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I don't own any Bitcoin nor have I ever but why would being a burger with it stop you being sceptical?

I mean you cannot (at least to my knowledge) buy burgers with gold/ETFs/Stocks, doesn't the same apply to Bitcoin?

I used AWS Lambda with API Gateway to provide a single API endpoint allowing other services to exchange authentication keys for new tokens.

The functionality was so small and temporary it was great to be able to not need to provision anything and not even pay (our usage is under the free tier).

The regex to deal with error handling and API GW in general were pretty clunky. The Lambda was a self contained and unit/integration tested Java project.

1 year experience and hitting $150k? damn, you have to be in the Bay area?

Your reasoning seems to contradict itself, it's a very complex black box of limited internals yet you were able to still easily glean big winners?

Stock picking is the same as gambling, you look for value and try overtime to beat the market. Also like gambling is how people remember and talk about their wins but forget/ignore their losses.

I'm not so sure, I think if new elections were called in the next few weeks (will not happen) I'd imagine support for explicitly pro-independence parties would drop.

Oh I know you're not allowed a referendum, you should be though.

What I was referring to was public opinion polls, I've never seen one conducted that resulted in 50% or higher in favour of full independence.

I've never seen a poll that lists support for full independence at 50% or higher, could you please provide a link?

A counter to your point #1, a few companies ago where I worked we were asked on mass to provide positive reviews on Glassdoor to attract new candidates.

I think overall it's good for a quick check on morale if there are >20 reviews. The salary data is worthless, high earners within companies do not advertise what they earn.

In almost every job I've had I will approach for a raise with a list of my achievements, cost savings and recommendations. I will also indicate where I see my future impact and value specific to the business.

Most of the time I will get a standard small raise, if I take the same list out to the market and get an offer suddenly I qualify for higher raises. Overall businesses are not pro-active at all about retaining talent until push comes to shove.

It is much more complicated than this. Yes there are a lot of flags but there are also lots of places where there are no flags.

In my building in Barcelona there are 10 flats. 2 flats have occupants who speak Catalan as the mother tongue, 4 flats with occupants who speak Spanish as their mother tongue and 2 flats with foreign languages.

The language divide isn't always an indicator of their views, in the building there are Spanish speakers who want to vote yes, Catalan speakers that will vote no and a general consensus that everyone would just like the legal option to vote regardless of yes/no leanings.

It's absolutely disgusting, I struggle to comprehend how someone can be become detached enough to promote this as a strategy.

I don't think is the sort of posting we want on hackernews, either provide some context or advice for the OP as this is not helpful and doesn't contribute anything.

"Now that we're figuring out the technology stack for this, I don't want to do work that is going to have to be redone later."

You're worrying about problems that you don't yet have and at scales you may never reach. I'd say stick with what you know and see if you can get initial traction with your users.

If your data is highly relational then yes it's not a great fit but it's still passable if you're happy to give up transactions and the ability to force data consistency etc.

Where I work we have a production API serving thousands of websites that uses Mongo, don't sweat the details too much early on.

In Spain. It's been a nice discussion, I do disagree with the statement of you know what goes into a baby with formula. At the end of the day weight gain is the best indicator not to mention the problems of formula fed babies being more prone to sicking up feeds (which makes it hard to 'measure' how much they get).

This could be a cultural difference from here in Spain. Sorry that you both had go through that. Perhaps the common thread we've both faced is that people will judge and interject with whatever you do for your children.

I agree pragmatism is the best way forward. As long as production is up though and the baby is putting weight on well I personally wouldn't push for formula nor would my partner.

I think the problem we found with our personal situation was from day one anything that occurred such as baby crying,fussing, not sleeping was attributed directly to poor breast milk by both people we knew and strangers. My partner felt forced to move to formula but luckily with support from our midwife her supply came in well and both baby and mother are happy.

Choices and support are the most important things but if supply,will,health and the option allow a mother to breastfeed I think the benefits do outweigh formula.

Happy to hear you had a supportive paediatrician!

Barcelona. We have a very supportive medical system but there is a trend towards cesareans and formula feeding (according to our paediatrician).

I'd say the conditions you listed are wholly acceptable, lack of milk, psychological concerns etc. I fully support women who choose to formula feed.

I've found though that most people push formula more than anything. My partner and I have just had our first baby, she's fully breastfed and barely a day goes by where people ask whether we're supplementing with formula as breast milk does not contain the right or enough nutrition for them.

I side with breast milk first and and foremost if it's a viable option as I'm less inclined to believe large formula manufactures such as Nestle really have the best of interests.

Assuming the mother has the time and has no circumstances such as medication or illness that prevents her from breastfeeding why is there a need for formula after the initial time frame?

I'd love to see a timeline feature where I can play back a session of note taking from a day or plot it out into a nice JS timelined graph automatically based on journal entries.

I have met and worked with a few people that fall under the 10x banner. Incredibly clever people who kept their intelligence in check with pragmatic solutions.

Some tough problems that took other skilled developers months they could solve in a couple of days and they could consistently do it across the tech and domain sphere.

I think the issue is people claim to be 10x, if you're claiming to be 10x then most likely you are not, the 10xers I've met have all been very humble.

Play is probably fine if you use Scala, the Java side is painful. I've worked with Play (Java version) for 3 years and we're moving to Spring Boot now, it's much simpler and stable (from a feature and framework perspective).

A true expert should be easily charging option 5, I find the term expert is thrown around too easily.

I've worked for two different tech companies in Barcelona, neither had lunch breaks longer than an hour.

When I moved from the UK I was shocked that 9-5 was not the norm, in both places the schedule was more 9-7 with the same amount of lunch time as in the UK and far more pressure to stay on later than 7.

I'd actually avoid daily stand ups assuming a distributed team. Focus on async communication that has a written record.

Got a link to your resume? Happy to give you some pointers. (3 years working remotely so far and have been on a lot of hiring teams for remote positions).

I'd be quite careful with this of comment as it has the potential to upset people. The people in Spain do speak Spanish yes but in many regions they speak their own languages that are not dialects but distinct languages. In fact on top of Spanish there are 4 other officially recognised languages:

Catalan Galician Basque Aranese

And still there are more languages that are not recognised, pretty cool :)

Hola! :)

I was in a very similar situation to yourself almost 5 years ago so I'll try and list some of my thoughts and experiences.

I was working as a backend developer in the UK, my girlfriend was off doing her masters and told me I should do something interesting with myself as I felt stagnant in the job I had at the time.

I'd always loved Spain and Catalunya so took the plunge to move out here, my girlfriend joined me and we've now spent almost 5 happy years about here in Barcelona.

Getting a job:

- I found interviews to be similar to interviews in the UK.

- Companies are much slower in getting back to you and moving you through their pipelines. One company came back to me 3 months after having offered me a job and wondering why I'd had to look for other options.

Working/Work environment:

- I joined a company of around 60 people, don't fool yourself that the work environment will be in English just because the interview was. I personally wanted to learn Spanish but it was still much tougher starting a job, a new life and a new language(s).

- While quality of life is better I'd say the work environment is tougher, people work hard and long hours here, at neither company I worked at did we do a standard 9-5. 9-7 was much more common with an hour for lunch.

- Management feels quite old school, they can be more rigid and traditional than say in the UK. Developers on the other hand feel ahead of the curve, there is more interest in side projects, new tech and trying out different skills.

- Salary is quite a lot lower, I took a 30% pay cut when I moved. I managed to get a couple of pay raises but the ceiling and cadence of raises is much lower. I'd attribute that to the more traditional management treating workers as equal resources and also that back then there were a lot of talented developers around (and less larger companies like King were in the area).

- Both companies I worked at worked in English official but in reality it was mainly Spanish, switching to English if there were non Spanish speakers present. I'd say having fluency is a huge huge boost to your career potential (and ability to make friends) :).

Quality of life:

Quality of life is great, a slower more family focused culture and a plethora of fun things to do within the city and surrounding areas. It really makes such a difference having nicer weather for both your mood but also ability to get out and do more sport or taking long Sunday walks (a great pastime here).

I think most people responding to you will rave about the quality of life (I'm one of them) but let me gave you some things that are tougher.

- If you want to learn and live in Spanish then you are best off in Madrid. Significantly less tourists and the use of just Spanish means immersion will be much quicker. Barcelona is great but due to having two official languages, a ton of tourists and foreigners means that a lot of people will fall into just speaking their native language anyway. You really need to make an effort to take classes, not switch to English and persevere. As my partner is also British we've had to make an extra effort as we speak English with each other.

- Making local friends is quite tough, all our friend are Spanish speakers from outside of Catalunya or South America. Locals are very friendly but they tend to have grown up with their friendship groups and it can be harder to integrate (doubly so as their are two languages and learning both to a good standard is tricky).

- Do not live anywhere near the center in Barcelona, tourists invade the city and really make it quite unpleasant. House prices are also rocketing for renting at the moment.

I now work remotely for a US company as it seems the best of both worlds, I love living here, the people,culture,food and weather all combine to make me happier. If you are serious about taking the plunge I'd look ASAP for a Spanish teacher, it'll be the best investment you'll make! Best of luck!

I've absolutely fallen in love with Spring Rest Docs https://projects.spring.io/spring-restdocs/ after a colleague introduced me to it.

Essentially you write tests that then generate your documentation, so you get a load of happy path integration tests and up to date documentation. It's a great way to ensure the documentation and code does what it says.

Our happy path integration tests produce markdown files detailing the route,payload, expected status codes etc and then we manually add these snippets to a menu markdown file. When we work on a feature branch with public API changes then our CI system detects documentation changes and when merged pushes to Jekyll.

So move to Monaco, get your pay adjusted upwards crazily. Then leave but just rent a PO Box there and use a VPN to make it seem like you are there. Simple :D