GFischer

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Ask HN: Is Project Manager a Step Up from Senior Engineer
7 points by GFischer 7y ago|10 comments
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by GFischer 7y ago
Not sure what stack you're using, but Azure Application Insights is very nice for logging. And they have lots of tools for what you're mentioning (but you have to pay for them). If not, maybe you do have to build them (and it migh
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by GFischer 7y ago
We're using Azure at my current workplace, and the amount of legwork you can get done is pretty amazing (as long as you're willing to pay for it). We have an ARM template to set up environments, deployment is painless with Azure D
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by GFischer 7y ago
Same here. We used Slack and liked it. We're now using Teams, it's tolerable but Slack had significantly better UX. The Android app in particular has trouble. And muting is all-or-nothing. I've also had corrupted channels, I
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by GFischer 7y ago
Was about to ask you if HN wasn't blocked in China :) . I guess you're in London then.
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by GFischer 7y ago
That sounds like a startup opportunity there :)
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by GFischer 7y ago
It's decent here in Uruguay (South America) too.
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by GFischer 7y ago
That must be it, the best salary offer I got in Austria was about 4000 euros a month. My brother in law moved to Silicon Valley because he had a very low salary ceiling in Vienna.
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by GFischer 7y ago
You're beating most of us. I've done nothing but write code and accumulate debt..
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by GFischer 7y ago
It is. Also, people don't want to do it for any amount of money. I quit a previous job and took less money because I got moved to maintain the crumbling Forte4GL core system - I did get a handsome raise for that, but the writing was al
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by GFischer 7y ago
Oh, yes the old method: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measuring_against_the_linchpin
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by GFischer 7y ago
It´s going to kill overseas sales for them. Both me and my gf have Huawei phones, but the next phone will be a Xiaomi. Fortunately the U.S. didn't kill all Chinese manufacturers, Samsung and the rest are overpriced compared to them.
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by GFischer 7y ago
The ones people mentioned, plus a big one is you have way less chances of advancement if the team isn´t entirely distributed. Scott Hanselman is one of the highest-profile remote workers, check out his blog entries: https://www.h
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by GFischer 7y ago
My mother hosted him and I didn´t hear anything out of the ordinary for Stallman... I mean, you know he´s going to be monothematic about his beliefs, but I heard nothing besides that.
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by GFischer 7y ago
The athletics craze is an US-only thing as far as I can tell. Other countries (at least Europe and Latin America) basically don´t have athletic scolarships and any athletic program is a strictly extracurricular activity.
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by GFischer 7y ago
Wow. Hats off to Japan then.
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by GFischer 7y ago
Maybe Google can´t do that because they are the ones doing the scummy thing. I personally know 2 cases of people banned from Google, in one case they were actually infringement (they made an app using copyrighted characters), and in the oth
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by GFischer 7y ago
At least for Android, there are alternative app stores, and I´ve used them (especially the Amazon one).
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by GFischer 7y ago
parking your bike outside in an unsecured area is a recipe for getting it stolen (in the US) That´s everywhere. I was told that in Austria the only major petty theft is bike theft (in one of the most secure countries in the world). I don´
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by GFischer 7y ago
Elsewhere too. I lived in a 140 square feet studio here in Montevideo (not as expensive as SF but most expensive in South America), wasn´t too great but it was tolerable, I think slightly smaller is still liveable. Other posters do have a p
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by GFischer 7y ago
I don´t know what they do in the U.S., but here in Uruguay the parents ARE responsible for kids that commit severe felonies (unless they´re old enough to be judged themselves). It´s not usually applied though.
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Antisurveillance clothes foil cameras by making you look like a car(cnet.com)
11 points by GFischer 7y ago|1 comments
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by GFischer 7y ago
As many mentioned, it´s licensing. My team had Slack but Teams got rolled company-wide and we were forced to switch. IMO Teams is much worse but I guess it gets the job done not horribly enough.
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by GFischer 7y ago
I have replicated the performance differentials (for Azure), and they definitely suck. But people are REALLY REALLY expensive (not only the ongoing costs, but hiring, firing and overhead), and Cloud has another huge advantage: accounting tr
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by GFischer 7y ago
I don´t know in which world you live where SW devs make that... some FAANG developers maybe - 5.000 to 10.000 people total? Compare to over a million doctors in the U.S. only.
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by GFischer 7y ago
I might end up doing that. Good suggestion.
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Ask HN: Tips for getting remote work in the U.S. as a foreigner? (W8 or C2C)
3 points by GFischer 7y ago|2 comments
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by GFischer 7y ago
Unfortunately, I´ve seen it bring money and success a LOT of times. Some of the most immoral jerks I know are extremely successful and very wealthy.
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by GFischer 7y ago
But they´re the wrong lessons if you want to do a startup... an MBA is very focused on an existing firm. That´s why Paul Graham et al advise against it. There´s some very useful knowledge, especially financial and accounting and knowing org
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by GFischer 7y ago
You have the other extreme, Mr Money Moustache who claims to feed a family of 4 on about 300 dollars a month: https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/03/29/killing-your-1000... of course, that´s a lot of rice, n

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