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by reloop 10y ago
Considering other factors that is still a fairly small adjustment. I meant what I said that the conditions should be fixed. It should, for instance, be easier for people to change jobs and find jobs on the open market. That would make salar
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by reloop 10y ago
Of course it does? It's getting better, but companies like Google have been very honest with that they (at least in the past) preferred hiring from top schools. The "right language" is of course a bit simplified, but some exp
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by reloop 10y ago
> If you look at the Finnish or Nordic welfare model in general, most of the income transfers go to to middle class who also pays for them. Right, but I don't see the difference to basic income in that regard. How do you avoid a pol
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by reloop 10y ago
> Unions in Finland have abandoned part time and low income people and only look after people who have full time jobs (who are members in the unions). A union is a membership organisation that looks after the interest of it's member
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by reloop 10y ago
I dislike poor working and visa condition as much as, if not more than, anyone else. But other than that I don't really see the problem. You're saying that the people you're hiring aren't particularly talented and get pa
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by reloop 10y ago
> But git itself is decentralized. To me that sort of makes things worse. I have nothing against using GitHub as such, but I also think it's important that projects like this should lead by example. If you centralize things that are
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by reloop 10y ago
To keep it polite and short, that's really not how the world works anymore. These days your (at least financial) success in life is very much correlated with the wealth of your parents. If you're from Sweden (as your username woul
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by reloop 10y ago
Pay is such a variable thing though. I mean, just being able to move, dealing with everything and ending up liking it long term is such a statistical anomaly that it seems silly to generalize pay (even though there might not necessarily be
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by reloop 10y ago
China is in a totally different league though. There's nothing else like it in the world today. Completely understandable that not everyone can or want to go there (especially since there are also many downsides), but you can't ta
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by reloop 10y ago
Uhm, I think you're overthinking it. There's million other challenges and reasons why you might not like Singapore (or another similar city). If you can and want to go you should go.
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by reloop 10y ago
What I'm saying though is that we perceive "coding marathons" as good because we can only do them when we are in a good state. Say you have five coding sessions and in four of them you run into some problem, you get disturbed
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by reloop 10y ago
These arguments always comes up in these types of discussions. In reality though personal information has far less protection than commercial information. If you take nude pictures of yourself you might as well keep your credit card in fram
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by reloop 10y ago
I used to do this early in my career too, until I realized how counterproductive it was. I've found that it isn't "coding marathons" themselves that are good, but being motivated, undisturbed, structured etc. Few people