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Ask HN: Resignation after offer letter or contract
1 points by danwee 3y ago|2 comments
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by danwee 3y ago
Where one can learn more about this (using books)? For instance, if I would like to learn more about processes and TLBs and context switching, I know I can learn about it from the Tanenbaum's book, from the OSTEP book, from the "d
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by danwee 3y ago
> Removing your information from all databrokers https://easyoptouts.com / incogni / deleteme / optery How ironic. In order to remove my data from the internet, I first need to give my data to that random websi
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by danwee 3y ago
My domain provider used to offer free email as well, but not anymore (now they are charging like $5/month for that). Since I'm using apple devices, I gave iCloud+ a try: so far so good, it's just $1/month for email (with
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by danwee 3y ago
I wouldn't. Not because of the fee (I find that just fine) but because I think I can make a better job finding suitable companies. My approach is usually: - search companies over the web/linkedin - read their websites/social
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by danwee 3y ago
In general, I think the following rule applies to any tech company: 1. Keywords present or CV goes to trash 2. Good intro (2 lines) at the top of CV. Good structure (don't list a "Skills" section just hanging around alone. Pu
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by danwee 3y ago
As others said, companies only care about themselves. Nevertheless, it's not impossible to trick the "tech interview process" and get a decent job these days (I'm not talking about FAANG-style companies). IMHO, you could
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by danwee 3y ago
We are mother nature and mother nature is us. It's all intertwined. An iPhone is as natural as a banana (earth -> tree -> banana, earth -> human -> iphone). The unnatural would be, by definition, impossible.
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by danwee 3y ago
> • In-office work (for all employees) is #1 Why for all employees? Why not just for your team? Or your area? Or your department? E.g., if you are an engineer, why do you care that the marketing team has to be in the office as well? Unle
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by danwee 3y ago
From my perspective (with is not the American one): it feels like for every PTO day you need to convince your team/manager to get that day off. It's like they are making you a favour. Also, I know beforehand that "unlimited&q
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by danwee 3y ago
In order (Western European perspective): - base salary - 100% remote - flexible schedule (I can start to work at 7am/8am/9am/etc.; If I need to do some errands at 2pm, I can just do it) - culture, product and tech stack. A st
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by danwee 3y ago
As long as schools allow to store books in their buildings... I keep seeing (in Europe) kids with school bags full of notebooks and books that easily weight 4-5 KG. That's not healthy. The problem I see is that kids have homework that
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by danwee 3y ago
> You have to pay for icloud for the rest of your life though. Isn't that true for all email providers nowadays? I used to have free email inbox with my domain, but not anymore. The cheapest layer for iCloud+ is $1/month.
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by danwee 3y ago
> Strive for deep technical expertise in technologies used And that alone occupies most of my (working/free) time. Not sure how I'm supposed to keep up with the rest of the list. To know technologies is one thing, to have deep
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Ask HN: Private Company Stock Options
1 points by danwee 3y ago|1 comments
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by danwee 3y ago
Mass layoffs: because some companies did not make good use of investor's money. So now they have to recalibrate their expenses (and the easiest way to do so is by firing people). Labour shortage: some companies did make good use of inv
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by danwee 3y ago
It only lacks support to spin up/down multiple VMs via a simple configuration file (like Vagrant, for instance). If I want to spin up a small lab with N VMs with specific private IPs and the like, UTM is not the most dev-friendly tool.
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by danwee 3y ago
Same here. So far so good, and their Hide my Email feature is very useful.
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by danwee 3y ago
That's not true anymore (from September on).
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by danwee 3y ago
This all read to me like the juggling and tricks software developers had to do back then when there was no operating system available (e.g., handle memory manually). Then OS appeared and we could finally spend our time in other more product
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by danwee 3y ago
Step 1: gain confidence talking about containerization. Perhaps come up with a personal project that uses Docker and the public cloud. This should take you around 1-2 months top. Step 2: Put "Docker, AWS/GCP" in your resume i
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by danwee 3y ago
Be aware. Gandi is changing that https://www.gandi.net/en/domain/email . It's not free anymore. Right now I own a few domains with Gandi, but I use iCloud+ for emails.
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by danwee 3y ago
iCloud+ is $0.99/month and you have the possibility to setup custom email domains. I setup my custom email domain (the domain is hosted on Gandi) like a month ago, it was straightforward. Also, the "hide my email" feature is
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by danwee 3y ago
Haven't noticed any significant change to be honest (Western Europe). I switched jobs a bit over a year ago and now I'm interviewing for another company (mainly because of the salary increase). So far, so good. Let's see how
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by danwee 3y ago
> Otherwise, you are mostly just coming for economic reasons, and countries don't need that. You sure about that? For example, there's nothing better for a country like Germany to have an inmigrant who has: - got a bacherlo&#x2
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by danwee 3y ago
At least from my experience, the biggest issue is finding a decent place to live. With this I mean: - if you don't speak German, then chances are you want to live in the big cities (Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt, Cologne,...) wher
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by danwee 3y ago
3.4. The Procrastinator 3.5. The Lone Wolf 3.6. The Negative Nancy 3.7. The Over-Promiser 3.8. The Know-It-All 3.9. The Silent Type 3.10. The Perfectionist 3.11. The Unreliable One 3.12. The Conflict Instigator 3.13. The Burned-Out Employee
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by danwee 3y ago
> Basically, you can reward good perfomance with relaxed WFH policies So, your less performant engineers would have to go to the office and work with other low performers? Do you think that will improve the situation for them? I bet that
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by danwee 3y ago
Must be something else, don't you think? If there's a company in the world who can just "adjust their model to make it bigger" that's Google. But they haven't done so. Perhaps Google doesn't care.
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by danwee 3y ago
You talk about a "job", a "decent job" and then your "dream job". There's a huge difference among all of them. I don't think I have found my "dream job" yet (and I have being working in the

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