photonios

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by photonios 7y ago
Probably a software engineer. If you're a little above average, salaries are very high. Most software engineers I know in Romania make at least 5 times the national average. Good ones make up to 10 times the national average.
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by photonios 7y ago
Almost every company in Europe? I've got 26 days I can take whenever I want. That's excluding legal holidays. Some countries have a lower minimum, the country where I live the legal minimum is 21 (4.2 weeks), but 5+ weeks of paid
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by photonios 7y ago
I used the original KeePass 2 client for a long time but at some point I looked for a more stable and good looking client. Since I am mainly a macOS user, I found MacPass [1]. I highly recommend it for any mac users. Its been nothing but st
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by photonios 7y ago
I second this. I bought a Roomba a year ago or something. We have a cat and it's been amazing. It runs right before I come home and saves me a lot of manual cleaning.
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by photonios 7y ago
I work at a company that employs roughly 50 people. Most of them are software engineers. We grew from 3 people to 50 in 3 years. We designed a new office and moved into it a few months ago. Here are some of the things we did: - Desks are al
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by photonios 7y ago
To give some background: Me and my fiancee live together in major city in eastern Europe. We do not have children. We both work for the same company. Me as a software engineer. She as a QA manager. I wouldn't say our morning ritual is
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by photonios 7y ago
I always wondered whether this phenomenon was something local or whether it holds true outside eastern Europe as well. I saw that you're from eastern Europe and I checked out your website. You're in the exact same city I am in. I
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by photonios 7y ago
I don't know the app you're talking about, but I solve this using persistent tmux sessions [1]. I use (Neo)Vim as my text editor, so it's just part of the tmux session. Each project has its own session. I am aware that this d
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by photonios 7y ago
This is it. I find that establishing a social network is one of the most important things to do in the first few weeks. It makes your work more enjoyable.
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by photonios 7y ago
This post actually made me switch to Firefox. The set up process was very smooth. Importing all my settings from Chrome just worked. I feel safer already. Is it just me or does the scrolling feel a bit different in Firefox? I am running Fir
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by photonios 7y ago
You might find the way Basecamp works interesting: https://m.signalvnoise.com/how-we-structure-our-work-and-tea... Each project is six weeks. You deliver the best possible version within those six weeks.
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by photonios 7y ago
Somewhere in my career I realized this as well and it has been incredibly helpful. I call it "embrace the suckiness". When faced with a problem that seems impossible because you lack so much knowledge you are just going to have to
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by photonios 7y ago
Our stack heavily uses Django. We are therefor using Django's migration system. I worked with alembic before and some other Python based migration systems, but nothing comes close to the Django's simplicity. We're heavy Postg
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by photonios 7y ago
Its simple supply and demand. I am in eastern Europe (Romania to be precise). Software Engineers are paid 5-8x above median. Cost of living is low, so life is pretty good. No guilt here. The industry is screaming for people. There are lots
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by photonios 7y ago
I remember reading the thread. Awesome to hear that you've made some changes for the better. Congratulations from this internet stranger! Don't shy from letting us know how the new job is. If you feel like talking, please do. I am
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by photonios 7y ago
Same thing in Romania. If you have a bachelor degree and you're employed as a programmer or data analyst or something in that area you get an income tax discount. For everyone else, there's a flat 16% income tax. A programmer or d
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by photonios 7y ago
We serve large websites in countries where Firefox usage is <0.5% of the total traffic. As long as the website is not utterly broken, it's hard to make a good case for fixing it. However, we do run all our UI tests against Firefox,
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by photonios 7y ago
Thanks for the advice! I'll try to remember that when that time comes. Luckily I hate commuting so I will do everything to avoid long commutes. Currently takes me <15minutes to get to the office. You don't happen to live in the
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by photonios 7y ago
Call me crazy, but it's not fiction to me. When I figured out what I am gonna do, a beer or two helps me focus.
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by photonios 7y ago
Wow, this perfectly describes me. Although, I usually don't have to stay up till 2AM to get that productivity boost. I know it sounds strange, but when it gets dark outside, my productivity is so much better. I don't think it has
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by photonios 7y ago
It would help if you tell us in which EU country you are. Depending on the country, there might be scholarships etc.
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by photonios 7y ago
Sure! I have a Gist here with this little snippet: https://gist.github.com/Photonios/4a17d6c952d85cc23234b4394b... Hope it proves useful :)
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by photonios 7y ago
I've found that releasing early in the day really stops from interfering in people's personal life. Usually after hitting the deploy button; there's a couple of hours of checking, verifying and testing to make sure all is wel
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by photonios 7y ago
Yes. Friday is perfect. It's weekend in the country where we operate (United Arab Emirates). We're based in central Europe. So friday is a work day. Friday is weekend in the UAE so there's usually less traffic. If it the rele
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by photonios 7y ago
I've cut my fair share of corners to ship a product on time. Every time I somehow decide that cutting a corner is justified, I leave some comments in the code explaining why I decided to cut corners and how I think it should actually b
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by photonios 7y ago
This works for me. But I am crazy. - Install Python through Brew. - Upgrade pip using pip. Install all further libraries using pip. Never install Python packages through brew. - Use a plain virtualenv per project/repo. A long time ago
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by photonios 7y ago
Oh man, I love tmux. I guess I am not a very advanced user but some of its features really appeal to me. We use Macbooks at work and initially I used iTerm2. I've always been a heavy user of the terminal and split views. (Neo)Vim is my
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Ask HN: Anyone know a good tool for browsing test results in a central place?
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by photonios 7y ago
Postgres's support for table partitioning got a massive boost in the last major release (11.x): https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-partitioning.htm...
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by photonios 7y ago
Thank you Aron for the many hours of enjoyment that I got out of your character in DS9. Here's to more of those hours! Just started rewatching DS9 for the fourth time.

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