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Comment · 1 month ago
I will break don't my past salary in france to give people a better idea.

2200€ in my pocket each month with health care and taxes paid.

My yearly gross salary 39_000€. My yearly super-gross salary (what the company actually pay) 54_000€.

Actually the company paid less due to CIR (https://entreprendre.service-public.gouv.fr/vosdroits/F23533) I don't the number but at absolute minimum the company could have paid 31_320€.

I live in the south east of france not in a big city and I have 13 years of xp.

And to compare to the cost of life :

  - 200g of bread is 1€.
  - tomato 4€/kg
  - beef 27-40€/kg
  - 100m2 individual house 350_000€
  - 60m2 flat 150_000€
Comment · 4 months ago
What about "wasteland" ?
Comment · 2 years ago
Maybe tweaking the rules of the parser and check if it reduce the size of : #define STATE_COUNT 20290 #define LARGE_STATE_COUNT 10594

in parser.c

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Ah ah like when we used to say : Russia, China and North Korea exist on completely separate spectrums.
Comment · 4 years ago
This project will moon for sure.
Comment · 6 years ago
Tail Call Optimization is an optimization done by the compile/vm that replace (in assembly terms) a CALL by a JMP. Therefore removing a call stack.
Comment · 7 years ago
I have landed a new job recently and during the job search I also did statistics.

For context I am 30 year old french, had my one and only job for 6 years doing PHP (sf2, postgres, redis, solr, rest), I have a 2 year degree where in europe most people have a 3 to 5 year degree.

Here is my statistics to applying to ads on indeed:

France: - application: 40 - noreply: 20 - phone screen: 7 - interview: 3 - landed: 1

Luxembourg (french speaking): - application: 18 - noreply: 9 - phone screen: 5 - interview: 1 - landed: 1

Remote (europe): - application: 7 - noreply: 5 - interview: 0

Spain(5)/Portugal(2)/Uk(2)/Switzerland(1): - application: 10 - noreply: 1 - phone screen: 5 - interview: 3 - landed: 0

My takes over are:

- Cover letter doesn't increase my chances of having a reply.

- Changing my CV after the feedback of a recruiter (he asked me to lie by omission) didn't improved my chances.

- I don't apply to company I recognize the name. If I do lots of people do too therefor there is a lots of better candidates than me and the company can afford to run me through many interviews.

- I don't apply to company that do more than 1 interview, they have too much time on their hands to find a reason not to hire me.

- I don't apply to company that specifically ask for a 3 to 5 years degree even if I fit the rest of the requirements.

This last job search (the one that landed my first job 7 years ago wasn't a bliss either) made me feel extremely under-confident in my capacity to grow my career even having a job.

Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
I suspect english words starting with 'ph' come from french, french words with 'ph' used 'ph' instead of 'f' (same sound) to emphase the fact the word borrow greek root (but who care the word come from greek, does it make it easier to learn? one more shitty rule of french).
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
As a French dropout (6 years of experience now), no degree = no jobs. And a lot of low job (CRUD) require Bac +5 ludicrous.
Comment · 8 years ago
What the point in using VS Code compared to emacs when we have LSP servers and an emacs lsp-mode ?
Comment · 8 years ago
I would use it to mine bitcoin and heat my house in winter, I already have a slogan :

"Don't be a patsy who pay for heating your place, be paid for it. Order our heating device for just $2999!"

Comment · 8 years ago

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