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by haspok 4y ago
Easy. Here are the steps to follow: 1. Don't speak any language other than your own, especially not the one spoken in the country you are planning to work in. 2. Get your work and accommodation organized by the same company or person,
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by haspok 4y ago
I read a story on my LinkedIn feed about a lady who had it worse: she relocated to the US with her family a couple months ago on an L1 visa, before being fired from Meta. Because of this, she now has a few months to pack her belongings, bec
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by haspok 4y ago
> I also find that disc brake pads wear much faster than rim brake pads (I'm on my 3rd set this year) This seems to be a user error, because the exact opposite is usually true. Rims are much closer to the ground, and therefore are m
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by haspok 4y ago
Steel framed bicycles from the 80s... Sure, they are reliable, just as older diesel engines are reliable. But they are noisy, heavily polluting, and weak (I mean the diesel engines, of course!). Compare an 80s bike - no matter which discipl
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by haspok 4y ago
Or there is Locus Map (for Android only), another great app from Czechia. I wonder what is going on in that country :) One ability of it that I find awesome is that there is a huge variety of online map sources, for example, in my home coun
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by haspok 4y ago
The fact that C doesn't do anything is actually the right thing for what it was designed for :) It is just an assembler with macros.
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by haspok 4y ago
Nice summary. I think it all boils down to the fact that 99% of projects just don't REALLY need what Erlang has to offer - they don't REALLY need five nines of uptime, hotpatching in production (actually, the requirement is mostly
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by haspok 4y ago
I had an XPS 13 where the coil whine was tied to SSD activity. I actually liked it as I was used to hearing some noise from the old-fashioned hard disk during read/write, and it was easy to tell if something is actually happening while
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by haspok 4y ago
If you are very lucky, you have an option in the BIOS to enable S3 sleep state. If you are moderately lucky, you may not have this _yet_, but you get it with a BIOS update. But even if you have it, Linux might be hit and miss - sometimes it
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by haspok 4y ago
Sleep state S3, where the memory is still powered, but other chips including the CPU are not. This is the classic sleep state. These days we have "modern standby" instead, which keeps all things powered somewhat to allow for a qu
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by haspok 4y ago
Any laptop can be affected by this, it is not related to Lenovo, or Dell, or any manufacturer. It is not even confined to laptops, or computers - for example, I have an old Panasonic plasma TV that has terrible coil whine when displaying br
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by haspok 4y ago
There is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Platform,_Micro_Edition But of course, a 32KB RAM minimum would be too much for some legacy systems. Still, Java is actually far more flexible than most people would think. (
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by haspok 4y ago
Two additions to the many comments saying the 10k rule is bullsh*t: 1. To quote one of my favourite coaches: "Practice doesn't make you perfect. _Perfect practice_ makes you perfect." 2. It can save you enormous amounts of ti
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by haspok 4y ago
But the original statement still stands. Which one do you think is easier: A. Finding a contract 500 per day, or B. finding a job 110k per annum? The latter is a challenge even in London (for a techie), let alone anywhere else, while 500 is
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by haspok 4y ago
I respectfully disagree, when you say contractors = employees. Yes, they tenure may be just as long, but there are many other factors to take into consideration (just off the top of my head): 1. Contractors don't have a "career pa
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by haspok 4y ago
> If we were to write new components in Kotlin, we would be making the problem worse. At this point in time Java is our safe fallback. I don't agree with this. Kotlin is essentially a drop-in replacement for Java, so much so that yo
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by haspok 4y ago
Everyone is aware of this (including FAANG themselves), yet they keep doing it, like some ritual. I would say THAT is the running joke.
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by haspok 4y ago
Sometimes - especially after the IR35 misery - an agent might also come with an umbrella company that will readily employ you for the duration of your contract for a cut. People usually tended to avoid these solutions due to tax inefficienc
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by haspok 4y ago
I consider myself to be one of these product oriented developers (not sure about being 10x though). Interestingly, while interviewing this has always been my bane, as the typical interviewing process goes along the tech stack and tech-relat
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by haspok 4y ago
> all of this work didn't matter Sorry to say this, but sometimes this is just true. As a newbie it is easy to think that a state of no bugs, no open tickets and 100% documentation and test coverage are the most valuable things a de
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by haspok 4y ago
Yeah, in the meantime I did find the word "sublicense" in section "2. Grant of Copyright License" of the original text. Fair enough.
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by haspok 4y ago
Can someone explain how this sudden change of license is even possible (legally)? I mean, what if I contributed to the project back when it was Apache licensed, in good faith that my changes would be freely available (as in free beer)? Now
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by haspok 4y ago
If you want Scala-specific and production grade... hmmm... So there is Loom comig from one side, and effect libraries like cats and zio from the other side... great promises, but would I trust them with production code?... Hmmm... But there
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by haspok 4y ago
> It is not the technology that matters, it’s interacting with people. The better engineers can communicate, the better a team will perform. This pretty neatly summarizes my ~25 years of experience in the industry! With the additional ob
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by haspok 4y ago
Which continent, which country, which region, which city? Without this information this poll is meaningless.
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by haspok 4y ago
The zooming reminds me of Prezi, except that Prezi is in 3D... (maybe Oberon is where they got their original idea from?). As interesting as it sounds and looks, I cannot imagine constantly zooming in and out (or panning) just to switch win
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by haspok 4y ago
So sad, what used to be a groundbreaking laptop (an ultraportable that you'd actually buy with official Linux support!) is now copying the worst from Apple, while degrading in almost all aspects from the predecessors. No headphone jack
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by haspok 4y ago
Yes, you will need tests, but do you need 1. TDD? 2. Unit tests? I agree with Jim Coplien when he argues that most unit testing is waste. And TDD is even worse, because it is equivalent to designing a complex system purely from the bottom u
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by haspok 4y ago
All that said, Erlang is a very sharp knife, built for one specific purpose. This is just not true: "a much better concurrency model" If your program is CPU-bound, where real threads are king, then Erlang is a pretty poor solution
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by haspok 4y ago
Java UI and applets have been abandoned long ago (>10 years). This was partly due to webapps becoming the standard, but also the realization that for desktop apps non-native UIs just suck. The vast majority of Java (=running on the JVM)

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