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pinguinFromY | 6 years ago | on: Why Americans pay more for lunch than Britons do

Yes, they do, why not? If you are in a rush you have to grab something for a quick lunch, that's what sandwiches are for. Or maybe because they are cheap and people might want to save money. I'm like you, lunch is 1 hour fiesta where I just eat a hot meal and chat with whoever I'm taking lunch with. My American colleagues seem to like rushing lunch or "grab something quick" all the time.

pinguinFromY | 6 years ago | on: BeGoneAds – A Python script that blocks ads by installing common hosts files

I would not mind contextual ads that don't get in the way of viewing the actual content a website or mobile app is offering. But no, we get huge banners that cover the whole background, pop-ups, every click opens a new tab redirecting to an ad and "hot chicks in your area". If I'm seeing an intersting ad I'll click on it by myself, don't need your help really. Conclusion: it's not the ads themselves but how they get in your way. See reddit ads, google ads. They are part of the actual content.

pinguinFromY | 7 years ago | on: Google Cloud Outage

Cool. Can't play rocket league, discord doesn't work, google cloud dashboard doesn't load, google stackdriver down so that means everyone monitoring services with it doesn't do anything anymore.

> We are investigating a problem with Google Cloud Global Loadbalancers returning 502s

pinguinFromY | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Any rich programmers that don't have to work but coding for fun?

"I think having nothing to do all day is the ultimate wealth - the richness of leisure." I can bet that after a week of doing nothing you'll get back to your daily stuff. It's like nicotine, once you are used to work all day you can't just stop. Even if it's not something you're used to do, something else might interest you. Our brain needs new stuff all the time, can't just put it to sleep inside a lambo.

pinguinFromY | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Any rich programmers that don't have to work but coding for fun?

You don't really have to be rich (> millionare) to do that. I currently work at a company that was once a freelance project, bought by some huge tech company and I was lucky to be one of the first few developers who joined before it was bought and enjoy every minute of writing code and I still have the energy to work on my own projects every day (I'm quite young, that might explain). It depends how lucky you are and the paths you've taken to be happy and make you not give a fuck.

pinguinFromY | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are you doing for your mental health?

Physical exercises, hiking and some other sports I practice. Sport is like magic, clears my mind and helps with anxiety. Doing legos and playing board games. Playing around in FL Studio and with my launchpad. I'll try to get into drawing/painting. Keep social networks at a minimum and just take a look in a while to see what the few distant friends I have are doing. I don't really want to delete them because they are a good source of news and other stuff you can learn. Reading/watching everything about technical stuff, documentaries, sci fi books. Worldbuilding on stack exchange is a good source to interact with people interested in sci fi stuff.

These are the things that keep me in a decent mental shape after writing code all day. I also play highly-tiltable multiplayer games so that affects me also. Cryptos and some stocks are also a source of stress. I also tend to avoid spending money on things I don't really need and then regret later, it's a discipline I learned while being a poor kid.

pinguinFromY | 8 years ago | on: Facebook users in Romania see content related to street protests reviewed

Romanian here and also a software engineer. It is correct, we are a developing country, except for some cities, where the quality of life is equal to the cities in western europe, but they are a few. Also, the IT sector makes about 6%/7% of Romania's GDP and it has only 150k IT workers where the population is 19 mil (2014) with a rate of ~200k people leaving the country every year since then. I'm still here but don't know for how long tho.

pinguinFromY | 8 years ago | on: Rising Rents Are Pushing More Tenants Past the Breaking Point

I live in eastern europe, in a city where the life quality is supposed to be the best in my country, working as a software engineer, making ~4 times more than the average salary and the rent and houses grew more than 100% in under 3 years. The problem is that the market adapted to us, the IT workers who can afford a decent rent or buy a house but what happens to students (which are a lot of them here) and people who make the minimum salary (which is ~250 euros / month) ? They are forced to live 3 or 4 in the same apartment or stay in a nearby location outside the city and then commute a longer distance. I expect a market crash in a few years and I'm wondering what will happen. My landlord did borrow a crazy amount of money to pay for an apartment and if the market crashes I expect my rent to go down but that won't happen anyway since the bank probably won't lower his rate. We are all fucked really. This is something that will happen in all growing cities, at one point something will explode.
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