iExploder

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by iExploder 5y ago
Good point on job offers being biased. Up till today I was lucky on companies I worked for or with. It's just that every time I open up the job boards these days, I pray my contract gets renewed.
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by iExploder 5y ago
I'm contracting right now. I have to be honest I can't really complain in this instance. That being said, I'm located in Austria due to family reasons and it seems a total wasteland here contract-wise; and feels like the grim
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by iExploder 5y ago
good luck mate! may the source code be with you.
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by iExploder 5y ago
I actually worked as FTE in Austria before and its really not much to write home about... I wish the SW engineering culture in Europe would improve, it seems like we get treated as grunts (best case) or as toddlers (no offense to the said p
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Ask HN: Senior Devs, what career have you moved on to avoid impeding doom?
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by iExploder 5y ago
Yes it does, and my original post being flagged and downvoted is proof of it. But you can't argue with ideologues... tribal hindbrain working double shifts
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by iExploder 5y ago
not sure this could be classified as business, but... TUXEDO Pulse 14 - gen 1 (2x 32GB) 3200MHz CL22 Samsung AMD Ryzen 7 4800H (8x 2.9-4.2GHz Eight-Core, 16 Threads, 12 MB Cache, 45 W TDP) 1000 GB Samsung 970 EVO Plus
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by iExploder 5y ago
ouch, here's a big one
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by iExploder 5y ago
cognitive dissonance, I would seek help immediately
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by iExploder 5y ago
I wouldn't bother with Berlin. Its filled with cheap startups that pay low and dont offer equity for devs (in my very limited experience of job hunting there). Moving to west or south Germany instantly means 30% pay raise for a solid d
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by iExploder 5y ago
it should accept them all, otherwise its a clear discrimination it would be nice to program drivers in php, it will open up the space to a lot more contributors!
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by iExploder 5y ago
its a human nature to invent stories to justify ones behavior, it gives an illusion of control in ones life... nah, most people given an _insert_whatever_amount_ per month as UBI would not come back to their job they are _so_excited_ about
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by iExploder 5y ago
whatever you are doing now sets the baseline of expectation for your performance in future, ask yourself whether you want to be working like this for next XX years, when you are older, need more sleep, health issues start showing up, possib
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by iExploder 5y ago
I would prefer a doctor that does the best job.
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by iExploder 5y ago
if you are in a strong economy with plenty of jobs such as USA, UK and Germany - lazyness, otherwise the limiting factor is your ability to find contracts once your current one ends
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by iExploder 5y ago
10k line loop that's "Unabstractable"? Never ever dare to change that! It might tilt the Earth off its axis and we'll all freeze to death!
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by iExploder 5y ago
from my experience there are no hard times to explain anything. if you have income from your activities from abroad you declare it and might have to tax it additionally, depending on whether the two countries have any treaties against dual
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by iExploder 5y ago
exactly that. politicians and visionaries with big ideas about green future are one side of the story the other is the implementation and how it works in practice. thrash tends to conveniently vanish into the 3rd world or east europe, where
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by iExploder 5y ago
the real question is, why are they not obsessed with Zig
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by iExploder 5y ago
being a freelancer implies there is no fixed work schedule as FTEs might have.. otherwise labor should look into that as for myself I'm free to work on my own, there are meetings I attend project's pretty good, fingers crossed it
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by iExploder 5y ago
some studies suggest some studies are full of BS
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by iExploder 5y ago
I'm a contractor from eastern europe, its a completely different ball game to contract "cross country". Especially in EU, where much of the work is still done on-site, especially in embedded which is my domain.
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by iExploder 5y ago
note that contracting requires establishing and maintaining relationships. there are also legal implications of messing stuff up. working for a consultancy shields you from all of this.
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by iExploder 5y ago
someone does all their work in 4 hours instead of contracted 8? shouldn't that mean their workload is wrongly managed and estimated to be too low? middle management should be on their toes!
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by iExploder 5y ago
** your mileage may vary
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by iExploder 5y ago
not sure about specifics in training but I had quite a lot of fun reading regular c++ code with variables in english only to scroll and find pages of comments in foreign language like russian or japanese... another fun with languages happen
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by iExploder 5y ago
rust has concept of references, maybe it was referring to its particular implementation of the problem
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by iExploder 6y ago
definitely learn C++ if you are interested about how computing works "under the hood" of modern high level languages even if C++ went away next year (which it won't, and you can be sure c++ will be here until eventually quant
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by iExploder 6y ago
> Fair enough, but this proves the author's point. Development used to be on such a level and has steadily declined. I agree, I know a few "old timers" and they seem to have it better in the early days. I guess this is the
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by iExploder 6y ago
I would like to see that in practice. How much of the code would be in unsafe blocks?

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