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New comment by emteycz in "Ask HN: Is every contracted developer over-employed nowadays?"

emteycz — Thu, 26 May 2022 21:01:05 +0000

Your country's solution to keeping people at home is to pay them so bad they can't afford to leave? Sorry but that really doesn't sound good.

New comment by emteycz in "Ask HN: Is every contracted developer over-employed nowadays?"

emteycz — Thu, 26 May 2022 19:55:09 +0000

Yeah but then I want to move to the US or Switzerland or Germany and the US$66k is suddenly a lot less? I have no idea why a skilled senior SWE contractor would go into that kind of deal, the market is much hotter than that, $66k is entry level rate for a contractor even if you work at local companies here.

New comment by emteycz in "Ask HN: Is every contracted developer over-employed nowadays?"

emteycz — Thu, 26 May 2022 19:37:46 +0000

I think the point is more that having the degree doesn't guarantee anything, and that not having a degree is not a barrier. You still have to do an interview with the candidate, and there will be many self-taught devs who will be much better than the people with degrees.

New comment by emteycz in "Ask HN: Why XMPP failed and SMTP didn't?"

emteycz — Thu, 26 May 2022 19:34:48 +0000

Cool, but the coolest thing about Telegram is that IDGAF, it just works

New comment by emteycz in "Ask HN: Is every contracted developer over-employed nowadays?"

emteycz — Thu, 26 May 2022 15:36:40 +0000

But others might miss the meaning if they only went with what you wrote.

New comment by emteycz in "Ask HN: Why XMPP failed and SMTP didn't?"

emteycz — Thu, 26 May 2022 15:03:25 +0000

I used to chat on IRC between 2005 to 2014. We tried to switch to Jabber several times but it was simply too much work (we had elaborate mIRC bots, for example) and it simply wasn't as good - bloaty clients (this was in times when we had 512 MB RAM and single or dual core), chat servers were frequently down while IRC always worked (with the occasional netsplit, but oh well)...

Then we tried Slack but most people didn't come there too much. Today we have a Telegram group and it's so much better UX/UI wise...

New comment by emteycz in "Ask HN: What's a good way to obfuscate my JavaScript code?"

emteycz — Thu, 26 May 2022 12:27:14 +0000

Webpack... Ironic, isn't it?

If you want just scrambled identifiers and minification but to keep it in separate modules (which makes it somewhat easier for the user to understand your source), then use what Webpack uses under the hood - https://www.npmjs.com/package/terser

But don't have big hopes for either. You're just making it slightly harder to read, but a sufficiently determined programmer will have your source very soon anyways.

Don't trust any of the "source encryption" solutions. It takes 5 minutes to take the unencrypted code out of a running JS VM instance, there's even a JS API for it in Node.js.

New comment by emteycz in "Ask HN: Is every contracted developer over-employed nowadays?"

emteycz — Thu, 26 May 2022 12:24:41 +0000

It wasn't all fine and dandy here too, but at least buildings and land were mostly returned (corporations were mostly robbed by the communists so there wasn't much to return). Has Polish land not been returned at all to the rightful owners?

New comment by emteycz in "Ask HN: Is every contracted developer over-employed nowadays?"

emteycz — Thu, 26 May 2022 11:29:07 +0000

Didn't Poland have a privatization post-revolution like Czechia had? Here, we returned most of what was stolen to the ancestors of the original owners.

New comment by emteycz in "Ask HN: Is every contracted developer over-employed nowadays?"

emteycz — Thu, 26 May 2022 11:22:50 +0000

Why would you accept a job that pays only US$66k if the value of your work is US$100k? Here (central Europe) it's common practice to count your money in EUR or USD even though we're paid in the local currency - especially if the local currency is not pegged to EUR.

New comment by emteycz in "Ask HN: Is every contracted developer over-employed nowadays?"

emteycz — Thu, 26 May 2022 11:20:18 +0000

The meaning is that you can learn to do the job without needing the piece of paper and the loss of sanity and time that goes along with it. There isn't a field where it applies more than in programming.

New comment by emteycz in "Ask HN: Is every contracted developer over-employed nowadays?"

emteycz — Thu, 26 May 2022 06:25:10 +0000

A nice senior engineer contract pays around $100k over here.

New comment by emteycz in "Governments Harm Children’s Rights in Online Learning"

emteycz — Wed, 25 May 2022 13:11:33 +0000

The government office responsible for education based on feedback from schools, whose administrators read articles similar to this one (some points from these other well-known articles were recited word by word, basically).

New comment by emteycz in "Governments Harm Children’s Rights in Online Learning"

emteycz — Wed, 25 May 2022 12:12:47 +0000

Yeah but this is resolved with installing a Pi-hole or Ublock into browser; yes, teens can do that and those who care about privacy do it. The rest has already spewed their data all around the internet anyways.

Why care about protecting the kids from Google and Facebook etc when they have Youtube and Facebook running in the other browser tab? Why not protect them from actual physical threats they can't do anything about by themselves instead?

You can't do shit about being forced to go to a school building - don't go and the police will come to force you to go (tested that for you).

> I don't see anybody calling for edtech to be cancelled

But that's the practical outcome - here they said "oh we have these unresolvable problems [...list of bullshit...] with this internet stuff, I guess we need kids back in the prison!". And articles like this are just feeding them more.

New comment by emteycz in "Governments Harm Children’s Rights in Online Learning"

emteycz — Wed, 25 May 2022 11:24:09 +0000

Well, my school is the kind of school where a child recorded a teacher abusing another child and the solution was to ban mobile phones...

And when a child (unsuccessfully) knifed a teacher, all the other teachers went and started telling every parent that their children will have problems if they tell the press that the attacked teacher was abusive, saying things like "this is our internal problem to solve, no need to involve the authorities" (but of course they were more than happy to involve the authorities in the attack, they just didn't want them to know the full story).

The problem is, the fact that there are a few great schools doesn't mean there isn't a ton of really bad schools. You can't base policy on the great schools alone... I'm absolutely convinced that distant/online education is a huge net positive. Canceling it instead of improving it feels so wrong.

New comment by emteycz in "Governments Harm Children’s Rights in Online Learning"

emteycz — Wed, 25 May 2022 11:11:56 +0000

There are cameras with facial recognition at the school I went to. I'd much rather supply a semi-fake photo (so the teachers don't bitch about me not having a face there) to Google than step anywhere near that building ever again.

Schools store children data in unsecured databases anyways, that's really nothing new. I trust a cloud service much more than the school IT admin. The cloud service at least has to fix stuff when a problem is uncovered, the school admin will just get you a detention and carry on.

Fortunately this is many years ago for me, but today's reality for my siblings...

New comment by emteycz in "Governments Harm Children’s Rights in Online Learning"

emteycz — Wed, 25 May 2022 10:06:46 +0000

Still much better than being locked up in a prison. There's absolutely no privacy at all at the school building.

New comment by emteycz in "US Taxpayers Paid for Starlink's “Donation” to Ukraine"

emteycz — Wed, 25 May 2022 09:05:44 +0000

This was already debunked months ago. SpaceX donated a big chunk of cash in shipping costs + a good amount of costly hardware, and they hardened the security of the whole system and countered Russian interference within days. Yeah the state helped too - as it should have. But it's not true at all that SpaceX did not donate.

New comment by emteycz in "Show HN: Vantage Autopilot – Save on AWS EC2 Costs"

emteycz — Wed, 25 May 2022 07:21:06 +0000

Well that comment claimed you don't even need to develop anything... This one at least recognizes there's work to be done. :-D

New comment by emteycz in "Ask HN: Having Problems with Node.js on Termux"

emteycz — Wed, 25 May 2022 07:12:39 +0000

Post the error message, it's hard to say anything without it. I use Nix On Droid on my phone and Node.js works well on it. I use it with Coder-server and access VSCode via browser.