Readit Newsdola commented on Show HN: Park your domain name with just 2 DNS records domdb.com/... · Posted by u/tompec
Cool idea. I hope you somehow confirm the listing on the dashboard, otherwise someone can just list some domains under your username to cost you money ;)
dola commented on Ask HN: How much do developers earn in Europe? docs.google.com/forms/d/e... · Posted by u/ciaoben
I would disagree. Zurich does indeed pay very well, but it's very hard to get a job there, and salaries are only competitive with the Bay Area at lower levels. That means it's possible to find a job that pays 100k, but 300k compensation packages are far, far more rare than in the Bay Area. I don't know any company apart from Google that pays that much for senior engineers.
I tried to get a job there about 8 months ago, and I could only convince 3 startups to interview me (after I failed to get a job at Google), and I didn't get an offer at any of them. I failed one for "cultural fit", one because I didn't do well enough in the technical phone screen, and with the third one I decided to stop the process because I had another offer and was tired of interviewing. It's fine to not accept people for cultural reasons, but if there are 4 startups that are hiring in Zurich, that kinda sucks for candidates.
Also, recently Google started paying new engineers in Zurich lower than in the US (same salary, far fewer RSUs). I guess the lack of competition in the European market is a good enough reason.
Do you know any companies in Zurich hiring developers that pay Bay Area salaries (100k junior, 200k senior) and hire >100 engineers a year?
There are a few consulting companies doing project work that hire a good amount of people. (However none are even close to you >100 / year number)
And also, it will be pretty hard to get near the 200k mark in Zurich if you're not at either a bank with a very specific expertise or at Google.
dola commented on CHVote: Open-source e-voting system from Switzerland republique-et-canton-de-g... · Posted by u/porker
But how does a voter verify that this is really the software running in the background?
this is on a similar level of trust as the question about whether your paper vote is actually counted by some volunteer or just scraped.
But I agree, that e-voting systems require a high level of trust by the users but I would argue that it is comparable to the trust you need in letter voting. The main difference in my view is the authority is typically split between fewer people with an e-voting system giving a single person more potential influence when they abuse their power. (e.g. a single server admin can deploy a malicious version of the system rather than a person only having access to maybe a few thousand ballots)
dola commented on Show HN: Chartify – simple and lightweight charts for React.js github.com/kirillstepkin/... · Posted by u/kirillstyopkin
I've been using Recharts [1] lately. It offers many different chart types and has a high level interface that makes it easy and quick to use for basic charts. If you want to customize you can still do so because almost every part of a graph is composable. (I have no affiliation)
[1]: http://recharts.org/
(I'm not at all affiliated with jOOQ - just a happy user)