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by koevet 4y ago
But in this event, we could move back to Europe, no?
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by koevet 4y ago
Fair point, I didn't want to turn the post into a vanity context. My daily rate is around 1k euro + 19% vat. Note that I have multiple clients, so in some good months the above figure is higher. My tax pressure is around 43%, including
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by koevet 4y ago
Hey thanks for your comment, I feel this thread is turning a bit into a US vs. EU pitfight. We are going to be in NYC in a couple of weeks and we plan to spend one day in Princeton, as you suggest. Regarding the long term relationship, if w
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by koevet 4y ago
We don't plan to move permanently to the US, we are thinking between 2 and 5 years. If we would be very, very unhappy I guess we could pack and leave, but that would be a worst case scenario that I'd like to avoid for the enormous
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by koevet 4y ago
Hi, ok I thought that Princeton was everything but "culturally devoid". Do you mind elaborating on that?
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by koevet 4y ago
Thanks, yes this is something I need to determine ASAP - even though the move should realistically take place next year, so I should have some time to figure things out, visa-wise My wife job is for a European company, no UNI or religious c
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by koevet 4y ago
no worries, it definitively helps to put things in perspective. We have not made our mind up yet, so these "angles" are super helpful too.
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by koevet 4y ago
My wife's company will provide a work permit.
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Ask HN: Europe to East Coast, does it make sense to move at 50?
76 points by koevet 4y ago|262 comments
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by koevet 5y ago
Berlin pretty much built out? The city has a huge "hole" in the center - Tempelhofer Feld. 355 hectares of land that at some point it was decided to leave untouched. Complete waste of space that could be used to build thousands of
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Ask HN: Got a letter from a lawyer about my (dead) startup
11 points by koevet 5y ago|9 comments
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Ask HN: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021?
71 points by koevet 5y ago|38 comments
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by koevet 5y ago
Jow ( https://jow.fr/ ) seems to be a France-only service.
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by koevet 5y ago
Cool idea, I had a similar hitch to scratch and have been playing with the idea to build something like that (for personal use, but ended up using https://hay-kot.github.io/mealie/ ). I'm in Berlin and I wasn&#x27
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What my Stackoverflow dependency did to my career(blog.lettucework.io)
2 points by koevet 5y ago|0 comments
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Angelina. She got job interviews at top tech companies. She’s also not real(protocol.com)
31 points by koevet 5y ago|12 comments
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by koevet 5y ago
Strong fullstack software engineer with 20+ years of experience. Really interested in Elixir/Phoenix. Other tech: Kafka, K8, Postgres, API design. Very experienced on JVM optimization and perf tuning. Location: Berlin, Germany Remote:
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by koevet 5y ago
The National Etruscan Museum in Rome ( https://www.museoetru.it/ ) holds one of the largest collections of Etruscan art. Do not miss if you happen to be in Rome.
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by koevet 5y ago
In general, I do agree with you. In Europe it is very difficult (and expensive and convoluted) to let go of an employee, so a company must find a way to validate the hire, regardless of the Probezeit (probation). I'm not advocating tha
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by koevet 5y ago
I'm a freelancer based in Germany, been a freelancer for a long time (20+ years). Worked on a LOT of different projects in several (European) countries, as developer/architect/tech lead - whatever the client need was. Since m
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by koevet 5y ago
This article explains it well, code examples included: https://www.baeldung.com/java-9-modularity
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by koevet 5y ago
Long time beancount user here: in case anyone wants to give plaintextaccounting a try, I have created a semi-automatic transactions import tool for beancount, which categorizes transactions imported from CSV files: https://github
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by koevet 5y ago
Strong Java/Kotlin software engineer with 20+ years of experience. Really interested in Elixir/Phoenix. Other tech: Kafka, K8, Postgres, API design. Very experienced on JVM optimization and perf tuning. Location: Berlin, Germany R
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by koevet 5y ago
Been running dockerized Baikal for years on my server. This is the image I have created few years ago (likely newer ones exist): https://hub.docker.com/r/lucianofiandesio/baikal
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by koevet 5y ago
Strong Java/Kotlin software engineer with 20+ years of experience. Other tech: Kafka, K8, Postgres, API design. Very experienced on JVM optimization and perf tuning. Location: Berlin, Germany Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, flex o
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by koevet 5y ago
Bitwarden (self-hosted using Bitwarden_rs)
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Ideas for Summer Reading(gatesnotes.com)
1 points by koevet 5y ago|0 comments
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by koevet 5y ago
> Taxes are just too high and income too low... This. I'm a freelance here in Berlin and I pay 950 Euro/month for the (public) health insurance. The insurance covers only myself, while my kids are covered by my wife's heal
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by koevet 5y ago
And let's not forget that in Germany, one has to add around 15% on top of the house price: taxes, notary and - almost always - the real estate agent cut.
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Euler's Fizzbuzz (2020)(philcrissman.net)
212 points by koevet 6y ago|89 comments

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