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High-end eMTB bikes that are stolen in western Europe end up here in eastern Europe, the usual retail price is around the 1000-3000 euro mark, that's less than half their original price for bikes in almost new condition.

There are dedicated organizations that do these runs across Europe, to keep a low profile a wan with only 4 bikes will cross the border at a time.

The profits must be good enough to keep selling the bikes at half the price and continue doing these runs.


  Location: Europe
  Remote: YES
  Willing to relocate: YES
  Technologies: iOS Development, Swift, Objective-C
  Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gsGWAsePSn8aHxM-MiN3vvVMKXxPoWVY8M6KnbobaGs
  Email: check the resume
  Website: https://www.3am.engineering/works/
Software developer with 9+ years of experience across various stacks, currently focusing on iOS development. Check out the website for some fun non-work-related hardware/software engineering challenges.


As a creator with some dead project(s) I feel horrified when I think how many hours I “wasted” on them.

But then again, I had to scratch those creative itches, I had to built those useless things, they made me what I’m today, a more experienced, tired and inching closer to a break from software engineering.


The problem with those types of breakpoints is that they slow down the app considerably. Put one of those in a tight loop and the timing related bug you're after could be gone.


Only if they are implemented inefficiently or your application is constrained in a way that precludes efficient implementation.

As long as you can inject code and steal some memory you can just directly patch in the code snippet and patch in a branch instead of a breakpoint instruction. This is functionally equivalent to a adding a print statement, just at runtime instead of compile time, so should not be significantly slower.


TE hit the nail on the head with their designs, don't quite know what's about them that makes them so fun. On the contrary, my serious musician friends have little appreciation for their products, gave some PO as gifts and they've been gathering dust since.


Amusing about your musician friends, I've had similar experiences. I think it's one of those things where you give it to James Murphy and he loves it and played with it every day, you give it to Stephen Hough he'll roll his eyes and never touches it.


Same here, it really put a spotlight on my mediocre endurance/general fitness level despite my best efforts to get out everyday for a bike ride.


Nice! It reminded me of this great little synth powered parasitically from the MIDI port.

https://mitxela.com/projects/flash_synth


Got an eMTB 8 month ago, visited places in my local area that didn’t even know existed. No weather is too bad for going outside for a ride anymore. Cops stopped me once asking what I was doing outside on a bike in freezing rain, suspected drug smuggling.


  Location: Eastern Europe
  Remote: Yes/European timezones
  Willing to relocate: Yes/Europe
  Core Technologies: Swift, native iOS/tvOS, Go + (AWS, DynamoDB, MySQL, Lambda, Docker)
  Non core Tech: Python, Rust, C, C#, UWP, embedded development, sclang + Supercollider.
  Resume: Here[0]
  Email: in the resume.
  Personal smaller projects: https://www.3am.engineering/works/
Software engineer with 7+ years experience, the last two years I mostly worked on backend systems and internal tools. Can adapt to any niche stack if needed and the project/product seems to be an interesting one.

[0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-gcRgCk9H0klWnHda0HocRow...


The App Store is full of HN readers. However, this one is trying to be unique with some features of doubtful usefulness.

For some more context/retrospective, there’s a small blog post about the app: https://www.3am.engineering/works/metalens/


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