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Reading HN is really weird for me. Everyone is talking about how the industry is struggling to find new people. Meanwhile, being in Central Europe, I almost can't find a junior pos…

the upper house of parliament yesterday voted to support an amendment to a draft economy bill that would require search engines to display at least three rivals on their homepage T…

They already have an insurance that covers the passengers.

Absolutely, I agree with you! It's time to deregulate the taxi industry, because needing a license to drive people around is absurd. Yes, you should need insurance, but in most EU …

How do you know that people can't live on the wages you are talking about? Why would people drive for Uber if they aren't profiting enough from the job?

How does Uber exploit its employees? Nobody is making drivers sign-up for Uber. Nobody is keeping them signed-up by force. The whole problem with Uber can be solved if governments …

I am pretty much a beginner dev, so can anyone briefly explain how this works? It's not really clear to me from the code. It's mentioned in the README that packets are being sent a…

Some of us like that you get cross-browser and device tested code that is super easy to use. You can choose what parts of Bootstrap to include in your app, so you don't bloat it. W…

Cold call and email what companies? About what work? I doubt most of the mid-sized and big companies will hire a contractor with no recommendations from someone close to the execs.…

There is also a strange obsession with consulting. How do you find customers that aren't mom and pop shops looking for someone to build their site for $200?

How did that happen? Did you need more XP for the higher-paying jobs and got it from the previous ones?

And that's why truck driving is the perfect job to automate.

Nope, it seems counterintuitive that educated people might support someone who is pretty much a dictator, but they do. Russian mentality is different and seems odd to westerners.

Why have manned gas stations? That's actually pretty easy to automate, since the trucks are stationery and there is already a standard for fuel tank holes. I am 100% sure that 30-4…

True, it's expensive to replace new trucks. But if it's a lot cheaper in the long term, it would be a serious incentive to push for the removal of drivers. And yeah, I too think th…

That occupation will disappear, save for a few high-end human driver services, IMO. After the taxis come the trucks. I am quite certain shipping companies will be the quick ditch h…

That kind of offshoring is definitely bad, IMO. We aren't talking about outsourced PHP web development sweatshops, but incredibly high-tech research. As one poster below mentioned,…

Then maybe look for someone in Central or Eastern Europe? This salary would be decent there.

True, but I don't want to do enterprise Java or PHP, so there isn't anything else left for me in my region :(

What do you mean? I am 20 years old and I can't have XP with 20 stacks/languages, although I am quite open to learning new stuff. Sadly, there are only so much technologies in dema…

Seems nobody is hiring interns for RoR or JavaScript backend/full-stack in Europe. Pity :(

I don't think so. I believe that code is really tightly coupled with the hardware and at least some part of it covers unique cases. However, these LoC have been written almost 50 y…

False allegations are far from being rare. You also have to acknowledge that when you have a rape accusation, there isn't a boolean result(either the allegation is false, or it's t…

Sadly, I doubt it will go away anytime soon, people just dislike the different, which isn't a bad thing in every case. Sometimes it fuels constructive criticism and discourse on a …