Hi Roddy,
Not sure what a good way to reach out is, but I saw the JD and would like to chnnect over it. I found your linkedIn and send you a request. Alternatively you can look up my details in my HN profile.
Looking forward to chat!
Hehe, I myself am actually Dutch but this fell within the knowledge obtained in 2 years of obligatory German lessons in High School. Also, German and Dutch are very similar (actually I remember my grand mother having a conversation with a German women, both in their own language, both screaming, understanding each other reasonably well, or at least, they took turns saying something :))
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I'm a mobile product developer, turned Engineering Manager.
My resume spans from freelancer to founder, from Soundcloud, via Facebook/Meta to Pitch.com.
I'm looking for EM roles, or mobile dev roles with the goal of building a product and a team around it.
In a few days my domain `foodba.by` is expiring after I stopped transferring funds to Belarus after the role the country took during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Not surprised you’re being downvoted — it comes across as pretty immature to sneer at individuals taking a stance against something they don’t believe in. Shame on you.
Well for one because ccTLDs aren't divorced from their governments - that's the entire point of a ccTLD.
The way it usually goes is that the country's government (or occupying force; the actual ccTLD designations follows an ISO list and a long set of complicated resolutions for contested countries, which means that if a country is successfully occupied, the occupier gets the ccTLD. Similarly, country changes also result in the "new" country getting the ccTLD right. This has happened with .su for example, which is controlled by Russia.) has the right from ICANN to use the TLD as they see fit. Theoretically, the ICANNs usual rules apply to domain names however they just get forwarded to the technical admin who can just discard all of the rules with often little consequence.
Usually what this results in is the domain getting either ran by a state level technical administrator (you'd be surprised how often this happens) or it gets licensed out to a different technical administrator.
The technical administrator then either handles domain registrations themselves or further permits licensing registrations to other registrars (you usually don't buy from the technical administrator directly if they do this).
For Belarus, they licensed it out to Reliable Software, a local Belarussian company. This usually means that Reliable Software has to pay the Belarussian a fee to keep operating the registrar, otherwise it'd be put up for sale. That means that the Belarussian government gets direct kickbacks from people purchasing domain names. (For other countries, this can be quite the reliable source of income as well, although .by isn't heavily used.)
It's really more like going vegan. Individual actions are not a boycott. Boycotts require organization across a broad enough group of individuals that they can achieve a critical mass. Calling this a boycott reminds me of the young leftists who pop up on social media announcing a "general strike" with zero preparation.
That doesn't mean it's wrong or silly. If you don't feel comfortable giving money to an entity no matter how large, it's your prerogative to stop doing so. But you shouldn't mistake that isolated action by one individual for political activism.
A set of 8 wooden dolls with build in speaker, CPU, Bluetooth and accelerometer.
Singing from a set of ~20 pre programmed songs they "perform" together. Also when you own an OP-1 field (not sure if the original also works) you can join as the conductor and make them sing your own composition (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pcp0au-IBY).
Last but not least, this time the price point does also not disappoint: 249€ per doll.
I don't know how they do their math, but they advertise it for 299USD but when I open the store it's sold for 349EUR which today converts to 380USD... That's a 30% difference that hurts.
And often there's also an invisible consumer rights 'tax' on top. Since online purchases and warranty are quite heavily regulated in Europe, sellers often add some margin to cover the extra costs this might bring.
Thanks for the pointers everybody. They make sense. The frustration of seeing a 299 price tag and then being hit with a 349 price after one click on the store link is bad.. Didn't stop me from buying though :D
Speaking in general, prices tend to differ between regions away from just basic exchange rate math, since shipping costs means you don't get proper arbitrage pressure, which is what would pushes prices toward (lowest advertised price) x (exchange rate).
