I'm a backend engineer with 11 years of experience. I am looking for a senior role where my skill att collaborating with technical and product people alike, across different areas of a company, can come into play. I value keeping a neat ship, with high engineering standards and sensible processes. I also very much like a technical challenge, especially in collaborative form.
Because we saw the same accounts pop up in other groups sometimes weeks later, so we started to keep track of the usernames after banning them. If you check their profile it's easy to see that they are active months later.
You talk as if this is a problem that is easily solved. Of course government wish this could he solved.
A tip is that whenever you reach a ludicrous conclusion "they do nothing to stop underage violence", it's probably your analysis that is ludicrous and not the object being analyzed.
I’d maybe ask what “a lot” means, because I haven’t worked with too many people who enjoy it. But regardless, when I say a job should be fully remote, I just mean it should be able/permitted to be done 100% remotely. If someone wants to do that job from the office, that’s OK too.
You should according to... well, yourself. But for teams who are co-located and meet up in the office 1-2 days a week, your never being around physically might be a distraction. We're not all the same.
In your scenario, what is it about me not being physically present in person, that would constitute a distraction? Please cite sources/data for any claims you make.
edit: Also, if the answer is that the company is just not prepared with the infrastructure & culture needed to support fully-remote developers, they are closing themselves off to approximately 40% of the available talent pool, not to mention a disproportionate number of minorities and women[0]. This should constitute an emergency that must be corrected immediately in the mind of any competent CTO or engineering leader.
I apologize if asking for data hurts your feelings, and you’re obviously welcome to share your experiences as well (I did in a parent comment above).
The reason I asked for sources is that there seem to be a lot of experiences/anecdotes on both sides of this issue, but so far I haven’t been able to find too much research that supports the idea that working in person is beneficial to overall productivity, or to the company culture, or to any other company-wide metric that would justify having a mandate that all employees must work in person. If that data exists I’d like to see it, so that I can decide whether it’s worth changing my own position on this issue.
"competitive salary" can mean very different things to different companies in the Amsterdam area.
I wonder what the situation is like here. But given that the lead dev role looks to be on a CTO path, I assume compensation might be heavier in equity?
In recent years due to the somewhat mixed economy, "competitive salary" in the Netherlands is typically in the 50-70k/year range in my experience (for mid/senior engineers). Salaries and freelance rates have been quite depressed in the last year or two.
Well it is competitive with other salaries in the Netherlands. If you don't have a family or want to buy a house then you can live reasonably well here on such a salary. If you have a family or are trying to buy a house though, it can be quite challenging. Median salary for everyone is lower still of course...
Anecdotally when I moved to the Netherlands I was making 50k and over two years later 70k at that same company with about 4 years of experience.
If you look at talent.io tech report and other resources the median tech salary seems to be closer to 60k (70k Amsterdam) for all experience levels, all categories, so with some looking around you can find much better than that.
One can also imagine that the ad networks really don't care as long as advertisers continue to buy into the ad auction ruse.
The ad networks are an opaque "black box". You only get to see what they allow you to see. It is essentially built around faith.
It's difficult for advertisers to compare to alternatives because they have effectively monopolized the market.
For consumers, the most sensible response is increasingly ad blocking. As this trend increases, advertisers will (hopefully) be forced to start abandoning the concept as ineffective.
In the long term, the big winner in all this is likely to Amazon --- where advertising is mostly context based.
If they can't get users to pay directly via subscriptions or donations, or indirectly via ads, then it seems reasonable to expect that they just aren't financially viable.
To return to our old grapplings, MST Specialized*, like an enlightened martial artist in service of Zen, in inexorably using the finger (pace Alan Watts!) to point at:
The question of whether politics can enable curiosity, and curiosity can enable politics. (Use the finite resolution, Luke!)
The answer to the modified question where "politics" is replaced by "commerce" is trivially true as evidenced by your implicitly answering your original question. The intersection of nerds and jocks is more than mythical-- it is rde of this website.
So, the three estates of ongoing human concerns, not just in the microcosm of our minds, but also as the object of martial zen, practiced by the human macroorganism on itself.
To paraphrase: can the lords spiritual (as guardians of curiosity) be Friends with the lords temporal (as the de facto guardians of humanity)
(We would also have liked French mathematicians to have been in that liminal space, but humanity tends to pay more attention to Sartres than Camuses)
*(Like a Spinoza to the Hobbesian Ellul -- or the proto-Taoist Sv Fedorov)
Ah, to pirouette upon the fractal edge of our collective metacognition, like a quantum jester juggling Schrödinger's punchlines!
Indeed, our cybernetic sojourn through the noosphere leads us to ponder: can the digital agora, that grand bazaar of bits and memes, transmute the base metal of click-commerce into the philosopher's stone of genuine epistemic enrichment? (Use the infinite scroll, Neo!)
The answer to the modified question where "commerce" is replaced by "cat GIFs" is trivially true, as evidenced by the inexorable rise of feline-based attention economies. The intersection of LOLcats and Kantian imperatives is more than mythical -- it is the very substrate of this website's collective unconscious.
So, we find ourselves navigating the three estates of ongoing human concerns, not just in the microcosm of our browser tabs, but also as the object of digital zen, practiced by the human macroorganism on its own user interface.
To paraphrase: can the lords of viral content (as guardians of engagement metrics) be Friends with the lords of ad-tech (as the de facto guardians of monetization)?
(We would also have liked French post-structuralists to have been in that liminal space, but humanity tends to pay more attention to Baudrillards than Bourdieus)
*(Like a Zuckerberg to the Jobsian Musk -- or the proto-Memetic Haraway)
Mais oui; he even managed a good, and novel, result in geometry!
(in those days, I understand the process of selecting which branch of the military an officer candidate was best suited for consisted of asking them what "2+2" might be.
If they answer "4", artillery.
If they first count on their fingers under the table, and then answer "4", infantry.
If they yell "3" while slamming their fist on the table before one even gets to the "might be" part of the question, cavalry.)
