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US companies are free to not operate in Europe. There's nothing special about US software engineering vs. software engineering made elsewhere from a purely technical and know-how p…

It's interesting how simplicity so often gets mistaken for a lack of sophistication. Designing a language for clarity and maintainability is a laudable goal, and so is choosing to …

I think it's more a case of intellectual dishonesty.

Comparing VAT to an Import Tax is unbelievably stupid.

> building alternatives takes time and resources. the EU has neither. Oh no. What would we poor Europeans do without a US company to lead us. /s Of course local and regional player…

First, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento is not the Portuguese Prime Minister, but the Minister of Finance. Second, the tax breaks were removed at the end of last year because of a widespre…

I have not noticed issues with YouTube, but it's been clear to me how gimped Firefox is compared with Chrome on Google Meet. Some missing minor features, sluggish performance and l…

Mac is required for designing, which in pratice most designers are using in the vast majority of organizations, so it's not really an issue. For feedback and handoff the web tool i…

In practice the vast majority of designers are using Mac, so it's not like it not being cross platform was the problem. The thing that made Sketch lose against Figma was that they …

No need to wait 2 years. Sketch already provides a free web accessible developer handoff tool.

Based on that, you might like "First Formic War" trilogy that are a prequel to Ender's Game.

I opened YouTube music app, for which I pay premium and tried to find the podcasts I listen to. I wasn't able to find any filter for podcasts and neither did search yield the podca…

If people don't join because of that, then I'd say that's a filter and I'm ok with that. In the Lisbon office of the company I work, on call was not a contributing factor for the p…

team effort is a thing, and we want everyone to pull their own weight. In my team we work at most 40h week and on call alerts are rare events, we work to keep it that way and we ne…

Beeping is a rare event in my team, might happen 1-3 times in a week, or there are weeks it doesn't beep at all, and we work to keep it that way.

evidently the pay must be adjusted to how painful the on call experience is. as I said it is optional, no harm comes to you for not participating, and we have people with very good…

who said there is a social penalty? There are a number of reasons which I explained in a reply below.

1:1s, meetings, general team feeling, retrospectives, amount of whining zero to none.

it is optional, e.g if you have extra work activities that impede you, family reasons etc. and in these cases it's A-OK! Where it's not so OK it's when there's no reason other than…

At my company, specifically in my team we do on call, and: 1 - it's one week length 2 - it's paid extra 3 - it's optional, but you're a bit of a bad mate if you don't participate 4…

True in regards to Skype, although that was an acquisition that was done under Balmer's and not Satya Nadella. In regards to LinkedIn I don't see what exactly you think has went/is…

And TypeScript <3!

Well... the thing is those guys really only approach foreigners. I am sorry for your experience, but as a nearly 30y old Portuguese who lives and works in Lisbon, I had that only h…