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by biztos 4y ago
Well sort-of. They have to give two months' written notice, and they did, and I was very lucky to catch it in time as I'd been traveling and they had of course not bothered to send me an e-mail nor call any of the three numbers t
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by biztos 4y ago
I discovered recently that my bank (in Germany) can cancel my account without cause. My best guess is they were purging the books of Americans, they refused to tell me the reason, but my takeaway is that if this can happen in the consumer-
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by biztos 4y ago
You are a mind capable of bridging space and time, but have only three years of experience, and don’t have a job at FAANG already, and will value 0.5% of common stock as fifty percent of your total compensation. Because your code is bullet
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by biztos 4y ago
I’m also 50+ and I wonder how reliable it is to just “present younger” (which I do) because the hiring manager may be the gatekeeper of prejudice, and s/he knows your age. Is it really the “culture fit” i.e. do people feel like you’re
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by biztos 4y ago
A lot of the cloud stuff can be offloaded to cloud providers. It’s pretty common for apps to let you choose between local storage, iCloud, Dropbox, et al. And for compute, well, the software runs on computers? If you need more server side
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by biztos 4y ago
Even Wenderlich started small! I’m backing someone on Patreon who has maybe a dozen videos out, but it’s a hard subject and I’m determined to learn it and she releases about one new video a week. The production quality isn’t very high but
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by biztos 4y ago
I don’t see what’s SAAS about a content subscription but yes, I prefer that. Reason being that I’m often unsure how deep I want to go in a subject, so putting up say $20/mo gives me the option of only spending $20 if during the first m
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by biztos 4y ago
> it got annoying to deal with, we fixed it Well, you published a standard for it, but as long as the new words use Teletubby speak to try and prevent people from using them, since nobody is going to say “gibibibitibi” out loud on purpos
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by biztos 4y ago
For many of us a kilobyte will always be 1024 bytes despite the newfangled fashion for “kibi” this and “gibi” that. Fortunately the people who adhere to the “ibi” cult are usually sticklers for compliant capitalization, so when I see “kB” I
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by biztos 4y ago
I'm a huge admirer of TikTok and love to use it -- once a week only! -- but I sort of agree with the US government that it's crazy to give that much of (mostly) your youth's attention to an adversary. However I find it baffli
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by biztos 4y ago
Was it? In 1995 I was shocked to discover what the “computer guys” were getting paid, and decided I ought to be writing code (etc) as my official job instead of just the thing I do within my other job.
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by biztos 4y ago
Don’t you still have to correctly estimate the amount of work (time) to complete each task in your backlog? You can apply all the “science” you want, but at the bottom of it all you have engineers holding up a card with a “4” on it when the
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by biztos 4y ago
If you just want something "unlike JS" it should be pretty easy to figure out which languages are in demand and pick the one (or two) that most appeal to you. If you're particularly into obscure languages, I suggest getting i
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by biztos 4y ago
Well certainly not all but that strategy, if you can pull it off, will probably get you a very high-paying job and maybe you won't have to work so hard. But that's not at all what the OP asked for. Maybe they're already ma
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by biztos 4y ago
Maybe it's counterintuitive, but I think the "jack of all trades" role should be given to someone who's very senior, but isn't focused on career advancement. It sounds like you got stuck learning more trivial things
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by biztos 4y ago
I wasn't aware the digital camera wars had ended -- somebody better tell Canon -- but "advertising to developers" sure sounds like what Blackmagic does: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/developer/
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by biztos 4y ago
Larger houses; popular tourist destinations; and America. Any two of these things can get you over 3K/week pretty quickly, all three pretty much guarantees it. I have a friend with a gorgeous six-bedroom that he fills for $7800 per we
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by biztos 4y ago
WizzAir[0] is the cheap Hungarian carrier and offers tons of flights out of Budapest all over Europe. Since the flag carrier, Malév[1], went bust -- in no small part due to the machinations of Wizz -- it's also the only airline with a
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by biztos 4y ago
So Scotland pays about £3000 per person per year for all health care? That's slightly more than my deductible in Germany, and about half what I pay for private insurance for one person. Seems like Prime Health Care could be a good busi
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by biztos 4y ago
In Germany the agent’s commission — IIRC about 7% — is paid by the buyer, and is in addition to the cost of the property. In Hungary the amount varies a lot, but it’s paid by the seller so not the buyer’s problem. Because of this, you alway
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by biztos 4y ago
So the other men in the pictures are the uncomfortable ones?
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by biztos 4y ago
Would it not be possible to spin off “iPhone Europe PLC” which is worth less than the threshold? If it were truly independent then Apple’s “global market cap” would be irrelevant, and Cupertino could collect via IP licensing in Luxembourg t
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by biztos 4y ago
For obvious reasons most comments are about how this affects Apple, but doesn’t it also mean I will be able to develop apps for Kindle, and those apps will be able to use the built-in mobile data on the same terms as Amazon?
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by biztos 4y ago
This is presumably unrelated to the Bear writing app: https://bear.app/ I have mixed feelings about generic names like this, but naming a blogging service “Bear Blog” when there is a pretty well known Bear app for writing,
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by biztos 4y ago
It’s substantial enough, I could surely think of something costing $850 that I’d rather have than half these, if we take the other half to be “essential.” My point is that it’s super easy to end up with this kind of expense, or much more, w
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by biztos 4y ago
I paid $5/pack for Nat Shermans in SF in 1994/95. IIRC there were super cheap brands for around $2 but they were skanky, Shermans and Dunhills and American Spirits were all around $4-5.
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by biztos 4y ago
I feel like I’m not a big subscriber to stuff, but I have, off the top of my head: - YouTube $10/mo and super worth it - Netflix $15/mo and lately meh - AppleTV $10/mo and meaning to cancel again - AMC $10/mo ditto - App
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by biztos 4y ago
I got the Forth C64 cartridge[0], but my fascination with programming languages was, alas, at that age not yet equal to my — whoa is that a party? Now that I’m less easily distracted I often feel a vast nostalgia for those early-ish days of
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by biztos 4y ago
Show me the IRL crypto party that rivals Art Basel. Speculation is one part of the art market, but at this point I really don’t think it’s as important as status. Plus, some of the art is really good as, you know, Art.
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by biztos 4y ago
Germany. Though I have to admit an ever increasing number of details are getting fuzzy as they fade into the rear-view mirror of my attention. As a foreigner fluent in German, with a very diverse set of German friends, and years of experien

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