Viewing profile — sweaty

> The "best" engineer in the world would probably tell you that "the only thing that they know is that they know nothing" This just tells me that the engineer in question is very g…

But that is the answer, in that there is no answer :) And agreed, it is always a mismatch. But I do think that with what I said, that'd be the foundation to create a 10x engineer. …

I've been called a 10xer before, and I'm the only one in my company currently at that level. We're a data company first and software second. Trainings don't work. What does work is…

This happened to me (and is in part why I'm a tad salty in the comments), I was a H1B and in the process of adjustment of status. While your green card application is pending, you'…

If you think this is good oh boy do I have news for you. You don't need to "afford" fantastic insurance, healthcare is essential and needs to be free for everyone, which it is here…

>Who's paying it? Very rich people and large companies, generally.

Yes, but you don't tend to get fired on permanent contracts to begin with and it's much more enticing to find something new especially considering work-life balance is very very go…

It's a good question. Here, if you have a permanent contract, the employer is required to pay into various government insurances, and this is mandatory for all employers. The salar…

I'm surprised by these "generous" packages. Where I work in Europe, they must give me 3 months notice, my full salary is paid for 6 months, after which it's 75% up to 2 years, and …

It actually turned my life around. I was in school and wasn't feeling challenged, but we had a web design class by a shaggy haired, bearded metalhead in his 50s who did it as a par…

We definitely need to build more houses, if you look at Topotijdreis and start from around the 50s-60s, increment by 10 years until now, you'll see that we haven't built anything t…

I'm 25, and I live in The Netherlands as well. My parents managed to buy a house for 110k with government subsidies back in the 90s, they didn't need a deposit, they didn't even ne…

GDPR isn't a be-all and end-all, Dutch laws already incorporated a lot of aspects of it such as having to notify their customers prior to GDPR becoming effective.

Oh boy, I love taking my big ass F-150 Lariat down to the drive-through ATM, through a Starbucks to grab some coffee for the hour long trip just to get some lunch in Tacoma because…

I've lived in the US for a while, this reads very nostalgic. But I never really had a sense of culture shock, I was going through the motions of course, adjusting and getting used …

My girlfriend is a neurologist and I'm a software engineer. While both of our professions tend to marry within their communities, we got together because of a shared interest in br…

This is how I feel too. And not just with programming languages, but with cloud platforms like AWS and GCP. I've spent the last 3 years working just with GCP, but I have prior AWS …