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A very nice read and pretty much my experience. I have been here for a quarter of my life now, I do not think I can live anywhere else now. People may not like me being here becaus…

It is truly a great city to live in. I have only visited it a few times, I wish I could live there.

This is a total mess IMHO. - The make around 5 billion in revenue per quarter - The problem according to them is profit margin - around 150-160 million So first of all, they are bi…

Looks great! Gamedev is so cool, being able to create enjoyable, playable worlds and characters must be so satisfying. If you can tell me how to build something like this I will be…

IMHO - In an AI context an "eval" is answering the question - "Is this AI / LLM call helping me or is doing the right thing?" AI is not deterministic like regular code, so imagine …

That is a strange title / comparison. Docker images (even slimmed down) have an OS (most likely a Linux distribution), some libs and the runtime needed for a programming language. …

Last i checked, it needed JVM (parts of the library are in Java). Given there are many JS minifiers and optimizers (tree shaking etc.) avaliable in JS itself in 2026, I do not know…

Nice! Now also get rid of the elephant in the room - "Google Closure Compiler" and then we can really celebrate.

My dad had a transportation contract with the local Wimco factory, we had stacks of these at home. Lots of childhood memories associated with the matches.

I am a Clojure fan and would love to use it. But you are right, we live in a real world where money talks and most organizations want to see developers as cheap, replaceable commod…

And at the same time, gives you a dozen of footguns. This is just a list for the gotchas in the "@Transactional" annotation - https://dev.to/closeup1202/8-spring-transactional-pitf…

Line goes up is also not enough anymore. The slope of line going up is most important. You made 10bn last year, but only 9 bn this year - this means time for some layoffs to please…

Growing up in India in the 90s, I always wanted a cricket game I could just play - no downloads, no loading screens, no flashy 3D graphics that get in the way. Just pure cricket fu…

Not sure of where you are coming from. But thousands come in and go every year. A few hundred are able to land a job after graduation / post-graduation (in Germany). Zero is not th…

What plan? I do not know what reality people live in. I am an Indian myself, migrated 12 years ago. There are around currently 20000 students from India in Germany. I have talked t…

Yeah, don't get why you were down voted. What reality are people living in and how do I transfer in that timeline

I agree with you partly. The benefits are great & fairly above international norms. But I do not agree with the "firing protection" anymore. Last year alone I saw thousands let go …

Yeah, the numbers in Germany are not so rosy. If these numbers are true, we are looking at - - An "average" salary of around 65K / year - This after (an average of) 5-6 rounds of i…

Very interesting. It would be great if this works with a "higher" level library like Pixi.js or Phaser.js, that way one could build with ease in JS/TS, using a rich library/ecosyst…

Wow! What a coincidence. I just launched this y'day - https://cric26.fun/ I tried to go for deep cricket-ing gameplay and not graphics. People from the subcontinent should be able …

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Nope, I would probably even quit at 250K of savings. Take some time off, then maybe learn pixel art / design , and spend 2 years to make a game or SaaS to get around 2k income per …

My biggest question now is - since now anyone can build a SaaS, and since everything is now optimized not for "employment" but for "enterprise" (run your own business), just how ma…

Very impressive! Worth noting that HTMX also has a WebSocket extension - https://v1.htmx.org/extensions/web-sockets/ so one could potentially also do "live views" in more performan…