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Hello tmaly,

I read your older and recent posts by you that your company is looking for junior/mid developers at Interactive Brokers in the CT/NYC area.

Well, I checked out the Interactive Brokers site and they have at least openings available listed on there what looks to be for Junior and mid-level Developers.

So, I see that you work for Interactive Brokers. Don't know if that still holds up but I wanted to check if the Junior/mid level Developer job is still available?

I'm a guy who has been going the self-taught route where I enjoy using and working with Python as far as learning purposes go.

And after quickly reading your post here I figured to reach out and try a somewhat different approach than the old cover letter and resume email method and contact you if you may have any info to this current opening at your company?

So with that said, here I am..and I wanted to inquire to find out if this opening is still available? If so, do you have a contact email to learn more about this position and the things you require in regards to the nature of the job?

My apologies in advance that this may not be the response to your post that you were looking for but I figured why not take a chance and try something different to reach out and learn what I can do to improve my chances to be part of the Interactive Brokers dev team.

Any help in this matter will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

--K

Also, tmaly... please feel free to contact me at pydeveloper22@gmail.com
438 Stocks on the NYSE Have Already Plunged 40%-94% from 52-Week Highs
The alternatives aren't US companies, they are NOKIA and Ericsson
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How could EU law apply to a US publication? Would US law apply to EU publications? Is a representative from the EU going to show up in New York and serve Forbes a summons? I am genuinely curious how a US publication with no legal domicile in the EU have any obligation to follow EU laws.

If a California resident goes to an EU insurance website, will that EU company have to comply with California insurance advertising laws?

I think that there is a lot of wishful thinking about GDPR and a lot of ignorance on how jurisdiction works, especially internationally.

GDPR has no jurisdiction over companies without an EU domicile or physical presence. And EU citizens aren’t protected unless they are actually resident in the EU.
I agree and people who say about Medium's networking abilities, well WordPress already does this. You can self-host your blog using WordPress and connect it to their WordPress.com site using JetPack. Hey presto, you have a huge network of WordPress Bloggers with the advantages of controlling your own Blog.

Also, I applaud you on creating your own blog using a static site generator, the speed improvements and easier reading are great. I do however hope you also have an RSS feed so readers can subscribe and syndicate it[0].

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/RSS/Getting_Sta...
> A non-stop tradition of oppression doesn't somehow make new oppression less bad.

The Chinese government abused and oppressed their people so hard for so long they accidentally lifted 740 million people out of abject, 3rd world poverty. But don't let that get in the way of a good rant.
I guess it depends what you are working with. Some things are just a pain to keep synced, like large files, lots of repos, installed packages, containers, customizations, etc..

For a while I did have an iMac at work, iMac at home and small laptop for whatever. But it was too much hassle.
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There's still plenty of demand for good developers, it's simply that the amount of code written has increased enormously and is being provided by a more democratised system. The person bringing into existence‡ that app for your local pizzeria probably doesn't even need to know what an A* search is, but doesn't need to either. There's even a change it's reasonably secure with your CC info by using some library from the CC clearing companies‡‡

There is a separate and unrelated problem that your bank may also be outsourcing its app to these lightly-trained developers, but that's the bank's poor choice.

‡ I avoided the use of "write" though that's still the case, but in the longer term the app will pretty much be written a la frontpage or powerpoint, or even more high-level (some AI app that just asks some questions and spits out most of the app).

‡‡ I know, I know, but a nerd can dream, can't one?
If portability and usage off the power grid doesn't matter to you, the mac mini is the preferred choice as you get a vastly more powerful computer, in comparable configurations at a cheaper price. Especially if you would use an external screen/keyboard/mouse with your laptop anyway.
The entry level laptop at Apple now is the MacBook Air, which gives you a dual-core CPU and up to 16gig of memory. The mini starts at 4 cores, goes up to 6 and up to 64g. And it has a ton of ports. It doesn't have a keyboard which might be expensive to repair, no battery that can fail, much less likely to fail from overheating than a laptop.
Your question should include a link describing what starlink is for the uninitiated.
It will soon be possible to send a satellite to repair another- or to destroy it
GWT is 12 years old, Android is 10 years old, Go is 9 years old, Dart is 7 years old.
I'd say their client platforms are OK.
The moment I saw the headline I just knew there’d be a “it’s just as bad over here” post in the thread somewhere. Thanks for not disappointing me. There are different ways to approach this though.

There’s “what China is doing is no big deal, we do it all as well so why are we hypocritically making a fuss?”.

Then there’s “this is appalling and should be condemned absolutely, but let’s be careful here because we’re already exposed to some problems like this ourselves”.
Could you please provide sources?
If Iran would flip and accept israel- men would these guys be welcome. Only middle-eastern country besides israel with some serious science.
TO be fair, despite the US having some large emptier states, the US has nodes of very high urban density - most notably the Northeast corridor. From Boston to Washington there's around 50 million people, with - depending how you define it - a density of around 390/sqkm, three times that of France's 120/sqkm.

Of course not representative, but you can definitely see the influence of the automobile in how these cities have grown. Compare to say, Moscow - another major urban city in a fairly sparse city - New York City has only added a few km of subway lines in the past 20 years compared to 150+km.
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Does the Apple Watch fit your criteria?
Looking at wikipedia [0] they also list deaths per billion journeys and per billion hours. Following on from your assumptions, these give the following:

At 117 deaths per billion journeys, only 256 million would be required, which would be fewer than one journey per person per annum. So lifts are much safer per journey.

For 30.8 deaths per billion hours it would be just under a billion hours needed (or 3.25 hours per person per year, ~0.5 minutes a day). I would imagine per minute this would put lifts and air travel at a similar risk per minute.

Wikipedia doesn't state if these are for general aviation or just commercial operations, which would skew the numbers considerably.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety#Transport_comp...
It looks like you're moving the verification goalposts away from what is actually running on the hardware and simultaneously walking this back from government to civilian uses. These are completely different discussions (though I might add that governments rely heavily on the private sector, so some pressure there is expected).

Another completely different line of discussion is whether I personally am concerned at all (I'm not), and what I should do about it (nothing, but governments certainly should build their own CPU).

> We could achieve fairly strong security at an affordable cost

No. We cannot achieve strong security in a device that comes with software. You also cannot (at the time of this writing) prove that the actual hardware you personally are running is trustworthy without spending enough that the "affordable cost" becomes a moot point.

A wide swath of civilian uses can probably come out on top of the cost/benefit analysis just because their interests don't get in the way of governmental conflicts (or they can make enough money in the meantime). It's only from the perspective of a government that this conversation makes any sense at all.
please also remind them to remove their sense of humor as well, since these are often offensive and traumatizing.
By a strange coincidence I'm also in the group of people using their Macbook Pro while sitting on the sofa, due to not having a tv. I wouldn't use a dedicated TV enough to justify having one.
This looks very weird in my pdf-viewer.
Thanks, we barely see them, if I had not know I wouldn't have figured it out, and it's not even visible from a high altitude :|
We've been all clickbaited
I'd chalk it up to the stress of moving. I used to live in US and then moved to Germany. It's normal.
Saudi Arabias school book dont have nice words for america either. The 9/11 cause was that a whole generation of islamic men grew up hating infidels (russians & americans alike).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabian_textbook_controv...
> you're a software developer and the setup would take you one day of work

I hear this a lot and I don't get it. Just because I'm tech savvy doesn't mean I want to do everything myself. My time on earth is finite like everyone else's. I don't value it less just because I can program.

I've built my own blog many times, actually. But the purpose of a blog is to write and share content. Every second I spend messing with the blog is energy I could've allocated towards writing content.

Also, static site generators tend to not have nice publishing editors, like the ability to just drag an image in.

But we really need to dispose of this idea that "you can build anything so why don't you want to build everything?" I also think hosting my email is a waste of my time.
>Iran is controlled by monsters, and Egypt/Saudi Arabia are the primary force opposed to them at this time.

Can you please provide sources? Saudi Arabia is bombing innocent civilians and children in Yemen right now. Most of the 9/11 Hijackers were from Saudi Arabia too.
I suppose you have the same problem when reading this comment too.
To be fair he called this out up front (although until your note I didn't know what he was taking about -- but I got the idea).
I don't know Google's privacy policy too well and I'm not a lawyer, but I think, this is still kind of uncharted legal territory.

No end user ever gets to see Google's privacy policy before their data is submitted to Google. Not even for Google Analytics, where I am pretty sure that Google does use the data, if the webpage owner isn't paying.

At the same time, Google will point to webpage owners, saying that they need to inform their users (which they do), but if Google wanted to "do the right thing", they would acknowledge that clearly webpage owners don't do that, and that therefore essentially any usage of Google Analytics data happens without user consent.

Under the GDPR, something like this would almost certainly not be legal and Google would be responsible, too, even if they're not the "controller", just the "processor", as the GDPR calls it.

Of course, we'll only know for sure once the lawsuits against Google have gone through.
I don't think rape jokes are acceptable these days. What do you say?
I spot it on Newegg, and its cost is almost equal to a Mac mini.
This may sound like a stupid question, but did the Chinese people vote for this? Was there a democratic process?
> about 70-80% of it is down even on the best days,

I’m not usually one to defend the MTA but this is wildly inaccurate.
I was curious what the map of all Tokyo train lines overlapping might look like, and found this post on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/53yuxd/heres_a_ful...

Quite impressive! It even includes the Disney Resort Line (small orange loop toward the right-hand side).
> Serious question: why do people, software developers actually, use Medium for blogging?

Serious question: why first comment on HN have to be totally unrelated to the fine article?

Do we really need to discuss medium issues every time a blog post entry is posted here, instead of discussing the post itself.

Serious question 2: Why don't you write a blog post about "Using Medium for blogging" on your own static self-hosted blog, and put a link here for discussing it?
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This approach absolutely does produce static web sites, just like any other static site generator. The querying of a back-end database doesn’t take place when a page gets loaded, it takes place when the static site is being built.

This article is just talking about one approach to taking one’s content and assembling it into a static website. The same basic workflow one should expect when dealing with any static site generator, the only difference being in the particulars of content aggregation and the build process.
I have not allowed access to apps that don't need it, do I have to go through each app and check its permissions manually? Also, the mic works on bg mode?
Regulation. Environmental impact studies. Workplace safety rules. When we first built the interstate highway system, we just started bulldozing a path across the land. Now, there's five years of planning and permitting necessary for even a small bypass project.

Edit: I'll add, also, survivorship bias. We see what was achieved. We don't see what was planned and never came to fruition for lack of political will or whatever reasons.
Yeah, I was thinking about that. If you commute to work via public transport and use your MBP on the go then a MM isn't an alternative. However if you travel by car you cannot use the MBP on the go anyway. I currently use an Intel Compute Stick as 'mobile laptop'. There are tons of other (more capable) devices out there which could do the trick however I use it together with a HHKB and an Apple Magic Trackpad 2. Both of which are also usable together with a tablet or smartphone. Monitor-wise I'm roaming, but I've seen some neat 720p and 1080p screens. Even touchscreens.
It seems like someone should come up with an "executable+data storage" file format (where virus scanners can know to only check changes in the executable section) Maybe they can make one that is supported cross platform while they're at it...
Anonymous blows lid off huge psyop in Europe and it's funded by UK and US
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The 'game' is the economy, which the poor still benefit from. If you have no stake in the economy, you wouldn't be affected.
Show HN: Plisqin, an SQL generator written in Racket
Maybe it's also better to rent time on a Mac Mini that you can remote into, so you can setup tunnels to internal sites.
The scarcity principle applied to software products
I think in the case of amazon.com, the people who go there usually know what they want, they go, they search and the results they get are good enough.

It's actually a terrible site to "browse" if you're looking for something but not really sure what, but if you know roughly what you want it works fine.
I don't see any evidence that the companies cooperated with this. The process of interdiction, described in the Snowden leaks, sounds more probable. It seems like a small distinction, but it makes a huge difference to the people who work at these companies who would never agree to this practice.

The outcome, of course, is the same. It is rich that the U.S. is asking other countries not to use Huawei equipment, when the Snowden leaks indicate the U.S. government was using interdiction to hack other countries' governments.
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But a lot of those 20 billion pounds also went to enrich the arms manufacturing company owners and keeping factory workers in jobs. So cynically, it's probably a net win for the UK Government :-)

As Frederick Forsyth said in one of his novels, arms manufacturing factories once started cannot be shut down when you have outfitted your own armies - hence exports.
The US freight rail system is already excellent. This fact is often missed in the periodic “American trains suck so hard” pieces because it’s not visible to the average person the way passenger service is.
Yeah. An enterprising ambulance-chasing lawyer could get temporary EU residency to get GDPR coverage, and cut some deals with whomever he cares to bully.
Good idea, I should turn that on! Thanks for the suggestion.
I have a 2016 13” MBP for work. I love it. But, when I plug it into my external 4K monitor at home and scale the resolution down a notch, the whole thing slows down to a grind. I also have a Mac Mini (2016) at work and contemplating bringing it home to use with the 4K. Giving somewhat the same spec between the 2 I doubt it makes any difference though.
Do you guys have any slowdown experience when hooking up a MBP to a 4K monitor in scale-down mode?
That's all lies.

Whenever the US issues a statement on Iran, it is best to just assume it's total agenda-driven bullshit.
An organization wants their app to run on both mobile platforms. That's not a limited use case.
Hello tmaly,

I'm a non programmer who has been going to self-taught route studying to become a developer in Python. I'm willing to learn and I highly motivated to become a better programmer I could enter the tech/finance industry.

It would be great to get any advice insight from you. Not sure if your post was for non-programmers at your company or for outsiders who are willing to learn Python and programming from you to add more developers to your team? I'm just trying to find a way to break into the field of professional software development that involves the use of Python programming.

Please feel free to contact me at your earliest convenience. If you like, my email is:

pydeveloper22@gmail.com

Thanks.

--K
Stick your rear tyre into those slats, usually this allows locking frame and rear wheel. Wirelock on the frontwheel if wanted.
Also, the foldable locks are much more practical than the U-style locks.
I feel like the adoption of HTTP/3 is going to be much much slower than HTTP/2... Besides Google Cloud do any of the major cloud providers have UDP load balancers?
As long as the A, C, G and Ts are in the right order.
Does anyone have comprehensive information on typical transportation department budgets in the US vs. some of these countries?

Anecdotally I had a civil engineer friend from Spain who always told me that the transportation budgets in the USA were tiny compared to in Europe.

It'd be great if it was politically feasible for the US government to take some money from the military and put it into ambitious public transportation infrastructure. National rail probably doesn't make sense but there are definitely regional and city systems that need some serious help.
Absolutely nothing. They're not about to block some of the biggest sites around for failing to comply with GDPR. Can you imagine the backlash? No one wants a Great Firewall of the EU.

Anyone who thinks GDPR applies to companies operating entirely outside the EU is deluded at best.
Uh, I don't complain it has no power brick. I say that it's impressive it has no power brick.
Yes, some things are binary and some things are not. Your example is binary. The situation we're talking about is not.
The model is indeed great, but the situation in Amsterdam is not that good. Metro lines are crowded daily, not that clean (especially 51), often delayed, sometimes out of reach for commuting even with cycling. The 52 line is a dream but at that pace it will take half a century to be half as good as Tokyo’s.

Intercity (or even longer distance trips within the city) are not available nearly often or connected enough. The Ring roads are chock-full of cars even with massive 5-6 lane express ways all around.
Interesting how different countries have different styles. In Sweden, before printing took over, supermarkets would have posters outside with the specials in a style similar to "IKEA Script" https://statics.fontke.com/image/image/314190/360x270.png
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Well the compete omnishambles that the current generation of politicians seem to have created I would probably agree with you
Flutter allows the use of plugins which, through glue code, allow using native code and existing libraries. It's pretty comparable functionally to Java's JNI.
It doesn't matter where you live or where the company is based... afaik, the determining factor is where the company stores data. In other words, if they have servers in the EU, they are bound by GDPR.
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We need to figure out how to better persuade people to get their kids vaccinated. Perhaps a mix of education targeted at families who claim these exemptions, and fines to represent the negative externality of their choices?
I have Chrome only for the built in Flash. I don’t play many flash games these days, but I don’t know what I’m going to do when Google finally strips that out. Seems like Kongregate has drifted towards Unity but there are a few classics, and I have an old game that a friend and I made a long time ago that I like to play from time to time.
Red and Blue Line are, which are about half of ridership.
The Iranians are fighting a proxy war with the Egyptians and Saudis in Yemen. Only blaming the Saudis misses the mark.

Are there bad guys in Saudi government? There sure are.

Are innocents being killed, and is that horrible? You bet. But they're being killed just as much by the Iranians as the Saudis.

But the Iranians are not going to stop in Yemen, and if they're not stopped, there will certainly be more innocents killed in other countries.

Lets say the Saudis were completely cut off. What then? Iran gets Yemen, and then topples the Saudis? How does that help anyone out?

Sometimes, there are not any really great answers.

Sometimes, just like in WW II when the US and GBR allied with the Soviets, you have to do what you can to tackle the bigger problem.
I'd love to see it if you're willing to share
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It's not just Facebook. Perhaps your employer (I know my Fortune 500 is this way) prefers acquisitions over developing new products in-house. From experience I know it saps motivation and good people move on but it seems to be a thing.
I dont know about others but I dont have a TV.
Episode 25 of the Machine Ethics podcast. We talk cybersecurity, ML and more
or just make vaccines mandatory for every child able to have them?
Could you expand more on this? I'm having a hard time picturing how the 'myth of the tech talent shortage' benefits the powers that be. Doesn't it cost them more?
See also: Bally Space Flight from 1969: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVdonoSadcA
Typically, such conspiracy minded people are referring to Israel, which supports Saudi Arabia as an opposing power to Iran. There is a long history of conspiracy theories of secret Israeli/Mossad control of the US government.
If some of your family have inheritable diseases, you could find out if you have them or if your children could have them. Finding out that you will suffer from a nasty disease in the future could be quite a shock, though.

People also spend money on things like handwriting analysis, personality questionnaires and measuring people's skulls to try to work out what they are like; genomics is at least somewhat accurate and based on reality!

In practice, you'll get told things like "You have endurance muscles, not fast muscles" and "You probably have blue eyes" (mirrors are more accurate!) and "You have twice the chance of getting this specific type of cancer" (twice a very small number is still a very small number).