tluyben2

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by tluyben2 4y ago
I agree but here you have to spend a lot more and do a lot of paperwork to connect to the grid; easier to just go off. But yes, you are right.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
I know there are many happy people not drinking or using drugs and that’s great. I wish I would’ve been one. But of all students, 1/3rd seems very hard to not have any (most or significant) of those 100ks in the article to do something
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by tluyben2 4y ago
What Great Things are you doing instead? I know it sounds nasty but so does your comment; what else that moves any needle but your own are you doing?
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Good for them; hope they are happy. Very much doubt that unfortunately. Something will take the place of drinks most likely. Hope it’s healthier but also doubt that.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
I read it as history, as I see anything religious; interesting folklore and history.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Where I live (Portugal) I already did many winters with solar when renting; I had the generator on a few hours 1 day in 1 year, the rest was enough sun to make it work. Same in Spain when I lived there.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
I am happy I got solar earlier this year. I thought it would be very expensive but we are very frugal with energy and it only was 7k euro to go off grid. During the day we can run anything (tons of sun so washing, dish washing, etc etc), du
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Yeah, the things like standby and hibernation and touchscreen are major issues especially in new laptops. But I never use these features myself. Guess I got used to it. Which devices (specifically) do you have? I might have one or both or k
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by tluyben2 4y ago
It is, but no one cares, especially if it costs money or comfort. Disclaimer; didn’t RTFA.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
There are often things that do not work under Linux on different laptops and it depends on what you need and expect. However, consistently over many laptops (I am a computer hoarder and have 100s of laptops), after running my post install s
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Is that not a Linux kernel?
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Like what? Must be things I do not use I guess, which definitely can be the case as I never plug in external monitors etc, but everything I use works very well for dev work.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
You can of course but there are rules that you need to follow for the tax office; if they mark you as defacto employee in NL for a US company, different taxation applies. You are marked as not an entrepreneur or company in that case and you
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Not my rules or ideas… if you try to invoice different companies to get around defacto employee rules we have here, then it is fraud; you probably won’t get caught. It’s not fraud ‘for me’, it is for the tax office of my country and, as oth
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Definitely fraud. I have multiple clients, products and take risks etc; everything associated with a business (a small business but business nonetheless): nothing has been ever faked. Being an employee but trying to disguise it to gain bene
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by tluyben2 4y ago
If there is anything I have learned in life so far (I am close to 50), it is that my first gut feeling when meeting someone irl is pretty much spot on. I have ignored this feeling when it was negative and it never worked and I have ignored
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Edit; sorry I misread your comment somehow! I will leave my response anyway. But it is not actually relevant to your comment; sorry about that. I agree with you, I guess the ‘even compared’ threw me off; laravel is pretty painless imho so m
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Also not actually that easy to be hired in another EU country without moving. If you work from another country, the employer will have to create or contract with an entity in your country that hires and pays you. It is a real pain; it is a
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Yeah, in NL and UK and probably others, you would need to have a company with multiple clients to be not seen as employee.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Yep, in many places you would need multiple clients to prevent being seen as an de facto employee.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Also good to say; many singles or child free couples can change their timezone to match their client. I changed from US to SG and back a few times over the past 10 years while living in the EU. It was actually quite nice; asia was better be
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Live 2 hours by plane away; with text/voice/video chat, it works fine. Don’t visit often as no one really sees the need as we talk daily (usually WhatsApp) anyway.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
I have been in this situation many times and just pressing developers is not going to work. In some rare cases adding more resources can help but usually only cutting scope and/or moving the deadline helps. Parkinson's law explain
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by tluyben2 4y ago
You would be working as a freelancer right? Or will they use some agency to hire you? Freelance senior PHP dev would be 90-100/hr in the EU so 180k-200k. If it’s via an agency, you will need to do more calculations with social security
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Doesn’t sound like the worst code really; sounds like the average older php codebase I run into. I maintain (inherited) products that are over 15 years old and I find it enjoyable. I would be able to slowly move this thing to modern standar
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by tluyben2 4y ago
I think a rigid foundation is a good thing for reasons that might not be obvious. I have never had to use much calculus for any job I had over the past 30 years and the rigorous Dijkstra formal methods that were punched into me at universit
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Yes, that’s correct, but we have been used to thinking that way for a decade. I don’t remember how painful it was in the first place, but once you think in that way, things fall in place.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Ah, I was whining in the surrealdb thread for new advances in this space over couch/pouch (which we have been using for over a decade). Would be great to see comparisons, especially in areas where couch/pouch are bad and new solut
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Yep, I saw it; edited my other comments to say it's there. Nice one!
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Eventually open source is something I really do like, but it should have clear, measurable and open milestones for doing so. Like Open Accounting to show ‘if we reach 100k’ or something like that. Or if we reach 1000 contributors or if we r

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