Zklozenblarg

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   by Zklozenblarg 13y ago

   This doesn't translate well to Dutch academia, where Stapel was working. Private funding is an irrelevant percentage of their income, and each school, prestigious or not, gets the exact same amount of money per student. The man had a tenure
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   by Zklozenblarg 13y ago

   Good God, no. Some of IBM's contributions to Java: - the EJB1.0 spec - the Webservices 1.0 spec - Websphere - the incompatible IBM JDK We're still trying to recover from the damage IBM has done. IBM, go away. In an ideal world, the Apache f
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   by Zklozenblarg 14y ago

   You're comparing a consultancy rate (of which you'll be lucky to pocket 20%) in Ams with a salary in SF.
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   by Zklozenblarg 14y ago

   You should reexamine your payslip. The highest tax bracket may be roughly 50%, but none of your income is actually in that bracket. You probably get to keep about 65% of your income, which is still less than you would get to keep in Califor
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   by Zklozenblarg 14y ago

   I can tell you from experience: the cost of living in Amsterdam is quite significantly higher than in SF, and that's not even taking the far higher income tax into consideration. It's not surprising that you all are so worried about H1-B im
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   by Zklozenblarg 14y ago

   I do about the same work as you do, with the same degree and 10+ years of experience, but make less than half of what you're making. Here in Western Europe, my wage is above the median for this line of work, and the cost of living here is (