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scawf··on Ask HN: How do I earn more as a developer?
5k is more than enough to "survive" in France. If you get 2.5k you are part of the 20%. And having childs means you pay less tax.
scawf··on The Maldives counts the cost of its debts to China
If you google 'The Maldives counts the cost of its debts to China' and use the first link to 'ft.com', you can bypass the paywall
scawf··on Ask HN: What are some examples of 'sell shovels in a gold rush'?
In 2017/2018: selling GPU and ASIC
scawf··on Bullshit Jobs and the Labourisation of Work
It is. If the salaries were raising, the supply would follow.
scawf··on Surface Go: The Better PC the iPad Pro Wasn’t
Same here. Firefox is also better than chrome on this.
scawf··on Fairphone
If you're looking for up to date software with security and privacy in mind you should take a look at librem from purism : https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
scawf··on Man commutes 4 hours every day to avoid $4,500 San Francisco rent
He will probably not be paid more if he works an additional 70 hours instead of commuting..
scawf··on New home for the [in]famous filesystem BTRFS
What is the best modern filesystem in your opinion ? (supported on linux)
scawf··on “Banks are no place for coders”
The article is a bit contradictory:

"There are some good jobs for developers in banking. [...] These jobs are hard to get though – I interviewed for a few, but I wasn’t successful."

So it's more.. don't go to a bank unless you are good enough ?

scawf··on For this metal, electricity flows, but not the heat
Maybe I misunderstand.. but isn't it allowing electricity to flow without heating ?
scawf··on Should I build this?
You are also a human. You may be a father, a driver, a shopper, ... Most widely spread projects are not about jobs.
scawf··on Ask HN: Trapped by knowledge
He was not using real data because we anticipated that with this new feature, the usage would change. (Making our existing data meaningless).

And there was no compression or anything fancy.

scawf··on Ask HN: Trapped by knowledge
I'm sorry but I can't agree with that unless you provide an explanation of why you need to measure instead of compute.

If you generate N data (N being choosen randomly in a uniform distribution between 100 and 200), and your data size is S (taken randomly between 50 and 500)..

The best, average and worst case scenario are easy enough to compute, aren't they ? Of course there was more than two variables (maybe 5), but it was not that hard.

scawf··on Ask HN: Trapped by knowledge
I once worked with a guy that was supposedly a C expert.

One day he was asked to estimate the memory consumption of a new project. He did it by writing a simulator that would fill a data structure with random data. Each data size had a specific probability to be generated. Then he would measure memory used.

Why didn't he simply compute the total size ? That's basic math/CS.

There are stupid people and smart people. Being expert doesn't mean they are smart.

scawf··on Ask HN: What is the best low-risk, passive way to invest 150,000 euros?
max 1.05% ? wonderful choice
scawf··on Just started consulting and got a better offer
Where are you living ? 10k is not the same if your current salary is 20k or 50k.. Is your first job below market ? Or is this new opportunity above market ?
scawf··on Brain implants allow paralysed monkeys to walk
Do you think scientists are not recording normal use case ?

Of course they use technology to observe and record normal and pathological "use". Do you think brain implants are made without using scanner, IRM...?

scawf··on Show HN: DevFreeCasts – A collection of free screencasts for developers
If you can't filter by language, it's pretty much useless. I can't watch spanish/german/... cast..
scawf··on Blizzard Employee Discusses Advantages/Uses of C++11 for Game Engines
Slides are available here if you can't watch the video: https://github.com/CppCon/CppCon2016/blob/master/Presentatio...
scawf··on Ask HN: Fulltime software engineers over 250k, how'd you get there(updated)?
This is playing with words.. but ok, you are right.
scawf··on Ask HN: Fulltime software engineers over 250k, how'd you get there(updated)?
How is it wrong ? Where can you make that but in the US ?
scawf··on Love My Company but Feel Like My Salary Is Low
Do you have a number for C++ ? Thanks for the info anyway :)
scawf··on Love My Company but Feel Like My Salary Is Low
Are you serious ? in Ukraine ? I make about 60k$ in Paris, and have a lot of friend making about 50k$.If Ukraine is like that, I'll be there in two months ! :)
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