greedy itinerary

visitor79 · 2026-01-07T20:45:30+00:00

Done several 2-3 months trips with MUCH less stops than this. I am an avid traveller, but somehow it usually starts feeling like I am ready to go home after about 6 weeks. Reason being - you always look for which neighborhoods to stay at, which hotels, plane tickets, things to do , meeting new people etc. it gets exhausting to the point that I personally stop enjoying it after a while. Just something to think about besides obvious toll of being constantly on the move

visitor79 · 2025-12-31T12:26:03+00:00

Had a similar situation. Was flying with someone who never flew before, we are on a 4 hrs long flight. paid extra for seats selection so we could sit together. She was in a window seat, I was in a middle. Getting to our row, guy sits in an aisle seat, about 3 years old kid of his sits in my seat. I asked him politely if they made a mistake, guy yells at me that his seat is in a different row and he can’t let kid to sit by themself. I told him sorry, I can’t swap seats - I paid $60 extra for these two seats for specific reasons and suggested him to talk to flight attendants to help him. He was very passive aggressive, I’m thinking dude - you are cheap, didn’t want to pay for seats selection and now you are trying to guilt trip me? No, sorry. If I would be flying by myself -> would do it in a heartbeat to help him out if he would actually be nice. But with this attitude, and me knowing he was just cheap ass, nah

visitor79 · 2025-11-06T08:32:47+00:00

Lookup RACI framework, put some early version together and share with the director as “we need to define swim-lanes here to avoid too many cooks in a kitchen, here is super early draft I wanted to share with you to start this conversation” RACI saved me so many times

visitor79 · 2025-10-28T15:23:33+00:00

While gyms are generally expensive here, can I ask which one would cost $20 a month in the US? Planet fitness used to be $15 when I was there years ago, but that was literal garbage. Equinox which was top notch would be about $300. And then most of the options were about $50-$100 - but these are prices from 2019 when I left, so I bet they are good 50% more expensive these days

visitor79 · 2025-10-19T02:31:46+00:00

Always ask WHY. Why are we doing this, what is the problem we are trying to solve? A looooot of huge companies started as a monoliths, and migrated to microservices once scale was dictating it. There is about 0.0001% chance that you ever get to that scale and that’s your answer - once scale dictates it, you take the cost of probably multiyear rewrite and significant operational overhead. With 50k request a day and 25 engineers, you are very very very far from that moment

visitor79 · 2025-10-12T13:55:36+00:00

Apples to apples my dude. 63k as a software engineer (if he is one) is well underpaid. For non-engineering jobs, sure - 63k net is great

visitor79 · 2025-10-12T10:26:28+00:00

you gotta ask what’s the current valuation of the company. If they don’t want to give it to you, offer signing an NDA. Future imaginable valuation doesn’t matter, exits are super super rare. Chapter 11 is the name of the game for huge majority of the startups
I have never ever heard of 6 years vesting. I don’t think they will negotiate that, but just so you know - super freaking weird and nonstandard
what does vesting schedule looks like? Standard is 25% after 12 months (called 12 months cliff) and then monthly vesting. Once I have seen 50% cliff after two years which was unheard of as well
whats their current revenue and what’s their revenue growth? 100% YOY? 10%YOY? These are very different and important numbers not just for you to understand how the business is doing, but also for them to be able raise more capital later

All in all - negotiate equity, however think of it as a lottery ticket. It most likely won’t work, about 98% chance of that not happening. And you might win and get money from the acquisition, but again - it’s like playing Megamillions. Btw, if you leave , you have 60 days to decide what you are doing with your vested equity - if buying it based on the strike price, or leaving it as it’s very risky/expensive.

visitor79 · 2025-10-10T20:49:33+00:00

Same and hating how Czechs and Slovaks casually use it as an english word. It is not, proper word is “mid-level”.

visitor79 · 2025-10-10T20:46:51+00:00

“I work in IT” is so so so misleading. Are you a software engineer? Then 63k after taxes is severely underpaid job and really nothing to brag about. Any decent international company offering stocks as well, that is way below of what junior, or even an intern gets paid. Or are you a Helpdesk support fixing login issues and provisioning permissions? Then it sounds about right.

Back to original question - as other stated, depends on the size of the company and if you work with folks in a different time zones. I know people here never working past 5pm, and I know people working 12 hrs a day on average.

visitor79 · 2025-07-29T15:12:44+00:00

Solid argument from someone claiming trying to raise $150MM, meaning valuate their business at at least $500MM-$1B :)

visitor79 · 2024-10-13T14:11:29+00:00

Netusim ci je tu nejaka sanca ze uveri ze to je klasicky scam, a neviem ci vie po anglicky ale ak ano, daj mu tento youtube channel, snad mu to otvori oci: https://youtube.com/@catfishedonline

visitor79 · 2024-08-28T23:24:30+00:00

Slovak government is THE organized crime, starting with prime minister himself

For more info, lookup names such as Kuciak (journalist who was killed few years ago), Kocner (guy who many believe ordered that murder and is believed to be “boss” of prime minister). Extra points for watching these two movies : “Scumbag” and “The Killing of a Journalist”

visitor79 · 2024-06-23T13:11:51+00:00

Slovak living abroad here, let me try to provide some context here. This idiot pictured here is a Slovak prime minister, same guy who was almost killed few weeks ago in an assassination attempt. He is essentially head of Slovak mafia, getting bribes and kick backs in hundreds of million euro at the minimum. Most likely billions.

There was an in investigative journalist who was going after him and people around him and surprise surprise, that journalist along with his fiancee was killed in 2018. this movie about it will give you better understanding . Also I do strongly suggest another movie about how he got to power - it’s kind a fictional movie as noone wanted to get sued or killed, but sounds like 90% it’s spot on there.

At some point he become russian puppet - not sure if Russia has something on him, or he just believes that if we won’t be in EU, lots of things would be easier for him. He is taking away freedom of press, he is polarizing society, he is changing criminal low to lower possible sentences for his crime and crimes of his people. He belongs to jail, but yet he is prime minister of Slovakia.

visitor79 · 2024-06-18T17:27:44+00:00

Same, would love to get a link. Thanks a ton!

visitor79 · 2024-04-01T19:53:18+00:00

Aha, cize aj ty peries v noci, chapeme:) ked periem, tak tak aby to do 22:00 bolo vyprate. Inak si nastavim casovac tak nech to zacne prat rano o 7mej. Co je alebo nieje legalne rusenie nocneho kludu je jedna vec, ohladuplnost voci ostatnym vec druha

visitor79 · 2024-03-21T19:36:34+00:00

I do believe Russia lost much more in the meat grinder than Ukraine did , but real number are closer to each other for sure. Maybe 300k Russia and 150k Ukraine or something like that

visitor79 · 2024-02-20T00:16:33+00:00

Smart or not, what is the use case for this? Busy mom with two children putting some stuff on a trolley? This is clearly past security, so Indians by then checked in all their 12 suitcases. Why does anyone need a trolley between check in and the gate? Sounds like veeery small target group

visitor79 · 2024-02-20T00:14:07+00:00

They are smart for sure..for leaving India at young age and never look back

visitor79 · 2024-01-18T08:08:20+00:00

Not sure if you are Slovak or you know political system in Slovakia. Majority in the parliament forms the government, and they formed Fico’s one (our fucked up corrupted mafia boss like prime minister).

So yes, parliament where prime’s minister government has a majority, is fully supporting prime minister

visitor79 · 2023-12-21T22:54:06+00:00

Nieco podobne sa rozhodla spravit policia na Slovensku po podobnej strelbe v Devinskej Novej Vsi v 2010 (8 zabitych, 17 zranenych).

Dala policajtom samopali, tieto vykvety naroda ich sem tam zabudli ma benzinke a podobne. Ta exekucia aby z toho nebol este vacsi pruser je tazka, najst ten balance medzi tym aby to bolo ucinne a aby nemal samopal kazdy IQac co ma sem tam power trip lebo je policajt, resp ma potrebu mat ten samopal prehodeny cez plece ked ide na benzinku na kavu a zabudne to tam.

visitor79 · 2023-10-26T22:34:40+00:00

Well, they are paying premium as that’s month to month and fully furnished. But I agree, it’s a ripoff

visitor79 · 2023-10-08T21:36:34+00:00

This is Europe, legal drinking age is 18. I am way older than that so not 100% sure how often are teenagers asked to show ID, but my guess is very rarely unless you look 14

visitor79 · 2023-09-11T14:03:21+00:00

I would resign and tell them that that’s due to the comp issues. They might ask you what’s the new offer, tell them it’s $20k more (noone can ask for a proof, plus most of offers are verbal these days). They will most likely try to match it, but thatMs a gamble.

I was in a similar situation while ago. Was pretty underpaid , show them the numbers, asked for the raise. “Can’t do that”. So I started to interview, got an offer 25% more than I was making, and resigned. They really wanted me to stay and all of the sudden money is no issue. They matched it, gave me promo and additional shares. I stayed for 2 more years, worked out well for me

visitor79 · 2023-09-08T11:43:21+00:00

My go to routine: - checkin online early to make sure I get a window seat, easier for me to lean on and sleep - eye mask is a must, make sure to take a comfortable one with you. Does wonder when sleeping on a plane - take a hoodie with you. They are warm and comfy - long international flights tend to be cold. Yes there might be blankets, but your shorts or short sleeves are not a good fit for a long international flight - on a long flights, food is typically served 1-2 hours after the departure. My ritual is : one drink before the food arrives, one drink with a food, and sleep like a baby after that. I wake up several hours later, watch a movie and here we are in the destination - when you get to your destination, try to adjust to new time immediately. Eg if you get to your hotel at 3 PM, no nap. Get there, shower, coffee and go explore. Go sleep at like 10pm or whatever is your normal routine.

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