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by rb2k_ 10y ago
The chats are end-to-end encrypted, so there is no plain text anyone could "mine"
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
Another interesting compression project is "Zstandard" Open source, high performance, decent compression and a "dictionary mode" that's especially fun when it comes to compressing a lot of small data. http:/&#
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
Huge props to the team working on this. I once maintained something similar in Ruby ( https://github.com/rb2k/viddl-rb ), and the amount of changes necessary just to keep a hand full of plugins up-to-date is crazy.
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
At least in my personal case, I think it helped accelerate things a bit. I'm originally from Germany, so my professional network I developed while being a student turned almost useless after moving to the US. I could have probably trie
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
I personally got contacted by Facebook, Google and LinkedIn themselves on LinkedIn with job opportunities. I worked for LinkedIn for a bit and am now working at Facebook. While I visit the site/app only every other week, I still think
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
80k/year probably includes the 28-ish% "Lohnnebenkosten" (incidental wage costs) So the actual paycheck would be around 60k. I think that's pretty ok for Berlin? Having worked in both, Germany and Silicon Valley, I'
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
She's also the daughter of a priest, so we basically have all bases covered :)
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
Usually those providers don't "buy" it from you. They do fun things like giving you a loan with the options as a collateral. You would then default on the loan at the point of IPO. So theoretically you don't sell them an
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
At least for one of my previous employers, the secondary market was not interested. I personally wouldn't count on it unless one is working for a highly visible startup ;)
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
If you ever wanted to filter by IP so you don't end up with tons of duplicates, it would be a nice usecase for the native hyperloglog support in Redis: http://antirez.com/news/75 http://redis.io/co
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
It's not that "being European" matters with the GC, the part that matters is "not from India or China", the waiting times for those two is crazy long :)
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
And to spare some people the search: Usually $20 for the Philips vs $15 for the GE Link at 800 vs 750 Lumen :) I only have the colored Hue lights and the white GE Link so far. I might buy a Lux just to see how it works.
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
> got me from nothing to L1 to Green Card in about 13 months European citizen + EB2?
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
> I am far from being a Go expert but you can see this has been written by Java developers. The same was true of their Ruby libraries. Thanks to the auto-generation, super annoying to debug when things went sideways :)
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
The H1B chances are kinda slim. I'd personally recommend finding more than 1 employer willing to sponsor. Alternatively there is always the non-profit ones that are cap exempt.
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
> nice to earn $120k in Silicon Valley > $3500/m rent for a 1br apt I think you are a bit off on both :) Salary: As a Software Engineer, chances are you can a bit more (especially including bonus + RSU). If you're "se
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
> it literally can make you waste years of your life Not sure why you would consider those years "wasted". You're working, gaining experience and making money. Since the job market is great, an H-1B isn't really somet
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
I steal the content of all of our conversations to gather more internet points.
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
> you're hired to write specs for external companies and verify that the results are conferment Sounds like a hilarious game of chinese whispers / telephone. :)
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
Maybe only partially related, but one of the things that surprised me the most when moving to the US from Germany, was seeing the large Mercedes star on one of the buildings while driving through Sunnyvale [0]. A few days later, I found mys
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
I think that might be the main difference. I worked in Germany and in the US. The only time that recruiters got a tad annoying was when I was working in Germany and got 2-3 UK agencies. By far not as bad as the post makes it seem, but some
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
Same for me when I was moving to Germany. The only question I got was: "Is there a roommate or somebody else that could take over the account?"
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Acquia Raises $55M for Online Customer Relationships(techcrunch.com)
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
And another one if you are in the top x% of your study
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
Another interesting part of the equation is BAföG. From Wikipedia: > The Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz (mostly known as BAföG, its abbreviation) is the Federal Training Assistance Act for students at secondary schools and universitie
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
Same here, even got one of the last years of the draft :) In the end, the money I paid is barely anything compared to the salary it resulted in. Especially considering that I was able to get BAföG which basically paid for itself in the end.
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
You can't easily attend university unless you went to the "Gymnasium". There are ways for those who didn't, but it's a lot harder. > People unable to attend college end up partially subsidizing those who can. How
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
That's on of the biggest upsides of Airport lounges. They are usually not noisy and actually have seats that people can sit on for a prolonged period of time. For Americans, just having a credit card with a "priority pass select
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
> because IBM's tools & tech could greatly aid Compose in developing their stuff faster, more robustly, etc. Could you give an example for that?
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
At my current employer, we run about 10k+ EC2 instances 24/7. DO / Linode will mostly be cheaper and proooobably offer a better price/performance ratio. You will however get a lot less options (especially GPU wise)

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