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A cousin of mine, who's a dentist in his mid 40's and hmm lets say he lacks behind on technology, found a way to set it up and gave it to them.

They use it and they don't even understand that its using the internet to stream pirated data... I told them that and they were like "no, he bought it for us from amazon, why they sell illegal stuff there, its free".

So yes I have valid proof of 2 people that don't know how to Google - Google fully using it.

I think we had the same issue in the UK, when uber drivers wanted to be classified as full time workers. Although they do work as contractors e.g no fixed timeschedule, money directly in their pockets them doing their own tax etc.

Most uber drivers I talked to in London mention, that they love working whenever they want without restrictions. Well that comes with the price of not being classified as fully employed (at least for now).

^ this

You're on to continue with your life and grab a new opportunity and I'd wish you well on whatever you do, and I'd thank and appreciate that you worked weekends and nights to make the app happen.

Housing is so expensive in the city I don't think many people can afford it.

1 bedroom apartment in bad areas where your car insurance will be at the highest cause of thefts etc costs around £250k.

Towards central London you are looking at around £750-900k for an 1 bedroom apartment.

Also I'd argue that London hasn't fixed crime, or schools, certainly there are less gun crimes but thats it really, everything else is the same.

Barclays is bad with legalities I had issues with them in the past but I guess every bank is... They asked me to come in and proof my address while I have an account with them for over 10 years, money comes in and out every month from my employer, I got a credit card with them as well etc etc and generally I bank with them for 10 years without ever doing anything suspicious... I found it very odd that they asked me to go in and verify me address after that long... then I read online they've done it to many others including a guy working as a bank manager with them.

I tried to watch Friends on comedy central, which is 20 minutes per episode... each episode had 3 ad slots... 3!!! ad!!! slots... and I was paying £70 a month for that thing, they were trying to milk me out... I've quit sky and I don't miss it at all, and am very glad I quit it.

Also I appreciate mechanical automatic over quartz movement, and I also love hacking the winding etc.

Also don't forget obviously if you have a mobile phone that can connect to the internet you'll always have the time right no matter what.

Watches nowadays are some kind of a prestige thing really, its like women handbags.

note: am not a WeChat advocate.

So dear fb and google and whoever, build business garages where people go with an idea and they've been given a cheaper way to expand their business on their own and see if they can actually make it, rather than trying to find the best ideas to invest for yourselves, that would help.

I got a friend and atm he works in a top bank at the highest position a dev can acquire. He makes £120k a year without his bonuses etc. Thing is he is living in London and houses are so expensive in London and generally the cost of life and the taxes are drilling him. Am not gonna say he is not comfortable, he definitely is alright, although he has been trying to get transferred to Singapore or USA because after his research he found out he would be 2 times better off working there.

So yes I think devs working outside of the EU are doing better for themselves.

My closest guess is that this lawfirm is going to provide an X amount of cases that passed screening etc and have relevant experience to the job as described in its advertisement.

Then its really up to the Judge and the jury if such a case has a jury to decide.

If you just pay everyone X amount of money every month for whatever, it just means that in order to produce something you'll need to pay someone a lot more than that X amount in order to work and produce it and also it means that that item is gonna increase massively in cost in order to pay the items production itself.

I am highly against that idea.

You want to solve issues? Give free food/water and shelter for survival, thats all a human needs. It doesn't need to be a food from a chef or Evian water or a house with even an internet connection. All it needs is just to provide some safety that that person is not going to die of starvation or weather. Other than that if you want to have a better have and lifestyle well you have to work for it.

Although I think the newer generations care a bit less about e.g Word etc and they are also more tech savy on doing hard things on google sheets etc, while the older generations might find it extremely hard to convert from Excel to google sheets etc.

Although another factor is laws etc and privacy policies. Google is much less flexible than office365 when it comes to who owns the data, although of course you have to pay for office365 while for google stuff usually you dont have to pay hence your companies docs might be owned by google and I don't see any sane human being wanting that.

My whole life I've been hearing by colleagues etc that Bill Gates is an amazing human being and he has donated all his money and he has done so many things for humanity.

I am sorry but I just don't feel the same way and although I think I shouldn't force my thoughts on others I just feel the need of reminding them that this person still owns a yacht costing half a billion, he is still the richest man in the world, and no matter what he donates in my mind he will still be one of the "humans" that felt the need of having a 400m $ yacht while there are people out there starving to death.

Please and Thank you.

P.S I know am gonna get down-voted to hell and prolly shadow-banned cause of my opinion, but doesn't matter no matter what I say or what happens to me will change the way the world works (there will always be people that see goodness in people and others like my that are seeing the bad side in people).

Then obviously you can say he is an average developer or a very good developer or a genius or whatever. I don't really get why developers should have different qualifications than other fields.

If you are working e.g in finance for more than 5 years you'll be prolly a senior something, what does it matter? Of course then someone can evaluate how good you are or not at what you do but thats it.

Now what makes a senior developer? Well someone that can take on a project and complete it from start to finish, for me is a senior developer or developer or whatever you wanna call it. Its very vague question, usually if you understand the whole lifecycle of a program and can understand the bigger picture then you are a senior software developer.

They have a gem game called Counterstrike Global Offensive which is their 2nd biggest game after dota2(which is free), and up to a half a year ago that I was playing, we all thought (me and reddit) that they had 0 devs working on it.

Bugs were all over the place, noone was taking action into fixing them, releases were every once in a blue moon including just new skins that were content created by players etc.

Now of course the game has evolved and there are some new developers trying to do something with it but its funny to think that a game of that calibre that returns prolly billions in revenue has pathetic support.

The only gaming company I've seen keeping up with what they make is Blizzard.

This article is not worth your time fellow hn readers, just another rant about a certain field that the ranter knows absolutely nothing about.

We had that discussion with a colleague yesterday while we are thinking of starting a company ourselfs.

The only thing I actually told him that if we start off something I dont want it to focus on investments or anything crazy and I'd like to go very humble with everything. Create a small business with a product and let it grow in a normal pace.

Atm we are both working for 2 entrepreneurs that started a small company and slowly slowly grew it up to a medium company that returns over 50m a year. Its a very stable environment and they don't go into heavy risks when it comes to spending.

I see a lot of people nowadays that are very proficient in tech doing startups. Startups are everywhere. The main thing we see though is that most of them fail at it. I mainly think its because they are not experienced enough on how life works and they think they gonna make the next uber etc. NO! Thats a big NO! People that created uber are like people that win the lottery. They were lucky enough to get investments they way they did etc and kept at it. Thats all about it. For me its not a success story about a company that started small and ended up big. Its just the lucky draw that investors picked up and threw money at. People around tech industry need to realise that. Start a company, have a product, and go slowly with it. Stick with it and yes in 10-20 years time you'll be at some good amount of money. Don't expect it to happen in a year or even 5 years or else you are stressing your company to fail.

I feel like this is the issue with the tech industry entrepreneurs atm. They want to have it all fast, and thats why they fail.

Also you see people celebrating investments... I love the show "silicon valley" because it shows you in reality what this industry is about. When you get an investment you shouldn't be the happiest person in the world, you gonna get people demanding stuff etc which will definitely put you in a difficult position especially if the company and the product is very young as the investors might wanna take a different path and lead you into taking it as well.

So in all fairness if I ever get my account locked for whatever reason, I need to make noise on reddit and yc news to get it resolved?

That really makes me feel uncertain about the google apps I use day to day.

They need to change something soon on their policies or they'll start losing customers.

P.S there was a post here the other day about someone that got his account closed due to a breach of service etc. I don't mind that obviously google can close your account if it feels you are violating their terms, what shouldn't be able to do is to lock access to your data or the option to extract your data off their servers.

Our manager was very pressured by this Lead dev a year ago and hand in his resignation which was declined by the CEO and convinced him to stay.

The reason for this was due to that lead dev being an impossible person to work with and he was 1 year late on building a website, 3 months at start took another extension for 3 months then another and then a final one.

Thing is they couldn't easily fire him as he had been with the company for more than 5 years and they didn't keep track, they had to implement a proper timetable as to what he does and when etc and it would take 2-3 warnings to fire him... very hard in the UK. And making him redundant was also not possible due to him being in that field for more than 20 years he would be getting a huge sum from the company.

At the end another guy in the team that was also co-lead had to quit he couldn't stand working with that dev as I can't either.

Now a year later the company + the manager has forgot what they went through with this guy and give him the ok to run everything.

If someone that owns 3 flats and 1 house is considered rich then all good I am rich, why am I even working for? damn, why my parents can't pay their electricity(tax) bills and have to make arrangements with the government to pay in installments, noone knows, we are just rich, I'll go get my private jet and fly off this comment section now.

Someone that inherits property doesn't automatically mean that he/she is rich.

They never rented out or sold any property, and they worked for private companies their whole lives. The money they had were pretty limited on what they could do.

Also property in Greece is not like other countries of EU. Atm you can find flats in central Athens for 20k euros... Go buy 10 flats and then say you are rich because you own property valued at 200k.

So yes your argument is pretty stupid, you just want to blow off steam for some reason I am guessing you are a German.