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by dood 9y ago
> people will just not understand why I quit "major search engine" Don't know how you got this idea. No-one will care.
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by dood 9y ago
There are a lot of cities in the world where you could wander around with "developer for hire" written on your T-shirt and get job offers.
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by dood 9y ago
TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopsychosocial_model thanks.
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by dood 9y ago
Check out jobserve.com, 369 developer contracts paying => £500/day posted in the last 7 days, 11 of which paying => £800/day
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by dood 9y ago
> The average developer salary in Germany isn't that much different from the average in the US as a whole. I think you'd be surprised. Can't find a good source now, but last time I checked US average is roughly double Germ
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by dood 9y ago
Ironic that the author didn't just get a decent washer-dryer. They exist, I own one, it wasn't expensive.
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by dood 9y ago
Where do your potential customers hang out?
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by dood 9y ago
So it's a tool which other SaaS' can embed so their users can pay to get video-chat assistance from freelancers?
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by dood 9y ago
I enjoyed the post, but think I would've gotten more out of it if the title was more congruent with the content. I was expecting a lament or postmortem (which hooked me in), but the story was more like an exultation. Congrats on your s
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by dood 9y ago
Interesting read but the title is unnecessarily clickbaity since the conclusion is, "If you are looking for security or reassurance, I do not recommend this line of work" - which everybody knew already. In fact, contrary to the ti
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by dood 9y ago
Without getting into the old and terribly complicated film vs digital argument, I think it's widely agreed that 35mm and 4k are at least in the same ballpark of resolution, and that IMAX exceeds 4k, so I maintain that shooting 4k does
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by dood 9y ago
4k is less resolution than 35mm film, which was used very successfully for most of the history of cinema. Chris Nolan shot Interstellar & his Batman films on 70mm, which exceeds 8k resolution. So I think you're quite wrong about 4k
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by dood 9y ago
What you describe is the most natural, effortless way to use Slack. Conversely the design makes it very cumbersome to compose thoughtful, well-formatted responses. And the more people use the former style, the less value the latter has. So
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by dood 9y ago
It is true that Slack allows multi-line posts and discrete conversations, but both go totally against the grain of the system design. Expecting people to use Slack in a way it wasn't designed for can only result in failure or constan
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by dood 9y ago
You don't have to make a big decision right away, but those are certainly signals that the decision may be made for you in the next few months if you are unlucky. I'd certainly start the usual job-hunting process: updating my CV,
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by dood 9y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14527124
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by dood 9y ago
In the early days, Delicious and Reddit were often talked about as being in the "social bookmarking" space since they both centered around sharing links with other people. Remember Reddit didn't even have comments for a long
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by dood 9y ago
Although it is understandable how someone could make this mistake, mandating redundant reporting is a very bad sign in a startup. It shows the manager does not comprehend the difference between a giant company where such large overheads are
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by dood 9y ago
This will be very familiar to readers of The Systems Bible [1], which expounds in great depth about the above problems and potential mitigation strategies. The basic takeaway is that these behaviours and forces are natural, intrinsic and in
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by dood 9y ago
I'm interested in getting this, but am concerned that it is much less battle-tested than PRK. I'm currently leaning toward PRK since it is so tried-and-tested.
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by dood 10y ago
Amazon always reinvests most of their profits into growth, so the PE ratio is somewhat irrelevant, or at best misleading. Edit on downvotes: this is not a controversial opinion, see this respected analysis from 2014: http://ben-e
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by dood 10y ago
Sorry my comment was unclear, I mostly agree with you. In a negotiation the only thing that matters is how much the company values your labour, and how much of that value you can capture. Figuring this out is the hard part.
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by dood 10y ago
As developers we are highly in demand right now so don't have to be overly clever in negotiation. I use a simple and foolproof strategy when asked for my current or expected compensation: "sorry I'm not willing to disclose my
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by dood 10y ago
I haven't seen any evidence, even anecdotal, that you can _damage_ yourself from too much meditation, in a way analogous to an elite athlete. Bad technique can lead to problems like depersonalization, and people can get something like
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by dood 10y ago
Agreed, the claimed direct correlation between strength of enforcement and strength of substance is reaching too far. But the basic idea that there exist powerful market-forces which incentivize the production and supply of increasingly str
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by dood 10y ago
The point is that prohibition increases the mean or median strength, not the maximum available. One argument I've heard in favour of legalizing cannabis that it would increase the supply of weaker strains, reducing the potential harm t
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by dood 10y ago
IIRC Lynch did not have final cut on Dune, and was so bitter about it he never made a film he wasn't contractually allowed to edit himself again. If you look at the deleted scenes, they show Lynch was going for a very different tone to
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by dood 10y ago
Being around people who know things I don't. My first job I was the only developer (until I got to hire a junior), and learned a lot by trial and error. But I quickly made a massive leap forward when I moved to a team of a dozen develo
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by dood 10y ago
I managed to fix my night-owl schedule - but it took me years . It was similar to giving up smoking, the first couple of weeks are very easy to relapse, after that it slowly gets better - but you are always at risk of slipping back into ba
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by dood 10y ago
With a headline like this I just go straight to the comments, vast majority of the time the signal-to-ratio is far better.

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