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It seems grass is always greener on the other side. I'm from Eastern Europe and work remotely for a Western European company which is very beneficial from the financial point of view. Schengen Agreement makes it also very convenient to travel around and stay in different countries from time to time.

I do, however, always feel like the actual place to be for tech experts is USA. The European market seems too fragmented and too conservative. The VC money just doesn't seem to be there and most tech companies never grow that big as on the other side of the pond. I would love to spend some time in US, be it in SV, NYC or some other tech hub, but I don't really want to go through all the immigration hassle if I can pick any of the EU countries and just move there whenever I wish...

Could anybody explain why some people say the weather in SF is amazing and some others that it's rubbish? I've never been to California.

Semi-related story of mine:

1. Stumble upon some specific problem with a web framework we use.

2. Jump straight to stackoverflow.

3. Sbd had a similar issue, nice.

4. Sbd wrote a very concise answer, nice too.

5. There's my nickname under the answer. Oh, wait...

This is already happening: https://github.com/solid/solid-spec/blob/master/README.md.

Good stuff, thanks.

I'm wondering how one converts to a data scientist or ML engineer from a pure web development background without going back to school? I've been a backend developer for many years and I'm already a bit bored with working on software-only products. Would love to move on with my career to a point where I could have some more influence on what's happening in the real world off the web. Where did you start?

It seems their website at http://www.vugu.org is a demo as it contains some of those vg attributes in the source code.

I had exactly the same thoughts when I stumbled upon it wandering around the downtown late at night. It was dark, I was alone in the patio and the building front looked amazingly scary.

I love https://redis.io/documentation. It has a great UI too.

If you are buying a CPU for gaming you would be better off with i5-8400 which is half the price and performs equally well in most games. Oh, and it comes with a stock cooler (8600k and 8700k don't).

Most rumors say it can't.

Maybe it has something to do with the film being able to capture a larger spectrum of colors, the "analog feel" in general or the ability to scan it to higher resolutions in the future when technology advances? None of these seem to justify the costs though. There are probably some other reasons, I'm just guessing.

Why would you advise to mine bitcoins? If you feel it's a good investment just buy some.

Try https://github.com/wavesoft/dot-dom

It looks like tiny React and is just 511b gzipped.

Less sodium, yes. More protein? Of course not. Lean meat contains around 20-25% of protein. Do you know of any plant that could compare?

I envy your positive attitude. 3k€ of disposable salary per month in a huge European metropolis like Paris seems very low to me. That's roughly what a web developer with 3-5 years of experience can get in a mid-sized (400-600k) city here in Poland and the prices of virtually everything are way lower. 700eur can get you a nice 2-3 bedroom apartment in a very downtown of such city and transport, food, groceries, restaurants, cinema tickets are probably all 2-3 times cheaper than in Paris. I personally feel developers in big cities of Spain, France and Italy are getting screwed big time comparing with their counterparts in US or other places in Europe and even Asia.

Try this first: http://www.firewatchgame.com/ :)

1. Learn something that can help you to do stuff that people are willing to pay for. You already know some webdev, so maybe go ahead and spend a couple of months trying out some frontend frameworks. There are ample amounts of frontend jobs everywhere in US, EU and Asia.

2. Find a remote job in US. Even a junior position with a low salary would allow you to live decently in most European places (maybe except downtown London, etc.).

3. Pick a random European city you might like, get an airbnb and just go there for a while.

4. If you like it, stay. If you don't, pick another city. If you can't make the decision in 3 months, move to a cheap place in Asia and go back when you can. Flights are cheap. Places to stay are cheap. Just lower the bar. You don't have to live in the middle of Paris or London this whole time.

5. Travel a lot and profit. Unless of course your prefer to go through a routine of choosing a single place, finding a job in there, networking, making lots of new friends, etc. There's your tradeoff, but hey, you are 26.

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No offence, but how does physically coming to you and bringing your food justifies paying additional 10-20%? As mentioned above, I live in EU and almost never tip, because I cannot really understand this cultural thing. Why should I pay a special tip to sbd who brings my food and not clerks in a bakery or a garbage track drivers? I'm being serious here, I'm trying to understand why people do this. Is there any other reason than "the custom"?

Haha. Funny to read this as I have similar feeling most of the time, but the reason is that I almost never tip. I know I might be considered an a-hole, but I just cannot justify paying additional 10-20% for the "how's your meal" bs every time I go out to eat (and I go out a lot). If somebody agrees to be paid below the living wage it's not really my business and I think it's up to the owner and his staff to make these things straight.

Last year I have also visited Australia for the first time with my wife and we absolutely loved the fact on the contrary to other Western countries you are never expected to tip in there. From what I understand waiters get their reasonable salaries, the food is quite expensive, but if you see 38$ in the menu, you know you are going to leave 38$ on the table. Nobody has to waste their brain cycles thinking about how to tip the dudes. We live in EU and find EU and US tipping culture a major pain in the a.

Funny they want to start it in Milan which seems like a ground for the ultimate test of their marketing. If it can be accepted there by posh crowds who appreciate good design and gourmet food like nobody else in the world, they can make it anywhere. In other big cities though, like Florence, Rome or Venice there are so many Asian and American tourists that they alone can make Starbucks a sustainable business, even without a single Italian buying their coffee, ever :)

What's the evidence that results of such study could be generalized to the entire population? I mean, yeah, 2000 people seem like a big group, but one might have different ideas about what to do with free money if the society around stays exactly the same vs when everybody else is also entitled to UBI. When I'm unemployed and look around and see all my friends work I might feel quite ashamed of myself and willing to change, but if all of them "retire" at 30 instead this might not be exactly the case.

This post is a karma-bait!

If he made $200 in less than a minute would you say he's making close to $9M?

Meh, another heavily search engine optimized article from an affiliate. I skimmed throught it, but one particular thing caught my attention:

> Initially, for pulling photos from my Canon 5D Mark III, I went running back to my old MacBook Pro. Over time, I've had to do that less and less. Now that I have an iPhone 7 Plus, I haven't gone back to my Canon once.

This is just ridiculous. How you can compare a high grade professional DSLR to an iphone? He's either lying about owning 5Dm3 or just spent heaps of money on something he doesn't need.

Found them online and applied via e-mail :)

It depends what do you mean by that. I don't think you can actually learn something just by watching other people doing it, but online courses are a good start. I started to learn programming from an online Ruby on Rails course, then I created my first website (something like 9gag) and landed my first job after a couple of months. It happend to be a small company that has later created a mobile app that we managed to scale from 0 to over 100M users. I was even a main backend guy in there for some time. So yeah, watching videos might definitely be a good start, but I'd say the actual "learning" is a long process and requires lots of attention.

I guess it all depends on what you understand by the quality of life. If you are talking about a high purchasing power you get in exchange for your work then US is second to none, at least according to my research. I might be wrong, because I've never lived in US myself, but I was based in both Europe and Asia and it seems to me that IT salaries vs taxes and costs in your country can get you much further than in other places.

Nonetheless, there are still some spots with decent wages like London (particularly strong in fintech, but there's also lots of startups), Ireland (if you prefer to work for a branch of an American big-co), Singapore and Hong Kong if you'd like to change your environment entirely or even Australia. It all depends on your experience and selling skills though, as in most these places outside of US the difference between a senior's and junior's salary might determine your ability to rent a 3-room apartment vs a 100 square feet room in a shared-house with 8 flatmates :)

Most importantly, choose a place that you have a genuine interest towards. The rest doesn't really matter that much. If you pick a crowdy place you'd get a lower life quality in terms of purchasing power and living space, but higher from a cultural/social point of view and more job opportunities as well, so yeah, that's your tradeoff.

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While I agree with most of what you wrote, I also understand where it all came from. We have a handful of browsers which all implement w3c guidelines in their own way and there's no single de-facto standard of how one should write for web. Yet we write milions of different websites and they have to be properly displayed on at least a couple of popular browsers, no matter how bad they interpret the guidelines.

Yes JS is a major pain in the a and there are loads of various packages achieving the same things floating around, there's no agreement regarding which package manager to use and everybody uses different implementation or wrapper (es6, es7, typescript, flowscript, coffee), but if you look around you can find solutions that are actually really helpful to manage the mess. It helped me a lot when I started to write JS in a OOP fashion utilizing dependency injection and MVVM. The real trick is to realize which technology is really helpful and which is just bloat. I don't think this is much different from the backend programming.

In terms of CSS it's a whole world on its own and I keep repeating that managing it properly is well underestimated. It requires making lots of predictions about how you might extend your site in the future. Luckily, there is also plenty of great reusable boilerplates made by very smart people like bootstrap or materializecss. Bootstrap did change a lot how we write and think about our styles. Btw, leave classes for styling and use ids for js instead.

Finally, I don't agree with your opinion on HTML at all. It's super simple and you can build anything with it. I have learned the basics and built my "home page" when I was 12. These days kids are probably building sites before they even go to school. Also, as mentioned above you have to fit dozens of different browsers and hundreds of thousands of various devices. I find building UIs on iOS and Android not much easier, even though you build for a single system. Nonetheless I'm waiting to see how people could improve building UIs in the future, without falling into "everything looks and feels like wordpress" kinda world.