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by rcbdev 3y ago
How many people do you know who work on browsers though?
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by rcbdev 3y ago
This is a very specific example since video games genuinely require loads of resources to run at the end user side. Most software projects aren't client-side behemoths like that.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Imagine you have a team migrating the federal tax system of a smaller country - you can choose to develop the project in C and have X amount of devs work on it for 3-4 years 40-50h a week. The resulting code base will be huge and probably h
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Dijkstra is a wonderful source of memorable quotes and hot takes from the early days of software. A sampling: > “The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full hum
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by rcbdev 3y ago
I'm very surprised they don't even mention the efficiency of the developer in this context - C might be the greener language once the system is developed, but it's somewhat common sense that a higher-level language should sig
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Those we'll probably need again in WWIV to fight with sticks and rocks - after our modern infrastructure has been pulverized.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Just look at all the high profile academic fraud cases in politics - Von Der Leyen (President of the EU Commission, plagiarized half of her dissertation, zero consequences), Aschbacher (Former Minister in Austria, her thesis was filled with
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Another very underrated consequence of mass birth control is the amount of estrogens flooded into our drinking water. It's hypothesized that the amount of breast tissue men develop these days might be heightened because of this - among
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by rcbdev 3y ago
> We finally have data to back up the benefits of developer experience Any manager who was waiting on the "data" (read: sponsored study) that you need to invest in proper tooling for your devs isn't going to do anything si
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by rcbdev 3y ago
> "When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that it’s run like a business rather than a great engineering firm." - CEO Harry Stonecipher Amazing how that one worked out.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
This is the same thing as developing software against a huge test suite and not thinking about code quality / coupling / sane architecture anymore. Incidentally, this is lived reality for developers on the DB team at Oracle.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
If you're below 30 you'll get social housing immediately after being "stuck" in private rental for 2 years - which, considering the heavy rent price restrictions of the MRG - is more than cheap in Vienna. You'd have
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by rcbdev 3y ago
> if you own your own property outrighht by then, which is almost impossible in Austria. On a dev salary it's more than possible to buy your own home, especially if you take advantage of the govt. loans capped to sub 1% rates (Wohn
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Or they were unmortgaged home owners already - You really don't need that much money to just keep on living for a few months at that point.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Livelier discussion after repost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39029279
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by rcbdev 3y ago
It stands to reason that someone who has travelled to over 60 countries would have the ability to understand what someone is trying to say without being this needlessly pedantic.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Why would you think comparing the developing world with the USA makes in any way sense - do you actually think the US is at the developmental level of India? When comparing similarly wealthy countries the US is absolutely an outlier in this
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by rcbdev 3y ago
With the entire commute debate being what it is I will just point out that in Austria there has been somewhat of a solution to this for a long time now - it's called the "Pendlerpauschale" (commuter's flat rate). If you
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Thankfully the US is a major outlier in this aspect globally.
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> Somehow, the self checkouts in Switzerland are mostly free of both problems. You're experiencing the difference between high- and low-trust societies.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
AdSense is also unavailable in Kosovo. Not sure if it's actually an issue of legality per se.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
In college I remember we had to implement Caesar (explained through addition in residue classes), Vignere (multiplication in residue classes) and then finally RSA (through potentiation in residue classes). I haven't had a mathematical
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Yes - IBM has mastered the art of dying very slowly. Congratulations.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
I tend to ask big companies what the maximum budget allotted for this position is if the negotiation gets too annoying. Usually works - I think it's because they're setting an upper bound so it forces them to go easy on the lowbal
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by rcbdev 3y ago
I doubt most YC founders want to end up managing glorified software sweatshops with an attached patent mill.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
This is absolutely how govt. contracts in EU work - be it IT or construction. I remember public contracts made up ~20% of the Austrian GDP. Siemens infamously had a kickback arm in their Romanian subsidiary, SAP was fined over $200 million
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Developer based from Austria here - I'll counter what most are saying. Europe has a much more stable / less volatile job market, mass layoffs are subject to union negotiations (see Google's debacle in France) and your life wi
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Do not delude yourself - IBM is surviving off of grifting big legacy IBM Technology and public sector contracts through their Consulting arm (...which they also bought, off of PwC) and near-/off-shoring. Most "Quantum Ambassadors&
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I genuinely recommend the Pro C# book from Andrew Troelsen for this - they taught a young impressionable me software development without the OOP evangelism of similar Java / C# books. Most important book in my career to this point, by
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Yes, but unlike behemoths like Broadcom who have successfully locked down certain types of software through patent-fu, Nvidia does not (currently) have a way to stop AMD from creating their own software. This means that with enough incentiv

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