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Nobody wants to listen. Nobody. In 90% of the companies there are some so called senior devs that get ecstatic when they create a new abstraction.

Overengineering, abstractions and premature optimisation are the 3 worst plagues of engineering.

At the same time I’m happy they exist because it means we’ll always have a job.

I bought a Sage (Breville) Barista Pro a month before the first lockdown. It was pricey but was one of the best purchases I've ever done.

Still works exactly the same and it's what makes me want to get up from the bed even on Mondays.

This is really great news!

We also need a paneuropean banking & tax system and ideally some paneuropean telephony (plus voip) and internet providers.

Run

EU is just headless chicken. They will just blindly agree to whatever Trump says

Agreed

Agreed. And I think European countries really need to start eating our own dog food and stop being 100% reliant on US software and hardware. It's not (only) about opposing certain political behaviours, but (also) about supporting our financial independence and wellbeing.

Are there still first world countries without public healthcare?

Most of the time gov, orgs and companies don't listen to their in-house engineers but will pay $$$ to some consulting firm, only to confirm the same thing or just to show that "they are taking actions towards the solution".

In some cases there is distrust from management on in-house employees or in some other cases they want to show quick results without distracting their teams from their planned tasks.

Of course there are the cases that managers have personal motives, either to add an extra (useless) achievement on their list or even worse to get referral fee or presents from the external consultancy.

They should effectively immediately freeze and potentially cancel any Korean investment in US and investigate all US companies based in their country. US behaving rogue should not go unpunished.

Why? Can someone block the sky? (I have 0 satellite knowledge)

I'm waiting to see the effects of the brain drain

It’s been 84 years… Jokes aside, congrats to the team! This is huge news for JS.

It all depends on the country you live in and if you have a legal contract. In UK for example you can use a debt collection agency. Those guys will probably give you 50% of the amount and then it's their problem.

Take my money!

Yeah, agreed cloud is bad. I have one question though. Who is going to keep updating bloody ubuntu or any other linux distro along with all the packages that may break? Who is going to enable automatic database backups or do backups with 1 click? I've done these things countless times and they are still time consuming and involve guesswork every single time.

The only way this could work would be to force OS vendors to have "trusted" DNS servers and ban the use of any custom setting.

Then again that would be a nightmare for large corporates that have customised internal DNSs, so I don't see it coming anytime soon.

Only if the sender is The Proclaimers :P

Oh those little mofos!

Nothing special from me. Just a small app (https://how-you-spell.in/) that translates a word to the phonetic alphabet. My full name is quite long and I’m always struggling to spell my details over the phone.

That’s BS if I may. How would I know I have higher cholesterol if I didn’t do blood tests?

If you count all the deliveroo electric bikes as bikes.

It works but every single time I see it, I start swearing.

They should allow accounts without phone number or with an nft number, the way telegram does.

Location: London, UK

Remote: Yes (Hybrid works too)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript, React/ReactNative/NextJS, Redux, Node/Express, GraphQL/REST, AWS

Résumé/CV: https://cv.oranger.me

Email: i@oranger.me

Role type: Preferably contracts outside of IR35 but open to inside or permanent.

The market is horrible at the moment. All the big tech corps are laying off thousands of people who have bigger potential at landing in a job as they have those big names in their CV.

I'm in similar shoes at the moment although I'm not only applying to fully remote jobs, but almost any job I see.

I'm not sure if that says a lot about ChatGPT or about founders.

Same when I play videogames.

How does this even work? Do I need to sign up for every different server?

Sounds very interesting. Especially 5% for dividends tax sounds like heaven compared to the different tax bands in UK. I'll double check with my accountant there. It may have a potential.

I'm just a bit scared of Greek gov. Traditionally it has been proved completelly volatile and untrustworthy. I don't want to get personal liability or fight with the bureaucracy.