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Portchain | Copenhagen, Denmark | Full time | REMOTE | Front-end Software Engineer

Acceptable timezones: between -4 and +3 hrs from UTC

We're hiring a front-end developer (NodeJS, ReactJS, Typescript) to join our team of 5 remote developers (incl. the engineering manager onsite in Copenhagen).

Experience working remotely. Minimum 4 years of professional software engineering experience.

Job & company description: https://docs.portchain.com/hiring/Portchain%20-%20Front-end%...

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Portchain | Copenhagen, Denmark | Full time | Onsite | QA Lead

We're hiring a QA lead to join our team. We're currently 5 developers (incl. engineering manager), 2 data scientists and a product owner. We are looking for someone to take on the role of QA Lead.
The key responsibility is to ensure that features pushed to our end users have been thoroughly vetted and meet our high quality standard.

The software team is remote. The product owner, engineering manager and data scientists are in our offices on Amaliegade.

Job & company description: https://docs.portchain.com/hiring/Portchain%20-%20QA%20lead%...

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90% of all goods are transported in containers. The largest container vessels can take on 20,000 containers at a time. The industry is struggling like never before, and is fundamentally inefficient: 50% of all container vessels globally are delayed coming into port, most communication is conducted through phone and even fax, paper is still used in abundance, there can be over 15 process handovers moving a container, and there are large regional differences in performance among players.

We want to change that, and bring the industry into the digital age. Portchain (www.portchain.com) is a Danish startup founded by 3 McKinsey alums in February 2017 that aims to significantly reduce operational cost and complexity for all players while providing industry leading customer experience.

We have paying customers and getting traction through pilot projects.

Email us: jobs@portchain.com
Yes! That has been my experience at a (now long since failed) start-up.

We didn't communicate top-down, or cross-functionally very well. The executive team, with lots of support from HR, rolled out a really heavy, very process-centric OKR system and assumed that by announcing that Google uses OKRs and providing a portal that we'd start aligning.

It was an abject failure - not because (IMO) OKRs are a bad idea, but because the leadership teams made the mistake of confusing process for communication.

After the big announcement, it was mentioned only ONCE ever again. Seriously.

My team (of six) and I made use of it, but it was very difficult to align it with the goals of, say, our chief revenue officer; someone we met about three times in four years. We went back to using team & personal goals, creatively using our backlog and one-on-ones because there was no input, no updates and no communication about the OKRs.

The start-up failed because it wasted time chasing tactical low-value (tangential) deals instead of delivering against a viable, sustainable strategy. Great place to learn some hard lessons!

I'd use OKRs again for sure - both for their intended purpose, to help avoid the process-as-communication-proxy trap, and to gauge the nature of the organisation implementing them.
Me too. It seems like every other week people will be spouting some three-letter acronym that you've never heard of. This forces you to ask what it means, and they will always look at you like "what? You don't even know?"
Have you met any Vegans? There is no way they'd accept being lumped into a larger 'Vegetarian' demographic. One thing about Vegans is, is that they are not shy about telling you what they are.
Kiwirail is mandated to make a profit.

The cost of a train ticket will include the proportional cost of maintaining the rail network, the deprecation cost of the train and the passenger cars, staff to run it, along with a tidy profit.

You are most likely comparing it to the cost of petrol, which is not the full costs of driving a car.

Everyone always forgets to take into account the deprecation on your car, running costs, fixed costs (WoF, rego). For tax purposes, IRD estimates the true costs per km (including fuel) to be 76c.

Using that 76c per km rate, your car trip is suddenly costing way more than the train ticket.

Additionally, there is construction and the maintenance cost of the road network itself. That's all paid for by the government out of your rego and income taxes. Kiwirail is required to include that in their ticket costs, but it's hidden from drivers.
In case you missed it, the number one thing I know about leadership is: root-out and fire narcissists. It's the most effective thing you can do to turbocharge your company.

FYI, one of the ways you can spot a narcissist is by how they project their emotions onto others, rather than taking responsibility for them.
... plus nearly everything else I know about leadership.
I recently watched Ray Dalio's video on the Economic Machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0

he describes the monetary/credit/debit system in the same way, and I do agree the first premise is suspect depending on how you define "closed system".

However, I assume the authors' rebuttal would be that real-world economic systems are not closed system. Not that it makes their claims any more applicable to the real world.
SEEKING FREELANCER - Copenhagen, Denmark - REMOTE, Front-end Software Engineer

Acceptable timezones: between -4 and +3 hrs from UTC

This is a long term role.
We're hiring a front-end developer (NodeJS, ReactJS, Typescript) to join our team of 5 remote developers (incl. the engineering manager onsite in Copenhagen).

Experience working remotely. Minimum 4 years of professional software engineering experience.

90% of all goods are transported in containers. The largest container vessels can take on 20,000 containers at a time. The industry is struggling like never before, and is fundamentally inefficient: 50% of all container vessels globally are delayed coming into port, most communication is conducted through phone and even fax, paper is still used in abundance, there can be over 15 process handovers moving a container, and there are large regional differences in performance among players.

We want to change that, and bring the industry into the digital age. Portchain (www.portchain.com) is a Danish startup founded by 3 McKinsey alums in February 2017 that aims to significantly reduce operational cost and complexity for all players while providing industry leading customer experience.

We have paying customers and starting to get traction through pilot projects, therefore looking for 1 new member to join our team.

Email us: jobs@portchain.com

Job & company description: https://docs.portchain.com/hiring/Portchain%20-%20Front-end%...
No, Joe Rogan Is Not a Gateway to the Alt-Right
School boards and other elected officials get voted out. Not every time, but businesses that latch onto fads don't fail every time either, as anyone can see.
Tourism Research Paper Topics and Ideas
Rollbar | https://rollbar.com | San Francisco, Barcelona ONSITE | Frontend Engineer, Backend Engineer, Devops Engineer, Technical PM, Product Marketing

About Rollbar:

* We help tens of thousands of developers find and fix errors faster.

* Our backend handles billions of errors with low latency and high reliability

* Our front-end allows developers to discover and drill down across millions of errors in real-time

* Our open source libraries are used by some of the best engineering teams in the world, including Kayak, Twilio, Heroku, Zendesk, Instacart and Twitch

* We're a ~40-person team (SF, Barcelona, Budapest, and remote) on a mission to help companies build better software faster

* Benefits and perks: competitive salary and stock options, medical, dental and vision insurance, 401k, annual conference budget, generous hardware and software allowance, casual work environment, inclusive team-oriented culture, rapid career growth opportunities, have fun and have an impact.

We're currently hiring for:

- Engineering (frontend, backend, ops/devops)

- Technical Product Manager

- Product Marketing Manager

To get in touch, please apply via https://rollbar.com/jobs
| "Write an integration test for xyz" is not really what OKRs are designed for.

This gets it backwards. This is a task. Why are you performing this task? Especially without being tied to specific development? If you can't justify doing it with your/teams/companies stated OKRs, you actually shouldn't be doing it. Even if you feel you should because 'its the right thing'. Even looking at it this way gets it backward.

You should be looking at your OKRs and figuring out what you should do to get there. But, you might have to break it down a little further.

Indeed, a KR of 'increase monthly active users by x%' is not directly actionable by an engineer. But an engineering department can come up with its own OKRs that fit in that direction.

For instance, to achieve that goal it might be necessary to develop new features. However, if 70% of the engineering time is spent in bug-fixing then they're not going to be able to do that. (Do you know where your team spends its time? That might be worthwhile to figure out).

So, an objective of 'Increase development time for features' (or some such) might be considered. If you find you're dealing with a lot of bugs, one of the key results might be to reduce bugreports by 50%. To do that you might argue that you should add some integration tests so that you can change code and catch issues before they get to production so that in the future you'll be spending less time on bugfixing / rework, so that you can work on new features that will entice new users to full fill the company objective.
Hi, I'm the author of the post. Thank you for your thoughts!

I certainly don't want everyone to make business card games. I do however want games that are tighter and more focused. Like imagine RDR2 without the mini games, shorter story, and just much better core mechanics. That's the game I want to play.

I will say though that philosophically a deep and complex game can already exist on a business card. Take the classic board game go for example. Someone could probably code that (minus the AI) on a business card, and it's one of the most complex games known to man that people have been playing for thousands of years.

The lesson I was going for is not anything can be simple, we already know that.

The lesson is more about how developers are so focused on making games fun that we sometimes forget that making games should be fun too. I really do believe that for any kind of artist, to create great art, it's more important to have fun creating something then what the actual end product is.

Also that there is value in simplicity, it is sometimes worth creating something that seems pointless just because it's fun. The journey towards it may yield unexpected rewards.
Cooking it in animal fat is a good way to reduce meat consumption anyway, so it's a good strategy that way.
I haven't even looked at the git source code. My implementation was based mostly on the official docs. The docs include a section on the internals: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v1/Git-Internals
Actually it doesn't work the other way around. If you're a developer, you've already got some understanding of where everything is. A new guy would take at least a few weeks training to catch up, and there's a risk that they might not transfer in so well from their current role. Even if you're a marketer or salesperson, someone who has been in the company a while knows the strengths and weaknesses right off the bat.
Generate artificial questions about programming using AI
I'm not sure whether you are being sarcastic. Don't you think they would cooperate just fine if it would make business sense for them?
Exercise as a treatment for depression: a meta-analysis (2016)
I've interviewed people who straight up said they were looking for 10% over their current job, even providing evidence of their last pay slip.
Most of the code that I write, whether C#, VB.Net, or even VBA, I generally write as much as possible in functional, single assignment style, with all information needed for a function passed as arguments even if the routine could have just grabbed the value from a global. So generally only the top most layer does any mutation. I think it saves me a lot of debugging because I don't have to worry much about side effects and I always know what a variable actually means. It also means that when I want to reorganize the code or extract a function to use it in another project that there is less work to do.
Based on my macro models, I believe growth has been zero for last 12 months.
Public domain isn't a licence. It means the work was authored by the US government or the copyright has expired. In either case the work is no longer subject to copyright at all.
In that case, please refrain from commenting
Can't wait to see Desktop version that works on Linux and maybe as extension on Firefox/Chrome - for those who just want to use this for browser and not other software. I've used 1.1.1.1 since day one and love it. Much faster then Google/OpenDNS for me. I actually use it on router.

Maybe next you can do a better security for our WiFi? But this might require releasing a better hardware not just software.
Give me a break. I can increment a variable in Rust.

Yes you can perform an SSA-versioned-variables or linear-types-changing-the-world transformation. That's just sophism; we can conclude that C is pure functional via the same line of argument.

In response to your edit: Rust does not encode side effects in its type system and does not require system calls to achieve side effects. If that's your point then we're in agreement.
> where the Y date is imposed by someone outside of the team without really thinking it through

From my experience this is arguably the biggest factor I have seen for a project to fail. Not all realistically planned projects are successful but unrealistically planned projects become woolly very quickly.
> if it's selling licenses to things it doesn't have a right to sublicense, it's committing fraud

Except it's not (as per TFA). You have the right to license public domain images. Anyone does. The fact that nobody needs a license is completely beside the point. People buy things they don't need all the time. It might be fraud if you told people that they needed a licence. But it might not either -- it depends a lot on the situation (and IANAL).

Think about it this way. It would be stupid if I couldn't make a poster of a public domain image and sell it. That's the whole point of the public domain. You don't need to buy my poster -- you can make your own if you want. But I'm offering it to you for some money. It's just as stupid if I can't sell a download service for the same image on my website. You don't need to use the download service. You can get the image somewhere else. But I'm offering it to you for some money.

Just like Penguin Books can offer the complete works of Shakespeare and not tell you that you could have gotten them somewhere else for free, so too can you get an image from Getty, even though you can get that image for free somewhere else.

What's goofy is that they offer a license as well. It's strange, but there is nothing wrong with it. You download my picture and pay me $500 and I'll be completely happy if you make as many copies as you like of it. I'll even offer you a license for my happiness. Goofy, yes, but illegal, no.

What might be illegal is if they said that you can't make a copy of this image without their license. However, I don't believe that they say this, so it's a moot point.
I doubt you would be this openly racist about any other race. How is this not flagged?
If you read their earlier investigation, the employees aren't any more terrible than the average NSA rep, and the firm is mostly careful about making an Emarati operative actually perform the attacks on people from the US making prosecution difficult. The FBI was investigating as of January at least.
More? At what point will they look at all the money being spent and the blood being spilled and maybe consider investing in public schools doesn't magically get rid of an infestation of gang violence.
To each their own. I don't like Overwatch or games like Fallout simply because of the 1500 hours. I like to complete a game within a month or so. Much longer and it feels like work (work is fun too and if I'm going to get good at something, it should at least pay the bills).

My sweet spot would actually be games like Rimworld or Kittens. Something that you can find closure in about 20 hours of gameplay.

I feel like games have become so unwinnable, that there's a whole new market to pay people to win games.
It is not only that, if you parent is a successful engineer, businessman or whatever. Not only they will hire tutors if needed they can often teach kids themselves.

I learned more math from my dad who has PhD in physics then from all of my teachers and tutors combined.

One of the reason home schooling works so well. It is much easier to teach few kids you care about then whole classroom of the ones you don’t.
A laptop contains so much embodied energy that you're probably better off running an old laptop that consumes 50 Watts longer instead of buying a new laptop that consumes 25 Watts.
Sold how, and at which time, specifically?

In 1882, when the first immigration law specifically called out Chinese people for exclusion?

Or today, when the internationally agreed upon framework for asylum is actively undermined by the current administration?

And what makes these sales just, fair, or even productive?
> Washington-Baltimore is actually a very good connection by rail--you'll have a train at least once an hour

That's really not a lot, especially between major cities.
Why isn't it illegal for Americans to hack into phones in other countries?
You’re right that is the most annoying website so far. They’re taking April’s fools too far.
Experimental Security Research of Tesla Autopilot [pdf]
They don't have to cooperate.
As in the title, only the ISP DNS enforce this.
Build some breeder reactors and you can stretch the Uranium by about a factor of 100.
> "2) this idea that more speech is the antidote, needs to end."

Just as you are hopelessly to stop the distribution of fake news, you cannot make people like me stop pointing this out.

The problem of fake news is not limited to India, and the existence of free sources of real news, such as the BBC, is not sufficient. We need more sources of free news, written from a wide variety of perspectives from a wide variety of organizations, spread over a wide variety of mediums. The BBC is not always the first to break a story, nor does it always have the best presentation of a story. Sometimes an organization like the NYTs does it faster and better, but the distribution of that story is limited by the paywall. Tearing down paywalls and diversifying distribution channels is the only realistic way of combating fake news. Anything else is a pipe dream.
Just like when your employer commits wage theft, you call the police, they drive over, taze your boss, put him in handcuffs, and book him?

After all, that's what I would expect should happen to a regular thief.

Do you also expect that industrial executives, managers, and everyone down to the line workers get booked on terrorism charges, for poisoning our water supplies, if they are caught illegally polluting?
There is no incentive for commitment at most places. And that’s no surprise: how can any company compete with the whole world minus that company for future career opportunities? Even Google cant do that.

And sure people would leave for a raise. It’d be interesting how the survey is worded. Would they take the raise for a more boring or stressful job, a longer commute or to work in something less ethical?
Restated: “would you accept an offer to shorten the time before you can retire by 20%?”

It would take a lot of free coffee and fooseball at your current gig to make that be worth turning down,
I think you forgot to talk about the other option - it can be situational or chemical as happened to my wife who became depressed as a side effect of another hormone drug. Once chemically unbalanced there is no firm finish line, she may be on anti depressants for life or her chemical base line may tip back to normal and she can get off them...
> Also, theoretically, nothing prevents the old employer from recalling the I-140

Also untrue. Employers can only revoke I-140s within the first 6 months after approval. After that, they can't do anything if the employee decides to leave.
How difficult would it be to host one or more IPFS nodes with the files on Sci-Hub (and a directory thereof)? My understanding is that would be infeasible to block, and quite probably cheaper to host, as oft-requested papers would get mirrored.
This “feature” is abused terribly around the web. For every site with useful notifications like gmail, there are 10 which misuse it. Yesterday I had the misfortune of misclicking on the prompt from a website. I started getting notifications like “YOUR COMPUTER IS INFECTED WITH A VIRUS”. Turning off notifications for that website took at least 4 clicks through Chrome settings. Good to know there is a setting to turn it off completely on Firefox. If I personally actually wanted notifications from a service, I’d install the mobile app.

Second, Mozilla seems to use telemetry data responsibly and well. Turning off notification prompts by default can’t possibly be done unless you have the data on acceptance rate on different types of prompts. If you’re making such decisions based on your intuition you’d likely get it wrong.

I ask the folks on HN who constantly criticise the collection of such telemetry, what did I lose as a user when Firefox collected this anonymised data? More importantly, how would you have made a decision here without the data? Intuition? (I’d request that no one reply with platitudes like “with enough data nothing is anonymous” and “you’re making a nothing-to-hide argument”)
Nice. GuardianApp is very close to what I had in mind. Great landing page, btw!

> Have you already started on this concept?

Initial stages where we have looked at OSS projects to fork for a quick prototype, with our focus being exclusively on Android, and not just limited to VPN.

> Designing a reasonably secure and reliable mobile VPN has been a very difficult challenge to get right.

Thanks for the heads-up. From usability point-of-view, I've seen my share of VPNs mess up and sink hole all traffic. On one ocassion, an app simply refused to get past its loading-screen unless I turned off VPN.

> It would be great to chat further, if you have interest in working on this concept.

Sure, thanks. I'd be sure to email you, Will.