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.
Thanks for the advice. What would you say the average salary for an engineer with 5-6 years of experience is? I'm trying to get a sense of what kind of rent I'll be able to afford.
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.
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?
I can't seem to find anything on the Googles for that product.
Is it spelled correctly? Can you give me a link to it? I'm interested in home automation, but all the ones I've looked into so far don't really do it for me.
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.
Have you looked much at the Philips Hue? The combination of a reletively low price (at least compared to LifX) and an open RESTful API, they're my favourite.
Recently I created a little node service that listens to events from our site from RabbitMQ and flashes the Hue lightbulbs when interesting things happen.
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..
It always annoys me how drugs are blamed by the news outlets whenever ignorant people use them irresponsibly. (Is it a news item when someone drives their car recklessly and injures themselves? Almost never, unless they're of some notoriety.)
I grew up in the UK, the media loved sensationalizing a drug death. 1 pretty white girl dies from water toxicity while on ecstacy (AKA not a drug overdose, a death due to lack of information on safe usage), whilst organizations like MADD are fighting like crazy to reduce the daily manslaughter caused by people knowingly and irresponsibly using alcohol.
When one of the big scandals was going on I remember there was an advert on TV warning against binge drinking. The advert was this girl saying how her and her friend were out at a club, her friend was staggering about so they went back to her apartment because she was closest. They laid on the bed and went to sleep, she woke up the next morning and her friend was ice cold. Dead, choked on her vomit in her sleep. The UK has almost 9000 deaths a year related to alcohol.
The UK in 2011 had 6 deaths where ecstacy was a possible contributing factor. Drugscope is an interesting if skewed view.
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.
It seems from the subtitle that this isn't just a known vulnerability, but one being exploited in the wild, if I'm not mistaken. Definitely a serious concern either way though.
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.
