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by BSousa 14y ago
Hi Andy Is 50/hr that low? I know it isn't the US rate, but getting even 30 USD/hr here is hard (that's why I'm trying to focus more internationally and thus the need to do portfolio work as much of my apps are in the local app store).
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by BSousa 14y ago
Well, if you ever need a dev for $50/hr you know where to find one ;) Seriously though, while not from India or Pakistan, I still live in a low-cost country (Portugal) compared to most of the USA or UK. $50/hr affords me a good quality of l
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by BSousa 14y ago
Thanks for the reply! I guess that is actually what I'm asking. At HN, seems there are more people requiring Rails/web devs, but outside, seems iOS devs are more in demand. Right now and in all honesty, my main concern is supporting my fami
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Ask HN: Should I focus on iOS or Rails as Freelance?
13 points by BSousa 14y ago|17 comments
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by BSousa 14y ago
I'm reading the Power of Habit and the author mentions AA. According to the theory of the book, for habits (drinking) to change permanently, people have to believe in something. According to the author, that ingrained belief of AA is what m
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by BSousa 14y ago
Seeking work - Remote Software developer focusing on iOS development but also game development for multi platforms in C/C++ or Unity. Specialty is A.I. and gameplay. Worked in various industries, mostly in games. for the last ten years, I'm
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Give HN: A few more domains
5 points by BSousa 14y ago|0 comments
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by BSousa 14y ago
Actually, and that is my point entirely, luck isn't the word. I have shitty genetics (I think on both sides, for the last 2-3 generations my family has been overweight/obese). Heck, during my wife's pregnancy there were complications, and d
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by BSousa 14y ago
I'm not saying that eating 300kcal over daily maintenance everyday would not make you fat. What I'm saying is that I really doubt the most of the people that are overweight/obese are eating according to what a BMR calculator says and becaus
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by BSousa 14y ago
At the risk of repeating my self, the F- Off would still stand. It is illegal to 'threaten' someone like that here. Sure, many people would cave and do it and that's why many employers still have this stupid mentality, but taking in account
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by BSousa 14y ago
According to the study, only 26.7% difference wasn't explained by age/sex/weight. Which means for almost 75% the values were somehow dependent on sex/age/weight. And the difference between the top 5% and bottom 5% of the outliers was around
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by BSousa 14y ago
I would tell her to F- off if it was in my legal right to take the time off. I know my wife would do the same. I still don't understand how people still think 130 hour week, or working through paternity/vacation time is acceptable. I could
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by BSousa 14y ago
No I wouldn't. I took all the time the law allowed me, and if I could have taken more, I would. During paternity leave I only 'worked' one and a half day. And it was a special case that had nothing to do with work per se. I was invited to b
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by BSousa 14y ago
People don't have that much difference in metabolisms (unless we are talking about actual health problems or differences between severe overweight and athletes). What happens is most people don't know what they are eating. BBC did a documen
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by BSousa 14y ago
The hell it is! I'm 29, father of a 2.5 months boy. I work at a start up that is doing quite ok. I took 20 days paternity leave when my kid was born plus a week paid vacation. I'm taking an extra month paternity leave as well in a month. An
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by BSousa 14y ago
I work for a competitor of Rdio/Spotify/etc. At least, in our case, the record labels (at least two of the majors) are quite strict and we had to go through a whole validation process to prove it wasn't easy to download the songs playing. N
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by BSousa 15y ago
I never worked for Codemasters myself, and left a studio just after it was bought by Codemasters (for other reasons). But I think everyone in the UK that worked in games knows their reputation. They are the UK equivalent of EA. I know about
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by BSousa 15y ago
Yep, just mail me at brunomtsousa at gmail and we can setup the transfer.
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Offer HN: A few domains I have that I won't need at cost
7 points by BSousa 15y ago|4 comments
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by BSousa 15y ago
Not sure about Europe, but Portugal has all kinds of laws that says you can't sign your rights away in any contract (contract is declared void if it goes against this and as such, initial rights prevail)
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by BSousa 15y ago
The fact that the article is from 2003 may have something to do with it, since SaaS wasn't as big then as it is now.
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by BSousa 15y ago
Not really. I also am baffled by django and rails being top, but then eclipse as ide? And Objective-C being below 5% but Xcode 10%. This just either smells like a load of crap of the survey was done in a very inconsistent manner. (Not givin
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by BSousa 15y ago
> most games developers regularly hand code AI in inline assembly This goes against any game company I worked. If anything, many are moving the AI code to scripting. Last company I worked had all the AI done in UnrealScript. Before was
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by BSousa 15y ago
Can't say about other countries but the bureaucracy in Portugal is quite high as well. But the interesting thing is (and it was before my time so I'm taking my parents word for it) most of it was created because of the assumption people wil
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by BSousa 15y ago
Hmm maybe you are just looking at the web and forget other industries? Europe has a good tradition in the auto industry I think SAS is also quite big and european Also, innovation wise, last studies shown European banks lead innovation (Web
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by BSousa 15y ago
Please note I mentioned an example that wasn't the response in 2009-2010 to the crisis, but what happened before causing part of the crisis. Easy influx of money, both in interest rates by joining the Euro (more borrowing but not fault or E
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by BSousa 15y ago
Ok, first I'm not totally against EU and I know they did some good things, but heres some things from the top of my mind that relate to my personal liberties: - Barroso being elected in a secret vote by EU parliament (I'm sorry, but that is
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by BSousa 15y ago
I voted no, I don't want more legislation. More and more, the EU is taking away liberties of people and countries in name of a 'common good' and a 'better europe'. A good example is the now credit crisis which was mostly a problem with EU i
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by BSousa 15y ago
Exactly. I'm not actually saying they should be in congress, God knows they are way too competent to be there. But if these smart rich people can threaten to do something (run themselves, say they will do all donations to maximum permitted
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by BSousa 15y ago
Ok, I'll admit I don't know much about the laws about US donations/lobbying on the political trail, but I'm assuming you can run for a slot for Congress using your own money for whatever is needed right? Why not get Bill Gates, Larry Page,

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