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I love this idea! I'll give it a shot.

I'm sorry to hear about your illness, I hope you're doing better now.

Personally I have found the market to be quite good recently, at least based on my LinkedIn inbound.

Something that might help is to condense your resume to 1-2 pages. There's a lot of detail in your resume and it's quite difficult to understand it at a glance.

Other than that it can help to reach out directly to people at a company your interested in working through LinkedIn rather than applying through forms. Having a coffee or online chat can open doors.

Based on your experience I'm also assuming that you've got a considerable network. Can you reach out to people you've enjoyed working with in the past?

I’m not saying that everyone in the Netherlands agrees with me. I’m just illustrating that it’s perfectly possible to live in a city like Paris or Amsterdam with a family and without a car.

What you’re describing is perfectly possible without a car.

I live in Amsterdam and have a young family. We own an electric cargo bike that we use for groceries and to cart around our daughter. You can use it with an infant car seat and for larger kids.

When we need a car we use a car sharing app. There are around 10 cars within walking distance of our flat.

Many people in cities _want_ a car but don’t need one.

Luckily we have the sovereignty to regulate our own market.

Can't believe they shut down https://skiff.com/mail for a Gmail client :( I was a happy user of Skiff before Notion bought them.

An important distinction is that US and EU interests aligned on many important areas up until recently. So it was less of a subservient relationship, and more of a mutually beneficial one. Now that the US wants to turn it into a subservient relationship, the EU is naturally looking for other options.

Many tools that increase your productivity as a developer take a while to master. For example, it takes a while to become proficient with a debugger, but I'd still wager that it's worth it to learn to use a debugger over just relying on print debugging.

As the car is sold outside of North America (with a promise of FSD) , you don't think it's fair to expect it to recognise the speed limit signs in the country that the car is sold?

The assumption that neobanks always use a sponsor bank is false. Most European neobanks have a full banking license.

I'm on board with assuming that the intent of Google / the engineers who built the classifier is not racist. However the outcome — labelling a black person as a gorilla — certainly is racist. What makes you think otherwise?

The title makes it sound like Prime Video abandoned microservices all-together, but in reality they only did so for a single service.

The title is editorialised to be clickbait. The original title is "Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90%".

They changed a single service, the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service, from a few Lambda and Step Function components into a 'monolith'. This monolith is still one of presumably many services within Prime Video.

It’s not necessarily recklessness.

Cars in the US have gotten much larger and heavier in recent years.

A Ford F150 might be safe to drive, but it’s not safer for pedestrians and other road users than the smaller cars we used to have.

I've been working on a geospatial application, and one of the use cases was finding intersections between large sets of polygons. For some use cases you might not need a separate data store like this.

I used an in-memory RTree in Golang [0]. It's super fast and efficient.

[0] https://github.com/tidwall/rtree

I was quite surprised that the 75 percentile salary is highest in Amsterdam.

Anecdotally it seems that the top end of salaries is much higher in London than in Amsterdam, but maybe that doesn't show until the 90-95th percentile.

> I don't like EU attitude to want to rule over foreign companies arbitrarily

The EU wants to regulate its own internal market. Companies can choose to be active in that market.

Calling £90K/year in London 'working poor' is extremely out of touch.

This isn't the case in London (which is what the parent comment is referring to). In London you can probably half that base.

I mentioned £200k because it's near the top end for a senior engineer in London (although not the very top). FAANG, some Unicorns, trading firms will pay this to a senior engineer. Bear in mind this is total compensation, so part of that will be in stock or options.

For engineers based in the UK that are shocked by this number I'd recommend reading this [0] article. It's about compensation in the Netherlands but the same principle holds for the UK.

[0] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-sala...

Unless you already have top of market compensation, I'd focus on interviewing for a higher paying job rather than do more work on the side.

Going by the ££ signs I'm assuming you can get a job in London, where you can make >£200k total compensation as a good software engineer.

This brings back memories. My university offered this laptop to students at a reduced price. I carried it everywhere with me even though it was thick and heavy as a brick. I was jealous of students with a fancy MacBook, but it ran Matlab like a champ.

> Don't get cocky. In Europe you literally can't get a job paying 200.000€ per year as an individual contributor, except for US companies

You can find these jobs in London. And there are plenty of examples of this in Amsterdam as well [1].

But the point is that in Europe you don't need to make as much as you'd have to make in the US to have the same or a higher quality of life.

If maximising your total compensation is your goal, then yeah you'll have to work in the US or for a US based company.

[1] https://techpays.eu/countries/netherlands#

I don't think any reply to this comment mentioned Stripe's actual moat: vertical integration between their products.

HN loves Stripe's Payments API, but in my experience from having worked on payments at a large ecommerce unicorn, APIs from companies like Adyen and Checkout.com are just as easy to work with.

Stripe's real moat is that they offer so many useful products around payments and finance that integrate really well. You can get fraud detection, billing, invoicing etc. from other merchants, or you can build your own, but it's probably cheaper (and much simpler) to use Stripe for all of that.

At the moment this is true from small to medium sized companies. Past a certain size you will most likely be using multiple Payment Service Providers anyway, so the vertical integration is not as useful.

Heart Rate Variability is already measured throughout the day if you wear an Apple Watch. You can find the data in the Health app.

> This also supports Silicon Valley level wages, which are almost non existent in Europe.

As a software engineer in Europe, I'd say that this is a good thing. Income inequality is much lower in most European countries than it is in the US.

For everyone that doesn't see the point, take a look at the example of parsing a long string [0]. The verbal expression is _much_ easier to read than the regular expression.

[0] https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JavaVerbalExpressions/w...

That's not true in my experience -- at least in the Netherlands. My friends and family have wages that would be considered low in the US, but they live very comfortable lives and many of them work four days a week.

I looked it up and the average work week in the Netherlands is apparently 29 hours a week [0]. The average inheritance in the Netherlands is €23K [1], and as another commenter mentioned many people don't receive an inheritance until they're in their 40s or 50s.

So many people in the Netherlands are able to live a comfortable live while working part-time, without having to rely on an inheritance.

EDIT: However, as you pointed out, rising housing costs are an increasing issue in the Netherlands. The issue is that not enough houses are being built. I hope that that's something that'll be addressed soon.

[0] https://money.cnn.com/gallery/news/economy/2013/07/10/worlds... [1] Source in Dutch: https://www.evivanlanschot.nl/kennis/geldzaken/erfenissen-fe...

In the UK before Deliveroo you could only order food from traditional take-away restaurants (Chinese, Indian, Pizza, etc). Delivery time could easily take north of 1.5 hours. Deliveroo takes 20-30 minutes. And you can order from really good restaurants.

Whimsical [1] is an amazing tool for creating system designs and sequence diagrams.

[1] - https://whimsical.com