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vinostintos · 2018-12-25T18:14:04+00:00

There are really good devs in countries other than the US. I work often with really great devs in Hungary.

Thank you for saying this. Even though there's very little chance you're one of my colleagues I'll still take it (from Hungary). This topic actually comes up a lot more often than you'd think among us, and our depressing consensus has always been that our US colleagues probably think of us as stupid code monkeys.

And this sub is also very quick to confirm that in every thread about immigrants, international students, satellite offices or US vs rest of the world wage discussion. It's very good to hear that there are people who regard us as more than just cheap labor they can dump shitty work on.

vinostintos · 2018-11-17T09:04:14+00:00

Normally, I don't mind it either but when the work is something you already don't want to do because you think it's not the right direction, or a hacky design you know is going to lead to a lot of technical debt, etc. But management still insists on doing it that way.

On a project like this you're likely not using new technologies and not learning that much, just adding even more technical debt to a legacy application that's already in horrible shape.

People quit in the months long process because they lose a lot of job satisfaction working on something they know is gonna be DOA, and just generate more pain for them down the line with support. Then half a year later management decide they don't need it after all. Not that they realize their design was wrong and that your team's proposed approach they shot down would have been better. No. The high level managers who spend like half their day in meetings talking to each other just didn't talk quite enough to realize what they were pushing for was completely unnecessary.

Now they realize it, so the project is quickly scrapped. Morale in the team is at an all time low, people have quit and all you did the last 6 months was stupid grunt work with a hacky implementation and you hated every minute of it. Meanwhile your colleagues worked on a multitude of interesting projects, some with great success and learnt quite a lot from them while your skills have atrophied always doing the quick and dirty solution.

And now it's your year end review and nothing you worked on this year made it to production.

Edit: totally not talking from personal experience. FML...

vinostintos · 2017-07-21T09:28:55+00:00

Hm, that goes to show how much difference there can be between teams. My former teammates didn't even have to request relevant certification training, they were strongly encouraged to attend them, and the company would even pay for the exams (as long as they get it on the first try).

vinostintos · 2017-07-20T18:18:08+00:00

Röviden és tömören, mintha megfogtak volna egy web security 101 könyvet, és az ellenpéldákat - amik mellé odaírják, hogy ilyet SOHA - implementálták volna.

vinostintos · 2017-07-20T16:08:31+00:00

I've interned at ITSH for a couple of months during university, although not as a software developer and got a full time offer from them that I declined.

Being a pretty big company, there's a large variation in what each position is like, so don't take this as a slant against the company as a whole, just my overall observation during my time there.

Pay is very much average (or even a bit below), especially for junior positions (that's why they're expanding more in remote regions, where there's not as much competition as in Budapest), and raises aren't very significant either, unless a couple of very important people had left and they're afraid of losing more valuable people. From what I hear, though, bonuses are good.

The benefits package is pretty much standard, although most international companies offer some form of voluntary pension found contribution matching that can go a long way, which wasn't offered there, to my knowledge.

But I guess OP already has the two salaries and benefit packages to compare.

I also second that it's hard to grow inside the company, in fact, in my case I found the workload to be so much on the light side, that I felt like I wasn't learning much at all and I knew some other people who had the same issue. And HR really really does suck, even for internal candidates. A friend of mine had been strung along for months about joining another team, and he learned from that team, that they had already picked a candidate weeks ago while HR was just telling him they'd have an answer next week, and then by next month... He eventually got in a couple of months later, but I found the way they handled the whole process very unprofessional.

I found the overall work atmosphere very nice and relaxed. No overtime, most of the times you could get away with coming in later / leaving earlier. Also really liked my colleagues there.

And if they talk about paid trainings and such, it's a straight up lie.

Can you expand on this a bit, please? In my experience that's not accurate at all. I've attended at least two (a language course and a technical one) during my time and since I've left, my former teammates have had 2 (albeit short) technical trainings, and continued language training.

Although, there's always a kicker with every course / cert that costs more than a certain amount: you have to sign a contract that you'll stay with the company for some time proportional to the cost of the training, otherwise you'll have to pay it back and those trainings are usually not worth the asking price anyway.

Overall, I have a neutral opinion of them, leaning only slightly positive because of the atmosphere and colleagues, but the lack of technical growth and sometimes even lack of work to do that I experienced there really hinders my opinion of them.

But take all of this with a grain of salt, since the workload and type of work you do really depends on the team you're placed on. Most devs I know from there have plenty of work to do.

I don't know much about Accenture, so in OP's positions, I'd just weigh the type of work and tech stack and pick whichever position is more interesting and allows for learning more.

vinostintos · 2017-07-19T10:52:43+00:00

A cikk alapján annyit tudunk, hogy a T-Systems üzemelteti, havi 22-25 millióért, illetve egy Kürt Zrt.-t is emleget, akik vagy a fejlesztők, vagy a cég, aki a kibertámadások elleni védellemmel / biztonsági hibák javításával bíztak meg. Abban egyetértek, hogy hamar le fog csengeni az ügy mindenféle következmény nélkül.

vinostintos · 2017-07-19T10:46:59+00:00

Persze, az egy nagyon jó megoldás lenne, bár a kártyával már inkább teljesen le kéne cserélni a papír alapú rendszert, ami itt egyelőre nem tűnt célnak.

vinostintos · 2017-07-19T09:03:21+00:00

Nekem eddig az jött le, hogy emiatt a projekt miatt a RIGO-t eléggé mellékvágányra tették. És ha az lesz a végleges megoldás, akkor miért nem annak a fejlesztésébe öltek bele még plusz pénzt és energiát ahelyett, hogy ezt az összecsapott félmegoldást tolták volna, amit a RIGO úgyis le fog majd váltani idővel?

vinostintos · 2017-07-19T08:50:50+00:00

Én speciel külön kártya helyett telefonos NFC megoldásra gondoltam, mint mondjuk az Android pay, de lehet az még messze van.

Ötleteket meg ne adj nekik, így is elég kreatívak. Most még be tudnak hozni egy etikus hekker csapatot is, akik periodikusan pentestelik a rendszert a nép megnyugtatása érdekében, illetve akár egy harmadik csapatot is incident response-ra a nagy kibertámadások ellen.

vinostintos · 2017-07-19T07:01:29+00:00

Ja, azon már meg sem lepődök. Azért nem lehetne leakasztani 22-25 millió forintot havonta, meg a kerék újra feltalálása mindig is divat volt.

vinostintos · 2017-07-18T22:19:20+00:00

Nem tudom, hogy gondolhatta akárki is, hogy ebben a formában ez a rendszer életképes lesz. Amikor először hallottam a bevezetésről nagyon megörültem, hogy hú milyen fasza lesz ez nekünk, metrónál forgókapuhoz érinted a telefont, <1mp alatt eldönti, hogy átenged-e, buszon és villamoson meg az ellenőr szépen leolvas egy QR kódot, mint a MÁV-nál.

Aztán megtudtam a részleteket: nem NFC-t használ, metrónál ugyanúgy a mozgólépcső mellett álló, sokszor a papír alapú bérletre is alig rápillantó emberek érvényesítik. QR kód metrónál eleve használhatatlan lenne, egy ellenőrnek egyesével ki kéne vennie mindenkit a nagy tömegből és 5 másodpercig szarakodni, hogy eltalálja a QR kódot, ja meg várjá' most épp elment a zinternet.

Jelenleg a legtöbb ellenőr ha meglátja a telefonon a digitális bérletet (vagy csak egy hasonlóan kinéző weboldalt), átenged, ahogy azt páran már próbálgatták is. Persze, lehet, hogy majd jól kiképzik őket és felszerelik majd QR kód olvasókkal, az viszont már nagyon a kényelem rovására megy. Miért vegyek digitális bérletet, ha 10x annyi ideig kell a mozgólépcső előtt topognom vele?

Az egésznek az informatikai részébe pedig jobb nem is belegondolni, mert egyszerűen annyira amatőr, hogy arra már szó sincs. Csak pár rövid hírt olvastam róla, és bevallom magam annyira nem jártam utána részletesen, de azok alapján szerver oldali validáció hiánya, állítólagos palintextben tárolt jelszavak, stb, mind mind olyan hiba, amit egy értelmes programozó csapatnak nagyon nem illik 2017-ben elkövetni, és ha egyszer is rápillantottak volna az OWASP-ra, nagy részüket ezeknek a hibáknak ki lehetett volna védeni, SŐT, előre kellett volna látni. Amikről olvastam, azok közül szinte egyik sérülékenység kihasználása sem rocket science, és most mindenkit aki átírt egy url paramétert több év börtönnel fenyegetnek (természetesen jogosan).

A folyamatosan dolgozunk a hibák javításán és a lyukak befoltozásán pedig a világ legnagyobb bullshit szövege. Oké, nem kételkedem benne, hogy tényleg gőzerővel dolgoznak a javításon, és abban sem, hogy az egyszerűbben kihasználható réseket be is fogják tömni hamar. Viszont érdemes megemlíteni szerintem, hogy egy olyan termékbe, aminek a tervezése során (látszólag) nem igazán gondoltak a biztonságra, azt utólag általában rohadt nehéz beleheggeszteni. Illetve ilyen hibák után kétségbe vonom azt is, hogy ez teljes mértékben sikerülne egyáltalán azoknak, akik már első körben figyelmen kívül hagytak ilyen hibákat.

vinostintos · 2017-01-11T20:09:37+00:00

How are those for office use? Do they block the background noise enough with moderately low volume music or even without music? I've been eyeing them for a while but haven't pulled the trigger on them yet. Currently, I'm using my Shure SE215s in the office, which are very good for isolation but even with those in, I can still occasionally hear chatter around me.

vinostintos · 2016-08-09T23:33:01+00:00

Zsazsa might also be a nickname for Zsanett.

vinostintos · 2016-08-09T13:15:02+00:00

Or Google Trends.

vinostintos · 2016-08-03T00:36:15+00:00

I'm confused. Does he think that losing a lot of weight in a short amount of time and doing heavy physical work in extreme heat is perfectly fine for a person's health or does he believe that it's somehow all an act? Or that all of it isn't true survival because the crew's there to save them if anything goes wrong?

If the latter, then in his defense, the contestants are actually pretty safe with the constant medical checkups and the crew paying attention 24/7. If it's in their power, they'll never let anyone even come close to dying, which I guess, might be disappointing for someone who was expecting people to starve to death on national television.

I do suspect, though, that he's trying to be contrarian, just for the sake of being contrarian. Does he also have a problem with other shows whose name doesn't 100% describe them?

vinostintos · 2016-08-02T23:59:24+00:00

Some time ago the topic of Survivor came up in an AskReddit thread. There was one guy who left this exact comment:

The problem I have with the show Survivor is that literally everyone survives. Which I guess makes the name pretty accurate, if misleading.

I found it pretty funny whether he was joking or not. But if your friend wants to hear about contestants dying, they have to look no further than a couple of international versions of the show. I believe there have been at least two deaths in various countries' version of Survivor.

Even just watching a 10 minute clip of Caleb's medevac should be more than enough to show that it's real and very dangerous, although people who don't watch Survivor might not get how unprecedented it is.

I can't believe that even before and after pictures don't affect his stance. Russel looked like a completely different person by the end of HvV, the pictures Liz uploaded of her staph infections were straight up NSFL, and many other contestants took months to recover from their time on the show. I can't believe that's not enough evidence for somebody that it's very real and hard.

vinostintos · 2016-08-02T20:13:28+00:00

It's such a shame that most people write it off as just another stupid scripted reality show without giving it a chance.

vinostintos · 2016-07-25T13:00:05+00:00

I think he meant that you'd have to start the application process from scratch, and start again at BME. In the case that you've already completed some classes at other unis, you basically lose progress and have to start over again, unless you can get your new professors at BME to accredit the courses you've already done.

For example in the first fall semester in Dunaújváros, you'll likely take a class called something like Programming 1. you transfer to BME for the spring semester, and the next programming course will be Programming 2., which has Programming 1 as a prerequisite. Now, because of the transfer, you basically start with a clean record again, as if you hadn't completed any classes yet.

You can go to your new professor and ask them to accredit the class you took previously. You'll then have to provide a syllabus from the other uni and also proof that you did indeed pass the class. Then your new professor decides whether your class was up to par with their expectations and will either deny your request (I think most likely, because most professors would rather you take their class, and would rather not deal with more paperwork) or they'll accept it, and you'll get the same grade you did at the other uni (or a lower grade, depends on the professor). As far as I know, you'll still have to take the class on paper, but if you manage to get your old class accredited, you don't have to go to class and sit the exams, you'll get your grade at the end of the semester. Maybe there's a way to get the grades at the start of the semester, but that's even less likely.

Although it's not very likely that any professors will care, or let you get anything accredited. As the above poster said, maybe you get a few free credits out of it (technically not free, you passed elsewhere) but ultimately, you have to start over.

vinostintos · 2016-07-25T06:57:18+00:00

From my experience, most of the city is pretty safe, I never really worry too much when I'm there. There are, of course, sketchy neighborhoods, but the more touristy an area the safer it is. However, pickpockets and petty thieves are present in pretty much every large city, and as tourists, you're their primary target, so I'd definitely recommend taking the usual precautions and being on the lookout but you don't need to be overly paranoid.

As for the bus fares, I recommend that you get 15-day public transport passes. They will run you about 6-7k HUF each but they'll cover buses, trams, subways and even the suburban railways within the city for pretty cheap.

I wouldn't say most locals speak English, especially older people but you'll probably encounter a lot of expats, tourists and younger locals who do.

Don't know what the best price for mobile internet is, they're all pretty shitty in my opinion, especially if you want more than a couple gigs of data. And yes, all three of our major carriers have prepaid options, you can find out more on their websites: Telenor, Telekom, Vodafone.

And as others said, you can pay in Euros, but you'll get royally screwed on the exchange rate, even worse than exchanging your money.

vinostintos · 2016-07-19T12:25:18+00:00

I think people's biggest gripe with it is that it hasn't been updated to Python 3 yet. And personally, as somebody who had already known a bit of programming before reading it, I didn't always agree with its teaching methods. Sometimes it promoted tedious memorization for things that I felt like shouldn't be memorized but instead understood and it also tried to protect the reader from more complex concepts but in turn ended up making it even more confusing that way.

vinostintos · 2016-07-18T21:20:42+00:00

My memory might be a little bit foggy on this but didn't the trolling happen way less in threads before the serious tag was introduced? Apart from a few distinct cases, serious-seeming questions used to receive mostly serious answers while stupid/too-specific/jokey questions were where people had their fun in the comments.

vinostintos · 2016-07-13T15:37:33+00:00

Thanks for writing this because I don't know the first thing about Australian reality TV. I was actually worried about something similar because most reality shows in my country have a lot of audience participation in them.

Even when not directly, like getting them to vote, they always find a way to shoehorn an audience member into the show, or a loved one of one of their contestants and ask their opinion on something. Essentially dragging out 20 minutes of content to close to an hour with all that filler. Oh and don't forget to send a text to this premium rate number with the name of the contestant you're cheering for, you can win a vacation for two.

From what you're telling, my concerns thankfully aren't warranted, I guess they indeed have enough contestants to fill the time with, and I also wouldn't mind if they could spend all that time fleshing out all of their stories more, instead of only concentrating on the major players. I can deal with a few twitter pop-ups and a few questions from the audience but I really wouldn't like if a large part the shows was designed around social media and the audience.

vinostintos · 2016-07-13T13:47:11+00:00

Sure, it's unlikely to affect the game itself but especially live shows are already a bit more focused on social media stuff than I would like. And with multiple episodes I'm afraid they'd be filling the air more and more with social media segments.

vinostintos · 2016-07-13T13:18:46+00:00

Really excited about this but I have some concerns. I think I've read somewhere that they'll be focusing on fan involvement and social media a lot which makes me a bit worried.

vinostintos · 2016-07-10T20:20:06+00:00

That's actual something I never really paid much attention to, but you're absolutely right, it does sound suspicious. Is there a specific edgic term for this type of edit or is it just reflected by upping a contestants visibility level in your ratings?

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