dmontero

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by dmontero 1y ago
Planet money episode Waste Land ( https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/912150085/waste-land ) was also quite informative: plastic recycling was never a possibility. It was simply a marketing tool for the industr
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by dmontero 4y ago
I guess your comment is provocative intentionally. There are many countries in the world where - thankfully- certain public schools/universities are more prestigious than private ones (it comes to mind Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Fra
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by dmontero 5y ago
Outdoor group sports wasn't really forbidden in many countries, or just for a small period of time. It wasn't my goal to alienate anybody. On the contrary I was trying to highlight the advantages of group sports.
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by dmontero 5y ago
What is so bad about just going out and doing sports with people and having real contact? I guess that everyone is different. In my case I really enjoy participating in HIT workouts with people; the group competition drives me to push mysel
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by dmontero 5y ago
Coming from Scala and Kotlin I don't find working with Ruby extremely productive. The IDEs have partial autocompletion but obviously not as good as with compiled languages. Same for finding where a method is used or how to refactor cod
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by dmontero 5y ago
We are too often caught up in the inertia of our life, telling ourselves lies like 'the future will be better', 'just a little more', 'what are they gonna think about me if...', 'this salary raise is very
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by dmontero 6y ago
I can also say by having lived there that it is the same for Germany, Switzerland, Spain and Italy. There will always be an exception to the norm, but it is clear that Whatsapp is the number one tool for instant messaging/calling.
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by dmontero 7y ago
I was working for a small startup. Since they did not have many developers, each of us were quite key to their product. Knowing that, I could convince them to work remotely every now and then.
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by dmontero 7y ago
It manifested by having difficulties to work without interruptions. I got easily distracted with anything and found myself procrastinating more often. That's rare on me, since I usually can work in a flow mode for long periods of time.
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by dmontero 7y ago
As far as I understand, you can convert Markdeep to static HTML using rasterizer: https://github.com/romainguy/markdeep-rasterizer
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by dmontero 7y ago
In my previous job in Germany I could work remotely as much as I wanted. I would usually work from Spain, since is where I come from. It was close to ideal: having lunch in 30min and spending the other 30min at the pool or going for a short
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by dmontero 7y ago
Visa sponsorship is provided and related administration work with the Swiss administration is facilitated. The acquisition of an accommodation has to be done by the applicant, even though we can offer some guidance.
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The sad truth about our boldest climate target(vox.com)
28 points by dmontero 7y ago|13 comments
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by dmontero 7y ago
There are some US citizens working at BBP. In fact, inside our section we have two people who were previously working in the US. Even though the process to bring somebody to work in Switzerland is more tedious than for EU citizens, it is du
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by dmontero 7y ago
Blue Brain Project (EPFL) | Scala Software Engineer | Geneva, Switzerland | ONSITE | Full-Time | https://portal.bluebrain.epfl.ch/ You would join a young and multidisciplinary team to build an Open Source data management pl
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by dmontero 7y ago
Our mind likes plausible stories. It helps to make sense of the past and to have the -incorrect- perception that one can predict the future. That's why fictions are so powerful. We easily get caught by them. If people beliefs were pure