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New comment by nmd in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

nmd — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:45:02 +0000

It used to be the case in the Netherlands with iDeal that you'd use your bank's e.dentifier for two factor auth (a physical device that you'd put your card into to get a code you could then put into the website to verify) - they replaced this with using your banking app sometime over the past 10 years.

New comment by nmd in "Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (2016)"

nmd — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 07:37:23 +0000

I just went through the job hunting (labour selling!) process for a tech role in a HCOL city in US and every point in the article matched with my experience. As another commenter mentioned, the difference is these days you have bands on job listings and then levels.fyi and blind (for larger tech companies) balances out some of the information asymmetry.

New comment by nmd in "A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant (2017)"

nmd — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 15:10:32 +0000

As someone also living in NL (Amsterdam though, may be different in other parts of NL), I have to partially disagree with you. It's not at the US level yet, but, my experience is that many if not most cafes/restaurants I go to now display a "Choose your tip %" screen on the payment terminal before paying, and anecdotally it feels like this is becoming more common over time with the newer payment terminals.

New comment by nmd in "Ask HN: What are ethical companies like Patagonia and some digital counterparts?"

nmd — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 19:42:39 +0000

it's not mentioned on the list, but wetransfer.com (file sharing tech company) is a B Corp.

New comment by nmd in "The Humane AI Pin Launches Its Campaign to Replace Phones"

nmd — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 18:11:07 +0000

That also doesn't look like enough almonds for 15 grams worth of protein. 10 almonds have approx 3g of protein, requiring 50 almonds for 15 grams of protein, I don't think there's that many in the video.

Makes you wonder about the veracity of the AI (or the accuracy of the demo). Looks like a cool product either way.

New comment by nmd in "More bosses give four-day workweek a try"

nmd — Sat, 22 Feb 2020 09:44:25 +0000

Booking.com, TomTom GPS are both from Amsterdam. As is Adyen, the payments provider used Linkedin, Uber, Spotify, Microsoft. Philips is also from the Netherlands.

New comment by nmd in "Smartphone sales fall for the first time, says Gartner"

nmd — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 11:56:33 +0000

In addition to this I've found disabling Safari on iPhone (Settings -> General -> Restrictions) has been the final step from turning my phone from a distraction device into a smart tool.

New comment by nmd in "When your manager isn't supporting you, develop a manager crew"

nmd — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 16:21:29 +0000

Spain has an interesting system here, a person born into a Spanish-speaking family is given a first name followed by two surnames, the first being the father's family name (or, more precisely, the surname he gained from his father) followed by the mother's family name (or, again more precisely, the surname she gained from her father).

Or in your example:

Gen X: FirstName P1-First-LastName P2-Second-LastName

New comment by nmd in "Massive Dyn DNS outage"

nmd — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 12:35:01 +0000

CircleCI is also having issues viewing and running tests, viewing from Amsterdam: https://status.circleci.com/

New comment by nmd in "iPhone 7"

nmd — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 21:02:14 +0000

They mentioned in the keynote that you can use just one earpod (eg for a call) and it will route full stereo audio through only that earpod automatically.