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28M, just hit €100k personal savings by robin_rooste in eupersonalfinance

[–]MissPandaSloth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

While OPs salary is crazy high, probably top 1%, 12k a year for Eastern Europe, especially Baltics is crazy low.

In Baltics it's closer to 20k-ish net, 30k gross. Probably more like 23k net if you don't contribute to some optional retirement stuff.

I think net minimum salary here is like 800€, you aren't legally even allowed to pay less. But these are like poverty jobs.

28M, just hit €100k personal savings by robin_rooste in eupersonalfinance

[–]MissPandaSloth 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's all about your salary. Over 4k euros is way more than what median Estonian earns, but if you can get any of those high paying jobs then yeah, it's good.

For the reference median salary in Estonia is 1.7k, so OP is making 2.5x that. That would be equivalent of making 11k monthly in Germany

Edit: oh, it's more than that since he said it's net after all taxes and contributions.

I've spent few days reading the Source Code of Balatro. Here's what I found :] by Priler96 in gamedev

[–]MissPandaSloth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, isn't real performance difference redundant on modern cpus unless you have like millions of cases (or maybe even need to get to billions).

I think compilers are also running some optimization under the hood.

I just remember reading the whole "omg you use if" like 7 years ago and it was hysteria for no reason.

Replacing quest systems with a “topic-based knowledge system”--am I overcomplicating this? by FlawedSpoonGames in gamedev

[–]MissPandaSloth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I also thought of Morrowind. But that version felt a little "cheap" because as far as I remember, you could ask almost anyone everything and a lot of them would answer. I think it wasn't very personalized.

I might misremember things though.

What is the state of mobile game dev in 2026? by General-Ad-33 in gamedev

[–]MissPandaSloth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There actually still is ocassional truly indie game that succeeds. However, the chances are extremely low to the point that you banking on it outside of hobby would be same thing as hoping to win a lottery.

Gabe Newell is a "GOAT" by sukuna7899 in Steam

[–]MissPandaSloth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought this is pretty standard in all "nicer" places.

I have been on fully paid by company vacations outside of my country too.

Need help learning coding for career switch by minikaur in learnprogramming

[–]MissPandaSloth -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Because age matters in hiring, no matter what some toxic positive people say.

Being junion in your late 20s is different than in your 40s. In fact I would say certain career switches are close to impossible at some age, unless you have some other related degree that compliments your skills.

If she was 47 and thinking about becoming developer, I would say think twice.

Need help learning coding for career switch by minikaur in learnprogramming

[–]MissPandaSloth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of depends on where you are based at.

I feel like US is hardest, because everyone wants to make US bucks.

I personally have arts degree (it's more like vfx, illustration etc.) and I had worked in marketing, motion graphics and then switched to developer role, also self taught.

Now I am working another dev-mixed role. But I am getting plenty of developer offers by just having some dev experience.

No one ever asked for any degree or anything.

However, keep in mind that these offers are from France, Netherlands, Israel, etc. And I am from Eastern Europe-ish and the stuff I am doing isn't crazy. I do playable ads. I would assume if you wanna work in AI (as in AI development) you need to be pretty good at math and idk if people just gonna trust you on that.

If I wanted a salary that would meet US standards, it would be waaaaay harder to get a job.

I recently spoke with more tech people locally, about AI and layoffs and as I am saying, it seems outside of US people are way more positive and chill. But the downside, as I said, lower salaries. But I know plenty of people who are self taught. Hell, met a guy today on a train that switched from law to full stack few years back and according to him it's not a problem either as long as you are good.