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by scalesolved 8y ago
"The other side thinks blockchain is practically useless, the most overhyped technology ever created, a bubble never-before seen in history." I really think the bubble side of crypto currencies is wildly overstated, the total mark
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Why does a store of value need a compelling use-case? If you hold millions in gold it's most likely in a vault doing nothing except taking up space and storage costs alongside it's primary use case of being a store of value.
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by scalesolved 8y ago
I'm British but live in Barcelona, our baby is being raised by the building where I live. The concept of personal space/privacy is much different, practically our whole building come and talk, hang out and play with our baby (9 m
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by scalesolved 8y ago
I like the way you think! I myself have fallen into this trap before, playing video games to relax whilst trying to read technical articles to improve my skills. I didn't realise the danger of it until someone pointed out the waste, i
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by scalesolved 8y ago
I'd really consider Barcelona and here are a few reasons why: * Compact and easy to travel around * Ton of engineers looking for interesting startups, engineering quality is higher than the average in the UK. * Beautiful city, easy to
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by scalesolved 8y ago
The UK is not regaining independence, it was never lost. I think it is naive to assume that in the current political climate with huge actors (US/China/Russia/India) and the potential for trade wars that the UK will come out
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by scalesolved 9y ago
" I say hire instead of promoting because I am assuming that if there were someone with the skills for the job you would already have noticed " Whilst this could be true there also is the possibility for the OP that the business h
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by scalesolved 9y ago
A head start?!? Where in the world do you live and what figure of savings would you need to be able to retire?
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by scalesolved 9y ago
This comment comes across in a very callous way.
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by scalesolved 9y ago
I disagree with this, if you start going above and beyond on your work consistently people/co-workers/the company will get used to this and it becomes your baseline. Why pay more for someone already doing the work? Achieving abov
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by scalesolved 9y ago
Rather than a doom and gloom prediction, I believe that 2018 will seem remote work growing significantly and hopefully with the benefit of bringing money and new services to towns and regions that have suffered brain/money drain over t
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by scalesolved 9y ago
Bitcoin Cash is extremely unlikely to overtake Bitcoin, way less volume and it's losing the appeal of faster and cheaper transactions. Bitcoin has a huge chunk of the current crypto currency market and a massive lead in mind share.
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by scalesolved 9y ago
I don't think you should be so absolute in your assessment, it has many values to a lot of people. Also the traditional banking system is hardly a paragon of virtue when it comes to illegal money laundering, currency manipulation, LIB
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by scalesolved 9y ago
These are fair points, my reply was to the OP who said crypto was 100% hype and speculation which I didn't agree with. I'm giving a data point of crypto being useful for me, yes BTC has been slow at points but I've also had
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by scalesolved 9y ago
Easier said than done at least in Spain. Poor opening hours and poor customer service. It's one of the reasons I'm a fan of crypto for the ease of transferring.
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by scalesolved 9y ago
Whilst there is a lot of hype and speculation I think you are mistaken about there being no real-world applicability. My bank has so many fees and loopholes for sending money even within the EU and they can take days. I owed a friend some
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by scalesolved 9y ago
Sounds like perhaps you should use this skill more often then, perhaps become an interviewer for a remote company like this? https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/141116/freelance-expert-inter... Best of luck and keep yo
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by scalesolved 9y ago
Keep in mind too that Effective Java was recently updated/rewritten a long time after the second edition was printed. So to the OP make sure you look at the third edition and not the more linked to/blogged about/higher visib
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by scalesolved 9y ago
Not at all and it's now how I view senior engineers. True senior engineers though do tend to find the right abstractions more often than other engineers but it doesn't mean they can't make huge mistakes with bigger implicati
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by scalesolved 9y ago
Ha it does make me think of this tweet https://twitter.com/KevlinHenney/status/381021802941906944 You nailed it really, senior engineers code is the most simple looking as generally they've picked the right a
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by scalesolved 9y ago
I'm missing my right hand, on my first visit to the US since 1994 (as a child) I was asked to scan my hand. I politely tried to tell the agent that I'd have to scan my left hand and he started shouting at me without looking at me
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by scalesolved 9y ago
Short it all and profit then right?
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by scalesolved 9y ago
Really depends on the location within Spain like other Euro countries like the UK. In Barcelona or Madrid a Lead engineer at the right firm will be hitting around 100-110k euros.
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by scalesolved 9y ago
The thing that makes me think the system is broken is how they'll avoid larger raises at all costs even if it means losing great engineers with lots of domain knowledge. The cost of replacing this is immense to an organisation, even if
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by scalesolved 9y ago
"Are there some extra responsibilities I can take on to advance my career here?" - That seems a good way to get a lot of extra work with no benefits and a loose date where management will 'revise' whether you are fulfill
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by scalesolved 9y ago
100x the volume of hello world or a basic CRUD app does not make it more impressive than what BTC has achieved. (Disclaimer I hold no BTC).
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by scalesolved 9y ago
As a disabled person I find this perspective incredibly odd. Why have no hesitation? I find most people will ask about my disability when I'm doing something that is not affected by it all, they'll start with the 'hope you&#
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by scalesolved 9y ago
I cannot answer your question but BTC comprises $191 billion market cap out of $342 billion market cap of all crypto currencies. Perhaps they'll diversify into other coins, withdraw to Fiat via this too.
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by scalesolved 9y ago
I'd pay 15% of payment per contract found for remote backend development jobs.
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by scalesolved 9y ago
I think you make some excellent points. I think the oft mental block engineers stumble into is that management are often not clear in articulating that speed for a certain project is more important than reliability or quality for example.

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