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by lukeqsee 7y ago
> That’s a good 20-25% discount to what you pay in Switzerland. I actually pay 60,- CHF, plus a bit extra for a static IP + IPv6. I was saying I have that option for four providers all under 100. :) > Plus I heard from several collea
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
Ah—that's quite possible. I'm close to St. Gallen, so either of those cities are 3-4 hours by train for me (so a bit out of the range I'd normally travel for a meetup).
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
Answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21258550 . I'm very much an exception to the norm. I would have looked at Germany first if I were unmarried.
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
From what I've seen, it's less common than the US but they do exist.
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
I spoke enough German to make the transition to Swiss German okay. It's definitely a barrier and I'm still working through it. Most people can and do speak English if they think their English is smoother than your German / Sw
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
> I know a number of people in Zürich who never bothered to learn German I think Zürich is just a typical large city exception (similar to Berlin or Amsterdam). I think German (or French or Italian) is pretty necessary outside of Zürich&
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
1. (See above answer as well.) It's definitely difficult if you don't have a familial connections. Once you get in, though, it's pretty easy to stay and if you stay for 10+ years, you can get citizenship fairly easily. 2. It
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
It took me about 10 minutes at the local city hall. However, my wife is Swiss, so I'm very much an exception. If you don't have a familial connection, you need to find a job, and the company will need to prove they couldn't f
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
Well, yes. I would say most developers can't go to their nearest 2500m peak and work for the day, though. :)
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
> no Sun Only in the winter. :) The other points hold as far as my experience goes.
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
I'm an American expat in Switzerland working as an independent software developer and startup founder. I can agree with a lot of the points listed in the article, but they apply universally to almost all jobs (not just to software deve
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
I’m focusing on a few elements to get started (other than a few old paths and trails that were not mapped): - street lighting (helpful for people trying to make global maps of safer streets for walking at night) - small features: benches, t
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
I recently attended the State of the Map conference (OSM's annual, global conference), and that inspired me to start improving the map around my area. I discovered a lot of small details I assumed would have already been mapped. There&
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted; what you say is correct from a Christian theological perspective. (Source: a 4-year degree from a somewhat well-known, mostly for negatives, Christian university.) I have no intentions to debate theo
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
> it will be fast enough for my purpose anyway It probably will be. I've been using Rust in production for a while now, and our bottlenecks are never Rust's performance. Something else is the bottleneck way before we approach a
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
I live not far from here. I recently hiked up and down to the peak (Säntis) mentioned, and wondered about lightning strikes and their frequency. The tower adds a good 20-30m to the peak, which is the highest for many kilometers around. They
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
In Europe, if you strike a pedestrian outside a crosswalk, the same might happen to you depending on the jurisdiction. Pedestrians create their own right of way, practically speaking (if not judicially). :-)
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
Yes, they're at a much higher price point, but it's also way cheaper than AWS. I certainly understand the draw of Hetzner's price point!
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
Linode just launched their instances in Newark on public beta. https://www.linode.com/gpus I'm not affiliated, just love their service!
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
The article mentioned that Russia has already done so, so I would say yes. It also appears the vast majority of the expense (99%) will be in the ferrying fees paid to SpaceX or Boeing.
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
One side of me thinks this is really, really cool. The other side is running away as fast as possible. If anything shouldn't be developed by committee, it's something that controls a few thousand pounds hurtling down the highway a
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
> Really don't like the magic field access syntax. From a language-feel and ergonomics standpoint, I agree. But the Rust team has made it pretty clear why a postfix is much more flexible, and I think we'll grow into it. I do th
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
> Is that no longer allowed or would the compiler be able to disambiguate? I would speculate that both will be true. The compile could disambiguate, but it will not be allowed.
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
I'm anxiously awaiting this. I just finished overhauling a rather involved Tokio/Future based project, and having await/async in the language spec will be a big step forward (and I'm hoping the compiler errors improve as
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by lukeqsee 8y ago
That's fascinating! Unfortunately it doesn't help the OP since he'd have to make quarterly payments regardless.
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by lukeqsee 8y ago
> It's not their money unless I earn the money to pay them, IMHO. Of course—and in my understanding estimates account for this. If you earnings diverge such that you will not owe that money in the end, you don't have to pay it
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by lukeqsee 8y ago
Strictly speaking, you're holding their money for a year without interest. The estimated payments are not prepayments—they are payments that match what most W2 employees would pay every paycheck, but isn't the case for 1099 (or
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by lukeqsee 8y ago
This. I've spent at least $2000 this year to figure out how to make this work—and I'm going to spend more to actually fill and send the forms off. . . The additional requirements of the recent tax legislation which make it effecti
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by lukeqsee 8y ago
I’m in the exact same position as you (first year filing taxes in CH as a US citizen). I filed for an extension because I’m waiting for AHV to be resolved due to some ambiguities in my tax status (employed vs self employed), but I’ve read t

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