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by lonesword 6y ago
FAANG salaries in Germany are higher. I recently turned down a 75k offer from a German e-commerce company for a competing offer (FAANG, 88k + RSUs) that paid more. This was for an Applied Scientist role, but the software engineering payscal
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by lonesword 6y ago
I am neither Ukrainian nor African, and I am not happy with the "African refugee cleaner" comment either. Was specifying that the cleaner was "African" really necessary?
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by lonesword 6y ago
Money? What money? AFAIK degree programs in German public universities are nearly free.
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by lonesword 6y ago
Chelpark brings fond memories. They had a peculiar color, and it looked beautiful on paper. Of course, Bril was the workhorse.
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by lonesword 6y ago
When I worked at a startup we copied the Spotify model as well. We called it "functional teams" and so on but the idea was the same - we watched the spotify videos as well. To be honest it helped. I think this is a point in IBM&#
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by lonesword 6y ago
>but rather part of a whole discipline of preparing your body in order to sit down and meditate for long periods of time. The implication being that this is the sole purpose of Yoga and there is no benefit in viewing it as yet another po
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by lonesword 6y ago
> The problem here is not invention. The problem here is that aliabramovitz and company "like to stay away from those [theological] aspects as it can be off putting for people who don't subscribe to a certain philosophy or theo
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by lonesword 6y ago
I still buy my eBooks from Amazon. I currently live in Germany, but use Amazon’s India store to buy eBooks because the same ebook in Amazon.de costs twice. All you need is a transferwise card (or something similar) and you can pay in rupees
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The Little Printf (2015)(ferd.ca)
3 points by lonesword 6y ago|0 comments
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by lonesword 6y ago
Fair point. However, my girlfriend swore to me that she'll never read hacker news unless they "prettify things up". She eased up and now reads HN regularly (partly because I talk about stuff on HN regularly) - my point is tha
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by lonesword 6y ago
Nice. My solution to this (on arch linux) was to maintain a script that would open the stuff I need on specific workspaces. I'd always need the following to get work done: 1. Browser on workspace 1 2. Pycharm/IDE on workspace 2 3.
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by lonesword 6y ago
But it wouldn't hurt to ship and then add these things later right? I do not know about anyone else, but I know that I'm a sucker for pretty things. A pretty website that is "inconsiderate" would have me sign up and leav
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by lonesword 6y ago
Did anyone find the article too long? Don't get me wrong - the first few paragraphs were engaging and thought-provoking. The rest of the article looked as if it could be condensed to two paragraphs. This is not a criticism - I'm j
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by lonesword 6y ago
I was about to say that this can be called the "Indian queue", then I remembered that we don't queue, we stampede </joke>.
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by lonesword 6y ago
Oh I already use vim mode in PyCharm. I'd use PyCharm everywhere if I could, really - it's just that I'd like some semblance of an IDE when I ssh into a server. Also, using PyCharm's ssh feature doesn't cut it - I d
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Show HN: VimCharm, Approximating PyCharm on Vim(kevinmartinjose.com)
8 points by lonesword 6y ago|4 comments
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by lonesword 6y ago
https://ente.io/ is a privacy focused alternative to Google Photos, and came up in HN a while ago.
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by lonesword 6y ago
> I'm a reenactor Oh please do tell us more. How and where do you do the re-enactments? I'd love to visit (once the pandemic is over)
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by lonesword 6y ago
Location: Germany, anywhere in Europe Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, Pytorch, tensorflow Email: kevinmartinjose at live dot com Resume[PDF]: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19gs35FC1jDx_
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by lonesword 6y ago
No internet. No internet?! If I can't check my whatsapp/Telegram messages on a phone, I might as well go without a phone - none of my friends are going to send me an SMS/a regular phone call. No internet is a bad idea.
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by lonesword 6y ago
I've been to the "anti cafe" in Rome, and the idea is that you pay for the time you spend there instead of for what you consume. It was 4 euros per hour, capped at 16 euros per day, and (potentially unlimited) snacks and coff
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by lonesword 6y ago
Had one when I was 24[1]. I got a sedative, but was wakeful enough to watch the procedure on a screen above me. The worst part was when they pump air into your ass to widen the colon, and all you want to do is fart it right out. [1] - Turne
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by lonesword 6y ago
Edit: I misread your comment as "definitely NOT that bad". Turns out we are saying the same thing. Well, depends on the Metro. Chennai is notorious for power cuts. Delhi is supposed to be better - but I used to live in Noida (Part
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by lonesword 6y ago
I don't use Apple phones because I cannot afford one. I used to be a developer (in India), earned a decent salary, and at the end of 3 years I had something like 20k USD saved. If I spend 1k on an Iphone, that's 5% of my entire li
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by lonesword 6y ago
What about an Indian student who did a masters from ETH/EPFL, interned at CERN, and _then_ applied for an H1B visa? Will it mean that the said student is from a "rich family background"?
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by lonesword 6y ago
Yes, I think what the parent comment intended to say was that the UI for the CT scan machine is more valuable for the society (and hence candidate 2 should be given preference) than the fancy AI algorithm that goes into the dating app, even
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by lonesword 6y ago
> There's not a single language I'd consider myself good with, maybe one or two I can write and maybe one I'm ok with. Can you get things done in the one or two languages that you can write? If yes, that's already som
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by lonesword 6y ago
I see that you worked for a FAANG - how much of your motivation for building ente.io came from an insider view of how corporations leverage user data? In other words, did your stint at a FAANG fuel your desire for a privacy friendly photos
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by lonesword 6y ago
As an Indian citizen living in Germany right now, I sorely miss UPI. My workflow to order food in India - 1) open app and add things to cart 2) Google Pay (linked to UPI) prompts for my fingerprint and that's it. In Germany, I mostly e
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by lonesword 6y ago
UrbanClap[1] does something similar in India. [1] https://www.urbancompany.com/

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