good article, I can (unfortunately) relate.
another aspect of the trap is when you have set backs (stress, life events) or get tired (long days, less sleep, emotional events) typically the first recourse is to stop the hardest parts: physical fitness, e.g., you take a car instead of bike/walk, skip sports, alcohol instead of water.
it's sometimes a vicious circle, you're tired due to overweight, thus eat more to get energy, making you more overweight.
I’m guessing professional EEs have better tools but in my hobbyist experience the power profiling kit II works well for analyzing low power (0-5v) circuits.
The software tool provided by Nordic is fairly capable and easy to use. At $89 from DigiKey it’s sort of a no brainer to pick one up to play with.
Why the `sudo ufw allow outgoing`? Wouldn't it be worth to deny all to prevent extrusion and only open ports for services that need to communicate externally?
How do you eat an elephant? Piece by piece.
it sounds stupid, but start at the beginning, and pace yourself. Chapter by chapter, you'll get through it.
I'm really poor at math, so I've learned to work slowly and check if I really understand something before I go to the next chapter. Most maths is based on previous work / understanding. So, when I rush or try to skip pieces, I misunderstand the next part, making my rushing completely useless.
IT is full of jargon as well. Where else would it make sense to cherry-pick commits into a branch and then ask others to pull that branch into their repository? :)
My German team has a running gag where, when a sentence turns out especially jargon-riddled, we translate all the jargon words into German, as literally as possible. The result is always hilarious.
Sometimes IT and biology share some jargon, or at least they share the words but not exactly the meaning.
Both in IT and biology a collection of trees is called a forest. In IT, if you take a tree and remove the root, the result is a forest. Biologists don't agree.
By the way, did you know that broad-leaved trees are infinitely large during winter? The proof is really easy to do for yourself: In winter, those trees don't have any leaves, so all nodes must be inner nodes, and you can easily show by induction that the height of the tree must be infinite.
Well, the biological angle kind of makes sense if you think of it as taking the branches from a big tree, without the roots and successfully planting them in the ground individually. It doesn't quite work that way in practice, but if it did, you would get a small forest.
We’ve had no problem hiring people without degrees in the Netherlands (from outside EU/EER).
But you need a high-skilled job, with requirements to your salary (which with CS you’ll most likely meet), and you need to sign a contract before you can get the visa.
Most
Companies will take care of the visa for you. I don’t know the exact name of the visa, I can look it up for you if you like.
I believe [1] should contain the information you need. And thanks to brilliant lobbyists and reluctant politicians you'll get a 30% tax reduction then as well [2], lucky you!
Thanks, I'd really appreciate that. The name is surprisingly important because some countries have very similar sounding visas with very different requirements. Netherlands is definitely one of the countries I'd be interested in but haven't yet researched.
I recently moved to nl, with no degree. You just need to earn more than 36k to be accepted as a highly skilled migrant, and on top of that you get a big tax rebate, the "30% ruling"
You're going to have a ball. Would definitely recommend Germany, once you're there you'll come across plenty of opportunities for sponsorship to other countries of your choosing - just get over there on the Freelance visa to begin with. Or alternatively go to the UK first for a 2 year visa, and find a country that's happy with remote work.
Your biggest hurdle will be your first job in the EU. So make sure your first visa isn't tied to your job, because you'll likely want to change it in the short-term. After that - it's smooth sailing.
In Netherlands it's better for you if you are older than 30 because your salary requirements imposed by the government are much higher(4.404 euros per month) than those for under 30 y.o. guys(3.229 euros per month).
I can only tell from my experience - I(35 y.o.) had 3 interviews in NL, 2 offers and took the one that had the highest wage that is even greater than required minimum..Also, I believe that it's pretty easy to find a developer job in NL because it seems that the country lacks IT professionals..
