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Re:Ask HN: Am I Unhireable? on Monday November 06, 2023 @07:41PM (#38171494)
I have always seen Crypto as a red flag. Initially, there was just a suspicion, but then I ended up meeting with some Crypto people in real life, and corresponding with recruiters in the Crypto space. And if I was on the hiring department, Crypto on a resume would get a hard-pass from me. It filters out people with a mentality that I do not like to be around.
Re:Why Banks Are Suddenly Closing Down Customer Accounts on Sunday November 05, 2023 @06:49PM (#38157046)
Staying overseas, I also got my account locked last month when I invoiced a consulting client. Seemingly out of nowhere because the previous 22 invoices cleared without an issue. But I am properly set up for this. We initiated a refund, and then I invoiced them through another EU business I set up just for this type of scenario. Then I issued a B2B invoice to my business in Europe, from my LLC in Asia; which then paid it out to me as a salary. Fees are steep, but tax is low; so that balances out.
To be honest pretty good. But I made the transition from employee to being an independent contractor just before the market turned around. Now a new project is just a few emails away, because I have quite a bit of clients in my network for whom I already completed a lot of work. But its all temporary (but still enough to fill 6-12 months at any given moment).
Re:Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @09:37PM (#37156099)
Can someone explain to me how state management is done in HTMX? I'm a native Django developer, and I really do like HTMX and wrote my own personal website with it (nothing special, a digital garden). But for my startup, I chose react, and it has pretty much become a SPA, where I need to keep track of so much state. Now, I would love to transition to HTMX, because I find Django a lot more ergonomic to work with. But I couldn't imagine not running into issue managing state.

Ask HN: What is your opinion on the idea of “AI/LLM driven development?”

I have been a developer for quite some time now, and am working on some big projects. Being in the lucky spot where I am also working at a "open" company which has all their code publicly available, I have put ChatGPT in the passenger seat, and am increasingly more doing ADD (AI Driven development).My flow has been to ask ChatGPT when I am stuck, or when I want to build functionality but am not...

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Re:Show HN: The German Job Market Is Crashing on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @06:41PM (#33616835)
My assumption is that we are moving back to a pre-covid buyers market for the tech industry. It did feel like childs play to get a job during covid, from anywhere.
Re:Ask HN: What do you outsource for your personal life? on Monday November 14, 2022 @06:01PM (#33602629)
I outsource as much as possible, I have a maid clean our house twice a week (+ laundry, dishes, etc), a concierge service for all of our grocery shopping. An accountant and personal assistant which work together for all of the households and my businesses administrative tasks. The only shore I spend time on weekly is cooking. Living in south east Asia, I am paying around 500$ per month for the entire convenience. It buys me a full workday per week of time I can spend on leisure, working out or being more productive.
Re:Ask HN: Success with who is hiring threads? on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @10:26PM (#33090317)
I got hired by one company advertising on who's hiring, been there for 6 months now. Very happy! They told me that the threads are gold mines for good candidates, because 99% of the people who apply on LinkedIn or through their websites are really bad.