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I don't think you can fix burn out with new responsibilities and challenges. At least it didn't work for me. Before you will make any significant changes in your life I highly reco…

I recommend "reading challenge" from GoodReads. I like "challenges". Additionaly I set the limit higher every year - this year I set 40 books and I already read 39.

Location: EU Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: to Danemark, Sweden, Norway, Finland or Switzerland Technologies: expertise in Kotlin, Java, Android and some parts of Spring and Spri…

"Silicon Valley". It's not a movie, but a documentary TV series about startup scene in '00 ;)

I am self-employed and I can deduct VAT if I buy it in Poland.

Does anyone know why Apple charges significantly more money for their products in Europe? Also why there is a such big difference between Poland and Germany/UK? Let's take a look a…

There is also a book published by Tim Marshall in 2021 The Power of Geography. Highly recommend reading these two positions.

Changing fields is though for everyone, no matter how talented you are. There is a great chance he will fail. On the other hand, he meets all requirements that are needed to succee…

Please, upvote parent comment :). I guess there is a lot of people who are wondering which papers he read.

Out of 36 books I read this year, these 4 positions have the biggest impact on my life: The gene: an intimate history by Siddhartha Mukherjee - fascinating book about genes and med…

As far as I remember G+ had very granular privacy settings - idea of circle. Could that help to filter out political trolls that are so common in these days? Would anyone like to u…

Sure. Here is a link to GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52269471-mindf-ck The story tells story of Cambridge Analytica. Author describes how it all started, how they…

I don't use any social media. After reading "Mindf*ck" I decided to quit all of them. Surprisingly if you cut off all facebooks, instagrams and reddits, it turns out the Internet i…

Hi, What is the most rewarding thing you learnt recently? It can be something technical as well as non-technical. Some samples: - I learnt how to play "Lewis & Clark" by Tommy Emma…

I have mid 2012 MacBook Pro and I am about to change my workstation. I stopped looking at MacBooks - in my opinion nothing justifies such high price. In mid July new Thinkpads with…

No problems with European openings.

Well I don't advertise myself at all. I am searching for companies that are hiring remote employees and they don't have requirement to be located in US. I'm using remoteok.io, jobs…

Hi, Are US companies afraid of hiring contractors from Eastern Europe? I'm a dev from Poland with 8 years of commercial experience. I worked for US companies, visited the US a coup…

This pandemia is not the first in the history but for the first time we know that much about what caused it and how we can try to prevent spreading it. What would you like society …

It's medical app. I don't want to provide more details as he is not aware I mentioned him ;).

You can find a lot of articles about the most successful startups / companies in 2019 but these lack information of one-man companies, unless you started as a one person and now yo…

This. I do exactly the same. I have bunch of python scripts in git repo that manage my notes / flashcards and so one stored in csv files.

Hi, I need to change technology to avoid burn-out. 7 years in messy mobile world is more than enough. It feels like all my effort to get M.Sc, solving complex math & CS problems, e…

In my career I have estimated a lot of project. I tried different techniques and I find https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_evaluation_and_review_... is the most accurate one. If…