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> "Not to mention HR companies which in my opinion are during this stage, a complete waste of time and money. But mostly time."

Well, most recruiters are promising you that they are "experts" in their field and will bring you the best engineers. And then nothing happens for weeks or you get spammed with crappy CVs which is even worse (waste of time).

I am a former programmer, now running coderfit.com in Zurich. I am doing tech recruitment for a couple of very early stage startups here.

I am switching to a retainer-based model where the company prepays me a third of the fee before I start working. Especially for hard to fill roles, for instance, no-name startups, this is a better strategy than just working on pure commission. So, if working with recruiters at all look for the ones that will offer this.

Also ask: "From ten profiles you send us, how many will we approximately hire?" When they can't answer, that is a bad sign.
He's a billionaire who has spent decades producing a return worse than if he'd just put the money he got from his dad in a fund. His fortune is not a demonstration of ability.
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AFAIK they sound exactly the same like København and Köpenhamn.
Criminals aren’t always as dumb as you seem to think they are.
This particular article seems to be an ad for consulting/support services, but their underlying point is one that I agree with:

Desktop usage (terminals, browsers, editors, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, media listening/viewing and light creation) should not be surprising. It should not change out from underneath the user.

I've run Debian Stable for more than 15 years as my primary desktop system, almost always with XFCE. I add the Google Chrome repository and download the latest Firefox and Firefox Nightly. That's it. The whole thing runs really nicely on an i5-2500 with 16GB RAM and 2 SSDs in a ZFS mirror. I'll need new hardware when I switch from 2 1920x1200 monitors to a big 4K screen; I won't need to change my OS.
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We enable engineers to focus on what they can to best, letting them work on new products in small, highly interdisciplinary teams. We try to get rid of as much management overhead as possible (no daily standup meetings!). Right now, we are hiring new engineers for the following areas:

- Frontend Developer (JS/Web)

- RUST Backend Developer (our backend is 100% rust!)

- Electrical Engineer

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Interview process: 1st phone interview (screening) -> 2nd phone interview (technical) -> home assignment/technical challenge (depending on application) -> 3rd/final interview (mixed, via phone or onsite)
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I thought that the secret of Intel's success is paranoia. Andy Grove's motto was "Only the paranoid survive" and he wrote a book with the same name.
Yes, I can remember putting the New Radicals on a dictaphone. If you did that the quality would be exceptionally low.
I live in Cheltenham and pre-Snowden may have entertained the idea for working there. I tracked a job they were advertising for nearly a year - they were offering ~32k for a Linux expert with years of experience. Good luck on that one. I think they eventually converted it to a contract role, but even then I wouldn't entertain it.

Another friend worked at the big James Bond building in London, was regularly taken around the world at short notice to do security things, and was on less than 40k. He loved that job more than anything in the world but literally couldn't afford to live there so went contracting for 5x the money. Apparently in the government a large part of salary reviews is based on (age + seniority), so you're waiting a long time for a decent uplift that may never arrive.
From: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

> What to Submit

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

> Blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they can't be Show HNs.

It's ok to submit your own stuff here, but this looks like a normal blog post, not a project for a ShowHN.
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The market doesn't have enough information about product longevity to make an informed decision. The only reliable data point I have as a consumer is the warranty. The few brands that advertise longevity usually cost so much more than cheap versions of the same product that it's hard to justify the purchase. Why for example should I pay $150 for Patagonia jeans if I can get ten pairs of El-Cheapo jeans for the same amount?
Yet, all that is besides the point: In essence, those reasons would apply to any installation you have once you run it long enough. I.e., those particular problems are not Java-specific, and in fact, I would even dare speculate that such issues are through the bench worse in any other language than Java.

ADDENDUM: Yes, C++ is technically even more backwards compatible - if your code base and all dependencies was/were 100% standards compliant (har har). But again, for me, the main point is that most newer languages first have to prove they can keep up to such levels of backwards compatibility (e.g., see the Python 3 fiasco...).
This seems a bit hyperbolic. I do, and I'm pretty sure a lot of people do - especially developers; and especially dialogs that you didn't explicitly expect.

Not saying that the majority do; or that a dialog is "good security protection". I just don't think it's as useless as you seem to imply.
I recently got roped into one of Palantir's recruitment events (because I am a pathetic sucker for free beer), and they were making a really big deal of how they billed by _outcome_ rather than _time_. At the time I just thought that they were trying to differentiate themselves from Accenture/KPMG/Deloitte/etc. but I see now that billing by outcome is also a nice way to get around billing caps on hourly rates.
CRTs give the excitement of science

Electrons are coaxed away from matter, then shot through an artificial vacuum near the speed of light. Then they're meticulously guided by magnetic forces to SMASH into a pinpoint of phosphor to excite the release of photons, thousands of times every second, in perfect harmony.

LCDs are just really really smart Christmas lights. Very practical, but a bit boring.

Also, horizontal storage space, like having a shelf in the most ideal place to have a shelf.
>> And in French, it's the letter "A" with a diaresis mark, which neither makes it a distinct letter of the alphabet, nor a distinct vowel, it's just a mark that signifies that two adjacent vowels should not be pronounced as a diphtong.

I can't think of an example of a French word where an A takes a diairesis. Can you give one?

Wikipedia has this to say:

En français, le tréma peut se placer sur les voyelles e, i, u (et y dans des noms propres) pour indiquer, normalement, que la voyelle qui précède doit être prononcée séparément et ne fait pas partie d'un digramme.

[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C3%A9ma]
Full cream milk is 4% fat. That's not very high.
The article equates macOS to hotel and Ubuntu to home. So The heading should Change the order and read as Hotel and home instead.
> A lot of the time people are just not in the position that's right for them.

And a lot of the time the right position for such a person is in a different company.
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+1 for Asus. I have a 5.5-year-old UX31A and it has aged extremely well (which is to say, barely at all).
I wasn't following the investigation too closely, but the conspiracy theories I saw weren't too convincing:

Mostly, they highlighted instances of authorities either correcting previous mistakes, or withholding information slightly longer than necessary.

Yet it's quite obvious how these two errors are related: If you're eagerly accused of the former, you'll tend to indulge in the latter.

It's also important to consider that the Indonesian authorities were simply overburdened by such an investigation, were likely to make all sorts of mistakes under stress, and had to content with competing interests that were impossible to satisfy.

Then, this investigation happened to involve dozens of authorities and companies from different countries, making errors in communications, distrust, and cultural clashes much more likely than, say, a US-made aircraft crashing in Colorado.

The debris that was discovered in Australia and Africa seems to, roughly, validate the initial search efforts. While there may be competing theories pointing to slightly different areas of the Indian Ocean to be searched, there's nothing supporting the "real" conspiracy theories that the plane was diverted to Riad and will be used to start WW III.
Light speed travel doesn't exist and getting into a rocket to listen to a song sounds like a big inconvenience (not to mention prohibitively expensive).
Very nice resource. (Applied mathematician that ended up in macroeconomics by way of differential and algorithmic game theory).
> LCDs had much less screen real estate compared to CRT

Oh sure, in terms of resolution I went from the CRT being able to do 1600x1200 back to an LCD that could do 1280x1024 (IIRC). But the physical screen sizes were bigger very quickly, that's what I meant.

CRTs were certainly superior in terms of image, response time and resolution. But when I could buy a larger flat panel at 1280x1024 with a 16ms response time for a couple of hundred pounds... buh-bye forever CRT.
Cool.

This isn't related to TVs, but I have a couple pieces of old Sony HiFi equipment from the very early 1970's and I'm always amazed by the quality and attention to detail Sony had back then. I feel like it's back when Sony had something to prove. This may have been the case for most consumer electronics manufacturers back then though.

One is a TA-1130 amplifier, and the other is a reel-to-reel tape player (I forget the model). The most amazing to me is that the reel-to-reel still works fine after nearly 50 years, considering all the moving parts.
> why would a highly qualified person without any preference towards civic duty subject themselves to all of this when they have their pick of jobs?

Well, all other things being equal they wouldn't. We cannot infer that those who are civic minded are more/less competent from that though.

In practice there are numerous reasons why highly talented people are willing to sacrifice from organizational flexibility and freedom of expenditure work in those organizations. The easy one is meaning. You don't have to be civic minded to get more out of helping cancer researchers get research data than making Accounting Excel Plugin v12.3. Variety and scope of challenge is another. Few companies can offer the kind of influence that being on a national standards org can. And since the gov can't really be salary competitive, it tends to compete on work/life balance - pensions, paid vacation, flexitime, sane office hours, no unpaid time on-call over weekends, etc...

For people like us though the answer is even clearer: cool toys. Oak Ridge National Laboratory works at scales so large I've literally had to google what the metric prefixes they were using meant as they were so huge as to be unfamiliar. Data centers, tools, software packages, etc chosen for cost and market fairness, and not just because some VPs golf buddy got wood from a slide deck...

--

Me, personally, like many here could be making roughly an extra car a year by working at RandomConsulting Co. I would wake up earlier, yell at my family more, be sitting in random office environments with smelly people constantly, lie-smiling while blowing smoke up customer asses in dumb meetings routinely, travelling 15 hours more every single week, be in airports all the time, and fundamentally trying to trick customers into building my resume while also being forced to follow their crappy tech choices and crappy tech environments...

Instead I'm building highly scalable open source, license free, BigData solutions on Kafka, Kubernetes, and Akka driven by F#. We're saving stupid money we get to use for schools and hospitals instead. I can tell my boss to suck an egg if I want, wear comfy clothes, and there are formal processes in place to protect my decision-making... Worth the financial "hardship" to have a pure, tech-driven, position, IoW.
> Days to the moon at an extreme cost with little to no benefit vs hours for the satellite if something goes wrong.

Days versus hours - exactly. A step up in risk, to be sure, but not a huge one - realistically there aren't so many problems that won't kill you in the hours it would take to get home from the ISS but will kill you in the days it would take you to get home from the moon.

> Again we don't even have the technology to make mining the moon, if it had anything of value, profitable.

Space stations aren't profitable either. It's not about profit, it's about humanity spreading through the cosmos.

> You are missing the point. They don't have to be manned they are hubs between the planet and the surface and back home. They provide important information about the planet to those who live on it.

So how does a manned space station help with that? We already have satellites orbiting Mars and acting as communications relays.

> Has nothing to do with circular reasoning not sure you understand that word then.

"Knowledge of space stations will be valuable because we will build space stations because that will let us reuse our knowledge of space stations" is textbook circular reasoning.

> No, it doesn't make sense as there is no benefit compared to the cost. We simply aren't there yet no matter how lovely it sounds.

So how do we get to there from here? I don't think we'll ever get to a point where going to other planemos makes sense from a corporate profit-and-loss perspective, not if we don't go there for non-economic reasons first.

Suppose the goal is Mars, or one of the Jovian moons, or Titan. How would an ISS 2.0 put us any closer to getting there than we are now? What is it that we can't do now that we would want to test out with an ISS 2.0?

We're going to need surface habitats on these places, and building a surface habitat on the moon would let us test out the technologies and engineering that needs, in a place that's - relatively speaking - much quicker to get to and from, so safer and easier to iterate on. While a space station tells us some things that are relevant to building surface habitats, most of the things it tells us are only relevant to space stations. I simply don't see the need for long-term-manned space stations, and medium-term-manned space stations we can do already.
No, I understand very well what it means. The land of opportunity isn't the same as social mobility and isn't meant to be the same either.

You don't come to the US because of social mobility, you come here to improve your current situation and relatively, the US provides in spades compared to going to many European countries where you are stuck in some social welfare system and will never actually be able to move out of it.

The European welfare system is great for equality but it doesn't do much for the opportunity.

The ability to break out of your social heritage isn't better in Denmark in any meaningful way. It's a common misconception but was debunked by ex. the Rockwool Foundation who found that Despite free education people were still ending up doing the same as their parents no matter the US or Denmark.
Apple recently had to replace Iphone batteries because there device became slougish. So there is precedent.
Setup React Native app from scratch
> The only purpose for space is science

No, it's not. Fuck science, it's just a tool. The goal is GROWTH and MULTIPLICATION and CONQUEST! We should learn to be proud of our "viral" nature and start acting more like it. If we could do the same with "magic" or religion or whatever, then we'd do it using that...
In my experience its about 30%(ish) to the worker gross, which means that the worker gets about 20% after tax. It can be slightly higher or lower depending on the situation.
Are you familiar with the path that an American needs to take in order to become a cardiologist capable of financially supporting a family in a city where their children can realize their potential? The system that creates an American cardiologist is designed such that the cardiologist and it's respective delivery system will charge as much as economically possible for services. There aren't many cardiologists in the country and that is by design. A hospital can't even establish itself without the explicit consent of other hospitals already operating in a region -- healthcare entrepreneurs require a "certificate of need" issued before they are permitted to open a new hospital -- and dare not compete. The American Medical Association, medical schools, lenders, cardiologist fellowship programs, and others play a role in manufacturing a cardiologist. Everyone is participating in the system as a profit seeking, economic growth oriented player. Long ago, their objectives shifted to maximizing shareholder value and honoring fiduciary responsibilities.

No one has managed to control the cost of care in a system like this.
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I live in Cambodia. The Khmer people here eat white rice for every meal, four times a day. They nap at lunchtime because of carb overload. They're not fat.
Yes, this is an excellent book. I like how it gets boring towards the end as the discussion turns to USA-Japan import/export issues and other less inspiring subjects. As the book slips into being boring it coincides with the decline of Sony so it's symbolic. But it's only perhaps the final third that is boring. Otherwise, it's a great read that rarely gets mentioned online.
Yes, they do. Encryption doesn’t matter.

On wireless service, all traffic is proxied and they do assessments of the apps based on a number of metrics. I saw one case that was based on number of packets sent. That was five years ago —- they have the tech chops to do it.

Remember that with consolidation, it’s much easier. THe carriers could handle most internet traffic with this type of scheme by making deals with AWS, Azure, Google, FB, Netflix, etc.
Just hire a DDoS attack anonymously so your attempt to sell fails, pretend you've got nothing to do with it
> Blockchains are the next big thing in nothing. They are not here to revolutionise anything [1]

I beg to differ [1]

> So how in the seven hells is blockchain going to help?

It's not a silver bullet, and most things are not ones that were not possible before. But it facilitates some combinations, makes some things a lot more practical, and opens space for innovation.

In this case, in particular, what comes to mind is:

- there's a replicated consensus of all this attributions. Every single company agrees and has a shared database of the rights and the licensing.
- the disintermediation: there's not necessarily a need to have a middle man managing this informations and agreements.
- auditable, notorized, unforgeable history: you have this immutable record of when songs were released, who held their records, who and when licensed them, etc.
- open information: if you design this system as an open network, any interested party can join and get the information it wants without needing APIs, etc.

All this without getting into tokens and handling the payments and distribution of royalties on the chain, and other innovations that the capabilities of the blockchain can bring.

[1] https://blockchaintechguide.com/a-blockchain-based-future/
That's actually not quite the same ø. The Swedish one is slightly lighter. Use the deeper Danish ø-sound in a Swedish context, and you clearly sound like a Dane speaking Swedish.
O_o Nobody did an `npm install` in 2018 yet?
Modern LCDs have a display lag that CRTs don't. Hardcore fighting games' units of measurement for moves are frames (as in frames per second). E.g. "it takes this character 17 frames to execute this move, and you have 5 frames from the start of the animation to block it." Under those conditions, a 5ms delay matters.
> still protect your rights as well

There are few western countries that are as bad at protecting rights as the US. See:

- Guantanamo Bay, where people are held indefinitely without trial

- Abuse of civil forfeiture

- Mass surveilance

- Cops not being sentenced after needless shootings

- Gerrymandering messing with the will of the people

- Private companies often being more important than the public interest

I could keep going, because there's plenty where that came from. It all depends on which rights you mean though, because the right to bear arms has indeed been well protected in the US (which isn't really considered a right anywhere else in the western world though).
Spy organizations are indeed a necessary evil.

But not at all cost. There has to be effective oversight, checks and balances and public discourse about its limits. Not sure about the first two in the US, but here in Germany they fight that tooth and nail. And their certainly wouldn't be any discourse without Snowden.

They certainly did that mostly to themselves and i hope the only lesson they learned isn't "next time we shouldn't get caught"
It’s exaggerated but only slightly. Some of the worst messes I’ve seen were people who should have known better just blindly pasting google search results because they didn’t have time to do it right.

More developers than sysadmins but definitely not exclusively so. Never underestimate the degree to which people are rushing or not questioning whether their initial diagnosis was correct.
Well, that is a good thing: You still can buy regular support for Java 6, which was released more than 10 years ago. So if you really think updating your monolith to Java 9 is worth less than paying for that support, you can do so. Not all software generates such a huge margin that updating it would be a viable option for your business. How many other languages provide such long-term support for releases that are a decade old, even if you were willing to pay for it?
I'm quite baffled by this... I'm presuming this was in the context of the time when tables were used for layout everywhere