I wrote both my master thesis and PhD on Hoare's Communicating Sequential Processes. I really enjoyed it's simplicity, expandability, and was always amazed that it inspired and influenced language constructs in Go, Erlang, occam and the likes.

They were never concurrent, they were communicating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_proce...

That is indeed the correct title, but the processes were concurrent.

However, they were not just concurrent, but also communicating.

Ugh. Why is is so much more expensive in Denmark? Here it's DKK5499 for the 256 GB version. That's USD857.

That's around $85 more expensive once you account for the fact Danish advertised prices include VAT at a rate of 25%, whereas the US advertised price excludes sales tax.

That's only a little more than the EU price of 699 Euro or approx $813. Part of that is VAT which is included the price (right?) instead of being added at checkout like the US. That would bring the USD price up to $713. IDK where the rest of the increase would come from though.

edit: Denmark VAT is actually 25% not 20% so the USD price plus Denmark VAT is ~$750

Taking the German price of 699 Eur and accounting for the extra VAT in Denmark (25%) vs Germany (19%) I get 853 USD which means you're basically in line with the price for Germany which I expect is close to the price for the rest of the EU +/- VAT.

So the higher price in Denmark looks like VAT + some extra costs for being in the EU market; import duties, corporate taxes, etc.

Vote for politicians who'll lower VAT from 25% (!!!) to the same about as we pay in sales tax (5-9% depending on locale, 0% in some states) -- see lower prices :)

Does that include VAT? Also the USD has been getting weaker quickly so I wouldn’t be surprised if the differential there is even larger than when they settled on pricing.

With or without VAT? The USD price is without VAT.

The DKK5499 is with VAT. If I enter a San Francisco zip code, it still only comes out to about USD654.

Sales tax in the US is nowhere near 25% :)

Yup, Louisianna has the highest combined state and local sales tax rates on average of ~10% which is no where near the VAT standard which seems to be around 20% for most of Europe?

https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/sales-tax-rates/

It's the 25% VAT. Pre VAT, it's ~$685.

With state sales tax of 8% where I live, the base would cost me $648.

So not a huge difference.

The US price doesn't include tax, Denmark price I assume does.

The Danish version has two years of warranty.

Europeans (I'm German) often sigh at the price differences, but a big part of it is just that US prices are listed without VAT, while European prices are, and VAT differs across EU member countries.

Denmark has a VAT of 25%, so the DKK 5499 price without VAT is DKK 4399, which amounts to ~$684. Still more but not substantially.

Since using `def` to create a method returns a symbol with the method name, you can do something like this too:

  memoize def expensive_calculation(arg)
    @calculation_count += 1
    arg * 2
  end, ttl: 10, max_size: 2

  memoize def nil_returning_method
    @calculation_count += 1
    nil
  end

This is why I love working with Ruby!

I find that a lot of their "fully remote" positions are only remote if you live in the US.

I think you can get around that by choosing locations outside the US

Location: Tølløse, Denmark

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Senior engineer with more than 10 years of experience with Ruby on Rails. I'm currently looking for a full-time contract, but am open to part-time for the right company.

  Location: Denmark
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Hello, I'm Mads. I have more than a decade experience with Ruby on Rails doing both frontend and backend.

I was always told that the best position is always the next position.

It's like the Monty Hall problem, switching is always the better solution.

  Location: Denmark
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Ruby, Rails, React, Tailwind, Typescript, Javascript, MySQL, 
  PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, GraphQL
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I hold a PhD in computer science. I have more than 10 years of experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails. I've helped build and scale frontends, backends, and APIs in general. I'm ready for whatever you throw at me - and can easily learn new technologies and languages, if needed.