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Hey All, This is inspired by seeing this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12588771. I am currently in Berlin and I find salary information in internet is different what people offers here. Feel free to add your…

To sum up, I got promotion last year and currently leading 4 people developers team. My workdays has changed a lot, mostly preparing design docs, code reviews, creating and reviewing tasks. I miss building features,…

Here is my story, I was never that good at technical writing. I figured it out couple of years earlier, when I was writing my MS thesis. During my MS thesis I had two supervisors, one is from the company I was working…

To describe it shortly, I want to build a mac software which will clean junks and unnecessary files from your system. I will be charging around 25 USD. Are you going to buy it? If not what are the features I can add so…

Hey All, I know, at first sight the question seems to be lame. But I am struggling with this for years. By background is "Backend Development". Mostly used python and also some node.js. So, I want gradually want to move…

Hey, Yes, I know we all are not open to admit our failure. And actually I started following hackernews to get inspired by others success. But reality is, we all fail.Some of those we share when we get successful but…

Hey All, I want to know what you have learned in 2015 that you never realised before. I am going to start with my self, I learned one thing: 1. Identifying people who really matters in life is super important. We…

Hello All, I got married last year and last week my wife confirmed me we are having a baby! I am happy after listening it but when I started thinking, it seems my life will change dramatically. I am a software engineer…

The question could be a bit of misleading. Just to give you the idea what I am talking. Here is my story: Last year I was looking for a new gig and applied in couple of software companies. I have around 4 years SW…

I am trying to learn golang for almost one year. Went through the docs, completed https://tour.golang.org/ and watched few talks. Now I want to get my Go knowledge in real working code via weekend project. No specific…

Hi All, Do not get confused with the title. Just a short background: One of my close friend developed a wordpress plugin which was getting good sales (around 2-3k/month) but he is developing it for last two years.…

Hello All, Recently I was going through some job offer and title of the positions "DevOps". It seems more like a backend developer but why people title these positions as "DevOps" not "Backend Developer". Are there…

Hello, After switching jobs, when I start working for a new team with new product, it takes time to get adapted with everything (code base, coding convention, task management system, work flow etc). Do you guys have…

Doing programming for 3 years, while working in a project, I had to learn basic statistics and I found it really satisfying.Though, the complexity of the project was fairly easy, now I am thinking to switch track. As I…

Guys, I am in Syria(specifically in Damascus). Seems war is rolling out. Most of the people are moving to border regions but I cant and I am a programmer worked as a remote dev for an Australian startup. But I am not…