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by BSousa 13y ago
Are we talking about startups or sex industry? Cause burnout/long working hours have taken a toll in many of our brightest engineers and ruined a few families as well. And hey, if you are not doing 80 hours work you are a cop-out right
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by BSousa 13y ago
Hi Pedro First of all, I can assure you I have no economic interest whatsoever on this. I spent most of my professional life working around Europe and about a year or so ago I decided to leave Portugal for good. I don't use Microsoft t
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by BSousa 13y ago
Ok, so no mention of JSON but we have PDF there. Nice. Stupid PT government as usual. And as usual, you can be sure the ones deciding on these are the same people that have their own software already supporting this. Reminds me of the secur
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by BSousa 13y ago
<Get of my lawn rant> Tell that to the millions of companies that don't have the money/means to update their os/stack every year and still rely on software written in the 90s </Get of my lawn rant>
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by BSousa 13y ago
Care to share the name/location? My family lives about 10km from Porto so would be interested to check them out when I visit them.
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by BSousa 13y ago
This times 100. I've been trying to 'create' a syllabus for teaching myself math but it is a pain to be able to get this info and then find the courses for it. I go to MIT and 1/2 of the classes are available on video, t
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by BSousa 13y ago
So, how was your day?
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by BSousa 13y ago
While I don't support this double dutch or other kind of tax avoidance schemes, I can honestly say for about 25k USD you can get one of the top consulting firms (McKinsey, Deloitte, etc) to create a good tax avoiding scheme and for 5k
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by BSousa 13y ago
In Portugal, I know of about 5 systems that were developed by either companies of family members of politicians or by companies were one of the shareholders/owners were the decider on which company to use. The INEM (emergency response
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by BSousa 13y ago
While I haven't found anything for electronics, you can get a lot of toys and clothes that aren't made in china and agree to fair workers rights. Usually (not always) if you buy organic clothes, they are manufactured somewhere els
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by BSousa 13y ago
Welcome to Visual Studio with Resharper :) It can transform for loops into linq statements (and vice versa) quite easily
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by BSousa 13y ago
I have the exact same concern. While my kid is only 1.5 years old and as such I don't consider him smart, dumb or anything in between, the thing in the next years I would like to teach him most is exactly what you mention, grit and con
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by BSousa 13y ago
This is something I'm very interested in. Can you recommend some books/courses that focus more on the financial/HTF side of things? Cheers
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by BSousa 13y ago
But you will have a chicken and egg problem. If the steam box sells well, they will port, but except for some early adopters, they won't buy it until the games are ported. I hope we see more games ported, but having worked in the indus
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by BSousa 13y ago
Yes, and I love me some indie games, but I'm pretty sure each version of Call of Duty will sell more copies than most (if not all) indie games combined on Steam. I buy indie games that I already own to support the developers (some of w
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by BSousa 13y ago
I'm in a similar situation (early 30's, 10+ years of development experience) and also left a previous job to start a business that didn't work out and just came back to work at a 'normal' job. There is a good demand
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by BSousa 13y ago
I'll call bull. No matter how much passion, 60 hours a week year after year will destroy your personal/social life, and most likely your health as well. Happy or sad, 12 hours a day is not sustainable and specially not something w
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by BSousa 13y ago
During that time, Ancel Keys did a few experiments to help develop a protocol for that exact issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Starvation_Experiment
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by BSousa 13y ago
Best thing to do would be to collect some data on your saas for the last few months, prepare it for selling, and find someone that will buy it from you and keep at it. I have no idea how prison is where you live, but I doubt you will be abl
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by BSousa 13y ago
First of all congratulations or Parabens :) Nice to see some portuguese projects here. On a unrelated note, how did this end up on as the musicbox website framework? I worked in this project a while ago (backend and frontend clients only) a
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by BSousa 13y ago
May I ask where you find these firms? I know a lot for on-site contracting, but off-site freelancing I don't seem to find many (specially in UK/Europe)
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by BSousa 13y ago
brunomtsousa@gmail.com
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by BSousa 13y ago
I've done just that. My wife an I bought our house 4 years or so ago. House payments including all the interest and accompanying costs were lower if we wanted to rent a smaller crappier house in the same location at the time. Now we ar
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by BSousa 13y ago
Do you have a link to the keynote where he mentions this perhaps? Would be very interested in it and my google powers didn't find anything. While I haven't done it, I have recommended it to various people to lie on their resumes i
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by BSousa 13y ago
I lost my smartphone about a month ago. I bought a cheap 20 euro dumb phone as a quick replacement until I decided to buy a new iPhone. To be honest, I'm loving the dumbphone. And the fact the battery lasts more than a week in a single
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by BSousa 13y ago
In Portugal, it's the same for most 'grants'. The day after they are payed, there are more drunks in the streets (Wife works in an ambulance, calls for drunk people laying in the floor are 3-4 times more in the days following pay than in th
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by BSousa 13y ago
It says on the contract, but is it really legal? I'm honestly asking as I mentioned, I know portuguese labour law quite well (my cousin is a lawyer specialising in labour law and as such, she looks over all my contracts and say what is vali
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by BSousa 13y ago
Quite common. But in many cases, unenforceable. For example, every contract I signed (both in the UK and Portugal) have it, and while I don't know for the UK, here in Portugal you can't sign your rights away which this falls under. So peopl
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by BSousa 13y ago
Don't answer it. Then put it on mute. Then explain that unless it's there is a fire in the server room, you are not to be contacted after work hours. It isn't hard honestly. You are paid X for Y time. That is it. You are not paid to be a mo

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