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yourstruly33on Working at Netflix Sounds Like Hell

Not true for every team. As in Microsoft. As in Apple. As in Google. Amazon has great teams and supersmart people. If you're unlucky you end up in a crappy team. Since there are lots and lots, it's a luck-driven process.

yourstruly33on The Complicated Financial Lives of Freelancers

> "It's just excruciatingly difficult to manage our finances"

And it's US. Compare it to Italy and you'll have a difficulty setting switching from Medium to NIGHTMARE.

yourstruly33on A step toward systems that can assess competence using neurological data

This is not a substitute for diversity jobs.

yourstruly33on A step toward systems that can assess competence using neurological data

And I wouldn't mind if they were fair. I strongly believe Amazon, Google, Microsoft & co. interviews are 65% luck, 35% skill.

yourstruly33on In India, high-pressure exams are creating a student suicide crisis

Italian here. In Naples we've been having those 'smart people who steal electricity and rig water meters' for a looooooooong time. You might want to find your exceptional talents here.

Yours truly.

yourstruly33on Gigster raises $20M from investors including Marc Benioff and Michael Jordan

How is this exactly going to be different from the thousand of other competitors that are now complete garbage marketplaces by the millions of indians and mediocre programmers pouring low-cost offers into it?

yourstruly33on Making the most out of a bad job (help a programmer out)

I understand this might seem like a stupid complaint.. but one can't train forever. He needs a goal. I want to do something useful for the society or at least make some extra money for my family. I'm not a dog who can be left hours and hours doing nothing and staring at a white wall: I experience and suffer from boredom as you all.

yourstruly33on Making the most out of a bad job (help a programmer out)

That is correct, I don't feel like violating any law although making software for other people (since I just have to be 'ready for those small problems') might involve legal issues that I'll research more in depth.

By the way making software is what I should be doing as a job, I might be interested in other ways of getting a revenue that might just need a working brain and a lot of spare time.

yourstruly33on Making the most out of a bad job (help a programmer out)

Hey SQL thanks for that link, I'll take a good look at it and perhaps be in contact if I think I could do a good job at it.

You're right that it's a great opportunity but people need goals in their life.. this job feels like constant training for no purpose at all. I can research or study something, but I'll never build anything with it and that saddens me.

yourstruly33on Startups that were massively funded that died in 2017

Mostly crap products. Glad they're gone.

yourstruly33on Ask HN: How do you manage your personal projects?

Help: I haven't had an idea for a project in a long time. It might be because of the shitty job I have but I really can't find one even to bear my daily work. Advice on how to get them back?