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How is the 'massive' increase in cost of capital affecting Google, a company making 60bln profit a year from mostly services?

Whatsapp? I also liked Hangouts, but they botched it.

Who stops you from deploying with FTP? :)

So we all started black?

When I did the system design interview the guy told me that zuckeberg created memcached. Not sure if he meant used or invented, could have just been a language thing. Anyway, I'm glad I didn't pass.

What a stupid cookie popup. So a cookie from 'livecasinocomparer.com' is a Strictly Necessary Cookie. WTH

I have a lot of colleagues from the middle east at work. I don't know what this person meant by same culture & values, as long as you're allowed to work and are qualified for the position then companies will hire you, regardless of your country of origin, religion, etc.

I wonder if this is where most developers end up getting. You can stick to being good at one language/ecosystem, but the more you age the more things you learn and unlearn, the more components and scope the company adds.

Why would a contractor require special care? On the contrary. They supply you the work, you pay for their services, like you would a software company. The benefits they choose for themselves and factor those in in the rate they ask you. There are differences of course, an employee may be more loyal, but that's a different discussion.

Really? Just go to the east then

Just check flightradar24. I see one from Moscow to Belgrade flying now over Poland.

HR departments trying to get people back in the office..

Is there an open source web testing tool which also integrates a dashboard, keeps track of test runs, creates reports, something that I can just install on a vm and run to test a web app?

I don't find this uncommon. I also work as a freelancer, but for local companies (eu). Sometimes the company (banks for example) will ask me to work on one of their laptops, which has vpn and other software that they want. I can of course deny, but then I won't get the contract. As long as I don't feel that they are invading my privacy, like you hear some companies do by taking screenshots, checking for idleness, etc, then I don't mind. In your case I would just rent/buy a new laptop specifically for this job, install their tool and don't worry about it. At the end you can sell your laptop. Or maybe you can work out of a VM running on your laptop, and install it there.