TheMog

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by TheMog 4y ago
A couple of comments as a European who lives and works in the US: - I'm surprised that you find salaries lower in the US than in Europe. That said, if you compared freelance/consulting rates to salaries, that's Apples and Ora
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by TheMog 4y ago
The two typical choices are rspamd and amavisd/SpamAssassin, at least when you're using Postfix on a unity environment. I use amavisd on my primary and rspamd on the secondary, both seem to work OK. Yes, spam will still make it th
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by TheMog 5y ago
That reads to me like a nice collection of red flags. 1 - They all say that, it's a meaningless phrase used to cover candidates in the effluence from the southern end of a north facing male bovine, if you get my drift ;). I'm sure
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by TheMog 5y ago
I've been doing this software engineering thing for over 30 years now, first in Europe, now in the US. The headline compensation for this whole time was pretty much always based on a handful of companies in Silicon Valley - that doesn&
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by TheMog 5y ago
For my own amusement I just had a quick look at eBay and it looks like old SUN gear has got expensive since last looked. NeXT gear has always been expensive, that doesn't seem to have changed.
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by TheMog 5y ago
Looks like my memory isn't what it used to be, the ORIC machines used Basic, what I was thinking of was the Jupiter Ace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace
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by TheMog 5y ago
I grew up in the 8-bit era, so that's mostly what I'm interested in from a retro computing perspective. Pretty much the whole Acorn lineup starting with the BBC and then going to the early ARMs is interesting, plus a bunch of the
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by TheMog 5y ago
Over three decades in this business, done a lot of contract work (outside the US), currently FTE at a US company. Other than all the micro-annoyances that a lot of my fellow posters already mentioned and the general "we own your behind
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by TheMog 6y ago
If your spideysense is tingling about new clauses, talk to an employment lawyer (or a union if you are a member of one) in the jurisdiction that you live in. That's really the only way to get valid legal advice, and you want to underst
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by TheMog 6y ago
Tech Lead with some business involvement. I've run my own small consulting companies in the past, just haven't had the nerve to do that here in the US, mainly due to cost of health insurance.
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by TheMog 6y ago
That makes sense. I think that I may have consciously been trying to ignore the point you're making that there are only a handful of companies out there that have the sort of problems where they can justify having this level of people
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by TheMog 6y ago
That makes sense - I'm in the US right now, and here a Solutions Architect is mostly a pre-sales engineer. Pretty much any growth in my work will require me working on the people skills side of things, which is something I'm alrea
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by TheMog 6y ago
Thanks for the perspective. I'm trying to build my network up again - I moved countries a few years ago and the majority of my network in back in Europe.
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by TheMog 6y ago
Aren't those relatively sales oriented in general? At least they seem to be in those companies that I seem to work with.
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by TheMog 6y ago
That's a very good question, and not necessarily something I find easy to explain concisely. Let me try anyway :). Note, some of the bad impressions may come from the usual clued up recruiters who are trolling LinkedIn for keywords and
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Ask HN: How to find a new role as a very senior software engineer?
23 points by TheMog 6y ago|30 comments
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by TheMog 6y ago
Most car dealers in the US, at least for “normal” (ie, non-premium) car brands are extremely reluctant to custom order cars and often outright refuse to do so. They also tend to put subtle pressure on customers to buy something of the lot r
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by TheMog 6y ago
I've also been self hosting since the last century, and as you point out, the big issue these days is making your email server play with all the other email services, including those that aren't always playing nicely. Not to menti
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by TheMog 6y ago
This is the specific one I was thinking of: https://blog.zecops.com/vulnerabilities/youve-got-0-click-ma... At least the BSI in Germany seems to think it’s serious enough to warn people about it (sorry, no English lang
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by TheMog 6y ago
If your productivity is measured by the hours you put in and not your output, you have a bigger issue than the question if your kid drags down your internal rating or not. Doesn’t matter if your employer managed to get a bunch of your fello
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Ask HN: Are there any good privacy-respecting iOS email clients out there?
2 points by TheMog 6y ago|3 comments
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by TheMog 7y ago
I've got several - one gmail (aka the "refuse collection" that I use mostly for email registrations for website I suspect will send me more email I care for), one protonmail I use as a backup business email where I'm the
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by TheMog 7y ago
First, how do you know it's the tech lead's "fault" and not an issue with company culture? Yes, your tech lead may indeed not be the best lead ever, but only too often is this a reflection of overall company culture. Sec
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by TheMog 7y ago
If you're talking about the $2.50 VPS, yes, that's IPV6-only, so it doesn't support IPV4. You're correct that people who only use IPV4 won't be able to access that VPS, at least not without jumping through hoops. Th
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by TheMog 7y ago
Are you leaving, or are has the company actually gone bankrupt and laid you off. If it's the latter, telling prospective employers that the company went bankrupt and potentially mentioning that they couldn't secure another round o
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by TheMog 8y ago
High performance driving coach. I've done some of that as a volunteer for a car club I'm a member of and I really enjoy it. Downside is that if anything, there's even more travel than I have with my current job. Another optio
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by TheMog 8y ago
You can work around that - I'm an introvert and find dealing with people hard work, but I'm still in a client facing consulting role right now and actually enjoy it. For me the trick is to avoid pretending I'm an extrovert, w
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by TheMog 8y ago
Not a contractor myself (I "escaped" into IT), but I come from a family that's almost exclusively contractors and had quite a few summer jobs on construction sites. I think for more, err, concrete advice, some indication of t
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by TheMog 8y ago
Personally, unless you're paid well enough to be a very comfortable sacrificial lamb in this situation, I would walk away from it. This has "fall guy" written all over it. If hierarchy is important in that culture and you&#x2
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by TheMog 10y ago
Thanks - I found a very reasonably priced X240 on ebay, let's see how well that works out for me.

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