xacaxulu

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by xacaxulu 8y ago
Please stop subsidizing these institutions. The US backed loan system for ever-climbing tuitions are an obvious cartel. Never mind the uselessness and lack of ROI of most degrees in the broader job market.
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by xacaxulu 8y ago
How about no workspace at all. Can we all drop the collective illusion about cramming into an office together to "brainstorm" or whatever?
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by xacaxulu 8y ago
Ummmmm, I'll continue taking the high salary every day. When I go home, where I REALLY live, it will be there that I enjoy myself in comfort and relative luxury.
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by xacaxulu 8y ago
Yes, they keep having their estates and legal residences in Florida, Texas, etc.
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by xacaxulu 8y ago
Tons of Frenchies do that. Hell, thats basically Docker. A bunch of smart Frenchineers that wanted to get paid what they're worth for a while. Im talking about founders and those first 100 hires. But it seems as soon as they want to ha
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by xacaxulu 8y ago
Thats it exactly. The math lays bare the truth of the hampster wheel in the usa. And Europeans rarely overwork. Its weird to be in the office after 7. In france its illegal for my employers to contact me after hours or on the weekend or whe
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by xacaxulu 8y ago
Literally the exact same offer I accepted for me, but in Berlin. I prefer Bavaria but all my biz is in Berlin. +1
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by xacaxulu 8y ago
Really not true in my experience. For senior devs with one or two solid infra/CLOUD/multi app deploys under their belts. Hired.com and LOCAL french recruitment firms (talent.io) regularly send me Paris intramuros based (forget idf
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by xacaxulu 8y ago
Don't forget Doctolib
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by xacaxulu 8y ago
You realise that peace of mind, a social safety net, paid maternity/paternity leave, walking home while the sun is still out, etc. all are infinitely more important than overworking just to get the next Porsche SUV or whatever. Peace
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by xacaxulu 8y ago
I highly contemplated both Zurich and Luxembourg because of my finance tech experience (SocGen, BoA, Wells Fargo, Goldman Stackzzz). I love Switzerland.
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by xacaxulu 8y ago
Its not high if you live in NYC or SF. Its above average but not by much.
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by xacaxulu 8y ago
That was total comp. I was a Solutions Architect at Dell EMC. But I worked 60 hour weeks, did the usual client facing bs, used my own time to fill out reimbursement forms yaddayadda. Id rather make 80k in France any day of the week.
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by xacaxulu 8y ago
Yes, usually 10-20 Euros a workday.
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by xacaxulu 8y ago
Like everything, ymmv. You are correct about lower junior salaries but taken in the context of an even lower cost of living...go to Berlin. Also sounds weird to say but germans are 1000x nicer and more welcoming than the French. Berlin good
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by xacaxulu 8y ago
American in Paris for 1 year working as a Senior DevSecOps Engineer (or whatever they want to call us). Went from 225kUSD/yr in usa to 95kEUR in Europe (most senior devs are lucky to get 75k, paris tech salaries are lagging behind Lond
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by xacaxulu 8y ago
FLOATERCYCLE
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by xacaxulu 9y ago
I wonder if every bootcamp flooding the market with Rails devs and subsequently putting huge downward pressure on wages had anything to do with waning interest. I saw this happening years ago and moved quickly in more niche technologies.
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by xacaxulu 9y ago
Irrelevant point. Whether it's fiscally prudent or not is what's at stake. Generally it would seem it's not a good idea (financially) to have kids. If you must, wait until your career is at a point where you can be assured yo
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by xacaxulu 9y ago
476 teens. Not a big sample.
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by xacaxulu 9y ago
"Experienced COBOL programmers can earn more than $100 an hour when they get called in to patch up glitches, rewrite coding manuals or make new systems work with old." $100/hr doesn't seem like a good rate for a true &#x
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by xacaxulu 10y ago
Just an opinion having spent a few months on a few in rural NC: Hippies are well meaning, but generally bad at the logistical/business angles to running these within a broader state environment, i.e. county/city zoning, fundraisin
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by xacaxulu 10y ago
Travis likes breaking any law that stands in the way of him making money and breaking into new markets. Now that he disagrees with an Executive order (that really means he's being deprived of a cheap source of labor), he's come ou
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Google, Facebook Reflect Tech Dismay on Trump Immigration Order(bloomberg.com)
15 points by xacaxulu 10y ago|3 comments
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by xacaxulu 10y ago
The virtue signaling is strong with this one.
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by xacaxulu 10y ago
There are many places in the country for those who make less money. No one is forced to live in those areas.
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by xacaxulu 10y ago
It would appear that refined sugar fits this profile more than kratom does.
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by xacaxulu 10y ago
Asians have been shown repeatedly to be penalized in college admissions ( http://observer.com/2015/06/asian-americans-are-indeed-getti... ) and in some cases are given handicaps in SAT/ACT scores. Asians have b
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How Spy Tech Firms Let Governments See Everything on a Smartphone(nytimes.com)
165 points by xacaxulu 10y ago|59 comments
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by xacaxulu 10y ago
Along with not stocking medical equipment, didn't Delta's data center just go down?

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