throwaway1410

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by throwaway1410 11y ago
AFAIK (I'm not a historian): serfdom started disappearing from most of Western Europe around XV century. In XVII-XVIII it was mostly forgotten, and peasants were free men, who either owned land or rented it from the big land owners. Ha
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by throwaway1410 11y ago
In practice, it's they who find you. Just change the address on your linked in profile to "London" and see the emails coming in. If they don't come, your CV is probably not a good fit to the current needs of available co
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by throwaway1410 11y ago
I've found two jobs in the Who's hiring thread twice, both of them remote! And I'm not even in the US. Out of your list, I only meet the "White Male" criterion.
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by throwaway1410 11y ago
> Not disagreeing with the general point, but aren't bones stronger after a break? I thought that was the whole point of martial artist's punching hard stuff. They don't break the bones, but merely introduce microfractures
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by throwaway1410 11y ago
I think Java on the backend is still the de facto standard...
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by throwaway1410 11y ago
Very programmer centric. I was hoping to read advice that relates to all kinds of engineers, not just software ones.
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by throwaway1410 11y ago
Dynamic languages on the backend?
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by throwaway1410 11y ago
London is good if you have experience in something that's currently hot - for example, as a big data contractor you can easily pull £100-140k. If you don't have that, there are probably better choices.
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by throwaway1410 11y ago
I think it's purely intuitive concept, with no clear definition. But without it, literally every particle in this universe is making an impact.
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by throwaway1410 11y ago
Regarding the pay, I'm a bit worried that it might not be the case in UK. For example, when working in Big Data positions (my current area), it's not hard to get 100k pounds per year or more, while I ads for scientific or graphic
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by throwaway1410 11y ago
This sounds very inspiring and it's one of the paths I'm seriously considering for my own future. Do you mind asking you a couple questions? Where are you based? How does the market look like and what kind of pay can you expect as
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by throwaway1410 11y ago
Companies like McKInsey or BCG (claim they) do that.
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by throwaway1410 11y ago
Just become an employee of a consulting firm, they'll take care of these problems so you don't have to.
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by throwaway1410 11y ago
This is all nice, but this means you've optimised for money and career progression. It works for some people (it certainly seems to be working for you), but for the rest of us, we'd also expect stuff like interesting/engaging
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by throwaway1410 11y ago
Really? So literally every business activity (e.g. running a small grocery store on the corner) is 'making an impact'? For me, this term implicitly means making SIGNIFICANT impact, not just any impact.
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by throwaway1410 11y ago
> Or something like patio (kalzumeus.com)... solopreneur. I think I read he works 10 hours a week but stills makes an impact? Let's not give in to SV newspeak where running a business means "making an impact".