I've been using this for about 6 months in various parts of the globe and have been very happy. If there is a donate button on their site (my Deutsch language is lacking) I would like to know.
Given it costs at least $25 to send, and more fees to receive, a bank wire transfer it seems strange to only offer this method. Perhaps it is easier if you have a European bank.
>‘Leader’ and „Leiter” share the same etymology, „Führer” does not.
You're not being pedantic, you're introducing an unnecessary element. The etymology of a word isn't relevant in determining its current meaning. Führer is usually translated as leader and there is nothing wrong with that translation.
Perhaps, but „Führer” is far more affectionate in a way than „Leiter” is. I do not disagree with the translation, but its association with Hitler in English is not entirely inaccurate.
httpswitchboard looks like a very interesting extension. I haven't payed attention to what's happening with Chrome the last couple of years, but does this mean that you can finally genuinely block requests with Chrome extensions (something that has long been a problem with Chrome's Adblock extensions)?
To you it might, but to any linguist this is as ridiculous of a title as saying "English people originated in Africa". You will imediatelly think "wait, but the actual ethnogenesis happened nowhere close to Africa, so why would one say 'English people'? it's not useful to reference it".
It's the same with this title. It's as useful as saying that Farsi originated in Turkey. Or any language descended from PIE, for that matter.
Not even the separation into IE families like Germanic, Balto-Slavic, etc. happened at that time. Not even Anatolian had separated from IE. Yet the title references the ''English'' language.
>Obviously other languages originated there
No, the thing is, they didn't. Nor did English.
What originated there is an ancestor of a group of languages.
>If the typical American isn't prospering, what good is it?
Well, neither is the typical Swede. They have an astronomical housing bubble that's just waiting to burst, the average household has a debt around twice the income, while the gap between rich and poor has been widening for a long time now.
It's not all roses and relative to where they are, most seem to be preparing for worse days ahead, rather than better ones.
The reason I used Sweden as an example is that many Americans think commerce in Sweden must be hobbled by taxes and regulation. It must surprise some people that Sweden's GDP per capita has grown the most among Western industrial nations, and much more than the US.
I'm not claiming the wealth gap in Sweden is healthy on an absolute scale, but relative to the US it's about half. Every economy has challenges, but the historical results I posted show that US chest-thumping is exceptionally silly.
When the bubble bursts, then it'll be thanks to tight monetary policy, ironically. Sweden is now experiencing monetary-policy driven deflation, and hopefully I don't have to explain why that's a bad thing for a population with high household debt.
>This is like the browser saying "Starbucks" rather than "Starbucks, 3-1202 21st E, Falseville BC".
Is it?
What if "Starbucks" were your bank? What if you knew that apart from your bank there's non-bank entities mimicking your bank's looks in an effort to get your personal information? Would location still be irrelevant?
A few years ago I got an email advising me my account had been compromised, and I needed to follow a link to get the matter resolved.
Mousing over the link, I saw https://www.bankofamerica.com/[lots of gobbledygook followed by an ellipsis]. So, to see it all, I copied it to the pasteboard and pbpasted it into an open Terminal window. The gobbledygook ended with an @-sign and a domain that resolved to a Chinese IP.
It's a fake. It's an anonymous post on pastebin, submitted by a one-time account. The terminology is wrong. The policies are wrong. The post is full of typos. The post has almost no specifics, and the one specific thing they mentioned ("AQ3C") isn't real.
If this story isn't getting traction, then HN is doing the right thing here.
This is a nice start, but I already see one issue with this that the "Navigation popup" doesn't have: nothing on the hovercard is clickable, and thus you can't go more than one level down a tree.
The navigation popups are great except that if you move the mouse off them then they close, so as you traverse down the tree you lose parents. And you kinda end up with the same issue as before only now you really have no idea how you got there because you don't even have the open tabs to guide.[0]
>"A web and software developer in Africa earns from $10,000 to $20,000 dollars per annum whereas their colleagues in Europe and the US earns at least $100,000 dollars per year."
Either he doesn't consider Eastern European softwware developers as colleagues or he thinks all of Europe is London, which it certainly isn't. The upper limit he gave is more than most Eastern European developers make.
In Greece PhD level programmers make from 25-35 EUR[1]. It's abotu 26,5k with taxes paid. It's extremely bad, but that's the Greek reality apparently and Greece (was supposed to be) in Europe last time I checked. A normal BSc programmer is around 1,5k/month. You get the (sad) picture...
"In Greece PhD level programmers make from 25-35 EUR[1]. It's abotu 26,5k with taxes paid. It's extremely bad, but that's the Greek reality apparently"
Uh that's pretty decent anywhere in Europe for anyone doing actual 'programming', i.e. not management or consulting, so basically meaning all junior- to mid-level software development jobs. I'm not even sure what 'PhD level programmer' means - it's not like 'programming' is an academic exercise.
OK, but this Greek programmer can move and work anywhere within the EU no questions asked, and that includes many places with better pay (among other things). Not so for an African.
sure the perspective is probably skewed, however the salaries listed are generous. I did some consulting in west Africa in the last 5 years and the majority of people working in tech and making 10 or 12k a year are only doing so if they are killing it.
The only people making more are working directly for foreign entities or governments and that is a very small community of people.
In reality most people I worked with were making around 1400 dollars per year.
What type of work were they doing? Because even in the dirt cheap, cut throat markets of sites like vworker and odesk, a good web developer can make significantly more than that.
they are doing basic programming and database work for small banks and businesses. The thing that is important that he said is...
>Add to that, a good number of African countries have been blacklisted from PayPal.
I actually tried to set some friends up doing work on odesk and elancer. It is simply not possible this part of the world(west africa, cote d'ivoire, ghana, togo, benin, nigeria) is basically cut off from international money transfers unless you are part of a high income elite that qualifies for real banking. So they could do work, but would never be able to get the money.
That makes sense... I wonder if there's an opportunity there for someone who is part of that elite to act as a go-between of sorts. I could imagine they have their payments sent to a PayPal in US or UK, etc, and then the account holder wires money to someone with an actual bank account in one of the countries you listed, who dispenses the money back in cash to the workers. I doubt there would be much money in it for the middle man, but the numbers you are quoting are right then that person would be having a major impact of the lives of those programmers.
yeah the problem is, that's pretty much what the point of sites like elance and odesk are, is to act as a go between and limit risk. So maybe there is just a niche for someone to cater to that area.
http://www.privacyfoundation.ch/de/service/server.html
No blocking, no logging except for errors (the IP is not logged).