Location: Nicosia, Cyprus
Year: 2018
EU : Compensation of employees per hour worked
Eurostat reports the compensation of employees per hour worked. This includes 28 member countries of the European Union, and the data for the last 10 years.
Cyprus stands at 14.3 EUR (that’s 2,288 EUR per month, given 40 hour working weeks) , slightly up from 13.9 EUR ten years ago.
Lesser known CSS quirks & advanced tips
“Lesser known CSS quirks & advanced tips” is a collection of some really weird CSS features and behaviors. These are good to know, as sometimes they can shed some light on strange results or help with implementation of a particular design feature, where no other options are applicable.
How does blockchain really work? I built an app to show you.
With all the latest hype around blockchain, I find this article useful, which explains how the technology works and provides an application that can be used to explore and learn blockchain. Pretty cool.
200 universities just launched 560 free online courses
200 universities just launched 560 free online courses – this is a somewhat dated blog post – from a few months back, but I’m pretty sure the number of universities and courses is only increases with time.
If you haven’t heard, universities around the world offering their courses online for free (or at-least partially free). These courses are collectively called as MOOCS or Massive Open Online Courses.
In the past six years or so, close to 800 universities have created more than 8,000 of these MOOCs. And I’ve been keeping track of these MOOCs the entire time over at Class Central, ever since they rose to prominence.