easy_rider

Surely it's not the other purpose. How about recovery and healing processed?

Yep. If the reasons for leaving are mostly because of your managers are not being transparent, fair and honest. Don't tell. Just make sure you have job security before you will give the notice. This also makes sure you don't get hammered or cheated/delayed on payments because you decide to reply to an e-mail / linked-in message midday.

I'm a Freelance webdev living in Amsterdam for my whole live (27 years).

Worked for a few successful start-ups that moved on to become big players in their industry. As said, most software development is web/app based (startups). E-Commerce and mobile to be specific.

That said there is ample opportunity for Java/C++ engineers. These trades are often sparse here and I always see a lot of Vacancies in that area.

If you are unsure, check out some dutch vacancy sites. E.g [1] (I have no idea why they won't translate their site, most employers value English speaking devs). Companies I've worked at are always mixed ethnically. I've worked with devs from Ukraine, Romania, Britain etc. More and more companies are flying over people from other parts of Europe. System engineers are always welcomed as well. Even in web dev where it looks like there is a lot of saturation, highly experienced people are always in demand. Even in PHP I often get messaged for jobs primarily for Symfony2 experience.

Overall though you will probably find the pay to be not so great compared to The Valley and for example London.. I would advice you to proceed cautiously and start sending in your open resumé or applying to some jobs through the web and get a feel at least.

[1] www.itjobboard.nl

I didn't know any single USB 2.0 port could serve more than 500mA regardless? Alas charging through the powergrid is way faster than through your laptop. In any case I think that USBcondom is talking about is power hubs (i.e. custom hardware that could spread malware) and not specifically laptops.

I just bought 3 Miilight bulbs, and obviously after installing them I was like. Man my neighbours could probably control my lights... I also have a RF remote which operates on 2,4ghz and does not require network authentication. The Wifi bridge does require authentication however. I was thinking of building an RF "cannon" with a directional antenna and see how far I can go. I also got a DVB-T dongle. I should be able to "catch" the signal, right?

Will it have Adobe Updater pre-installed?

I think remote code execution and the easy method for payload delivery warrants a high level of concern.

I fully agree with the sentiment. I've always been against TDD being pushed. Obviously as developers we love the stress-free appeal of unlimited time, test first, achieve 100% confidence in code. Wow so glamour. In practice this will always never work, since we are time and budget constrained. Halfway we find that we are dumping tests in favor of writing even more hacky-tacky code just to meet a deadline. This code will never be refactored, because the client is satisfied with the results, and does not appreciate all the edge-cases because you said you would take care of them.

No, I'd rather produce code that is well written, can be deployed, and taken over by other devs if needed, not several levels of testing paradigm's that need to be satisfied before code can be migrated.

Yes I agree that there is obviously a place for tests, and IMHO that's when certain business logic is considered implemented, and tests will need to catch all the edge-cases to make sure it will deliver in the future and not break with modification.