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Space Whale posted:NOT A poo poo POST: it varies in every country. the relevant thing to google is purchasing power parity (ppp) for example, in chile, the nominal gdp per capita in 2013 was $15,732.31. the ppp gdp per capita was $21,911. what this means is that $15k cash will buy you more like $22k of typical consumer goods in chile. groceries. rent. clothing. candy bars. (potentially: servants) for a more extreme example: the phillippines. $2,764 per capita gdp, or $6,597 after PPP adjustment. the thing to keep in mind is that PPP is an adjustment for a basket of ordinary consumer goods. having a high purchasing power will help you a lot if you want to buy a domestically-produced candy bar. it's gonna really gently caress your day up when you want to buy imported consumer electronics if you want to hear a tale of woe, ask any argentinian about buying computer equipment
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:pundits love to talk about opportunities in emerging markets, but the truth is, if there's a special niche opportunity in chile, it's gonna be exploited by a chilean. what about "china" and "chinee"
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i would go to eastern europe but i guess they have plenty of computer people
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b0lt posted:what about "china" and "chinese" it's especially true for china. china has its own google and twitter for gently caress's sake. the tech billions to be made in china are not gonna be made by foreign entrants
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:it's especially true for china. china has its own google and twitter for gently caress's sake. They'd need to at least be able to handle Unicode, i18n, and l10n right, which will never happen.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:it's especially true for china. china has its own google and twitter for gently caress's sake. Also, who the gently caress actually wants to move to China
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china is two bad harvests away from open revolution
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rotor posted:china is two bad harvests away from open revolution i think some of america is close to two bad cop shooting innocent minorities for the same
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Sniep posted:i think some of america is close to two bad cop shooting innocent minorities for the same if that were true shouldn't we have had the glorious revolution sometime around 1500
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i think the world is hosed, the entire world just live in a place where you have friends or the weather is good
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vcs don't want to form startups to solve any problems in china, they want to invest in the chinese companies that actually will solve those problems
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BONGHITZ posted:just live in a place where you have friends or the weather is good 
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JewKiller 3000 posted:we don't want to form startups to solve any problems
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triple sulk posted:Also, who the gently caress actually wants to move to China its me, i moved to china and i like it here
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MononcQc posted:They'd need to at least be able to handle Unicode, i18n, and l10n right, which will never happen. lol china doesn't use "unicode"
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i'm pretty sure taobao used to use unicode and recently switched away from using it, lol
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fart simpson posted:lol china doesn't use "unicode" what do you mean people don't want to use a character encoding that's biased so that all of their text is twice as big as it could be otherwise (that's also missing characters) also don't forget the part where a bunch of white people went "all rook same" at the characters and mashed them all together
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b0lt posted:also don't forget the part where a bunch of white people went "all rook same" at the characters and mashed them all together i really want to know what the thinking was behind having three different code points for the letter o that are rendered identically, plus another dozen for "o in different fonts" (which you'd think would be better handled by having ... different fonts), all while mashing anything that looks even remotely similar in non-latin scripts into a single code point.
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fart simpson posted:i'm pretty sure taobao used to use unicode and recently switched away from using it, lol GB-2312 encoding is a joke too. A superset of multiple encodings that still doesn't include Traditional Chinese. What takes the piss is that unsurprisingly China and Hong Kong & Taiwan tend to communicate a lot so sending raw byte streams of a lovely encoding that doesn't work the other end is a bad idea (TM). Chinese SMTP servers do not tag their email as GB2312, and many HTTP servers don't advertise either. MrMoo fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Dec 10, 2014 |
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OK so I actually have a DBA to work with for the first time in my career. Uh what do I do besides "dear data wizard in your tower, please add columns" Is it that easy?
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JewKiller 3000 posted:vcs don't want to form startups to solve any problems in china, they want to invest in the chinese companies that actually will solve those problems chinese intellectual property and securities laws are so hosed that putting money into technology is a fool's game even for domestic investors. you can't ever be sure that you will actually own any of the products or profits of a firm for foreigners it's even worse. you can't invest directly in the chinese markets, and you can't have real ADRs as we know them. alibaba-type arrangements are null/void under securities laws. investors rights to profits hang on private contracts between paper "firms" that don't really exist. at any time alibaba could tell its "investors" to gently caress off and keep the money what are you going to do, sue a mainland chinese firm from hong kong, with standing based on a dubiously legal contract? Notorious b.s.d. fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Dec 10, 2014 |
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Space Whale posted:OK so I actually have a DBA to work with for the first time in my career. my experience is that the whole point of DBAs is to make these types of things as onerous as possible but ymmv I guess
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rrrrrrrrrrrt posted:my experience is that the whole point of DBAs is to make these types of things as onerous as possible but ymmv I guess So far it's turned out into "just do it in dev and assign me a ticket to do my magic to push it up into QA" ... So why not just have the DBA do it in the first place?
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this place wants to interview me next week, but they make jr. developer hires work tier 4 support for a year before sticking them on the development team. is that something normal? they have a 4.2 on glassdoor 
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Luigi Thirty posted:this place wants to interview me next week, but they make jr. developer hires work tier 4 support for a year before sticking them on the development team. is that something normal? Well I guess that'd depend on what tier 4 support consists of, and whether you're allowed to do development during downtimes. I.e. if you work there a year then leave (or get fired/downsized), will you be able to say you gained any development experience, or that you just got late on your learning (or forgot about stuff?). However working support can be a great way to learn to know the product, and support 4 could involve patching code related to customer issues. The idea there would be that:
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Luigi Thirty posted:this place wants to interview me next week, but they make jr. developer hires work tier 4 support for a year before sticking them on the development team. is that something normal? this isn't exactly a policy at my job but it kinda just happens. makes sense to spend time in support to learn your way around the code, plus somebody has to do it so might as well make the new guy do it
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MononcQc posted:Well I guess that'd depend on what tier 4 support consists of, and whether you're allowed to do development during downtimes. the way the position was explained to me by them was that the end result would be as a developer on the technical support team but I also haven't interviewed there yet.
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Luigi Thirty posted:developer on the technical support team bolded the only part that matters, gently caress em
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As a Millennial I posted:bolded the only part that matters, gently caress em depends on the nature of the company. as a developer I have contacted device manufacturers and talked to programmers for "tech support" they usually have fancier titles though
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hobbesmaster posted:depends on the nature of the company. as a developer I have contacted device manufacturers and talked to programmers for "tech support" do you know if they were on the tech support team though, or did the company just have their engineers also do tech support the place i interned, the tech support hotline rang on all five of the programmers' phones.
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Luigi Thirty posted:this place wants to interview me next week, but they make jr. developer hires work tier 4 support for a year before sticking them on the development team. is that something normal? ibm used to do this for lotus support for all of their devs and as a customer it was kick rear end because if you had a really lovely problem you got to actually talk to the developer who wrote the software/ now if your customers are non-technical women and children then that would suck hardcore.
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I would say that's different from things like technical sales support where you might be discussing things like system integration. for those you want to be on the call cause if you aren't sales will sell them something you haven't written yet.
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Shaggar posted:ibm used to do this for lotus support for all of their devs and as a customer it was kick rear end because if you had a really lovely problem you got to actually talk to the developer who wrote the software/ didn't Microsoft do that too for Windows developers? it was a shock to read that ms blog and learn windows xp error reports actually went somewhere other than /dev/null
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Luigi Thirty posted:didn't Microsoft do that too for Windows developers? i don't think windows xp had /dev/null, op
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fart simpson posted:i don't think windows xp had /dev/null, op it's called NUL and has been there since DOS
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JewKiller 3000 posted:it's called NUL and has been there since DOS yes, i know
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JewKiller 3000 posted:it's called NUL and has been there since DOS sounds like someone got CON/CONned
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As a Millennial I posted:bolded the only part that matters, gently caress em this
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so my choices are continue making 9 dollars an hour doing retail or GIMP MY CAREER FOREVER by doing tech support poo poo for 50k
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