askonomm

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by askonomm 5y ago
Yup, remote worker not employee. That being said, I'm officially a contractor, but I always work for just one client at a time and usually for many years, from Monday to Friday, just like one would with a regular job, except of course
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by askonomm 5y ago
I just realized how spoiled us dev folk are. If only my grandmother would know the cushy life I get to live while still complaining about it she would slap me.
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by askonomm 5y ago
Co-working?
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by askonomm 5y ago
I think a common solution to this is that if you want to be a remote worker with a worldwide employment pool, you need to set-up an entity from under which to invoice, whether that would be freelancing or having an LLC, and then you take ca
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by askonomm 5y ago
I don't think so. Software engineering, and by extension, software engineers became a thing in the 60's. Margaret Hamilton coined the term ~'63.
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by askonomm 5y ago
And via Deno as well.
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by askonomm 5y ago
There's plenty of us professional devs out there who never went to uni, so is leetcode designed to eliminate us? And since we didn't go to uni, we learnt what we actually needed for whatever job we happened to do, which (surprise,
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by askonomm 5y ago
I don't think that's how the world works. Just because you hate Apple, doesn't make it any different. I have a friend who runs a B2B sales company, by selling things like pencils and cups with logos on them, and he frequently
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by askonomm 5y ago
You mean Foxconn, right? As per my understanding this is not Apple's factory, simply just a factory that makes Apple products.
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by askonomm 5y ago
I also lost the access to my wallet. Is there an office I can show up at with my identification and get a new one?
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by askonomm 5y ago
Found the person who wants to complicate their family members lives rather than help them have an easier time. I can, of course, install a shell-only Linux on my mom's computer as well, but I don't hate my mom.
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by askonomm 5y ago
I've not yet had a problem finding a Clojure job, if you know where to look (Clojurians Slack for example). There's not a lot of competition for roles, so getting to an interview stage is relatively easy, and because there's
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by askonomm 5y ago
Because system fonts are pretty horrible for readability.
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by askonomm 5y ago
Not everyone became a developer through CS classes. I'm self-learned, mostly learned what I needed at the job to do that job. I don't think in 10 years I've ever needed to write a sorting algorithm since, well, that's bu
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by askonomm 5y ago
Open source work has helped me a ton. I'm active in the Clojure community and create open-source projects, as well as collaborate with other Clojurians every now and then, which builds credibility. My Github and references is 90% of my
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by askonomm 5y ago
You may call functional programmers who prefer immutable data structures lazy because we want to actually understand what we create, but I don't see how the 10 billion layers of abstractions and state duplications somehow end up making
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by askonomm 5y ago
Been a contractor for around 3 years now working remotely for start-ups and it's the best thing ever. No bullshit algo/whiteboard interviews, no having to lie about believing in the company "mission", much more flexibili
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by askonomm 5y ago
Oh yeah! I work for a Swedish company and live in South America. Just for some perspective, I make quite a few times _more_ than the president where I live. Albeit this all comes at a cost of some things like lacking tech advancements and l
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by askonomm 5y ago
For sure! I was merely saying that it's not a unicorn, it _can_ actually be achieved with high probability and lots of effort, as opposed to being flat out impossible for the minimum wage workers, for example.
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by askonomm 5y ago
I feel like as a software engineer, in most of the western world, if you actually save money (and invest!), and don't make stupid financial decisions, you can probably retire by 50.
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by askonomm 5y ago
First of the digital certificate is a joke, since it can't actually be obtained via the Mi Argentina app, where it fails to show up. When contacting the government, they will tell you that they are working on that (?). But what I meant
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by askonomm 5y ago
I find the whole covid thing a nightmare. I got vaccinated (2 shots) in Argentina, and since Argentina doesn't have the concept of vaccine proof, as far as EU is concerned, I'm unvaccinated. So when I go to EU I can't do half
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by askonomm 5y ago
I'm buying the crypto with foreign currency, e.g USD or EUR. For example, since I have a U.S company, I effectively make dollars with my work, but to be able to live here I need pesos. And the same would be the case if you work for one
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by askonomm 5y ago
I don't have any data points, but my own social circle, of which the majority uses Binance to buy crypto and uses Binance P2P to sell it to ARS (Peso). And since the transfer will be reflected on your bank balance as some regular perso
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by askonomm 5y ago
Not sure about OP, but I live in Argentina, and there is no Apple Pay, Stripe, or Cash App here either. Not in most of the Latin American countries, actually. I had to make a U.S Wyoming company in order to be able to use Stripe. And Latin
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by askonomm 5y ago
I think of blogging more as a way to illustrate to my potential future employers how I think, and approach solving problems. Consequently, it also helps me get better at articulating problems and talking about things in a clear and concise
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by askonomm 5y ago
So your response to the haters is to be a hater yourself? Why can't we just get along?
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How I Created a Markdown Parser(bien.ee)
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by askonomm 5y ago
And yet again I have no idea why people don't leave to EU or Canada where there are actual human rights. I understand it is your homeland, but your homeland is treating you like it's still the middle ages.
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by askonomm 5y ago
I like to think of DSL's for regex as a good way for people who don't have time to master regex itself, or are beginners, to actually use regex. Been doing programming for about 10 years and only fairly recently took the time to p

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