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by fooblat 8y ago
Within the big cities (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague) people are very tolerant and life is good. No matter your skin color, to fully integrate you do need to learn some Dutch. That being said, there are lots of expats living here and many
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by fooblat 8y ago
Sr Software Eng, react + node, some legacy php.
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by fooblat 8y ago
I run an engineering team in Amsterdam and we mostly hire foreigners. The reason is simple, there are way more jobs than qualified people here.
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by fooblat 8y ago
If you are in a position to relocate, I would consider looking in cities like Berlin, London, Amsterdam, and Dublin. The job market for software engineers in Europe is really hot and most companies will pay for relocation of senior engineer
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by fooblat 8y ago
I would consider something like the BBC MicroBit[0] or Calliope Mini[1]. Similar to an Arduino but much more accessible for first time coders. And, as many have mentioned, the Raspberry Pi series. 0. https://microbit.org/ 1
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by fooblat 8y ago
Pretty much every sentence in this article that uses the world "first" is wrong. Community Memory[0] is arguably the first social network and it was launched in 1973. For more information and depth on the origins of tcp/ip an
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by fooblat 8y ago
How so? If I need a new VM I just click (or make an api call) and it's almost instantly ready to go. If I want a new physical server I have to order it and get it delivered to my cage and then have someone rack and wire it before I can
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by fooblat 8y ago
In my experience, adding more VMs when capacity is needed is trivial to automate on a platform like AWS. With real physical machines it takes advanced planning and actual physical work to deploy more machines. Even with a managed hosting pr
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by fooblat 8y ago
I don't disagree with your statement but I would have expected an article with "bare metal" in the title to cover some of the unique issues associated with bare metal. Like measuring, planning, and managing capacity.
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by fooblat 8y ago
The text looks very nice on my rMBP on the built-in display and absolutely terrible on my attached 2k display.
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by fooblat 8y ago
This. Building a "CDN" on top of an existing network is not building a CDN. Nice project to learn some parts of CDN management software tho.
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by fooblat 8y ago
I have only recently learned about isomorphic keyboards and I am indeed curious to try one.
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by fooblat 8y ago
The key to this for me is having the keyboard as close to my lap as possible. The effort to hover seems to go up with the height of the keyboard relative to my thighs.
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by fooblat 8y ago
As a full time developer who used to suffer terrible RSI pain, I solved the problem without changing keyboard layouts. After consulting with my doctor and an ergonomics expert, I realized my problems were cause by the setup of my workstatio