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Ask HN: Why do contractors exist if they charge the same as a FAANG FTE?
20 points by zingar 5y ago|21 comments
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by zingar 5y ago
"...(the only access to the islands) is to have a pre-arranged job contract with a company that has signed a form of bond taking responsibility for you" That sounds like all British immigration rules. My employer had to apply for
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by zingar 5y ago
Suspenders is what you describe for Rails. It bakes in lots of opinions, obviously, but the idea is that you can go to production with this code by pushing it to your heroku repo.
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by zingar 5y ago
I'd like to thank the author for their clear, simple explanation. I haven't had to think about allocating memory since university and am not practiced thinking about it in my software but now I feel like I have useful ways to thin
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by zingar 5y ago
I like that you recognise that reality is complicated. However your comment underestimates racism. It may not have happened in front of your eyes, but in this world there are people who will for example: - be willing to verbally _or physica
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by zingar 5y ago
It's refreshing to hear someone in tech describe 15 years as early-ish. Technically true, most of us will need to work for 40+ years.
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by zingar 5y ago
One recruiter finding 1000 people for a single company.
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Ask HN: What could a single company do with 1000 developers hired in a year?
3 points by zingar 5y ago|3 comments
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by zingar 5y ago
My passport and US immigration laws mean that I have to enter a lottery in order to get a job. No thanks. The other aspect I forgot to mention is the way work days are treated. I work 7.5-8 hour days and then I get to hack on my own stuff.
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by zingar 5y ago
> Mostly after I turned 30 Me too! It does coincide with periods of medication, but this decade has been substantially better than the last. I hadn't thought about that timing until now.
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by zingar 5y ago
I don't think gp was unaware of those conditions at corporates, but rather suggests that the layers of management, meetings and deadlines make for worse software. Also remember that opens source includes things like the Linux kernel. T
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by zingar 5y ago
But do these production defects really meet the demand of the lower tiers? Also how is it possible to predict the number of defects in advance so that they can make useful promises to distributors?
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by zingar 5y ago
It's strange but true. I live in the UK and I think I could get paid 3-5x more in the US. But even though I'm annoyed by that pay gap, I will never work without healthcare and only two weeks of PTO. At least job satisfaction doesn
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by zingar 5y ago
Am I the only one who feels like it’s a bit late for high powered USB-C when Apple’s M1 is putting the squeeze on other manufacturers by showing how low power and high performance can go together? I just got a screen that delivers just 40W
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by zingar 5y ago
I consider myself low on the software engineer scale (there are other perks to my job) but my salary is double that in London.
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by zingar 6y ago
I think it's because they have some success with making wordpress do what they want (after a fashion), or copy and paste some Javscript. That makes them a programmer, without knowing what they don't know, even 10 years later.
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by zingar 6y ago
Yes, totally interlinked! I didn't even realise that "anxiety" fit what I was experiencing until after lots of counseling. The doctor and psychologist I worked with prescribed a small dose of medication that affects multiple
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by zingar 6y ago
100%. I was considered bright but lazy / performing below potential throughout my schooling and first years of work. In my thirties I was diagnosed with a combination of anxiety and ADHD and the prescribed medication is immensely helpf
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by zingar 6y ago
Interesting, how did you develop that skill?
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by zingar 6y ago
My current employers hire +- 1/100 applicants. The vast majority fall off before even getting to a coding test. Of the last 20, most are not fluent with conditional logic and iteration, or cannot use a dictionary in an algorithm. In th
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by zingar 6y ago
Unfortunately (you must have observed, particularly in the case of South Africa) it is not easy to accept that someone is who they say they are on the Internet. The DA is accused of running hundreds of fake accounts on twitter, and we all k
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by zingar 6y ago
How did you reach this conclusion?
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by zingar 6y ago
It depends on whether you understand racism as a systemic phenomenon that disenfranchises people, or as one group of people actively disliking another. Your statement rests on the latter understanding, but that's inadequate for South A
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Engineering discipline is not for you, now(iftheshoefritz.com)
2 points by zingar 6y ago|0 comments
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by zingar 6y ago
The engineers you work with have to write code that does the equivalent of averaging a list of numbers, many times per day. If you can't (in any language) handle this then I question your ability to understand whether your choices make
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by zingar 6y ago
One of the obstacles to docker coming to m1 was being able to set up their test pipeline with m1 instances. Beyond that sort of thing I am mystified
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by zingar 6y ago
I also find it gets in the way with doing everything with a keyboard in my editor and then suddenly my cursor focus is changed by my palm touching the touchpad. At the same time having the extra spacer on the laptop as a wrist rest is prett
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by zingar 6y ago
I'm currently hunting Ruby roles in Europe (that will sponsor a visa to move continents) and it seems like recruiters do not have a lot of roles open for Ruby. They want to know about the Java that I did 10 years ago, or whether I have
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by zingar 6y ago
Location: South Africa Remote: yes, but relocation preferred Willing to relocate: yes - hoping to travel to Europe next year Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Java, Postgres, Terraform, RabbitMQ Résumé/CV: available on request Email: fritz do
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by zingar 6y ago
Our former CTO was asked what paternity leave he thought tech employees should have (in a country with no legal requirement for it) and he said, "4 months", which then made it into everyone's contracts. Only he thought he was

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