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mathverse··on Programmer in Berlin: Culture
German companies pay peanuts to tech workers and lost the tech decade. No surprise here.
mathverse··on Programmer in Berlin: Culture
Quite the opposite. It made me realize that if the US took better stewardship of Eastern Europe we would all be better off.

I feel more connected to americans and their way of life than Germans.

mathverse··on Musk, Bezos need just 90 minutes to match your lifetime carbon footprint: Oxfam
We are headed towards the future of what "Snowpiercer" depicts if we dont tackle this.
mathverse··on Italy declares its "web tax" applicable to any digital service worldwide
The problem is euro-racism and not much integration of workers and businesses in EU.

A successful french startup means a loss of jobs and wealth to other countries. DACH customers will prefer working with DACH companies, French customers will prefer working with French startups.

If you dont work in english speaking environment (IT) moving countries within EU is practically impossible for people working normal jobs.

mathverse··on Italy declares its "web tax" applicable to any digital service worldwide
I am european and I think our countries are in a massive state of decline Slovakia introduced tax on digital financial transactions for next year.

As a European I want OUT of this hellhole.

mathverse··on Rider is now free for non-commercial use
Majority of employees are russians including the C level
mathverse··on Rider is now free for non-commercial use
The majority of employees and C-level are russians. It is a Russian company.
mathverse··on Rider is now free for non-commercial use
The company is not czech. Russians are an overwhelming majority of the employees.
mathverse··on Rider is now free for non-commercial use
They are a russian company. Russians despite their evil empire are smart and capable people.
mathverse··on Are remote workers working all day? Here's what they're doing instead
Maybe remote work is not for everyone but it absolutely is for some people.

I work way way more from home than I ever did from office because of how structured my routine is. My employer squeezes most of my time as i work too much and cant myself take breaks during the day.

mathverse··on Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week
Never heard of this? Where? What location?
mathverse··on Ask HN: Is webdev getting complicated without results to show for it?
Yeah it became a rocket science with high barrier of entry. Like DevOps.
mathverse··on America's best-paid CEOs have the worst-paid employees
I dont care how much people are paid but C levels pay should be affected when cost reductions are being implemented.
mathverse··on Apple to upgrade base Macs to 16GB RAM, starting from Apple M4 models
With the amount of electron apps we use we definitely need more ram in laptops.
mathverse··on Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing
No longer true. 40-60k would be reasonable in those countries as well.
mathverse··on Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing
It's an interesting phenomena but to be honest you need a leader with a vision to change the course of history. Circa 2006-2012 everyone orbiting the DACH sphere of influence believed they need to speak german even in tech jobs and then due to USA's influence and huge market we realized we actually dont give a crap about DACH that much. Thus it spawned companies in EE,Baltics and everywhere else with a focus on mostly american market.

And then all of a sudden due to lack of workers and other factors even DACH began to change and basically accepted English as the defacto working language in tech.

Unfortunately it's a small change, too little too late as they say. Without proper transeuropean companies and unified market we will never be able to challenge competitors from Asia let alone the USA.

mathverse··on Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing
French speakers are a serious mystery to me. They are much better stewards when it comes to tech and cooperation but they are so much stuck up with their need to "speak french" that it hinders any progress.

At least DACH made the progress of opening up. It would be ideal to combine DACH liberalism for language and french attitude towards tech and innovation.

mathverse··on Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing
Not only that but them being stubborn and with a superiority complex. DACH companies rule EE with their capital and often manage to prototype and execute very much innovative features focused on convenience in the EE region (with local engineers etc). But this will never transform into something bigger because management wont allow non DACH people to assume executive roles + conservative market in their countries.
mathverse··on Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing
Yea this is so gonna work with them paying 50-60k/pa for engineers. Seriously DACH mentality and influence has been devastating on serious tech development in Europe
mathverse··on The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
If u are from a small country and you travel a lot it absolutely throws google off.

I never get any relevant ads or videos for me :(.

mathverse··on Show HN: See the impact on your cloud costs as you code
Do you have some testimonials from customers to show us how do they use it and what value do they get out of it?

In my org 50k-100k cloud bill I don't see that much use for it (mainly we are not increasing our costs significantly and we roughly know what we are paying for).

I can see a lot of value for indie/small/medium sized biz but the commercial of that is too high in my opinion.

mathverse··on Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful
What kind of license do I need to buy for the bindings to be updated?
mathverse··on Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful
Ultimately as a user / customer I dont care who maintains the bindings I need to use to achieve my goal.
mathverse··on Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful
Sciter desperately needs an evangelist who can reply and help people with their problems and just in general provide support and work on the ecosystem. I think from what I remember from indiehackers you are not there yet to be able to afford it but we desperately need that.

Even paying pravic to keep the libraries for different languages up to date would be of great help.

mathverse··on Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)
For every checkbox unchecked there should be a pop-up ad.
mathverse··on Microsoft makes Copilot less useful on new Copilot Plus PCs
It's absolutely crazy they dont have an internal toolkit a la QT that allows them to create performant multiplatform apps. It's really mind boggling.

Even their OneDrive uses just QT.

mathverse··on eu/acc
I am European but ur reply perfectly represents why the EU is doomed to fail. The monopolistic super companies will be created no matter what EU does. They are and will be just created somewhere else and EU will be left with nothing just bunch of tier2-3 suppliers to these behemoths.
mathverse··on Google lays off its Python team
Munich is HCOL even for European standards. Just a tiny bit behind London and Switzerland.
mathverse··on Show HN: Meegle – Jira alternative with workflow visualization
That is honestly totally fine. Companies dont want to deal with penny pinchers. They want a reliable corporate customer who is willing to commit to a yearly plan.
mathverse··on IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal
IBM will gut everything to the bone and send most of the jobs to India.

There will be nothing worth of using pretty soon as we will all move to the next big foss thing.

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