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by soneca 4y ago
I like it a lot. In my personal computer, I have Fedora 36 with Gnome 42. The “Awesome Tiles” extension makes it great. I prefer it than the new Mac my employer gave me.
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by soneca 4y ago
> "The ultimatum to produce an estimate ruined my entire weekend." I think my work-related superpower is that stupid things that happen in the work doesn't bother me at all. I would just give an estimate at the same conv
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by soneca 4y ago
> ”what I'm hearing is you don't even know what is actually taught in a CS degree” This is accurate. I don’t. My impression is “algorithms and data structures”, which is fuzzy for me. I don’t care at all about algorithms. Dat
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by soneca 4y ago
Sorry, I didn't understand the underlying message that your sarcasm was intended to pass.
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by soneca 4y ago
That’s fair. But I also know a lot about what I can’t do. I don’t have the knowledge (and maybe the capacity to acquire the knowledge) to work on really complex stuff. Like, solutions that work well on the scale of hundreds of millions of u
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by soneca 4y ago
I jiggle code around until it works. But I am also very smart. If it doesn’t work by jiggling, I learn or invent a way to make it work. I am a self-taught programmer. I copy, but I also innovate. I don’t follow at all the academic approach
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by soneca 4y ago
You chose to nitpick a possible implication of my comment with ”Are you saying…” . That’s silly. So let me actually say something about that point so we can have a conversation on stuff that I said, not about your imagination. I believe it
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by soneca 4y ago
Please read the article. The designer explains the use case. It is not a template to use anywhere. It is designed specifically for a habit-tracking app. It doesn't matter at all if it is unusable in most situations where you would be u
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by soneca 4y ago
Once a day for a few things that you are tracking (and really want to improve) doesn't seem to fall into my "constant" definition. Hearthstone would have dozens (hundreds?) of those animations on every single game you play. H
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by soneca 4y ago
Start applying to jobs on American companies, that hire globally remote, that match your skills. Be upfront that you live in Brazil and don’t want to relocate, always mention that in the first email, it saves a lot of time for both parts. A
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by soneca 4y ago
If you live in France a “local job” means get a job in France. I did not mean to get a job where you were born. Also, I do think an onsite first job is better than remote anyway. I have a degree in Economics. I worked in the social sector f
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by soneca 4y ago
Yes. And as long as I am not staying too much time in the US. One week for meeting the team is ok. 3 months not ok, you need a work visa. Also, I am a contractor. If they wanted to hire me as a full time employee with typical benefits they
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by soneca 4y ago
About salary. I earned $12k/year on my first dev job in a big startup in Brazil (it was a decent salary in 2017 for a junior dev in Brazil). Then I moved to the US and earned $67k/year working onsite on a small startup in LA as a
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by soneca 4y ago
It's harder for junior devs. When I started, the remote junior was seemingly impossible. So my first job was at a local startup. But that was pre-pandemic, so there might be a chance now. Still, there is a ton to learn as a junior deve
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by soneca 4y ago
Sure. I don’t mind keeping it async and public in this thread. But if you prefer to do it privately, let me know and I ping you on the email you have on your profile.
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by soneca 4y ago
Front-end developer here. I use exclusively AngelList and HN's "Who is hiring?" (my last 3 jobs came from those places), but that's because of my particular case. I am Brazilian, no intention to relocate, but I want to f
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by soneca 4y ago
From my personal experience using Google, it is the best time for black hat and grey hat SEO since "keyword stuffing" became inefective. As the internet is a lot bigger these days, I would go as far as saying that we are in the go
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by soneca 4y ago
> ” I've found myself using this pretty actively with small groups of friends” Would people listen to these small updates? Audio is pretty big in WhatsApp. But it’s widely accepted that audio messages are good for people who send
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by soneca 4y ago
I agree a lot with that. I see advice from famous writers saying how you need to do your own marketing even if published by famous firms. Go to events, podcasts, interviews. I created a “Substack for fiction” because I wanted to publish mys
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by soneca 4y ago
But the US is not always willing to let those people in. Currently you have to get lucky on a lottery for example.
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by soneca 4y ago
Or they will get great talent from outside SF and do great.
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Show HN: A riddle game to find the right spots in famous paintings(paintingpuzzles.com)
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by soneca 4y ago
I lost. Much harder for my poor non-native English speaker vocabulary. On third guess when it said I had 89 options, I couldn’t think of more than one word. A feedback: the “you lost” screen passes too quickly, I couldn’t read the word of t
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by soneca 4y ago
My first reaction is a sum of “stick with the devil you know” and “the simpler the better”. So I would be against changing. I like what we have in Brazil (for executive elections), and I think it is better than what they have in the US. But
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by soneca 4y ago
That's the system we have in Brazil and we don't have a less polarized political situation currently, neither a stronger democracy, I believe.
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by soneca 4y ago
I am not a top developer or even close to it (I don't or want to have this trait of "relentless pursuit of self-improvement" ), but I have worked with a couple. It seems to me that being controlling is part of the problem. W
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by soneca 4y ago
No, much less TC than FAANG. I earn low six figures and value my stock options at zero. So more than any other software development job in the world.
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by soneca 4y ago
> ” If one can't get a job at the top corps, one shouldn't enter the field. The risk is just too much” What?? I think I never read anything in HN that I disagree more with. I got fired December 1st last year because the compa
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by soneca 4y ago
I am not sure what the metric of “bottom” you are using, but I am earning 14x the salary of my first job as a junior developer in 2017. About 6x the salary of the job I had before changing careers (I took a pay cut when I started as a junio
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by soneca 4y ago
I agree with GP. The article's author is completely wrong IMO. If there is a difference in the approach of a twenty-something and a forty years old to start a software development career is not in the language choice. I think both sh

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