lgieron

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by lgieron 12y ago
I wish companies were more open about their salaries, esp. in remote roles. The discrepancies between what companies offer can be so big (like up to 3x for essentially the same job), that I often don't apply based on my prejudices (&qu
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by lgieron 12y ago
For UK market, check out jobserve.co.uk. From what I've seen there, the rates for a typical strong dev are about the same in the Java and the web scripting languages worlds (js/node, ruby). However, for rare and/or exceptiona
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by lgieron 12y ago
In games with random element a single mathematically perfect move exists as well (it needs to be computed as an expected value over the randomness), which can make the games even more prone to analysis paralysis (ex. poker players pondering
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by lgieron 12y ago
If you don't know what to do with it, and you bought it below market, just sale it for market price, book the easy profit and move on.
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by lgieron 13y ago
I think that you might have just been insulated from the large parts of Polish software industry which straight up wouldn't hire someone who doesn't speak Polish. And it's not just some small shops doing websites for locals,
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by lgieron 13y ago
> I want to underline that in most countries in Europe, the language of programming and tech environments is mostly English (documentation, internal communication, white-board meetings). So just English is enough in most cases. That is n
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by lgieron 13y ago
The ants bridge looks very much like structures from World of Goo, I wonder if it has been an inspiration for the game mechanics.
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by lgieron 13y ago
Sadly Apple no longer makes laptops with 17-inch screens, which is a deal breaker for me.
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by lgieron 13y ago
> (...) making an 25th percentile salary relatively to the US average. Saving less than I should of my disposable income but in the 10th percentile relatively to my peers due to (...) Is that what you wanted to say? "10th percentile
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by lgieron 13y ago
Releasing .NET sources could help Mono development and ultimately lead to .NET world not being locked to Windows (at least on servers, you'd still want Windows for Visual Studio when doing development)
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by lgieron 13y ago
I for one got confused - I assumed the link is about real-time systems and not a web app (I'd be interested in reading about the former but not the latter).
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by lgieron 13y ago
Well, people who do the actual real time systems (for mission-critical firmware, high-frequency trades etc.) certainly do care about it.
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by lgieron 13y ago
> Many of the best developers I know have a creative desire and just writing code for 10 hours a day doesn't satiate it. To paraphrase, many of the best X (X being developers, managers, accountants, salesmen etc.) have a creative de
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by lgieron 13y ago
Exactly, in my home town there's a large car factory (Fiat's), which is providing dozens of buses for its workers every day, and yet nobody is calling those workers entitled egoists.
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by lgieron 13y ago
What do you mean by "strategy can only take you so far as the player"? If so, why do we see the same faces in top8s of major tournaments?
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by lgieron 13y ago
I agree, irregardless of the big picture, that is always sad on an individual level. BTW I think the way to at least partially combat outsourcing in rich countries is through agreeing to work for lower wages (which would still be higher tha
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by lgieron 13y ago
Not necessarily, some of the projects outsourced at third world rates only exist because the rates are so low. For example, I have a friend who toyed with the idea of making money in the app store - it costed him only about $100 to have a s
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by lgieron 13y ago
In Poland, you can just opt out of the inheritance. Not sure how it works in other places, but that seems like a sensible law.
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by lgieron 13y ago
> I'm not a doctor, but sometimes I wonder if it's easier than it seems. It's not hard to diagnose the basic and obvious stuff and do good work by only addressing the basics. Repeating something like that doesn't take
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by lgieron 13y ago
> Obvious exception of the Eastern European countries. Why?
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by lgieron 13y ago
Do you code for a living? If so, I think your experience ("no boring task ever") is pretty unique.
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by lgieron 13y ago
By "projects" I mean code delivering actual software products (like for example the search, gmail etc.), not some auxiliary admin scripts.
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by lgieron 13y ago
I'd say having automatic compile-time checks and vs having to be "extra careful" + necessity for more umit tests is a world of difference. AFAIK, Google doesn't use dynamic-typed languages for any of its projects (except
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by lgieron 13y ago
>I still think C++ is the right language for my project (vision related) Interesting. What is the advantage to C++ in the context of CV that outweights the long compile time for you?
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by lgieron 13y ago
What would be the reason for chosing Go over of one of the existing mainstream languages? Even if it's "better" (cleaner, more expressible, more readable etc.) than say C++ or Java, I don't see that outweighting maturity
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by lgieron 13y ago
Considering b) and c), C++ looks like the only valid option.
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by lgieron 13y ago
Democracy doesn't work with capital concentrated in a few hands - they can just buy the politicians and overtake the country, imposing laws which allow them to concentrate even more wealth and power. Arguably, that's something tha
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by lgieron 13y ago
C-64 !
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by lgieron 13y ago
It didn't occur to me to check across all regions, and that sounds like a good idea! (so far, I have only checked across various machine types in availability zones in "my" region). Automating the checks across all regions wi
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by lgieron 13y ago
Before leaving, I'd give my current company a chance to match the recruiter's offer. Since that is your current market value, they might prefer to just give you that raise instead of searching for another cheaper guy (who might ve

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