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by rcbdev 3y ago
Working for an American company in, say, Austria is nothing like working in the USA. People may not know this, but their counterparts working at the Austrian subsidiary are without a doubt under union contracts. Add to this free university
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by rcbdev 3y ago
As someone who has managed to accidentally and completely fry a Windows install with an unchecked C programme when I started to learn programming - there's still you can screw up using just code.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Most people can live in a rent-capped MRG apartment for two years and then immediately qualify for social housing and stay there until the day they drop dead - seems like a very affordable system to me, nonetheless. The salaries are compara
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by rcbdev 3y ago
I have an anecdote contrary to this - When I was in the US, a friend explained to me how drug dealers tended to live in private trailer parks in part because it was harder for law enforcement to get into the general area without a warrant.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
In Vienna they have this interesting thing where any apartment built before the 50s is rent-capped, so investors usually won't go for the very picturesque old-town properties. This combined with 1/4th of apartments in the city bei
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by rcbdev 3y ago
They could have a much cheaper office in Vienna though - if the U.N. backdrop was a main motivator. Not seeing too many international career opportunities here, sadly.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
You responded to a comment talking about "Germany's and Austria's Universities of Applied Science" - which countries did you mean if not Germany and Austria?
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by rcbdev 3y ago
You seem to be really misinformed about the legal definitions of these tertiary education institutes in Austria. Universities of applied sciences are governed under the "Fachhochschulgesetz"[1] (Universities of Applied Sciences La
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Something very similar in Austria - you can get a free Master's degree (1-2 years) by doing a study programme ("Studiengang") at a university, that will also qualify you for a PhD. Or you can pay for a Master's course pr
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by rcbdev 3y ago
There's a group of Italians who are well on their way to release a commercial Open Hardware PowerPC notebook, for all that's worth: https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/de/
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by rcbdev 3y ago
In my country 98% of all workers are under union contracts - this has always just been a fact of my working life and I never knew how different it could be in other places until rather recently. The lack of unionization and mandatory PTO in
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by rcbdev 3y ago
I am from Austria and yes I am free to send my kid to any public school in the country that will have them. I've even had times in my own childhood where I lived in one state, went to school in another and then switched schools twice w
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Absolutely untrue - Every company and university I've ever worked with or for in Europe used Microsoft 365. Not a single exception.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
For the record - This is absolutely not the case in Europe as far as I can tell.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
> They defined a language in terms of itself. Reminds me of the plethora of compilers written in the languages they're meant to compile. (Roslyn, Java compiler, F# compiler, etc.)
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Many companies also still rock Fujitsu or Unisys mainframes - IBM isn't the only player in this town. But at least Fujitsu's mainframe EOL is in 2035, so that won't be more than historical trivia soon.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Usually we look to the US as the epicenter of tech trends that then ripple to the rest of the world - but when it comes to the mass layoffs the strength of Europe's worker rights and unions really leads to severely different experience
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Austria was never really a sought after destination for skilled immigrants since WW2 - just compare the quality of Turks or Yugoslavs that arrived in Switzerland vs. those that wanted to live in Austria. This is even quantifiable to some ex
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by rcbdev 3y ago
I'm from Vienna - CoL compared to salaries here is pretty high but managable with social housing. It's just that my friend working for a subsidiary of my employer in Zürich makes 3x as much, gets to keep a lot more of that money d
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Agreed. However, since I don't like being underpayed, I will pack my things and move to Switzerland after having received my taxpayer-funded education. Sincerely, a tech worker
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by rcbdev 3y ago
> [...] it's the opposite of truth. Poverty is always breeding much better than the middle class I'm constantly seeing this idea, and if anything, it misses the forest for the trees. Fertility rates fall when standards of livin
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by rcbdev 3y ago
I feel like the discourse on worker rights / work-life balance and demographic issues are more decoupled than they should be. Low birth-rates are provably related to the ability of parents to spend time with their children. This combin
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by rcbdev 3y ago
I'd love to see the map they used in your geography class.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
> Nowhere else matters. Until the California people want to move somewhere liveable with good public transport, low crime, low poverty/homelessness and sensible social safety for their children. Then - and only then - does Europe mi
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Surprised they didn't mention the Bekenstein bound. It has clear implications on how to calculate the amount of information contained within a 3D volume of space in our universe and how that maps to other dimensionalities. I've ev
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Tangentially related - At my university we've had a few reports of exchange students from Asia using ridiculous-looking glasses with camera gear and an ear piece to cheat on exams. The lengths people go to sometimes amazes and amuses m
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Are you by chance affiliated with the secrets manager solution you've attempted to promote a fair few times in this thread?
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by rcbdev 3y ago
It really doesn't have to be so. You can reasonably buy a really nice vacation flat at the beach in, say, Albania for 30-60k€ or refurbish a Japanese "Akiya" (abandoned home) for similar cost. If you're into skiing and b
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by rcbdev 3y ago
> if he said or wrote that at all See “TUG LINES”, Issue 32 [1] > it's likely related to what Kay understood by the term, or the implementation as a dynamically typed, originally interpreted language done at Xerox PARC I think th
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by rcbdev 3y ago
As I said, if you are FAANG or similar - which browsers are - the trade-off might be worth it, yes. But only a handful of software projects out there are browsers or video games. That's the whole point of the argument. ;)

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