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by cplanas 5y ago
ES -> DK -> US For me it's a mixed bag, and we will be probably moving back to Europe next year, after spending 6 years in between San Francisco and New York. On the positive side, money. Software engineers make much, much more i
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by cplanas 5y ago
If I remember correctly, the majority of H-1B holders (around 2 thirds) are Indians. Adding Chinese, it gets up to 80%. PD: I just checked the numbers. I found this: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/d
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by cplanas 5y ago
In some European countries, like Denmark, students get a salary.
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by cplanas 5y ago
I lived in DK, and as shocking as it sounds, it's true. Just a nitpick: the law is not exactly against "non-white" people, but about "non-Western". African-Americans would count as Western, Russians would not. But i
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by cplanas 6y ago
Beyond this experience with that financial institution, was it hard to get a job after your travels?
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by cplanas 6y ago
Not directly, but they will facilitate using more performant paradigms.
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by cplanas 6y ago
> MRI Ruby was slow and problematic. Why problematic? On the slowness, I would agree that Ruby is slower than many languages, but as an interpreted language this is -up to a certain point- by design, or at least an accepted part of the t
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by cplanas 6y ago
> It sounds more like some regulatory capture has happened which is keeping prices artificially high This. Not sure if it's a system bug, or a feature: the system may have been designed for this to happen.
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by cplanas 6y ago
In my company, "team lead" is definitely a management role: an entry-level one, but still management. For technical tie-breaking we have a different position, "tech lead".
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by cplanas 6y ago
The current trend may not be an aberration, but it should be feared.
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by cplanas 6y ago
Or Shopify. Or Zendesk. Or GitHub.
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by cplanas 6y ago
Is it, though? Most of adults are "forced to be around peers" (offices), and yet, they still struggle to make friendships.
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by cplanas 6y ago
No. As far as I know, exceptional ability is really exceptional. Being a very senior engineer in, say, Google Zurich doesn't really qualify. For an O-1 you need to have received nationally/internationally recognized prizes; publ
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by cplanas 6y ago
> There's also a talent gap. From my experience, a lot of tech workers in Vancouver simply couldn't meet the bar for the stricter US immigration. Really? It doesn't seem to be this way to me. The academic requirements are,
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Factorial raises $16M to take on the HR world with a platform for SMBs(techcrunch.com)
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by cplanas 7y ago
The most famous "cheap" European airline, RyanAir, is substantially worse than Norwegian. And personally I find Norwegian better than WizzAir, easyJet or Vueling.
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by cplanas 7y ago
Really? In my experience, they were the best "cheap" airline, by far. Their airplanes were pretty comfortable, compared to United, Alaska, or Spirit, to name a few.
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by cplanas 7y ago
I don't know about severity, but Norway is the European country with the highest infection ratio, after Italy and tiny Iceland. As of today: - Italy: 1 case per 3.996 inhabitants - Iceland: 1/4.285 - Norway: 1/6.710 - Denmark
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by cplanas 7y ago
I am astonished by the comments I am reading here. One commenter suggests that Spanish newspapers are not viable because of "low literacy rates". Another assumes that newspapers in Spanish are directed to immigrants. I knew that t
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by cplanas 8y ago
Uh? What? As a citizen of the EU, I would be extremely disturbed if the EU cared much about non-EU countries. The EU should care as much about Russia and (soon) the UK as the USA cares about Canada and Mexico.
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by cplanas 8y ago
Zendesk | Senior Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | Onsite Come join us at Zendesk! Founded in 2007, we have revolutionized the way organizations support their customers. We currently employ 2000 people all over the world,
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by cplanas 9y ago
I know: that's why I wrote "for different reasons". I understand that in the case of Kon it feels more unfair, as he had a great career before his death; of his 4 movies, 3 are typically considered great/masterpieces. Ko
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by cplanas 9y ago
Oh, wow. How did you manage to interview Hideaki Anno? Despite the fact that his best works are anime TV series, I always thought Anno was one of the best filmmakers alive. His works in the 90s are absolutely amazing, particularly Evangeli
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by cplanas 9y ago
As a European, I disagree. I spent most of my time playing videogames, and my childhood was during the 90s. Maybe because I was city kid.
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by cplanas 9y ago
No doubt about that, but which is the reason to make a lottery out of it? "An engineer with Harvard education making 150k against an engineer from a lesser university abroad making 60k. Mmmm... impossible to decide. Let's flip a c
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by cplanas 9y ago
> [eliminating the lottery] I imagine that would be politically unpopular. Why? I'm in the US with a work visa and the idea of having a lottery to decide who is allowed to work in the US is absolutely insane for me. It just does not
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by cplanas 9y ago
Restaurants closed at 2PM? That's when most of Spaniards start having lunch...
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by cplanas 9y ago
Nobody wants to. In fact, doing no lunch break is considered a privilege. Nobody wants to work from 9AM to 8PM, even if you have three break hours at lunch. That's time you lose for being with family, friends...
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by cplanas 9y ago
No. If it's good enough for companies like Zendesk or Shopify, is probably good enough for you. And if your "web" somehow gets to the point in which Ruby/RoR can't make it scale, congratulations for becoming the nex
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by cplanas 10y ago
> A thing I noticed when I was away is how stupid and mundane Danish everyday local politics look That's... surprising. I lived a few years in Denmark, and what characterized the country for me was the extreme anti-immigrant tone of

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