retiredcoder

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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Adding to the GP, in the context of the USA, US Border control officers can still deny the entry of a visa holder traveler based on whatever. Also, members of visa waiver program can also be denied entry. That’s just like any one country.
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
I have seen the same stationary overlook on other fields and always blows my mind that people involve would get away with that.
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
So, I cannot speak how easy/hard is to collect debt abroad but I do know that it is possible for prospective employers to query the credit history. I have recently applied for a job in the finance industry in Denmark, the institution d
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
She wouldn’t take the bill as far it is concerned legally (as far as I know and dealt with medical bills myself). She might get mails and phone calls but the collection agency will not go after her assets, well unless her dad has assets in
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
The problem to me looks here > The ER bill was about $50k and she decided that the best way to pay it was by creating a GoFundMe campaign before she even tried to negotiate with the hospital or fight it with the insurance. For me it soun
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
It is somewhat limiting the fact that in our industry, challenges related to social and human factors are either dismissed, denied, or taken under negative tone. Social sciences and political philosophy could really benefit how we treat our
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
My time in college also taught me a lot on groups. It soon became clear that an A team is very volatile because of egos and motivators are hardly the same. Every time we had groups bigger than 2-3, there was drama and/or resentment. I
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
That happens a lot, specially in places selling healthy snacks. I used to work for one of them at certain point and the secret sauce was mostly using tons sugar and/or salt to increase sales. Unless one puts a lot of effort (which can
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
And that’s reinforced by advertisement over and over again. While there are so many fun activities not involving alcohol. Seems like most of team building events nowadays boils down to pretentious dinner plus drinking to celebrate?
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Moderation and diversification seems to be a good hedge for a healthy portfolio. That and also cooking more at home, be in contact with your food is a way to eat simpler and for me that is key.
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
I find that there is much more smoking (including indoor) and drinking in Denmark than most of any other place I lived, or maybe I am just older now and can’t the hangovers are much longer??
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
True, specially when management is much more invested financially in the company than rank and file engineers. That happens a lot in European startup scene from my observations (as equity comp here isn’t that appealing for most of ICs)
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Mine: Being a tech lead with a lot of people management involved.
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Changing jobs is very stressful for me. I have put up with a lot of BS to avoid that stress, can seem to get better but worse actually.
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
It can get worse, when the managers are the ones who wrote the legacy and still are actively acting as individual contributors themselves instead of empowering their own people
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
genuinely asking, why would not be justifiable? That is tax on personal income and capital gains just like any other.
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Actually it is very disfuncional for me to be in a company that communication skills are ahead of technical.
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
I have been in this situation and tried to remember what was going on while I wrote the questionable code. It frequently came down to a day full of interruptions and context switching. Also motivation plays a tremendous role, I know that wh
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
I am coming back from vacations next week and have 2 PRs to finish (couldn’t merge before because they are high risk), I am antecipating a lot of pain just to pick them up where I left off... I would rather do my tax returns instead lol
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Denmark, but that’s another discussion around lunch in the office. I personally don’t take it as a benefit.
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Your points are balanced and reflects quite well what I look for. I usually have the mindset to be in everyday of the week 9-5 and that’s how I start my week. But realistically, as the week progress, life gets in the way, I stay late one da
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Nordics are the same. I might be wrong, and hope to be, but most of IT is still running few generations behind.
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Lol, that is pretty much one of my past employers. They set a daily stand up everyday at 9:30am, so flexible time means I can arrive anytime before that.. One day I missed a stand-up because my wife was pregnant at the time and I wanted see
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Yes, I have seen that in one of my past job. Most of the political attrition came from managers of other divisions that required face time and perception of dedication. OTOH, I also worked for an investment bank and there it was made clear,
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
We have the chance to participate in the US too, now to what extend it is effective, I don’t know. For example, even in big cities like NYC, there are public meetings about the projects, etc. Yet, I still believe that past certain point, pe
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
For the competency and powerful the public administration, I think part of that it is really hard to compete with the private sector in the US, unless for prestige or political capital. As trust goes, I am not sure if it is any different th
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
I sort of believe that past a certain scale, a leader will have to be political to both get things done and maintain decision power. Even, if everyone agrees in one goal, which is impossible, the execution is rarely an easy division of labo
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
That’s what I ask myself. I‘D guess all those challenges exist elsewhere too but at different scales?
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
I can only agree with her answer. When I compare (software) projects amongst different locations I worked at, things vary so so much. Making those comparison somewhat misleading at best. I don’t see how comparing the costs between systems t
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
I’ve been in similar situation and it was really hard to be effective in product / high level planning meetings because it is easy to be blindsided. At the time, I was still an youn engineer in a big co, so I just thought it was my lac

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