Sadly yes it’s not European :( Thanks for commenting though! Maybe someone American bumps to this thread and finds a new place to shop!

Better than my last one! Lol. And yes the amount of freedom I have to solve the problems is quite nice!

Glad I could give something useful. And oh, then you are indeed in a good position to ask around! Who knows, maybe there is a job right around the corner lol. And yeah I would have assumed the same…

I’ve learned that yeah, and me too, especially since it’s not what I studied and I can’t really give any input on research methods - they are a research group in Spatial Data Science and I’m constantly learning new stuff that’s not directly related to my work. I was hired to build and maintain software tools for their own research and help with code architecture of their own creations. I just love learning so perfect job for me!

It’s a good profession to have! ;) and I wish I could give some solid tips, but this is my first job in the academics and I ended up here by accident. I do know something though: he should not settle for public job postings only. Universities consist of multiple research working groups and many of the working groups just wait until someone who knows software well enough rolls into their team or pay a company to do the job.

Before me for past 20 years they got software devs by either someone walking in and asking if they need a freelancer or if a PhD student had previous studies/experience in software. Apparently they had never posted this job online.

Recently I got another offer from a different working group at a different university, and only because one of their employees had worked with me a year before and knew me. There was np job posting for this position either.

Maybe your buddy already knows all of that about university working groups, but thought that this might be useful info. I work in Europe but academics seem to be the same no matter where lol.

And good luck with the fight against mosquitoes! Those assholes…

I guess their desktop market is towards businesses? No idea. Personally I’m also more interested in their laptops and indeed love building my own desktop as well.

I can’t keep a calm frodo face while seeing something that has not been completed on my journey duolingo learning path

Yess and all the contributors too!

Lemmy provides once again, thanks @onlinepersona@programming.dev! I’ll have to see if I can get back into python and take a look into this project

Oh, need to look into the rebrand, thanks for the tip! And yeah noticed their price range is higher up. But glad to hear it was working well

Awesome! Thanks for pitching in and thanks for the link, got a new peertuber to follow!!

Sad €uro noises… No recommendations here :(

Does anyone have experience buying from them? I first time heard of this company on Reddit, but haven’t seen a review of their products on lemmy yet.

It’s a for profit public company. I’ve been playing around with the idea of possibly creating a FOSS app that would run its servers via donations and (same as duolingo in the beginning at least) community created courses. Would need support from proper linguists though.

There are other apps like that but they lack the sleek UI and gamifying aspect or simply have only one language.

I pay for duolingo so I hate that they are tracking me but it’s the only actually fun casual language learning app out there and honestly I don’t mind paying for such a good app, but their monetization schemes are getting more aggressive: e.g. time limit games which are nearly impossible without paying for “extra time potions” which you don’t get even if you have the paid version.

Edit: just to add to the time-limit games: you can just not participate in them, but fuck me for paying to the app and still having that bullshit in my UI.

That is indeed nice. I don’t get a much of a say in my current job so that’s why I prefer not to be part of the requirements defining. I just tell them what is possible and within what time frame when they finally come up with their final master plan that they want to define themselves (maybe I’m just communicating wrong with academic people still).

Now that looks like bliss! Perfect weather, beer, cabin in the nature, and a day full of hard work behind. And hey, the captain must sink with their ship ;) Thanks for sharing!

Glad I’m often not the one gathering the initial requirements lol!

Absolutely, love to see something more physical being made and solving physical problems too! And working on a cabin is bliss if you have a good weather! I bet it was rewarding at the end :)

And yes to both: I do like my work as well and also spend too much time here while being there!

True, sadly I’m a bad tester because my standards are often low lol

Hey I used to stay for coffee with the marketing team of my previous employer because they were more fun!! Lol glad to hear I wasn’t the only person enjoying the comms people! I know exactly how you feel!

Probably a big portion of us, but I hope that it gets diversified. Love reading about other fields as well and enjoy looking at posts from !machinist@sh.itjust.works too on top of dev work :)

Thankfully I can, they haven’t yet followed me home ;) hope you are enjoying your work environment as well apart from micromanaging and socially awkward devs!

Yeah the workers becoming managers is always a double edged sword in my experience. They understand the work, but there is deep value with management/leadership training (which they often don’t have).

Ha I know exactly what you mean with social interactions not being the team’s strongest suit!

I also work as a dev, but for an academic working group (not software or compsci).

That’s all good, but I just want to do my job and leave work at work. I don’t want to be contacted on my free-time. Academics don’t understand this way of thinking.

100%… I like my boss too, but he doesn’t understand that he is micromanaging me and that things end up taking longer. I don’t think this is a personality issue only. I think it is lack of experience and knowledge about management.

My boss was away, so I got to work in peace all week! This happiness carried over to my free-time and I slept better.

Micromanagement sucks. But let’s keep it positive: last week was nice!

Congratulations!! Sounds like an awesome week!