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99% of software developers earn less than 200 USD a hour

On related note there is exiftool which tries to understand all those different formats https://exiftool.org/ And it has it's own forums with tens of thousands of posts!

You do not sound very genuine. It does not say it is multi-entry fee enywhere. For tourists very few countries ask more except visa fee (and many do not require visa at all). For U…

What happened to wikipedia in 2024?

I live with firefox mobile engine for webview without any issue

You are correct but please read: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments

I have similar story. Recently facebook forced me to enable 2-factor auth but adding SMS did not work for me for a whole week and I just deleted the app. Later I opened facebook fr…

That's just wrong. Telegram is trusted by both Ukraine and Russia. That tells a lot. Also I am living near Russian border and remember well how Durov left Russia and I am quite sur…

I always ask people to give example of real world SPAs where JS is "used well" and nobody could give me an example

As an example, 80% of third-party content I receive on Facebook is soft Russian propoganda: Some examples: * general auto blog which writes about how 80% of details of some cars ar…

We used .dev before google registered it so we migrated to another paid domain so we don't need to pay huge amount per year to google

At my work we have similar issues with all big companies we have some kind of integration. Apple, Google, Facebook... Even Huawei app store decided to copy our apps without asking …

That's why we offloaded phone validation to Telegram - it is too costly to send SMS in other countries than our home market and spammers are finding ways to get phone numbers for f…

Verifying phone number is one of the last things which is still effective when fighting against bot registrations. Alternative is to ask money for registration. Here is idea for ha…

In rural places car is neccessity everywhere in the world, but in urban it is not

open source tracing tools can be easily locally hosted

At my work we use Capistrano for PHP projects. It does not matter in which language project is written. You can still use ruby Capistrano and it works good enough

I haven't see any project which feels fast which are written in React. But most important thing for me which is broken (because it is too difficult to catch all edge cases) in all …

Ukrainians are good developers themselves. Maybe you can automate finding Western busineses still using software made in Russia and recomend alternatives. Or nudge Western IT compa…

Recently we are having issues with recaptcha/hcaptcha as bots seem to have broken them or got very cheap services to solve them. Only Cloudflare Turnstile helps us now. No wonder a…

Quality of code is very relevant for business success for millions of reasons. * good and self-respecting developers will not work on bad quality code. Business will be left with b…

Inflation is good for some people if they are heavily indebted. Amount to pay back stays the same but wages grow

One of the main metric for build time for me is to make it fast enough so you do not want switch to other task at all

I can asks admins about peering. I have no idea as am am developer :) We are hosted in Latvia (DEAC data centers) and we manage our servers on our own

I work at inbox.eu. You can use it for free if you are ok with sending max 3 emails per day. You need to verify mobile phone or verify account via Telegram for free acounts. Also 9…