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IloveHN84 | 6 years ago | on: Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer

Yeah, it's really rare that the company where you work for more than 5 years gives you a $50K+ raise, if you get 5k or 10K you are already at the top. But you are invaluable, because of all the stuff you've learned and can do.. leaving will mean bigger costs

IloveHN84 | 6 years ago | on: Climate change made European heatwave up to 3°C hotter

Strange enough, in central Europe it's like having spring, the temperatures are like 20-24 degrees (Berlin, Germany area), while other neighbours are melting down

IloveHN84 | 6 years ago | on: Germans Grow Frustrated with Their Slow-Poke Internet

It's not only a matter of speed..the prices are really high compared to neighborhood.

For instance, you pay 10€ / month in Italy and you get 50 GB of LTE data. In Germany you pay 10€ and you get at most 3GB

IloveHN84 | 6 years ago | on: Amazon Is a Monopoly

Well, years ago, when Amazon wasn't a monopoly, who had the choice to make it one?

The final user.

Personally, I've never used Amazon before seeing a friend ordering a fairly huge amount of stuff from there. Prior to that, I was a not-so-obsessed-from-ecommerce eBay user, where I placed an order maybe every 4-5 months. I've started using Amazon because of its returning policy, which is better that eBay's, but by doing so, i've also increased the amount of stuff bought on the platform, because of time. Getting older and having more responsibilities, you've to save some time, then Amazon comes to rescue when it comes to generic stuff.

I guess now it's really late to blame Amazon for the monopoly, as well as Microsoft did in 90s with PCs and Google is doing nowadays with Android+Chrome.

Sure, there are alternatives, but the final decision on who gets the monopoly is the user

IloveHN84 | 6 years ago | on: Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality

Don't let be fooled by the "tourist impression". Staying for some days isn't the same as living in a place, involving commuting to work, bringing children to school, etc

Every city looks nice as a Tourist, but then it's hard if you live there and in the false zone of the city (=farest away)

IloveHN84 | 6 years ago | on: Japan's Women Opt Out of Marriage

It will be the beginning of our extinction least in rich and developed countries, where millennials strive to survive due to poor boomers' financial and political choices (sorry, but nobody mentioned it).

Give millennials more money that they actually receive and you'll see people take marriage as a choice again

IloveHN84 | 6 years ago | on: Site is being hosted and served by a Macintosh SE/30 running macOS 7.5.5

But isn't that energy inefficient due to high Watts/hour usage?

IloveHN84 | 6 years ago | on: Apple Card restrictions include no jailbreaking or cryptocurrency purchases

Looks like car makers pumping 500hp under the hood and then speed limiting to 250km/h (Audi, Mercedes, BMW related?).

IloveHN84 | 6 years ago | on: Why Developers Hate Coding Skills Tests and What Hiring Managers Can Do

Maybe just for big money

IloveHN84 | 6 years ago | on: Why Developers Hate Coding Skills Tests and What Hiring Managers Can Do

Test their ability by assigning them some paid task for a week and look for results: if they return good results, hire them. If not, dump them, but it's a win-win for fresh grads and for companies.

IloveHN84 | 6 years ago | on: Why Developers Hate Coding Skills Tests and What Hiring Managers Can Do

Amazon runs codility tests prior to a phone chat.

IloveHN84 | 6 years ago | on: Living Near Trees, Not Just Green Space, Improves Wellbeing

That happens in Berlin too.. if you're out of Kreuzberg/Mitte/Prenzlauer Berg, you're too far away

IloveHN84 | 6 years ago | on: NeverSSL – helping you get online

Using this site? No thanks, don't want to be injected with bad JavaScript code or other kind of trackers.

IloveHN84 | 6 years ago | on: Devilution – A web port of the original Diablo game

What about other OSes? Is just a Mac issue?

IloveHN84 | 6 years ago | on: Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again

Another justification to the more increased prices expected in newer Keynote

IloveHN84 | 6 years ago | on: The Hottest Phones for the Next Billion Users Aren’t Smartphones

Because most app writers don't know how to write native code? See all the bloated React powered apps out there

IloveHN84 | 6 years ago | on: How SAML 2.0 Authentication Works

Well most of the software is crap because almost all of them use Shibboleth, where every configuration is stored in ugly XML files and then a reconfiguration means restarting the service with new XML files.

SAML is very used at Government level and because Government likes JavaEE so much, but the libraries/frameworks implementing/offering SAML are pretty garbage

IloveHN84 | 6 years ago | on: Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs

My comment might be controversial, but for 649$, the hardware specs are felt like a smartphone of 2-3 years ago (or even more). They could have invested in a octa-core phone and more RAM or a better rear camera. 13Mpixels cameras are there since the Samsung Galaxy S4, for instance. When the phone will come out, I will be already old.

Sure, the final user isn't the typical iOS/Android one, but the lack of fundamental applications and a real app ecosystem should led them thinking of reducing their tag price.

IloveHN84 | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best alternative to LG 27inch 5K monitors?

Samsung 4K Monitor..I've found some of them on Amazon at around 300-350€

IloveHN84 | 6 years ago | on: Everyone Is an Entrepreneur – No Excuses

But what about money? No money, no fun, no company