throway1n

why is there no european company the size of whatsapp, facebook, apple and so on?

thats like saying everyone in the ford factory is hired to design vehicles. some of the bunch are just workers implementing instructions. i interviewed a few ex google, yahoo and amazon and they were exactly that.

this is so wrong i cant believe i am reading it. solving imaginary problems is not the same as being good at your job as an engineer. if google expects people to solve issues at a machine gun rate, it means google wants brick layers that lay bricks constantly. not people who need to stop and think about design issues over time. it wants workers to implement poorly sketched requirements and execute instructions on the assembly line.

i look more after how people approach problems at a high level, where they show how they build the whole system and how they interact with peers and other departments to tell if they can gather data, organise it in specs, and then fine tune nicely build parts of a system. not code monkeys.

Sounds reasonable to me - how else is he going to pay bills if not through some ad revenue? You know glorified 9 to 5 jobs are cool, but some of is indies prefer freedom - and that costs money.

so your company sells apis, software frameworks or hardware? or does it leverage these to sells some other non tech product?

yeah but its selling ads, not tech. tech is the facilitator but google mainly monetised ads. sure from a worker’s perspective it sells tech, but it doesn’t.

well google is an ad company, what’s your point

well the 9 to 5 you work in js probably selling some non tech products as well, yet it may be called a tech company.

that’s the one project in the list that caught my eye - looks pretty neat. shame it doesn't gain the attention of the electron hating mob on HN - they all want people to work for free and give them stuff for no money but in the name of foss. keep up the good work, your project is an example of going against what the mob wants and building a successful product.