Avalaxy

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by Avalaxy 12y ago
"I'm only getting paid $100.000 per year and it's so low, boohoo" Jesus. I live in the netherlands, which is a first world country with a very high cost of living, and the average senior developer here only gets paid hal
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by Avalaxy 12y ago
Sounds good, but I seriously doubt you're going to come over to my place here in the Netherlands.
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by Avalaxy 12y ago
Can confirm, pluralsight is a great resource. Lots and lots of interesting stuff. Other than that it really depends on where you want to go and how much you already know. If you'd like to go work for Microsoft I can recommend events an
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by Avalaxy 12y ago
You might be on to something here, but what else can a team leader do to manage other developers besides organising daily standups?
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by Avalaxy 12y ago
My answer (for others): If I would just respond "no" it would sounds like I'm being a smart ass. It doesn't take much time to try it and THEN reply.
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by Avalaxy 12y ago
I found my job through a recruiter. The reason was that I was looking for small companies, which were hard to find on Google. I searched through all the known channels (linkedin, job posting boards, forums, stackoverflow) but I could only f
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by Avalaxy 12y ago
So apparently it took off, but why? Where did the initial 25.000 users come from? In my opinion Instagram is completely useless and doesn't add anything to our lives. I really don't see the value of sharing photos with some "
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by Avalaxy 12y ago
By far not the most illegal project.
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by Avalaxy 12y ago
I hope we will see more crowdfunding websites adopt Bitcoin. It allows projects to get a lot more money because basically all of the money could go to them.
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by Avalaxy 12y ago
Bitcoin. The cheapest and probably the fastest way.
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by Avalaxy 12y ago
In The Netherlands (not sure if that's specified to my country or to people in general) I often hear people saying that you shouldn't go outside without a jacket when it's cold, because it will make you sick...
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by Avalaxy 12y ago
Not even with ice hockey!
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by Avalaxy 12y ago
I'd take a look at Xamarin and/or Xamarin Forms. It's really good and allows you to build native apps for iOS, Android an Windows Phone with just 1 codebase. It can save tons of money. Xamarin Forms is taking it all a bit fur
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by Avalaxy 12y ago
They mean completely different things.
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Why Amsterdam means business(thenextweb.com)
3 points by Avalaxy 12y ago|0 comments
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by Avalaxy 12y ago
I know this has been tried a couple of times before (sorry I can't remember the URL) but those sites died just 1 or 2 days after they disappeared from the HN frontpage.
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by Avalaxy 12y ago
... It takes days to send money with SWIFT and the costs are much higher. Bitcoin is a superior technology that provides substantial benefits to banks. That's why the 3 biggest banks in the Netherlands are seriously looking at using Bi
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by Avalaxy 12y ago
If that's really what you think, you have sooo not any clue about what Bitcoin is. Bitcoin is much faster and much cheaper than the current financial system. How can you say nobody needs it?
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by Avalaxy 12y ago
It doesn't have to be, just like HTTP doesn't have to be mass-marketable in order for you to use the internet. Also: Apple Pay is no innovation, it's just the existing financial system in a new coat. It's so completely d
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by Avalaxy 12y ago
No, that's not the killer app. Bitcoin is extremely traceable, much more so than cash. Actually there is a fair chance of deanonymizing users. One of Bitcoin's killer apps would probably be micropayments. Changetips is really taki
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by Avalaxy 12y ago
You are all massively missing the point. You don't need to hold Bitcoin yourself, you can just use the network to send money around the world in an instant. Banks could do this on a large scale under water and convert it to another cur
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by Avalaxy 12y ago
Yes and no. Yes: the public has somewhat lost its interest in Bitcoin. It's no longer new to them, it's no longer in a price frenzy, the hype is gone. No: that the hype is gone doesn't mean that Bitcoin is no longer 'hot
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by Avalaxy 12y ago
Maybe because you're primarily a front-end developer? If front-end is not your fulltime job it's really hard to keep up with all the new frameworks and changes.
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by Avalaxy 12y ago
You're absolutely right, the WP appstore really has a lot less to offer than its competitors. It's really frustrating as a WP user to see companies ignoring WP all the time. Honestly, there is no good reason any more to leave WP o
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by Avalaxy 12y ago
No problem, SO detects that and reverts their downvotes :)
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by Avalaxy 12y ago
> The only thing this piece is missing is a better hardware platform, so I'm going to be very interested in seeing what Microsoft can produce in the coming months. Why? Honestly, I think the Surface tablets and Nokia's Lumia de
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Lunar Mission One(lunarmissionone.com)
9 points by Avalaxy 12y ago|0 comments
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by Avalaxy 12y ago
There is no _the_ way to use it. But I can tell you about how I use it: - I follow a couple of industry professionals and companies to stay up to date with their updates. As a MSFT developer I follow MSDN, the .NET team, but also important
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by Avalaxy 12y ago
I wonder how much effort it would be to support C# as well, without Xamarin. Would they ever do that? Or would they prefer to not hurt Xamarin (or maybe Google/Apple) too much by offering their own C# crossplatform development?
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by Avalaxy 12y ago
Wow, that sounds like predator.

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