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by shetill 5y ago
I'm more interested in how do you even get noticed by FAANG in the first place. I never get contacted by agents about them and applying just gets me ghosted every time?
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by shetill 5y ago
you could have just said friends. Anyway best way is through hobbies and common interests. If you have some interests which could be shared with people then find online groups first and gradually see if they have real life events. Don'
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by shetill 5y ago
you would use something like Flutter
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by shetill 5y ago
I think this summarises it best
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Ask HN: Does modern software development need any coding?
7 points by shetill 5y ago|14 comments
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by shetill 5y ago
you honestly think they are this alert and actually work? Honestly most of them just watch tv all day long and sit out their shift. I've seen people's bicycles get stolen right in front of the security guy. Most security guys are
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by shetill 5y ago
you make it sound like it's a named condition, which one is it?
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by shetill 5y ago
Funny to see how many people are against what you're doing, not realising that there must be plenty of people in their companies that do the same. Not everyone has to be a top performer, the point of a job is getting paid one way or an
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by shetill 5y ago
I've been in exactly the same situation as you. For me it happened because I was in a miserable team and company that didn't do anything significant or properly. I was constantly left without work and bored so at that point I stop
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by shetill 5y ago
As someone without 3D experience who's done 3D modelling I can tell you drawing 2D sprites is way more difficult, I rather do 3D modelling than that so if anything it makes the development harder. But cool concept anyway.
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by shetill 5y ago
Feel like they're solving problem that doesn't exist. Who in their right mind would bother with VR facebook when it's something that mostly grandparents use to occasionally see family pics. Honestly if facebook disappeared to
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by shetill 5y ago
not sure if Americans make the difference
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by shetill 5y ago
You must be having the definition of a laugh: > I had about $25k of student loans to pay off... EU wouldn't even have to think about that. I went to UK university after 2012 meaning the price per year was £9000 so for 3 years that w
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by shetill 5y ago
only OP said this number for Netherlands but it's not too far off for average companies in London
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by shetill 5y ago
thanks for clarifying I always thought NI contributes to NHS. Shame that it's not, makes sense now why NHS is in this state...
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by shetill 5y ago
Only way to make comparable money in Europe is by contracting. For some reason full-time employees are massively underpaid compared to US and don't tell me about living cost comparison. Life in London for example is just as expensive i
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by shetill 5y ago
if you don't mind can you give examples on how you started making a living out of it and what other programming related jobs you mean?
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Ask HN: Are you passionate about your career in software
4 points by shetill 5y ago|2 comments
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by shetill 5y ago
I've worked in both and bigger companies definitely take better care of their employees in my opinion
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by shetill 5y ago
not sure what you mean, you are always an employee anyway, smaller company doesn't guarantee that you will be treated any differently
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by shetill 5y ago
- bad Glassdoor reviews or not enough reviews (I would be looking for at least 1k reviews to consider a company). Anything 4+ stars with 1k+ reviews should be good - most adverts coming from random (and new) 3rd party recruiters outside the
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Ask HN: How do you deal with dev interviews
2 points by shetill 5y ago|2 comments
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by shetill 5y ago
pay has gone up because expenses have gone up. if you had your life sorted since 20 years ago you obviously wouldn't notice
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by shetill 5y ago
exactly what I thought, there is a lot of accounting, tax and legal things to consider when contracting.
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by shetill 5y ago
Thanks for your insight that gives me a good idea of what it's like. It does seem that to make more you have to be more client facing and less of a developer which is not what I'm looking for. Specializing is something I also thin
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Ask HN: Which UK consultancies offer best dev salaries and salary progression?
7 points by shetill 5y ago|10 comments
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by shetill 6y ago
Sounds like literally every office I've been in. Only thing we can do is start prioritising remote only companies to the point of employers seeing that they lose good talent if they don't go remote
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Ask HN: How do you find a business idea and motivation to leave the 9-5 grind
43 points by shetill 6y ago|27 comments
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Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales(bbc.co.uk)
492 points by shetill 7y ago|242 comments
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Ask HN: How do you keep your programming motivation up?
114 points by shetill 7y ago|130 comments

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