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that website has one really annoying ad system. For me, scrolling down the page scrolls down the ads, not the page ... the state of content in 2019 ...

my phone is my most powerful daily life, work, research device

to determine when to deploy i mention its possible to listen to team chat messages for commits, so event based. There might be more efficient solutions, think i came across somewhere that its possible to listen to other types of events. need to dig deeper

the “Pi” wouldn't need to be (publicly) reachable. It would just need to be able to connect to Keybase and other private services. For remote management and talking to private services over internet, i guess SSH, VPN or Zerotier <3 ?

Edit: for secrets in Keybase i think repos are better since its not as easy to mistakenly delete the files ? Plus one has change history. But other people might know better than me.

well, erhmm yes :-) so i was exploring if it was possible to do that in the same way we can give our (encrypted) data to Keybase. Or at least, utilise as much as cloud services as possible.

Yep makes sense. For the OCR part a colleague suggested something like Tesseract or Google Vision but, what about the shapes, like weapon (type) symbol on top right and health/shield bar percentages and etc ?

Maybe i should just get started small with the OCR part

Sure why not, i’ll drop you an e-mail

I do not believe they have shareholders. Afaik, the company business model is around providing tech services for humanitarian aid institutions and at least some revenue comes from that type of donor funding

High probability of “not productive effort”, i’m fighting my own rather serious battle with management at the moment.

On further note, before i started the contract i was asked to bring my own laptop as work computer, i didn’t necessarily agree (for all the obvious reasons as security and business/personal risk) but he was being pushy about i said i could take my laptop (at least to get started) and i was expecting to get a working computer. I never did. Management recently purchased brand new macbook pros and iphonex for themselves (which they are in their full right to do).

So i didn’t even dare to criticize them regarding the interns. I already got myself in boiling water by criticizing management in that the way projects and tasks were being managed was highly unprofessional and my only wish is if i could leave a warning sign for interns (and devs) to keep clear of this company (or think really hard on how much they need the job)

Edit: which is unfortunate given that the projects there are interesting in my opinion

In my current job, for a tech company with less than 12 people, at least 5 are interns. Two of them were recent hires (January) and before they were onboarded, i had a meeting with my boss and the other senior developer regarding the new interns and my boss stated he didn’t want me and other senior dev spending too much time mentoring the interns and that if they couldn’t manage by themselves, he would just let them go (one is software dev intern, relocated from Lithuania).

As far as i know, management provided zero training (online courses, conferences, books etc) and the dev intern is receiving 500€/month for 40h work week, which around Amsterdam/Netherlands hardly covers housing expenses in shared accommodation, even though the intern is soon expecting Erasmus support, which will alleviate his situation apparently.

Needless to say i find the situation rather vile independently if it’s a common practice or even if non-paid internships are common.

Recently i took the dev intern out for dinner and beers, gave him a few tips on how to improve himself to be ready for a decent job (online courses, writing blog posts etc) and told him he could repay me by paying forward to an intern at his next proper jobs.

As a note, another intern (part time) is also working on his maybe 5 years old laptop that apparently crashes a lot and can hardly run something like Pycharm.

I’m looking for another job :-)

you're right, plus docker-compose supports extending services in compose files. In the projects i dockerized, i have a docker-compose.yml, docker-compose.dev.yml, docker-compose.test.yml and docker-compose.prod.yml, no override files.

I moved to the Netherlands from the UK (where nothing happens without someone saying “please” or “are you sure ?” at least two times) year ago.

Dutch directnesss was something that would freeze the blood in my veins at first but after getting the hang of it, i’ve come to enjoy it (they can be direct but another good thing is you can be direct back), because if they don’t have patience for BS, neither do i.

I have a Nexus 9 (16gb Wifi) and situation didn't improve at all (nexus 7/9 probably my worst product purchases)

Cool thanks will do

Yeah guess i wouldn’t even be comfortable entering a partnership like this without a co-founder agreement for the protection of the interests of both parties (therefore removing unnecessary obstacles :)

Edit: which is, as far as i know, the best way to deal with it

Yeah we might be talking about the same thing using different words. For example a fair (and contractually on paper) co-founder agreement is something i think about a lot (and did some research on).

I’ve given much thought this year on what would actually make me happy long term (never really had a good answer to those “where do you see yourself in 5 years” kind of questions) and what i would really like is to launch a prototype to test the idea (also have something concrete to work with instead of vaporware) and have an office in my hometown (Porto, Portugal; i emigrated to Uk/Netherlands in 2013) and contribute both to local job creation and entrepreneurship (even if cultivating that in the employees) so yeah a local co-founder would have some advantages.

You're right (particularly on the ethics side).