passiveincomelg

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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
They must have a different definition of "top" talent. I'm thinking of people like Daniel Bernstein and Fabrice Bellard. The list is really very short. But of course that definition is useless to a VC fueled, exponentially gr
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
How much of that is self-imposed complexity from chasing the hype of the week? Also: 1. Software is all about automation and increasing efficiency! 2. Let's hire thousands of programmers!!1!12! Empire building much?
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
except for vegans i guess
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
Same here; Grab worked fine in Kuala Lumpur (back then MyTeksi), with the added benefit of requiring the driver to use the meter. It worked ok in a very touristic part of Thailand (Patong & Phuket City), with a lot of scammers (asking 7
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
Maybe that's just their approach to hiring? Everybody says it's broken and hard and whatnot. Maybe they just don't bother much with programming puzzles and "What's your biggest weakness?" questions. If both sid
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
When you have an answer and can give it quickly, the interruption is probably a net positive. But many times I have seen/caused someones "compulsive problem solver" trait being triggered and suddently you have five people goo
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
If nothing else, that would at least be an improvement over "let's take a photo of the whiteboard after this one hour ad-hoc meeting and attach it to the jira ticket".
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
Some would say putting mercury in tooth fillings qualifies.
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
I like this blogpost on the subject: https://www.pandastrike.com/posts/20150622-remote-assess-dev...
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
Of course "marketers" could code (it's not that hard) and of course coders could sell (lose the self defeating "introvert" bullshit). If one or two people do everything that's required to "provide value&qu
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
I also think this left/right thing is total bullshit. But fashists are gonna fashist and we need to fight them with all we got, regardless of whether they are the rulers of China or Donald Trump.
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
Thiel & Musk, two nerds who have "the kind of wealth that buys power" are advising (i.e. believing they can manipulate) Trump. One helluva void they got going there...
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
lol, what brand . rotfl edit: Apologies for this utterly useless comment. To elaborate: The construct "brand" is a psychological hack, a marketing fnord. Reading about it in a presumably rational discussion is what I found amusin
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
And they murder and enslave people all over the world. Well, the "third world" mostly, so it's fine.
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
from the canonical list of Reasons Against Overtime I surely contributed to that list, but was too tired to remember any details. :)
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
*now
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
Sounds like a good rule. One that I happen to have followed when it comes to work and broken when it comes to studying (which I know consider mostly a waste of time).
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
It sounds like you realized you needed a break before it was too late (i.e. "burnout"), which is obviously good. But why did you return to this grind?
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
Sounds like the worst of both worlds: totalitarian government and hardcore capitalist exploitation at work. I hope every single developer leaves this hellhole.
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
Totally up for it! Will ping you on irc.
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
Makes perfect sense, thanks. I think the situation here is very similar. Telling a contractor when and where to work can get the client in legal trouble ("Scheinselbstständigkeit", one of those lovely german words ;). How that wor
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
+1 All the material I've seen from Brennan was excellent. And there's a lot of good free advice on his blog.
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
That's when you are running a team, right? But it's not the norm to walk into any corp in London as a devops/dev/whatever contractor and work like this. There is no reason why you couldn't run a team that way in Ber
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
As far as I know, setting up a "UG" is easy enough. I'm registered as a freelancer ("Freiberufler") with the tax authorities. I guess that's like a sole proprietor? Upside is that I don't pay corporate tax
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
Not really into Perl or into moving anywhere, but good to know. :)
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
I'm curious what this wild side is like. "letting your teams do whatever the hell they want as long as you're delivering" sounds like working remotely from a beach is common. Yet almost all job postings I see from compan
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
or senior devs
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
That is my impression as well. My rate is currently around 445gbp/day for backend development in Berlin and it is far from being at the high end (according to a yearly survey run by gulp.de). My total monthly expenses including rent, h
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
One company I applied at last year used hackerrank as part of the interview process. There were two tasks, neither was an "algorithm puzzle". The first was a very simple one that can be checked for correctness automatically (e.g.
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by passiveincomelg 10y ago
I suggested a try-before-you-buy contract to a few companies that I applied with and none of them were interested. Maybe it is because the company is afraid of the contractor saying "What is the upside for me to join you as an employee

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