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Ask HN: Fired from my first job – how do I talk about it during interviews?
Basically, I was on a shitty team at a zombie startup. I only stayed there because I wanted a "year of experience" ASAP. Some cliffs:

* 30% of their engineering team quit as I joined (apparently there was a big fight between the lead designer / founders, the designer got canned, the engineers quit in response)

* constant check-ins / viewing of our screen

* pile tech debt on top of tech debt (while not even acknowledging there’s tech debt in the first place)

* mandatory meeting at 5pm every friday, where we sit around a powerpoint drinking hard alcohol giving status updates

My manager was a negative person. He would constantly talk about how this is "garbage" or how that is "trash", and I was expected to agree with him. Always talked and about things he hated or how things sucked. Rarely anything positive. He never admitted he was wrong and the rest of the leadership was clearly upset with him, but could not fire him because of politics.

When I joined, I had a lot of suggestions for improving the codebase but my manager shot every single one of them down with, in retrospect, bullshit explanations. For instance, he has said:

* There is no reason to use Objective-C

* Nobody writes C anymore

* Killing an app in iOS via the app switcher is the same as `kill -9`

* It's impossible for anyone to understand our [60KLOC] codebase - BIGGEST RED FLAG EVER

After a while I told him I didn't like the job, and the only reason why I didn't quit was because I wanted a year of experience. I exercised 1 year + 1 month of stock options. I took vacation that would end 2 weeks before my 1y + 1mo. When I got back from my vacation they fired me for "performance".

I don't know what I'm gonna do in next interviews. Do I keep it on my resume or take it off? I don't want to go into my interview, have them ask about my experience at this company, explain I got fired and say "the company was shit" because that will be just me complaining.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

EDIT: More clarification here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20946023
So it depends on the country. In my country (Russia) all Internet traffic is being recorded by the ISP for the last month and sites are blocked on political reasons. For me having DoH with Cloudflare is better.
Right, his identity may have been concealed from MIT's accounting department, but when it came to getting personal/social access to MIT professors, it's clear people were aware he was contributing to their program.
So why did he use gcc to link the program at the end?
It's a particularly good example of memoization: both simple and without a suitable DP solution.

int collatz(int n) {
return n == 1 ? 0 : 1 + collatz(n % 2 ? 3 * n + 1 : n / 2)
}
Finally, a novel and innovate solution no one has thought of before.

What could go wrong?

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/07/opinion/reckonings-a-rent...
ISP and government are that "unregulated third party".
On security holes, that's exactly my point when I mentioned updates. It seems from other comments that fairphone was very lax on that front. As for repairs, which ones were almost as much as a new phone? New flagships run $1000. Battery or screen replacement are $200-300. How much will a new fairphone screen cost? Even at half that, it doesn't seem worth a low spec phone when I can get a much higher spec phone at roughly half the $500 fairphone price. (A pixel 2xl costs about $250 with a bit of smart shopping) I just don't see the savings here or the reason to sacrifice performance and software updates.
Academic researchers (other than profs) basically have a command-economy salary already: it's hard to get a postdoc that's pretty far off the NIH pay scale.
Why move away from IRC at all? If it ain't broken why "fix" it.
Whether a maps app has compass capability enabled depends on the parent hardware: in particular, if the hardware contains a magnetometer.

On my iPhone X, Google Maps clearly shows the compass direction with a blue cone emitting from my location 'circle'.
They used Lisp to generate machine code. They didn't parse lisp at all. Imagine writing a library in your favorite language to do what they've done.
Newsom hints a deal - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/uber-lyft-stocks-surge-aft...
You think any sizable group of people would be able to keep any secret, not even talking about such a juicy one, for any significant amount of time?
The real solution here is to build more housing, as high prices are a market signal of a shortage. While I support more unit creation more than I support rent control, in the current crises we need both. What I still can't get over is how much of CA land use politics is pure generational warfare, the olds vs the millennials, and it seems that the millennials are finally starting to win some fights.
FWIW I do have other experience. I have been programming for fun since 2010. And I started programming "professionally" since 2014, but it's not at in a traditional job setting. I had a couple of products on the App Store but the market changed and the money dried up. Hence the job, and why I wanted a year of experience.

ALSO, there was another team that I think I would have been a much better fit for (tech lead actually gave a shit about programming and gave people autonomy) but unfortunately I did not take the initiative to switch over.

I have references from other people at the company as well, including the CTO, that I actually liked working with, and they liked working with me. Unfortunately they were not on my team.
Los Angeles approves 'historically low cost' solar+storage project
I wonder if they put in measures to make permitting easier for builders so we can actually get more housing built?

I guess we’ll find out in some years whether rent control entices builders to build more or if it will depress the market for building (as it usually does) such that at some point we see people (families) bunking together ala Soviet housing solutions to demand.
Ah, because it worked so well in SF to ease housing prices! So why don't we expand the program?

Will never cease to amaze me just now inept politicians are.
Where? I don't see any mention of profitability in CA in your link or in their actual report [1]. You might be referring to the "Results by Offering and Segment" where they report growth in the US and $1.8B in revenue, but they go pretty far to hide where their losses are actually coming from in relation to rideshare. It's not at all clear to me that they are profitable in any rideshare market.

[1] https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det...
I'm a late twenties software engineer. Years ago I worked on a tiny team that was integrating an upstart financial product from a well known legacy company. Billions of dollars have flowed through the system integration. My company got a nice high six-figure "implementation" bonus for implementating it along with a small percentage of the money flowing throughout.

My team of a designer, product manager and two software engineers built this. We created millions of dollars in new revenue for our company.

Prior to this another off-shore team had tried to integrate something similar from our partner's competitor. They failed to complete the integration.

This is why good software engineers are paid so much.
It doesn't help the housing crisis when the core problem is severe lack of inventory. It will help politically though since this helps seniors, the most reliable voting bloc. Pricing controls will just make it worse for everyone else, especially younger generations and families.
With TLS1.3, encrypted SNI, encrypted DNS the ISP can only see the IP address you are connecting to, not a domain name. For Google's resources it only sees that you are connecting to Google's network, but is it Youtube or Gmail or Maps, they cannot tell (which is awesome by the way).
How about evaluating a scientist beyond how many "publishable" discoveries he makes? There are so many other roles a scientist can play in the community beyond that.

We've learned not to value developers based on lines of code written, and to value refactoring and elimination of code, scientist can also do the equivalent. Scrutinize, weed out, reinterpret old things, mentor others, etc. Much stuff beyond finding p<0.05.

But such things are rather seen a side quests, secondary purposes, almost like a hobby (e.g. writing a textbook).
Well again -- I don't know how Rust does it specifically, but when you compile C++ programs in g++ with exceptions disabled you pretty consistently see a 10% speed improvement right off the bat and the performance falls more closely in line with the performance of C code.

Specifics aside the broader point is that the runtimes between the two languages will differ.
Random security settings that differ with each installation? No thanks, I’d rather not play dice with security.
Ok, these costs are a bit incorrect. The actual housing cost is much much much higher: not just 4k, but roughly 16K (190K per year) per month for 2.8 million dollar house where you need to pay just 38K per year property taxes. And if you don't live on the penninsula or are willing to move into some high crime areas, you can even find a house for less than 2 million dollars.

All the other costs are much higher than they need to be. You don't have to spend 70$/day on food, even here in the bay area. If you're really smart with money and eat a lot of oatmeal, beans, rice and onions, you can get your cost down to less than 30$/day for a family of 4, even here in the bay area! Vacations, aren't really needed - that's a luxury, same for clothes.

So, if you calculate it for real, you'll find the biggest costs by far are housing and day care which account for about 70%+ of the budget.
Keep it there. Be honest, tell interviewers what happened.

Sounds like a shitty company; so I wouldn't expect a glowing reference...
Chinese woman found guilty on two counts related to Mar-a-Lago security breach
"... there could be a big effect in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods like Boyle Heights in Los Angeles, where typical rents on apartments not covered by the city’s rent regulations have jumped more than 40 percent since 2016."

A deceleration in rental inflation in neighborhoods such as the above? A reduction in newly homeless populations?
You know what you should not do if you really believe "the money gets put to a better use, and they don’t get to accumulate prestige or connections from the donation because the public wouldn’t know about it."

> The financier would meet with faculty members, apparently to allow him to give input on projects…

(from the New Yorker article).

Also, if you know you are violating the policies of MIT's central fund-raising office, and you are taking active steps to HIDE it from them... you can say you just had a different philosophy of philanthropy than them, and this was so important to you that you were willing to violate MIT's policies and risk whatever consequences if found out...

...but come on, we all know it's just plain greed.

I don't think these are sincere philosophical beliefs about philanthropy, I think they are just the rationalizations that the powerful and greedy tell themselves to avoid admitting it's just about power and greed.
hope that
I think no theory of anonymity works. A villain isn't going to keep their pinky-promise to not tell everyone that your prestigious institution took their money.
> are those movements puritanical?

The entire movement might not be, but the people exhibiting the behavior are. With the woke movement pretty much everyone in it seems to exhibit the behavior. The vegan or pro-gun movements, not so much; most people I've seen who are vegans or pro-gun have no interest in punishing other people for anti-vegan or anti-gun thoughts, they just want to be able to put their own beliefs into practice in their own lives without interference.
Walking Truck
I guess it might be considered a protection in that it won out against bills like AB71 that would have reversed the Dynamex precedent.
IIRC that's when the key inputs to all these recession indicators began to be collected.
So far betting seems to be the ONLY feature for all things blockchain. In China quite a few of my friends went to make games on the blockchain during the wave of cryptocurrency mania. That didn't work out so they then went on to make (illegal) gambling games on the blockchain, although that didn't really workout quite as well either (apparently something to do with generating random numbers on the blockchain)
To be clear, this is a 20 year old article, the literature on rent control has changed a lot since this was written. Basic economic consensus rn seems to be that rent control is a poor long term solution to rising housing costs but a necessary short term solution as the required supply shock wouldn't even be able to happen in the near term even if regulatory barriers are eased due to labor, construction, and land costs in expensive metros and that the anticipated negative impacts of rent control (less liquidity in rental market, higher prices) dwarfed by the impact of lack of supply.
Excited to see what the results of their Matrix PoC. I have been a big fan of Matrix for a while.
Some day, the money people will figure out that there are lots of experienced talent outside the SV bubble.
> generational warfare, the olds vs the millennials

This is a good example of that. Rent control tends to benefit the older generation at the expense of younger people and families. It does nothing to solve the actual problem of lack of housing inventory.
> When we controlled for class size all of the effects disappeared, providing compelling evidence for a confounding effect of class size

Holy crap; are they really saying that all the various correlations seen between numerous software metrics and fault proneness are actually the effect of nothing but raw size?

That's so intuitive. Because in our daily experience, almost all reasonable approaches to to various aspects of program organization actually work fine in programs of a size that one programmer can comfortably fully understand and maintain. Even for any technique reviled as "bad" and discouraged in coding standards, there are counterexamples of it working fine. Those counterexamples are in the context of small programs, so we are told, "just wait, that approach will burn you in a big program". But it looks like what will burn you is just the size of that big program, no matter what techniques you wield, whether blessed or not.

That little paper you pointed to there (thank you) looks pretty darn important.
I think OTP Releases would still depend on the target host being configured correctly and having all dependencies installed that your application needs to run.

Containers are all about consistency of the environment. For example, maybe your Elixir app wants to log out to something like Splunk or DataDog...if those agents aren't installed on the host, it doesn't matter what facilities BEAM provides. Or maybe your app depends on certain configs, libraries, or files being available at specific paths on the system. Things like that would be captured in the image your containers are running and guarantee consistency across machines and environments.
I wonder if one could earn a living as a professional shitposter for AI training purposes.
>That is political.

It isn't political. Nothing in my comment at all talks about the policies of how we pay anyone. If you read my words and then your mind took the leap to thinking about those policies, then you apparently have a tendency to politicize things, but that doesn't make my comment political.

Regardless, your original statement was that it "started a political debate", and I'll concede that it did apparently do that.

>I never asked you how you would allocate money, I just asked what you mean by "deserve".

You asked what we could "do about it", referencing teacher pay and allocation of funds for that pay.

>Also, I don't believe I bashed you, but there would be nothing disingenuous in asking you a question and then bashing you based on the answer. It would just not be nice or appropriate for HN.

You didn't bash me based on the answer, you bashed me for even accepting the premise of the question, a question that you asked.
Really? According to this [1], they are allowed after 18kg, and after 22kg, you can even just use a booster pillow.

[1] https://kindertravelguide.com/eu-car-seat-laws/
Think of it this way:

If it was flying by slowly, it would get caught by the sun’s gravity and end up in a circular orbit around the sun. If the orbit was perfectly circular, it would have an eccentricity of 0.

If it was flying by a little bit faster, it might barely get caught by the sun and end up with an orbit like Halley’s comet where it comes close to the sun once every hundred years and then flies off to the far reaches of the solar system before coming back again. It would have an eccentricity of 0.9-ish.

If it was flying a little bit faster, the sun’s gravity would try to catch it, but it would fail! The object would “swoop” around the sun then go flying back the direction it came, never to return again. It would have an eccentricity of about 1 or a little more (Less than 1 means it’s in orbit, 1 or more means it’s not coming back).

If it was flying REALLY REALLY fast, the sun’s gravity would try to pull it in, but this time the object has other plans. It barely even changes course and rockets through the solar system in an almost perfectly straight line. Its eccentricity would be something like 89 (there’s no upper limit, although at a certain point the object would have to travel at close to lightspeed to acheive certain really high eccentricities if flying close to the inner solar system).

This object (the real-life one we’re talking about) is going faster than the “swoop” object but slower than the “other plans” object. Its path is being bent somewhat by the sun’s gravity, but it is going to leave an never come back. So its eccentricity is 3.

One last thing: eccentricity is PURELY a math thing that describes circles, ellipses and curves. It’s just that when you’re talking about orbital mechanics, it gets interwoven with other aspects of an object’s orbit, like its velocity and its altitude at the closest point in the orbit.
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1683-Newco...

5 bed, 6 bath, 2900sq ft.
$1.6 mil recently renovated, all around, with a private backyard.
1683 Newcomb Ave, San Francisco, CA 94124
Copying features doesn't work, except when it does
Oh joy, politicians trying to get votes from the economically unaware. If you thought there was a housing crisis, just wait. It's going to be crazy.

Here is a different article, more tolerant of private browsing:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adammillsap/2019/09/04/more-ren...
I love Clojure and like Datomic, but that thing needs some documentation. Really good documentation. I think that is one of the main reasons why it didn't achieve much penetration for something so good. Be different if you must, but document. Look at something like Kafka, where every little thing is documented. You can find documentation for every shell script! that ships with it, not to mention excellent api docs. They also specify how the clients work in detail, not to mention how Kafka works. With datomic, even though everything works well, most of the time I feel like I am driving blind. I don't know if something I wrote works in every case.
Great project! there's definitely some interesting things to explore here.

I had an issue though, I clicked the top link on:

https://sideprojects.net/posts/7YZPLbcugbCyf94GY/non-vocal-m...

to visit the site and it takes me to

https://sideprojects.net/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.programme...

which is 404. hope it's a quick fix :)

Have you listed this as your own side project on there? ;)
I don't know, certain end of life seems to be the perfect opportunity to publish all that fantastic evidence that would mark the most important distinguishable moment for humanity as a whole so far.
Yet another Atari Lynx programming competition announced for 2019
You can - if the kids carry them. After about 5yo, sufficiently motivated/trained kids can do this.

It's still a pain.
No.

If system == YouTube, then it does exactly what it was designed: makes money. For it, it has to play by the rules of copyright.

If system == the internet, it was not built to propagate creative works either, its purpose was reliable delivery of arbitrary data.
Vote pro housing centrist fiscally right republicans , we need a more diverse ca congress
There is nothing hacked together in this. If you are not aware, freeipa (called idm downstream by RedHat) is a pretty full featured solution with is more or less a replacement for AD if your clients are unix based. And RedHat will absolutely support your scale requirements. It is mostly that AD is a lock-in in itself due to windows, and duo will work better with AD, whereas idm/freeipa does not have a standalone 2fa product that would work with AD.
"OSX" is pronounced "ozz-icks" :)
I don't get the comparison with China. They still have an incredibly significant agricultural workforce (like 30% of workers are in agriculture) compared to 2% in the US. The US already moved people off farms to factories before WWII and we're in a different stage of economic development.

We're not talking about subsistence farming vs driving for Uber here.
We already knew it's possible to have a planet in the habitable zone with water (and life, incidentally).

Whether it's common is still unclear, given that so far there's a big bias towards detecting large exoplanets that are close to the host star.
The EU (Europe more widely) does have a fair share of small start-ups. There are two primary problems however.

First is the lack of venture capital. Major economies like Germany and France are still only typically seeing $3 or $4 billion per year in venture capital investment (an improvement over five years ago granted). The US has averaged around $85 billion per year over the prior six years, or over half a trillion dollars in that time. With interest rates & yields heading permanently lower in the US, it's likely we'll see $100+ billion routinely in annual VC in the coming decade (outside of down blips in recessions), as capital desperately chases returns.

The EU has typically been closer to $15 billion per year, with a few higher years more recently. You can't compete at those levels. Countries like Finland, Poland, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Austria, etc. are regularly seeing only $100-$300 million per year in VC. Spain is a major economy and they struggle to consistently attract $750m-$1b per year. Europe needs to pump up its VC figures considerably; more start-ups, more funding, pay engineers higher wages to retain & attract more talent (SV has been pillaging Europe for talent for decades).

The VC funding per capita in the US - 330m people - is around $250 give or take. For Italy it's about $3. That's obscene, Italy has a $2 trillion economy and $34k GDP per capita. Something needs to be done to dramatically increase such figures, probably both at the local level and the EU level.

Second is the difficulty in going from a small start-up with a small amount of venture capital, to try to scale out rapidly across the EU, much less the world. It's extremely difficult, versus the springboard US start-ups get to launch from, starting with far more capital, in a richer, larger, homogeneous economy. Canada would be the fifth largest economy in Europe, and US start-ups get that market for basically free (so to speak; low cultural barriers, relatively easy market access, very close geographic proximity).

Then finally to make the situation worse, large US tech companies routinely eat the European start-ups before they grow up. That interrupts the potential for larger exits & spread-the-wealth effects that roll/compound over decades (helping to build sustainable funding ecosystems), like you've seen over time in California. For US companies it's a great source of talent acquisition.
That's not how competition works...