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Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by type0 »

niwork wrote: post #214
glotgizmo wrote: post #202

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This is pretty accurate and refreshing to see. Contray to everyone elses salaries, UK (excl. London) seems very low. I am just below the £45k mark with 3 years at my current company and 12ish years overall. So should be bang on your numbers when it comes to 5-10 years at this company.

Where in the UK are you based? Don't get disheartened when you read these big salaries online. The average reader isn't bothering to post theirs. The UK is actually pretty good when it comes to IT salaries. Go to France, for example, and they're much lower. The attitude to devs is quite poor in a lot of places, treating us like we're one rung above car mechanics. We also have a good contract market in the UK; in many…

> Go to France, for example, and they're much lower.

Personally heard some horror stories from french IT, any particular reason that attitudes don't change there?

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by ThinkBeat »

I welcome more non-American owned or hosted companies in this space but going from practically zero to take on AWS is a heck of a long way to go,and would require enormous amounts of capital.

Hopefully, they can stat out with offerings that are especially attractive for European retailers or something like that.

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by type0 »

jryle70 wrote: post #253
zwaps wrote: post #225

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Nobody would or should trust Amazon, an American company, to actually stand by those promises. It will syphon off any trade secrets and other infos, especially if the NSA asks. It has literally happened. I think after Snowden we should have gotten wise on how much official treaties and promises are worth. Before, this was the thinking of conspiracy nuts. Now it is prudent consideration. Germans would now, the US lite…

This is a weak argument, because that prudence should be extended to Lindl as well. Do you think Lindl would resist if Germany intelligence service (BND) asks, no matter how crazy that may sound now? What is implication for a client, says, in France or Poland?

US plays "Big" on surveillance intelligence online. BND and other European agencies could be as invasive when they get free hands, but the difference is the level of patriotism and privacy conciseness of the people running the business. Here I rather choose that my data stays on this side of the pound.

Edit: what I mean is that I expect more willful cooperation from American companies just by the level of available evidence.

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by verylittlemeat »

oh_sigh wrote: post #477
verylittlemeat wrote: post #471

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You could say that for any informal familiar expression that makes the recipient bristle. It's so common people joke about it "don't call me dude, bro | don't call me bro, pal" etc etc

No, you couldn't.

As a black person among black people? Can, have and will continue to.

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by TulliusCicero »

C1sc0cat wrote: post #441
TulliusCicero wrote: post #391

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> So there are not enough lanes open then (sounds like poor time and motion work) How exactly is having more lanes going to help with the conveyor belt being small? > just how much stuff are you buying that you cant fit it on the belt? So the implication here is that it's my fault for buying too much stuff? I was buying enough for at least a handful of days for a family of 3 that's stuck at home. I was trying to buy…

More lanes less congestion at each lane Its maybe that maybe Lidl / German stores are cheeping out on the store fit out - you can get lanes that can support two customers packing.

Maybe. But German grocery stores are also quite small.

Like, the setup works fine for the way Germans go grocery shopping: smaller amounts of groceries, two or three times a week. It just sucks for families if you wanna buy more at once.

I miss Costco.

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by vertis »

SturgeonsLaw wrote: post #190
occamrazor wrote: post #166

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I guess you mean the 2nd person form (du or ihr fir singular or plural) instead of the 3rd person plural (Sie), which is the courtesy form fir singular and plural. Yes, in German it’s a big deal, roughly the same as saying “Hey dude” instead of “Good morning Mr Smith”.

One of the perks of being an Aussie is calling everyone from the frontline workers to the C-suite 'mate'

I don't think I've ever seen someone at a tech company in Australia refer to someone as 'mate'. Certainly not C-suite.

For the most part, I find the use of mate as obnoxious at worst and awkward at best.

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by k__ »

woodpanel wrote: post #466
bencw wrote: post #342

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Why is this? Is there a brain drain going on?

Having worked in multiple German Blue Chips, my 5 cents: - Brain-drain, likely (US vs German salaries is a joke) but also likely offset by brain-gain from other places (in my experience only Scandinavia, Netherlands and Switzerland beat German salaries, lately) - safety-seeking culture draws the wrong people to the big corps. The more of them there are, the worse productivity and innovation gets. - because of their a…

"safety-seeking culture draws the wrong people to the big corps"

So true.

I have the feeling big German corps are basically a work creation scheme.

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by redis_mlc »

smnrchrds wrote: post #478
eru wrote: post #355

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Do you have a link to a write-up on the loophole in the USPS pricing rules somewhere? Edit: I found a few articles. Seems mostly a lesson on how you shouldn't have a government monopoly on the postal service in your country..

I can't find the article. Would you mind linking to it?

Adding to my previous comment.

The Netflix business model hacks were:

1) First class mail (cheaper than media mail packages for bare DVDs) with likely letter-carrier presorting, volume and whatever other postal discounts (hence hiring former Postmaster Generals) were available, plus an agreement with the Post Ofice to manually sort DVDs to avoid machine damage using their light-weight mailer:

"Bulk Discounts. First-Class Mail commercial pricing is available for presorted letters, flats, and packages with a minimum quantity of 500 mailpieces. Automation discounts may also apply."

https://www.usps.com/ship/first-class-mail.htm

See the 2000/2001 mailers for the prepaid first-class stamp:

http://blog.dvd.netflix.com/new-dvd-releases/the-evolution-o...

Also, if you get a tour of a main post office or sorting facility, you will see bins labelled "Netflix", so DVDs get special handling and slightly faster return delivery.

2) Because Netflix was the first adopter of #1 for DVD's, they won a ruling that they could continue to use First Class pricing. (The Post Office tried to move them to media mail which allows better packaging (at much higher cost) for automated handling, but that was viewed as anti-competitive by the court.)

https://www.courthousenews.com/post-office-cant-raise-rates-...

(I used to be an expert in postal bulk rates around that time.)

3) First-sale doctrine allowing multiple rentals of the same DVD without further payments to the studios. (Streaming requires payment per stream.)

https://freakonomics.com/2013/03/22/a-brave-new-world-for-co...

For HN readers, I believe this is the first detailed analysis of both their postage pricing strategy and first-sale doctrine in one article, likely because few people know about both bulk mail and IP.

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by 40four »

dang wrote: post #462
40four wrote: post #366

This quality of this article is terrible. It's very short (235 words), there are no concrete sources, or solid evidence that this is real. This is nothing more than speculation. Is this considered journalism is 2020? Even more sad, is when you search and try to find better sources, and realize that it's mostly just a few small, outlier publications, copy and pasting off of each other. Business Insider unabashedly cop…

You're probably right, but the thread turned out to be unexpectedly interesting.

Fair point. I'll reconsider where I said 'stop talking about it'. Even bad stories can spawn good conversation! Some interesting inside experiences/ opinions about Schwarz Group were shared. Sometimes I need to keep my angry morning rant to myself! I'll try to keep this in mind in the future.
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