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The eu is far from a federation. And there is much imbalance between eu countries that a few more will burst against germany’s dictats. Everything that happens in the eu is decided by that country. Really worrying that few other countries speak up against it.

Agreed. The eu is basically a german/french dictatorship. The thing is, once the uk recovers after the leave event, many other eu countries will follow suit.

This totally awesome! Installing dosbox to play them!

There was a pro china candidate, obama, and he did it for free. He didn't even flinch an eye when china prevented or restricted us companies from doing business in china, neither did he strongly call them out for intellectual property theft.

Why python and not a proper oop language tho?

*AVs

I remember the smashing the stack for fun and profit windows days. It was so easy to inject shell code it was laughable. Btw can you still name a file smss.exe, run it, and not end the process with the task manager?

Come to think, what you describe are exactly the issues i had around london. Yay i could get a new iphone, but buying a property would mean an enormous loan and the size of that property would have been tiny. Overcrowding was another issue, trains were filled to the point where people would stick their noses in other peoples armpits, roads jammed, loads of small shops with low quality products, and ofc loads of crime. I ended up leaving, and one option was toronto, but gave up at the thought it might become another london. Left back for my home country, but my nature is to explore and experience new places, it’s just that the thought of yet another london is unbearable. And most tech jobs are centred around such cities. I just dont want to be a part of the tech worker scene that “changes the world and are the best” but cant afford even basic things in life such as owning a decent property with plenty of room for kids to grow up happily. So i am working remote and working on a side project. Maybe once it takes off i will retire in a small city in a developed country and buy a big ass mansion and enjoy life as it should be.

As a rare windows user (two or free times a year) i never trust a machine without an av. maybe things changed, but i see windows as so unsafe that i would not even login with to regular email, let alone make online payments. I simply see that os as a vulnerability by default.

Another good point, re quality of life. In london the quality of life is quite low, despite high salaries. I am wondering if toronto can do something different and learn from mistakes made by other tech boom cities. I.e. how to avoid congestion, how to keep house process at an affordable level, etc. It would be interesting to have tech companies located outside the city centre as a starting point. Of course there is the solution of not welcoming these companies and immigrants, but is there a way their presence can be leveraged for the greater good, by learning from mistakes made by others?

Sometimes i get the feeling some are contrarian only for the sake of it. Advocating using windoze without av is like advocating not using condoms because it doesn't feel good.

Assuming one might feel safe enough to walk on them.

Good point. I am coming from the web app point of view. I assumed the comment section was a bit more generic. Also i should have clarified what context i am referring to.

There was a different comment recommending parking lots, and i summed up all my thoughts in the comment above. To me it sounds like France could use some shade as well as some clean energy. Calling it quits is just not an option given the crazy heat waves of recent in Europe, and we should hold onto to anything that improves what we have right now even if by 1%.

Yes, but the idea is that software changes as customer needs change. If not, then that is an out of date product, and by the time it would have become "mature" it would be out of fashion anyway. Good software is software that changes often, yet it maintains quality. Unlike in waterfall where it probably takes 2 years to release it, and by then it is already old. For "enterprise" software such as oracle or ibm products, that would not be a surprise, but for highly adaptable products, 2 months is the maximum something would not change.

Seriously, who works on a piece of software for 10+ years? Usually within 2-3 years one has to throw away most of the code as it was written in an obscure, low adoption language, or it is just so difficult to maintain that new features can't be added. Except for SOA or mSOA where parts can be replaced at any time.

So after my erroneous comment, i have learned that roofs, parking lots and bike lanes are better candidates. I just dint want to give up on converting asphalt to energy generators.

Idk if traffic per minute is relevant. Depends a lot on what sits behind hn to figure out how many servers are needed.

i stand corrected. But why not use them for bike lanes or parking lots indeed?

Touche, a good point, but a first attempt is not usually reliable. I think we should learn more about what could be done different? Should instead all bike lanes be made of solar “panels” because the wights is all yet they would cover a large surface if they were to cover the whole city? How does a traveled road get covered in leaves?

“Cracks have appeared, and in 2018, part of the road had to be demolished due to damage from wear and tear.” as opposed to regular roads which never crack

“the road was only producing half of the expected energy” - great, so just 2 km of a solar road could power the streetlights of an entire city the size of Tourouvre, 3700 people.

We shouldn’t raise the white flag so quickly. I think we need a second iteration at least before we call it a failure.

canada seems to be lagging in terms of new startups. Also google/amazon etc employees doesn't meant they are necessarily great. Canada needs startups and startups need all round devs, and large companies usually need specialised workers.

Former immigrant to the uk from the eu, manager, head of and consultant. I feel like your comment should not have been downvoted because it is and understandable worry.

Here is why.

In the uk immigrants from non eu countries, and thus on restrictive work visas (somewhat similar to h1b) usually earned way less than locals or eu citizens because they had no option but to take any offer only to be allowed to stay in the country. Example: ai engineers from south korea would earn 35k gbp a year, while their uk or eu counterparts could earn well above 70k gbp.

Restrictive visas and abusive employers are a wage depressing mix, unfair to both locals and new comers. My guess would be that if your employer underpays your former h1b colleagues then that is not an employer you want to work for because indeed your pay will stay low.

Eu citizens however were free to work without restriction and as such compete on equal terms as locals. Much like in Canada where immigrants under express entry are able to change jobs as they wish, eu citizens could change jobs as they wish. The result was that instead of outsourcing to india or other countries, uk companies suddenly started growing at home as they had plenty of resources. Thus job opportunities and pay went up both for locals and eu immigrants. As a hiring manager, demand was so high that either eu immigrants or locals had to be payed more and more each year.

Similarly, in Canada, the more resources companies will find, the less they will outsource and the more pay will go up over time.

As brexit is biting in and less devs are on the market, some of those companies are now either outsourcing or opening new branches in other eu countries to hire the same people as they would have in the uk, simply because there are not enough devs left. This means less opportunities for locals.

Another thing is that more devs, means more ideas floating around, and that means more skills you can get.

It can be frightening and if there are many abusive employers and restrictive visas wages can go down, but something tells me they will go up as indeed canada is a country with a north american business mindset. And if you mix tech and capital the result will be job and pay growth which i have seen in london/europe. You should embrace this if you want your pay to double in the next 5 years. Mine did in london as when i moved there the “revolution” was only starting and it was an awesome ride.

A pretty mediocre article imo.

In the EU, London, Uk a nodejs developer earns around 800 cad per day as a consultant, and there so many jobs that usually you find a new one in 1-2 days max a week. Tho much lower, Germany is also a good tech market. I am not sure what your statement is based on. When i assessed moving to Canada from the uk, not only were there far less companies but tech was a bit out date as well and pay was way way lower. Care to support your statement with evidence?

Edit: you can find eu jobs on cwjobs.co.uk and stepstone.de to get an idea of how large the gap between canada and the eu is.

It is shocking as that puts the salary way below that of London/UK and close to senior dev salaries in est europe. Hence my serious question wether way will go up, if not in the short term at least medium term.

Curious if tech pay around canada is getting higher as a result of this, or if consulting is becoming more of a “thing”.

Really cool, keep up the good work!

Winning strategies are not published generally speaking. You wont see many business people blogging in detail about how they went for 0 to 1. Which is shy most blogs about business are a load of BS. Reading your statement and this article confirms my long suspicion that relying on internet strategies is a bad startegy.

Neat, another company exploiting the free work of others.