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Does anyone know why Apple charges significantly more money for their products in Europe? Also why there is a such big difference between Poland and Germany/UK?

Let's take a look at MacBook Pro M2 Pro (12 CPU, 16 GPU cores) with 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB storage, which I plan to buy in near future.

Poland: ~4202 USD (17399 zl), ~3442 USD without VAT

US: 2899 USD without tax

Germany: ~3724 USD (3459 EUR), ~3129 USD without VAT

UK: ~3896 USD (3099 GBP), ~3247 USD without VAT

It doesn't feel right...

As far as I remember G+ had very granular privacy settings - idea of circle. Could that help to filter out political trolls that are so common in these days? Would anyone like to use such social media?

I don't use any social media. After reading "Mindf*ck" I decided to quit all of them. Surprisingly if you cut off all facebooks, instagrams and reddits, it turns out the Internet is quite boring place.

What are your favourite sites where you procrastinate? Sites without political trolls are preferred.

Hi,

What is the most rewarding thing you learnt recently? It can be something technical as well as non-technical. Some samples:

- I learnt how to play "Lewis & Clark" by Tommy Emmanuel - if someone is interested then this tutorial is dope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLsgI-TiX9s - After 13 years of break I started to relearn French. - I started learning Rust

Hi,

Are US companies afraid of hiring contractors from Eastern Europe?

I'm a dev from Poland with 8 years of commercial experience. I worked for US companies, visited the US a couple of times. I am a skilled developer and I rarely see my CV is rejected by recruiters - I had an opportunity to work on some cool stuff that draws people attention.

I noticed companies that are looking for remote devs are not interested in inviting me for an interview. I assumed the problem is my CV, experience or skills I possess. A few days ago I spoke with a less experienced friend from Germany I worked with and he said he has no problems at all with getting into the first interview.

I started to wonder, maybe it is not me but the place where I live?

This pandemia is not the first in the history but for the first time we know that much about what caused it and how we can try to prevent spreading it. What would you like society to learn from COVID-19?

Like this may be the best moment to change food habits, eat more vegetables because they are healthier and after cooking they can last very long so in case of insufficient supplies you can survive. Or don't eat bats. They are probably not tasty and unhealthy as hell.

You can find a lot of articles about the most successful startups / companies in 2019 but these lack information of one-man companies, unless you started as a one person and now you have dozens of employees.

My candidate is my friend. He built mobile app that generates revenue around 30 - 50k $ per year.

Hi,

I need to change technology to avoid burn-out. 7 years in messy mobile world is more than enough. It feels like all my effort to get M.Sc, solving complex math & CS problems, everything was for nothing - in the end I write apps that display list of elements on the screen. Moreover demand on Android developers in my city is decreasing, right now there is no offers at all.

I think natural candidate for my next core tech is backend Java. I have about 7,5 years of commercial experience as an Android Developer and 3,5 years of experience in tutoring - I created Java, Kotlin and Android courses for one of the biggest IT companies in my country. I know Spring and Hibernate.

Now the funny part. I don't know how to change my job and I am scared. I am scared that recruiters will ignore my CV or I will fail on interviews due to lack of commercial experience in Spring/Hibernate or that I will get much smaller compensation than I have now - due to morgage I would like to avoid this if possible.

I want to write some project and publish it on GitHub just to show interviewers that I am skilled enough and I can use these tools. But I have no ideas. If I need to write code then I want to write something useful, not another "pet store" that solves no problems.

What are your recommendations?

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