Closer look at human story: Ghana: A Week in a Toxic Waste Dump
One of the problems with using older devices for a long time, even if they are repaired, is that common ways people use their computers (I'm including smartphones, tablets, laptops etc. here) gets slower over time. See How web bloat impacts users with slow connections by danluu@mastodon.social
The reason think that's good is that companies that you would be looking for would not be easy to find in job boards because the flashy big-spend ones would show up the most. A recruiter would have easy access to the other ones, and might be happy to find somebody who actually wants to take them.
Haven't thought about it like that before, but that makes sense. Perhaps because I had a couple of mediocre experiences with recruiters I've mostly avoided them since. But as I get more focussed in my search that might make it easier for a recruiter to go hunting, too.
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Wow, and you only started programming in October?! Nice work!
Interesting format. Wonder what applications make use of it.
I often like reading his older pieces. I forget how long he's been at it for. Here's one making fun of Apple almost 10 years ago: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/13/if-dishwashers-were-iphones