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Related: "How to become a part-time programmer" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17131691 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17131691

aasasd 8y ago
That page was worth a visit just for the Rosario font.
- arvinsim 8y ago
  Something about it feels satisfying.
  - aasasd 8y ago
    I think it ticks several boxes at once: - It's a sans-serif with contrast, which is a rarity per se, doubly so with stroke widths that don't look weird (considering that the brain is unused to sans-serifs with contrast and usually begins mildly panicking at seeing them in body text). Triply a rarity with interesting letter shapes. Rosario has the perfect contrast: just enough for it to be noticed, but not so much as to look unnatural. - It has humanistic features, but with sliiight hints at serifs. The glyphs are playful as heck if you look closely, but again just enough to not overstep the boundary of taste. - Stroke widths, the blackness, is perfect for reading the body text, at least on the screen. It's not one of those twiggy and feeble grotesks. At the same time, its (semi)bold doesn't look like a forest of black concrete slabs: it again has just enough weight to stay out, but not more. It would be a perfect font for me! If not for one ailment: it only has variations on Latin scripts, and no Cyrillic. Sigh...
    - aasasd 8y ago
      Correction: a sans-serif with stroke width contrast, i.e. varying stroke width―as exemplified by Optima and other 'antiquas without serifs,' and occurring pretty regularly in decorative titling on posters but not in body text.
xondono 8y ago
I would love to be in a position where 20% off my salary is not something to worry
- cc81 8y ago
  How much would you love it? I of course don't know your situation but I suspect that many here in have salaries that are a lot higher than many others but have adjusted their lifestyle to their salary (which is pretty common). It is all about what you value most in life and what sacrifices you want to do to reach there.
- itamarst 8y ago
  If you can't cut your expenses, getting better at negotiation will help you with both parts. Given how much Google and the like pay at the top tier, and the availability of remote work across geographic zones, it's highly unlikely you're at peak pay for your experience level. So you can: 1. First, get a higher salary. 2. Then, go down to 4 days and take the 20% cut. Example: when you get a job offer, merely by saying "can you do better?" you can quite often get a 10% higher offer, because usually initial offer is at the bottom of the pay range.
  - xondono 8y ago
    The main problem here is that I went for hardware engineering, which almost no one is willing to hire as remote work. I also happen to live in spain, comparing with other friends working in the same sector, I’m likely above top 10% in salary/age ratio. Sadly in this country, at age 30 this is 40k€/y that after taxes becomes 29,700€. Rent alone takes more than a third of that, I take ~3500€ directly for savings, and I need to stretch the rest to cover the rest of my costs, including stuff like medical insurance, gas, etc... I know this is partly my chosing and the first comment that will come to a lot of people is “move”, but I can’t do it without heavily disrupting my girlfriend’s career (she’s still finishing her studies and working part time). Our hope right now is that her current job might give her the option to (legally) move to the US.
    - 8y ago

aasasd 8y ago

That page was worth a visit just for the Rosario font.

arvinsim 8y ago
Something about it feels satisfying.
- aasasd 8y ago
  I think it ticks several boxes at once: - It's a sans-serif with contrast, which is a rarity per se, doubly so with stroke widths that don't look weird (considering that the brain is unused to sans-serifs with contrast and usually begins mildly panicking at seeing them in body text). Triply a rarity with interesting letter shapes. Rosario has the perfect contrast: just enough for it to be noticed, but not so much as to look unnatural. - It has humanistic features, but with sliiight hints at serifs. The glyphs are playful as heck if you look closely, but again just enough to not overstep the boundary of taste. - Stroke widths, the blackness, is perfect for reading the body text, at least on the screen. It's not one of those twiggy and feeble grotesks. At the same time, its (semi)bold doesn't look like a forest of black concrete slabs: it again has just enough weight to stay out, but not more. It would be a perfect font for me! If not for one ailment: it only has variations on Latin scripts, and no Cyrillic. Sigh...
  - aasasd 8y ago
    Correction: a sans-serif with stroke width contrast, i.e. varying stroke width―as exemplified by Optima and other 'antiquas without serifs,' and occurring pretty regularly in decorative titling on posters but not in body text.

xondono 8y ago

I would love to be in a position where 20% off my salary is not something to worry

cc81 8y ago
How much would you love it? I of course don't know your situation but I suspect that many here in have salaries that are a lot higher than many others but have adjusted their lifestyle to their salary (which is pretty common). It is all about what you value most in life and what sacrifices you want to do to reach there.
itamarst 8y ago
If you can't cut your expenses, getting better at negotiation will help you with both parts. Given how much Google and the like pay at the top tier, and the availability of remote work across geographic zones, it's highly unlikely you're at peak pay for your experience level. So you can: 1. First, get a higher salary. 2. Then, go down to 4 days and take the 20% cut. Example: when you get a job offer, merely by saying "can you do better?" you can quite often get a 10% higher offer, because usually initial offer is at the bottom of the pay range.
- xondono 8y ago
  The main problem here is that I went for hardware engineering, which almost no one is willing to hire as remote work. I also happen to live in spain, comparing with other friends working in the same sector, I’m likely above top 10% in salary/age ratio. Sadly in this country, at age 30 this is 40k€/y that after taxes becomes 29,700€. Rent alone takes more than a third of that, I take ~3500€ directly for savings, and I need to stretch the rest to cover the rest of my costs, including stuff like medical insurance, gas, etc... I know this is partly my chosing and the first comment that will come to a lot of people is “move”, but I can’t do it without heavily disrupting my girlfriend’s career (she’s still finishing her studies and working part time). Our hope right now is that her current job might give her the option to (legally) move to the US.
  - 8y ago