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by Swinx43 6y ago
As someone who grew up in South Africa I can confirm it. I grew up in the north of the country where in winter it can dip to just below freezing during the night and early morning. It would be back up to 16 degrees at lunchtime though. I no
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by Swinx43 6y ago
This looks absolutely fantastic! Does anyone know or have recommendations for a book similar to this but for Golang?
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by Swinx43 7y ago
I came here simply to echo this statement! Design a reporting solution that is responsible for ingesting data from these micro services' persistence layers. Analysts should only ever be querying this reporting solution and should not b
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by Swinx43 7y ago
Sorry to be that guy that points out spelling mistakes. I believe you wanted to say “commercial” instead of the “commertial” that you have.
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by Swinx43 7y ago
Or House of Lies. That show was way closer to the truth about consulting than most would care to admit.
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by Swinx43 7y ago
Now that is an interesting thought. They could incriminate party members and government officials to sow distrust in the ranks. Having seen though how certain groups of the population have been dealt with in China does make me wonder if the
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by Swinx43 7y ago
I honestly see it going the other way. Deepfakes being used to create fake material that falsely incriminates someone. So if they have the biometrics of an account on file already, they would match a fake video circulating the service to th
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by Swinx43 8y ago
That has nothing to do with their perception of risk regarding surveillance. The supporters of the AfD view the current establishment as their main enemy and it has everything to do with their views on migration. If the AfD was openly campa
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by Swinx43 8y ago
Yes that is all well and good, until that "content" and its message also starts being dictated by whomever is in charge of the government. All of these things always sound like a great idea when you have good people in government.
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by Swinx43 8y ago
In the UK that is what is known as Contracting. It definitely sounds right for the OP. You typically get your contracts through recruiters and they typically last 3 to 6 months (sometimes longer). No sales and hustling, just doing your tech
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by Swinx43 8y ago
I completely agree. It is high time people realise that a business that does not bring in profit is not a real business. You cannot hedge your city’s job security on startups of whom the vast majority can’t survive without venture capital.
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by Swinx43 8y ago
+1 As someone that moved to Germany 8 months ago the biggest shock is the sort of culture being cultivated in the work place. German culture in the work place is hierarchical and extremely "old school" in my experience. Yes I know
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by Swinx43 8y ago
Hi I have been working in this field (and some of the previous incarnations of it) for quite a while. I would be happy to have a discussion to give some pointers and relay some experience if you want. My email and keybase.io is in my profil
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by Swinx43 8y ago
This, a million times this!!! I see people doing consulting promoting the most over engineered solutions I have ever seen. Doing it for data that is a few hundred GB or maybe at best a TB. It makes me want to cry, knowing we handled that wi
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by Swinx43 8y ago
This is fantastic! Love the poetry and optimism.
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by Swinx43 8y ago
I highly doubt that all employees are going to be paid that highly. The majority of tech jobs in Berlin does not pay even close to €90k per year. That is the problem with averages. You have a few people earning loads and the rest on much lo
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by Swinx43 8y ago
Out of interest, where in Berlin were the rents so cheap? I recently moved to the Berlin area and found rents to be on par with London for a 3 bedroom place. I have been visiting Berlin for the better part of 8 years and I am astounded at t
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by Swinx43 9y ago
Exactly. It seems that everyone forgets that it is never a problem until unsavory people get into power. At that point it is too late. Unfortunately too few people building these systems seem to know history well enough to realise the appar
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by Swinx43 9y ago
I find it very hard to understand why they have not done this yet. I am even willing to sacrifice on the upgradability, since this is a sacrifice we have been making by default in recent years. But not being able to select a 32GB RAM option
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by Swinx43 9y ago
It is not your inner-millenial, there are many people that feel this way. Christmas parties in general give me the creeps. I would also prefer a Christmas bonus instead of needing to talk to colleagues that slowly (sometimes not so slowly)
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by Swinx43 9y ago
I definitely agree with you and this particular dark road is best left untraveled. It would be really great to get more data behind what is mostly anecdotal evidence. Also getting data from across the US and other countries would be very us
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by Swinx43 9y ago
> I don't think it's ageism if one person is selected based on being willing to work more for less money. That's just a labor market. Agreed, however very few ever come out and says that so directly. In a lot of cases the
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by Swinx43 9y ago
This mythology leads directly to horribly created software that will either ensure many terrible security breaches in the future or the continued proliferation of "magic" throughout a product. One of the issues is using the word &
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The FDA has approved the first digital pill(theverge.com)
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by Swinx43 9y ago
This is definitely a very legitimate fear and one which I share. I believe that given the changes made in the UK public sector for the 2016/2017 tax year this threat is ever increasing. You are absolutely correct in laying the blame at
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by Swinx43 9y ago
I have had a similar experience once with UPS. To cut a long story short they really messed up, relabelling someone else's package with my address and this package was payment on delivery, which I paid. Trying to get them to come and p
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by Swinx43 9y ago
You are most welcome. You are correct, I did not include them in the personal income you receive as I have created the example in the way you would do your tax return calculation. So the expenses are deducted from your company profit before
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by Swinx43 9y ago
You are correct on both of the points you raise. The example was simplistic by taking all of the dividends out to make it a straightforward comparison with a salaried employee who also has to take all of their and thus do not get to defer t
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by Swinx43 9y ago
But have you done the calculation on option 2 to see what you will end up paying in tax (Both corporate as well as personal income tax) when you do pay out those dividends? You will realise that you have not "avoided" any tax real
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by Swinx43 9y ago
Accountants keep on recommending this method for some reason but honestly if you do the tax calculations yourself you realise that you are not much better off. It used to be the case that you were better off but the last 5 years the options

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