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by rcbdev 3y ago
Could it be because they're a foreign company?
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by rcbdev 3y ago
I've found local governments (city or district) to fill this niche nicely for me. They usually need a guy to help with all kinds of IT stuff, value any kind of automation work and are not as bloated as federal. You help your community
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by rcbdev 3y ago
For some people it's an intentional exercise into full home office.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Especially grad students tend to already have some work or research experience under their belt - meaning they don't necessary have to go through the meat grinder of "new grad" job listings.
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Seagen acquisition completed: "One of the largest investments in Pfizer history"(pfizer.com)
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by rcbdev 3y ago
You are nitpicking my phrasing to fit your rhetoric device - 'finding a partner' does include finding a partner... for the night. Of course people want a meaningful job to some extent. According to Herzberg's dual-factor theo
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Conflating finding a partner (flirting) with finding a place that will transact your time and expertise for money (job searching) says more about how you see the world than you might realize.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
It really goes to show that in DevOps and SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) - where companies arguably make the most money from vendor lock-in - pointless certs dominate. In traditional SWE (Software Engineering) you'd be hard-pressed
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by rcbdev 3y ago
If you use a procedural programming language (PL/SQL, T-SQL, etc.) to model your domain, you're just old-school programming. If you're using a tool like Oracle APEX you're doing Low Code, bar the few escape hatches.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
You forgot about Oracle APEX. I jest, of course.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
I once came across the take that the shift in popular sci-fi from utopian to dystopian lead to a generation of wealth that has been shaped by these stories. The logic is that if you have lots of popular fiction describing the future a certa
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Immigration will be politically encouraged either way for demographic reasons alone. Pensioners are the strongest voting block in most of Europe and it will stay that way for the foreseeable future. Someone needs to be productive for the pe
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by rcbdev 3y ago
There are liability questions attached to formal qualification. A company that sends out unlicensed / untrained staff to fix something will have a harder time convincing a judge that they did their due diligence if something goes wrong
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by rcbdev 3y ago
In my home country of Austria it's easy to distinguish a federally licensed engineer without forbidding the use of that word for people who are not licensed. A licensed engineer may put the title "Ing." in front of his name (
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by rcbdev 3y ago
For engineering-related subjects they're called HTL (engl. "Higher Institutes of Technical Education") and they represent a pillar of Austria's dual education system. Our school system is rather complex[1] but allows for
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by rcbdev 3y ago
I went to vocational school for Software Engineering and then university. Both paths took ~5 years each. Only course I ever had that covered this topic, along with proper DB sharding, was at vocational school. I suspect this is because the
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Here's a slide deck from the Technical University of Dresden that goes into it a little in English language: https://st.inf.tu-dresden.de/files/teaching/ss11/swt/Vorlesu... If you are interested I c
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by rcbdev 3y ago
> The only purpose of software is automation. There is ultimately no other goal. When your peers start talking about frameworks, easiness, a bunch of tools, or other bullshit realize they have absolutely no idea what they are doing. This
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by rcbdev 3y ago
It's majority shareholder is Tencent - arguably it's far more popular with the CCP crowd than with VC money. On a related note I am very sure that Discord is indeed indexed by the Chinese government, just not for us to see.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
One aspect of this that independent site admins often have to deal with is CSAM filtering. Many jurisdictions require it in some form but by definition you can't "roll your own" automated solution because how could you? Centr
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by rcbdev 3y ago
> "The U.S. has more than 4,000 small banks. That's more than any other country in the world and more than all of the small banks in the entire European Union combined." I doubt this. Austria alone has 334 independent Raif
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Lawsuits are not as prone to abuse in the rest of the world as they are in the U.S.A. - No EU judge in their right mind would accept a company suing an independent contractor for "brand damage" when all they've done is public
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by rcbdev 3y ago
While I generally agree with you in these specific cases, I feel like this is a shortsighted form of argument nonetheless. Coming up with an idea begets a scalable implementation of it and it's not very wise to ascribe absolute value s
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Donald J. Trump will again become the leader of the free world. Hilarity ensues.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
In Austria we like to joke about Germany as a "failed state" sometimes, but in comparison it really does ring true. Maybe the country would be better off as a loose confederation instead of a federal union?
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by rcbdev 3y ago
I feel like this is a roundabout form of the Prisoner's Dilemma.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Absolutely untrue in all states of Germany and Austria I've visited. People here would flip out if conveyor belt sushi was priced any other way but with a simple flat rate. The entire world is not just Japan or the USA, please be respe
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by rcbdev 3y ago
In the Austria these topics are usually researched at universities of applied sciences (Fachhochschule) rather than universities (Universität). Some technical universities here attempt to combine these disciplines, to moderate success. For
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Then wait a week for tech support in India to respond because the public load balancer was provisioned with a malformed cert and there is no way to sensibly reconfigure it. Oh wait, that's just the IBM Cloud...
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Anyone who had a LinkedIn profile in tech with open DMs during that time will probably confirm this.

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