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Have you applied to lots of remote jobs? What's been the biggest hurdle for you in getting one?

Yes it happens, I work for a remote company and location has nothing to do with the offered salary. (USA based company).

Sounds like he was massively underutilised and underpaid!

What problems have you had in trying to land a full time remote job?

You make a good point! Non-technical folks are certainly less likely to suggest how to tackle a backend problem.

I think though the backend really suffers in the sense that is not seen and not heard unless there is an emergency in many cases.

From my perspective pay has trended marginally higher for backend developers and technical respect is usually also marginally higher for backend work.

However I feel that front end developer has a clear advantage in that their work can be played with, viewed and commented on by non technical managers and product owners. Also other external praise is usually along the lines of 'this looks great', 'the ui is so smooth' than direct praise of what for the most part is unseen backend work.

Many backend quality improvements for products can be deployed without a product owner ever realising yet a front end and crucially visual change is obvious. The product owner can go play with the new slick drop down menu, they however can't go and easily play with the additional resiliency that you've added to the internal message infrastructure for example.

Like you mentioned though these are generalisations and I too have seen exceptions :)

I don't think Carole's use of it is fair either, just because one person uses it don't make it acceptable and thus fair game.

To be honest you could have just dropped it from your initial post and included the information about the television interview with the shadow chancellor and it'd have added a lot more to the HN community than tired insults all sides use.

I want discourse and intelligent debate from all sides without the slide into the type of vocabulary used in so many other places on the internet.

"affiliated swivel-eyed Marxists" I'm not sure this is really the sort of dialogue that we want to encourage on hackernews.

Overall your point is that you'd like as many heavily left leaning members to be on the show as you believe their views will be torn apart logically. You'd have been better off with something like that because if not your analysis just comes across quite bitter and biased.

Remote jobs certainly are more popular these days. I've been full time remote for the last 3 years and I've interviewed and resume screened a lot of candidates.

I'd be more than happy to check out your resume and give you some feedback if you wanted? You can DM me via Twitter (link in bio) or if you don't have it just let me know and we'll sort out an email.

I think this is unfair to the OP, obviously she/he is stressed about the situation, perhaps offer something a little more constructive.

And that is where problems start with keen and eager junior developers who think by knowing the 90% they really know the 100%.

Kudos for listing your salary, I've given you an upvote and hope you float to the top and get lots of attention!

I disagree, it is some developers. Just as some developers can create a big ball of magic code dynamic code or as some developers can make insanely cryptic code in Scala/Haskell that looks like the user is typing in windings.

Java 8 and the current ecosystem can be incredibly lean and devoid of high levels of abstraction. Like today how I took the lovely Sinatra inspired http://sparkjava.com/ out for a spin. I think if Java can shed the memory of it's horrible past (and the enterprise space was truly bad) then it has a lot to offer developers these days.

Sure I guess they were small but their problem space seems to be similar to a more standard CRUD. I could be wrong but the one to many and many to one relations within Twitter seem much harder (at least from my perspective).

Both are super tough at the scale they run :)

30 people? Could you list what sort of team breakdown you are seeing for this?

I'm really struggling to see how to maintain/develop and work on such a complex problem at that scale with a team of only 30.

Thanks for providing a great platform John :)

By day I program so the last thing I want to do when writing down my thoughts and ideas is maintain all of the above that you listed!

Nope but it looks cool :)

For now I'm happy to give my $$ for hosted Ghost as you've gotta vote with your wallet!

It would have been the smallest droplet at the time so I think $5. I switched to hosted Ghost July 2015 and haven't looked back.

I'd consider self hosting again if I was planning on running lots of different domain/content ideas :)

I got bored of having to do backups and upgrade versions etc. Also the fact that you can self host at no cost from them made me want to pay them, I like supporting companies and ideas like this.

The benefit to switching was really less maintenance and I could concentrate on writing and to invest in the future of Ghost, win/win!

My traffic is pretty low, no hits on HN yet! :) Quick glance at Google Analytics seems I hit about 1.5-2k visitors a month.

I used to self host Ghost on Digital Ocean and then switched over to their hosted offering.

I'm really happy I went with them, the culture and idea behind the company appeals to me and the lack of bells and whistles is made up for in a really simple and fun to use editing experience. At least in my opinion it far outshines Medium.

We're moving away from the Play! Framework to Spring Boot as we were porting and using more and more Spring based libraries in our codebase.

Below is pretty much a default list of dependencies for every web service.

* Spring boot

* Lombok

* Javaslang

* Feign

* WireMock

* RestAssured

* AssertJ/Junit/Mockito

Yup you've nailed it, the nuances in a language are vast. Tone,culture, popular media, common jokes add up to a ridiculous combination of possible meanings.

I can imagine the sprawling suburbs would be really hard to live in, obvious benefits in lower cost housing and more green space but the isolation and need for a car seems pretty terrible.

I live in Barcelona and the majority of people live in flats/apartments, my apartment building is like a large family, mixture of retirees, families, young couples and mixed flats of people just out of university. Everyone knows each other and relies on each other, for our neighbours' 90th birthday almost the whole building (10 flats) took her cake and stayed and chatted and had fun. (My partner and myself are both foreigners here and we're still accepted into the culture and events like this. IMO it's really hard to overstate how crucial this sort of interaction and sense of belonging is in a large city. What intensifies this even more is in Barcelona the first floor of a lot of apartment buildings is where there are shops/bars/butchers/restaurants etc. For most of my food and leisure needs (including the gym for example) I don't need to go more than 400m, this also creates social situations where you bump into the same people and staff over and over creating a real village feel.

Here's a great shot of Eixample, a district in Barcelona divided by distinctive grids that lends itself to these 'micro' village communities. http://lh4.ggpht.com/-I28z_xwspR0/UdgqfgPxzCI/AAAAAAAAqCY/Mj...

Sorry that was quite the tangent to go off on!

I didn't find too much of a difference between the UK and Barcelona. Outside of Barcelona and Madrid though I imagine the difference is quite vast.

That is one side to the coin, however if you made a change that was a performance improvement yet the code was highly cryptic and hard for anyone else to understand then this wouldn't be a good thing.

Essentially what I'm getting at is that peer review from team members is the best metric for what is good and isn't.

Almost none, well the only thing that is annoying is that type inference currently won't work within lambdas but otherwise it's great.

We use Lombok on all our Java services and have never had an issue (we do about 33million requests a day across these services so they are real battle tested and used code bases).

Type inference, automatic builders, removal of getters and setters (@Data will automatically add getters and setters to the fields of a class) and (@Value will make the immutable version).

I would never work in Java these days without being able to use Java 8/Lombok/Javaslang/Guava.

I think you could have made your point a lot better with dropping the profanity and really in full that whole last line.

It totally does and I use it heavily, although if urgent a co-worker can have the option to force the notification through. Usually doesn't happen as people realise you'll get back to it soon.

https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/214908388-Do-Not-Di...

How far away are you from the nearest large settlement (1000+ people)? This sort of stuff fascinates me, Europe is so densely populated this sort of thing isn't as viable.

Possibility to hunt and fish in the region too?

Well having a profitable side project is exactly the sort of thing you should show off as much as possible, the fact you took an idea, iterated and created the technology behind it. Sounds like a great idea to blog about it! :) Out of curiosity what is your side project?

What's your motivation for wanting remote work? If you've already got an almost passive income then that should allow you to live in the location best for you and find a company close by in the UK/EU.