uberrice

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[–] uberrice@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The thing about 'not being able to be expressed in another language' is that one language might have a shortcut word for something another doesn't. That shortcut word might also be culturally charged, not that easily explained. Yes, you can explain anything in any language - for some languages you can just take shortcuts

[–] uberrice@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If you think a block of code needs a comment, turn it into a method and give it a proper name instead.

Really depends. Yes, if someone doesn't get what's wrong with this statement, they should. But you shouldn't wrap something in a method all the time just because. Sure, maybe you can make it an inline method, but usually, a method call takes time, and while it's not a lot of time, in constrained or complex system that can accumulate. A lot. Sure, the compiler might optimize stuff away, but don't just go blindly trusting your compiler.

Sure, a method call for something that gets called once a second is not a problem. But when you suddenly have thousands and thousands of method calls when say, you click a button, which calls method x which calls method x1 which calls y1 and y2 which call z1-10 and so on, then the method calls can suddenly turn into a problem.

Maybe not on a fast, modern device, but on an older or more constrained device. If your code never runs on there, sure, don't bother.

[–] uberrice@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yup, that's my yearly salary range. That's normal in Switzerland for an electrical engineer with a masters degree.

Even if it's an hour or two of your salary, do you not think that sync is worth that much to you a year? It takes LJ a lot of time to develop.

Oh, and keep in mind this is with what, 1700 hours of work or something a year. I have vacation, public holidays and so on.

[–] uberrice@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Depends on your country, really.

Yes, in Switzerland you're also told gross income - yet that's not the 'real gross income'. There's lots of other stuff your employer pays for you when you get hired somewhere. For example, in Switzerland, we have mandatory retirement contributions (not like social security, we also have a pension fund seperately from this), that has to be matched by an employer, 1:1.

It really depends on your country, but say in Switzerland, you have to earn a good 30-40% more money when self employed compared to being employed at a company to have the same net amount of money available at the end of the day.

[–] uberrice@feddit.de 25 points 2 years ago

I wouldn't call it financially sustainable. It pays for the servers, not for the labor.

No offense to beehaw, they're doing great work.

[–] uberrice@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

Ljdawson does this with his sync app - if you buy premium you get a nice little notification

[–] uberrice@feddit.de 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I find the pricing totally fair. You're doing a great job.

Keep in mind lots of the complaints of 'too expensive' come from one of two groups - either people from low income countries, or young people.

If you asked me to pay 15 bucks a year for sync when I was 16? Hell no, I'm not paying that much money for it!

Now, at 27, it's what I earn in like 20 minutes at my job. I think those 20 minutes A year are more than worth what this app offers.

[–] uberrice@feddit.de 14 points 2 years ago

Wow, didn't know you can link settings. Cool feature.

[–] uberrice@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Wha? A yearly ultra sub is 15 bucks. 1500x15 is 22500. 5000 times is 75000.

And that's not 'the same as a full time job', not by a long shot. Google takes its cut - what, 20%? Then you have income tax, insurances etc, another 20-30% at least, and so on. So, for 5000 subscriptions, he's left with around 42k at the end of the day.

[–] uberrice@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Exactly. American workplace monitoring is crazy.

[–] uberrice@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They aren't, and our private phones are also connected to the network ;)

But then again, it's a fairly large organization vpn'd up over multiple locations, with server farms in different VLANs and so on, so the network we usually access when working are in a different subnet.

I do know what you mean though - it really depends on what the company does. Prior, I worked at a company that developed and manufactured hardware cryptography devices - I learned proper security procedures there :) our 'actual work computers' weren't even connected to the Internet, and the unmanaged laptops accessed the same WiFi guests would access that, well, only went to the Internet. Just wpa2.

[–] uberrice@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

IT specifically has an option for unmanaged devices, exactly for developers like me :)

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