The issue isn't actually reddit charging for API access, its how much they're charging. $0.24c per 1000 api requests which for high volume apps isn't feasible.
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?
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..)
From my own experience being single with that wage range I would say it was enough that i didn't have to think about how much money I used on everyday activities while still having something left over to add to my savings. Not enough to like travel all the time or buying crazy luxury items, but enough that money wasn't something I had to think about.
It's obviously difficult to try to compare actual numbers, but I think I had 5-10K DKK (670-1340 EUR) in surplus at the end of every month at that time. Obviously things are different when you have a partner and/or kids - or you might just get less lucky with how cheap you can rent or buy an apartment.
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.
> 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.
Well, when Apple was letting other people ship hardware with their OS, I don't think they bundled a browser or restricted their hardware partners from bundling one. Also, in those days, Safari didn't exist. I think Apple may have bundled IE 5.5 for a while, but I'm not totally sure.
People do complain about Safari being the only browser engine on Mac. But on desktop, might as well have Safari so you can download something else without using the command line; which is also what IE/Edge is good for (especially since windows's ftp command line wasn't very good and ftp is mostly dead)
Windows Explorer has had native FTP support forever now. All you need to do is point it at the Mozilla servers and you could get another browser without even opening up IE. Sure, it wasn't as fast as FileZilla, but it got the job done.
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.
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.
I mean irrespective of Apache/Java/Eclipse, saying to never use something made by someone just because it was developed by a company/people of a certain nationality is just silly.
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.
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.
There are some videos that do this comparison in a mostly non-scientific manner if you'd be interested to see the performance differences of a snapdragon 4100 to a 2100/3100 [1]. There's even a few videos compare Apples to Mobvois [2]. Again, fairly non-scientific. Was interesting to note that in video [2], the reviewer even goes into depth on how the TW3PG (phew) performs while connected to an iOS device (spoiler alert: he doesn't hate it!).
Since I'm a full Google boy, I couldn't entertain the idea of trying an Apple Watch even if I wanted.
I didn't search far and wide, so I'm sure - as with everything - people can cherry pick reviews one way or the other. These were the first two I found that weren't "IT'S YA BOI WATCHMAN666 COMING AT YOU WITH A SPONSORED VIDEO" when looking.
At this point, I'd maybe wait to see what the official Google Wear OS watch will look and act like - purely because it's an OEM watch for Wear OS, "surely destined for greatness" (lol), but feature-for-feature, ounce-for-ounce, and kwhrs-to-kwhrs, the TicWatch Pro 3 GPS has really impressed me. I was waiting around for the Google Pixel Watch or whatever they'd name it, when I was gifted this one.
The only negative experience I had was Google Assistant (yes, on my watch) wouldn't speak out loud with my Pixel 2XL phone's language was set to English (Canada). I had to set it to English (US) for my watch to speak results to me.
It should also upgrade to WearOS 3 "in the second half of 2022" (no citation on this one)
Heres a post by the developer of Apollo explaining his experience in detail https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w...