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1. 691.▲
   by lbrito 4y ago

   Given the reality of remote work, one might hope the allure of immigrating to the US for the jobs might diminish. Sure, you probably won't make half a million working remotely as a software engineer, but you probably don't need th
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   by lbrito 4y ago

   I live in Canada and am Brazilian. Haha, classic. Genders is what trips most people up. I've seen foreigners living in Brazil for decades still making funny mistakes on gendered nouns. I think at some point people give up memorizing
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   by lbrito 4y ago

   How was the visa process?
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   by lbrito 4y ago

   I really like Portugal. Great weather, excellent food, everything is cheap. And I speak Portuguese, so its more or less like home. Income taxes are high though, and I'm not sure about health service, schools etc.
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   Ask HN: Do you plan to move to a lower COL area/country?

   32 points by lbrito 4y ago|55 comments
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   by lbrito 5y ago

   Do you have any evidence at all to support this or is it just a guess?
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   by lbrito 5y ago

   Yes. According to Hired's State of Software engineers 2022, Rails is the 2nd most in demand skill. https://hired.com/2022-state-of-software-engineers/
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   by lbrito 5y ago

   I've heard there's this new industry called advertising that is focused in swaying people in a certain direction. There's also this new contraption called mass media. Also there's this thing called wealth accumulation. I
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   by lbrito 5y ago

   >But why do you explicitly imply that they don't have a choice? I'm not. I believe people have free will and are not automatons. There is always a choice. However, it is disingenuous to expect or demand most or many people to m
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    by lbrito 5y ago

    >How does a team not know how to code in Ruby? No one is born knowing how to program. >Doesn’t ergonomics matter? It does and Ruby does a good job with it. It is not a hard language to learn. See my response to sibling comment.
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    by lbrito 5y ago

    I'm not sure your premise is correct. Hired.com's 2022 report says Ruby is one of the most in demand skills.[1] In any case I'm not saying Ruby is high barrier or anything. It isn't! It is totally viable to hire non ruby
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    by lbrito 5y ago

    That's not the same argument at all . "know language X" != "be smart". I am specifically calling out people that _don't know Ruby_ and complain about the language being this or that, when really their frustrat
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    by lbrito 5y ago

    In my experience all those cons are mostly just your company/team not knowing how to program in Ruby.
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    by lbrito 5y ago

    Wow, this is Peak HN 2022. Why blame England for the Opium Wars? Couldn't the Chinese just take less opium? Why blame big pharma for the opioid epidemic? Couldn't people not take opioids? Why blame cigarette advertisement for lung
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    by lbrito 5y ago

    There will be a group offended by anything. People are wild. You can find small groups of people who do and think insane things. We as a society should not try to cater to every possible sensibility. That's a recipe for disaster.
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    by lbrito 5y ago

    One thing that's missing is a single-ticket subscription that encompasses many streaming services. SV types are smart and can probably squeeze a profit while still keeping attractive pricing. Fragmentation is becoming annoying and unsu
17. 707.▲
    by lbrito 5y ago

    There are many fully remote companies. Just pick one. Don't work at a company that presses rto.
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    The private Air Force flying F16s(thedrive.com)

    1 points by lbrito 5y ago|0 comments
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    Highway warnings about traffic deaths may increase crashes(arstechnica.com)

    3 points by lbrito 5y ago|0 comments
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    by lbrito 5y ago

    Previous discussion, 12 days ago, 793 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30945444
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    by lbrito 5y ago

    Respectfully disagree. Whataboutism is when you try to relativize something by citing an equally bad example from some other side. I'm explicitly not relativizing anything. A whataboutist comment would be "the US does the same [
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    by lbrito 5y ago

    >What doesn't happen everywhere and every time is a rogue nation attacking their neighbors and killing civilians using laughable pretexts while the real goal is to take control of a very resourceful and industrialized area I can thi
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    Are “digital nomad visas” a thing yet?(lbrito1.github.io)

    1 points by lbrito 5y ago|0 comments
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    Cochabamba Water War(en.wikipedia.org)

    1 points by lbrito 5y ago|0 comments
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    by lbrito 5y ago

    >nonsense about Mac fans being blinded by their love of the brand is the edgelord meme that will not die. Thank you for the completely unemotional comment that totally does not add to the notion I was alluding to that some fans are a bit
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    by lbrito 5y ago

    This guy here: https://system76.com/laptops/lemur >Up to 14 hours of battery life per charge I routinely get over 10 hours.
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    by lbrito 5y ago

    Ryzen 5700 has 25W TDP https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Ryzen-7-5700U-Processor-Be... IMO a 15-watt difference is basically negligible in this context. It is so insignificant it can be offset by pretty much anything. You k
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    by lbrito 5y ago

    How does energy efficiency matter here? Or rather, why are you implying that a Mac might be more energy efficient, and enough to matter? Geniuenly curious.
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    by lbrito 5y ago

    Absolutely agree. Build quality is meh, not even good. But the battery is seriously good. Like 10+ hours good.
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    by lbrito 5y ago

    I guess? System76 makes laptops. They come with their own Linux distribution called PopOS.