BSousa

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by BSousa 13y ago
Big financial firms with various millions in the bank in London requesting senior iOS developers also pay crap. 50-70k a year seems to be the going rate (I chatted with various, as well as recruiters). If we go with 70k its 4.000 net a mont
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by BSousa 13y ago
This last couple of weeks I've been contacting some companies (start ups and established ones). It seems London is really up there with a talent shortage, but except for one or two established companies, none of them pay any decent money fo
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by BSousa 13y ago
Mind telling if the salary is ok with them? Having lived in NL before, I would fancy coming back, but salaries/taxes make it prohibiting to move back at my current lifestyle. Is booking offering above market pay?
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by BSousa 13y ago
There is one for Berlin: http://berlinstartupjobs.com
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by BSousa 13y ago
Come to Portugal. We like bad coders here. Seriously. 99% chance you won't have a technical interview. I lead a team (and have lead others) that I would prefer just to fire everyone and do it myself (latest gem found today in the code: self
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by BSousa 13y ago
There was a news story last week here in Portugal saying basically the same. Some supermarkets ran out of formula since there was a big Chinese committee here and bought them all to take/ship home. I also know a lot of folks that work in An
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by BSousa 13y ago
Sorry, was missing my morning cup of coffee. 1000-2000 dollars :) There are some nice artist on Dribbble that can redo the UI for that range.
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by BSousa 13y ago
Congrats on finishing and publishing the game. I skipped a bit through the video and checked the game at the end. Please, please, please save 1000-2000 grand, browse dribbble.com or similar, and get a decent designer to update the look on t
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by BSousa 13y ago
It is the difference between buying a shirt or suit (for men) that comes in Small/Medium/Large and buying one that is designed for a certain body type (broad shoulders, slim waist or short but fit) initial design. You can alter both, but a
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by BSousa 13y ago
1) depends where you buy your organic food. I usually try to buy directly from the producers, or when not possible, a small market here that works with a wider range of organic producers (the farmers themselves deliver the loads, had a few
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by BSousa 13y ago
I had the opposite experience. My attention and productivity during my boxing years was way greater than now. Could have been the discipline I got from training leaking to other parts of my life. Who knows, but I know I did way better with
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by BSousa 14y ago
Most definitively there is more to learn than what you learn in game development. Heck, since I left the industry I've been working on a few projects that taxed me as well (multi-platform threading code, nginx custom modules, metrology algo
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by BSousa 14y ago
My background has always been Game AI so that was the part I worked 90% of the time. The thing about games is usually, it is hard to just remain on the same general code. AI is related to movement, which is related to collision detection an
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by BSousa 14y ago
No, I mentioned in a day. Sometimes you mess with all that kind of code in a day (I mentioned C and C++ as base)
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by BSousa 14y ago
I as well quit the industry because of this. While I never had it that bad (I knew I couldn't be productive after 8-9 hours so I just left at the time) nor was I ever 'attacked' for it, I can imagine I may have been overlooked on raises/pro
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by BSousa 14y ago
While I don't believe in the Europe's collapse, please please don't say it's just 'money a little tighter and skip holiday'. At least in Portugal people are indeed suffering. I never in my life before this seen people garbage searching for
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by BSousa 14y ago
IS there anything like GroupTalent for non-us? Or Remote even?
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by BSousa 14y ago
The problem (at least here) is that they don't. Boys are usually given harsher sentences for same misbehavior as girls. Also, there is more boys dropping out than girls. Girls tend to grade higher than boys as well. Unemployment of young fo
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by BSousa 14y ago
I was sure www.iconfinder.com was your site, but I took a look at the profile just to see if I could copy paste it instead of typing it (I'm lazy). You have the url as www.confinder.com there ;)
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by BSousa 14y ago
No idea what plan you will pursue, but try and contacting the company first. This isn't the first time I see something like this, where the infringing company outsourced the design or even bought a design from ThemeForest like site and had
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by BSousa 14y ago
The problem is, you only got the FAQ after a good while and without any decent apology from Heroku. In your printer example, it's like your printer is not printing a 0 at the end of each of your invoices, and 2 months later tells you it did
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by BSousa 14y ago
33 EUR / 20k GBP about 8 years ago. I think the exchange rate was around 1.3 or 1.4 then. But different countries so no comparision.
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by BSousa 14y ago
Not wanting to take anything from notch, but I do concur with the parent. I've seen his live casts, and sure they are great, but let's not kid ourselves, his code is not that great. He is fast cause he knows the libraries he uses very well
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by BSousa 14y ago
Where is this if you don't mind me asking? 8.65 EUR minimum wage is great. Minimum wage is is close to 3 EUR.
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by BSousa 14y ago
You said you emailed a dozen of people, where did you get their emails? If from popular blogs freelancers have, most of the time these freelancers have their schedule full and tired as many others pointed of getting contacted with bad offer
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by BSousa 14y ago
I really wished when people posted to complain about their situation they would give more details. Where do you live? Can you take freelance work? Available to travel if opportunity arises? At the moment I don't have any leads but if I know
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by BSousa 14y ago
Try reading '90 minute sleep program' http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-90-Minute-Baby-Sleep-Program/dp/... S/he talks a lot about the 90 minute cycles on babies, we used it on our child and its amazing how well it matches. And yes, as a parent
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by BSousa 14y ago
I almost stopped replying to HN job posts because of that. One time I even tracked a personal email on the company as their jobs@ email was bouncing and I wrote to the ceo (only email I could find) to let them know about it. Forget about a
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by BSousa 14y ago
I can't speak about Lisbon as I'm not from there, but up north in Porto and surrounding areas, there hasn't been much planning at all. I live in a town (Ermesinde) that in 15 years went from less than 10,000 people to slightly less than 100
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by BSousa 14y ago
While not related to the original question, how does YC work for non US residents and Visa related issues? Does it accept/sponsor a few outside the US startups? IS it interested in doing so?

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