And github's $100 million in venture capital didn't hurt.
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Any plans to support these in the future?
People take very stupid decisions when they are desperate.
And after a while, if things go well, ask for a weekly day to telecommute.
War was not going to stop regardless of the outcome. Hell, FARC attacked a polling station just today.
It's uncertain what will happen. The government was very proud of saying there was no plan B, but the people gave the establishment the finger leaving the government in a precarious position.
1. RN releases a new version every 2 weeks breaking my app every time. NS is a lot more conservative between releases.
2. I don't like mixing presentation and logic, RN encourages doing so, NS does not.
3. TypeScript is a first-class citizen in the NS environment, it is not in RN.
4. Angular 2 > React
5. NS created a smaller executable with better performance than RN for my test app.
6. I couldn't get RN to work with one of my older devices (KitKat), and even though dozens of developers had already reported the issue, they don't care. NS worked in the same device just fine.
7. All the tooling around the RN ecosystem is very confusing.
I wonder why we don't hear that much about them in HN.
And then there is Database Systems, The Complete Book where the second half of the book offers in deep coverage of the implementation of database systems.
They've been lending books, mags, cds, movies, etc. for longer than I've been alive
No, remote work is not for everyone, you need to know what you are doing at both ends or it'll not match your expectations.
No, it does not (necessarily) bring the best global talent, specially not if your motivation for remote is bringing down costs.
And no, you don't need to use any of the tools listed. Remote work has been done, and well, with nothing more than a VCS and email (both conspicuously absent from her list) for decades. Add to it any kind of real-time communication client and you're in business.
It seems to me "remote" or "remote first" have become buzzwords, yet another way for companies to appear fashionable. Witness the numerous companies that advertise non-existent remote positions, or that "will consider remote for the right person" (i.e. for no one).
Remote is not the latest fad, it's something we've been doing in this industry for at least two decades. Your company is not young and hip for doing it.
But I left academia over a decade ago, and have never used any of that. I have, however, used a few things above 8th grade maths, such as linear algebra, regression analysis, and some basic numerical analysis. I used once a FFT.
All in all the author is spot on. And I believe an advanced degree in maths is not a legitimate requirement for anything but a handful of positions, and most of those aren't particularly desirable.
I still remember fondly my days studying Baby Rudin, though. Definitely one of the courses that made an impact in my education. But in hindsight, it's been as useful in my career as my study of Latin.
As an owner, you don't want that information to get out.
I love OpenBSD, but this is blatantly false. The installer is 20 years behind any other major OS. The only installation that is really supported is on a dedicated machine, overwriting everything in the drive. And in true OpenBSD fashion, it'll do it without prompting you twice. OpenBSD's fdisk is spartan at best.
Also for ideological reasons (that I share) the installation media does not include firmware. Lots of video and network cards needs firmware to work, so make sure you download a copy of any required firmware to a USB stick beforehand.
Peace with impunity will mean more war, as the victims of the kidnapping, racketeering and murdering (or their surviving relatives) will want their revenge, just as they did after the government forgave M19's crimes.
In the (unlikely) case this agreement is approved, it wouldn't surprise me if it leads to a coup. And that's a rare thing in Colombia, one of the oldest democracies in the world and a country where the last coup attempt took place in the 19th century.
There's going to be a referendum on the agreement, and in spite of the government being heavily campaigning for it, odds are voters will side against it.
If they don't I'm out of here. This will become Venezuela 2.0.
Have prices in Argentina, converted to dollars actually increased?
I was also in Santa Cruz earlier this year, it's not really comparable to any of the major cities in Latin America, of course it is cheaper, but you get what you pay for.
Lima has both very good areas, where the cost of living is very high, and horrendous areas (most of the city, actually).
The only places I know in Latin America with a cost of living as high as Bogota are Sao Paulo and Rio. So I'm astonished to hear Buenos Aires is in that range now, since the last time I was around there the cost of living was easily half of what you see in Brazil and Colombia.
There are no taxes on foreign generated income here (Colombia).
However I cannot bring over $10k a year through the financial system without being hit with a 3% financial transaction tax.
Fortunately it is easy to legally elude that tax, paying for everything with a foreign-issued card does the trick. And every once in a while a quick shopping weekend abroad with the girlfriend is a good way to bring a new laptop and $9999 x 2 in cash.
Buenos Aires is actually one of the cheapest, if not the cheapest, of all Latin American capitals. I haven't been there in a few years, but the difference between official and black market exchange rate alone made a massive difference.
I don't know how the exchange rate is these days, but back then you could rent a luxury 3 bedroom condo in Buenos Aires poshest neighbourhood for $1k a month or less.
Granted, this was in 2009, but I was billing back then over 1500€ a week for web development (Python) to a couple of Italian companies. Tax-free too. Remotely. And I'm only semi-fluent in the language.
I also know quite a few Italians working remotely for American companies. Heck, I'm currently working with a guy from Bari and I know for a fact the American company we're both working with pays him six figures.
I'm still using much of my original stack. The trick is not to chase fads and focus instead on core skills and technologies.
I've been using a Unix-like operating system since my first contact with SunOS, I've been developing in Python since version 1.x, C since Borland ruled the DOS world, JavaScript since it first appeared in Netscape 2.0 and Java since I saw the first applet (Java 1.2, perhaps?), PostgreSQL since, I dunno, whatever version shipped with Red Hat 5.0.
Of course I reserve the right not to mention my previous experience with Delphi, TCL, Symbian, J2ME, or (increasingly) Perl, if it suits me. Selectively forgetting no longer relevant technologies is a very useful workaround.