eoin_murphy

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by eoin_murphy 9y ago
It is. In Germany at least all communications must be encrypted. And often multiple meters will communicate via one gateway. Though, if someone has the time and technical ability to implement this kind of surveillance then there are probabl
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by eoin_murphy 9y ago
Thanks for the real numbers. When I was looking the sort of salaries I was being quoted were in the 10000 per month range which is a lot more than what I'm currently on but would actually work out worse once costs are taken into accoun
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by eoin_murphy 9y ago
True, they're not that crazy, but when I looked at the higher salary Vs the higher costs it was financially better to stay put. Of course money isn't the only deciding factor but it's not the land of massive opportunity it&#x
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by eoin_murphy 9y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but while salaries are high and taxes are relatively low, general living costs are quite high. Particularly if you have kids and so want a bigger house and good schools. I've looked at this and the
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by eoin_murphy 9y ago
I don't think you're going to get a great response as that's a lot of identifying information you're asking for. Country, Area (optional), years of experience, gross salary and extras is what you really want.
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by eoin_murphy 9y ago
Sorry for the derail, but who are you with in Germany for that deal? All the contracts I've seen start at at least €40.
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by eoin_murphy 9y ago
> 9. Do you use the best tools money can buy? I always took this as a criticism of companies where you've got developers who earn multiple thousands per month pecking away at old PC's and squinting at 15" CRT screens. Wait
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by eoin_murphy 10y ago
This is probably more possible now given the ease with which a fraud can get someone else to do their work for them (I remember a news story doing the rounds of an experienced developer doing all of this and outsourcing all their work to In
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Why time management is ruining our lives(theguardian.com)
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by eoin_murphy 10y ago
Even worse, working on technical debt may be viewed as a negative thing ("if it's working why did you change it?" said the phb). I've yet to find a code review process beyond a trivial implementation that scaled. The bes
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by eoin_murphy 11y ago
Well, according to this, my house should already be under water. That's what happens when you live below the water level of the neighbouring canal...
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by eoin_murphy 11y ago
To get insight into their budgets. I have tried one or two services similar to mint in an effort to get more control on budgeting. The typical bank provided online banking interface is like something from 10-15 years years ago with a painfu
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by eoin_murphy 11y ago
I took this to be less a post about not having a degree but rather, not keeping up with the market. How it's easy to just do the work that's in front of you and not consider how your choices now will affect your career in 10~20~30
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by eoin_murphy 13y ago
There are many countries which prompt for neither prayer nor patriotism. Ireland certainly does not and I don't think the UK does either (certain very religious schools of course may differ).
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by eoin_murphy 14y ago
Not really no. I'm I don't think I spelled it correctly but it's phonetically correct. "Mar yea" would be a dismissive description meaning something like "..as if" or ".. not!"
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by eoin_murphy 14y ago
Capital Gains Tax: I'm not a tax lawyer but there's good advice here: http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/money_and_tax/tax/capit... Morale wise, again I don't know. I'm currently out in India but when I left 6 months ago there was (I th
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by eoin_murphy 14y ago
Gaelic is compulsory for both primary and secondary school which means that almost everyone will study it between the ages of 5 and 16 (minimum school leaving age). It says something about our approach that all but a very small minority of
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by eoin_murphy 14y ago
B'fhéidir go fuair siad mórchuid aireagaid lena chuir isteach ann? Street-cred mar yea.
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by eoin_murphy 14y ago
That and they probably just got a huge grant for putting their first translation in Irish... But yes, the tax laws in Ireland are incredibly generous, if you're a corporation. I say this as a person just falling into the top tax bracket whi
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by eoin_murphy 14y ago
It's dehumanizing because the targets are painted as one-dimensional figures to be "eliminated" not a people who have been killed. See paragraph 3 in the linked post I'm not saying they're not justified in doing what they're doing (that's a
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by eoin_murphy 14y ago
I agree absolutely. There are individuals and groups out there drumming up controversy whenever they can, whatever their motives are. I didn't mean to compare the two in terms of which was ok, I was just pointing out that saying " Most Pale
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by eoin_murphy 14y ago
It may be for domestic consumption but there are plenty of Palestinians who do speak English and I'm pretty sure at least some of them are on Twitter. After all, if a Danish cartoon in a newspaper can set off riots in countries where it is
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by eoin_murphy 14y ago
As a developer, with a good few years of experience behind me (admittedly in non-startup areas like insurance and equity plans), who's actively looked to move to Singapore I've found it quite hard to find any jobs that didn't fall into eit
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by eoin_murphy 14y ago
It seems to me as an outsider as well that any kind of physical activity is generally looked down. Not absolutely but more in a 'if you don't have to, why would you' way. Plus, it's so hot most of the time that any serious aerobic activity
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by eoin_murphy 14y ago
We're looking for mid to senior level C# developers in Chennai, India. No Remote I'm afraid. We are a small company with ambitious plans to disrupt the equity management space targetting companies ranging in size from garage startups to mul
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by eoin_murphy 15y ago
Technically, it is not VAT Free. It's rather that the rate of VAT is 0%. Effectively the same I know...
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by eoin_murphy 16y ago
Except the chisel, which is a screwdriver.
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by eoin_murphy 16y ago
I was going to reply with a comment. But one of the most Important things to realise as a programmer is that your program is not unique and most likely someone smarter has spent longer on crafting a much better solution . Here's a full pos
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by eoin_murphy 16y ago
My personal fear with emails to clients and co-workers is instead of Regards, Eoin Murphy typing Retards, Eoin Murphy Insulting, simple to do (g-t keys right next to each other) and the spell checker wouldn't catch it. As regards the danger
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by eoin_murphy 16y ago
I went to UCC. While it's a fine university, with a lot of history and high aspirations, it's also quite small (approx 15000 students) with a small staff. And in all these types of situations, if either has any political pull with the highe

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