"What happened in Monte Carlo happened, what happened in Barcelona happened and what happened in Madrid happened, so here we are we are in Rome" - Rafa Nadal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIkp6n53g2w

"if if if, it doesn't exists" - Rafa Nadal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T6S9Kbh69Y

"I can lose, he can beat me, but i can't give up" - Rafa Nadal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L8bnASLDwA

Hi, I'm Italian too working in Milan, just wondering if you have any suggestions on how to get these kind of offers, i imagine they don't appear on public places like linkedin.

if you don't mind we can talk about it via email.

Hello fellow Meneghino!

The usual advices apply here:

- you solve problems, sell yourself as that. It's okay to fill a résumé with technical skills, but also add something that tells potential clients/employers what you really do (developer is ok, experienced frontend designer/iOS developer is better) and what they can use you for. Sell your experience(s)

- if you're above junior (you are confident with at least one major technology) start charging at least 200-250 a day. Charge more if the rate is hourly. It is honest to ask at least for that. You usually will work 200-220 days/year so don't multiply your rates for 365 or you will be disappointed at the end of the year.

- remember that if you are doing contract jobs you are in charge of your taxes and retirement savings, so account for that in your rates. It's easy to dismiss a rate as "too high" until you start factoring in the expenses.

- if you find offsite jobs (you are sent to the client's office) add to your rates travel expenses and hotels/relocation if you have to move. Don't take jobs that won't accept it or will try to pay you a little more. You are payed for your job, they should cover any extra. Including lunches/dinners out. They are probably asking at least 2x to the client of what they are paying you.

- hire an accountant, they can save you thousands euros/year. It's worth the cost.

Don't know Italy, but two things stands out above:

Getting in via contracting, and financial services.

Financial services tends to often have salaries significantly above the average for developers, and having gone the same route of contracting first myself it has some definite advantages:

- You establish your value on charging a high day rate that is entirely within the norm as a contractor but usually well above the pay for a permanent employee of similar seniority.

- The company knows you when you negotiate the permanent contract, so you represent a lower hiring risk.

- It's easier to appear as if you have options. E.g. when I went full time permanent, I had been on a part time contract, and I could point out that I had realistic expectations of booking a very significant amount of income over the following year from clients already mostly lined up, so to go permanent I made it clear the offer needed to justify to me why I should give that up.

This route is tougher and more uncertain, and frankly I wouldn't recommend it unless you're happy contracting as there's no guarantee you'll find a contract where they'll want to hire you.

> i imagine they don't appear on public places like linkedin

Can they do that? Just hire through a small network of people in the know? Sounds like a recipe for cronyism.

I'm not sure about Italy but in the UK companies legally have to advertise a job publicly and, if they receive an application that meets the criteria, I think they have to at least consider it, if not conduct an interview. That's not to say there is no nepotism, but there are measures to control it.

There is no legal requirement in the UK to advertise a job publicly in general, and no legal hindrance to explicit nepotism for that matter.

However there is a requirement not to discriminate on the basis of certain characteristics, and the easiest way of protecting against such claims is to advertise publicly.

But a huge number of jobs in the UK are never publicly advertised anyway.

I visited the tower of london yesterday and bought a raven mug, talk about coincidences

I was expecting you to write that you were then served ads for coffins.

Hi, thanks for commenting, the main difference would be that in evernote you have to structure your knowledge manually, by tagging, creating notebooks & co, here i'm proposing something that extracts info from every link/text you send. If you want to create a movie database, in evernote, you would have to manually insert every movie info you want to store and choose a sensible structure on how to store this data, with my idea you would just insert the link and all the extra data would be extracted and indexed allowing you then to search and create views.

this one has a ton of features https://github.com/FedeDP/ncursesFM well written and commented C code.

full list of features: https://github.com/FedeDP/ncursesFM/wiki/Getting-Started

just to name a few advanced ones:

* Search support: it will search your string in current directory tree. It can search your string inside archives too.

* Basic print support through libcups.

* Extract/compress files/folders through libarchive.

* Powermanagement inhibition while processing a job (eg: while pasting a file) to avoid data loss.

* Internal udisks2 monitor, to poll for new devices. It can automount new connected devices too. Device monitor will list only mountable devices, eg: dvd reader will not be listed until a cd/dvd is inserted.

* Drives/usb sticks/ISO files (un)mount through udisks2.

* Distro package files installation through packagekit.

That file manager might be excellent, but did you look at the link? This FM uses your text editor to manage files, which is totally different from a ncurses interface.

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Awesome, one of the most fun i had at university was building a Uri parser with prolog.

After i discovered that you could define operators i built a combinatorial parser, something akin to https://hackage.haskell.org/package/parsec (of course nowhere as powerful) with similar syntax and do notation. https://gist.github.com/ga2arch/e8904177f722c6560e37

And i didn't have to define backtracking because it is handled by prolog itself.

https://www.pushbullet.com/ (scroll till the end of the page, it works in the browser too)

Well, thank you. The first minutes of usage are pretty cool, it seems to be a keeper.

i don't get the excitement for this 7 minutes workout, can't you just go in the gym for 1 hour 3 times a week and do some squats ?

aside from this the site looks good, simple and to the point, props for it.

I do tabata most weekday mornings before work to get my body moving. This looks much more fun, and it doesn't replace my gym time, which is after work and an hour in duration.