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by donkeyd 9y ago
Market rate in Amsterdam is pretty low compared to the US salaries you see all over the internet. According to Glassdoor for example the average salaries for Software Engineer are: - US: $103k - NL: €45k For somebody who's moving halfw
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by donkeyd 9y ago
I recently tried to browse Groupon to see whether they had any interesting deals. After opening a couple of deals in new tabs, the site became completely unresponsive and every page that I opened to ages to load. I noticed that uBlock was b
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by donkeyd 9y ago
I consider myself a self-taught professional developer, since it's become the job that pays my bills, but I've never had any formal education on the subject. I regularly find out things like this, because I haven't been educa
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by donkeyd 9y ago
I feel like not adding affiliate links is a missed opportunity. The guides section would be the perfect place to recommend a paper cutter, envelopes and paper and link to Amazon. The income probably won't be very big, but people who pr
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by donkeyd 9y ago
I don't think so, these groups exist, you're just assuming I'm talking about the parties. But the weird thing in the US is that Democrat and Republican are becoming more and more an identity instead of a political representat
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by donkeyd 9y ago
You are correct, damages, not a fine, I used the wrong word. Also, while I agree that they don't have to follow the law, they usually do. In the end, the 'judgement' is still based on the law and legal precedent, like in an a
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by donkeyd 9y ago
It's because the US is slightly messed up in the sense that there's a group of people people who say that they care about "free market" and "less government spending and regulations". At the same time, these pe
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by donkeyd 9y ago
Exactly. The "they didn't force me to comply" defence hardly ever holds. In the Netherlands, somebody was recently fined for using an image she got from a "free photo's" website. It was a picture that was illeg
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by donkeyd 9y ago
That's actually some pretty cool technology! I don't like what it's being used for, but I like that it exists.
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by donkeyd 9y ago
> cutting out bureaucracy and office politics Not trying to demotivate you, but that's just not gonna happen. I'm a developer who works on 'consultancy' basis. I've worked in multiple organizations and all of the
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by donkeyd 9y ago
I think the term 'digital native' is too disambiguous. There's two things that could be considered being a digital native; one is technical, the other is more functional. On the technical side, I completely agree with this ar
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by donkeyd 9y ago
True, was thinking about this last week, if these companies were to try and cash out, BTC would have a flash crash.
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by donkeyd 9y ago
IMHO, ICOs seem to have much less due dilligence going on than IPOs and prey on the uninformed that hope to invest in the next Bitcoin. If anything they're even more of a confirmation that money is invested in products without any real
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by donkeyd 9y ago
Since this article is getting upvoted; I'd love to hear what HN'ers in SV think about this. I'm located in the Netherlands far away from it all, and to me this article cofirms exactly what it looks like from the outside. Thin
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by donkeyd 9y ago
I've run into an issue where switching users causes a crash on my 2016 MBP. Many more people are having this issue, according to the Google. Also, up until the end of 2016, Apple didn't use Skylake processors, so it wouldn't
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by donkeyd 9y ago
That will have the flip side of family members getting extra worried if not marked safe, because Facebook wasn't checked for example.
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by donkeyd 9y ago
I'm glad that this happened in my trial period. I haven't yet spent the time making this a core part of my backup strategy.
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by donkeyd 9y ago
I used to have this title at one of my first jobs. It meant that I emptied the paper bins on Friday afternoon.
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by donkeyd 9y ago
> I fail to see how one could actually live on Mars without sacrificing 30 or more years of lifespan. Maybe they just cant can't, but don't care. Some people could be willing to decrease their lifespan in order to colonize a di
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by donkeyd 10y ago
> When you have a smart device that's smart enough to be too smart to let you freely benefit from it What does this mean?
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by donkeyd 10y ago
I went from being in a 'poor' household to being above average, but not rich by any standards. Luckily, poor in the Netherlands is not the same as poor in the US, also, my parents knew how to handle money quite well, so we managed
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by donkeyd 10y ago
They've joined the Dutch Open Hackathon for the past two years. I don't think the main goal of this is a third party Schiphol app, I think they want to enable people to use their data in different services. For example: A Hotel ap
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by donkeyd 10y ago
In Dutch, 'API's' is correct. This is probably a mistake while translating.
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by donkeyd 10y ago
They didn't say you have to replace it every two years, like a phone. Maybe european washers are better, but I've never seen a ~$400 washer fail within 5 years. You can buy 5 of these washers for the price of a $2000 washer. This
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by donkeyd 10y ago
On a Dutch TV show they calculated that it's better to buy a cheaper washer that breaks down sooner. After it breaks you will buy a new one, which is often more efficient, saving you more money. Also, the quelity in washing results is
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by donkeyd 10y ago
I submitted this, because it's an attack vector I hadn't considered before and it's quite a reality check. I was lucky not to have installed this, because the "New Update" dialog sent me to a url that was blocked by
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GitHub thread about malware being spread through trusted domain(github.com)
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by donkeyd 10y ago
I don't agree, it's not like software engineering is the be-all and end-all of automation. Software engineers usually build something based om some sort of requirement. When the development part is automated, there's still a
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by donkeyd 10y ago
>I think your figure is on the high side and overly alarmist. This is actually my gripe with the Dutch pirate party. They are often very alarmist and exaggerate problems in the same way the parties they oppose do. I wish there was a part
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by donkeyd 10y ago
Either that, or they're not very good at writing fake stories for liberals. They might have different triggers that he's unable to find.

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