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by onemorepassword 13y ago
One foundation of the entire argument seems to be that support for the Democratic party makes SV progressive. However, in a global context only the minority left wing of the Democratic party could be called progressive. Also, a simpler expl
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
There has been a recurring pattern of quite vitriolic ad hominem attacks on certain people on HN in a way that I can only describe as "celebrity-bashing" for quite while now. Other favorite targets are for instance RMS and Gruber. This isn'
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
The title should be "the margins on bottomfeeding are shrinking". I consider this a good thing. Now if only these companies could stop calling themselves "developers" altogether, and maybe we wouldn't have to explain so often to potential c
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
I fail to understand why the US even has quota on desirable migrant workers with a solid job offer. One the one hand the US still does this "we're an immigrant nation" dog and pony show with shit like the green card lottery, on the other ha
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
The utter lack of control on the part of the customer, having neither an approval step nor the ability to switch the card off seems to me to be a fundamental flaw in this payment method. This system was pretty much designed to be abused.
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
Transifex looks nice, thanks for the tip, but it seems like you have to add a lot of glue to connect your own version control to their proprietary version control via their API. What I would really like is something like Weblate ( http://we
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
I used to, HN was one of the few public places I felt comfortable doing that. And I know my team and people I know are on HN too, so I better behave. But then I still got slow-banned on that account without any given reason or recourse. Tha
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
"it’s an identity system that follows you everywhere" Yeah, that really sounds like a good thing...
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
Yes, and Europe is full of white people only dancing around hand in hand in love and peace. US melting pot my ass. My black European father married my white European mother when the US still had segregation.
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
Seriously, I fucking hate this uninformed American crap, like Europe is some mythical white people planet? "Racial homogeneity" my ass, Scandinavia or the rest of Europa isn't living in the middle ages anymore. It's insulting and borderline
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
Sweden, England and most Western countries have only become safer over time. This is just racist bullshit.
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
It's not "perception". Recent studies have shown that about half the Romanians in the Netherlands are here illegally, and most of those are criminals. And those that are here legally don't always work under legal conditions. This royally su
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
It's the disconnect between what Google is (the 800 pound gorilla that can roll out a new product like an appliance manufacturer can roll out a new toaster), and how Google sees itself (the brave disruptive startup launching something cool
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
I don't give a shit about sexist and homophobic neanderthals who need to put down, intimidate and bully other people to make themselves feel better. And no, I truthfully don't hang out with such scum. You seem to have a very twisted idea of
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
Sidenote: afaik, "Van Vlack" is not a "Dutch" name. Inappropriately adding the "Van" (which in Dutch is written with a lowercase v) is typically something Americans of Dutch origin did to make their name sound more interesting to Americans.
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
"Request an invite". Dear god, Google still thinking it's a cute little startup. It really is the Microsoft story all over again.
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
Bull. Startups can't pay more because there's no investment capital. Established and successful companies that pay well still can't get people. The shortage is real.
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
You would be surprised to learn that immigration for qualified tech and science people is a lot easier in many European countries than it is in the US. An American with a job offer can easily get a work permit in the Netherlands, no quota a
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
Romanians are an issue, but for completely other reasons. Quite frustrating, but nothing to do with labor laws or visa in general. But other than that I've never had or heard of any such issues here in Amsterdam. Locals are getting outnumbe
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
And it's stupid too, because they pretty much get what they pay for. Peanuts, monkeys and such. So small companies that could afford decent salaries have 3 underpaid devs and some interns doing the work one good developer can do for half th
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
I have no idea, but given they effort they put into bringing people in from outside NL I doubt they skimp on salary. The don't have a rep for being cheapskates in general.
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
Booking.com is the reason why the rest of us have such a hard time finding people... OTOH, they're very generous in their relocation support and most expats get tired of the job before they get tired of Amsterdam, so they do help to fill th
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
There's a reason why the vast majority of "jobs" on this site are either for interns or co-founders (with the "co" part being actually making stuff). There's no money in Dutch startups, very little investment. So with some very rare excepti
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
These guys are disrespectful, insulting and pathetic, but at least she got the job and none of the anecdotes suggest they assumed she was incapable of doing that job. That's already two steps up from Mad Men territory. And beside the cruden
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
> Just replace all the sexist jokes with gay jokes or sissy jokes or just about any other type of jokes men direct at one another to establish pecking orders within groups. You may want to consider hanging out with a different crowd...
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
I would say all developers want more than just a technical challenge. They just don't all look for that "more" in their job.
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
With the exception of a very small sub group of people with serious mental issues, it's not a hard problem . Most of it has been solved already. It's just a matter of having the will to do it. That will is absent. Most developers in SF lau
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
We're very well aware of the extent of the situation in the US. It's been a long time since Europeans lined up to emigrate to America. Also, ironically enough, most Northern Europeans would already consider the circumstances of the underpri
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
There is no Europe. I can only speak for my country, the Netherlands, and there is no such thing as people not having the personal funds to buy or rent housing. That's why we have minimum wages, social security, rent subsidies and regulated
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by onemorepassword 13y ago
People who defend this under the heading of "it's their service, don't use it if you don't like it", or "they're doing this for your convenience" completely miss the point. There is a reason why we had strict regulations (a dirty word on HN

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