throwcean

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by throwcean 4y ago
This is the most immature and narcissistic comment I've read in a long time. I think you absolutely don't get what a relationship is about. Having a best friend as partner who is always around. Having kids that give a whole new me
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by throwcean 4y ago
Yea it is truly awful.. e.g. job search has become even worse than it was a few years ago. The only good platform (Stackoverflow) has closed its job search. Most jobs seem to be on Linkedin these days. However for a while now Linkedin job s
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by throwcean 4y ago
> There are all kinds of people in this world, and we all live very different lives. I can agree with that and I certainly don't care what people do with their lives as long as they don't harm others. However there are people c
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by throwcean 4y ago
It is consumed at another scale, so it does more damage in total. That doesn't make alcohol more harmful as a drug.
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by throwcean 4y ago
What a nonsense.. there are millions of people drinking alcohol sporadically and are doing fine. I don't think there are that many people sporadically consuming crack and are doing fine. Now I guess you can define harmful in many ways
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by throwcean 4y ago
Out of personal curiosity.. where would you offer such trainings? As online courses? Or rather in person? How do you find customers/students?
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by throwcean 4y ago
Not defending the prices but it seems to be the same as with paintings. It's just some water color on a piece of paper isn't it? The materials certainly won't make the price of famous artworks.
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by throwcean 5y ago
Similar for me. I also work in a non FAANG but big, well-known company. This year's average salary increase was set to 2.7%, despite having a "record year" and despite last year only getting 1.2% "because of Corona"
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by throwcean 5y ago
Always when these arguments come up I wonder: is there actually a tangible way to measure how much of this was because of Cook (or whatever other CEO)? Maybe he is just riding a wave of success?! Maybe someone else would have the exact same
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by throwcean 5y ago
Good to know. My stack is mostly in the space of Go, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, backends, microservices, networking etc. I think it is kinda one of the hotter topics these days.. so that could help.
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by throwcean 5y ago
Thanks. That's valuable input for sure. I don't have the option to freelance for my current employer but that's OK. I know a few people that might know potential customers They have worked as freelancers themselves. I will no
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by throwcean 5y ago
Hi, thanks for the info. Indeed I know of both these sites but I didn't know the rates possible there. My first rough calculation gave me an estimate of 80€/hour as a lower bound. My target would be 100€ but it wouldn't be a
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Ask HN: How to migrate from employee to freelancer as a SW engineer?
16 points by throwcean 5y ago|13 comments