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This! Right to the point. I think Texas got this right. Higher property taxes are assessed every year on the current property value. This has the positive effect to keep the real e…

Yeah I looked into home prices rent/buy. True that you can find something _cheaper_ but not cheap/good enough to justify the lower salary and less tech opportunities. I came to the…

Still, I am sure Zurich wouldn't even come close to the number of opportunities one get in SV. My LinkedIn account is always flooded by recruiters. That gives engineers leverage to…

If I could, I'd leave tomorrow, but, besides tech, there is another unique aspect of Bay Area: the Biotech scene. My wife works in Biotech and the only other alternative for us wou…

The weather is also overrated. SF weather in particular is boring and sucks!

The weather in SF is boring. Seasons are much better. I like cold winter, fall, warm spring and hot summers.

Had terrible experience with AirBnB support. I had to reach out to them on Twitter and eventually someone got back to me! You would expect their site to have a clear link to suppor…

Clearly a project built for the sole purpose of getting a promotion and then move on. I wonder why would they ever even consider building this thing oO.

fake it until you make it

> if you have years or decades of experience you should have a large network of colleagues yes, but more often than not, those colleagues best interest is not YOU but their employe…

Let's put aside Chernobyl, Fukushima and all the safety/economic/environment implications those incidents have had. What about the nuclear waste ? How/where are we gonna store it ?…

It is also Google.

Looking forward to a Google Container

If I were the US authorities, I'd start asking/demanding Google to stop SSO across Search/GMail/Browser. Just because I am a GMail user does not automatically mean that you can tra…

Where was the antitrust in all these years ? I think it is a little too late now. Companies like Google have grown to the size where it is now impossible to stop them from being a …

I stand with Apple! I deleted my FB account years ago, never used Instagram. Unfortunately I am forced to use WhatsUp because of my family :( . I think it is time to put a stop at …

I have also recently switched to DuckDuckGo and so far I am happy with it.

In a professional context (and not only), one would think that this should be the normal expected good practice. But unfortunately, that is not the case. It is so surprising (well …

I used ORMs JPA/Hibernate in several projects/teams and the outcome is always the same: things always get messy and overcomplicated, few reasons : - they push developers to design …

I have mixed feelings about this. As society, we seem to be ok with millennials fresh out of college making hundreds of thousands of $$$ a year for a bunch Javascript that allows p…

I find myself browsing Netflix but not finding anything interesting. Old movies and low-quality content. I am deleting the subscription.

> is a truck load of cash it is relative, for normal people it is indeed a ton of cash, but you have to compare that to the size of FB. In that respect, $5B is not that much.

$5B is peanuts for FB, just Mark personal wealth is ~$74B, he could pay the fine himself. The should have fined FB on some % of their total revenue, like GRDP. I'd say 15/20% at le…

So you are saying that children "have a massive impact on climate change" ? I don't have any statistics that can either confirm or dispute that assertion. But I will gladly ban SUV…

The way I see it is that you don't bring child into the world to "increase" your own personal happiness. They are (at least in my personal case) the result of my own happiness. And…