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can't access - HN hug of death?

Correct me if I am wrong, but the car followed the bolder line instead of a barely visible one? Could it be sunlight + concrete + bad vision of the lane line?

I saw in your other comments that you do mobile/full-stack dev - my email is on my profile and I do mainly backend dev work in Python and Elixir if you need any help.

Oh, please. Have you even read anything that OP wrote?

The OP specifically said that he feels like leading the projects and adding a lot of value. 32k in euros before taxes is awful. No one will give you anything unless you ask for it. Exploiting VISA workers is a common thing - he is afraid he is being exploited.

It is always a case of "wow, Alice is working like a superwoman for that shitty salary, thank God we have her on the team, because other people would have been a lot more expensive".

I am describing common knowledge in Balkan agriculture - in Vojvodina, Serbia, it is widely known that after harvesting sugar beets you simply can't have a solid harvest no matter what you plant for the next 5 or more years, and our land is mainly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernozem . Usually you plant garlic/onion/phacelia or something similar in the subsequent years to "reset" the land.

Not saying there is a fallow, but that sugar beets take a lot of nutrients from the land, at least in this area.

Sorry for the lack of proper terminology, agriculture is not my primary occupation.

Exactly due to need for availability of variety of fruit and vegetables are where we are today in terms of nutrition and GMO food.

Exactly this. For instance after sugar beet has been harvested, the land needs 5-10 years to regenerate back to proper nutrient levels and may not yield anything.

Absolutely.

Decreasing the amount of time I spent on social media has increased the quality of my life by at least 10 times. Before I used to feel intimidated going to the gym, posting on my tech blog, simply because everyone else was just doing it better than myself or at least I believed so and cared. When I went on to actually do and enjoy things, I noticed how everything is so imperfect and how in essence I do not care about others. It may sound funny, but that brought back the smell of roses. Another important side-effect was an increase in amount of in-person interaction with the people I wanted to interact.

Slightly off-topic. When you mentioned success celebreneurs I couldn't help but remember the famous Tai Lopez video - "Here in my garage, just bought this new Lamborghini here.. You know what I like a lot more than materialistic things? Knawledge".

Fasting is actually something I have been doing as well lately that helped me maintain (and lose a bit) my weight properly and that one meal less a day meant a lot.

Do you not feel the urge to always be online when you're working from home? Once I clock out I can't keep myself from checking emails/slack etc.

One thing that I feel will be the key is that I won't have to worry about missing out on something before 9am or after 5pm once I leave the office, it will help me "containerize" work.

Exactly this. Building systems that work for myself has probably been one of the hardest things and is taking a lot of trial and error.

Currently the sunrise here is at 6:45-7am. I'm up between 5:45-6:00 by myself anyway, but I usually just waste that time checking email/reading HN/reddit. I will make sure to not check phone until 7am. These are my plans and of course there is a big chance that I do not achieve all of this at once, it might take some adjustment, but if I do not check my phone, read and workout it's a win for me. I want to allocate 3-4 hours for myself in the morning.

Getting up early is an amazing feeling, but I learned that by tiring myself for a week, eventually your body will go to bed earlier and you'll wake up earlier. Do it for two weeks and you should be able to become an early riser.

5:30ish - wake up, bathroom etc

5:45ish - Have breakfast. Want to eat slower so I allocate 30 minutes.

6:15ish - 7:00 - read/cook lunch and dinner.

7:00am - head out to the gym

9:00am - back from the gym

9:30ish shower, eat, check email

10 - start working or an hour long nap depending on how I feel.

After working remotely for 4 years I am switching back to the office at least 3 days a week and moving back to our company HQ in the States.

Hardest challenge for me was staying in shape, because I lacked self-discipline to workout and eat healthy, but funny enough work didn't suffer and it was the most productive period in my life.

It gets extremely easy to start slacking (no pun intended) and not do your work out. You tell yourself "oh let me just push this feature, fix this bug or communicate about a new feature". Work gets prioritized and everything else is put aside. That actually damages your productivity in the long run and the chance of burning out is far bigger than if you dedicate time to do other things.

Took me a while to recognize the trap I was in - I felt obligated (no peer pressure, but just the fear of missing out) to always be online, answer emails or slack messages. Of course, my mental and physical health suffered due to this FOMO.

Since I have about six months before I get back to the office I promised myself to tackle these things by doing:

- Fix morning routine by working out, cooking and taking time to do other things (read, play video games, hobby)

- Snoozing notifications at 6pm my time.

- Learning to say "It will have to wait 'till tomorrow".

- Spend more time outside of my apartment at night.

- Dedicate more time to my SO.

- Learn Elixir/Erlang during the weekends.

Webapp2 or something else? :) It's been so long I've seen someone use python on GAE, it's ridiculous. It was my first ever "real world" programming project back in 2011.

We've recently started hiring for a junior front-end position and we've stumbled upon code bootcamps graduates asking for 120k with one or two demo projects on their github. NYC Area, which I find absurd.

Unsure if it's the mentors at those schools that are telling their students to ask for that much or the students themselves think that companies that want to hire juniors usually have that deep of a pocket.

I wish Valve would do this for Dota 2.

What tech stack are you working on, so that I can replace you in the future when I get bored chasing unicorns?

When out of the whole article you point out something that is not the focus of the article and introduce a true and undeniable fact that is (unfortunately) most often used as a way of scoring political points on the Balkan from both sides, that fact does in fact become political.

For the downvoters - you obviously have zero idea how much of an issue this presents on the Balkan. Embrace Tesla's work, not origin or nationality, it really does not matter.

Why does it always have to be someone that involves politics into this? Tesla during his life said he is of Serbian origin and thinks of himself as a Serbian, even though he was born in Croatia. Don't steer it up in here too, I'd like HN to remain what it is.

We use multiple things.

* We do code reviews and inline/trello todos. If we're on a tight schedule, this helps us remember why and what needs to be reworked.

* When adding new features we use regular development cycle (spec, design, review, develop, test, finish), but we also add one more process before finishing that is focused on improving todos from previous cycle. The reasoning is that after todos have been sitting there for a while, you might look at them a bit differently and while something wasn't as obvious back then it might become now. Refactoring matters a lot to us. We don't overdo it however and dedicate 1-3 days to it from the cycle.

* If any major/breaking version of react/django/drf comes out, we pause and update the tech stack. Run tests and fix any issues.

* If any major bug that hinders the users experience occurs we allocate resources in parallel with the current dev cycle.

* Update the documentation early and often.

* Write tests. Tests force you to kill the debt before it happens. We have much better unit test coverage than integration test coverage for our front-end.

As someone who had programming in the 8th grade (Basic/turbo), the knowledge I received was a short-term one. Anything complex like calculators, games did not work for me/my peers. 8th grade math/logical thinking is not at the level you'd need as the concepts are way too abstract.

However, my second semester as a freshman high school (technical school) we did programming theory followed by quick labs (coding exercises in C, same "no-magic" principle) and then it all made sense. However, we first had like a month without any code where we were taught different data structures, functions, differences between declaring/defining, etc. That knowledge is still in use today.

You're right, I wrote that in a selfish manner, sorry.

I dislike them quite a bit honestly due to the way things have been developing for a while, but it's getting tedious that every time I open HN all I see is Uber.

I'll probably get downvoted but is there a specific reason that any uber related story is always in top 10? Can there be a day when there aren't any?

I wish I had more solid evidence to call bs on this, but from my real world experience this is far from the truth.

The point I am making is that you can pay less and get the value I mentioned in my original comment.

You're not getting my point.

Salaries for doctors are too low for the Southeastern Europe standard. The whole point I was making is that you should not lower it as per your standards. It's good as it is.

Jacob - I'm living in Serbia. This has happened to us in Novi Sad couple of nights ago. I should have maybe added Southeastern Europe. I'll fix that. Estonia is light years ahead of my home country! :)

Going against the popular opinion.

Sure, but when the salaries are too low like they are in Southeastern Europe doctors don't want to schedule surgeries($500+), do a proper look-up ($50-100) or even bother to check on you or when an inadequate doctor/nurse/practitioner checks on you or does a procedure and screws up what happens? Nothing. Tough luck pal. Healthcare is public, you're required to pay for it and it's deducted from your salary. What do you get in return?

Two nights ago I brought my girlfriend's sister to the ER, her appendix was inflamed, she couldn't walk, talk or move due to pain and was left waiting for an hour. They did blood work and gave her an IV and sent her home, told her "we cured you" after another blood work was completed and her leukocytes dropped a bit. No ultrasound, ct or anything advanced, they haven't even properly checked her stomach. Her leukocytes were >19000.

I was later told by a friend that I need to give a 50 to the nurse to push her through the line and another 100 to the doctor. Great world we live in.

Don't get me wrong, but I think you should not fix something that is not completely broken. Your doctors still do their work and don't expect money, expensive gifts, bottles of whiskey and roasted pigs like they do in my home country.

In my country number of doctors you're allowed to have in a Clinic/ER/Urgent Care is proportional to the number of people living in the region. There is 1.3 gynecologist on a region of 10,000 people. Is that normal? My grandmother has to schedule a month and a half in advance to get her prescription medication and check ups are every two-three months. Not sure how it is in the States now, but in my 10 year tenure there and 10 times I was in the hospital, I never waited for more than 10-15 minutes after my scheduled time.