You don’t even need to do that. Once you have Residency (distinct from Permanent Residency and Citizenship - the one with the passport) you are allowed to start your own company which you can use to contract yourself out to Australian companies for annual amounts double those of a lot of NZ roles.
(My last role paid 240-250K NZD depending on exchange rate; the local role prior to that: 120K NZD)
Didn’t know about E3 visa route. Very interesting, thank you
This used to happen to me constantly. I fixed it accidentally in switching to Ripgrep [0] which defaults to recursively searching the current directory. Bonus: it parallelises too!
Honourable mention also to FZF [1] which not only makes it trivial to locate a file in a directory tree, but has revolutionised my history use with its fuzzy matching.
Long-time Signal user but I'm on the verge of moving I think. There are several UX shortcomings but the new PIN nag is a bridge too far. What are my options for alternatives? I imagine Telegram is the next best bet but very open to suggestions.
A lot of positive comments about Pluralsight here so I thought I'd offer a slightly different perspective:
I had a subscription through work and was excited to jump in and learn as much as I could but I found the talks to be quite information-sparse when compared to say, destoryallsoftware.com [0] videos. As a result, I was apt to watch lessons at 1.5x speed in order to cover ground more quickly, which took a little getting used to.
I looked into why this might be, and discovered (at least back in 2015) that authors are paid in part, per minute of engagement [1], which might account in part for the length of the courses.
Judging from what I've read subsequently, I may just have been unlucky in the courses I selected (I didn't watch any Microsoft ones for example) so if anyone has any recommendations on particularly good courses, I'd be interested to give it a second try.
Yep! This is how I started out (I run it one a VPS now so I'm not tied to my home network) and it works fine. The only limit you're likely to run into is your blocklists filling RAM. I have a 5M+ long blocklist and it won't fit into 1GB, so you might want to spec up a little bit in that area, depending on how block-happy you are.
Glad to see it finally officially accepted. I've been using it on all my devices for over a year now and it's been rock solid. The ease of setup and initial connection speed alone blow any of the alternatives (that I'm aware of, at least) out of the water. Long may it continue!
Not sure if this has changed but I ditched noscript when I discovered it doesn't block inline script execution. These days I use Ublock Origin:
Settings -> check 'I am an advanced user'. You should now be able to block 1st party, third party and inline JS from executing and save on a per-site basis. Hope this helps someone!
One thing I notice often gets glossed over when Cambridge Analytica comes up is that they didn't really shut down at all. While CA ceased trading, a company called Emerdata was created around that time by the same directors [0]. Their Company's House filing documents can be seen here: [1].
I'm not yelling 'conspiracy!' or anything, but it's notable that this isn't more widely reported. I'll be watching them with interest.
I don't mean to be glib but this is a surprise to who exactly? I only know Niantic from Pokemon Go (which requires your GPS to be enabled, presumably) and they're owned by a company whose entire business model is data collection for targeted advertising. I'm not sure this is a particularly surprising outcome for a 'free' game if I'm totally honest.
This isn't strictly true. The final cPython release (2.7.18) is slated for April next year [0], and PyPy has no such plans to drop support [1].
I don't honestly think Python 2 is going anywhere for a while yet (judging from some of the commercial codebases I've seen at least). I sometimes wonder if this mess would have dragged on quite so long if there'd been better features in Python 3.
I'm coming at this from the other side, but as you note, it'll be very interesting to see how it plays out. As a consumer, I don't care what the original poster thinks I should see - they may not even be someone I follow if I click a retweet for example, and if anything, seeing what someone wants to hide is much more interesting. It's a net negative from my end because now I have to click more to see the actual content but I am far to cynical to assume that's anything more than an attempt to drive engagement metrics!
(My last role paid 240-250K NZD depending on exchange rate; the local role prior to that: 120K NZD)
Didn’t know about E3 visa route. Very interesting, thank you