thejdude

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by thejdude 12y ago
My experience is the absolute opposite, but maybe that's the difference between the US (or CA) market and the German one. Germany seems to pay people by seniority, not by their abilities (which, I think, sometimes causes unemployment f
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by thejdude 12y ago
Yes, that's the part you SEE. But I'm pretty sure your boss doesn't pay your "paid vacation" out of his own money - it's part of the calculation of the total package they have to pay you (including your desk, t
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by thejdude 12y ago
And why is that? If you make a profit, you sell something for more than the sum of its parts. You add value and get something in return. Property is just stuff you kept after an exchange. Money is a medium of exchange. Where is the unfree p
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by thejdude 12y ago
I was talking about the tone, which sounded like a personal attack to me. HN used to have a more civil conversational tone. Reddit always seemed divided to me, lots of leftists and lots of libertarians. Maybe the Paulians were noisier and m
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by thejdude 12y ago
I didn't get that you were talking about a book, sorry. If you say that basing all interactions around money or segregating people into different groups that get different service can be a bad idea, I agree.
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by thejdude 12y ago
I'd say if there is a distortion or limiting arrangement, it's not a free market, and thus its participants behave differently, because they can't freely take their decisions. If people take their decisions freely, quite ofte
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by thejdude 12y ago
Ok. It sounded pretty harsh over here. Regarding markets: they are only the sum of the people that constitute them. Not all reasons or incentives for actions in a market have to be monetary. IOW: if something is of value to people, it wil
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by thejdude 12y ago
> "Do you have a degree?" -- "I sure do, I graduated with MS in coffee arts (MsCA) from Starbucks University, Phoenix". Or just got a "PhD in applied lobbying from Lockheed". Not arguing against public fundi
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by thejdude 12y ago
Wow. HN really IS the reddit of a few years ago... You can have your opinion, but if you can't behave in public, please bury your ad-hominem s___ in someone else's backyard.
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by thejdude 12y ago
I agree, except that people in Europe aren't paid for their holidays, but for their work. Companies are simply mandated to give you 4 weeks+ off per year - that money is of course deducted from what they would pay you otherwise. Not sa
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by thejdude 12y ago
At least with smoking there CAN be an indulgent experience, as with good wine, good chocolate, good coffee, great tea ... Coke is just sugared soda, or artificially sweetened soda. (Yes, I also drink a can of soda once in a while, but that&
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by thejdude 12y ago
Sure, a plane consists of more than aluminium. But since the topic of the post was aluminium usage, I think the 3400 planes number is exactly spot-on. Nobody cares how much a complete Boeing weights, because that's not the topic.
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by thejdude 12y ago
I totally agree. IMHO: Firefox's new look is better than Chrome, and its feel has always been better. I try out Chrome every year or so, but it seems like Mozilla pays more attention to detail in their GUI design than Google. On Androi
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by thejdude 12y ago
It's definitely a large field, and management is hard in its own way. The way to measure developer performance is easy though: you have to look back instead of forward, then you see what people get (or rather: got) done. Sure, if you&#
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by thejdude 12y ago
Still, if an OS cannot deal with me having a platter disk, it is SLOW (regarding file system access). Windows is the same, slooooooow. Linux is seriously fast even with a HDD. Of course, my next PC (whenever I'm gonna need one) will ha
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by thejdude 12y ago
Still, we NEED higher salaries in Germany. I've seen so many people waste away on stupid code that should never have been written. (Instead, how about using a framework that automates away 90% of grunt development?) Most of the time I&
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by thejdude 12y ago
Mind if I ask where you can get, say, 75k in Germany? I have >5 years experience, I'm consistently rated great by my bosses, but I have a hard time getting paid a good salary for it. Job offers are only by body-leasing companies, wh
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by thejdude 12y ago
Um yes, but 3k is also a veery comfortable salary to live on in Germany. 90+% of the population don't even make 2k (net salary), IIRC. I think with 50k gross per year (or was it even 40k?) you're already "upper class" in
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by thejdude 12y ago
Maybe he can buy their shares. Just heard they want to go public with Rocket Internet.
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by thejdude 12y ago
38k€ is I'd say an entry-level wage in Germany (in cities; less in rural areas, more in places like Munich). The maximum marginal tax rate is 42% in Germany. As a developer, you'll very like pay only 25% of your income as taxe
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by thejdude 12y ago
No it doesn't. At least from here it looks like they took the posts down as well.
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by thejdude 12y ago
I think as soon as any method takes up a noticeable part of execution time, it has been optimized all the way by the Hotspot or whatever your JVM uses. After all, you want to profile your app's hot spots ;-)
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by thejdude 12y ago
It's great because you can use whatever backend you're comfortable with in your setup. Are you a JUL guy? Great, configure JUL then. I took a totally baroque project setup (they just don't know WTH they're doing) with so
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by thejdude 12y ago
At least with Maven you have a standardized build process in every project. Checkout the code and be productive right away. It structures dependencies and project layout. Currently I'm in a large enterprise project where the build depa
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by thejdude 12y ago
Maybe you're right and class 2 helps the company care more about quality and actually paying their developers (but if they don't, why do the devs work for them?), but I think I work in a class 2 project, and it's the worst pr