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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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Adultry a big problem in schools over there?
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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Adultry a big problem in schools over there?
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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I'm amazed by how low the collective capacity of all software engineers is to write and maintain libraries.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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Ich wäre gespannt wie viele Wähler die Grünen dank der Außenpolitik von Baerbock verloren haben.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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Sketchy chancer
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Schön diese „Demokratie“.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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I don't really buy this idea that Japan's urban environment has been the key factor to create its immense specialization in crafts. Compare it to Berlin where the only thing those factors generated were cheap bars until very recently.
resnikoff.substack.com/p/why-osaka-...
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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A good but not definitive guide by Bert Hubert of how to think about where to apply yourself in your career and how to be useful.
berthub.eu/articles/pos...
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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From this massive list of science-fiction books by Noah Smith I've read and liked half or so which means that I probably should read the other half.
www.noahpinion.blog/p/my-sci-fi-...
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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We don't use Linear but we recently moved all our stuff from Jira to Github Projects which—even though it is mostly abandoned—is Linear-enough. Most importantly, it is right on top of our codebase which is where I believe all engineering work should happen anyway.
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Late to the party but I very much love this interview with Karri Saarinen, the co-founder of Linear. Their way of working will be waved away by companies but with leadership with the right mentality and experience I don't think it's that far off at all.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mux...
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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Every country should have an English language outsider perspective podcast on its customs and history. Somewhat related and more academic for Turkey there's "Turkey Book Talk" and for Japan "New Books in Japanese Studies".
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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Spaßbremse is an absolute gem of a podcast that continues to unpack and contextualise all the things about Germany that feel off. Episode 51 on immigration was also mind-blowing.
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The last episode of Spaßbremse treats the history of German-Israeli relations and clarifies what the strategic foundations of the current complex are: white-washing and moral standing for one side and economic reparations and industrial capacity building for the other.
podtail.com/de/podcast/s...
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This article is a wild premise, a wild ride and a wild conclusion (also I'm increasingly warming to the idea of htmx).
matt.sh/htmx-is-a-er...
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Dropbox, a famously private file storage service, has shared files from people with OpenAI. I'd normally say this was a dumb move, but this is far far beyond just dumb.
www.cnbc.com/2023/12/13/h...
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A strong analysis of the AI concept by Emily Bender who proposes we just call it “automation” instead. Which is fair because if you use these systems, it becomes incredibly obvious how they work and what their limitations are.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK0m...
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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Didn't really miss this place. Is anything even happening here?
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Elements from the book such as the corporation known as “Monad” (!) and robotic public service utilities called “Dr. Easy” are looking back from our current hellscape period a bit too on the nose.
See Dr. Easy act in this short film: vimeo.com/68368877
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Listening to the TF team describe CulturePulse.ai and the digital twin profile created for entire populations seems very very reminiscent of “The Red Men” by Matthew de Abaitua which didn't get the attention it deserved at all.
trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/waltz-with... (minute 23 and on)
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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"Squashing destroys this information. I'll take a merge with 1000 +50/-50 commits over 1 squash every. single. day."
I've been hammering on this fact as well that it's silly to use git and then throw away so much information that you could use later.
gist.github.com/mitchellh/31...
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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There was this bit of Ones and Tooze that I wanted to clip that's become extra relevant given the current German debt crisis.
Adam Tooze predicted that Christian Lindner was bad news and what happened when he wrote about that is amazing: alper.nl/dingen/2023/...
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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Double retrograde!?!? 😍
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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Leute die nicht in Großstädten wohnen haben keinen Bock auf Migration. Aber bestimmt, wir werden dass bis den nächsten wählen ändern können! 💪🏼
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I don't think about the Roman Empire that much, but when I do it's great to have it be because of Mary Beard who in this podcast (from the mark) talks about Zuckerberg's fascination with August and how leadership then and now has not changed that much.
pca.st/6q8p6uok#t=1...
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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It turns out that Deming was way ahead of me there, he says: "Eliminate management by objective. Eliminate management by numbers, numerical goals. Substitute leadership." Leadership is always the key.
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Last week I was making a presentation and I came across Deming and his principles. I have often gotten the question: "If you don't measure X, then how will you know we're doing well or improving?" which I always felt was misguided.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwa...
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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After reading this I get to appreciate a lot more how big of a problem Python packaging is (mostly because Python is so big and diverse) and what kind of a miracle it is that these systems work and keep working at all.
labs.quansight.org/blog/buildin...
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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An unexpected deep dive on the problem of unaffordable and underutilized land as it relates to Berlin. It manages to even sneak in some mentions of land reform and land value taxes (which would solve this problem pretty much instantaneously).
interaktiv.tagesspiegel.de/lab/ausgebau...
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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It's unlikely that the German government will be adequately digitalised in the next decade or so. This is only a missed opportunity if you believe that it could realistically be different.
www.heise.de/meinung/Komm...
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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I mostly develop it for myself these days which is pretty much how it started too.
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Finding time for side projects and putting out new versions of Cuppings is difficult as always, but I'm glad we have a new version out this week again.
The list of things still to do is long as ever but enjoy this version of your favourite coffee drinking guide.
apps.apple.com/de/app/cuppi...
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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It's not like Apple's software recognizes that bicycles exists anyway.
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No but a series of solid ones would probably take the force out of any car.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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Wouldn’t a bike track stop ram raiders as well??
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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Ich vermisse Pankaj Mishra der früher regelmäßig alles anzündete mit seinen Essays. Was ich den Bre sagen kann, wenn er irgendwann tatsächlich an ‘Menschenrechte’ geglaubt hat, "congratulations, you played yourself."
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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Old people screwing over future generations until we all die of climate change. A still life.
www.economist.com/europe/2023/...
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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iCloud backup and restore? Just don’t forget to transfer your 2FA apps and tokens.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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Hat sie auch nicht. In Deutschland sind die Leute derzeit nur etwa empfindlich.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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German memory culture never really was about anything other than Germans. They made you believe otherwise?
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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The current (unnecessary, counterproductive, immoral) IDF action is another part of the same strategy that Israel has always pursued against the Palestinians and which is aimed at disenfranchising and eliminating them.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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I don't think the IDF action is genocidal but the politics and strategy of Israel against the Palestinians to confine, subjugate and disperse them while denying that such a people exist or have ever existed in the same location definitely is.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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Ehrlich, wann haben demokratische Mitteln je etwas positives erreicht?
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Not at all surprising really. What’s wilder is for the FDP to go mask off on their racism. Usually racism is bad for business but Germany found out during WWII that it doesnt have to be.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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Here is Mahmud Darwish reading “Antithesis”, homage to Edward Said, in NYC and its runtime just shy of 15 minutes is worth a watch and a rewatch.
The poem gives us access to things that nothing else can and the reading shows us what a giant Darwish was.
youtu.be/G-Cxxg-D2TQ?...
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Germany as a country of poets and thinkers was always highly aspirational but never before was it so clear that the intellectual bar is on the floor.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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How can people from the FDP forget their core values (i.e. money)?
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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I don't have that much of a stake in this conflict but I happen to live in Germany, which is a country that's challenging to be in normally, but right now has gone entirely full-blown insane.
Sanders Isaac Bernstein has a good overview of events:
www.codastory.com/rewriting-hi...
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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I _can_ stop thinking about the Roman Empire, but this piece that draws an analogy between the Fall of the Romans and the End of Twitter is long overdue to be shared and still really good.
going-medieval.com/2023/07/26/o...
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
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As much as it pains me, I'm teaching myself Helix and trying out the Jetbrains IDEs. Code has been the first editor that really clicked for me but as with all free things, there's a hidden price to pay for it.
ghuntley.com/fracture/
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