ThePawnBreak

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by ThePawnBreak 9y ago
> Your saving rate is going to be higher on 50k/year in eastern Europe than 100k SF salary. Yeah, except that the going rate for a good junior developer in SV is about $150k (Google, Facebook) and in Romania it's $20k. I recent
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by ThePawnBreak 9y ago
He said 1% in the Valley, not in the US. Also, I think it's better to compare total wealth rather than income (which can easily drop dramatically).
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by ThePawnBreak 9y ago
I would try starting with Scratch first, to see if he likes it and because it's very easy to get started, with very little friction. If he seems to enjoy it and seems to understand the way of thinking, I would move to Python with Pygam
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by ThePawnBreak 9y ago
> I would rather make more money in a stupid corporate job than working on more aggressive ways of making people to click on ads. Could you name a few "stupid corporate jobs" that pay better than Google or Facebook (200k - 300k
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Urban Gardener – Grow food in your apartment(urbangardener.tech)
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UiPath raises $30M to build software robots for internal business tasks(techcrunch.com)
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
No it isn't, especially considering it's 30% that what Google interns earn in the US, even in cheaper places than London (Pittsburgh, Seattle). Also, it's a lot less than what competitors pay interns in London (Bloomberg, Fac
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
She worked on something completely different in Krakow, and earned a lot less (about 1000 euro I think). The compression work was in London, where 2700 GBP doesn't go a long way at all. Rent is about 1000 GBP for a room, and 2700 GBP i
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
2700 GBP a month, plus 1000 GBP housing (for a summer). Because Europe.
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
Have you looked into Site Reliability Engineering at Google?
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
Why do you pay based on rent instead of market rate in the first place?
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
> For now, sadly, there is no replacement that even comes close. I really want an always one screen and at least 5 days of battery life. Did you take a look at Vector Watch?
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
Google I understand, but how exactly can you not live without Apple products?
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
I seriously doubt it. Is London even more expensive than Mountain View? They could also move to a different european city, wages are low everywhere in Europe. Ironically, the largest engineering site of Google in Europe is Zurich, where emp
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
> This is only true for companies where minimizing the cost is the best (sometimes only) strategy to increase profits. Tata, EDS, Accenture, and the many IT body shops are all in this camp. It's true for any company. Did we forget a
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
I tried finding a decent remote job as a new grad. I have 4 internships at top companies (Microsoft, Google). I applied to dozens of companies, only got one interview by a NY based company looking for cheap developers in Eastern Europe. I g
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
Does anyone have any tips for learning Scala? I want to learn the language, it looks very interesting, and I have some familiarity with Scheme, Haskell and Ocaml, but I just don't know how to start. What should I read? What should I bu
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
That's because the Phd's who can write great code work for Google and Facebook.
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
Yeah, but the super expensive places tend to also have other great stuff apart from great salaries. For example, Donald Knuth lives in Silicon Valley, and I doubt that VC capital is the reason.
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
Care to name a few tech hubs that have a low cost of living?
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
I think tech hubs are intrinsically centralized, because you need to get the best people in the sample place. If you have N tech hubs, then you have no tech hubs. If Europe is to have a real tech hub, it needs to have the best minds in Euro
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
There's an article like this written about 90% of Europe's capitals. There are no tech hubs in cheap places, because smart people move away from low wage, low cost of life places. Libon stands no chance, I would say the only conte
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
> Now I can map those commands to icons in the toolbar, rather than having to page through the history command each time. Why not just create a bash function? Call it setupproj1, write the commands you need in a function ~/.bash_pro
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
And how's that working out for them?
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
How does that compare to local salaries?
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
> Let me know when battery life is within a couple of orders of magnitude of real watches, then maybe I'll revisit. Check out Vector Watch. It's more like a traditional watch that is also smart (it tells you when you got a phon
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
Not even as a contractor? So I would send an invoice and they pay it. I deal with the tax stuff.
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
I've been looking for a remote job lately. Despite having interned at Microsoft and Google, almost nobody seems to be interested, and even if they are, it's for a salary like $30k. I'm in Eastern Europe, but still, that'
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
Google the username.
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
> Weirdly, some of the best programmers I have met are people who go their degree in Music Theory. Odd and really not enough sample size. This is a very common experience, and I think it's a form of selection bias. If you look aroun

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