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New comment by juliie in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

juliie — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:30:18 +0000

From personal experience, in Paris 80k would be a very good salary for a senior engineer at a startup with solid funding. AI startups/big tech would pay around 50% more, but those roles are very rare.

Most people would make way less, at big French companies you won't make 80k until late in your career as an IC (they don't have a staff+ track).

So 80k sounds like a decent guess for the top 10-15%.

New comment by juliie in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

juliie — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:55:25 +0000

Can I install my banking apps? Is there a Google pay equivalent?

As much as I want open source, I really don't think it's there yet for most people.

New comment by juliie in "I hate GitHub Actions with passion"

juliie — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:29:55 +0000

I can do that with github actions too? For tests, I can either run them locally (with a debugger if I want), or in github actions. Smaller checks go in a pre-commit config that github action also runs.

Setting up my github actions (or gitlab) checks in a way that can easily run locally can be a bit of extra work, but it's not difficult.

New comment by juliie in "Asking Gemini 3 to generate Brainfuck code results in an infinite loop"

juliie — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 11:21:35 +0000

I'm also not a native English speaker, but I've decided to avoid using AI for formatting or changing the tone of what I write. That tends to result in extremely generic outputs that "feel" AI, no matter how much effort I put into writing it.

Asking for it to point out mistakes, without providing alternatives, seems like a better way to actually get better at writing.

Prompting the Ai to use a specific tone might result in something that's less generic, but imo that's not the right place to spend efforts.