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Look my grandparents died a few years ago in a small tiny village by the Volga, once you travel outside of Moscow and Leningrad(StPetersburg nowadays) you may as well be time travelling into the past. The place had no paved roads leading to it had to travel couple of says on grotty trains to get there. The farming being done is subsistence with remnants of old Soviet coop in the village, alcoholism is rampant so is depression. It is understandable how one who might never has left Moscow doesn't realise how truly and incredibly poor the rest of the country is

Now rural US or UK may as well be on a different planet when compared to that.

This is all from personal experience, what has happened and is happening in Russia is beyond tragic.

Now go ahead and come up with another "But but the US"

US and Europe have all sorts of issues and are not perfect and no one claims they are, but they are damned better places for my kids to grow up in.
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I just had to tweak the recording command with the following to get it working properly: `script -ttimingfile typescript`.

No space between -t and timingfile.
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I will admit I did not make it through this entire article, but it really did not ring true to me at all--just sounded like an unsupported, hostile, angry rant.

>> “Fucked if we care” think the recruiters, “now grovel and be exploited”.
...
>> You’re meat to them, a resource to be packaged and sold and exploited.

Who's being exploited here? I think he's implying the programmers, but as someone who left academia for industry, I do not at all share that sentiment. When I think "exploited" I think of diamond miners in Africa or sex workers in Southeast Asia. I got my first job at a start-up through a recruiter, gained a ton of skills, later left, and now I have a very well-paying job at a place I love. People with technical skills are highly sought-after, and do quite well in my experience, whether or not they go through recruiters.

If a comment as irate, mean-spirited, and unsubstantiated as this blog post appeared in HN, it would get down-voted into oblivion.
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I was thinking about electric circuits in general, so very much including transistors. I mean, we were also talking about street networks in general, or were we excluding intersections?

The simple example I was thinking about is a "digital potentiometer". Think about the audio output of your motherboard, which's amplification you can control digitally.

Kirkhoff's circuit laws are extremely simplifying.

An interesting exercise would be to prove the statement we were talking about in the fictional world of "Kirkhoff circuits".
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Fair question. Maybe it's the belief that a company is bigger than one person? Or perhaps it's closer to "separating the art from the artist?"
This could also help deaf people wanting to learn how to lip-read certain words -- because you are searching transcripts, you don't have to guess what the person is saying.
> Once I talked a client into advertising a position themselves. The signal-to-noise ratio was appalling and sorting through the flood of applicants took days. Some cover letters were tragic, begging in broken English “I fast learner, my family starving, England less shooty, pliz you help us move?”.

Bah, you can rant without resorting to racist aping of ESOL speakers. Especially when the odds are good that the author only speaks one language.
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Fried eggs with Jam!? That doesn't even make sense in Russian! :)
I love this. The writing style reminded me of "A Clockwork Orange."
This is a fascinating non-denial denial.

Key claims in the WSJ report they simply ignore:
"At the end of 2014, the lab instrument developed as the linchpin of its strategy handled just a small fraction of the tests then sold to consumers, according to four former employees."
"One was tested with Edison machines and the other with instruments from other companies. The two types of equipment gave different results when testing for vitamin D, two thyroid hormones and prostate cancer. The gap suggested to some employees that the Edison results were off, according to the internal emails and people familiar with the findings."
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> Putin loves to push the story that without him Russia will go back to the bad old days of "democracy and capitalism" of the 90s, and that his way is the only way forward. The whole thing is awful similar to what was argued in Germany in 30s btw.

I'm definitely not arguing in support of Putin here - what I'm saying is two things:

a) the popular support of Putin is understandable in the face of recent history.

b) Quality of life in Russia today is well below what it was in the 1980's (ask any of the 99%).

Other than that it might as well be one type of state sponsored propaganda replaced by another.
>Dorsey isn't doing anything wrong or illegal. Yet the arrangements between West and Twitter and Square do suggest a conflict of interest. When companies buy services from agencies they're supposed to make their appointments based on the value that agency will be able to provide. Appointing a company that your CEO is invested in could raise a problem for internal marketing departments: it could present some political tensions if the marketing boss wanted to get rid of the agency from the roster, for example.

Such interests can make it difficult to for him to fulfill his duties impartially.
Everyone who watches Tv is liable. When you buy a new TV shops must ask for your address which is sent to the licensing agency. Ditto when you subscribe to cable/satellite.

If an address doesn't have one, it gets regular threatening letters and after a few months, personal visits where they ask to come in and take a look round - this you can refuse unless they bring a police officer.

Someone scanned in all the letters he got:

http://www.bbctvlicence.com/

I have been visited too. I have even been prosecuted because the man could see a tv operating but we were playing computer games - he never showed up in court so we were acquitted.
Yeah, that's true, although using RIMS/HERMS lets you performed stepped mashes too and to some degree helps with clarity as the wort is constantly filtered through the grain bed.
I had a total clockwork orange moment reading this.
Unrelated note - you may call me a pig, but I only take calls from female recruiters.
PKD is the problem. Most of his stories are a few action sequences (where he ruins the pace with internal dialog and flashbacks) padded by the main protagonist sitting around in some altered state, complaining about the women in his life. His male villains are to be revered: they are cunning and intelligent. But even his "not evil" female characters are meant to be loathed: duplicitous, unfaithful, nagging.

It would be one thing if this were just one book, you might argue those are just those particular characters. But it's a theme across his books, one that thankfully often gets removed or toned down in the movie adaptations. PKD is a misogynist. He is the author who changed my mind about how misogyny works and just how pervasive it actually is.

In Blade Runner's case, "Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep" is not a coherent book. Blade Runner went a long way towards improving the cohesiveness of the plot, even regarding the ambiguous components: they are intentionally ambiguous now. The action scenes that Deckard practically walks through in the book have real impact and danger in the movie. And Ridley Scott thankfully just killed Deckard's wife off completely, making her a symbol of nostalgia and mourning, rather than contempt. Oh, and they completely skipped the weird religious VR experience sub-plot that never amounted to anything in the book anyway.
I don't think there is any immunity. Probably the only restriction is the classified material rules: there has to be some way to hold a "TOP SECRET" meeting without it going into the general surveillance bucket.
Very true. The same is also true in other situations where the dominant player creates a "walled garden"[1] over which they have complete control, as with Apple (although in that regard, I expect much of the HN user base is happy to be subjected to the joys of that particular walled garden).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_platform
People are actually genuinely interested in what comes out of re:invent. Because you don't use Amazon's services or don't like the company doesn't mean they paid for placement. They paid a lot of money to developers to develop great things. Why do you have to take that away from them?
You know, I like how there is this view out there that anyone who's doing classically "business" or "sales" work is not actually working that hard. I know some recruiters. They aren't the world's smartest people, but the successful ones work really damn hard. They don't make more than minimum wage unless they place people.

These guys are cold calling, searching LinkedIn, crawling phone trees, and sending requests all day. When they can they're touching up resumes and doing screening/placement interviews.

Moreover, their technical is different than your technical. It's social hacking and networking. It's learning how to find better opportunities and better people faster.

You might not like that they're Ronin, and work socially. However, they're pulling 12-15 hour days to make their sale.
> Corruption at all levels of government is rampant in Russia

I'm not concerned with corruption. It's a different side of coin. What happens in the US or in Europe is that if you need stuff done or if you need to win in court, you hire expensive lobbyists or lawyers. Either way, you spend money. It is practically the same, but legalized, so that you can say "oh, but this is civil". No it's not. It's still a government monopoly on doing stuff. Government should have no business telling people how to run a business or live their lives.
EU model. 2015 Range Rover Vogue(so the large one, not the Sport). And yeah, there's no youtube videos, very strange.
This is completely common in America

Except for the use of the term "fortnight". :)
Hah I actually had built one of these. So cool to see it up again in HN : )
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Thanks for the suggestion!
I didn't say otherwise. In general, for the average Joe (or Dmitri), the US is a nicer place to live. That doesn't excuse the behavior of it's government or serve as an argument why Russia is wrong and the US is right.
I think the trick isn't so much in the down time (or the length of it)...it's in what you do with any free time.

Burnout is generally a result of getting stuck doing lots of stuff you don't want to the majority of your time...and generally very little of what you do want to be doing...

So in my experience you only get over burnout by focusing and rediscovering what you were truly passionate about in the first place (or at the very least what you are insanely passionate about now).

Then, once you can figure out what excites you, start getting small wins in that direction however you can...and before you know it, you'll be full of energy and near impossible to stop again.
I recently moved jobs. Since I work in a fairly niche field, made plenty of good
friends at my old workplace, and the company was looking to add to my old team
while I was still there, I've had the pleasure of seeing several sides of a
hugely inefficient job search.

First, there is the Chinese whispers from within the company. They don't seem
keen on finding candidates directly, which in this field is as easy as it gets,
so off they go to the recruitment agency.
My (now former) boss
writes a job spec, this goes to HR (who aren't familiar with any of the technical details) and
HR add some company blurb and send it on to a recruiter, but not before crippling the job spec
by slapping on a below-market salary that nobody competent will accept to try and save some cash.

The recruiters think they have plenty of candidates who will take the salary, but
the candidates simply aren't good enough or don't have the right experience. The recruiters have no way of telling this, so they keep telling
the company that there are plenty of great candidates and to keep
interviewing.

From the applicant side, several friends of mine who are generally looking to move
to a new job had this role aggressively pitched to them by a recruiter.
Most of them would be brilliant for this job.
What my friends really need is a ten minute phone call with my old boss to see if
it's a potential fit before starting any formal interview process.
I'd have been happy to put them in touch
directly at an earlier stage, but there has now been contact through a recruiter
and I don't want to meddle behind the scenes.

None of my friends ended up going for the job since the recruiters were telling
them confusing things, and all got better offers than the
advertised range elsewhere. The company have unsuccessfully interviewed a few
candidates that the recruiters have pushed on them, the team has been desperate
for someone new for months (and they're crucial to the company's success)
and people like my old boss have no idea and little way of knowing how close
they are to finding the right people.

And yes, the stereotype of the shiny-suited young "failed salesman" recruiter is unfortunately true in my experience.
Yea, I just got one for managing plastic fabrication machines in some factory in the UK. When looking at why I got the offer, its because I had the words "Tooling Engineer" (title at current job) in my LinkedIn profile.
So where do you buy general interest non-DRM ePubs these days? I used to buy from Barnes & Noble when it was easy to remove the DRM. They've made it much more difficult, so I don't buy from them anymore.

P.G. Wodehouse is a good example of an author I like to buy as ePub.
I took a job abroad after coming from the U.S., and updated my LinkedIn accordingly. Soon after, the spam shot up through the roof. All of the same, non-descript, no-details contacts the author describes. It's been striking.
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As a manager I've had a recruiter basically say "That's a nice development department you have there, shame if something were to happen to it." As he described that by signing a contract with him and keeping "active" by hiring his candidates a couple of times a year, he would not solicit the developers at my company.
Cool design, How hard would it be to modify the design so the amp could be powered by 5V over USB
I think you just proved the grandparent's point.
Yes. Conveniently Medvedev and Putin swapped places for 4 years so that the limit was not broken.
I was about to say the same until I saw that it got very funny about half of the way through.
> Less environmentally harmful

I believe this is a pretty naive analysis. If you look at the energy expenditures for maintaining a library over a decade, let alone a century, a paper book would be far more environmentally friendly.
Okay, let me try to break through the reality distortion field: it's an Android-based tablet, with a custom Android UI skin, a 1:1 aspect ratio, custom app store with a Spotify-like subscription service for apps (they don't mention any third-party developer support), integrated cloud-storage probably with a custom SDK that developers have to use AND as is common with many Android-based Kickstarter projects - hardware specs that will likely be outdated by the time the device ships (May 2016, assuming no delays). I don't think the apps actually run in the cloud, it sounds like they're just regular Android apps that use their cloud service for storage. There is nothing revolutionary or special about this. It's a tablet with a weird screen, spotify for apps and integrated cloud app backup. The rest is all marketing bs.
On one hand, I understand the dangers from a philosophical viewpoint. On the other, I don't care what Amazon considers their rights or licenses with my Kindle.

I'm going to read what I want to read, when I want to read it, on my Kindle, whether Amazon wants me to or considers me to have a license or not. Basically: I don't care what the EULA states for my Kindle.

It's the same attitude I have around pirating movies or shows: if a movie company won't let me pay them to let me watch a movie/TV show via Steam, Netflix, or even from their own site, then I'll just watch it on Popcorn Time and it's their loss.

If it ever came to the point of Amazon disabling Kindles for sharing this viewpoint, then I'm sure there would be a groundswell of support for an open-source OS for the Kindle and we'd all get coding. In the end, I'm not all that scared.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/27/9210475/russia-wikipedia-b...

http://uk.businessinsider.com/russia-bans-reddit-2015-8?r=US...

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/03/github-russia/
Yes - you might assume 'well, they get a percentage of what I get so our interests are aligned'. Sure, they do, but their downside if they don't place you is that they get a percentage of nothing, whereas their downside if they place you for less than your value is they get a percentage of a lot of money instead of a percentage of a load of money. Also, they are hoping to work with the hiring company again, whereas they will likely never have to speak to you after you're hired, so who are they going to do a favor for?

So no, your interests really aren't aligned, and they will screw candidates on salary negotiation, take the slight hit on commission, and then make it up in volume.
:) I think there is zero chance for any conflict with Romania in general (or NATO since we're surrounded now and that would be a short happening).
Count me skeptical. I have a sous vide setup circulator and like it a lot. They're even pretty reasonably priced ($100-$200) these days. They're a great way to cook meat in particular and let you throw in a steak from the freezer in the morning and it'll be ready (perfectly cooked) in the evening with only a couple of minute sear. Of course, you can also do interesting things by long-cooking tough cuts of meat.

But, even as a fan, I'd be hard put to call it revolutionary for the home cook given that it's relatively special purpose.
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Alternate theories:

- There are actually only a small handful of tech multimillionaires.

- The sufficiently rich have enclosed garages and don't drive very much.

- The truly rich prefer to live in the suburbs.
This is the "Snowden cookie warning" I suspected here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10385807
Can a 3rd party call Russia out on something if USA do it too, or should we all shut up?

Because right now the discussion looks like this:

- Help! This thieve has stolen my bag!
- Shut up, others do it all the time.
Take note, daily fantasy sports sites:

> “We’ve learned from our own experience,” [Intrade founder Ron Bernstein] replied, “that regulatory avoidance isn’t a good business model.”
All I can say is that it gets better, involves a combination of fighting back and staying put to weather the storm. I don't have a sure shot advice for you. Good luck.
Are you in the UK? If so, I'm seriously surprised this doesn't ring true. To me it exactly matches my experience both as a contractor and as an employer.
As to who is being exploited here, it's the whole IT industry. They are rent-seekers, pure and simple, and they leech off our industry. They may not be sending children down mines, but that doesn't diminish the fact they are terrible companies and terrible people.
Maybe things are different in the UK, but in Canada I've never had to rely on a recruiter to find good work. I've interacted with them a few times and yes, it wasn't pleasant, but they hardly had the market cornered. My impression has been that those who rely on recruiters are unable to navigate the job market well themselves. It's not a forced reliance.
> If a comment as irate, mean-spirited, and unsubstantiated as this blog post appeared in HN, it would get down-voted into oblivion.

Yet this article instead of getting flagged into oblivion got upvoted to #1 as of now. Could that be that HN readers' experience with recruiters mirrors the author's experience?
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A recruitment agency that's hired on contract, or an internal recruiter at the company hiring?
That's still not good enough. I've had recruiters look at who my current employer is then call the public phone number of the company (the reception) and ask for my name. I'm not joking. Happened more than once.
It always depends on how you react, if you are passive (like the author of the article) or active. While I too get many mails/calls that are unnecessary, I like to keep active contact with some recruiters I came to like and call them/meet them on a regular basis, even when I have absolutely no need for a new contract. If you are a contractor, you are essentially owning a business and if you have a business, you should value potential customers. Crying like a baby about too much interest in your person is a loser attitude.
As long as there are not too many middle men, I also do not care about them getting their cut, as the better ones use that money to get the right contacts for me in case I want to change the position.
My current recruitment agency also uses some of the money for great parties and events, which helped me to get to know many others (clients/colleagues...).
I remember seeing this one (Op amp configured with some discrete components) back in the 1970s -- also you can change it up a little and use it to amplify very different things.
That's insane.

I've had a few exciting ones happen to me as well... including offers to interview for the COMPANY I AM ALREADY WORKING AT. That was a fun one. My boss was pissed.

Lately, I've been replying to recruiter emails with a short and sweet "$%INSANEAMOUNT% plus or I'm not interested". Haven't heard back yet.
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At night time, dig a hole and wait for the sun to rise.
There are e-book publishers who offer tech books with zero restrictions beyond basic copyright requirements applicable to physical books. Immediate access and freedom to make copies or even resell. What's not to like? People can make up their own mind about Amazon from whom I buy hardbacks. I wouldn't touch their e-format but I'm not that someone else for whom the formula fits.
"Intrade’s system was designed to evoke sophisticated investment, not a casino or a horse track"

I resent the supposition that there is not sophisticated investments being made on horse racing.

There are many professional investors all over the world, making sophisticated investments in horse racing.

One company I'm involved with, essentially a one man band, pays between £10,000 - £15,000 per annum just to access horse racing data, both daily races and historic results. They then use this raw data to produce complex ratings for daily races and to perform historic data analysis. Their toolset is mostly R and Python based.

This is just one small company in the UK. If you looked at other jurisdictions, such as Hong Kong, there are multi-million dollar syndicates crunching numbers to make sophisticated horse racing investments.