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by lgieron 11y ago
One thing to keep in mind - coding for a living and coding as a hobby are two VERY different things. To get a taste of what you can expect in the industry, see for example Michael O. Church's blog ( https://michaelochurch.wor
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by lgieron 11y ago
What a great comment. I'm actually trying to learn a new skill that's intimidatingly hard for me, and I kept a link to this comment to remind myself in the hard times that it will be worth it in the end.
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Scrum meetings. Hard to outsource though.
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Hmm maybe not like a king then, but certainly better than your US-based colleagues (esp. if the company is located in for example NYC or SF, where they need to spend a lot on taxes and housing).
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Self-employment tax in Poland is just 19%. With a US (remote) salary you're basically living like a king. On the downside, the language is not the easiest to learn I hear.
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Two points: 1. The study does not say that 44% would stop working - they just wouldn't continue working in their current company/occupation, with a portion of them probably moving on to more fulfilling work (as opposed to living a
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According to a study (don't have a link unfortunately), 56% of Danes say they would continue working their current jobs if then won millions on the lottery. In a society like that, basic income may very well work.
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In this kind of setting there is no career growth though. You're either a 'code monkey' or someone like a technical product manager, or you manage people. They are all different paths, with none of them being inherently bette
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> The bigger problem is that most companies view "engineer" as "implementor of ideas that come from the business". Isn't that the inherent nature of a lot of the programming jobs, though? For example, I'm cu
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His argument is that he reckons that over his career he made very few bugs that could be avoided if he had used const. He admits that it's specific to his coding style and may not apply to other people.
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In my case I'm aggressively saving. I feel for people in professions which don't allow for that though. At the same time, I choose the software profession in part for the insane salaries we can command.
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> I'm literally only in London now for the money. Me too, but isn't it true for many people in top metropolies? People live there because it's great for their careers, not because they're nice places.
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Just look at Steve Wozniak.
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Judging by what I see in London, I'd say in most cases it's mostly law/tax evasion scheme that's beneficial for both sides.
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In real world, ad hominem arguments make more sense that they are sometimes given credit. Of course, in an ideal world, we should be able to just judge someone's argument based on its own merit; however, in practice, an 99% arguments (
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> I'm going to bill them for my time; if they don't pay I'll take them to small claims court. After you're done, please please do a writeup of how it went.
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But these were the prices for a big, vibrant city. If you go to places with worse economy, it can get as low as $600 per square metre - in/near a nice historic city cente. And there are virtually no guns or organized crime in Poland, s
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I guess you can do the routine stuff in private health care, where they actually care about the quality of service (so they should be able to communicate in English). It's not really expensive too; in Warsaw appointment with a speciali
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IMO the fundamental problem here is telling apart great ideas from no so great ones (if it were easy, the people with genuinely great ideas would easily secure funding). Unfortunately, it's generally not possible before the idea is rea
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All non-software engineers employ complex (often mathematical) techniques to analyse their design in terms of reliability, performance, safety, robustness to external conditions etc. We, except maybe for the area of critical embedded softwa
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Yep. I rent a small room in Zone 1.
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That's the thing though - these posts clearly don't represent a majority in terms of volume and yet they get obcenely large number of upvotes.
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> The Guardian comments sections are a trashbag of political censorship and general idiocy, but I see no evidence that they are being trolled by the Kremlin. A whole lot of people THINK they are, and the Guardian has levelled such accusa
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London contractor, saving >80% of my post-tax income.
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It's also spreading lies about Russians to non-Russians. See for example The Guardian online forums - these guys dominate conversations which have something do to with Putin's policies (say the Crimea situation etc).
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If a music in a club/concert feels like it's too loud, it probably is. Leave before you damage your hearing permanently.
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For me, it was the Netflix web client. Feels 100% as smooth as a good native app.
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When I did that (working remotely from Poland for US companies), I was self-employed and worked as a contractor.
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> (your the 1% but not really) From what I'm reading, you need to be making about 400k (household income) to make it to the 1%.
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For a company like Netflix, my guess is, you need to be a world-class expert at some area of scalable backends and/or big data. For example, you need to be a core contributor (in terms of concepts, architecture etc. - not just coding)

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