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Was this comment written by a Markov Chain?
The word "expericne" somehow got into the Markov chain. Perhaps the words themselves are being generated by an algorithm?
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I'll have to respectfully disagree with the idea that "anything worth doing is nontrivial." This might certainly be the case for you, but I would love to just spend some time learning Haskell, writing an OS for fun, reading papers on Theoretical Computer Science, or trying to find security exploits. I don't think these things are hard, at least they certainly aren't things I would doubt myself to be able to do. These…
> I would love to just spend some time learning Haskell, > writing an OS for fun, reading papers on Theoretical > Computer Science, or trying to find security exploits. What you describe sounds like what students do in a university. Maybe you should consider another degree in CS?
But if you're happy doing it independently, why pay $lots (and add at least some extra bureaucracy) to "make it official"?
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What work? There are no jobs in Bumfuck, and not enough companies that hire remote workers for this to scale. As i understand it, the situation in the US is that there is Silicon Valley, where the salaries are high and the rents higher, and then half a dozen other places where there are significant concentrations of software jobs, and more reasonable living costs. This is not really the case in the UK. There's London…
You're mistaken about how easy it is to find remote developer work. Upon moving to bf Lake District, I had no trouble picking up a gig for an American company at my Bay Area rate. There are enough companies hiring remote workers these days that I can't understand why anybody in England continues to put up with comically low and out of touch with reality London rates.
There's certainly enough remote work going for you to find a job. Or for everyone reading this page to do so. But there are over 100 000 people working in IT in London. Are there 100 000 remote jobs available?
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Try telling us about your projects and updates on Glitch Club, this is exactly what it's for: http://glitchclub.com
Sorry, I'm a bit old school in that I prefer text over videos, and desktop apps over mobile. Text on desktop can more easily be edited and perfected before being sent out. I like the idea of a community feedback platform though -- would definitely use it if it were multiplatform.
i have been pondering getting a high salaried job in sv for 1-2 years living out of my car and office and saving 90 percent of my salary to live nicely anywhere else in the country.
I've been doing this for 8 years and love it. I'm married with 5 kids. We live in rural Wyoming (no income tax, bought a comfortable house for $86k). We've always lived well below our income so we have no debt and sufficient savings. I mostly choose to work on "products". That helps me focus on problems that people actually care about without any of the startup pressures. Although, I've also written several open sour…
I work from home so I can move anywhere, and a more rural/calm place, earning less and having more time does appeal to me, but all the good schools here are in the city and I'm not brave enough to risk my kids future on my dreams of today.
I've been doing this for 8 years and love it. I'm married with 5 kids. We live in rural Wyoming (no income tax, bought a comfortable house for $86k). We've always lived well below our income so we have no debt and sufficient savings. I mostly choose to work on "products". That helps me focus on problems that people actually care about without any of the startup pressures. Although, I've also written several open sour…
Hi - thanks for sharing and congratulations - sounds like you've made things work. > I spent Fridays working on a cool idea my brother and I had. That idea proved useful enough to pay the bills so I quit my job. Regarding this, it sounds like you already had a good idea of what your expenses were, and I think people underestimate how important this is. I recently quit my job and have jumped into the unknown. Firstly…
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not in most eu country's ok recent immigrants may have to have a short period of paying into the system. When I was out of work in the UK I signed on to keep my NI record up to date as they only account full years
In the UK you lose your unemployment insurance benefits and thus the health insurance after ~30 weeks (source: http://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=10852&langId=en ) Average for EU countries is ~50 weeks. That's not long if you do not want to work for money for the rest of your life.
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What work? There are no jobs in Bumfuck, and not enough companies that hire remote workers for this to scale. As i understand it, the situation in the US is that there is Silicon Valley, where the salaries are high and the rents higher, and then half a dozen other places where there are significant concentrations of software jobs, and more reasonable living costs. This is not really the case in the UK. There's London…
There are quite a few startups and companies in other areas like Edinburgh, Manchester, Leeds. They are still big (and somewhat) expensive cities but you can lower your cost of living.
I get a lot of recruiter spam from UK recruiters, but truth be told, don't think I've ever got an email where the minimum offered was lower than £45k for London while for anywhere else the maximum range was £45-50k
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You're mistaken about how easy it is to find remote developer work. Upon moving to bf Lake District, I had no trouble picking up a gig for an American company at my Bay Area rate. There are enough companies hiring remote workers these days that I can't understand why anybody in England continues to put up with comically low and out of touch with reality London rates.
Are you seriously trying to generalise from your experience as one person to an entire city? There's certainly enough remote work going for you to find a job. Or for everyone reading this page to do so. But there are over 100 000 people working in IT in London. Are there 100 000 remote jobs available?
Also keep in mind that every developer job is a remote one. It may not be advertised that way, but if you've proven that you're good at what you do and you decide to move out of your felt cube and claim back your quality of life, your company will find a way to accommodate that (if they're smart enough to do the simple arithmetic to calculate what it would cost to replace you in this market).