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Also, quoting friom the GDPR, art. 4

"‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;"

I guess interview notes would fall into this category as well. it's related to a identifiable `data subject` and related to his traits. e.g. "John Smith is bad at math and he hates pencils"

You might have a point here. However, there's a couple of articles online that say otherwise: https://www.xperthr.co.uk/faq/do-job-applicants-have-the-rig... https://recruitment.software/gdpr-the-end-of-handwritten-int... https://elliswhittam.com/blog/give-feedback-job-applicants/

It's quite a unclear topic imho, that's why I'm curious if it was tried and wether it worked or not.

Romania has great local food! But not so much when it comes to international cuisine - it's either bad or very expensive. Internet is fast and stable and on top of that super cheap, compare with other UE countries. I'd recommend RO if you enjoy nature, specially the mountain/rural side.

That's not just a simple comment, it's art, kind sir! LOL

Github. Great integrations, familiar to most people in the company.

Lucene/Solr, Elastic Search and Algolia did a great job creating search tools and services and this extinguished the thirst of the masses. I don't think it's a solved problem, it's just a problem that has commercially viable solutions. When it comes to resources, I've found valuable knowledge in Lucene/Solr forums and mailing lists, back in the day. It's worth a read.

Name it something that ends in *-fy. That's still cool, right?

The South America / islands and included because they are territories belonging to a EU country (France, Spain, Portugal). Turkey is in there because it's a candidate country.

That's probably gonna be the approach for most people, but when it does get some traction, would be great to have a checklist to start from.

Yeah, my thoughts exactly... If anything good gets out this thread I'll compile a checklist and pass it around.

That used to be true. But lately, the demand has grown bigger and bigger and if you look over some job boards you'll see salary ranges that raise the average handsomely. On the other hand, 60k still is almost 3 time the average salary in Berlin so it can take you quite far.

The bars that don't take orders in English don't actually refuse to do that out of some principle but just because there are just not enough German speaking baristas or bartenders or the market. For most business owners that is fine because this is a common scenario just in the trendy hoods where most of their customers are anyways English-only speakers.

Talking strictly about Berlin, most of the EU migrants coming in here fall in two categories:

- highly skilled workers (IT, Finance, Sales, Marketing) that earn much more than average german folk, and compete for housing with upper class berliners

- unskilled workers (constructions) that live usually in temp housing and don't attempt to rent a flat for themselves.

As for the refugees, most of them still live in camps distributed across Germany and if they get a flat subsidised by the state it will be in some low demand neighbourhood.

So you mean a decentralised alternative to Yelp? ;) I actually agree, would love to see that too.

Yes, trialed and proven.

I just tried to delete the Facebook app on my Samsung Galaxy S8 and it looks like that's impossible. It's so embedded in the OS that it cannot be deleted, but only disabled.

That's an exaggeration. Most salaries are places in the 50-60k range and if you are a senior you'll get a salary from 60-70k. As a new grad/junior, you'll be getting around 40-45k.

45k/year is enough for a single person or even a couple living more frugal.

In Berlin the salary/cost of living ratio is way better than Munich or Frankfurt. Have a look on Numbeo Cost of living comparison [1]

[1] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

Those numbers feel really off. 13k/year rent means ~1100 € monthly rent. That's the average rent for a nice apartment in a nice area. If you're making 36k € yearly salary then it might make more sense to live in a shared room for 400/month or get a better (normal) paid job.

>> A $12.99 Amazon Prime subscription gets me streaming music, streaming video, e-books, fast shipping and a whole host of other benefits. A $10.99 Spotify subscription gets me… well, Spotify.

I think on pricing Spotify shines with the Family plan which reduces the cost significantly. Plus, those $12.99 only gets you the Spotify free equivalent from Amazon. The Amazon Music Unlimited is another $7.99

Agree! When you're working on a side project and have a few paying customers, redoing or increasing your price one of the scariest thing you can do.

Actually, I think the camera & battery life are currently the most important features on a smartphone. I take all my pictures with my S8, casual or vacation and I'm thrilled if the next models are coming with a even better camera. Battery wise, I think that by now the minimal accepted performance is a full day on a single charge, with normal use, 4G and Wifi. Upgraded to the Samsung flagship every 2 years in the past 8 years and battery life was always within this acceptable limits.

what do you mean? from my experience, agents/recruitment agencies trade meat for money - they don't really care for anything than placing a candidate into a position and cash in.

awesome read!

Still, quoting far right websites with click-baity article titles kinda shatters your credibility...

Never trust a article that starts with "10 reasons why..." Specially when it's posted on a website that praises Steve Bannon and one of the 4 content sections available is "Guns & Patriots"

And finish the sentence with "...probably"

you are the hero Hacker News needed, good sir.

I could totally feel this blog post, not just read it.

>> Honestly, I think tenacity and an ability to learn and move quickly are the most valuable engineering skills one can have.

I agree. Nowadays the information is abundant and so easy to reach. One only needs to be able to understand and learn. From there, sky is the limit.