I would come down to who has more experience in their resume. A lot of boot camp grads, unfortunately, cannot participate in internships because it's a continuation of classes (no breaks), but I don't think CS grads have a significant advantage assuming both prepared well and could get interviews.
There are good reasons to go with AMD over Intel CPUs at the moment, the number of published security exploits should not be one. There is nothing fundamentally more insecure in the Skylake CPU architecture than in Zen 2, just one has more marketshare and gets scrutinized more intensely.
> There is nothing fundamentally more insecure in the Skylake CPU architecture than in Zen 2
Except there is. Hence why Skylake suffered from Meltdown while AMD didn't. Skylake's design is to do ACL checks at instruction retirement instead of up front. AMD's is the reverse.
Software workarounds for Meltdown exist, yes, but the Skylake architecture still fundamentally has that insecure design.
The amount of tech workers migrating is minuscule compared to the number of unskilled migration coming from countries like Syria and Afghanistan to Berlin. That is where the demand shock on the housing market comes from.
You're both right. Correcting OP, desperate tech workers accepting being lowballed, hopping between temporary apartments each couple of months, being replaced in 2 years by someone even more desperate, hoping to get their feet in the door (into a place with minuscle payrises and impossible housing market). Ideal candidate is someone from outside of EU (or an EU country but troubled with decades of economic crisis) with a spouse and a child. Have fun you all, because I'm out of this freak place!
> number of unskilled migration coming from countries like Syria and Afghanistan to Berlin
These people cluser in the city districts ruled by Middle Eastern organized crime (if you ask Germans, no such phenomenon exists). There, market forces don't apply and housing market is hermetic to the outsiders - and it doesn't matter because you wouldn't want to live there.
I kind of disagree with this view over salaries. There’s a lot of rules to bring a skilled worker from outside of EU. One in particular deals with how low can your salary be, which if I remember correctly is around 45~50k. The main problem I see is with poor countries inside EU. I remember a Portuguese girl in my previous company with similar role and experience making 30k a year, she left when while complaining about salary they said they could offer a 10% raise which would be an amazing raise for her. Same situation on the current company, this time with a Hungarian guy.
45-50k is not enough to make a good living in Berlin, when your rent and utilities (everything included) is around 1k to 1,250 EUR, which leaves you around 1k EUR to live by.
Is that a joke? With €45k+ in Berlin you have a pretty decent way of living, that’s higher than any median or average. And you can have good rent if you don’t live in trendy areas where prices are inflated.
> With €45k+ in Berlin you have a pretty decent way of living
Then cancel you rental contract, rent something new again and now... if not homeless (or stuck with airbnb)... re-estimate what the decent salary would be.
I’m in the process of moving right now (literally in a week), I’m quite aware of rent prices. Maybe we have a different definition of “decent” in this context.
So what when that’s higher than any median and average? It’a enough money to survive in today’s Berlin, but it’s far far away from anything decent! Started almost decade ago with these €45k in Lindau, 800€ rent, 400€ unavoidable expenses. Add some savings and an upkeep costs of a 7 years old car and it’s gone.
That exercise (especially endurance sports) is as effective as your typical SSRI is known for decades. The problem is getting a depressed person to exercise five days a week and holding up to that schedule for months and years.
Absolutely. As I commented elsewhere here, I suffered from a depressive episode after a close friend committed suicide.
The lack of energy is extraordinary and what I experienced must have been mild compared to what others with severe depression suffer from.
Anecdote: a sliding door slipped from its rail because there was no stopper at the end of the rail and it had to be moved back in place. It is neither heavy nor difficult to do it.
I gave up after the first attempt to fix it.
Depression is nothing that I would ever wish on anyone, no matter how much I might hate that person.
I guess one of the nice things about the modern world is that there's lots of different activities one can choose. Like basketball? Play basketball! Like Crossfit? Do some Crossfit. Like running? Go for a -
OK - no one really likes running...
All these activities have casual social groups attached to them you can join. If you miss a meetup, someone's gonna check in with ya.
The initial bump to make it habit is hard, and it could take a few tries, but that's true for any positive habit.
You don't have to exercise for 5 days a week though - that's an arbitrary choice. I've been going to the gym 3-4 times / week for 1-3 hours at a time for years and it's absolutely helped my mood. There's no magic to 5 days a week.
