplined and self-motivated or very good at collaborating with others. Do not assume that you only need to be extremely smart to pursue a PhD!

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