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Uh and how other global economies compete ? So you want to protect these employees by "artificial" regulations ?

Judging by your surname your ancestors were also fleeing from one of those low cost european countries.

All good in Austria.

Is not their research coming mainly from OpenSparc project

i wonder if you guys have considered moving to much cheaper country like Thailand or Malaysia. Or is being in the US part of the success ?

I live in a country which has a strict gun control on its civilians (even if you acquire a license). Yet those that have the money and connections ( and I am not talking about mafia or really powerful individuals...I am talking "upper middle class) can easily get the license or guns.

On top of that we export disabled guns that are easily modified to a normal guns...and are of course affordable and easy to get by ...terrorists ?

I do not feel safer because we have a strict gun control. I am safe because my country is insignificant.

1) Brand 2) Data 3) explain millions why to register to yet another service and why 4) make it popular

I'd like to see some high performance ruby implementation for backend stuff (even if limited to some extent ...) sort of like what RubyMotion is for iOS/OS X.

I can imagine a lot of stuff that could benefit from this on the other hand I can see why it has not been done (costs, complexity etc).

Anyway I am sad that RubyMotion is not just as popular as Rails is. That is...very surprising...

Ehm Docker did not invent anything. They polished an existing technology and made it better (not that it's a wrong thing). Many companies / teams do this.

And btw this is a big problem in OSS. We have a lot of good stuff and underpaid people / teams / companies. Because of OSS zealots and leeches.

Jobs ads for example: "whatever position" but keywords : ruby, rails, ember, hula, dancing etc @ Berlin

What people search for

anything else ?

Anyone have an opinion about emacs on Windows ? I am forced to work on Windows and have no idea about the setup here.

Disclaimer: I come from neo-communist controlled central / eastern europe. Read : a populist government controls the country, gives freebies paid by tax payers to the elderly and the elderly + dumb vote for the same communists again and again. Younger pop. is trying to escape the country and the middle class shrinks every year.

You do not really want to use public services in my country. Trains are in desolate state and remind you of nazi trains used to transfer prisoners.

Health services are underfunded and the 50% of funds are being stolen by the gov and other oligarchs. Oh and when they get sick they get treated in another country.

Most of the youngsters in my country see capitalism as the only way to vote in everyday life. You vote with your money wherever you go.

It's not ideal but we hope it works. Unlike our corrupt socialism.

Generally good questions.

However I would not ask a candidate or more specifically I would not show him the code for fork bomb. I would ask him what fork bomb is or demonstrate it on some demo VM and ask him how would he prevent himself..

There's too many technologies already. I would not ask specific questions about the staff we use but instead a very generic ones.

Like really it's almost impossible to be a specialist these days and you can pretend your company is full of rockstars and works on the next big thing but in fact you are just bunch of posers.

Nobody really knows everything to the detail. I really hated when my colleague asked new people really deep stuff about Puppet and then we have switched to Ansible and half of the team was clueless and had to learn along the way. That's what good engineers do. They adapt. They learn the concepts and focus on delivering a good service. They do not memorize man pages.

When it comes to scripting / programming do not print scripts on paper and make the candidate to describe you what is it for or find a bug / mistake just by reviewing the paper. It's insulting. Especially if you do not follow any conventions or your code is not idiomatic.

Also I would never ask a question "What does the following command / parameter do". These are not good questions. Ofc they are asked often during interviews but are just plain stupid.

How would you display last / first 10 lines of a file ? How would you remove an X string from a line / row of text ?

and so on...

I would like to see people commenting about why they think that the project they recommend has a high quality code.

Otherwise it's too subjective.

This. Everybody is working on the next big thing that can make few guys super rich, few more guys rich and the rest will have to survive on minimum wages.

That does not mean it's more useful than being able to drive a car properly.

It's pure capitalism I get it. I like capitalism okay ? I live in a socialist corrupt hellhole.

Even if it's harder that does not mean it's more useful than to drive car properly.

That's why the rich countries are outsourcing to cheaper countries so much.

How do you justify 150k salary in US vs 25k salary in India ? Different costs of living ? Yes and no. In many poor countries some stuff is just more expensive than in the richer ones.

95% of us are doing shitty low IT as well so please do not pretend we are better than drivers or cooks. We are not.

5% of population is working on really groundbreaking stuff. We are just lucky we are in demand but our time will come as well and then those Senior Software Engineers that brag about how they are rich and successful will be useless once again.

95% of software is pure s...t so please show some respect.

The more I work in IT and meet more people the more I appreciate "normal workers" that take care of our stomachs,clothing,trash and so on.

You have to go with the flow. Unfortunately.

They treat you like hobo that came to their kingdom begging for a cookie.

They are the kings and queens and you are nothing just a pathetic beggar.

It's really exhausting and painful to go through it again and again especially when you know that most of the companies are just wannabe hipsters or the same corporate hellholes.

They pretend they are on the same level as Rob Pike and alike but what most of the people do is they write shitty code, shitty UI and shitty everything.

Google is definitely worse they cannot really make a compelling product that would DIRECTLY earn them money .It's all about ADS.

I predict that technology is not going to move that fast as it used to (moore's law etc). Instead we will go back to the age of "durable" / "longer lasting goods". A good software will make a difference between scoring a sale or not. Same with services.

Besides most of the companies are trying to move the manufacturing to Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Africa etc or automatizing as much as possible.

I am from the ostbloc som my taxes are are being spent on bribing, corruption etc. We might not be paying that huge taxes but it's still a lot.

I am less compassionate than the other folks in Europe and would really prefer a more capitalistic system at least in my country. But we Europeans are....ehhhh.

Right. But a country as a whole is what I am interested in.

I mean iphone costs about the same anywhere in the world ( okay it's sometimes more usually not less (Brazil?)) so there's that...

This is typical Europeans. I as a european hear this from my fellow countrymen all the time. Uneducated fat americans, no style, no quality, they know nothing, europe is 100times better.

Yet most of the major/minor innovations comes from the US these days, then it's Asian, Israel and the last is Europe.

You can counter argue that there's a big brain drain but whose fault it is ?

Europeans are just cocky too busy posturing.

I would be more interested in data that shows how much money an engineer takes back home (net income) compared to the rest of the world.

eg Software Engineer from Atlantis earns 100 000 USD but pays 55% of tax so takes home only 45000 Software Engineer from Middle-Earth earns 60 000 USD but pays 10% tax and takes home 54000

etc

They should consider a snappier flag as they were kind of lazy with it.

This is so true. Especially SW is overvalued and undervalued at the same time.

And the problem with that is what ? You are afraid that you might like it. You migrate and they will kill the project ?

If yes then...well...same can happen to any kind of software / project

I do not get the hate. This is superb

You would not be running ubuntu in virtualbox but "natively" on Windows. Allowing you to have a unix layer for your interpreters,runtimes whatever.

You could still develop stuff for server OS while having the ability to play games without having to reboot or use wine inside linux.

Disclaimer: mediocre developer here

I have recently switched to emacs from TextMate. I have not been using TextMate to its full potential as I simply did not have the need to do so. It was good. It worked great out of the box.

Then I realized that I needed to do much more than just use a text editor and have been glueing a lots of other utilities together.

Then I doscovered emacs. A behemoth godknows how old. And decided to learn it.

The learning experience is really steep but I think it's worth it. EMACS survived the test of the time along with VI(m). But sometimes I just feel it's too much and the great extensibility comes at price.

I am looking forward to Atom but the performance is not that great compared to EMACS. Not yet.

Well. I do not want to be rude but launching an app does not equal that you are entitled to 60k a year. This is becoming more clear than ever that doing IT no longer equals good salary in crowded places like London etc.

Demand is decreasing and companies that offer services for free are undervaluing (think Google, Microsoft) our salaries.

Not to be rude again but there's a fierce competition out there and good enough does no longer translate into instant $$$. Canada is still a very rich country and when you compare the wages with India,Vietnam or Eastern/Central Europe it's hard to compete. These people are becoming "good enough" and paying more becomes harder and harder to justify if you can just hire senior dev in India or Eastern Europe for 40k $ a year.

It's basically the same with degrees. Your customer does not care if the app / product has been made by a person with a degree. It's the same for us. We do not want to pay (money or time does not matter) for a degree if we can get the education for free...somehow.

What salaries do you guys consider competitive ? Do you all compare it to the SV salaries ?

If we exclude SV salaries how much more your avg US tech worker earns compared to his canadian peer.

And is this concentration of wealth good for the economy overall ?

I mean the canadians experience exactly the same. Even the high paid workers in Vancouver cannot afford housing as the "super rich" chinese that climbed upon the backs of their fellow countrymen and then swarmed Canada.

Don't you think that such concentration of wealth is not really a good idea ?