I find AI interviews dehumanizing and treat them same way as homework assignments in the introductory email - a massive red flag. If you value me as a human being, make up the time to meet me tet a tet. I will not work for AI, but for a human company if I pass all interview rounds, right? I've had a recruiter add me on linkedin, send me an email and then ask me to do an AI interview. None of that makes any sense.
I'm a generalist hacker and builder with 20+ years of experience. I excel in making MVPs work, and using simple technology to solve complex business problems. I'm not a DevOps engineer, but I can comfortably set up a Linux box from scratch, or use any cloud provider. Frontend work doesn't scare me, and I love obsessing over UI/UX, or tasteful animations.
I'm interested in both B2B contract work and full-time employment. EU legal entity for billing.
A remote KVM, i.e TinyPilot will help avoid dealing with lack of trust in local staff. Additionally connection to the KVM can be done over LTE/Cellular if you don't trust the local connection too.
I set up a server last year which is at a remote site which is completely air-gapped from the Internet, it's allowed to see one local LAN and that's all. For any kind of admin task someone has to drive to site.
There is precisely zero chance that the relevant IT security goons would allow any kind of remote KVM/LTE connection.
I suggest you try this if you're new to ocaml or interesting in trying out OCaml.
I have grown accustomed to things just working. Run a copy-pasted command from a website "just works" level. Opam is what sent me into half-day of reading about OCaml ecosystem and how things work.
The developer preview successfully abstracts a lot of things into a command you run, refresh your shell environment, and have a working dune project. Just works, like I expect.
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Wanna try OCaml because it's Rust of functional programming? Check this out.
I am working on a SaaS for real estate agents. Customers get their own tenanted database and web front-end with some fancy front-end tools like geospatial searching to keep customers attracted to said customer's portfolio. I have a paying customer who's been using a 1.0 version for more than a decade now. I don't know whether I got lucky or there's a legitimate market for v2.0 out there. I am building it with boring tech as it's a boring product. I guess I should get back to building it.
It's actually worse if you moved to the middle of nowhere for your job.
But if you live in a city there are plenty of employment opportunities. Its what enabled them to become economic hubs.
The government in my country once tried to get companies to move to undeveloped regions. It was an unmitigated disaster. No homes, no infrastructure and if your employer goes bankrupt you're stuck in the boonies.
Well if one has worked there for 10 years or so, a year's salary in one go certainly helps a lot with a downpayment on a house!
Where I live in Spain we have to downpay 30% and a mortgage would generally be granted to about 3x the annual salary. So to get a third of that would be quite significant.
My thoughts exactly. I'm done with the rat race. It's not a fair game where the rules change as you go along. I'm downsizing and getting rid of lifestyle inflation. I'd rather be free and remote with less pay.
Is it really malicious though? 10 gigs of zeros doesn’t seem that malicious to me. Microcontrollers often have a few megabytes of RAM if not less, does that make a few megabyte photo malicious?
Edit: spelling. I’m old school and used to typing on my computer. It’s getting repaired and all I’ve got is my phone. /rant
Happy New Year everyone! HN will always remain in my heart and mind. 5 years ago I moved to Amsterdam to work on a super interesting R&D project that taught me a lot about GPS, coordinate systems, algorithms, and sadly the importance of having a short commute. I spent an hour and a half to get in either direction. That was demotivating and made me depressed and tired. HN was how I passed time, first on the train, then on the bus, reading curated articles and through thoughtful comments. I couldn't have managed without you all. Once again, I wish you all a Happy New Year and luck in all your endeavours!
Sorry if this is a nosy question, but - I lived in Amsterdam; and needing that long of a commute sounds weird, since public transport is pretty good, and you can bike some of the way. Even farther from the center, where it's cheaper, it should still not be _that_ long... can I ask what was your commute route?
It might also depend on mental model. Some people don't count the actual door-to-door time. They just look at the time the train takes between stations.
Our office was in Amsterdam Oost and I lived in Almere Filmwijk. An hour and a half is the average door-to-door time. Sometimes odds played in my favour and I could get home in 1h10min. The commute started by taking the bus or cycling from Filmwijk to Alemere Centrum, which took roughly the same amount of time. Then I would take IC or Sprinter to Amsterdam Muiderpoort, take another bus or walk, which, again, took relatively the same amount of time. It was impossible to rent anything in Amsterdam itself with an academia salary of 45k, a non-working wife and two children. I mostly took the bike on days when the weather allowed, but my bike was in Almere. I purchased a cheap(stolen) bike in Amsterdam for 75 euros, but it got stolen the same day I left it at the station.
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Yes, you can live right next to the office if the funds allow it. My budget for rent was 1200 euros per month, which makes renting within the ring almost impossible.
Ah, well, yes, with a wife and two children, it's a different story. As a single person or a couple you might have found something in, oh, I guess maybe Diemen, or maybe in the Bijlmer region somewhere.
As for the bike: The trick is that you need a lock that's at least half the bike's price... that deters the thieves, who will go for easier-to-steal ones.
I got my bike stolen twice when I lived in Amsterdam, and even wrote a post about it, asking for advice:
Probably working elsewhere in the Netherlands (e.g., Rotterdam, Utrecht, Arnhem, etc.) but landing in Amsterdam because that’s the only city in the Netherlands that rings a bell to most.
