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Re:Busting the 10x software engineer myth on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @12:25PM (#28618304)
People often forget that 10X does not (only) mean quantity, but most of all quality.

Also thinking in factors may not be the right approach here. We should look at it in a more binary way: Can a developer achieve the requirements or not? In most cases the magnitude of skill shows in what a developer can solve at all, not how fast he/she can solve it.

Re:Busting the 10x software engineer myth on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @12:17PM (#28618185)
This is it. The truth is just that the average is incredibly low. That's why 10x or even 100x developers exist.
Re:That time I told my wife I wanted to quit my job on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @02:25AM (#28613608)
What does t/o mean?
Re:Disclosing E2EE vulnerability in multiple Matrix clients on Monday September 13, 2021 @07:06PM (#28518070)
Yes
Re:Libwebsockets a powerful and lightweight pure C library on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @02:15AM (#28441500)
Memory safety issues are bugs. Do you know any programmer that does not occasionally create bugs? Don't forget tight schedules, low budgets, ...

Also rust is just what you propose that - a programming language integrated with heavy verification of safeness built-in. Because occasionally someone writes c code without using all available tools to verify the code it is better to have it built in.

Re:Europe’s cookie consent reckoning is coming on Monday May 31, 2021 @05:46AM (#27342247)
Simplified Translation: they don't charge the corporations anything. Noyb is financed by donations.
Re:Europe’s cookie consent reckoning is coming on Monday May 31, 2021 @05:29AM (#27342118)
noyb are not "vigilante law enforcers". Law enforcement is police and courts.

Noyb notifies corporations of their GDPR violations. Only if they do not comply they will notify authorities/sue.

Re:Samsung now updates Android for longer than Google does on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @01:17PM (#26240641)
Android 10 has been available for op6/op6t since 2019. I'm actually posting from an op6 with android 10.

Maybe you are talking about android 11?

Re:Shorting and Indian capital markets on Friday January 29, 2021 @07:47AM (#25956692)
No. Shorting is selling a stock you borrowed. Multiple borrows does not make a short.
Re:Shorting and Indian capital markets on Friday January 29, 2021 @07:47AM (#25956685)
No it's like you leasing your house. Selling the house to a third party. One party (your buyer) owns the house. The original owner also owns the same house, since he only leased it to you.

But houses are non- distinguishable. You don't need to give him back exactly that house, just an identical one.

Re:Shorting and Indian capital markets on Friday January 29, 2021 @07:42AM (#25956647)
No it's actually selling the leased house and needing to buy it back after your lease expires.

Selling leased stuff is not allowed for a reason.

Re:Maximizing Developer Effectiveness on Saturday January 16, 2021 @09:06AM (#25802206)
How large is your team? 3 duties per year sounds incredibly low.
Re:Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe? on Thursday January 14, 2021 @04:59PM (#25783252)
39k EUR a year in Austria is 33% tax+insurance+pension:

20% "forced savings" (Pension + Vorsorgekasse) 7% health insurance 6% income tax

But 39k a year is definitely not a freelance programmer in Austria.

80-120k is the average I see at my colleagues and enterprise customers for freelance programmers with regular working hours compared to regular employees (5 week vacation, sick absence, ...). I know people scratching at 200k, but they are senior consultants.

So a more realistic view would be 100k 40,5% tax+insurance+pension 15% "forced savings" (Pension + Vorsorgekasse) 6% health insurance 19,6% income tax

This calculation assumes that you do not really have significant expenses of business. Having those actually makes the picture look worse.

You can calculate here for yourself, no "cheating" required: https://abrechnen.wko.at (official chamber of commerce calculator)

A GmbH is always better at 220k+/year. But there may be reasons you would want one earlier (liability, employees, IP, investments, ...)

Employing people in Austria is expensive ("cost of labor"). Beeing self employed is not bad, if you factor in benefits and costs of life and quality of life.

Re:Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe? on Thursday January 14, 2021 @07:23AM (#25775532)
If you can back it up with numbers you can request to reduce the prepayments. This request is usually granted.
Re:Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe? on Thursday January 14, 2021 @06:58AM (#25775338)
I call bullshit on the tax rate in Austria.

"Capital gains" through GmbH is 25% KÖSt (Körperschaftssteuer) and then 27,25% KESt on Profit. The highest VAT rate is 20%, there are also lower ones. This results in 56.35% percent including VAT (1-((1-25%)(1-27.25%)(1-20%)).

If you go through income tax as a freelancer this is even lower when you claim the default deductibles (Pauschalierung), which is common in IT jobs, because you have very low expenses. The later is also cheaper if you factor in health insurance.