It's pervasive in Berlin from what I see, understand, and have read about the 90's. Realistically it's not a pervasive fabric of even a place like Detroit. Most people in Detroit don't even know that techno is "from" there.

You both explained it very succinctly. I don't get why people have to grasp at depictions of history that simply aren't true. They want to believe that Jeff Mills and Belleville 3 somehow created this new music from nothing and inspired the entire world.

Netherlands is top in Europe overall. Most Berlin people are migrating to Amsterdam.

They must really love the music then, they sure as hell aren't moving for the better housing prices.

I'm not at all in the Amsterdam EDM or hardstyle scene (just not my music), but I had indirectly got the feeling that it was slowly declining (ADE excepted), I could be quite wrong though, maybe they're just all in NDSM or something.

ADE is wild. I don't think anything else compares.

Hardly. Amsterdam is comparatively small city = much smaller audience. You can se the stability of the scene in how often clubs close down. Just recently De School closed (now it should be reopen again under different management/name). Some of the Berlin clubs have been open and solid for 20 years.

Did De School close because lack of interest? From what I've experienced (during ADE) and also heard, Amsterdam is very popular for all the techno sub-genres.

Big banks easily pay 200-300k

Sure, for niche roles, but not for web developers or app developers. If you want to make 200k+ at a big bank, it's because you have specialized programming experience/skills.

No I believe for all standard app engineers in HCOL locations like NYC metro and SF metro. Top banks like GS I think are even a bit more. But WF etc are 200k-280k, confirmed.

You are talking about niche positions. They aren't paying their front-end or developers 200k+.

I do know a number of bank developers making 300k+. They work on the boring, unsexy backend stuff that makes the bank run. Each of them provides the equivalent value of about 100 front-end developers.

Hmm ok. Because I know first hand that senior developers can get 220-300k easy. These aren't even owners or super niche. Just ~10yoe, and working on jira tickets nothinig wild.

What do they need to pay such salaries?

Not sure but I guess because that is the going rate now for a Senior Dev in a HCOL area like NYC.

What tweaks gave you the most success?

I changed alot of it to action/result oriented. What did I achieve. I also added a section at the bottom of my paragraph with EVER buzzword I could find from about 10-20 relevant job postings to get past the filter. Usually has recruiters making a joke.

So literally a few sentences that string together all the buzz words so that it gets picked up in automated systems? smart.

Are you remote or are there actually offices there of engineers?

I'm remote. There are a few of us around, but no community to speak of.

I've tried to build a local network, but haven't had much success yet.

> I've tried to build a local network, but haven't had much success yet.

I've had a similar problem in Rhode Island.

It seems like meaningful meetups are just hard when you don't live near a large community of software developers with similar interests.

I imagine remote work exacerbates this. I.e., more of us live away from those population centers.

I have a friend in Pawtucket who is a tech consultant and seems to do OK. Maybe he would know about local meetups.

Yeah sharing knowledge for free is definitely hubris. For sure.

Sure it is, if you have no idea if your knowledge is actully usefull and you push it anyway.

Just imagine how you feel if someone, say a consultant or a agile master, shows up at your work and tells how to do your job without having any experience with it, or the environment you are doing it for. There are even multiple threads on HN every week accusing those consultants of hubris in various ways.

Presumably they didn't just fly in and wing it, and it's kind of a given that any solutions to this problem will be different to the status quo.

The only thing that shows more hubris than telling foreigners how to live is foreigners dying en masse because they refuse to change their way of life - see, America on cars or gun control.

Correct, it definitely can be if it’s unsolicited advice and/or if the “knowledge” is low quality, incomplete, difficult to apply, or just ignorant of Chesterton’s Fence.

Let me drop by your workplace and tell you how to do your job. And call you ungrateful when you don't listen to me. I mean, I have no idea what you do for a living and you have no reason to believe I have some special expertise you lack. But hey, free knowledge right?

I'm making the assumption that whoever is sharing the knowledge has valuable knowledge. Offering value for free is the definition of benevolence.

I'm making the assumption that whoever is sharing the knowledge has valuable knowledge. Offering value for free is the definition of benevolence.

I don't know the case, so yeah if it was just people without knowledge coming in and forcing it on them... ok.

Same dude you make money and then lifes comfortable but no challenge

The Simulation thing is one of the biggest pseudo-science discussions ever. What exactly would be the difference between a simulation and the "real world"? Nobody ever says anyting about that. It makes the entire question preposterous.

People ask that question every time

Because it blows up the whole discussion doesnt it? I think this whole thing is a form of nerdy pseudoscience.

These days I feel like when I'm around close friends and family I want to have mutual experiences. We're already on our phones so much, etc that it takes away from that.

I feel like this is for loner people who want experiences