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cwcwcwon Username/username is a special repository that adds README.md to your profile

That sounds cool, but it's not working when I try it. Can you elaborate?

cwcwcwon Ask HN: What will happen with Mac as a dev platform after ARM?

We'll find out more later on today, I'd imagine, but my feeling is that ARM on desktops is likely to be ~2 years away. If you buy computers about every 2 years, go for it. If you buy computers every 5+ years and can wait, then wait.

cwcwcwon Ask HN: Why do companies outside the US pay so much less?

So a lot of the comments have argued the relative merits of one economy over another, or simply invoked "supply and demand" or "availability of capital" to explain the difference.

What I very often see in Europe isn't a marketplace of employers saying "We will pay X" and then finding a developer who will work for that. Rather, it often is a company desperate to hire a talented engineer, but when quoted a totally-not-outrageous-by-US-standards salary, respond with "Oh, we'd never pay that".

I suppose in some cases the employer literally couldn't pay that, but to me it seems more like there's some kind of cultural block, like "engineers make this amount and that's all there is to it".

Managers/executives don't seem to have any such restriction, again based on what I've been privy to, so I don't think that it's (completely) a case of just "salaries are lower here"

cwcwcwon Ask HN: Why do companies outside the US pay so much less?

I guess this is part of why I'm able to make this comparison; I'm a US citizen living in Europe, so I can apply for "able to work in the US" gigs as well as "able to work in Europe" ones.

cwcwcwon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2015)

Location: UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: On a temporary basis only

Technologies: iOS/Objective-C/Swift, Javascript

CV: Formerly of Shazam, have launched & sold my own startup, several personal apps on the app store. Prefer contract to permanent role but will consider perm for the right company. Personal site: http://charliewilliams.org

Email: c+hn@charliewilliams.org