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Similarly I moved to Germany. The office here is mostly deserted by 16:00. In a way I respect their ability to completely split their work and social lives, but it's not particular…

They could have had an orange juice

I assume by DSL they mean some custom templating language built on top, for things like iterating and if-conditions. If it's plain JSON/YAML you can produce that using any language…

For the most part I agree with you: there is less functionality and hence less to police. There are also fewer people in chats/channels, as for the most part they are private or un…

Again, this just isn't true. Where are you getting your information from? Feeding the world is technically easy, there is more than enough space for growing crops. The only reason …

What would make it interesting? Most of the animal mass on earth is livestock for human consumption. More animals are reared to replace the ones that are slaughtered. It might be i…

Is it really beneficial to use a deck created by someone else? I thought part of the learning process is really engaging with the cards - by writing them, thinking about them, and …

I'm a big fan of rebasing to keep the commit history clean and as a form of self-discipline when coding to make sure I'm grouping the changes atomically. I will try to give Jujutsu…

You don't see any of yourself in the pair? I found a lot of their neurotic behaviour relatable. Butter the toast, eat the toast, shit the toast... God, life's relentless.

Awww that's not fair. C# actually has fairly good null-checking now. Older projects would have to migrate some code to take advantage of it, but new projects are pretty much using …

No need for a gym membership if you climb those stairs often enough!

I use it in my project to document the schema. We keep the markdown file in source control so that we update it whenever we make database changes. We also have an extension that al…

He knew his Judo well.

Do you believe it's fake? There are many kits on the market to turn old bicycles into e-bikes. As to the USB charging - that's an outlet for charging things like mobile devices, no…

That's where reflog comes in handy

Using an in-memory database does not increase my confidence that in my software either. I also started using dockerised dependencies in tests a couple of years ago. Can you please …

They have one already, but it's probably not as big: https://digitalservice.bund.de/

The source of all his power.

It's 75k, but I believe I could be receiving 95k if I was either smarter, better at interviewing or better at negotiating. As to other benefits: it's 30 days vacation and they ment…

As I point out in another comment, this happened to me previously and they were loath to compromise. I'm therefore very reluctant to depend on an Aufhebungsvertrag. https://news.yc…

Or that his compensation was very good...unlike mine

How difficult did it make finding a new job? I mentioned it to a recruiter I'm dealing with and she agreed that it would significantly complicate the search.

Are you implying this clause is illegal? As far as I'm aware as long as the notice period is at least as long as the statutory period it's valid

I'd like to add that at a previous company a 3 month notice period was forced on me after a merger with a different company meant us signing new contracts to bring us in line with …

An engineering manager at a previous company here in Germany told me, after I complained about my 3 month notice, that his former role as a CTO had a 12 month notice.