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by xpto123 12y ago
A lot of this is culture dependent I believe, but i am under the impression that at least on western countries you cannot do this a lot of times without a high cost, specially if you re not a manager. If someone comes to your desk directly,
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by xpto123 12y ago
Unless other browsers support it via browser plugins, it could turn out to be a dead end, Google is betting on mutiple horses here because themselves cannot predict this. Its also possible to compile Dart to Js and use it as an improved lan
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by xpto123 12y ago
You should try to agree to a launch date and feature set. He might be good on the business side but a natural procrastinator when it comes to project management, noone can have all the qualities or all the flaws. If a feature set and deadli
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by xpto123 12y ago
I think this would work but it would probably have to be country specific due to legal reasons. I often wonder why this solution has not been adopted in many countries. I heard that in France this exists for example. There are probably lega
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by xpto123 12y ago
Try to become a freelance or a customer employee as soon as possible, being an employee for an intermediary company is mostly a dead end. If someone assigns you to a project you really don't want to do, its better to search for a new o
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by xpto123 12y ago
If they all used the same API? You could build your own mobile UI themeable product and sell them to banks for them to host in their own servers. Build a company around the product and provide change requests/maintenance services, furt
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by xpto123 12y ago
Could you give examples of some of the open ended questions that you mention? Like that we can have a better idea and mention maybe some books to help with that. For which technologies is it?
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Ask HN: Why don't companies hire IT freelancers directly vs. body shopping?
1 points by xpto123 12y ago|0 comments
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by xpto123 12y ago
If Oracle managed to ship a JDK9 with a new modularity system, and a modularized JDK split internally in modules, multiple profiles for embedded and desktop based on this module system, the release would already be huge. This long-term fix
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Oracle announces more new Java 9 features(jaxenter.com)
7 points by xpto123 12y ago|1 comments
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by xpto123 12y ago
for curiosity, what type of bad behaviors do they engage the most? The link shows a case where they don't handle properly the garbage. But if they stay in their office and they are only 3 or 4, I don't see how they can do that muc
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by xpto123 12y ago
Just don't apply to those companies, you probably wouldn't like it there anyway. In fact that interviewing style is being abandoned, see here the case of Google: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2346126
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by xpto123 12y ago
And so what's the problem, why the focus on algorithms? Solving business problems IS problem solving by creating an algorithm. What is this idea of a real programmer, a real programmer likes to read algorithm theory books or something?
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by xpto123 12y ago
All of this should be done in an anonymous way: I would say just create an anonymous gmail and open an anonymous linkedin account. Hit the same invitation message to a list of persons that work there, and really don't think about it an
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by xpto123 12y ago
Depending on the startup, mentioning themselves as senior developer might be the truth. Imagine the team was not larger than 5, team lead would work. The title should reflect what the person actually did, also the CV is supposed to help fin
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by xpto123 12y ago
Just leave again, and in the next interview ask what will the responsibilities are, and if they include CI etc. The most important is to try to learn from previous mistakes and take it from there. In an early portion of a career, moving oft
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by xpto123 12y ago
Look in linkedin for people working in security for that company, and invite them to connect. In the connection message state directly the problem. Do this with technical people, but also with it managers from the company and its worth send
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by xpto123 12y ago
Just wait for confirmation of the relocation, because those things get cancelled / delayed often. When its confirmed then look for jobs and give standard notice as per law. Explain you immediate superior the personal reason once the re
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by xpto123 12y ago
Workers in the beginning of the 20th century worked 70 hour 6-7 days weeks, now in many countries we are down to 35h / 5 days. In the next 10 years we will get to 30 or less, we are at a threshold of the 4 day work week that's why
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by xpto123 12y ago
That's the type of things that would make remote work attractive to me, but working at night would basically change everything. And do you recommend other sites as alternative to them where these things don't happen? Or was it all
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by xpto123 12y ago
Hello, and is it work at night all the time, or shift based? How was you experience doing it. Today couldn't do it myself, maybe at an younger age. I don't think its shameful, I might have done it myself. Its a first world problem
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by xpto123 12y ago
Hello, and is the work at night all the time, or is it shift based only one week a month? Because that's what happens with people that work at hospitals, night guards etc. to avoid harming the workers health in the long-term.
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by xpto123 12y ago
I guess if someone is making a good living out of it and that avoids the person having to shift to another country its their choice and its OK. But I am surprised the law does not protect remote workers more from these things in european co
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by xpto123 12y ago
No I don't find it shocking, but one thing is early mornings and late evenings, that's different than working through the night. Petrol stations run on 'automatic mode' in most european countries after midnight / 1
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Ask HN: Remote IT workers, are these practices frequent/legal?
5 points by xpto123 12y ago|9 comments
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by xpto123 12y ago
> One of my biggest issues with Bootstrap (and similar frameworks) is that, beyond a certain point, you find yourself overriding and customizing them to such a degree that it's more productive to just build your own "vanilla&qu
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by xpto123 12y ago
This is the link to Google Material Design implementation under development by the Angular team https://material.angularjs.org
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Igor Minar Angular 1.3 and Beyond – Angular Material Design implementation(blog.angularjs.org)
2 points by xpto123 12y ago|1 comments
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by xpto123 12y ago
Check out Firebase, its a ready to use backend that targets making backend development easier.
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by xpto123 12y ago
You should take a Java certification or something and find a job as a developer ASAP. There will be employers willing to invest on you during the relearning curve. If it ever happens again being assigned a non development position then its

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