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by vemv 10y ago
First time I heard of such rates in Berlin! I guess they pay that in order to compete with London? Else they don't seem to correspond with Germany's market and cost-of-living...
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by vemv 10y ago
Just keep in mind that European companies don't pay US rates! London is bit of an exception, but lifestyle there is crazy expensive obviously If you want a US rate you have to compete globally, which is quite discouraging to me. So as
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by vemv 10y ago
Also RoR/BCN, making 3x that Feel free to reach me (linkedin: vemv91), we're in need of an extra dev!
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by vemv 10y ago
~1300 is what you earn as junior RoR dev in Spain... :/ I'd give a serious go to exploring alternatives.
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by vemv 10y ago
No facebook login, seriously? Implementing it should take about 2h using modern libraries and frameworks.
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by vemv 10y ago
Wow, I had this very same idea (get applied to jobs on one's behalf) like one week ago. Not from a startup point of view, but as job hunter. Actually I went as far as writing up my requirements and searching for some freelance recruite
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by vemv 10y ago
Conceptually, threads are probably easier than actors for a beginner. I'm not saying that it's easier to implement correct code with threads (in fact it's more complex), but most devs go from OO to FP, not the other way aroun
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by vemv 10y ago
Before diving into Erlang/Elixir, I'd make sure to learn the basics of concurrency/parallelism with more basic languages such as Java, Python or Ruby. i.e. start with the easy stuff, then with that strong foundation choose as
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by vemv 10y ago
There's https://digit.co : Every few days, Digit checks your spending habits and removes a few dollars from your checking account if you can afford it .
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by vemv 10y ago
Seems a scumbaggy app to me (even if it's legal). If you buy something for $X, it's because you can afford $X at that point in time and you agree that that's its value.
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by vemv 10y ago
> Most successful big projects grow out of a successful small project. This is probably true, one could even say that forming a big team from day one is cargo-culting others' success.
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by vemv 10y ago
Wow, the numbers (headcount / users / allocated time) speak alone! Thanks for sharing.
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by vemv 10y ago
And conversely, the right abstraction is preferrable over duplication. There's almost always chance to stop a little, think/research hard and create something novel, maybe leveraging specific features your language/framework
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by vemv 10y ago
Probably an essential mistake is to put multiple people to work on a greenfield project at once, when the requirements are particularly uncertain. Better to allocate a single full-stack dev to experiment for a couple weeks. He also will int
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by vemv 10y ago
10x is not a totally precise term, but it does the job. Specifically it suggests that you can be one level of abstraction above his peers. People may get a little too easily offended (or excited) by "10x".
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by vemv 10y ago
> I know a lot of employees or freelancers making a lot more working for companies in Malaga or companies elsewhere; I talked about the rule - undoubtedly there are exceptions. I once interviewed for a senior position for a prominent M
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by vemv 10y ago
I guess Upwork is the leading place to find freelancers. It's a race to the bottom (i.e. competing with third-world devs) though so that can discourage one. Then there's Linkedin. Personally if I receive a job offer from outside S
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by vemv 10y ago
> chances are you aren't working on anything that that makes you irreplaceable. Or, they cannot really appreciate the quality or even the speed of my work. Clueless people abound. > I also have reservations about looking at wo
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by vemv 10y ago
I agree that measuring productivity is a hard, universal problem. While I don't claim to commit 10x more LOCs, I do write exceptional abstractions that allow me to get things done in a quick, robust way. I've met far too many &#x2
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by vemv 10y ago
Thanks for the reminder! Of course from time to time I consider the possibility. There's no particular reason why I don't give it a shot, other than the global competition for US remote gigs. Probably it's easier when you spe
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by vemv 10y ago
Spanish dev here, 3 years in the business, been twice a freelancer and twice an employee. My main complaints: - The maximum salary a developer can earn at any given company is almost written in stone - around 36000 euros. Every public job p
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by vemv 10y ago
You can achieve that by using the FBPurity extension!
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by vemv 10y ago
It'd be awesome if Airbnb integrated each city's regulation into its software. e.g. it ensures that you can't host more than X nights a year. It could even extract the taxes from each host's incomes and pay them directly
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by vemv 10y ago
So, they want to copyright the number 90 as well? haha.
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by vemv 10y ago
That's a pretty useless truth, who doesn't know that? Many languages (like Go or Clojure) require you to learn quite a few concepts and exercise your mind in general. This automatically filters out incompetent programmers, and put
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by vemv 10y ago
Ruby and JS package managers are un-namespaced as well.
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by vemv 10y ago
Anything from the kind of projects you are involved in, to salary matters.
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by vemv 10y ago
It would be interesting if someone can reinforce this statement from a developer perspective.
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by vemv 10y ago
It's like a law of nature... your organisation grows, its culture becomes braindead. There should be more Basecamps around. I don't know what their equality policy is, but they sure have very little tolerance to bullshit - and do
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by vemv 10y ago
Hearing about a Clojure project being dropped feels like a slap in the face. I only wonder if it was more of a political decision.

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