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Very cool on the transparency! I was surprised to see Spain (all one bucket) has higher salaries on your calculator than places like Edinburgh.

> I'm almost 50, and to me the image of boys playing conkers only comes from books or TV based in early 1900s UK. I've never actually seen anyone play it.

Did you grow up in a city? I'm mid 30s and we used to regularly play conkers in the village where I grew up.

Yup, I found my current company (Sourcegraph) through a hiring thread!

It reaches 0C inside?

The dollar hasn't had a roughly constant value across time, perhaps on short time periods.

At the current point no, if we hit anything like 1% or above infected in a single country then yes we'll probably see that.

If European countries could keep the number of infections low I imagine the death rate would stay low, the issue is going to be when hospitals are saturated.

We're going to see the same in Spain, from 50 to 500 plus cases in a week but still a very relaxed attitude. Spain ought to learn from China/Italy/S Korea and lock stuff down now.

It seems each country think it'll play out differently for some reason. I imagine in 7-10 days Spain will have 5k cases plus.

Oh for sure, Monzo and Starling I've heard very good things of. Revolut doesn't have a banking license so hesitant to include them here.

As a customer of N26 and Natwest/Barclays I feel that N26 in my experience has won in every category.

Superior support when I need it on demand, the tech and apps seems solid, intuitive analysis and usage, the ability to have multiple sub-accounts and the ability to create rules to route money between them.

Natwest in particular seem stuck in the past, I cannot count the amount of times I've opted in for digital communication only and always continued to get letters to which I can never get through to support.

If company X moved 17% how much % do you think you potentially left on the table?

They are one data point and imo too low. Six years ago in Barcelona as a senior engineer the bands were 50-80k euros. Now the top end engineers (think team lead) top out around 100k euros.

It really depends on where you are based and if you are wanting remote or not?

If you're in a major metro area like NYC/SF/London etc then I'd suggest Java/Scala/C++. If you want remote then JS seems to have the most opportunities going.

This is a great thread idea, I hope it gets upvoted a ton and some interesting opportunities are available!

We use Solr heavily at https://www.helpscout.com/, it really powers a ton of our functionality.

Brb while I move to Vatican city, I look forward to my salary going up significantly.

I'd bet the inverse, folks pulling in the huge compensation packets have no reason to want to advertise this via a self reported site.

So obviously this is from a lightning fast google but I saw figures putting m2 of property prices away from the center of cities being $3.4k. That combined with what a 50% tax rate makes me surprised you paid a house and car off in cash unless the house is small (perhaps you don't have dependents too?) and you've been at that earning rate for a long time?

I'm not disputing, I'm impressed and being debt free is an amazing luxury to have!

Would you compensate them either with time or money for it? I think think if you know it'll take 'employees' that are contractors a certain amount of time and expenses each month then offering something small in exchange for (covering accounting fees etc) is a great way to go about it.

In my experience most humans fall into category number one.

Still offers greater upside on salary/income progression.

Do you consider Bitcoin to be a perpetual ponzi scheme?

I believe the poster was meaning that the UK press is insular and doesn't report on wider European issues like the Spanish press and not commenting on Catalonia or making a comparison with Scotland.

Whilst half joking I've had children around this age and I don' claim to be a genius but the time afforded to technical exploration and learning has dropped significantly while they are young.

Could you expand on this?

Would you mind expanding on this?

I've used one of their lower end thinkpads (s540) and have gotten 4 years of use out of it doing Java work with vms and running a ton of things without issues on Ubuntu.

I've had next to no problems the whole time, second monitors,webcams,printers,sleeping have all worked straight out of the box.

I've flown upwards of 50 times with it during this period, dropped it, spilt water on it and it has survived it all (almost!). The only reason I'm even looking at replacements is I spilt a full litre of water on the keyboard and a few keys have died forever.

If you're looking for a good development machine I'd recommend the following ThinkPad lines:

* X range: Smallest and lightest, maxes out at 16gb ram (new X1 extreme doesn't but it is $$$$).

* P range: Most power in terms of CPU/Ram/GPU whilst being fairly portable.

* T range: IMO the sweet-spot between X and P. Portable but still with enough grunt, the T480 takes up to 32gb ram.

Actually it causes a lot of problems according to some sources here,https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/22/spania...

It's also odd getting up at 7am here and it's still pretty darkish in August.

You end up so hungry doing that though :D

From my experience an engineering manager in most organisations is considered a direct promotion from a senior or lead engineer. Compensation tends to follow this and thus I'd warrant in 90% plus of cases engineering managers make more than the engineers.