Sven Jacobs - Slashdot User

Comment Linux Mint (Score 1) 573

by Sven Jacobs on Sunday March 24, 2013 @02:25PM (#43264197) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: New To Linux; Which Distro?

What about Linux Mint? It's Ubuntu-based so it has all the advantages of Ubuntu (many packages, many third-party repos, huge community) but it also focuses on an easy installation and ease of use. Plus the standard Gnome desktop should be more familiar for users coming from Windows than the Unity desktop of Ubuntu.

Comment Defragmenting (Score 1) 206

by Sven Jacobs on Friday November 30, 2012 @04:57AM (#42139535) Attached to: Inside an Amazon Warehouse

So Amazon is defragmenting their fulfillment centers :-)

Comment id Software (Score 1) 234

by Sven Jacobs on Friday July 06, 2012 @03:21AM (#40561079) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Get Old Commercial Software To Be Open-Sourced?

id Software has open sourced many of their games, for example DOOM 3 (see GitHub). However you still need the game data (wad, pk3, pk4, ... files) from the original media.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: What Defines Good Developer Culture?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 29, 2012 @07:29AM

An anonymous reader writes: We are a team of 6 people developing applications for mobile devices (Android & iOS). In our company, which consists of many teams responsible for "classic" software development, business intelligence, virtualization, hardware, etc., we are kind of a small startup because we were the first to use agile methods like Scrum and we are open to new technologies and methods. Also our team is pretty young with me being the oldest with 30 years.

We would like to further raise productivity and motivation and thus are currently collecting points which make up a good developer/hacker culture and which may be improved in our team/company. This can be points that we can either improve ourselves or have to pass on to management.

I would like to know what in your opinion defines good, modern developer culture? What does developer culture consists of?

For example is it

- clearly defined career opportunities
- geeky office
- benefits like trips to extraordinary conferences like WWDC or Google I/O
- ...

Please let me know.

Comment A week of waiting? Seriously? (Score 1) 1004

by Sven Jacobs on Monday May 21, 2012 @01:20AM (#40061517) Attached to: Who's Pirating Game of Thrones, and Why?

In Germany we have to wait at least a year until a new (season of a) US TV show starts, if at all.
So don't whine when you just have to wait a week ;)

In case of the second season of Game of Thrones the situation has improved as it begins airing in two days on German Pay TV.
However I recall other shows where we really had two wait at least a year, like Breaking Bad for example.

Comment Re:Solution to this problem: Pirate party! (Score 1) 330

by Sven Jacobs on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @06:59AM (#28938453) Attached to: Even More Restriction For German Internet

For what it's worth, the FDP (3rd/4th strongest political party) voted unanimously against the censorship law and has made digital freedom in general one of the major points of their campaign platform for the election this year.

Maybe, but the FDP wants to form a coalition solely with the CDU (Schaeuble, von der Leyen & Co). Tell me how that will work out?

Comment Solution to this problem: Pirate party! (Score 4, Informative) 330

by Sven Jacobs on Monday August 03, 2009 @02:48AM (#28923739) Attached to: Even More Restriction For German Internet

TYPICAL GERMAN politics, come up with a screwy law, and make it even more screwy! So I guess what I can take from this is that child porn is ok to see at a university, but not a corporation or large ISP... Yeah that makes sense, really does...

I guess they introduced these exceptions because implementing the censorship infrastructure on the ISP side takes a great deal of time & money. Obviously only big ISPs can afford that ;)

The big parties of the German government once again proved that they're just doing what they want and not what the citizens want! That's why I'm going to vote for the Piratenpartei (Pirate party) on September 27.

Even More Restriction For German Internet 330

Posted by kdawson on Monday August 03, 2009 @01:55AM from the nose-of-the-camel dept.

tikurion writes "It's only been a few weeks since the law dubbed Zugangserschwerungsgesetz (access impediment law) was passed in the German Parliament despite over 140,000 signatures of people opposed to it. The law will go into effect in mid-October 2009. Now Minister for Family Affairs Ursula von der Leyen implied in an interview that she is planning on extending the reach of the law, claiming '...or else the great Internet is in danger of turning into a lawless range of chaos, where you're allowed to bully, insult, and deceive limitlessly.' More on golem.de via Google translate (here is the German original)."

Comment Java Was:C++ (Score 1) 569

by Sven Jacobs on Saturday March 21, 2009 @03:03PM (#27280913) Attached to: Programming Language Specialization Dilemma

Being a Java enthusiast, I must reply to your arguments regarding Java:

1) The next major release of Java (Java 7) is going to be 100% open source. Even if Sun (or IBM for that matter) drops the language, which is very unlikely, Java is going to persist as it has a strong community.

2) It's true that the evolution of the Java language has been quite slow and conservative in the past. But I believe that the rise of new dynamic and hip languages with indeed cool features didn't pass Sun without notice. Java 7 is going to have closures, for example. If you want closures and other syntactic sugar right now, have a look at Groovy, which is a scripting language based on the JDK. You can even compile Groovy code to 100% pure Java classes!

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