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How is the 'massive' increase in cost of capital affecting Google, a company making 60bln profit a year from mostly services?

Whatsapp? I also liked Hangouts, but they botched it.

Who stops you from deploying with FTP? :)

So we all started black?

When I did the system design interview the guy told me that zuckeberg created memcached. Not sure if he meant used or invented, could have just been a language thing. Anyway, I'm g…

What a stupid cookie popup. So a cookie from 'livecasinocomparer.com' is a Strictly Necessary Cookie. WTH

I have a lot of colleagues from the middle east at work. I don't know what this person meant by same culture & values, as long as you're allowed to work and are qualified for the p…

I wonder if this is where most developers end up getting. You can stick to being good at one language/ecosystem, but the more you age the more things you learn and unlearn, the mor…

Why would a contractor require special care? On the contrary. They supply you the work, you pay for their services, like you would a software company. The benefits they choose for …

Really? Just go to the east then

Just check flightradar24. I see one from Moscow to Belgrade flying now over Poland.

HR departments trying to get people back in the office..

Is there an open source web testing tool which also integrates a dashboard, keeps track of test runs, creates reports, something that I can just install on a vm and run to test a w…

I don't find this uncommon. I also work as a freelancer, but for local companies (eu). Sometimes the company (banks for example) will ask me to work on one of their laptops, which …

120/hr? Rates are lower now, at least the ones on the open market. And 2000 hours a year is a stretch, you need to take some holidays. But all in all, still better than..

Not in my country, I actually get tax break for being self employed. In the end I pay less tax on my income than someone employed earning a similar income. Not to mention I make 2-…

Everybody pays retirement, the public one, you pay it through taxes. They probably don't pay a private pension. And insurance yes, some don't pay disability insurance which pays yo…

You are exaggerating, I've never seen a beating in school (from a teacher to a pupil). Was in school in Bucharest from the 90's to 00's, had loads of maths and other stem classes. …

It's not. Actually the government will bend backwards just to keep the big companies in the country, while hunting down regular tax payers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_chi…

Not Russia but eastern Europe. A long time ago I was working at this company 'subscribed' to government contracts. There was a new project for the army/nato and my colleague was wr…