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A couple of comments as a European who lives and works in the US: - I'm surprised that you find salaries lower in the US than in Europe. That said, if you compared freelance/consul…

The two typical choices are rspamd and amavisd/SpamAssassin, at least when you're using Postfix on a unity environment. I use amavisd on my primary and rspamd on the secondary, bot…

That reads to me like a nice collection of red flags. 1 - They all say that, it's a meaningless phrase used to cover candidates in the effluence from the southern end of a north fa…

I've been doing this software engineering thing for over 30 years now, first in Europe, now in the US. The headline compensation for this whole time was pretty much always based on…

For my own amusement I just had a quick look at eBay and it looks like old SUN gear has got expensive since last looked. NeXT gear has always been expensive, that doesn't seem to h…

Looks like my memory isn't what it used to be, the ORIC machines used Basic, what I was thinking of was the Jupiter Ace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace

I grew up in the 8-bit era, so that's mostly what I'm interested in from a retro computing perspective. Pretty much the whole Acorn lineup starting with the BBC and then going to t…

Over three decades in this business, done a lot of contract work (outside the US), currently FTE at a US company. Other than all the micro-annoyances that a lot of my fellow poster…

If your spideysense is tingling about new clauses, talk to an employment lawyer (or a union if you are a member of one) in the jurisdiction that you live in. That's really the only…

Tech Lead with some business involvement. I've run my own small consulting companies in the past, just haven't had the nerve to do that here in the US, mainly due to cost of health…

That makes sense. I think that I may have consciously been trying to ignore the point you're making that there are only a handful of companies out there that have the sort of probl…

That makes sense - I'm in the US right now, and here a Solutions Architect is mostly a pre-sales engineer. Pretty much any growth in my work will require me working on the people s…

Thanks for the perspective. I'm trying to build my network up again - I moved countries a few years ago and the majority of my network in back in Europe.

Aren't those relatively sales oriented in general? At least they seem to be in those companies that I seem to work with.

That's a very good question, and not necessarily something I find easy to explain concisely. Let me try anyway :). Note, some of the bad impressions may come from the usual clued u…

Those HN readers who have been software engineers for multiple decades, still enjoy the work and decided the management track is not for them, how and where do you actually look fo…

Most car dealers in the US, at least for “normal” (ie, non-premium) car brands are extremely reluctant to custom order cars and often outright refuse to do so. They also tend to pu…

I've also been self hosting since the last century, and as you point out, the big issue these days is making your email server play with all the other email services, including tho…

This is the specific one I was thinking of: https://blog.zecops.com/vulnerabilities/youve-got-0-click-ma... At least the BSI in Germany seems to think it’s serious enough to warn p…

If your productivity is measured by the hours you put in and not your output, you have a bigger issue than the question if your kid drags down your internal rating or not. Doesn’t …

What I mostly mean by that are email clients that just use straight IMAP to talk to a server and don’t route your emails via a third party server. The built in app does that, but a…

I've got several - one gmail (aka the "refuse collection" that I use mostly for email registrations for website I suspect will send me more email I care for), one protonmail I use …

First, how do you know it's the tech lead's "fault" and not an issue with company culture? Yes, your tech lead may indeed not be the best lead ever, but only too often is this a re…

If you're talking about the $2.50 VPS, yes, that's IPV6-only, so it doesn't support IPV4. You're correct that people who only use IPV4 won't be able to access that VPS, at least no…

Are you leaving, or are has the company actually gone bankrupt and laid you off. If it's the latter, telling prospective employers that the company went bankrupt and potentially me…