notsag-hn

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by notsag-hn 4y ago
Don't do this to yourself in 2022
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by notsag-hn 4y ago
> Before you move, make sure to talk to your manager about performance and time zone expectations, as well as your availability for team gatherings. Work from anywhere but ask your manager from where you can work. Also I want you here ea
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by notsag-hn 5y ago
I was going to interview at LandingAI. I was asked before the interview to install a spyware browser extension to monitor my traffic to detect if I was cheating during the interview. I respectfully declined and didn't have that intervi
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by notsag-hn 5y ago
Uruguay! First?
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by notsag-hn 5y ago
The apology of Socrates by Plato
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by notsag-hn 5y ago
If that impersonal approach works for you and everybody is happy with it, that's fantastic. I haven't hired myself but I have worked with people from all over the world with different backgrounds for many years and have had litera
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by notsag-hn 5y ago
Totally, and probably from there it would be easier to find a 60-70k job. That's why I think assuming people from "poor countries" will be necessarily cheaper is a huge misconception
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by notsag-hn 5y ago
Sometimes it's not just about finding people that work for less money, it's because they know there's also talent out there. Even for companies that pay good salaries it's very hard to hire local senior-ish engineers, mo
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by notsag-hn 5y ago
hahha no waaay who are you?
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by notsag-hn 5y ago
You may underpay or overpay people, that can also happen with local people. I bet you don't leave much space for overpaying a foreigner if they are already getting 50% of what a local would get. Regarding the criminal related comment,
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by notsag-hn 5y ago
If you aren't able to estimate how much value somebody would bring to the team before hiring them, you maybe should oil your hiring process a bit. Also assuming you can trust somebody more or less depending on their legal jurisdiction
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by notsag-hn 5y ago
Agreed, globalized salaries should also consider people moving around and shouldn't depend on current location (unless of course money is not enough to live in the current location). I had an interview the other day with a local compan
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by notsag-hn 5y ago
Living in a poor country shouldn't be a reason to get a low rate. But this is really common, mostly because companies look for people in third-world countries to get the same level of employees waaay cheaper. I'm from Uruguay and
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by notsag-hn 5y ago
Maybe not an ORM but a query builder: Knex has been of so much help to me, it works pretty well and it's really easy to use. Used sequelize in the past but it can get incredibly complicated, really positive change.
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by notsag-hn 5y ago
The problem with asking about their culture is that they already know by heart what they should say about it. This is how they sell themselves as opposed to their real opinion about the culture which you will probably never know unless you
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by notsag-hn 6y ago
Hi, wtracy! I was thinking of something lighter than the well-known CMSs. Just a boilerplate project with some really basic CMS capabilities. Maybe I should do it myself hah
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by notsag-hn 6y ago
Hi, dvt. Thank you for your answer! I should have clarified that this for now it's a low-scale project in a country where eBay/Amazon/Etsy are not widely used and that her budget for this is very low, I will be hosting the we
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Ask HN: Best boilerplate project to start up my mom's online catalog?
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by notsag-hn 6y ago
It makes a lot of sense to devide front-end and back-end. Javascript is shared but it is just a part of the stack, while there are a lot of specific frameworks and libraries for one or the other that makes it really difficult to share code.
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by notsag-hn 6y ago
I'm going to recommend you the last one I read and loved so much: Ghost in the wires by Kevin Mitnick. What a legend OMG!
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by notsag-hn 6y ago
Cheatsheets are helpful when you already studied the thing, but not as your only source of info. The way I used to take notes at uni for example was to do it in layers. First, take a lot of notes, including your own impresions about what yo
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by notsag-hn 6y ago
The only mistake of the procedure is that if you don't have enough info you should ask for help before. This is very common and I have done that so many times to understand it's a waste of time. The only exception IMO is when you
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by notsag-hn 6y ago
Hi, jakearmitage. As a senior engineer that was able to get jobs/visa sponsorship abroad more than once I feel I can give you the following pieces of advice: - Start with what kind of job you would love to have. Do you want to work for
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by notsag-hn 6y ago
Open source itself does not encourage that kind of behavior, it's just there are a lot of arseholes developers like in any other area and because it's much more transparent you can actually see the toxic discussions. But that depe
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by notsag-hn 6y ago
I am really amazed to read so many people talking of chinese companies as the greatest threat for our privacy as opposed to american tech companies, do you guys even read the news or just Trump's Twitter account? This is not about the
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by notsag-hn 6y ago
It is worth reading for people that are in the same situation feeling there's something wrong with them just for not fitting in a certain academic environment. There's bullshit everywhere, but when you're not experienced enou
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by notsag-hn 6y ago
I would put Google there for sure! Google is nasty at other scales anyways. As search engine I use Duckduckgo, but sometimes we don't have much of an option with Google, do we? Mainly on mobile, which the option is Apple, not great.
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by notsag-hn 6y ago
I struggle to understand how people work hard to build they dream technology, they are also lucky enough for it to take off like zoom in this case, and then they go ahead to do nasty stuff and to fuck up their users! I hope one day we'
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by notsag-hn 6y ago
Nice post! I'd say it's not the simplest thing in the world though to find a part-time job that is interesting enough and that has a decent pay. But I strongly agree with this post anyways, full-time jobs with fat salaries are you
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by notsag-hn 6y ago
When the developer is inexperient, programming is similar to art. You see hacky stuff and sometimes "innovation" that a senior engineer would just call dirty code. Senior engineers however don't do art unless they are explici

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