tibiahurried

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by tibiahurried 6y ago
I have many friends who work in biotech and tech, most of the research is done in USA. Only minor research is done in EU. Same with tech.
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by tibiahurried 6y ago
Generalists can easily adapt. Adapting is key for survival.
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by tibiahurried 6y ago
Once more, this simply shows how weak EU is and how much it depends on the USA for survival: defense, science, tech. The entire EU was only able to produce one vaccine: also UK is not in EU anymore, and AstraZeneca is a British-Swedish. It
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by tibiahurried 6y ago
Tried Kotlin, honestly I was not impressed. Tools (maven/gradle) wasn't as straight forward to setup as one would have expected. I am not impressed with the language itself and I had issue with conflicting libraries and kotlin ver
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by tibiahurried 6y ago
Unfortunately Europe pays for its inability to develop a strong tech echo system, so no matter what, Europe will always depend on US for any tech related product, there is no way out, but negotiate.
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by tibiahurried 6y ago
> Apps have added a lot more value to my life than BD ever has. This thinking will never take humans on Mars! Someone must work on hard, expensive problems. Human race does won't move forward with a chat but with the hard work of
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by tibiahurried 6y ago
You nailed it! I never bought the "family" argument. Fully agree with you. Work is work. We are not family. I don't get it when I see people let go, writing extensive blog posts on how awesome the company "family"
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by tibiahurried 6y ago
what makes the difference is: - your boss is influential (politics) - you are lucky enough to work on a high impact/ high visibility project - you play yes man with your boss and please them - how long have you been with the company an
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by tibiahurried 7y ago
I am sure you will when you will end up working in a huge organization with intricated and heterogeneous projects/teams interdependencies. You will soon experience: - dependencies hell due to transitive and conflicting dependencies - o
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by tibiahurried 7y ago
> Burning out as an early stage start-up employee I was an early employee in a start-up, I worked hard and got caught in all the startup distortion field/changing the world/impact kind of bs. The CEO kept saying for years that
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by tibiahurried 8y ago
I agree. I think in US you pay a lot of taxes to get pretty much nothing in return. You have no universal healthcare, students have to make huge debts to be able to study, there is no maternity leave, no support for childcare, seriously t
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by tibiahurried 8y ago
> these kinds of comments are stereotypes, nothing more There is nothing fashion about my comment. We clearly come from different lifestyles. I see comments like yours when I talk to young tech professionals, who are not married, no ki
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by tibiahurried 8y ago
Buying a house and settling in the Silicon Valley/SF/etc... does not make any financial sense whatsoever. They are all pretty much overpriced, crappy and old. Even the quality of the new "luxury condos" is crap. Serious