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dielllon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2023)

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Remote: yes, open to the idea

Willing to relocate: Yes, but will need Visa Sponsorship

Technologies:Python, Pytest, Robot Framework,AWS,Docker

Résumé/CV: Available on request

Email:rob@robah.dev

Looking for either QA test automation roles or DevOps roles. Got 4 years experience doing both manual and automated Testing on web apps, USSD and Mobile apps.

I am not restricted to python, I can learn any language needed for a particular role.

dielllon Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You (2020)

recently Youtube shows you a pop up that says they banned adblockers and even suggest that you pay for Youtube Premium. However, in my country if you click the Youtube Premium link, it says YouTube Premium is not available in your country"

I don't think Google takes their non ad products seriously. They only launch their products in few countries, the teams use them for promotion then abandon the products

dielllon Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned

I found it weird that they did not use Meta's products(Facebook and Instagram) but used Twitter.

To be honest Meta are so good at target advertising. Everytime I open Facebook or Instagram, I must find an advert about something I am interested in.

dielllon Researchers gave 200 people $10k each to study generosity

For 10k usd I would be so generous to myself: buy M2 Mac Pro, pay a year of O'Reilly subscription, buy a piece of land(it's cheap in my country) buy top 5 stocks

But my friends a few drinks. Does that count?

dielllon Young people are flocking to astrology

App Idea - Use LLM to generate Astrology readings

dielllon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2023)

Location: Kenya

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Javascript, Robbot Framework, AWS, Azzure

Resume/CV: Available on request

Email: jrobah [at] gmail.com

Looking for Software testing or Quality Assurance/Engineering jobs. I have 4 years' experience with both manual and automated testing. I have tested web, ussd and Android apps. Lets talk and let me help you create a pain free experience for your users

dielllon Ask HN: How do you plan on making money with Open AI API?

Same reason Amazon Prime doesn't work as good as Netflix yet Netflix is hosted on AWS

dielllon Companies hiring remote software engineers anywhere in the world

Hey, do you have an employee referral program? If so, can you refer me? Would love to apply, however I know employee referrals gets one a foot in the interview door quickly.

dielllon Ask HN: Books that teach programming by building a series of small projects?

Datacamp does what you want

dielllon Bosses are growing more desperate to get workers back to the office

I concur

dielllon Pirate Site Blocking Is Making Its Way into Free Trade Agreements

I used to pirate lots of music when in University but I stopped because currently all music I listen to is on Spotify which is cheap and costs like $4 in my country, even if it was the full $10 I still wouldn't mind paying for it.

However, for movies and TV shows I need to pay for like 5 services to get all the movies and TV shows that I need. No way I am paying all those. SO I will keep pirating Movies and TV shows

dielllon Google cancels Google Play publisher account and ends family’s source of income

Maybe google only makes money from ads, other projects are hobby projects to them. hence why Admob has great customer service

dielllon Akamai to Acquire Linode

are you a devops or SRE?

dielllon Ask HN: How should I use my $2000 training budget before end of year?

Can you gift me an educative.io subscription? It's $119 a year and I will get access to lots of programming tutorials that will help me change a career to a better paying dev job.

Jrobah{a°t} gmail{°} com

dielllon Ask HN: What's your ideal city in a 100% remote world?

A Town in Kenyan coast called Malindi. It literally has the beat beach in the world, at Watamu

dielllon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)

can I work remotely from Kenya?

dielllon Facebook and Instagram Wrongfully Factchecking Nigerian Police Brutality Protest

People sharing their #endSARS images on Facebook or Instagram are having their posts factchecked as false. With the factcheck thinking it's about Covid, maybe due to the SARS name similarity

dielllon Patent Lawyer Turned Judge Advertises for Patent Trolls to Come to His Court

As a non american please explain to me like am 5:

1. why a judge advertises himself to lawyers, does he/she get special bonuses from those cases?

2. Why lawyers in America can assign their cases to specific judges

3. why the hell are Americans so litigious

dielllon TikTok to be banned from US app stores from Sunday

They never fought for Huawei in court. They wont fight for Tiktok

dielllon India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to China

Google neither uses stock Android on Pixel phone nor release full source code of pixel phones, so why should only the Chinese be forced to do that?

Before anyone downvotes or questions if Pixel uses Stock Android, ask yourself why Pixels have Pixel exclusive features not available in AOSP or not used by Android 1 phones like Nokia

dielllon WordPressiOS Locked by App Store

Apple is only beholden to Wallstreet. Not privacy, not developers, not customers.

dielllon Doing Western students' homework is big business in Kenya

With poor governance, there can only be opportunities for corruption and theft of government resources and not for improving the lives of citizens. In Kenya, those in government steal and invest that money in real estate, building malls and posh estates that don't help the normal citizens in any way. If those were invested in startups then the story would be different

dielllon Doing Western students' homework is big business in Kenya

It's not as easy as you think. I am from Kenya and we speak and write good English. with the aid of Grammarly premium, all grammatical mistakes are easily spotted and corrected.