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Hey All,

This is inspired by seeing this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12588771. I am currently in Berlin and I find salary information in internet is different what people offers here. Feel free to add your hourly rates, yearly salary and any significant benefits you get from your work place. This will immensely help HN community in Berlin.

Thanks in advance.

To sum up, I got promotion last year and currently leading 4 people developers team.

My workdays has changed a lot, mostly preparing design docs, code reviews, creating and reviewing tasks.

I miss building features, writing codes. At the beginning it was fun but now a days I am getting bored.

My manager is happy with my role and so on.

Am I doing something wrong? How can I avoid being bored and do coding day to day not compromising my lead role.

Thanks in advance.

Here is my story, I was never that good at technical writing. I figured it out couple of years earlier, when I was writing my MS thesis.

During my MS thesis I had two supervisors, one is from the company I was working with and other supervisor was my university Prof. My company supervisor was happy with my work (his responsibility was to guide me in hands on work) and my professor was responsible for checking my thesis paper. And my professor was not that happy about writing. And eventually I got an average grade in my thesis. My professor used to say "the thesis needs to be more clear, in lots of places explanations of "why" is missing. I thought it's fine, its enough to write good code build cool system.

After working couple of years, starting this year I got promotion and now I am leading a small dev team. Which leads me to write lots of design docs, before starting any new project/service.

And I have a feeling that my design docs are not as clear it should be. How you guys write software design documents? I know writing a lot helps, I even wrote some blog posts in company engineering blog but those are specific to a problem or tutorial kind of writing. So, how one can get better in technical writing? Any book/blog recommendation will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

To describe it shortly, I want to build a mac software which will clean junks and unnecessary files from your system. I will be charging around 25 USD. Are you going to buy it? If not what are the features I can add so that attracts you as a mac user?

Thanks in advance!

Hey All,

I know, at first sight the question seems to be lame. But I am struggling with this for years. By background is "Backend Development". Mostly used python and also some node.js. So, I want gradually want to move to work on technologies like Hadoop, Spark etc.

I am already doing online course on Hadoop but I don't know where to apply my learnings. As my days job is mostly backend development+devops staffs. I applied for jobs which are looking for Hadoop eco system developers but I don't get any response as I don't have real life experience with these technologies. In general I have 4 years software development and writing only backend code is getting kind of boring.

I really appreciate your suggestion.

Thanks in advance.

Hey,

Yes, I know we all are not open to admit our failure. And actually I started following hackernews to get inspired by others success. But reality is, we all fail.Some of those we share when we get successful but most of the failure we hide or just pretend we did not fail.

Somewhere I read, "smart people learn from others mistake". So here is our chance, lets speak about our failure, it will help everyone. I am starting with my own failure:

"I wanted to switch job because I got too comfortable with my job, not being challenged and most importantly not learning new staff (technology, process and etc). But I got a promotion which came with a handsome raise so I did not switch. But when I go to bed, most of the night I got the feeling I did not do anything significant , basically a wasted day. And when I looked for new job I found I am getting paid well above average and most of the new offer is around average of my level. So the plain the thing is I am afraid of switching because I will be less paid and I can not afford it. But I am still looking for new challenge who knows what will happen in 2016".

Thanks in advance.

Hey All,

I want to know what you have learned in 2015 that you never realised before. I am going to start with my self, I learned one thing: 1. Identifying people who really matters in life is super important. We generally don't think like this but when the person is not around you, you will realise how the person was in your life. And don't forget to show your gratitude you never know when it's the end.

I would really like to know your life lesson. May be some of us learn from other and can use in 2016.

Thanks in advance.

Hello All,

I got married last year and last week my wife confirmed me we are having a baby!

I am happy after listening it but when I started thinking, it seems my life will change dramatically. I am a software engineer working in Europe, has a good job with sufficient money. In my leisure I love to build, learn new technologies. But it seems this is going to change.

So can you guys share your experience, how your life changes after being a first time dad? Do you have any suggestions, tips for me?

Thanks!

The question could be a bit of misleading. Just to give you the idea what I am talking. Here is my story: Last year I was looking for a new gig and applied in couple of software companies. I have around 4 years SW development experience mostly web applications based on Python/JS with unix skill.

In the interviews I was really disappointed with myself regarding algorithm/data structure problems. In the interviews the coding test and small projects they asked me to complete was good and eventually I got couple of offers from these employers. But the interviews mostly focused on algorithm/data structure I was massive flop and did not get offer from those companies.

After completing my bachelor when I was looking for my first job, I was asked almost same algorithm/ds problem. At that time I was good but not something overwhelming. Long story cut short, I want to keep my algorithm/ds basics keep sharpen though in day job we dont apply most if the staffs.

Anyone else have the same issue? How you guys do it ? Thanks.

I am trying to learn golang for almost one year. Went through the docs, completed https://tour.golang.org/ and watched few talks. Now I want to get my Go knowledge in real working code via weekend project. No specific preference, just to let you know I am fluent in Python and working as a backend developer in day job.

Thanks in advance.

Hi All, Do not get confused with the title. Just a short background: One of my close friend developed a wordpress plugin which was getting good sales (around 2-3k/month) but he is developing it for last two years.

Though he was happy with the sale (as a passive income) but he was not giving any kind of support for the plugin and most of the email he was not even answering.

Actually he got bored with working in the same staff for last two years, so now he wants me to take over it and keep it growing.

I did some analysis based on old sales invoices so on, it seems there is no such a single solution the software is providing as why the sale was quiet good always.

I am planning to grow the sales. Any idea how can I can grow the sales (e.g it is a wordpress plugin), I planned to improve the support forum, introducing own blog and so on for the product. Can you guys share your experience and give idea how can I grow the sale and improve over all product?

Thanks in advance.

Hello All, Recently I was going through some job offer and title of the positions "DevOps". It seems more like a backend developer but why people title these positions as "DevOps" not "Backend Developer". Are there specific skill set a "DevOps" should have? If you are working as a DevOps, please share responsibility of the role and if you have idea, please share it.

Hello,

After switching jobs, when I start working for a new team with new product, it takes time to get adapted with everything (code base, coding convention, task management system, work flow etc). Do you guys have tips or strategy which you follow to get productive pretty fast in new environment? If you have please share, that will help me and others as well.

Doing programming for 3 years, while working in a project, I had to learn basic statistics and I found it really satisfying.Though, the complexity of the project was fairly easy, now I am thinking to switch track. As I have some programming experience, if I can learn data science that would be great. I know there are some online courses but I want "your" comment, feedback or experience, because that would help me to go forward.