I have been running Vaultwarden (formerly known as bitwarden_rs) for years in a docker container and I don't remember a single time that it went down.
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The oldest one takes the U-Bahn (Underground) to school and the bus to attend her hobbies. Often we send one of them to the nearby supermarket to buy last minute stuff.
I like to think that I'm helping them to be independent and aware of their city.
Most of my daughters' friends do the same.
Public insurance costs are based on income. Private insurance costs are based on health/age etc.
Moving from private insurance to public is almost impossible, as far as I know.
To give you an idea, I recently switched to private insurance and cut my monthly cost by 50%.
I'm based in Europe and I have mostly worked in EU countries, except for a couple of very lucrative contracts in the Middle East. I can see you are based in London: London has tons of contract gigs, especially in the financial sector (mostly using JVM languages I'm afraid). If you can move around, Switzerland has also lots of contract work at the moment - and low taxes.
Take a look at jobserve.com for UK contracts.
What has worked for me so far:
- Find some good recruiters from reputable hiring agencies. Once you establish a relationship with them, they can provide a stream of constant contract opportunities. You can accept or refuse, based on location, rate, tech stack etc.
Unfortunately, this is easier said than done, because the bar for entering an hiring agency is quite low these days and you get all sort of cowboys. Personally, I prefer to work with older dudes with at least 10 years of experience in the fields (reverse ageism!).
- Never, ever leave a company slamming the door. If you do a good job, they will call you back
- Linkedin lists contract gigs sometime, I have never really got anything out of it, but it's good to keep an eye
- At some point, I wrote a book that landed me a couple of good gigs. I'm not suggesting to write a book, but you can try to establish yourself as an authority is some field (Elixir, Rust, etc). Again, easier said than done
Ultimately, the hiring agencies are the gateways to the majority of contract gigs, so you really want to talk to them.
Good luck!
- archivebox (https://archivebox.io/)
I was able to import all my existing NYC geo-points into Felt and quickly chart some itineraries from different sources. Way, way faster than Google Map.
Let's see how fast it will render once I'm on the ground in the city with mobile interent.
One major difference with Google Map is the lack of custom layers, but so far it hasn't been a problem.
This is my NYC 2022 trip map :) https://felt.com/map/New-York-2022-u7J1aE2ZSLOmdwCP4WGCOA
I visited the US in the past (hell, me best trip ever was an epic coast to coast with a Marine friend) and I'm aware of the differences.
Cultural differences are ok, this is why we consider moving - and why I moved a lot around in the past.
My main concern is about getting to an age where I can't really afford severe financial missteps.
Our "purchase power" here in Berlin is very very high and as much I consider Berlin a messed-up city the overall quality of life is stellar.
I can afford to stay put for a while (in fact, that is the plan in case we move, so I can support my kids with school etc.), but I want to make sure that, when my stay at home dad period ends, I can get to an income level that is close to our situation in Berlin.
Doesn't have to be the same, but I don't want to end up loosing money over the move.
Sorry, I didn't mean your comment was polarized, the opposite. Yours was one of the few balanced comments in this thread so far (also don't want to discount other HNers comments, this is hugely useful for me)
My daily rate is around 1k euro + 19% vat. Note that I have multiple clients, so in some good months the above figure is higher.
My tax pressure is around 43%, including health insurance.
We are going to be in NYC in a couple of weeks and we plan to spend one day in Princeton, as you suggest.
Regarding the long term relationship, if we move we are going to move as a family (2 kids included :))
If we would be very, very unhappy I guess we could pack and leave, but that would be a worst case scenario that I'd like to avoid for the enormous stress that it would cause.
My wife job is for a European company, no UNI or religious context.
A couple of notes: I signed up for the trial and answered the questionnaire. To me, it is not clear what happens next. I didn't receive any welcome/confirmation email.
Also, since I'm based in Germany, I would have expected a reference to German supermarkets (Rewe, Edeka, etc.) but the home page only shows American stores. For a moment, I thought this was a US-only service.
Good luck and looking forward to try out the service.
Other tech: Kafka, K8, Postgres, API design. Very experienced on JVM optimization and perf tuning.
Location: Berlin, Germany
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No, flex on travel
Technologies: Java, Kotlin, React, Spring, REST, SQL, Kafka, Kubernetes, event-driven architecture
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ishipsoftware
Github: https://github.com/luciano-fiandesio
Email: luciano@fiandes.io
In Europe it is very difficult (and expensive and convoluted) to let go of an employee, so a company must find a way to validate the hire, regardless of the Probezeit (probation).
I'm not advocating that companies should suddendly stop running interviews, and I would be very wary of a company who would hire me permanently without conducting a technical interview, especially for system-design level positions.
In my particular situation, I found that coming forward very clearly about my intentions as paid off so far, but I also realize that it may not work in the majority of cases.
> Getting and verifying references is actually legal and possible.
Is it not legal to verify references for a permanent position, in Germany?
Since my relocation to Germany, I decided to try the "no-tech-interview approach": does a client wants to work with me? Let's talk, for hours if needed, let's meet in person, whatever is required to make both parties confortable with each other.
I'm more than happy to answer questions about my previous projects, how did I work on a specific solution or technology, which mistakes I made.
But no technical interviews (as in whiteboard coding, riddles, take-home assignements). I have 25 years experience, I have references, I have code on github in several programming languages, I wrote a technical book.
This approach has been working so far. Some clients still insist on doing a coding challenge or a classical technical interview: I politely decline and move on. There is no shortage of contracts, so I have always some lead in the pipeline. I would say that 50% of the leads are from me being recommended by people I worked in the past: this is obviously the value added of having lots of contracts under the belt. If I feel that my experience would not be a good fit for the project, and there is not enough time for a ramp-up, I would also decline.
I do realize that this no-tech-interview approach would probably never work for permanent positions, especially when it comes to hire junior developers. Having said that, I strongly believe that the most valuable asset for a team is a decent person.
Very few teams work on hard-problems, requiring super-specialized knowlege (say, AI for self-driving vehicles). The majority of technical skills can be learned, if one has the passion, willingness and humbleness to learn (and the employer wants to invest in the team - which, sadly, is often not the case).