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as1992 | 3 years ago | on: My Salary History

I've only joined 2 companies, however I interviewed and turned down maybe 6 other job offers. The company I work for now is the only one that offered a signing bonus so I don't think signing bonuses are that common in Europe?

as1992 | 3 years ago | on: My Salary History

Cost of living is crazy high in Denmark though right? How does that €65-75k compare with the actual cost of living out of curiosity? ( Eg. rent, groceries, leisure activities etc..)

as1992 | 3 years ago | on: Google Play Developer Antitrust Litigation

In my opinion, its based on the perception of the companies combined with the impact they have on the general consumer market. Eg 70% of phones run Android, only 27% run iOS which makes Google a much better target to go after.

Same situation with personal computing, Windows was like 80% of the consumer/business market when the whole browser thing took place. MacOS was something like 5%. Also I've never really heard of someone complain about Safari compared to IE/Edge so maybe there wasn't any traction for something like that

Maybe someone has a better/more accurate answer than that but thats just how I've been perceiving it.

as1992 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

https://spotify.smithy.dev/

Built it in a few hours in 2021, my girlfriend and I have a collaborative Spotify playlist, and as everyone knows Spotifys shuffle feature sucks. When on a road trip we'd constantly have the same songs play while on shuffle mode, so I built this, it basically just does a Fisher–Yates shuffle on a selected playlist and allows you to save this new order back to the playlist on Spotify (non destructive on Spotify, which unfortunately means an API call per song order change). Now no need to use Spotifys shuffle! Its worked well for us, we actually get a properly random playlist order.

Price: €0 Cost to me: Like €7 a month for a VPS than runs other stuff as well.

as1992 | 3 years ago | on: How Tinder Changed Everything

When Tinder first came out, and in its early years, I think it was great. Aside from a dating aspect, I used to use it when travelling to meet other travellers. I met my current girlfriend through Tinder. Like most good things, Tinder was ruined when profit took priority over the product. Last time I used it (2020~) it was a mix of fake profiles, misleading upgrade prompts and expensive premium plans.

as1992 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How is the remote vs in-person trend looking?

Based on my own experience as a SWE (Working with a previous company up until May 2022, job searching from Feb 2022 , and now at a new company)

The vast majority of companies are willing to hire remote, but a lot only within locations they have the legal means to do so (eg. Legal entity, contract with Deel or other company). It seemed during 2020/early 2021 people were saying it was going to be a "global job market", which in my understanding meant you could get a job in any country in the world, easy.

While it's true in my experience you can get a job in any country in the world, it's not that easy. A lot of companies do not want to hire outside areas they have a legal entity in, Eg. a company has an office in Paris, they'll hire remotely anywhere in France, but good luck if you're based in Spain.

Companies that will hire most anywhere are far and few between, and generally from what I've seen are smaller, startup/small business sized companies.

Take the above with a pinch of salt as that is purely my own experience, and could be bias based on what I was looking for.

as1992 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why does WWDC get 10x more views than Google I/O?

I've a TicWatch Pro (2018 release I think?) and I absolutely hate it, well thats not true. I hate WearOS on it. The watch itself is lovely, its the software that lets it down, constant lagging, freezing, unresponsive touches etc.. I came across a XDA post on optimising it by disabling animations and removing lots of the bloatware on it, and thats improved its performance a good bit. Compared to my girlfriends Apple Watch though, it feels like I'm using severely outdated tech (Not 4 year old, more like 14 year old)

Have you had the same experience with the Pro 3? I'd be interesting in upgrading if it was better.

as1992 | 4 years ago | on: Vue 3 as the New Default

> I'll just use React if I need to write useX nonsense.

You don't need to. The options API still has 1st class support. The docs allow you to switch between composition API and options API.

as1992 | 4 years ago | on: I Invented Baileys (2017)

> I, on the other hand, was most definitely an arriviste, having fled South Africa in 1961 aboard the Cape Town Castle to occupy a mattress on a floor in a shared room in Earl’s Court.

He was South African though ;)

I'd agree though, off brand baileys just doesn't taste the same. I think it was Aldi I bought a similar one from before, and It was fine, but it's kind of similar to Pepsi vs Coke. I like pepsi, but if I order Coke, and I get pepsi, I'm disappointed as I was expecting Coke, even though to me both taste similar and I like both.

as1992 | 5 years ago | on: Stripe Will Pay Workers $20k to Leave New York and San Francisco

That's a pretty ridiculous statement. Workers that are paid massive salaries in the likes of SF & NYC is because the cost of living in those cities justify it.

So you're on 150k in SF say, you move to, I don't know some small city in Texas, you get 20k to move, you make 135k a year and your cost of living has probably dropped by 70%. That doesn't sound like a "scumbaggish" move to me. That sounds like a company trying to entice it's employees to get out of the crazy expensive cities.

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