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Very flexible indeed. Anywhere from 30k€/y (entry level, junior dev) till 60-70k€/y (top talent with work experience and some management duties) is possible for a regular full time job - sometimes more, but extreme rates are still pretty uncommon here. (Note though that you've got around the same standard of living here than for double the amount in dollars in the valley.)
What you're don't want the place to wind up like America, do you?

(This is how some places view USA, as an example of what to avoid)
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There are no corporate politics in Germany? That's pretty awesome.

In all seriousness though, you're cherry picking some of the bad stuff about the US. I'm sure if you wanted, you could do the same thing about Germany or anywhere else. For instance: the weather, the lack of anything remotely resembling a mountain near Berlin, and, most importantly, the lack of good Mexican food.
Tx. Yeah, I quite know the standard of living, I'm from Warsaw, not the valley thought, and been there a few times ;)
Just a simpleton point here:

I read a lot of stuff, every day, about how evil google and its chromey thing steal all our personal information and use it to advance their super villain take over of the world.

So, um, why would any body bothered by security want to use google?

Its like "Q" department being supplied by Dr No.
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> the lack of anything remotely resembling a mountain near Berlin

Bavaria and Switzerland are not that far. Polish Sudety even closer and much cheaper.

> most importantly, the lack of good Mexican food.

Tex-mex is an American obsession. In Europe we have mediterranean. A doner-kebab is for us what a taco is to you, and say what you want, but kebab is a snack there's no shortage of in Berlin.
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Being motivated by a living wage isn't the same as being motivated by the lure of millions.
Are the application developers supposed to add any functionality to HUD or it just recognizes menu items automagically?
This is from 2010, and was already fixed in Python 3.2

http://bugs.python.org/issue9666
> Watching savings pile up

You could always buy a house and have some kids - that's a great way to reverse those kinds of trends:-)
There is a big difference between being part of a business which "failed" and personal bankruptcy - that's the benefit of limited liability, after all.
I don't understand the point you're making. If someone stole baseball card they'd be charged with theft. What's the difference here?
Perhaps I've been conditioned by living in Europe, but my definition of "not far" means I can ride my bike to it!

Kebabs are great (we have them here too in Italy), but sorry, I'll take good Mexican food any day:-)
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> Ever notice how real banks don't do that

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3656063
> but my definition of "not far" means I can ride my bike to it

haha, well... I thought of going for a weekend, not after work. There are a few nice Mexican restaurants in Warsaw, so I know the deal, still sadly mex didn't somehow fall into the 'grab a taco and walk' category as I see on American movies, this space is totally occoupied by kebabs.

(btw, HN could display a country next to the nickname, so there's no "oh, you're not from the US too".)
Books... not so much. I have another idea: you could check out an MVC-framework like codeigniter or CakePHP. There are numerous tutorials about them, and they give you the added benefit of working with an MVC pattern (knowledge you can use in other languages and frameworks as well, such as Ruby on Rails) and working Object Oriented.

In my opinion, a big drawback of PHP is that it's so easy to screw up because it's easy to pick up. There are so many tutorials out there which will let you make a procedural, cross-scripted, sql-injected security liability spaghetti code... Starting with CodeIgniter or CakePHP is not very hard, especially when you have a little understanding on basic programming with PHP.
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The impedance mismatch is real which anyone who has seen stored procs written by app developers can verify....

What NoSQL does is give you a light-weight object store which could have some very cool uses. Those uses are also pretty narrow for the reasons the article mentions (assuming the questions you have now are all the questions that are important for example).

However, I think some of the solutions may help in relational environments with the edge cases.
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The kebabs are something else in Berlin. Much more like a Taco than those greasy things you see elsewhere in the world.
I thought the idea was if someone copied your bitcoins it was essentially a race to be the first to spend them. I guess if you're stealing bitcoins, though, you're going to be quick to run them through a couple of transactions to claim ownership of them.

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I was about to argue with you, then I remembered that my #1 personal goal is to get good enough off-piste to give La Grave a serious go:

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I actually said to my wife yesterday evening that I'd rather ski Polar Star Couloir than found a billion dollar business (a terrible thing to admit on HN) - she was not amused....

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[Of course, the right attitude to take is to found the billion dollar business then ski insane couloirs in the Artic ;-) - not that any of these are exactly on the cards at the moment].

[Edit - Apologies for the ski fanaticism, it's the time of year, I start foaming at the mouth when anyone mentions skiing].
though not really Mexican we have Dolores here in Berlin - as good as calimex can get!
And unfortunetly there is just as much "corporate politics" in Germany as elsewhere - might be expresed diferently and via different routes.
Greesy kebabs with a lot of sauce 'spicy, mild or mix?' are a European invention I think. I've been to a few middle-eastern countries including Turkey and haven't seen sauce in kebab ever (still they give sauce in Berlin).
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> Only funds that you have daily access to need be vulnerable to the latter point

I'm talking about protocol risk: e.g., the software that implements the protocol on some machine is flawed, so the cryptography can be effectively breached. Or there is some issue with the protocol, like but worse than the issue Kaminsky found with anonymity.

>Can you keep N redundant copies of your gold?

Have you ever found that your backups didn't contain what they were supposed to contain?

Gold gets stolen, but besides such things as costume jewellery, I think it doesn't often get lost.
And JFK died of a bullet, but we still wonder how it got there.
iirc, Steve Wozniak did something similar: when Apple went public without giving anything to the early employees, Woz basically gave/sold (cheaply) them stock from his own holdings.
Context: I founded companies in CEE and moved to London.

Many people mention mindset and cultural attitude in the comments.
To me "mindset and culture" are just symtoms. The reason is very simple:

The markets in europe (compared to the US) have:
Same downside. Smaller upside.

This leads to less risk friendly and safer (slower) patterns and systems. Incorporated over centuries this leads to cultural attitude and mindset.

It's not that this is the best attitude for doing startups. But it is a (market) selected attitude for doing business within these markets. The best ways to break this: Minimize your downside (skip problem-solution phase by copycating) or don't be limit to the market (by far harder due to media (and ultimately network) bubbles).
I am a German engineering student. I will try to describe the situation as I see it from here.

1. Start-Ups are lacking incentives:

Germans are obsessed with evaluating risks and will almost always go for the safe bet, rather the risky way. Its somehow ingrained in our culture. So the college grad has two options: 1- Land a safe job in the industry (eg. automotive), company benefits maybe even a company car. Thanks to relatively good job security and the good state of the economy you can probably work there for a long time, maybe not the highest income but good for suburban life + 2 spain vacations a year. 2 - You have that Idea. But there is a high chance you will fail. You will have to spend alot of time learning company laws, tax problems, etc. And while there is a chance that you can be a wealthy man while building you dream product. You will spend most of your time thinking about failure (even if you dont even have wife and kids to support). - By the time I finished building product x (and then probably fail), I will have reached a higher position and a company car a bigcorp - why bother the risk.
Also talent acquisitions are rarely head of, we don't have Google or Apple who will aquire a small media/tech company for the people. Big money is in other industries that have a higher barrier of entry than web-startups.

2. Germans don't get the valley VC investment strategies:

Throwing millions of $'s on company's that dont have a business plan, just because it may be the next google/facebook/...? Considering failure as the norm, just because one of 100 company's you fund will go public. Germanys company culture is built around long time growth and substitutability. Big companys like Bosch ( €51billion revenue, 300k employees) are family owned (and 92% goes into a charity). Try to explain your SV funding business model to a german business person and he will shake his head and dont even try to get a bank loan.

3. Lack of entrepreneur networks:

SV is described in the way of "you can bump into a VC guy in a coffee shop and pitch him on your idea". Everyone know everyone, several events, money everywhere. I am not 100% up to date with the berlin scene but I dont think it is quite there. Although universities try to built networks and encourage students to start a company its nowhere near the possibilities of SV

4. Perfection mentality

Also known as "Ingenieurs-Mentalität". Its also a cultural thing I guess, especially at technical institutes / universities. If it isnt perfect you dont even think about bothering someone else with it. Never ship something that is half baked.

That said I consider myself an entrepreneurial person but also struggle with those points. (Like most people on HN, I guess) I have a long list of ideas. I sometimes start to build but stop when I realize how long the way to perfection will be. I set myself a goal for this year to complete one project and release it just for the heck of it. I will report when I reach this goal.
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It's not that I disagree with you in all contexts. In many cases, the explain-from-scratch is a great way to learn something new, or at least get a foothold for further discussions. However I see it as not very useful where I prefer the trial-by-fire approach, namely in decision making in deliberative environments.

Part of the use case of a "trial by fire" approach is that the idea is to come up with a better approach than any one of us could ideally. One isn't interested in trying to use their idea as-is, nor in simply disregarding it, but in probing, understanding, and adapting it to the case at hand.

That means arguing about it in detail. Explaining from scratch may be a necessary prelude but it doesn't help really with the final deliberative process. The key is to ensure that everyone knows that these are good-natured and that most people will shape the outcome even if their ideas are not adopted wholesale.

The goal is to have an argument where everyone collectively wins, and where each reasonable participant (meaning, most of the time, every individual participant) individually wins as well, in the sense of having their concerns incorporated into the final view.
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Let me rephrase. Of course there's corporate politics here. There will always be because greed is a very human trait. The difference is that greed is something commonly seen much more positive in the US. We just fired our president because of a "corruption scandal" that would have been piecemeal for Romney or Berlusconi (we're talking about some couple thousand bucks here). It's one of the first countries with a politically meaningful and rapidly growing movement for net neutrality and liquid democracy (-> pirate party). I wasn't trying to paint things better than they actually are - I was trying to raise awareness that you can still have a great quality of life and innovation in a business climate that's full of regulation, taxes and an exhaustive social net. If I stepped on anyone's toe, I'm sorry.
Yeah I really wondered about that as a UI decision. I'm sure many of the users here will figure that sort of thing out, but I'm curious whether or not my parents will ever discover the existence of that sort of thing.
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The more blatant example is the restrictions they impose on code they don't ship: their app store policies make it impossible to distribute GPL code.
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I agree that such tone and lack of justification might sound a bit off-putting—I left grandparent trying to soften that impression. (Add: Although I like chegra's post for its practicality. If you follow that advice, there's a very high change you will feel better no matter what.)

However, your statement about ‘underlying issues’ is confusing. You don't name these, yet claim that they can't be cured by certain methods. I wonder what, in your opinion, these issues are.

I think they often are just these—bad diet and physical shape, lack of social interaction. And bike rides can help that (especially considering mostly sedentary lifestyle).

Although there's another important thing that may be an issue, which you actually reminded me about. It's hard to communicate what it is—maybe it could be called ‘mental shape’.

My latest depression basically ended when I learned to allow my mind to rest, and gained some control over my thoughts. I often see studies now suggesting that our well-being inversely depends on how much we think. I have an impression at the moment that certain brain activity (which is related to abstract thinking and appears to happen somewhere in frontal lobe) does indeed contribute to feeling unhappy, that being in ‘flow’ reduces that activity, and that trying to do multiple things at once / frequent context switching increases that activity.

Anyway, since that depression I still experience difficult periods sometimes, but I think they are mostly health-induced. We shouldn't underestimate how physical problems can influence our thinking. E.g., you can eat food that you're unknowingly allergic to, it will make you feel constantly tired, therefore forcing you to spend most of your time at home, the consequences of which (lack of sunlight / movement, for two) can cause yet another host of problems, and so on.

To sum up, my supported by anecdotal evidence, layman speculations, and personal experience opinion is that depression is often caused by being, probably unknowingly, out-of-shape mentally (i.e., overthinking) and/or physically (bad diet, other health problems).

I hope OP will feel better soon. Being out to a coffee-shop is already good, keep it up!
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