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by arnvald 5y ago
This. You can recognize the agile cult members by how they respond to failed projects. No matter why they project failed they always say "we need to be more agile next time".
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by arnvald 5y ago
I worked for a company where we hosted some stuff in China (on Alibaba Cloud) and we had to register there and get an ICP number (it stands for Internet Content Provider). It's obligatory to display it somewhere on the page. Looking at
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by arnvald 5y ago
Both are problems - Microsoft monopolizes development experience, Google monopolizes other areas like private info (they know what you search for, what videos you watch, what restaurants you go to, probably even where you fly)
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by arnvald 5y ago
Huh, so there we are again: * you write code in VSCode (developed by Microsoft) * using Codespaces (created by Microsoft) * in TypeScript (developed by Microsoft) * downloading libraries from NPM (owned by Microsoft) * pushing your code to
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by arnvald 5y ago
I've worked as EM for a number of companies, and even though I'm quite experienced in this position, joining a new company as EM is always quite overwhelming - it would be even more difficult if it was my first time in this role.
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The Power of Reduce(notonlycode.org)
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by arnvald 5y ago
> it does not needs to be necessarily any product owner fault I totally agree! I think they're often in difficult situation, I've seen product managers with different priorities coming from various stakeholders. It's often
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by arnvald 5y ago
Virtually every product manager or product owner I worked with had this problem. There were multiple goals and all of them were "euqally important". I started to explain that it's about risk management - the things we pick up
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by arnvald 5y ago
I do (though this is anecdotal data, nothing I dug into). I have some LinkedIn job searches saved for Amsterdam, NL and I started noticing jobs from companies like Twitter, Github or Stripe where now they allow working remotely from EU cou
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by arnvald 5y ago
I live in EU and there are a few things that have changed: - tons of remote offers, even with technologies like Java where in the past very few offers were remote - salaries significantly up compared to 1-2y ago (getting 90-100k eur for a r
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by arnvald 5y ago
If the victim doesn't pay the first time, they suffer consequences and next time might decide to pay instead.
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by arnvald 5y ago
It's definitely unhealthy and unsustainable, I agree with you. Doing it for a longer period of time must have some long-term negative effects on one's body. There's something on the other side, though - when I was in my early
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by arnvald 5y ago
Oh, that's interesting. What convinced you to switch? Not having to host it yourself or some specific features?
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by arnvald 5y ago
For the "classic" grocery delivery, where you order once every 1-2 weeks to get all ingredients you need, I totally agree. Recently in larger cities in EU there's been a sudden rise of "10 minutes delivery"-style ap
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by arnvald 5y ago
> Google added flights, but Booking Holdings (aka Priceline) continued to grow each year OTAs keep growing, because travel in general keeps growing. But Google takes more and more space there. Right now the "book now" button on
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by arnvald 5y ago
How do you do that with Node: do you ship Node binary and all packages together with each app in one tar file? Or do you manage Node versions on the server that runs the apps?
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by arnvald 5y ago
There was a similar situation in the Netherlands. Normally stamp tax is 2%, but for a few months this year it was 0% for people buying their first apartment. Today I talked to agent that helped me buy my place and I asked him whether the pr
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by arnvald 5y ago
This is not limited to cities and Airbnb, but it's a general trend that pushes cities and countries to figure out sustainability of tourism. There are other examples like islands where the tourist attractions were destroyed because of
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by arnvald 5y ago
> Just admit that you don't want to share your neighborhood with tourists. I do not mind sharing neighborhood with tourists. I'm happy to have a hotel across the street, in fact I had 2 hotels within 50m of my last place and I
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by arnvald 6y ago
I did it back in 2014. I was kind of burned out, I decided to quit, I bought a ticket to New Zealand (going from EU), booked a bed in hostel for 2 nights and thought I'd figure out the rest on the way. It was an amazing experience, I s
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by arnvald 6y ago
Switzerland has the highest salaries in whole Europe. It's easy to dismiss 50k as peanuts living there, but look around - Italy, Spain, Czech Republic, salaries there are not that high and 50k might be a standard for someone with ~5y
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by arnvald 6y ago
For around a year I lived next to a highway, which was one of the worst rental decisions I've made in my life. There was a constant stream of noise, but with the cars it wasn't a big problem, because it was the same volume all the
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by arnvald 6y ago
I guess it's been somewhere in their backlog with "impact: medium, urgency: low" for ages, so it never got to the top of the list and never got done. I'm also quite sure it's got updated to "urgency: high"
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by arnvald 6y ago
I think it works very well in Elixir which is also dynamically typed. It was there since the beginning though and it's more than just a "match/case" construct, it's built deep into the core of the language, so maybe
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by arnvald 6y ago
EclecticIQ | multiple positions | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | ONSITE (WFH) | VISA We are looking for Senior Software developers with solid Python experience as well as for a lead QA engineer Our mission is to provide defenders with the bes
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by arnvald 6y ago
Not sure if you've seen their handbook? Search for "valve handbook" - it's an internal thing, but someone leaked it a few years ago and now it can be easily found, it explains their culture very well.
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by arnvald 6y ago
Are there any more examples like that? I think that possibly Valve is an exception rather than a prediction for the future - they're obviously an incredibly successful company, but I haven't heard about other large companies with
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by arnvald 6y ago
> especially if these traits are outside of your area of interview/expertise I think determining whether the candidate is kind of a person that I would like to work with in one team should be everyone's area of interview
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by arnvald 6y ago
> The reason meritocracies work so well, is not because they are fair, but because they produce peak performance. This is short-sighted. It optimizes for the "local maximum", the "today's maximum". Yes, if today
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We moved to async stand-up and never looked back(notonlycode.org)
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