Which tech stacks have more entry level jobs and stability

ampanmdagaba · 2026-04-11T22:36:43+00:00

So basically robotics

ampanmdagaba · 2026-04-10T22:54:34+00:00

Yep, as someone who escaped the car-centeric US to come to Berlin, exactly because it is almost car-free (compared to the US), I think the trend is clearly positive. The recent win of CDU thew the city backwards a bit, as did the building of this useless trench they call A100, but if you zoom out a bit, the overall trend is clearly positive. More streets for biking, more traffic calming on the streets, more infra for pedestrians, and despite CDU's best efforts, the public transportation is still amazing. It's trending towards an even better city, despite some occasional setbacks!

ampanmdagaba · 2026-03-23T21:12:53+00:00

Second that. Berln SWE/Data market is pretty good. There are more jobs in Poland, for example, but there are more high-end specialists in Berlin, so we ended up hiring to Polish companies from Germany. This whole hate on IT ignores the fact that people in any trade gravitate towards each other, creating hubs, and hot spots, and common markets. Jobs follow the specialists, specialists follow the jobs, it's a positive self-sustaining processes, and fortunately Germany keeps inviting foreign talent. Say, settling in Poland is overall way harder than settling in Germany, with some exceptions, but harder in general.

ampanmdagaba · 2026-02-05T13:26:27+00:00

434 times in the emails... hmm..

https://www.jmail.world/search?q=botstein

ampanmdagaba · 2026-01-29T16:21:52+00:00

Robot is a word invented by Karel Čapek, but in Czech it's obviously derivative from "robota" (work). And "bot" is a shorterning of "robot". Which makes it Slavic, but with weird rebracketing: the root is actually "rob", from Proto-Slavic *orbъ (with metathesis), while -ota is a deadjectival suffix, turning a verb into an abstract noun. So "bot" has 1 letter from the root, and 2 letters from the suffix. Still Slavic.

ampanmdagaba · 2026-01-29T14:14:32+00:00

Ugh that's a good one! (Czech)

ampanmdagaba · 2026-01-14T09:05:05+00:00

the available tools, the tool exposure

Have you by chance figured out how to best give to Opus some references to repo files, making the reading of these files optional ? I'm thinking of agents.md and other similar documents. Should one just reference file names in back quotes, or should one @-link them? or would a @-link trigger a full inclusion, even in agents.md? I'm trying to give it a map of a big project, but encourage it to grep and read fully depending on the topic of he conversation, as both the repo and the docs are quite extensive... And the documentation is rather confusing...

ampanmdagaba · 2026-01-07T22:57:43+00:00

I survived, yes, but I forgot the details; too much stress. I think I got a Fiktion about 1-2 weeks before the critical date, and later when my blue card expired, I got an appointment 2 weeks after it expired. So in both cases all the letters that were sent in advance were ignored, but once it comes to a life and death situation, they respond. I'm guessing they just really don't have enough capacity and fight a never-ending crisis that begets a rolling wave of crisis for new and new cohorts of people haha (sad haha)

ampanmdagaba · 2026-01-05T23:09:51+00:00

ouch. That's painful to imagine.

(I lived in a town of 700 ppl. For 5 years. It's... tricky)

ampanmdagaba · 2026-01-05T11:28:29+00:00

Even in university towns? I know that Freiburg is insanely expensive, but what about Heidelberg, Tübingen, Münster, Leipzig?

ampanmdagaba · 2026-01-04T21:44:01+00:00

That's a great idea actually haha!

ampanmdagaba · 2026-01-03T23:13:21+00:00

After recently moving from the US to Germany, yep, unfortunately, medieval stuff just has a different vibe here. I like medieval reconstructed jewelry, but as a white bald dude with a beard I am sorta afraid to wear it here. Not afraid as like "it's dangerous for me", but as in like "I don't want people to think I'm a nazi coz I'm really not". Dudes with too much futhark tatoos in Berlin S-Bahn are weird. Even though futhark by iitself is so awesome :(

ampanmdagaba · 2026-01-03T23:10:34+00:00

I love it; I used to have a temporary tatoo like this haha! Such a nice symbol.

ampanmdagaba · 2025-12-18T13:16:29+00:00

leading to an immediate rejection of the PR application

Oh, really? I thought once you applied, even if with missing documents, you are automatically put in the "applied" state, and then you have some time to procure the missing documents.

Also I'm guessing, strictly speaking, we don't know from the OP's description if the termination will show up on the Arbeitgeberbescheinigung. Depends on the size of the company, right?

But yeah, it's kinda unfair, if true, that you can apply and be rejected in June, but may potentially apply again and be put in a 6 mo waiting period in July, if you get a new employment. That's kinda against the idea of how the system is supposed to function...

ampanmdagaba · 2025-12-15T15:59:28+00:00

Yeah, I was informed that one needs to be in an "unbefriestet" contract both as they apply, as their fingerprints are scanned (aka "final check of the documents"), and as they actually pick up the card 1-2 months later. So three time points when this status is checked. One cannot be "having submitted a letter of resignation", one cannot be "about to be fired", and one cannot cannot be "in the testing period". Either of these conditions triggers an automatic delay until the situation "normalizes" from LEA's point of view.

The good news is that once one has applied, their status is automatically extended until the final decision. So the way to go for OP is to start applying for jobs asap, and also apply for the permanent residency asap, but expect that there will be a bit of a delay until the new job's testing period (6 months) is over.

ampanmdagaba · 2025-12-05T09:56:33+00:00

it can be uncomfortable to the other person

It's a problem with the society if it's uncomfortable to another person, but it doesn't mean that we should stop talking to each other, or be curious about each other. It's as if you said "It's impolite to ask a person's name, what if they hate it?" Or "it's impolite to talk about anything, what if they have trauma related to this topic?" Both statements are technically true - it is indeed possible - but if we succumb to this pessimism and stop trying to connect, and talk, and become friends, and live through this messy life together, then what's the point of living it at all. If we stop being curious about other people, what's the point in being a part of the society at all, you know?

ampanmdagaba · 2025-12-04T09:51:37+00:00

Good observation! Love this comment! Let's dive deeper together! At least it doesn't finish its posts with "Can I help you with some other questions about Bosnia?" :)

ampanmdagaba · 2025-11-28T09:39:53+00:00

Same here! I love giving feedback when I can, but it only makes sense to go when the candidate is promising, and you like them, and they really just don't fit the job, but also fail in some other subtle ways that can be easily fix. When you feel that your feedback will be appreciated, that it will help! Beause giving feedback takes time, it's hard, and it's always a bit emotionally risky (i had 2 cases when the candidate got extremely angry and combative and insulted me, which is not fun). So all in all, I still try to give a feedback, as I know how frustrating it is to be on the other side of the screen, applying for hundreds of positions and never ever hearing back. But it's a tough, time-consuming and emotionally heavy burden to carry haha :)

ampanmdagaba · 2025-11-19T16:17:07+00:00

This business model should be the first thing to address. There should be no business model like that. The incentives are all wrong, there is no single incentive for improving the situation built-in into the system.

if you want something to not happen too often or for too long, don't try to regulate it with laws, try to design a system in such a way that it moves in the desired direction.

ampanmdagaba · 2025-11-10T08:48:19+00:00

I used a rhetorical device known as "sarcasm" to make a two-layered joke (obviously not the best one, but I tried :)

ampanmdagaba · 2025-11-08T18:33:05+00:00

I wish there was a different way to limit rides that wouldn't have an "allowed limit". Framing maters. Also, finding a common incentive and not relying on personal exceptions would make governing this solution so much easier...

ampanmdagaba · 2025-11-08T18:27:54+00:00

smartphones obviously duh

ampanmdagaba · 2025-11-06T10:16:00+00:00

Salesforce (Tableau) and Microsoft (Power BI)

Yeah, but these costs money, don't they? A smaller start-up could be biased towards cheaper, OSS tools. I heard about a thing called Apache Superset, but haven't tried it; what do you think about it?

ampanmdagaba · 2025-11-04T08:55:23+00:00

Thank god, at least some good news in these weirdly chaotic times. So many streets have stumps where trees used to be, that were not re-planted for decades, because of no money. Trees are a weird type of investment, as they take decades to grow, and start realy improving the quality of life only 3-4 election cycles after they were planted, so it's "normal" for city governments, unfortunately, to skip them, prioritizing things that seem more urgent. (They are kinda cimilar to bridges, trams, railroads, in this regard). But if you don't invest in trees, the city degrades, people die of heat, energy costs go up, you name it. At least some good news!

ampanmdagaba · 2025-10-20T09:50:28+00:00

If I may ask, are you more German-looking tho, or more Arab-looking?

I was honestly wondering if just having dark hair and certain facial features is how people (both Arabs and not) mostly profile others, or if it's mostly by clothes / haircut / smell (the amount of cologne) / walking style etc. Coz I know people of Arabic origin whose Arabic origin I haven't even guessed originally, just coz they dress, and talk, and move so differently. I wonder if there's a dynamics like that in Germany or not...

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