nickkell

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by nickkell 2mo ago
Similarly I moved to Germany. The office here is mostly deserted by 16:00. In a way I respect their ability to completely split their work and social lives, but it's not particularly fun for me - especially starting from scratch in a n
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by nickkell 2mo ago
They could have had an orange juice
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by nickkell 7mo ago
I assume by DSL they mean some custom templating language built on top, for things like iterating and if-conditions. If it's plain JSON/YAML you can produce that using any language you wish.
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by nickkell 8mo ago
For the most part I agree with you: there is less functionality and hence less to police. There are also fewer people in chats/channels, as for the most part they are private or undiscoverable. There are definitely still breaches of et
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by nickkell 8mo ago
Again, this just isn't true. Where are you getting your information from? Feeding the world is technically easy, there is more than enough space for growing crops. The only reason that it's not done is the desire to eat meat and t
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by nickkell 8mo ago
What would make it interesting? Most of the animal mass on earth is livestock for human consumption. More animals are reared to replace the ones that are slaughtered. It might be interesting for wild fish, but I'm not sure if there are
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by nickkell 8mo ago
Is it really beneficial to use a deck created by someone else? I thought part of the learning process is really engaging with the cards - by writing them, thinking about them, and making mental associations with things you already know.
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by nickkell 8mo ago
I'm a big fan of rebasing to keep the commit history clean and as a form of self-discipline when coding to make sure I'm grouping the changes atomically. I will try to give Jujutsu a go based on your recommendation!
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by nickkell 1y ago
You don't see any of yourself in the pair? I found a lot of their neurotic behaviour relatable. Butter the toast, eat the toast, shit the toast... God, life's relentless.
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by nickkell 1y ago
Awww that's not fair. C# actually has fairly good null-checking now. Older projects would have to migrate some code to take advantage of it, but new projects are pretty much using it by default. I'm not sure what the situation is
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by nickkell 1y ago
No need for a gym membership if you climb those stairs often enough!
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by nickkell 1y ago
I use it in my project to document the schema. We keep the markdown file in source control so that we update it whenever we make database changes. We also have an extension that allows viewing it as the diagram in vscode in our .vscode\exte
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by nickkell 2y ago
He knew his Judo well.
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by nickkell 2y ago
Do you believe it's fake? There are many kits on the market to turn old bicycles into e-bikes. As to the USB charging - that's an outlet for charging things like mobile devices, not for charging the battery on the bike.
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by nickkell 2y ago
That's where reflog comes in handy
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by nickkell 2y ago
Using an in-memory database does not increase my confidence that in my software either. I also started using dockerised dependencies in tests a couple of years ago. Can you please explain what you did with a RAM disk to speed them up?
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by nickkell 3y ago
They have one already, but it's probably not as big: https://digitalservice.bund.de/
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by nickkell 3y ago
The source of all his power.
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by nickkell 3y ago
It's 75k, but I believe I could be receiving 95k if I was either smarter, better at interviewing or better at negotiating. As to other benefits: it's 30 days vacation and they mention profit-sharing, but nothing concrete.
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by nickkell 3y ago
As I point out in another comment, this happened to me previously and they were loath to compromise. I'm therefore very reluctant to depend on an Aufhebungsvertrag. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37480726
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by nickkell 3y ago
Or that his compensation was very good...unlike mine
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by nickkell 3y ago
How difficult did it make finding a new job? I mentioned it to a recruiter I'm dealing with and she agreed that it would significantly complicate the search.
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by nickkell 3y ago
Are you implying this clause is illegal? As far as I'm aware as long as the notice period is at least as long as the statutory period it's valid
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by nickkell 3y ago
I'd like to add that at a previous company a 3 month notice period was forced on me after a merger with a different company meant us signing new contracts to bring us in line with the generally worse conditions offered to employees of
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by nickkell 3y ago
An engineering manager at a previous company here in Germany told me, after I complained about my 3 month notice, that his former role as a CTO had a 12 month notice.
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Ask HN: What's your seniority, location and notice period?
18 points by nickkell 3y ago|68 comments
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by nickkell 3y ago
They're referring to developers updating application servers, meaning the client software is no longer able to operate correctly. If your client software doesn't require internet access for example it's probably fine. For all
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by nickkell 4y ago
I always thought the reason they had to dump fuel was in case of a fire or explosion upon landing.
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by nickkell 4y ago
Currently in an Airbnb in Germany that has an old, decrepit tiger rug. They keep it around because it reminds them of this skit! We’ve obviously watched it today
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by nickkell 4y ago
This is great advice. I’ve also been struggling with “letting go” when things don’t go my way. People need to find a way to be at peace, whilst simultaneously striving for improvement.

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