Curzel

Agree… only issue might be managers and supervisors coming from manufacturing in Asia, they will have to re-learn how to treat workers, but I am hopeful

Yeah, but if backpacks ever become available without backorder I might make a single big order next year, who knows!

It's not cheap but it does not seem to be too bad of a value...

YouTuber's merch is generally meant to be a way of supporting a show you like, so once you factor that in, I'm happy with the price

They did explain their reasoning behind this during WAN a few weeks ago.

In short, they are trying to make shipping price more fair for the average customer (including those oversea, or in remote regions) by making shipping a bit more expensive where it is cheaper.

Charging people nearby a bit extra allows them to offset some of those costs.

They provided a few examples of backpacks shipping to remote regions in Canada (I forgot the name, sorry) custom upwards of hundreds of dollars, but they capped shipping price to 50/60$ for every customer.

Very happy to hear that (I live in Europe), but obviously you're probably not a fan of the idea as much as I am hahaha

Most Italian companies do this for Christmas/new years eve, but also for “Ferragosto” 15th of august, some mandating even 2 weeks off!!

Italy, as a whole is basically completely shut off during the central weeks in august, with hotel prices easily doubling July prices… go figure out why hahaah

By law, there’s generally 4 weeks go paid leave, and the unwritten agreement is that the employer peeks 2 of them for you…

Tech companies generally dont do this, maybe to feel more international and modern

My former employer mandated that everyone took days off every Friday of July. I happen to live ~2 hours away from the see and 10 minutes away from the lake and in a area with a lot of hiking to do, so that was cool.

Still, I can’t picture myself doing it all year around… maybe because I don’t have kids… I would prefer a shorter workday

Also, Friday off, but that it taken out of your own paid leave days!!

I guess this was a big deal 30-40-50 years ago when it was setup, especially for factory workers, but it’s 2022, come on!

> Buy tickets button (which should always point you to the correct website to get tickets from) There you go, being tickets "digital", Apple wants a 30% cut, and they are basically forcing you to implement in-app payments. It sucks man!

Try change the wording from "Buy Tickets" to "Get more information" or "Visit Website" to get around the review process, and work from there

Exactly!

I swear I don't understand of some people seems to be using browsers... Let me know if the following sound weird to you, this is what I usually do...

I have 3 browser windows:

- Chrome window with personal Google Account and 2-5 tabs

- Chrome window with company Google Account and 2-5 tabs

- A third browser window as a media player (https://github.com/curzel-it/pipper)

Bookmark bar is set to always visible, and I have exactly 10 bookmarks: Company browser:

- Mail

- Backlog view

- Sprint view

- Company doc tool (Confluence, Nuclino, ...)

- Calendar

- Gitlab

- Some other link Gitlab

Personal window:

- Gmail

- Hacker News

- Whatsapp

If I need any reminder for reading something later I will use the reminder app.

I will try my best to either read right away or just discard.

Once I read a tab I close it. I can reopen it later, no need to have more than 10 tabs at a time... Right?

I use sleep mode to avoid getting any IM while falling asleep, never tried focus mode, but I think I should

Which rom are you using?

Some people use them and some are very, VERY effective. Problem is, that's like for the 1% of what gets sent out.

I've been working with iOS apps for 10 years or so now, I've seen apps where push notifications alone drive 20%+ of the revenue, and other projects where the opt-out rate is ~90% with an open rate of ~10% (meaning literally 99% of users ignore the notification)

Just reading this gives me Zen vibes :D

I do the opposite... Desktop is always muted, Slack and Email are on a second monitor, so I can check every hour. Phone slack notifications are set only for mentions

Ok, I guess that's another important use case! Anything else comes to your mind?

I am currently working on a project where we have 90+% of opt out from push notifications with <10% open rate, and for good reasons.

I am try to build an argument here for my manager haahah

You're the first commenter how actually "likes" notifications it seems... What apps other than IM/email/calendar/... do you allow?

Yeah, fair and simple advice! Mine was not a complaint about productivity per se, I just can't be bothered clearning them or picking out the ones I need, but I understand where you're coming from.

Interesting, so you also use features like focus modes?

Desktop in particular bugs me... I would love to see usage stats of the macOS notification "area", I'm pretty sure it is only ever tapped by mistake...

Well, at least I am not alone, thanks! haha

I have some, let me know which ones you like, I might have more suggestions for you!

In no particular order:

Lex Friedman podcast, lots of scientific interviews: https://youtube.com/c/lexfridman

Crecganford, This one I discovered recently, expert in ancient and prehistoric mythology: https://youtube.com/c/Crecganford

Isaac Arthur, science and futurism, some sci-fi, but very very stimulating: https://youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g

Matt Ferrel, weekly interesting topics, generally about coming soon scientific products (like, it’s is joe possible to do X with grapheme, how does it compare to y): https://youtube.com/c/UndecidedMF

Joe Scott, same format, but more generalist (spaces from climate change solutions to Victorian era to urban legends): https://youtube.com/c/joescott

Sabine Hossenfelder, an actual scientist explaining physics-related topics, her articles usually made it to top HN: https://youtube.com/c/SabineHossenfelder Blog http://backreaction.blogspot.com/?m=1

Average salary in Italy is 35k gross (large consulting companies, local companies)

I’ve seen good companies pay senior engineers up to 60-70k (Gucci, Satispay, BendingSpoon, …)

I think it perfectly matches the article!

Agree.

But again, depends on the area. An attic in Trento city center, in an historical building, completely renewed very recently? 400k

That gets you a very small flat in Milan, and not even near city center.

Same price gets you a big-ass detached house where I live (30 minutes drive from nearest city)

As for quality of living I don’t have much experience, I’ve been living for a while in Ireland and UK, but only few weeks at a time, so I don’t really have anything to contribute to that discussion tbh

I mostly agree.

Let’s also consider cost of living here vs the US, and average pay. For example, I live in north Italy and i currently earn 60k euro yearly, which is 2.5x the average italian paycheck of 27k.

I also have a 10% bonus, which is something most companies outside of IT simply do not offer in Italy.

I think doctors average pay is around 60-70k for comparison with highly paying jobs…

For sure it’s long term, just look at similar products like SAP.

You are good probably for your whole career

Nice tip thanks

Automatically generated subs are good enough in most cases... Also, it is a very underused feature, you turn them on either because you have some hearing issues, or because you are watching something in a foreign language, both are probably pretty rare

Maybe the opposite of many other comments but... macOS. Limited choices and customisations, but less is better. Not having to worry about "stuff" is something that goes easily undervalued.

Well, depends on the number of cases and the effected area. If Milan is affected in Italy, you are guaranteed the virus will spread anywhere, it's a key place after all.

There is also a psychological factor to count in of course...

Social and ALL other media have been flooded with the virus 24/7 since the first confirmed case.

It generates good views, everyone wants a piece of that, and now we have this nation-wide phicosys

Yes we were told by Conte, the Prime minister, around 21.30 (march 9th). Goes live at midnight

I'd say basic CPR, you never know