alex-yo

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by alex-yo 10y ago
Yea, funny. I'm looking for a job now. The most funny thing is that I get no counter-offer. I always here (or rather read) "yes, we are impressed by your experience, it is really great, but you know, you wanted too much, we have l
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by alex-yo 10y ago
Or rather "The Disaster That Is Bitcoin Services Around Bitcoin". I'm wondering if there would be the same kind of article that dollars is very bad, because bank wants some money for wireing them e.g. to Europe, and the excha
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by alex-yo 10y ago
Yea. I really don't understand why "marketing" here means "hey, look how much I earn, I must be really cool". Money likes silence.
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Lack of communication when looking for a job
2 points by alex-yo 10y ago|1 comments
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by alex-yo 10y ago
Yep, anonymity is funny. I'm not sure about the recordings, and presentations are not in English, and are made as a background for talking, so reading them would be useless.
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by alex-yo 10y ago
Good point, thank you.
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by alex-yo 10y ago
Don't worry too much. You answers will be modified. Questions will be changed or blocked (so no one will be allowed to answer). Just because those people "who love answering questions" will know better. They even know if your
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by alex-yo 10y ago
There is no shortage of remote job boards and job aggregators That's true, there is just a shortage of the job offers. I'm looking for a remote job now. All the job boards have between 2 to 5 job offers per day. To each of them
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by alex-yo 10y ago
During one of my interviews, a couple of years ago, I heard something like "Oh, you're over 30, and you were not a manager yet? Look, I have lots of CVs of people at your age, who are managers. If you are not, then it seems like y
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by alex-yo 10y ago
Well, a funny thing, I'm not old, I'm just 37. In my country I need to work for the next 30 years to retire. However companies don't want to talk with me about getting a job regardless my 14 year of commercial experience. Som
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by alex-yo 10y ago
You don't have to use it. Really. I'm sure. I hope you feel better now :)
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by alex-yo 10y ago
Yey, looks like people just watch presentations, not read it, that's why here is 1 comment about the content, 15 about how the presentation looks like :)
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by alex-yo 10y ago
I wouldn't call it 'traps'. I would call it 'read and understand documentation before writing code' like: what is 'is' operator, or how floats behave in EVERY programming language, or why you should saniti
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by alex-yo 10y ago
Location: Poland, Europe (CET+1/2) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: 15 years of full stack experience (programming, administering, DBA, organizing trainings, integrating different things using plenty of languages at
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by alex-yo 10y ago
My kid is terribly sick, I had to cancel all trips this year, and maybe the next one too.
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by alex-yo 10y ago
Thanks, that's quite a nice list.
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by alex-yo 10y ago
Hi, thanks for the reply. I'm outside USA, and the tax thing is simple: I send you an invoice, you send me money. Nothing more, nothing less. No insurance problems, or different law issues. As for the conferences, I attended some, I wa
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How hard is that to find a fully remote job?
24 points by alex-yo 10y ago|15 comments
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by alex-yo 10y ago
Heh, I recall when a funny manager asked my team about an estimation. We agreed on a year (exactly something like 12-14 months). Then he went to his managers, sold the project with 6 months deadline, and was quite happy. The outcome was sim