GFischer

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by GFischer 4y ago
That's actually one of my jobs, I'm a liaison-PM between a Canadian company and developers situated in Nepal, Egypt, etc. I'm in Uruguay so my timezone works out for all involved.
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by GFischer 4y ago
I've seen plenty of ads for a "classics" streaming service, not what I'm interested in, but they seem to be out there.
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by GFischer 4y ago
I'm in Uruguay, South America, and we're on the East Coast timezone and IP laws are friendly, and if you hire as a contractor, there's no labor law issues. Of course, people realized that and there's 0 unemployment in IT
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by GFischer 4y ago
I've seen how local media manipulates things here in Latin America, so I'm not surprised from the inside it looked good, looking from the outside it seems like the democracy was eroded / destroyed, with Cuban-style elections
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by GFischer 4y ago
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/081415/under... Basically, banks are the ones that get the money. The Federal Reserve buys Treasuries or other financial papers with the "new" money.
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by GFischer 4y ago
In some countries, like mine (Uruguay), it's illegal to call yourself an engineer unless you are one, but the local university does hand software engineer titles. I call myself a senior software developer (I'm not an engineer, I d
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by GFischer 4y ago
My brother is a doctor, while he works insane hours, it seems there's a LOT of downtime between jobs, where he's technically "on the clock" but reads ebooks or watches series or socializes. I technically work 12 hours as
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by GFischer 4y ago
My brother in law lived in Austria, he was paid similarly to any other job there, there was an impassable ceiling, so he moved to San Francisco and makes 10x. I looked for software development jobs in Spain, and they pay even less than in m
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by GFischer 4y ago
What do you mean "for a while", Argentina has currency controls TODAY. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-25/argentina...
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by GFischer 4y ago
In Argentina and Uruguay, all the time, not a corner case. "Corralito" is unfortunately a common use word. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corralito
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by GFischer 4y ago
Chinese vaccines are slightly less effective, but they do work, you can check the numbers in my country, Uruguay. Pfizer has outperformed Sinovac, but it still provided protection.
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by GFischer 4y ago
You're blaming Capitalism, it isn't great, but the problem is that in the United States healthcare system you have Capitalism without Free Market, you have "crony"/rent-seeking/regulatory-capture Capitalism. Yo
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by GFischer 4y ago
I have coworkers in Dallas, and they bought for relatively cheap (about 1/3 of what is being mentioned for other places in the USA in this thread). So I guess it works.
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by GFischer 5y ago
If you're from Venezuela or Argentina you buy real estate in Uruguay. Check Punta del Este.
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by GFischer 5y ago
I wonder if it's related to the Azure outage.
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by GFischer 5y ago
Maybe in the US. Here in Uruguay it would definitely power a million homes. I suspect it'll power a million homes in Europe as well (most are "energy-efficient apartments"). According to an article, an US citizen consumes twi
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by GFischer 5y ago
People realized it. It was companies that were resisting it. I remember looking for remote work pre-pandemic and it was WAY harder, now it's more a default. I'm in Uruguay, South America, so the pandemic has been an incredible boo
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by GFischer 5y ago
I have a corner cubicle with a view, I don't want to go back to the office anyways.
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by GFischer 5y ago
VRBO made 2 billion in bookings, which is impressive but still less than one fourth of AirBnb.
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by GFischer 5y ago
I've been using Zoho for several years and I've been very happy. Only had 1 major outage (which was a bummer, to be honest) and I think they've improved their redundancy and reliability since.
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by GFischer 5y ago
I think forming connections is very important... but it should be encouraged independently from working at the office or remotely. I work remotely for a U.S. company with coworkers from Ethiopia and other countries. Pre-pandemic, they flew
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by GFischer 5y ago
Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie. Their book, "The C Programming Language" was a must read bible decades ago.
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by GFischer 5y ago
Yep, I've been in a position to choose cloud providers before, and I wouldn't touch Google with a ten foot pole (it's basically AWS or Azure in my mind). I'm already unhappy with the level of control they already have on
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by GFischer 5y ago
The YouTube thing is false as of a few years ago. If you have noticed, they've crammed it full of ads. https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/27/22596592/google-q2-2021-r... I think it's projected to
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by GFischer 5y ago
You're making a lot of money... if it's Uruguay, it's unfortunate but yeah, most coverage excludes oncological drugs and public healthcare is also very backed up. Not sure if you'd have a better outcome in the US, if any
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by GFischer 5y ago
Yep, that should help after it subsides. I was hoping for some more immediate tips.
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by GFischer 5y ago
I will, and more general exercises (the usual New Year's resolution haha)
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by GFischer 5y ago
It's more tendons than the wrist. But I definitely have to do something to have better posture.
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Ask HN: Dealing with wrist pain / tendonitis as a developer
6 points by GFischer 5y ago|7 comments
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by GFischer 5y ago
Argentina did that, their brain drain was INSANE, we had thousands immigrate to Uruguay. The holdovers jump through all kind of hoops, many involving crypto.

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