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by sbacic 5y ago
If I could answer that question, I'd be doing management consulting, not software development. But I think a good first step is to just be aware of it. Many people don't even notice these subtle biases. Once you're aware of t
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by sbacic 5y ago
> Convincing, nutritious, cheap artificial meat could turn the world vegetarian. I'm not so sure about that. I've recently had the opportunity to try a vegetarian diet for a week. I did not enjoy it, I found the food tasteless
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by sbacic 5y ago
Yes, but as I said, that's a slippery slope to walk on - you're not there to make friends or have fun - you're there to do work. The whole point of that arrangement is that you do something that something else values enough t
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by sbacic 5y ago
> Except for marginal cases, it's not about how good you are at your job. You just have to be liked while being sufficiently good. I think this is dangerous ground to thread. I don't like to work with assholes any more than the
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by sbacic 5y ago
SEEKING WORK | Europe | Remote ok Front-end developer with over 4 years of freelance experience, mostly on greenfield projects but also occasionally with established codebases. Used to working alone with minimal supervision or in small team
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by sbacic 5y ago
I've never slept anywhere as well as on a boat. Even if the boat is moving, the waves are smashing against the structure and it feels like you're in a washing machine it's still the most restful sleep I've had.
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by sbacic 5y ago
I'm using Hasura for that right now to handle the API + database part. Fairly satisfied with GraphQL API generators so far - they get the ball running quickly and take over the boring CRUD parts so that I don't have to.
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by sbacic 5y ago
Framework looks interesting, even though the CPU is not as good as the M1. Pity it's only available in the US.
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by sbacic 5y ago
I agree. I've been meaning to buy an Apple laptop to develop on for years now and constantly kept putting it off; first because of quality concerns that have no place in a device with such a price tag and now because of this. If only t
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by sbacic 5y ago
Competing for foreign investment is not stealing. What you're implying is that small countries should know their place, not rock the boat too much and above all else, never dare compete with bigger countries...or else. Needless to sa
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by sbacic 5y ago
EU cohesion funds and other forms of block-wide handouts are not a substitute for functioning and competitive economies. The ability to compete on taxes is absolutely critical for these small countries to attract business and retain their
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by sbacic 5y ago
No we do not. Tax harmonization is being aggressively pushed by certain member states for their own benefit and to the detriment of other, less developed member states.
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by sbacic 5y ago
Here's a back of the napkin calculation I'm using: ( Yearly Salary - taxes - (monthly rent * 12) ) / months (or days or hours) worked This lets me know how much I'm getting per unit of time once I deduct all the expenses
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by sbacic 5y ago
Out of curiosity, what do you do? Which tech stack? What does your employer do?
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by sbacic 5y ago
> The biggest surprise for me in the current market is how employers and companies are complaining about the lack of skilled people but are unwilling to shift their own behavior to become more desirable to workers. I don't think it&
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by sbacic 5y ago
I'm genuinely curious - is interacting with recruiters now considered a bad move career-wise? As in, because of the scummy tactics some of them use, will it make it harder to land a job in the future due to the shady things they do wit
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by sbacic 5y ago
No, I mean removed so that everybody has to pay it. I'm just hoping they won't get to pull similar shenanigans this time since this is a global agreement.
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by sbacic 5y ago
I just hope the 750 million euro limit doesn't suddenly vanish "somewhere along the line" because "countries couldn't agree" and we end up with the whole Digital VAT Directive circus all over again - that is to
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by sbacic 5y ago
> Worded cynically: bring tax avoidance to the middle class and the poor, and it'll be shut down promptly. This already exists in certain places and under certain conditions. Several EU member states offer very generous tax rates pr
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by sbacic 5y ago
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE Europe Front-end developer with over 4 years of freelance experience, mostly on greenfield projects but also occasionally with established codebases. Used to working alone with minimal supervision or in small teams. Ha
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by sbacic 5y ago
> For that matter what do regular (amateur) boaters do if their sailboat or motorized boat get caught in a bad storm on the open ocean? I am far from an expert on this topic, but for sailboats; sea anchors and storm sails. The first is a
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by sbacic 5y ago
I was referring to the bladder's capacity to store breathable air. I'm well aware how buoyant an inflated bag (or a wetsuit, for that matter) can be :)
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by sbacic 5y ago
Yep. One of the first issues you'll encounter when learning to dive is getting your body to sink (that's what all those lead weights are for). I also don't think an inflatable goatskin has enough air capacity to be relevant.
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by sbacic 5y ago
> Operating a two-sided marketplace is one hell of a moat. Nobody's displacing eBay, Amazon, or the Google Play Store anytime soon; even Craigslist seems to be getting by. Here in Argentina, MercadoLibre established an eBay clone be
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by sbacic 5y ago
So let me get this straight - it's a bad deal for the restaurants, it's an increasingly bad deal for the deliverymen and it depends on VCs subsidizing it to even work? How did something like this even get funded? I mean, I could
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by sbacic 5y ago
I'm curious - why is there no open source solution to replace these apps? If not with full functionality, then at least with 80% of the features? The day to day running of the system for each particular market could be handled by an NG
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by sbacic 5y ago
That doesn't really make sense to me - a market of that size ought to have niches and market segmentation. After all, no matter how generic and broad-appealing the script is, I don't think my 60+ year old mother is going to get ex
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by sbacic 5y ago
This! I am absolutely flabbergasted by the difference in the quality of the visual effects and acting when compared to the dialogue and storytelling. I feel like the script is either intentionally dumbed down or that the script receives a d
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by sbacic 5y ago
I don't think that I'm the only person that struggles with pretty much anything that doesn't bring instant gratification, be it hobbies, chores or starting a business. Most businesses fail anyway and knowing that even if you
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by sbacic 5y ago
I'd like to point out that every one of the "correct" examples is longer, sometimes much longer, that the "wrong" example preceding it. I've found that I usually start with the "correct" way and end u

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