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Remote Python Engineer
URGENTLY NEEDED: Remote/Home-based Python Developer

Company: US Software Development Company Work

Employment Type: Full-time
Working Hours: 9:00AM to 6:00PM Pacific Standard Time Working Days: Mondays to Fridays
Payout Frequency: Every 16th & 1st of the month via Paypal or Payoneer

Our Primary Goal:
Expand global development team to work on interesting projects from all around the world

Job duties:
- Build applications using Django, Tornado, and/or Flask
- Build RESTful APIs using Django Rest Framework
- Build GraphQL APIs using Graphene

Key experience:
- 5+ years of experience working with Python
- 3+ years of experience working with Django
- 3+ years of experience building APIs
- Basic programming fundamentals

Bonus Points:
- GraphQL Experience
- CI/CD Experience
- Computer Science/Engineering or IT Degree

If you think you are the best candidate, please submit your application to email:
tony@superteam.io using the email subject: Python Engineer Application. In your application, please include your:
- Updated CV
- Expected hourly rate in USD
- Github repos only (public access)
- Skype ID (Important as interview will be through Skype)
Any country that’s moved off the USD has been labeled an axis of evil, sanctioned, or bombed.
Yes, and Facebook already has agreements in place with CC companies to get that data. They’ve had access to that data for a while. This isn’t a new data source, this is horizontal integration.
Do you want to back that up? Because I have yet to see actual examples provided alongside this particular argument.
Wow, this is disturbing. Lest we forget that LinkedIn has been a Microsoft subsidiary for three years now. I wonder if Microsoft is doing this elsewhere too?
Just imagine the astrology columns in the local newspapers
It's hilarious that they say they want to setup a payment network that omits rent-seeking middlemen.... and proceed to immediately recruit PayPal, Visa, and Mastercard, which are the biggest rent-seeking middlemen that exist. Seriously, those 3 companies alone have more control over the US economy than the US Federal Reserve does. I've just been waiting for the day when the Federal Reserve says 'we need more liquidity in the market' and prints more money, and the 'payment processor' mafia respond with 'we disagree' and jack up their per-transaction fees.
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I'm looking for resources (courses, books, exercises for practice, etc.) to improve my software modeling visualization/diagramming skills.
I'd like to be more effective at visually conveying software systems. Thank you!
The headline makes it sound like they're dropping support for just the i386 architecture (as opposed to other x86 architectures, e.g., i686). The linked article makes it sound like they're dropping support for the 32-bit x86 platform entirely.

Are Ubuntu's 32-bit x86 packages limited to those targeting the i386 instruction set? As in, "we ship x64, or ancient i386, but nothing in between"?

Or do they use the i386 moniker used as an umbrella for all x86 architectures?
The collection happens in the lanes where cars are waiting for a traffic light. The result is that traffic goes through more slowly and backs up through the off ramps and on the slow lane that feeds one of the off ramps.
Surveillance will be owned by the people who own the surveillance, not socialized under any circumstances that I could imagine. Maybe a total transparency religious cult arises and takes over the world within a decade?

So "we" won't be doing anything. Right now is the perfect time for a your market in individual surveillance, the tech and software to run it is cheap and available, but just as capital under a free market accrues to a very few at the top, the majority of personal surveillance equipment involves sending everything to google and amazon. I could more easily see a future where individual surveillance is deemed dangerous and potential child pornography, and all cameras are required to have their input sent to government-certified organizations like google, and amazon. (aside: in that future, firefox will also be certified, have one percent of the market, be entirely contained on one floor of one building on a google campus, and subcontract analysis to a 3rd party company started by google alums with ex-CIA on the board of directors.)

There is no possible future in which you will have access to any unfiltered surveillance, unless you are currently an oligarch or associate with oligarchs.
My calendar app looks like this (granted I have a continuous write patch for nano but that's it):
alias note="nano ~/notes.txt"
BTW, I read your link and it was the founder of WhatsApp that 'promised' it. While I wouldn't be surprised if FB made the promise and then broke it, that doesn't seem to be what happened here.
12 light years is a long way for a signal to go without attenuating into noise.
Remember "The Internship"?
For what it's worth, I read an academic paper that said browser extensions are a strong signal in identifying a person when combined with geo data.
Random question.. they use i386 as their internal name.. but you can't actually run it on an Intel 386 right? I was under the impression that modern Linux kernels needed a Pentium Pro or newer.. meaning i586 or i686 would be more accurate?
Soon to be ex-Boeing employee. Why not just quit at that point?
Species extinction and animal population decline is not the same thing as environmental collapse.

edit: To clarify, people say that we have exceeded the carrying capacity of the Earth or that we'll exceed it as the population mushrooms. This data proves the population won't mushroom, and I assert that 11 billion is well within the carrying capacity of the Earth. Do I have any proof? No. But neither do the doomsayers who claim otherwise. That's the specific narrative I'm trying to push back against.
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I fully believe that they can also "see" scents, like a cartoon character floating to a pie on a window sill following a path of inhaled visible scent fumes, but I have no evidence of that.
> considering the cultures are very similar

India is far more multicultural (multiple religions, multiple ethnicities, multiple languages) than China.

Easy rule of thumb for the last 2 millennia of history: China has spent most of its time unified, while India hasn't.
Link to abstract: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.02167 .
You really need to fix your homepage loading time, it’s been more than 20 seconds and 4 retries and still it’s loading.
I read months ago here on hacker news that digital signage devices are the way to escape from smart tv because these IIRC are not bundled with any "smart" software but very basic stuff only.
I always liked the cube farm.

I had my space and some level of control of the environment, but everyone was within earshot if needed.

It's always a balance.
The real question here is why LinkedIn should even need this information. This represents significant engineering work to develop, so obviously at some point they decided that knowing which extensions are present had value. However, I cannot think of a single non-malicious reason to want this information; the malicious reasons that spring to mind are browser fingerprinting and ad targeting.
Do we know that intelligent life is an evolutionary inevitability? Most of these discussions seem to assume that it is, but I haven't read any biologists mention this.
To deploy a smart contract in production, will I need to apply to be on the appropriate whitelist? If not, how do you prevent people from creating smart contracts that permit non-KYC wallets?
oof, Libra translates to Pound(£). Imagine the confusion.
The legal definition of all those things, the definitions they can get away with using, and the definitions that a normal person would expect from reading that sentence are probably three very different things.

This has applied to a bunch of things for years now. Have you flown on an airline? You might well have flown on an airplane operated by a different company, with that airline's branding. Who makes your car and your electronics? The details of all that have been a complex maze since the 1980's. Who makes your toothpaste, and where are all the ingredients really from?

(Note, this comment is written mainly with 3rd party readers in mind.)
I'm not a huge fan of go for the type of work I usually do, (Line of business/enterprise apps with really strict timelines) but this is definitely one of the best things Go did right, and I hope other languages learn from them.

I think the styling issue is even more important than on first glance because the way a lot of people do code reviews is they look at code until they find a few issues to comment on and then mark it approve. If they find 3 styling issues they might just make those comments and not search for the deeper issues that actually affect the client like bugs, ways the code could be made more defensive, or performance issues.
They also would have called you crazy for saying you wanted to turn lead into gold with alchemy. Fact is, most of the time the people who say something can't be done are right.
used to "improve" user experience.

...I'm tired of it.
Bingo.

The current hiring model of "hit-the-ground-sprinting day 1" I suspect is largely the problem here and stems across many industries complaining about hiring difficulties.

Since this "best existing skillset match" hiring model businesses have widely chosen to adopt provide little-to-no on the job training, people will inherently focus on learning the most widely adopted skills of their target market(s) to increase their odds of finding a position in the labor market. Even niche skills will typically target larger proven successful niches and not target risky niches.

As a result, your business better follow industry and technology trends as they shift or you better start investing in your employees and maintain a positive relationship so you don't lose your knowledge assets that are likely undervalued by your business.

Even if Lockheed pays me double, even triple, my current rate, it's likely not worth it for me me wasting my time investing months to years in their specific architecture and fairly non-transferable skills acquired doing so since employer/employee relationships and loyalty are dead. That's a hefty investment on my side with little investment on theirs.

No thanks. It can sit empty and their project can fail for all I care.
> How would you feel if you opened a program and the program started to check your file system to see what other programs you had installed?

Slightly tangential but does anyone know if this is what Chrome does? It has a software reporter tool. Also Windows seems to do this too :/ though I'm not 100% sure.
The word generation can carry a whole lot of nuance. I don't think she literally meant every single person in her generation.
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There are many cities where you need a car. Sure you could try to optimize where you live but that alone is a luxury that many cannot afford.
Let's put this into context. It looks like LinkedIn is trying to detect specific plugins which affect the page/UX. The plugins the author links to are for scraping personal emails for email marketing "leads." This is totally common, so I'm not making any kind of judgement here, but I think LinkedIn has a right to protect its service and users. I can imagine the support requests that happen where the LinkedIn the person is seeing isn't the same as LinkedIn would be pretty confusing. Not all people are smart enough to know what all their extensions do, especially if they use them for their job and were told to install and use them.

With all that said, I also think people have a right to use the extensions they want to scrape or block content on sites they visit, so catch 22 I guess.

It's worth thinking of this from both angles before getting angry at LinkedIn, or the author of this post :)
What are "higher order programming languages"? Did you mean "higher level programming languages"? If so, no, the point is that you can program more abstractly, almost always at the expense of performance.

EDIT: Downvoters, I'm terribly curious which of these points you disagree with? Do you believe higher level languages (like Python, JS, or even Go) are faster than lower level languages (like C, C++, etc)? Or do you believe that HLLs are actually faster (or meant to be faster) than LLLs? Or maybe you are downvoting because I don't know what a "higher order language" is?
This depends a lot on where the person making this claim is from. Most of my acquaintances from rural areas all drive cars, not out of choice but necessity.

However, everyone that I know who lives in the city don't drive and never owned a car. It makes a lot of sense for those people to wait until their late 20's to get a car since there are good alternatives to driving.

It makes sense for them to wait until they are able to afford a car that is electric.

Electric cars are more affordable than ever and the trend will continue. Kids who are 18 years old today will without a doubt be able to get an electric car in 10 year without breaking the bank.
People are free to relocate where they want. They are not free from the consequences, particularly economic ones. As someone who is living in an fairly terrible state because there happens to be some high paying jobs in my industry I am unfortunately very aware of these kinds of trade-offs.

Don't straw-man me, I'm not saying we should dissolve the federal government. I'm saying states need to be less under its thumb and with that comes some responsibility for the consequences of mismanagement. Some of those consequences compound (screw up your state enough and all the people who can move will, taking their tax revenue with them) but that risk seems like a pretty low price to pay for more government happening on a level that is easier for the average Joe to influence.

If they can somehow reconcile your eye color restrictions with existing state law, the US constitution, etc then sure, why not.
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These cars' batteries aren't ending up in landfills, they're being recycled via reuse, which is even better than the recycling you were probably imagining. As soon as an old first-generation EV is totaled and shows up in a salvage yard, the battery modules get bought up by someone online. There's tons getting sold every day on eBay as well. People are making home storage batteries (for solar systems and the like) from them mostly, or electrifying other vehicles, or other hobby projects with them. There's also a few companies importing them to offer aftermarket battery upgrades, repairs and refurbishment for these cars in markets they're not officially sold/serviced in. The car makers also have their own recycling programs; Nissan recycles used LEAF batteries into home storage batteries called xStorage for example.
I have a friend who worked as a consultant for a few years. I asked him what he did exactly, he said "well a company asked me to help them solve X, so I would go to the company's developers, ask them how they'd solve X, then I would tell the management that and get paid handsomely for it, and everyone's happy. Management got a solution, the devs got listened to, I got paid well, win-win."
You and I must have worked for the same company.

Did the owner's wife also get "employee of the year" at the annual Christmas party?
What do you mean tooling? Like Unity?
To be fair I'm aware that they keep asking me to sync my calendar but deny it every time, I'm quite sure that function would have to be explicitly allowed.
Thanks! now I feel better about my $50 Amazon Gift card...
> Do you think MasterCard and Visa networks are dystopian too, or that national currencies themselves are dystopian?

There is a major difference between settlement being operated by a democratic government, which will therefore handle the payments market with the public’s interest in mind…

…and it being operated by a for-profit.

Monetary policy (eg. target inflation rates) can be driven by investors, at the expense of social stability.
Could we?

Despite stellar levels of energy being emitted, this star itself was only detected in 2003. We have to use the Deep Space Network to communicate with probes light-hours away.

I'm no expert so it very well may be possible, but 12 LY is still Very far.
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Hi all

I had been struggling to connect with other founders building without code and decided to setup a Slack group to see if there is anyone else out there in the same position.

So I’ve set up a Slack group called No Code Founders with the hope of it being a place where like-minded business owners and makers who are building products without code can come together to share tips, questions, best practices and support each other’s launches and growth. While there is a channel for technical questions, a lot of the chat will be about “everything else” related to building products without code. e.g. launching, marketing, scaling etc. The community has grown very quickly and it would be great to connect with more no code founders and makers.

To start with, I’ve just added a few channels for discussion. These are:
- Introductions - for saying hello
- General - for talking about anything no-code related
- Lets-Work - for sharing work progress, to-dos and questions
- Showcase - for showing off and helping others get their product out there

New channels can be added as we go. Are there any more that could be useful initially? If so, just let me know below.

I’ve built this on Slack to keep things simple as I know a lot of us already use it.

Let me know if there is anything else you would like to see added.

Thanks
I'm pretty sure they'd have to have significant evidence that plans were stolen and shifted out of the country. California has some pretty strict laws on anything that prevents an employee from taking another job in the same field. Unless they paid out a $BOATLOAD$ of cash to keep the Engineer in question from taking another job, it may not hold up.

IANAL though, so who knows. In the end, if the Engineer in question is in China and never comes back to the US, I don't know that China would give him up. Especially given how public the trade war has started to become.
It's always like that. Such a common trick. Something in humans is eager to prove themselves to the hierarchy.
The answer is mentioned hidden in the article: to detect accounts that scrape/resell the data found in LinkedIn profiles.
Well, at the very least, will be an interesting economic experiment.
LinkedIn quietly continues to be one of the creepiest products around. I still remember their dark patterns around obtaining your contact list[1]. It's not surprising that little has changed under the new Microsoft which has equally little respect for user privacy and choice.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Does-LinkedIn-access-your-email-or-con...
You have to throw parallels in there - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9066609/fastest-possible...
I think this is exactly why there's an apocalypse fantasy/fetish. It's in our psyche that we're all focused on... well... dumb shit. A post-apocalypse lifestyle makes you focus on what I think we can all truly appreciate as important. There's a lot of interesting studies done on localized disasters where the idea of community actually erupts out of it. People working together and sharing, regardless of their "social status". It's all short lived until the outside world aid arrives and you still get a few bad actors in the mix (though it seems statistically, no where near as many as we think). Generally though, it takes hell on Earth for us to regain our "humanity".

Not trying to be edgy, but I think a lot of society problems stem from more and more globalization. When you're less than a drop in a gigantic pool of people, it's hard to feel like anything matters. Not saying the closed off, nationalism system is any better in the long term. It's just hard to determine a balance to the system. And with that lack of balance, we run away into the escapes you mentioned.

Sigh... well, I just ruined my day thinking about this crap again.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/12/chinas-long-road-to-p...

While the other country is still figuring out potties, water supplies, electricity, etc. but no the democracy, freedom of speech, etc. is more important even if y'll can't read/write.
You reach the top of Maslow's hierarchy by climbing it from the bottom step-by-step, not by magically teleporting to the top like what western liberals would claim to.
No, they don't have itemized data. Only the POS's have that.
Not a conspiracy, just the DNC being the DNC - not really interested in actually solving crises, since crises are their platform.
The 737 Max issues are complicated, real and should be the object of study for generations of engineers and business students. That said, this article is useless aside from anecdotal (and not surprising) morale issues in Boeing.
I can think of tons of non-malicious reasons.

1. Support requests because site is broken, but it turns out you are using an extension that breaks the site.

2. Extensions are exfiltrating data to the extension owners, against LinkedIn's TOS, and they are trying to protect their users, or rather, they don't want competition :)

OK, that was two.

They aren't blinding probing for any and all extensions, only a specific set, which shows restraint and implies to me they are having a sort of arms race with extensions that scrape contact info.
Isn't this just another way to fingerprint the user?
Kudos session during the Agile's Sprint Retrospective. Everyone suppose to show their appreciation to teammates of their choices for a mandatory pat on the back. I always feel being forced to do that is really awkward.

For one, if someone didn't get at least one pat on the back, it is very demoralizing for them. Also, there are a lot of teammates did not get a pat by the persons they think should be gratuitous would be a little resentful. I think it's one of the dumbest morale boosting activities.
2 explanations I can think of:
- This is a backend failure, where all those servers that put together your calendar data and serve it to you as a webpage all use the same database/backend, which is having some sort of error.
- The code that runs on those servers has a bug. They are all at or near the same version, so they all fail. Manual intervention needed to diagnose and fix the bug.
Reading that someone else had this opinion of TBP is so valididating. The book receives much hype but the characters are weak and forgettable.
> Let's say the origin of life is a million to one filter, and the successful development of sentience is another million to one filter. Those are actually pretty high odds for those two events, and the combination of those two togehter is enough to make it likely we're alone in the Milky Way.

I mean, not really? Doesn't the Milky Way have ~100 billion stars?
Yeah, rg is definitely not always the fastest. Test for your own use case and all.

In pretty much any case involving more complicated queries and/or unicode I have found rg to be the fastest by a very wide margin. Also if you're searching multiple files rg is multithreaded by default without having to pass through something like xargs or parallel. If you're just searching for an ASCII string literal in a single file rg probably gets slowed down by its UTF-8 validation.
That study is probably true but does it apply to engineers, people who are paid to be logical and rational as much as possible? Your efficient-because-people-are-irrational reward system is demotivating your best people.

I feel happier when I get a bonus that brings retirement closer, or lets me give more to charotsbt causes I believe in, or gives me a day off, instead of a throwaway toy or schwag or a gift card or a meal at an expensive restaurant that doesn't serve food I can eat.