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The usual work: planning and developing new features, addressing bugs, dealing with tech debt, setting up infra, code reviews, writing documentation, etc.

In our case that's simply not true. The person I mentioned in the original post was the best paid developer in the company with a very competitive rate.

> If I had to guess; did the project grow organically for a few years where the original developer learned all of the skills as they went and now this person left?

Well, sort of. He was experienced before he joined, but staying with us many years definitely helped him to structure everything correctly and automatize a lot of tasks. What's interesting, he actually worked only 3 days a week. It's doable if you clearly define the responsibilities.

We are looking for a developer experienced in securing our whole stack: Rails backend, Vue frontend and infra on AWS.

This kind of person isn't easy to find, because:

- she has to have extensive knowledge about these frameworks

- feel very confident configuring servers

- follow the latest exploits

- perform security reviews

- audit dependencies

and:

- still be able to address vulnerabilities writing elegant code.

I guess it's a lot to ask for, but we had a team mate in the past who did exactly this.

Redis

Zerocopter | Full-time | Amsterdam | ONSITE or REMOTE* | https://zerocopter.com

Zerocopter is one of Europe's fastest growing application security platforms empowered by the world's best ethical hackers.

Our team of software engineers, security researchers and triage experts provide bug bounty programs, automated scanners and dedicated vulnerability checks for a diverse portfolio of clients including the largest airlines, hardware, retail and e-commerce companies in the world.

We are currently looking for experienced frontend, full-stack and backend engineers as well as a product owner.

Tech stack:

- Ruby on Rails (both latest stable, no digging in Rails 2.3)

- Vue.js

- Postgres, Redis, Memcached, Heroku + additional infra on AWS

* We have a great remote workflow, but most of us meet in our Amsterdam office once every 2 weeks and it would be great if you could join us too. Also, we prefer candidates with a valid EU work permit.

More info & applications: https://zerocopter.recruitee.com ; if you have any questions you can contact me directly at mariusz@zerocopter.com

If maximizing the current income is your goal you should consider contracting over FTE. As for the optimal ways - every country has its set of "vehicles" to minimize taxes which usually boil down to establishing LLC type company that pays low CIT instead of high PIT and making use of the capital earned by that company. The question is how deep down that rabbit hole you wanna go and how much time to spend on that. Very often it's not worth the effort and your brain cycles may be better spent for learning new skills or trying to find a higher paying job :)

Edit: typo

Excuse my ignorance, but on what basis it is an actual ownership of a digital asset and what is actually the asset? From what I understand NFT is a blockchain record that contains a URL. This URL may point to different resources at different times, no?

Zerocopter | Full-time | Amsterdam | ONSITE or REMOTE* | https://zerocopter.com

Zerocopter is one of Europe's fastest growing application security platforms empowered by the world's best ethical hackers.

Our team of software engineers, security researchers and triage experts provide bug bounty programs, automated scanners and dedicated vulnerability checks for a diverse portfolio of clients including the largest airlines, hardware, retail and e-commerce companies in the world.

We are currently looking for experienced frontend, full-stack and backend engineers with a security focus to expand our dev team of six and help us to accelerate development.

Tech stack:

- Ruby on Rails (both latest stable, no digging in Rails 2.3)

- Vue.js

- Postgres, Redis, Memcached, Heroku + additional infra on AWS

* We have a great remote workflow, but most of us meet in our Amsterdam office once every 2 weeks and it would be great if you could join us too. Also, we prefer candidates with a valid EU work permit.

More info & applications: https://zerocopter.recruitee.com ; if you have any questions you can contact me directly at mariusz@zerocopter.com

What is a solid definition of a burnout? Asking, because as a teenager and in my early twenties I was quite sensitive / "self-reflective" and always expected that spending dull days working for other people will kill me mentally, but in the end it never happend. I'm in IT for 10 years already and changed jobs a couple of times, usually when some processes in companies where pissing me off, but I don't think this is what you're talking about.

Yeah and it interferes with wifi (on MBP 13" from 2019).

Zerocopter | Full-time | Amsterdam | ONSITE or REMOTE* | https://zerocopter.com

Zerocopter is one of Europe's fastest growing application security platforms empowered by the world's best ethical hackers.

Our team of software engineers, security researchers and triage experts provide bug bounty programs, automated scanners and dedicated vulnerability checks for a diverse portfolio of clients including the largest airlines, hardware, retail and e-commerce companies in the world.

We are currently looking for experienced frontend, full-stack and backend engineers with a security focus to expand our dev team of six and help us to accelerate development.

Tech stack:

- Ruby on Rails (both latest stable, no digging in Rails 2.3)

- Vue.js

- Postgres, Redis, Memcached, Heroku + additional infra on AWS

* We have a great remote workflow, but most of us meet in our Amsterdam office once every 2 weeks and it would be great if you could join us too. Also, we prefer candidates with a valid EU work permit.

More info & applications: https://zerocopter.recruitee.com ; if you have any questions you can contact me directly at mariusz@zerocopter.com

Recently, I bought another watch that fits your description + it's absolutely gorgeously looking - Casio Oceanus T200. It's a dress watch with a mesmerizing dial and a beautiful case with some superb polishing that is done in the same factory where they produce cases for Grand Seiko. As an additional gimmick you also get Bluetooth - the watch can connect with your phone every night and seemlessly adjust the time, so it's basically always spot on. They sell it in Japan for around 400$.

Zerocopter | Full-time | Amsterdam | ONSITE or REMOTE* | https://zerocopter.com

Zerocopter is one of Europe's fastest growing application security platforms empowered by the world's best ethical hackers.

Our team of software engineers, security researchers and triage experts provide bug bounty programs, automated scanners and dedicated vulnerability checks for a diverse portfolio of clients including the largest airlines, hardware, retail and e-commerce companies in the world.

We are currently looking for experienced frontend, full-stack and backend engineers with a security focus to expand our dev team of six and help us to accelerate development.

Tech stack:

- Ruby on Rails (both latest stable, no digging in Rails 2.3)

- Vue.js

- Postgres, Redis, Memcached, Heroku + additional infra on AWS

* We have a great remote workflow, but most of us meet in our Amsterdam office once every 2 weeks and it would be great if you could join us too. Also, we prefer candidates with a valid EU work permit.

More info & applications: https://zerocopter.recruitee.com ; if you have any questions you can contact me directly at mariusz@zerocopter.com

People are helpful in general and will try to talk with you, but their English will most likely be on a poor level. It's much easier to get around if you know at least a little Mandarin.

Also, it's a total opposite of "some place quiet" :) All the major Taiwanese cities are very densely populated, busy and loud.

How do you like the tech scene in there?

I've tried to move to Brisbane around 5 years ago and even had an episode working remotely for a company located in there which wanted to sponsor me, but ultimately the compensation vs COL ratio seemed very bad, even if you compare it to Europe, so I didn't pull the trigger.

At that time there were really only a few interesting jobs in web development (I specialize in Ruby on Rails). Is it better now?

Zerocopter | Full-time | Amsterdam | ONSITE or REMOTE* | https://zerocopter.com

Zerocopter is one of Europe's fastest growing application security platforms empowered by the world's best ethical hackers.

Our team of software engineers, security researchers and triage experts provide bug bounty programs, automated scanners and dedicated vulnerability checks for a diverse portfolio of clients including the largest airlines, hardware, retail and e-commerce companies in the world.

We are currently looking for experienced frontend, full-stack and backend engineers with a security focus to expand our dev team of six and help us to accelerate development.

Tech stack:

- Ruby on Rails (both latest stable, no digging in Rails 2.3)

- Vue.js

- Postgres, Redis, Memcached, Heroku + additional infra on AWS

* We have a great remote workflow, but most of us meet in our Amsterdam office once every 2 weeks and it would be great if you could join us too. Also, we prefer candidates with a valid EU work permit.

More info & applications: https://zerocopter.recruitee.com ; if you have any questions you can contact me directly at mariusz@zerocopter.com

No personal experience, but Taiwan Gold Card seems to be easy to get if you earn over 5000$ per month: https://goldcard.nat.gov.tw/en

Downtowns of all big cities in Europe are filled with Airbnbs and that causes problems for both the neighbours (often old people) and the new buyers who are priced out. I think I wouldn't have much against people renting out their space privately, but most of these businesses aren't ran differently from hotels. They keep dozens of apartments, have their own room service, handymen and whatnot. Apparently, it turned out that clients prefer this over "unique experiences" that come down to sharing houses with hosts which btw gets old very quickly if you travel for an extended period of time. Also, a big chunk of tourists' money goes straight to Airbnb which doesn't pay taxes locally. I would actually be surprised if they pay taxes anywhere.

Definitely not the best, but probably the most stupid ... Once as teenagers we rode our bikes with a friend to a forest park in our town and decided to have a bottle of wine in there. We drank one, it wasn't enough, so we got another one. Turned out the "wine" had 20% abv and we got quite wasted. I blacked out and regained consciousness in the middle of the forest with my bike, next to a long fence that was 2-3m high with a barbed wire on top. I didn't know were to go and got angry, so I hanged the bike on the fence, climbed it, scratched my whole arms on the wire, jumped down, picked the bike and started riding further. Turned out it was a military base, so I rode around and finally found the gate guarded by a soldier. I told him to open it, but he kept asking how I got in. I kept mumbling that I just threw the bike in and he finally let me go. Later on, still completely drunk, I rode a couple of kms through the city to McDonald's to get a burger. But I lost all my money. So I mumbled my way again and they finally gave me one for free. Then I went home.

Next day it turned out my friend woke up in a graveyard on the other side of town. We never found out how he got there :)

Don't drink and ride.

That + the best documentation in the industry. It is a joy to work with.

This thread looks too much like some ads on Facebook where a brand's PR person replies to every single comment to keep the post busy.

If you don't need a degree or credits then why to do BSc at all? Just pick some courses you like on Coursera or other MOOCs. And it won't be 5x price, more like 5%.

In Poland software engineers are able to pay 5% linear income tax if they can proove they do R&D and sell copyrights to their code. The rules seem to be quite loose in this regard and thus lots of developers qualify for the discount.

So more demand for energy means more green energy? I don't quite get the logic.

Yup, my HD600 are 20 years old too :)

The author kinda lost me when he claimed the social mobility in USA is "shockingly low" pointing to the article showing it's just 13 percent points behind Norway. That is not a shocking difference.

People love convenience too much. Look at what Gmail has done to mailto.

Sorry, but I still don't understand your point. How am I priviliged if people from a foreign country colonized another part of the world? I and my ancestors didn't have anything to do with this. Our country was, in fact, "colonized" for more than a hundred years too.

All the minority groups you just mentioned are also Caucasian, so they are priviliged, but at the same time they... are not? In your original post you made a racial claim that just didn't make much sense to me at all, same as all race-related stereotypes that try to somehow classify groups of billions.

Not sure about America, but I don't understand what do you mean by saying that being white anywhere in the world comes with priviliges. I am a white male from a Eastern European country where 99.9% of people are the same race. How am I priviliged and in comparison to who?