Yep. If the reasons for leaving are mostly because of your managers are not being transparent, fair and honest. Don't tell. Just make sure you have job security before you will give the notice. This also makes sure you don't get hammered or cheated/delayed on payments because you decide to reply to an e-mail / linked-in message midday.
I'm a Freelance webdev living in Amsterdam for my whole live (27 years).
Worked for a few successful start-ups that moved on to become big players in their industry.
As said, most software development is web/app based (startups). E-Commerce and mobile to be specific.
That said there is ample opportunity for Java/C++ engineers. These trades are often sparse here and I always see a lot of Vacancies in that area.
If you are unsure, check out some dutch vacancy sites. E.g [1] (I have no idea why they won't translate their site, most employers value English speaking devs).
Companies I've worked at are always mixed ethnically. I've worked with devs from Ukraine, Romania, Britain etc.
More and more companies are flying over people from other parts of Europe.
System engineers are always welcomed as well. Even in web dev where it looks like there is a lot of saturation, highly experienced people are always in demand. Even in PHP I often get messaged for jobs primarily for Symfony2 experience.
Overall though you will probably find the pay to be not so great compared to The Valley and for example London..
I would advice you to proceed cautiously and start sending in your open resumé or applying to some jobs through the web and get a feel at least.
I didn't know any single USB 2.0 port could serve more than 500mA regardless? Alas charging through the powergrid is way faster than through your laptop.
In any case I think that USBcondom is talking about is power hubs (i.e. custom hardware that could spread malware) and not specifically laptops.
Here is a article [1] describing a setup involving this type of RGB light and the raspberry. It also covers some other type of RGB lights.
The wifi bridge has been sitting on my desk for a while now. not bothered yet since the remote is sufficient for now. So can not really comment on that. Otherwise happy with one of the cheaper alternatives. No problems as of yet. Waiting for my lights to get switched on and off though :D The remote doesn't require line of sight as its RF, and already has quite the range.
I just bought 3 Miilight bulbs, and obviously after installing them I was like. Man my neighbours could probably control my lights... I also have a RF remote which operates on 2,4ghz and does not require network authentication.
The Wifi bridge does require authentication however.
I was thinking of building an RF "cannon" with a directional antenna and see how far I can go. I also got a DVB-T dongle. I should be able to "catch" the signal, right?
There is a huge problem currently with xtc-pills containing PMMA[1] in Europe.
Also a lot of the deaths are during festival peak season. Overheating and as often a response drinking too much can cause critical health issues.
This just shows how providing free tests at party's, more honest and thorough education etc can safe lives.
I'm glad i'm getting the news through a mutual friend like Erowid, and not the media. The BBC is responsible for labeling his empathogenic 2c-b as one of the most dangerous drugs there is. [1]
While 2C-B has actually been one of the most loveliest, caring and care-free drugs I've ever used in a responsible dose and many of Shulgins trials will undoubtedly confirm.
Shulgin has thaught us that we should have freedom inside our body and mind, and that there are responsible ways of exploring the depths.
BBC has taught me to never pay attention to U.K. news when it comes to the things they are obviously clueless about and don't care of getting their facts straight, just some tabloudish headlines..
I fully agree with the sentiment. I've always been against TDD being pushed. Obviously as developers we love the stress-free appeal of unlimited time, test first, achieve 100% confidence in code. Wow so glamour.
In practice this will always never work, since we are time and budget constrained. Halfway we find that we are dumping tests in favor of writing even more hacky-tacky code just to meet a deadline.
This code will never be refactored, because the client is satisfied with the results, and does not appreciate all the edge-cases because you said you would take care of them.
No, I'd rather produce code that is well written, can be deployed, and taken over by other devs if needed, not several levels of testing paradigm's that need to be satisfied before code can be migrated.
Yes I agree that there is obviously a place for tests, and IMHO that's when certain business logic is considered implemented, and tests will need to catch all the edge-cases to make sure it will deliver in the future and not break with modification.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but wouldn't this allow for a smaller force lever, because the axe multiplies the forces and does not rely on the user to swing hard enough with the right technique?
This is really cool. I've never split more than a couple dozen logs in my life but Ray Mears teached me to wedge the blade to the side on impact. This seems to emulate these physics. I'm not a big guy, and it's a pretty hard motion to get in to when you're swinging down as hard as possible.
This seems like a very capable survival/bushcrafting tool for less accomplished wood cutters.
Yes! haven't dived into it, but the possibility made me go for it regardless. Have been quite impressed with pg's performance with a lot of things you wouldn't want to mess with in mysql.
Sometimes what bothers me is I sometimes have no idea if a query is slow or not. This holds more true since I've been developing on Rails with Postgres. With MySQL it seems the bottleneck queries seem a lot more exponentially progressively degrading in correlation to the amount of records in a set.
With Postgres this seems to be a lot more linear.
I have just made some crafty work in rails to make use of hstore datatypes in Rails. It stores an array of hashes, which I have not found a way to index the keys of yet.
Is this slow or fast for example?
I'm doing a full-text search over all unnested (hstore) array values over a given column in a table wih 35k records.
development=# SELECT "leads".* FROM "leads" WHERE ( exists ( select * from (SELECT svals(unnest("address"))) x(item) where x.item LIKE '%mst%') );
Time: 57.257 ms
I'm used to MySQL, and this kind of query over unindexed records seems fast, but it also seems this might be slow for Postgres standards ?:/
Bear in mind.. no indices.