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Wisdom and perspective are not necessarily correlated with age.

Your second sentence is correct, each individual needs to judge roughly the right time based on mental,physical and financial situations.

For me there was never going to be a right time so I'm glad it happened when it did (29) as it's tiring and I want to have as much good health as I can to enjoy my children.

I agree with your sentiment, HN is notorious for armchair-quarterbacking with this subject.

Do you know of any cleantech software that take on remote workers?

I've said it before but as long as you can get a PO box for the vatican city then Gitlab are going to have to pay you a lot!

1. Totally agree, you've gotta work with constraints and engineers need to work towards generating revenue for the business as the primary goal.

2. 100% agree.

3. Getting shit done usually means things done shitly. It's the point you made I disagree with the most, whilst I understand the sentiment is towards engineers that complete tasks I feel that usually expressed this way (and coming from an engineering manager perspective) is that they favour the happy path engineer who completes tasks quickly.

Need authentication in your app? They'll have it done quickly and it'll work for the manager happy path and they'll already be onto the next task. To the manager and whatever task tracker you have this engineer will be the 'one getting shit done' but to the team and velocity they'll be the one leaving exploits, broken functionality and zero tests/documentation.

I'm guessing your sentiment was more along the lines of 'developers who pragmatically take on tech debt to deliver crucial features earlier to impact the business bottom line whilst planning to pay off the debt in a timely manner'. Long winded I know :)

4. This can be tricky, which customers to please and follow? A good designer allowed to come up with a consistent vision will most of the time be more productive/pleasing than following the changing opinions of your customer base.

I do not have a disallow set for this page but based off of this page it seems perhaps I might have to set one:

https://www.deepcrawl.com/blog/best-practice/noindex-disallo...

Specifically the part:

>Noindex (robots.txt) + Disallow: This prevents pages appearing in the index, and also prevents the pages being crawled. However, remember that no PageRank can pass through this page.

Thanks for the suggestions!

A) I'm going to add the nofollow and noarchive to see if that helps the issue.

B) I've already set the search console to ignore the query parameter but I'm still getting new spam results coming in.

C) I've been looking into this but so far the meta information for the spam requests is not consistent and it's tricky to identify so far.

Thanks for the help and the luck, I think I'll need it!

Would adding robots.txt help? I cannot blanket ban the page as it needs to display to the user with 0 or more results and my understanding is that whilst robots.txt would take precedence for index settings as I have it defined in the header for that page it ought to achieve the same.

There are still new spam search queries being indexed.

This site looks perfect for say the bar down the road that publish a lot of stuff on Facebook. I imagine they'd be completely lost using S3 :)

Well done for listing the salary and work conditions, take an upvote! Looks a very interesting space so best of luck in your search.

I wholeheartedly agree! Companies that delay tackling technical debt still ship features, they get slower and more error prone development as time passes. As they still keep shipping they can fail to see how much faster they'd be shipping 6 months down the line if they tackle debt which adds weeks to each feature being developed.

I've expanded on these thoughts before on my blog about technical debt inflation if anyone is interested https://scalabilitysolved.com/technical-debt-inflation/

I've done this many times and I would say it's only reciprocated around 50% of the time. It's more nuanced than helping them succeed and expecting them to help you.

If you've been on OSX for the last 10 years then indeed Linux was very different. Whilst I won't attempt to argue you should swap or anything, I've found modern distros are pretty much plug and go when it comes to wifi/multiple monitors/graphics (things that used to be a real pain).

> It won't ever reach that level.

A bold claim! I can't be certain either way but Linux has gotten so much better in terms of usability in the last 4-5 years for newer users.

Both my parents and in-laws had issues with Windows, they are up and away on Ubuntu for the last year and I've never had to solve any issues for them with it.

My colleagues that use Macs cling to the old ideas that second monitors, hibernation, gestures, compatibility is poor on Linux whilst ignoring the same issues they have with more recent version of OSX (wifi dropping, failure to sleep).

If Linux Distros can keep improving I think they'll have a small shot but I wouldn't go far as to say that shot is impossible.

Probably best to rent a postal box in the Vatican City, collect that sweet super high pay check and actually live somewhere cheaper :)

This is something that Spain also has (and is being phased out). I live in Barcelona, I pay 1000 euros for my two bed apartment, every 3 years the rent has to be renegotiated. My lovely neighbour who is 92 pays under 100 euros for the exact same flat opposite mine, she is on guaranteed rent protection, my neighbours below who are in their early 70s pay around 250 for the same flat.

The fact rent protection is being phased out makes me really sad, speculation will become even more rife (I can understand that extreme rent protection like above may not be workable but something in between is needed imo).

Yup indeed, I wasn't super clear but that was my intention!

As a remote Java developer of 5 years (10 years experience total) the remote market seems hottest for exactly your skillset,as others have suggested you'd be best levelling up your current skills.

If I wanted to get a remote job now the best combination of skills/techs in my opinion would be any combination of the following:

- React/Vue.js/Angular

- Node.js/PHP/Ruby

To stand out in the crowd I would do two things:

1. Blog about the techs you use, it's a great way to get noticed when you apply for jobs. Posts can be as simple as you want around new things you are learning and is a positive chance to show off your writing and communication skills.

2. Whatever tech stack you choose or are comfortable with you should have a demo application in Github/Bitbucket be it a React widget that pulls in data about the weather/stocks etc or if you are fully backend then a rest API or library to solve a particular tech problem. Focus on good commit messages, clean code and concise,descriptive and useful tests.

If you do get the chance to interview for a remote position then over communicate, remote work can be spread across countries and timezones and it's crucial to make sure information is available for everyone and understood to avoid blockers.

So if someone reaches out and suggests a time then I'd recommend messaging back with 'Great, I'm looking forward to meeting you. Just to confirm I'll be online at 4pm EST and my skype is XXX. Any problems feel free to reach out to me on email X or phone Y.'

Last but not least, you're not going to become an AI/network specialist in a year, you'd a competent developer (let's drop 'fairly'). Look at what you can improve in your current sphere:

- Is your code clean and understandable?

- Can you effectively explain technical concepts to folks that are not programmers?

- Are your tests useful and effective?

Best of luck!

Take the EU for example from that link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deposit_insurance#By_EU_countr...

Limited to 100k, that is extremely low for a lot of people looking for safe asset havens.

Something that applies to the US only?

> If I am saving up for a Europe trip I want to add some value to a pot every month not gamble so i might make the trip in 2 or 20 years based on luck.

You'd most likely not save for this trip in gold.

> a farmer that sells his crop needs to insure he can buy fuel in 11 months for next harvest. Having a little more is nice, but having a little less is really bad.

Also I don't know any farmers using gold as a store while waiting for harvests.

Look at some the gold fluctuations here, mainly large double digit swings:

http://onlygold.com/Info/Historical-Gold-Prices.asp

Gold is less volatile due to multiple financial instruments allowing trading/hedging on top of it, millennia of usage as store of value and that governmental institutions also back it as a store of value. Even with all that said it still took dips and swings of:

2015: -11% 2013: -27.6% 2010: 30%

Those seem volatile.

Look at what the OP was saying, he was only listing negative things and attributing them all to something BTC excels at. I was saying that fiat is hardly a paragon of virtue :)

Super interesting, thanks for the link!

It looks to be dropping though: https://www.economist.com/node/16536800

>The market value of gold is dominated by its practical and aesthetic uses.

Should we really consider aesthetics here? Practical use cases within technology I can totally value.

That is something that anyone can apply to anything. I'm not being snarky, I agree that BTC may be a large bubble but too many people are talking in absolute terms.

All of that is true to fiat, which of the above in your list is not possible with fiat?

> Gold 'works' as well as it does because there's at least something tying it down to market fundamentals. You can make jewelry out of it, you can coat electrical contacts with it.

In the earlier phases of Gold as a store of value I'd agree that it having additional uses were a bonus but now when an institution be it private or governmental purchases millions of gold as assets for a SoV then this usage is inconsequential.

Gold used to be volatile but now is a stable store of value, it retains this because the market decides a fair price, gold can theoretically go to zero, it's just had hundreds of years to achieve a more stable price/value.

> since the value people ascribe to a Bitcoin is entirely psychological

This is totally true of gold too, it's just embedded more into society as an element that has value.

> A Bitcoin that could be used as a currency would have some inherent value, because being able to use something as currency is valuable

It's cheaper and faster for me to send BTC between US/EU, volatility is an issue of course.

> Something has to be at least a little useful (or else backed up by a trusted organization) for its value to be reliable.

I'm not sure many of the 'trusted' organizations are that trustworthy, look at the 2007 crash, massively over leveraged assets with complex rules/instruments and collusion (that resulted in the UK with no one being prosecuted).

There a few ways where I see BTC having an advantage as a SoV over gold.

* Portability (transferring any amount of BTC is limited only by transaction cost).

* Scarcity (The number of BTC is capped at 21 million ever on the network, gold will still be found and mined).

* Divisible (BTC can be divided to small amounts that would make it more useful for smaller purchases where gold is not practicable).

This is a genuine question with no snark intended (sometimes we need to clarify stuff like this on the internet hah).

What's the overall energy expenditure for all fiat production,maintenance, asset storage (gold), mining of assets etc?

There are some interesting developments in the crypto sphere moving away from high energy proof or work to a holding system (Proof of stake).

Try and pull your savings out of a bank when there is a bank run.

I agree with the poster above, BTC and others may be in a bubble but the bubble is tiny compared to other asset classes and previous bubbles.

"The other side thinks blockchain is practically useless, the most overhyped technology ever created, a bubble never-before seen in history."

I really think the bubble side of crypto currencies is wildly overstated, the total market cap is tiny in comparison to any massively over leveraged asset (housing,student loans) etc.

Whilst BTC and others may be in a bubble even if they crashed to zero now it would pale compared to bubbles within the last 20 years.

Why does a store of value need a compelling use-case? If you hold millions in gold it's most likely in a vault doing nothing except taking up space and storage costs alongside it's primary use case of being a store of value.