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  • magikmw@lemm.ee
    16·
    3 days ago

    Worth pointing out it could be fully remote, but France or Germany residence is required. From what I heard it’s an accounting issue for them, explained as each country needs their own accounting scheme, which, as an EU citizen, seems like a skill issue to me.

    • esa@discuss.tchncs.de
      31·
      2 days ago

      What, like an anglophone who can’t tell the difference between the i and y sounds?

      (Or do the anglos actually pronounce it “tajpst”?)

      • easily3667@lemmus.orgEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        It’s clearly intended to be typist, an English word. It’s spelled tipst/taipst.

        The y sound is ambiguous without a known pronunciation (tryst is pronounced trist not traist)

        • magikmw@lemm.ee
          2·
          2 days ago

          Honestly, I pronounce it differently and now I’m a bit more paranoid.

          It’s like when I called LaTeX latex and my friend burst out laughing.

          Another hard CS problem dropped: pronouncing project names.

          • easily3667@lemmus.orgEnglish
            2·
            1 day ago

            Or people who think nginx is pronounced engine rather than en-jynx…like hijinks 😱

            I also thought latex was latex and I tell you what, I have no plan to correct that error. Because it’s very clearly not an error. It’s latex. I would also accept Le têx in a super french accent :)

  • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
    293·
    3 days ago

    57k€ for someone with Rust experience?!

    Maybe that “Rewriting things in Rust is just to get rid of old people that can command high salaries” LinkedIn Lunatic was right after all…

    • Miaou@jlai.lu
      1·
      8 hours ago

      57k is more than decent for a junior, what are you talking about.

      • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        57k for a junior was “decent” in Berlin 10 years ago for anyone that could spell Javascript. Nowadays it falls squarely into “I’ll take this job because it’s better than nothing” territory.

    • Giooschi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      3 days ago

      While they don’t write it explicitly I think they’re looking for a good junior developer, given that:

      • they are not asking for Rust work experience, instead for good Rust knowledge and experience with open source development, both of which you can obtain on your own if you’re a competent student

        • but also, is there even anyone that has experience in Rust and compiler/interpreter/typesetting development and is looking for a job? If they did require that almost nobody would qualify and the cycle of “I don’t have experience for applying to this job to get experience” would continue

      • 57k€ is not a bad salary for a junior developer in Europe

      • the two founders have graduated recently (~3 years ago) and have been working on Typst since then (their master thesis was on creating Typst itself), so it’s likely they are looking for someone like them.

      • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        Once upon a time, a “meaningful wage” was something that would allow you to raise a family of 4 while living a comfortable middle class standard of living.

        57k€ gross salary in Berlin amounts to ~3360€ per month net income. Rent alone will eat 30-40% of that.

        You can survive on that salary, which is more than most people are managing to do nowadays. But to think that someone with such specialized competency should expect a “not bad” salary shows a pretty sad state of affairs.

        • BatmanAoD@programming.dev
          1·
          1 day ago

          Rent eating 30-40% of your income is extremely normal, isn’t it? Or is that only true in the US (where it has recently become much more than that for many people)?

          • rglullis@communick.news
            2·
            1 day ago

            You missed the last paragraph, didn’t you?

            I don’t know about you, but I don’t think we should accept to be working for less or to accept a lower standard of living just because so many people have it worse.

            As long as your work is:

            • honest
            • ethical
            • providing real value to whoever is paying for it
            • not pushing externalities for others

            Then “what is normal” should have no bearing in this.

              • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
                1·
                24 hours ago

                Not so much of a good measure of how you live but on how much (or little) people are left for other things, including saving/investing towards their own homes.

                • BatmanAoD@programming.dev
                  1·
                  23 hours ago

                  I feel like we’re talking past each other. My impression was that 30% towards your living situation is a pretty decent target; what would you expect the percentage to be?

    • deur@feddit.nl
      64·
      3 days ago

      Lol what a weird ass conspiracy theory take to waste my time reading

        • Kissaki@programming.devEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          They’re claiming this being representative of the rust space and that rust is being pushed to drive out expense seniors. You think that’s a valid point to make?

  • KillTheMule@programming.dev
    5·
    2 days ago

    Man, I’d love that, if only the pay was better… but than again, if the pay was better I’d be even less qualified. But typst is awesome, all the best wishes for the team including the new hire :)