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cultofthecow··on Relocating for Tech Jobs in 2025
most of the IT companies are recognised sponsors.
cultofthecow··on Ask HN: How to Emigrate from EU and Where?
Honestly I can only disagree with you on most of the points.

Speaking of my experience in Amsterdam.

1. Cars are just less practical and expensive. I personally avoid city center at all cost.

2. AC absence is not about sustainability at all. There was no need for them in this climate except a couple of summer weeks.

3. Never heard of people saying that. Constant queues at Schiphol. Government plans to extend and build another one IIRC

4. It’s just normal here to satisfy all of the food preferences.

5. 99% of the cafes has “normal milk”. Lactose intolerance, maybe fashion on oatmilk.. don’t known exact reason on why it’s not only the cow milk.

cultofthecow··on Show HN: OnAir – create link, receive calls
I did exactly the same product like 4 years ago.

Twilio, voice app etc. But I was so lazy to do a proper marketing and sales.

However I had some ideas that I can share with you if you want:) For free ofc!

Wish you all the luck! Contrast with nice product! Super good!

cultofthecow··on Ask HN: AI impact on future developer career
Well.. Its a combination.

I would love to the industry to have a higher entrance barrier.

I would love to be able to solve more with less.

I would love industry to deliver more value with a higher speed.

Progress is inevitable. So I would love to start adapting faster and be on top of it even if it will require me to leave my current role and maybe switch to another one.

I've seen too many people here in IT doing the things they don't like or coming to the job simply because "it pays bills". I've seen 25 yoe engineers who know literally nothing because they were doing literally nothing for the last 20 years. I've seen junior developers who barely know fundamentals and I'm speaking of some really dummy things. I hope industry will naturally heal itself even if it'll make me leave or switch.

cultofthecow··on Ask HN: AI impact on future developer career
It's strange. I'm in a similar position. I need more of them with more of a tools like GPT-N-whatever just to achieve more. Maybe your market niche is a bit small that you'll get to the ceiling and no development needed. Which is ok.

Anyways I hope you're right to be honest. And let's see.

cultofthecow··on Ask HN: AI impact on future developer career
I think you're wrong honestly. I think the nature of Software Engineering is something else. Automation and increasing efficiency. All the tools are for this. AI is just a tool. Basically it will increase expectations for all of the levels (Juniors to Principals). There won't be less roles. It's just SWE will be required to do more.
cultofthecow··on Ask HN: AI impact on future developer career
Do you think it will be capable to replace a junior dev?
cultofthecow··on Ask HN: AI impact on future developer career
Have you seen at leas one tool that is capable to replace a junior dev? At least one please. I would love to read anything about it.
cultofthecow··on Ask HN: AI impact on future developer career
IMHO there is a huge misconception in what is the impact of AI. AI will not take engineering jobs. It will help engineers do more. That's it. Engineering is all about automation, performance improvement. Expectations will be "you have a wonderful tool, we expect you to do more".
cultofthecow··on Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?
Raycast - hands down the best one.

MeetingBar - simply does it's job. simple and effective. has inyourface functionality in place.

Arc - wanna jump off to Safari but I think Arc is still the best one so far.

Obsidian - I'm new to it but "file-first" approach looks good.

1Password - still nothing beats it.

KarabinerElements+goku - to have it configurable. have layers of keybinding to launch something. Like ".+i" will open iTrem2 and so on.

Ice - just landed my setup.

cultofthecow··on Ask HN: Is the job market is bad as everyone claims it is?
no it’s not.

commenters are wrong and I know no one who were not able to find a job.

Current rates - is another question. They are not that high.

long story short: if you’re a good specialist, you will be good.

cultofthecow··on Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
fully available. your country of residence matters.
cultofthecow··on Ask HN: What are your hobbies?
bjj, running, crying in a shower, blaming myself for the past mistakes
cultofthecow··on Ask HN: Why can't I get interviews or offers anymore?
Just a couple of advices. Feel free to ignore. It won't harm anyways.

- linkedin profile looks weak. Elaborate on what were the duties in form of showing up your professional achievements. Like how you improved the product with your work. How you increased company revenue. Did this -> it lead to that. This approach shows your real impact (at least a sign of it). "reduced infra cost for 20%", "latency decreased which lead to more registrations", "hired and structured 2 team", etc..

- use recruiters. 99% of time their help will be useless but because there are a lot of them this 1% will cover the rest.

- don't spend your time on no-name-another-job-list-platform. it won't work. approach company recruiters directly, apply via linkein or connect with recruiters there.

- "I can do everything for 60k" might sound like a red flag. Avoid it during the conversation.

- Interview passing is a skill. You need a time and a volume of interviews to train it. Doable.

- don't listen to "oh yeah that's a terrible market I can't get a job as well we gonna die poor" comments. you don't know who is behind the comment. like I don't know who are you btw :)

Market is not that bad. It's totally ok. Approach it as a project. Code, code, code, read, watch related videos on youtube. Acquire some clarity that you know your shit.

I wish you all the luck, you will make it!

cultofthecow··on Ask HN: Seeking Advice on Visa Sponsorship Job Search and Relocation Options
a good perk is that you can also get 30% ruling (if you can meet some certain simple conditions)

https://www.iamsterdam.com/en/live-work-study/living/officia...

cultofthecow··on I have a custom domain, what's your guys favorite email provider
I'm somehow very satisfied with Apple's iCloud option. You can get https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212514
cultofthecow··on Ask HN: What are the best tools for job search?
Hands down LinkedIn is the single one.

Other than that - I haven't found anything useful among myriads of cv-ai-smart-ml-web3-bla-bla tools that are all over the internet these days.

I might only use Grammarly and ChatGPT for more or less adequate outreach.

cultofthecow··on Ask HN: How is/was your job search this year?
Had a month of interviews with different companies back in Jan. So so.. Can't say it was very tough but the processes took like 2 months after the interviews.
cultofthecow··on Ask HN: Have you ever not done anything on work whole day?
Never. I also lie a lot.
cultofthecow··on Don't Use Mocks
how come mocks make you tightly coupled with implementation?

Use and depend on abstractions maybe?

cultofthecow··on Don't Use Mocks
what does it mean “mocked out hashtable”?

Whole hashtable? Or what?

You mock interface/api of “something” you depend on to model the behavior you might deal with within the part of code you test.

thats it. nothing else.

during unit test phase I want to make sure that this exact code works as a state machine given all the possible inputs/outputs and that it handles any possible situation any dependency can cause.

If you need to debug code BECAUSE of the tests and not WITH the tests then something is wrong with the architecture or approach.

tldr. mock dependencies. model behavior of the dependencies. make sure you can debug the code with the help of your unit tests on the very layer you’re working with at the moment.

cultofthecow··on Don't Use Mocks
Such a bad take IMHO. Sorry.

1. You still need to update the fake object once you gonna add a new behaviour.

2. Fake object has a tendency to become logic heavy. Someone will add a stupid-not-needed-map to test some shit you don't need to test in this unit\layer.

3. You only need to mock the behaviour you depend on. If you've added new Method and you need to mock it despite the fact you're not using it in the code you're testing - its a bit weird and smelly. Consider rethink SOLID principles at least.

4. Go. Gen. Effectively you can automate mock generation. Debatable but it's cool.

Just. Keep. Things. Simple. Depend on what you need. Mock behaviour you need. Try to test flattened structure - do not test the layer below the one you're testing ATM (unit tests).

cultofthecow··on This blog is hosted on my Android phone
This page isn’t workingandroidblog.a.pinggy.io didn’t send any data.

Ok.

cultofthecow··on Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of?
Apple shortcut to send document to my kindle email.
cultofthecow··on Ask HN: Where does everyone go after mass layoffs?
> Where does everyone go after mass layoffs?

As affected one, I can say with a full confidence - straight to the beach

cultofthecow··on Ask HN: What are some excellent pieces of software written by a single person?
Surprised nobody mentioned https://curl.se

and it's author: https://daniel.haxx.se

cultofthecow··on Ask HN: Best Go Integration with an Editor?
GoLand and that's it. Simply the best and the only tool.
cultofthecow··on Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
Simple website click statistics tool: https://clickradar.io/
cultofthecow··on Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
https://clickradar.io

Some small real problem I faced before: test\validate idea by counting how many times website visitor clicked the certain button. So I automated it with google sheets and some custom script\backend.

Landing is still in progress... Don't kill me for the language skills, English is not my native)

cultofthecow··on Ask HN: What are the Online Investing Courses you like?
That's awesome! Thanks!
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