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Lagging a lot on a i7 Macbook Pro Retina with 16 Gbs of RAM in Chrome. It is a bit better in Safari, but still not smooth.
Perhaps Austrians are still coping with 1866.
Small nitpick: I doubt Vienna's got 20+ universities as the infographic would suggest. It's far more likely what you meant is "faculty buildings" or something to that extent. I would also venture a guess that most of those belong to a single University of Vienna.
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i and a lot of other people are actively working on the technology part, i.e.: http://www.viennajs.org/ meetup, https://www.facebook.com/RailsGirlsVienna , http://events.jquery.org/2013/eu/ (happened a few weeks ago, but will happen again next year), https://metalab.at/ , http://www.gdg-vienna.at/ , .... said that, if you want to live in vienna and are an experienced dev. send me a tweet, we will hook you up with a j…
What would you suggest for a general developer meetup? I'm in Linz and was thinking about coming up and seeing Metalab and going to a developer meetup. Any good events coming up you would recommend?
from your blog i see you are into php and flash, well, come by to the viennajs meetup and lets talk about html5.
I've heard good things from other Australians about Vienna of late, and you've probably convinced me to drop by before or after OHM2013 in August. Few tips for internationalisation purposes... Germanisms: city bike, public barbecuing. Style: US would typically (over)use exclamations! Like, There's loads to do in Vienna! (and BBQ ) AU would be Mate, there's shit-loads to do in Vienna! (and have a barbie or BBQ ) NZ wo…
We are austrians, not australians btw..
(Don't we, we get equally worried when people mix it up.)
Small nitpick: I doubt Vienna's got 20+ universities as the infographic would suggest. It's far more likely what you meant is "faculty buildings" or something to that extent. I would also venture a guess that most of those belong to a single University of Vienna.
I assume the citation from the 20 is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_in_Austria...
Even for a city as cool as Vienna, that many universities looks unrealistic.
To bring a few counter-points to the praises listed on the web site:
You want to work at a startup? Great! But don't go to Vienna then. There are a few startups, but most of them finance themselves via part-time consulting work, as the chances of getting "real" investments are quite low. And almost all of the successful ones that I know move to places like London or Berlin as soon as possible.
Salaries are low. And I mean low. If you're used to salaries at places like SF you're probably paying more for your apartment in those places than what you're net income in Vienna would be. And forget about stock options, even at the so called "startups" there they are quite rare.
It feels like almost everyone smokes in Vienna. If you're ever going to a restaurant or a bar, even if it's only a brief visit, be prepared to wash all of your clothing afterwards. There are practically no laws protecting non-smokers, although those are nowadays standard in most other modern cities.
It rains almost all the time. There are something like 2 months of summer and 2 months of winter. The remainder of the time is cloudy rainy weather. So yes, there would be a few nice places where you could do stuff outside, but only during the short summer time. And don't expect any clean parks where you just can lie down and enjoy the sun (like in SF). Most of the city parks are dirty. And most people don't clean up after their dogs, so you wouldn't want to lie down in those parks anyway.
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What would you suggest for a general developer meetup? I'm in Linz and was thinking about coming up and seeing Metalab and going to a developer meetup. Any good events coming up you would recommend?
well, i organize viennajs.org, but well you should be into JS (or we will convince you, last wednesday of every month), there is the web performance meetup http://web-performance.meetup.com/members/at/vienna/ it's about pretty much any language & performance, there is http://www.meetup.com/Vienna-Perl-Mongers/ well perl. gdg http://www.gdg-vienna.at/ has some new organizes, so i don't know what they have in mind, als…
I'm originally from Vienna (now living in SF) and I wouldn't really recommend to live there. The Viennese people all praise how well there city works, but if you've lived in another place for a while you quickly notice all the things going terribly wrong there. To bring a few counter-points to the praises listed on the web site: You want to work at a startup? Great! But don't go to Vienna then. There are a few startu…
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I assume the citation from the 20 is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_in_Austria...
There still seem to be a lot more listed on the map. http://i.imgur.com/T9GxbPV.jpg Even for a city as cool as Vienna, that many universities looks unrealistic.
