>> HN is unabashedly homogeneous. I think you've summed the nature of HN pretty well. I wish I knew that before I joined (recently), but unfortunately I had to learn it the hard way. >> The set of opinions that will not…
Dear AnonymousUserWhoLikesToHideTheirName, That's just hilarious. For as long as I'm saying things that conform with the majority's opinion, I will be upvoted. But when a have a different opinion, then I will be…
>> Not helped by lecturers who'd either always been lecturers or lecturers who'd left industry 15 years earlier (this was 2005 so they'd have left in 1990). Exactly what I'm talking about. I've met graduates with very…
Academia carries with it a larger amount of authority than a random programming forum. Students have the expectation that the academic staff is generally knowledgeable and wise and what they say in all probability is…
The long term effects may be just as devastating. Consider that as a lecturer every your word will carry a meaning. Even an innocuous remark may turn out to be something that will stick with one of your pupils for years…
Actually, the web is more open than it was a decade ago. Back then I had to use IE-only tricks to make my pages look okay in IE. Today I don't care anymore. It's been several years since I last used an IE trick, and I…
Because hiring is akin to dating and therefore it suffers from the same problems: 1) It's mostly about subjective impressions and often weird ideas of what a suitable date/candidate must be. There are no official rule…
>> You are not your job. Very true. I hold the same liberal view as to what people truly are. An interesting idea just struck me. If a seasoned software developer quits his full-time job to work on a startup of his…
>> The best handbook of all, though is simply the study of great writers whose work you love That is definitely the way to approach things. If you come into writing by choice then it's because you've been drawn to it.…
Right to the point.
It's interesting that the author pursued a degree in literature and that's what ultimately pushed her away from that career path. It seems to be a common theme where a formal education in creative arts makes people want…
Certainly. Yet there's been a tendency later to declare SQL wrong and deprecated and to incite everyone to forget about it and go with an ORM as the only way. I do not accept that. The stronger the ORM zealots are…
You are quite correct on all your points and I agree with you. I suppose I could have expressed my idea better. What I meant is that for people with a programming aptitude there are no barriers these days. Whether they…
Software engineering is genuinely hard. There's no need to add elitism to it. This choice of vocation is already highly selective towards everyone who tries to enter that field. I'll share some numbers from my academic…
Now that someone has downvoted me, I know it is the right choice and I must learn Postgres. Thanks for your support, folks.
Something like living in a flat infested with insects, walls not properly isolated making it pretty cold in winter with the heating set on maximum so you need to sleep in a sweater and a jacket, broken electrical wiring…
>> I made 50k in a more expensive city, Paris. From that my partner and I were able to buy a flat, put our son into a catholic school Having a partner doubles your income. More, if French taxation works in any way…
Personally, I prefer writing SQL by hand. That way I know exactly what will happen in a query. A database really is an important component of a system and shouldn't be treated like a dumb data store where you just throw…
Because I really like the power of SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools) and how nicely it integrates with Visual Studio and would like to continue using that instrument if possible. But I can't seriously build a complex product…
What I meant was that's just not enough. You can toy with it in a hobby project but in production that will be exhausted pretty soon.
A bit of feedback from someone who tried to make it in Germany with a 40K salary (in the south) and couldn't. It's just not doable. You need at least 60-70K to get started in medium towns, and around 80-90K for large…
A bit unrelated, but I'm hoping to hear something soon about the future licensing model for the upcoming SQL Server on Linux. Do we get a free version without DB size / CPU / RAM limitations (but perhaps with some other…
>> I relocated from another continent. My company gives decent relocation/signing bonuses, so I assume our competitors do too. Not really. From my experience, only very large companies can sometimes offer you about 1-2K…
This. The situation is completely different for an outsider than for somebody who's already made their move or for a local person. My experience has been that German bosses in general do not comprehend how hard and…
Actually, you can live there quite nicely without German. The basic vocabulary to get around easily is rather small. What you can't do without German is to integrate in the society. Which is pretty tough even if you…
>> HN is unabashedly homogeneous. I think you've summed the nature of HN pretty well. I wish I knew that before I joined (recently), but unfortunately I had to learn it the hard way. >> The set of opinions that will not…
Dear AnonymousUserWhoLikesToHideTheirName, That's just hilarious. For as long as I'm saying things that conform with the majority's opinion, I will be upvoted. But when a have a different opinion, then I will be…
>> Not helped by lecturers who'd either always been lecturers or lecturers who'd left industry 15 years earlier (this was 2005 so they'd have left in 1990). Exactly what I'm talking about. I've met graduates with very…
Academia carries with it a larger amount of authority than a random programming forum. Students have the expectation that the academic staff is generally knowledgeable and wise and what they say in all probability is…
The long term effects may be just as devastating. Consider that as a lecturer every your word will carry a meaning. Even an innocuous remark may turn out to be something that will stick with one of your pupils for years…
Actually, the web is more open than it was a decade ago. Back then I had to use IE-only tricks to make my pages look okay in IE. Today I don't care anymore. It's been several years since I last used an IE trick, and I…
Because hiring is akin to dating and therefore it suffers from the same problems: 1) It's mostly about subjective impressions and often weird ideas of what a suitable date/candidate must be. There are no official rule…
>> You are not your job. Very true. I hold the same liberal view as to what people truly are. An interesting idea just struck me. If a seasoned software developer quits his full-time job to work on a startup of his…
>> The best handbook of all, though is simply the study of great writers whose work you love That is definitely the way to approach things. If you come into writing by choice then it's because you've been drawn to it.…
Right to the point.
It's interesting that the author pursued a degree in literature and that's what ultimately pushed her away from that career path. It seems to be a common theme where a formal education in creative arts makes people want…
Certainly. Yet there's been a tendency later to declare SQL wrong and deprecated and to incite everyone to forget about it and go with an ORM as the only way. I do not accept that. The stronger the ORM zealots are…
You are quite correct on all your points and I agree with you. I suppose I could have expressed my idea better. What I meant is that for people with a programming aptitude there are no barriers these days. Whether they…
Software engineering is genuinely hard. There's no need to add elitism to it. This choice of vocation is already highly selective towards everyone who tries to enter that field. I'll share some numbers from my academic…
Now that someone has downvoted me, I know it is the right choice and I must learn Postgres. Thanks for your support, folks.
Something like living in a flat infested with insects, walls not properly isolated making it pretty cold in winter with the heating set on maximum so you need to sleep in a sweater and a jacket, broken electrical wiring…
>> I made 50k in a more expensive city, Paris. From that my partner and I were able to buy a flat, put our son into a catholic school Having a partner doubles your income. More, if French taxation works in any way…
Personally, I prefer writing SQL by hand. That way I know exactly what will happen in a query. A database really is an important component of a system and shouldn't be treated like a dumb data store where you just throw…
Because I really like the power of SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools) and how nicely it integrates with Visual Studio and would like to continue using that instrument if possible. But I can't seriously build a complex product…
What I meant was that's just not enough. You can toy with it in a hobby project but in production that will be exhausted pretty soon.
A bit of feedback from someone who tried to make it in Germany with a 40K salary (in the south) and couldn't. It's just not doable. You need at least 60-70K to get started in medium towns, and around 80-90K for large…
A bit unrelated, but I'm hoping to hear something soon about the future licensing model for the upcoming SQL Server on Linux. Do we get a free version without DB size / CPU / RAM limitations (but perhaps with some other…
>> I relocated from another continent. My company gives decent relocation/signing bonuses, so I assume our competitors do too. Not really. From my experience, only very large companies can sometimes offer you about 1-2K…
This. The situation is completely different for an outsider than for somebody who's already made their move or for a local person. My experience has been that German bosses in general do not comprehend how hard and…
Actually, you can live there quite nicely without German. The basic vocabulary to get around easily is rather small. What you can't do without German is to integrate in the society. Which is pretty tough even if you…