pkos98

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by pkos98 8d ago
In Germany AFAIK their Senior base salary ceiling is ~ 180k EUR - approx 210k USD for an Engineering role. Thats quite competitive for a base salary, as high as max ICT5 Staff base at Apple Munich.
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by pkos98 10d ago
I think I feel the same in the sense that AI now allows me to choose more carefully what I'm actually working on and offload boring other tasks to the AI. Of course, it only works as long as the deadline allows it. > As I've m
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Ask HN: Any Software Engineers here who enjoy their AI-native dev workflow?
17 points by pkos98 10d ago|16 comments
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by pkos98 14d ago
Wait a week with your judgement - most likely, Google is just bench-maxing very hard. If you look at the previous Flash models and the announcement on Google I/O, it was an absolute disaster. Reality diverged very much from the marke
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by pkos98 17d ago
and I had to smile when asked about the intention behind the META-INF directory during an interview with JetBrains. Got the job, thanks Mr Persson
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by pkos98 21d ago
> world-class public transport It’s really not at all at the same level as other European cities. It’s so bad that basically every year high up officials write a Brandbrief (urgent appeal) to either Deutsche Bahn or Ministry of transport
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by pkos98 4mo ago
For-Profit Non-Profitable Closed-AI company called OpenAI
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by pkos98 5mo ago
Indeed, it's the underlying principle of "division of labor". Karl Marx' coined the term "Alienation" for describing most of the negative societal/human consequences of this principle, leading to isolation
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by pkos98 5mo ago
off topic, but related to the recent github alternative discussion: Wow, this gitlab instance looked so much cleaner/simpler and less clunky than my past experiences! Also loaded really fast on first page load as well as subsequent act
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by pkos98 5mo ago
Sure, I've cancelled my Max 20 subscription because you guys prioritize cutting your costs/increasing token efficiency over model performance. I use expensive frontier labs to get the absolute best performance, else I'd use
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by pkos98 6mo ago
Maybe the Two Pizza rule: No team at Amazon should be larger than what two pizzas can feed (usually about 6 to 10 people).
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by pkos98 6mo ago
Intermediate lvl, not Amazon. And indeed I’ve also observed this to be the case, too startups pay such base salaries (eg Gitlab and Neon did) for similar lvl. But there aren’t too many such openings.
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by pkos98 6mo ago
Not only, but also due to this. Relocation through switching teams is not possible. Compensation took a big hit due to dollar depreciation. Worst case I'll end up being on unemployment insurance for a year, ~ 2800 EUR per month whi
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by pkos98 6mo ago
As a German, I genuinely cannot comprehend this short-sightedness and ignorance: Our current Chancellor (Merz) publicly boasts that Germans work too few hours and calls on them to work more [0] implying this would generate more tax revenue.
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by pkos98 6mo ago
AI slop. The internet is dead.
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by pkos98 8mo ago
Isn’t this the proof of my point - How does the need of writing „@external“ annotations by hand not contradict the point of being „out of the box“ usable? Hayleigh, when I asked on the discord about how to solve my JSON problem in order to
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by pkos98 8mo ago
Well, for the specific example I gave (JSON serialization), you certainly do care whether Jason.Encoder is implemented for a struct.
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by pkos98 8mo ago
Coming from Elixir, I gave Gleam a try for a couple of days over the holidays. Reasons I decided not to pursue: - No ad-hoc polymorphism (apart from function overloading IIRC) means no standard way of defining how things work. There are no
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by pkos98 8mo ago
I think this is just an extension of "Fuck you money"
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by pkos98 10mo ago
Or you ask Gemini to do this for you (timestamps were removed when formatting into markdown) Based on the podcast "Microsoft: Powering Israel’s Genocide? | Hossam Nasr," here are the main human rights issues alleged against Micros
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by pkos98 1y ago
> It's like they are building tech for made up in corporate conference room use cases. Totally felt the same during the live-translation demo, when these two casual business folks were talking about "the client will love the ne
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by pkos98 1y ago
it's just an internal I/O-bound project, where BEAM concurrency makes lots of sense. Grown from an engineer's side project as it was useful and working well, not a company-wide effort to bet on Elixir
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by pkos98 1y ago
I've been writing Elixir on-and-off since 2017 for personal projects and since 2024 professionally, at a big tech company. The two experiences couldn't be more different. While I loved the great development speed for my personal p
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by pkos98 1y ago
Having worked as Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft Germany/Azure, let me tell you: Nope this gap can not be closed by any US company alone due to the Us Patriot Act - which forces any US company (including e.g. a German subsidiary)
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by pkos98 2y ago
From the thread: @discardableResult public init(priority: TaskPriority? = nil, operation: sending @escaping @isolated(any) () async -> Success) > Take just the operation argument. It's a closure that is sending, es
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Has Swift's concurrency model gone too far?(forums.swift.org)
2 points by pkos98 2y ago|1 comments
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Linkers, Loaders and Shared Libraries in Windows, Linux, and C++ [video](youtube.com)
3 points by pkos98 2y ago|0 comments
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by pkos98 2y ago
two of the three coalition parties are against it - the greens and the FDP (the social democrats are in favour), thus the government doesnt support. they are neither far left/right
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by pkos98 2y ago
there already is an lsp available (officially from Apple). Tried it out a month ago (on Linux using neovim) and the autocompletion was on par with golang lsp in terms of speed. Didnt check the lsp capabilities though.
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by pkos98 2y ago
Since 99% of people have to study hard to pass LC (medium/hard), it effectively acts as a selector for employee conformity. People who play by the rules imposed upon them, who work long hours if corp wants them to etc. All the talk abo

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