hamtaroPhD06's comments

On: Ask HN: I have just turned down my first contract. Am I an idiot?

[hamtaroPhD06]

I'm not French (though I studied in France) I think that's why companies think that they can "push" me to sign without negotiation.

For the 35 hours, indeed the contract says that I'll need to work 35 in standard pay, plus 5 hours with 10% bonus.

(They calculated the salary for 40 hours and not 35 ... Which seemed dishonest to me)

On: Ask HN: I have just turned down my first contract. Am I an idiot?

[hamtaroPhD06]

NL ?

[Quatschmann → hamtaroPhD06]

I guess Netherlands.

On: Ask HN: I have just turned down my first contract. Am I an idiot?

[hamtaroPhD06]

1900 and change after taxes.

Indeed it is indeed for another company (client). I would have been dispatched to a French telco operator as a developer/engineer.

[eb0la → hamtaroPhD06]

Telcos are very hard places to live today.

16-18 years ago money was flowing in without stop and now it's the oppossite.

I would go to a telco again only if I could work in a big data product.

Telcos have the best dataset available; but they cannot sell it for regulatory reasons. Banks have the second best (where money is spent), but face the same problem.

[hamtaroPhD06 → eb0la]

The position offered to me was not as interesting.

Basically I would have been developing their PHP/JavaEE website where they display news, sport, weather, announcements, etc.. With some interaction stats behind.

On: Ask HN: Where to find PhD offers?

[hamtaroPhD06]

I tried cold emailing professors, but I have had 0% response rate.

My emails were clear, simple and respectful. I guess they have better things to do than to respond to random stranger on the internet.

I wish there was a kind of a job board for PhDs ..

On: Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team

[hamtaroPhD06]

When someone is racist and sexist, it is everyone's duty to call what they are: racist and sexist.

[jacquesc → hamtaroPhD06]

Agreed. But if you call anyone who disagrees with you on economic policy a racist and sexist, it opens the door for an actual racist and sexist to get in.

[hamtaroPhD06 → jacquesc]

Which is not the case right now. So yes the president elect of the US is racist and sexist and a % of his supporters are openly racist and/or sexist people.

This is not a disputed fact in anyway

[_ummc → hamtaroPhD06]

But when you claim that "all" his supporters are racists and sexists, you lose validity and just enrage people who are not which has adverse reactions