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by sbacic 6y ago
I keep hearing about these Slack groups/channels but have no idea where to look. Any suggestions? I mostly deal in front-end stuff.
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by sbacic 6y ago
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE Croatia, 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
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by sbacic 6y ago
I think the most important part in developing empathy is adopting another person's perspective. By this, I mean not only "stepping into their shoes" (while keeping your own mindset) but actually _thinking_ as they do. This is
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by sbacic 6y ago
I don't think this issue is specific to Spain - judging by the rest of the comments and my own personal experience (Croatia) this problem seems endemic to much of southern Europe. I suspect at least part of the issue is due to climate.
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by sbacic 6y ago
I think I understand your issue now. And yes, in that case I totally agree - all else being equal, an employee of the outsourcing company will care less about your success than your own employee. But now you're comparing employees, not
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by sbacic 6y ago
> he wants to be proud of his work. This. A thousand times this. A sense of professional pride is absolutely critical in becoming good at your craft, regardless of what that craft might be.
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by sbacic 6y ago
Sorry, but I'm not sure I follow. You talk a lot about "need to have" but don't actually say _how_ a salaried employee is supposed to have these virtues (as opposed to a contractor) simply by the fact that he's empl
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by sbacic 6y ago
I don't think it has much to do with managerial ability - both employees and outside contractors are in it for the money and their loyalty start and ends there. No amount of managerial prowess is going to change that. In fact, I'd
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by sbacic 6y ago
You can substitute "outsourcing" with "employees" and everything you wrote would still apply. In fact, I'm not sure if even the basic premise is correct - sure, you need a partner to handle the technical side but as
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by sbacic 6y ago
As a front-end dev, 3 things matter to me: Can I trash the database without affecting the rest of the team? Can I work on branches other than staging/prod (in case staging/prod is down or there is a bug)? Can I perform common task
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by sbacic 6y ago
I almost always read the top comment (and possibly some of the follow-ups) before reading the article. I rarely comment as I rarely feel like it's worth it (in other words, I don't think my comments could improve the discussion, w
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by sbacic 6y ago
I'm writing a personal kanban app with everything I miss from existing apps available on the market: pomodoro, estimates, statistics, etc...
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by sbacic 6y ago
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE Croatia, 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
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by sbacic 6y ago
I've been struggling with this issue for a long time. I'm currently writing a personal kanban app and will probably hook into _ps_ to see how I spend my daily time and then take it from there. I figure the best approach is to firs
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by sbacic 6y ago
> What does that even mean? What's the difference between paying for something or having the cost fall on ones shoulder's? The difference is that you get it either way and only really pay the cost back if you make over a certai
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by sbacic 6y ago
I think the there are two important things that aren't being mentioned: First; in Europe, you don't pay for free healthcare with your taxes. It's free, after all. There's nothing stopping you from prioritizing QoL over m
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by sbacic 6y ago
> Why aren’t there decent portfolios to look at? It's a chicken and egg problem. Most clients want to see previous work, but don't want their project to eventually become part of that previous work. The issue is compounded by t
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by sbacic 6y ago
In principle, yes. But things are not always so clear cut. In certain European countries, there is a special tax regime that lets you pay very little tax as long as you stay under a specified limit (the highest is, AFAIK, €100k/year an
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by sbacic 6y ago
> Bangalore that are getting paid peanuts because they can be exploited Um, that's not what is happening. I can't vouch specifically for Bangalore, but if you can work fully remotely, the savings in taxes and COL are ridiculous
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by sbacic 6y ago
I think a much better alternative to this is a SFF-PC. The smallest comes in at about 4.7 liters and includes a discrete GPU and ITX PSU.
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by sbacic 6y ago
I would say general purpose libraries that can be used by other developers. A good example might be, for example, a better touchpad driver to match the Macbook one, as someone recently mentioned. Or for me personally: a macOS Sidecar clone.
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by sbacic 6y ago
I use Linux for work and use an iPad for stuff like reading and browsing. The difference is night and day. The UI/UX is the main reason I'd switch to a Mac, if only they were competitively priced and didn't have some horrible
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by sbacic 6y ago
I think a one bedroom apartment in the city center is a very reasonable expectation. I also don't think celebrities and financial types compete with the average software developer for said one bedroom apartments. I think your comment p
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by sbacic 6y ago
Are you trying to say it's unreasonable to expect a freelancer to start contributing within a couple of days? Or the opposite? Because I can't remember a single project where I wasn't expected to contribute something immediat
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by sbacic 6y ago
> We already see this - as someone living in Silicon Valley, I can't take the vast majority of remote jobs because they don't pay enough to live on here. You also can't afford _not_ to take them since the high cost of livi
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by sbacic 6y ago
And that's before taking into account the huge amount of money you save with lower taxes and living costs. I've occasionally entertained the idea of moving to a big city like London or New York for work. Every time I did the math
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by sbacic 6y ago
Interesting. How is the market in London for frontend devs, specifically ones working in the React stack (plus some GraphQL)? I was in London last year and got the impression that it's a pretty lackluster market - high cost of living,
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by sbacic 7y ago
That doesn't make any of them European companies per se - their main HQs are still in the US, correct? > But saying all of of FAANGs cost centers are in the US is factually wrong. Care to shed some light on this? What exactly does F
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by sbacic 7y ago
> ...if you disagree with the result you have access to the court system (not "a government official") to work it out. You also have access to the court in case of actual tax evasion, though I assume the odds would not exactly
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by sbacic 7y ago
> GAARs ultimately boil down to the question of "did you do this rather than a more obvious transaction structure simply to pay less tax", a sort of Occam's razor. Okay, so it is a "just trust us" system of decid

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