Having worked for different startups for 10+ years and started 3 of my own (eventually failing), I always wanted a job board for local startups. Not necessarily IT-related jobs. Finally built it about a month ago: https://estonianstartupjobs.ee
There are few similar projects too, one is itself a startup which sadly on the verge of bankruptcy, and another aggregates only IT-related jobs.
Why does everyone assume that if something is open source it must also be free and licensed under permissive license allowing you whatever? Briefly looking at their website I got the impression that it was meant for transparency reasons rather than in the spirit of free and open-source.
Yesterday I was listening to The Changelog podcast with Steve O'Grady called "Open Source is at a Crossroads". In it he says something along the lines of: We have companies come to us saying they want to release their source under an encumbered license and we tell them that they can definitely do that but they can't call it open source, because open source means something fairly specific to developers. We work with them on getting their specific license terms set up but they come back saying "We really want to call it open source, because developers find open source cool, and we want to attract developers." Developers like it because of what open source means.
Thank you, I found the answer to my question posted above in this podcast and the article linked there [1]
So, the argument is simply that Open Source is a branding that attracts developers as a target group.
I wonder when will we start seeing commercial, source available projects posted to GitHub with a single file like stringutils.[ts|go|java|etc] MIT-licensed for a single purpose of calling the entire project "Open Source"
You have the right to queue for several hours and present your biometric passport to a human who will take your picture, save it to another database, and then visually compare that to your face.
In the US, returning US citizens have the right to re-enter without a photo or a fingerprint. It's a right I'd like to preserve, and that's getting increasingly harder to exercise as everything in the airport nudges passengers to automated systems with no obvious way to opt out.
Have you ever tried refusing to show a passport? As far as I know, US citizens have the absolute right to enter its borders (https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/home.pdf), but whenever I read about that, I wonder how they go about that when a random stranger arrives at a border and claims to be a citizen.
All you need to do is convince the agent that you are an American Citizen.
You can show them any identification documents you do have, like drivers license, to establish your identity. For establishing citizenship, one option is if you previously has a passport (expired, or just not with you) then can look up that record, and if it is recent enough to pull up a photo they can compare to you that can also help.
Other ways of verifying citizenship depends on what databases they have access to. For example if they have access to the Social security numident database, they could look up a number to see the associated name citizenship flags. I'm not sure if they do though.
From what I have heard anecdotally is that it is usually not too hard to convince them if you really are a citizen (except in edge cases like being born abroad to Americans without parents registering your birth with the US.)
In any case they will formally warn you about it being illegal for Americans to enter without a passport (it is, but there is no punishment for the crime anymore). This is to deter you from doing this again in the future, as having a passport makes things much faster and easier for everyone.
Growth is not everything. I remember reading "Let my people go surfing" by the Patagonia founder where he mentioned multiple times that they were trying to artificially limit their growth by raising the prices for their products.
You don't need to chace ever higher profits. Staying small and enjoying your life is also an option.
This is done in tech, too: Scott McNealy famously raised the already-high prices of the new UltraSPARC powered Suns in the 90s because CPU production capacity was limited, and the products were wildly more popular than the company's expectations.
Rather than be faced with angry customers who couldn't take delivery, the price hike made sure that only the customers who really wanted the Ultra tech would be in line for it anyway. (It also removed incentives for the channel to illicitly take those higher margin dollars, when Sun needed them to grow capacity...)
FWIW, I've done between a half dozen to a dozen startups, some bootstrapped, some VC, and I can tell you that with very few exceptions, VC money is best avoided, or at least pushed out as far as possible. The chances of NOT getting pushed out as a technical founder (especially if you want to significantly influence what gets built and why) are pretty slim, and yeah, nothing wears you down quite like having to fight for influence in a company YOU created. Just dont' go there, unless you're really willing to put others in full charge of your baby.
There is nothing wrong with owning and running your own privately held company the way you see fit. (I had lunch recently with a founder who declined VC money because of the reasonable fear that the VCs would make his company "woke" (they pressed to rainbow-logo in June when negotiating the term sheet.) Since both the founders are fundamentally philosophically and religiously opposed to that worldview and will not tolerate it, they passed up the millions in seed/A to continue to grow organically. The company may grow a bit more slowly, but it will be a much stronger company growing it in a way the founders can live with.)
Salv | Product Engineer | Tallinn/Tartu, EE, or Vilnius, LT | onsite | full time
We build a platform for banks and other fintechs to help fight money-laundering. Well-funded and growing startup where your work will have positive impact on many people.
We're looking for multiple engineering roles. We use Kotlin and Typescript. The work is remote but you must be tax resident of Estonia or Lithuania.
Good luck trying to swap rubles to dollars with that exchange rate. They block foreigners from their stock exchange which prevented the collapse in prices. They blocked people from trading their rubles to usd or eur to prevent the exchange rate from soaring. Normal people cannot do anything there. So that exchange rate and their stock market is nothing to be proud of or point to.
I'm the author (and an indie dev) of the project here. I stumbled upon the public roadmap [1] for Wise [2] recently, and being the person behind product roadmap tool wanted to see how easy it is to build a similar looking one [3]. Turned out pretty well.
Working on two things. During the day I am (almost) a solopreneur and building shipit [1] - a tool for people to help visualize their product plans and connect these to company goals. There is a fair share of competition here, but all of the existing tools are extremely broad (think Jira vs Trello), and when you just start using these it's hard to figure out what to do first. Trying to solve that issue by keeping shipit super simple and avoiding feature bloat.
While I try to keep the blog relevant to the target audience, every now and then a technical post slips in:
- encrypting sensitive data in the database [2]
- using checlists for testing the build before release [3]
- moving from software engineer to product manager [4]
To avoid burning out, in the evenings I also build a remote-controlled car that uses 4 independent motors and is controlled by PS3 joystick. I got inspired by the video showing torque vectoring [5] in Rimac, and wanted to build something like that too. There's also an old project called Aelith [6] doing similar thing. I'm still in the early stages, and experimenting with 3D-printed motor mounts. When that is ready, will move to the software part.
There are few similar projects too, one is itself a startup which sadly on the verge of bankruptcy, and another aggregates only IT-related jobs.