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Highstreet Mobile | Backend Engineer | Utrecht (near Amsterdam), The Netherlands | Onsite/Remote (EU) | Full Time | https://jobs.highstreetmobile.com/backend-engineer/en

Highstreet Mobile's mission is to connect people to the brands they love. We are a team of makers and we've built a SaaS product for fashion brands. We enable brands to give an amazing shopping experience to their customers. Our customers get a native mobile shopping app for Android and iOS and that app constantly gets better.

You would be designing and developing API's in our middleware. The middleware is the beating heart of our product. It connects to different e-commerce providers like Magento, Commerce Cloud, Adyen and many more. You will focus on scale and performance, will deploy to production every week and will work closely with our mobile engineers.

Stack: Ruby / Sinatra / Minitest / Redis / OpenAPI Spec / PostgreSQL / Go / Docker / K8s / GCP / Gitlab CI

Check out other open roles at: https://jobs.highstreetmobile.com

Apply via the homerun links or contact me at pablo@highstreetmobile.com if you have any questions.
I think that you and your peers could afford to use your own money to make your code run faster and the EU money could be used to fund more important stuff.
Not really, it would make no sense to acquire advanced skills if menial unskilled labor that no one wants to do pays more.
The article claims implicitly, through the chart, that capture of the CO_2 produced or of the Carbon in it can only reduce emissions by about 10-15%. That is not true. One can definitely bind most of the emitted CO_2. It may make production more costly, and perhaps require larger facilities, but it's definitely possible.
"salaries down"

if anything, all IT salaries need to come back to earth. i assume via massive taxation from the likes of warren and sanders.
You can't assume what ethical choices a person will make, before they make them. A Chinese citizen in that situation might find a way to get their family out of China, or otherwise find a way to avoid the issue, or just flat out refuse. You can't just take it for granted that you can't trust someone without much more specific evidence. That's a very greasy slippery slope towards justifying highly constructed justifications for discrimination.
My first thought was that it works because it aligns the molecules in the anode, making it more efficient?
There was a time, not that long ago in years, when most of the developers turning up to OSS conferences had Mac laptops of one sort or another.
Check out the concept of "open startup": https://hackernoon.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-an-open-start...
How to Earn Money with Medium?
It was some time ago, but I've had similar trouble. Back when I had a small webhost (I stopped when shared/reseller hosting descended too far into an overselling-and-deliberately-misleading-advertising-to-compete-on-price race to the bottom) a customer who "left" (was told to get lost due to non-payment) demanding I keep his content up because some users were still ending up there. As far as I could tell me of the records had ever had a TTL longer than the four hours )my default) while they were pointing at that address, yet more than a month later some traffic was still coming in to that address for that domain. I didn't look too deeply into it due to the history of the client in question, but it was certainly a real problem at that point in time.

So for my own stuff if there is a controlled change I try to keep the original address operating as a relay to the new address for a chunk of time, and for a while after that have it host a message saying "your DNS resolution seems to be broken, you shouldn't have been sent here, please report this to your ISP or local SysAdmin, if you want me to try fix it for you here is a list of my consulting fees".
This being said science has not researched every single phenomenon either. There would be no Science if all we had was disbelief in every extraordinary claim in the first place. At one point pretending that the Earth rotated around the sun was crazy for most people.
They likely will. If a customer is asking for something like this they probably aren't messing around.
Do you have a source? That's terrifying
It does make you a liability. Australians can be shanghai'ed into working for the Australian intelligence agencies wherever they are on Earth.

I'm also an Australian living overseas, have worked on many sensitive projects that would be of interest to the Australian government and its masters, and I'm quite prepared to give up my nationality over this issue.
Astronomers just found the first evidence that 'Mini Black Holes' exist
Water (especially warm water) and mechanical action will remove a lot of simple stains already.
Any thoughts on future of insta cart type delivery services?
> This has to do with companies making their own rules about what is right or wrong without any checks, balances, or voter feedback.

As far as I understand, companies are generally free to make their own hiring decisions, so long as they do not amount to discrimination against a protected class. That limitation, by the way, stems from federal legislation--so companies are very much not extra-legal entities operating without any judicial accountability. If a state or federal Congress decide to further regulate companies' hiring decisions, they are free to do so.

I don't understand what exactly you would like companies to do: Simply ignore potential security risks? Do you have a specific process you advocate should be used to evaluate risks? What different kind of restrictions on companies' personnel decisions would you like to see? Do you just have a problem with a focus on risk from family members in PRC as opposed to a broader vetting process where that is only one risk factor?

> Security clearances are actually defined by law

I am not sure that an exact formula for grant/deny decisions exists in statute. These decisions strike me as inherently subjective, although certain facts are obviously pertinent to the decision. I would be very interested to read the relevant laws and regulations, though, if you'd be so kind as to point me to them.
I paid for this vaccine out of pocket while I 25 and the treatments lasted till after I was 26.

I would not be salty if insurers covered men and future people didnt have to pay for it.
Square of the complex probability doesn't go to zero anywhere IIRC, the radius is at some arbitrary threshold.
Tarkovsky butchered Solaris.
What toxins exactly?
Unless you have insight into the end users DNS deployments I would say this is the appropriate amount of caution to apply. Besides just TTL being low, a frequent issue I had when first migrating to AWS years ago was CNAME to CNAME records not resolving among some end users. Primary schools were the worst offenders, I assume some of them still have Novell deployed.
Even though things like this could hit me personally (as someone who was born in Russia and lives in China), I support this because my two countries are truly evil at a scale that no other countries can ever match.
naming things definitely isn't there strong point

having to click the "start" button to shut down your computer is probably the most illogical one. and somehow it managed to stay that way for 15 years until someone got the bright idea to just but an icon there instead

"microsoft windows phone 7 series" was a mouth full compared to "apple iphone". luckily they changed that soon after but its crazy to think of the amount of people that were involved in that project and none of them spoke up about how stupid the name sounded

a recent one is the app "your phone". it just doesn't sound right. i imagine it would be even more awkward when someone has to search the term. "hey google, my your phone isnt working"

windows security centre changes its name every year. I could go on
So, what is a reasonable procedure? Look at content reported to be illegal yourself (possibly already illegal since you had prior notice it was illegal, certainly not good for being able to sleep at night) and then delete it? Or delete it without checking whenever it gets reported and thereby giving users a tool to sabotage other users by misreporting their content (fun for political discussions etc.)?
It also looks like thy couldn't subscribe if they don't have children, while presumably Saudi men can subscribe if married to a foreigner, if they have children or not. It's fascinating what goes through the heads (or doesn't) of people writing rules like this.
Yes, that is the implication. Saudi Arabia oppresses women.
Desktop Linux distros have package maintainers and companies behind them like RedHat or Canonical.
Also, if you or your partner are having receptive anal sex, ask your doctor about getting an anal pap smear. 90% of anal cancers are caused by HPV. They are slow growing and treatable. Screening is quick and easy.

http://www.colonrectal.org/services.cfm/sid:7580/Abnormal_An...
>get imprisoned for a variety of political/strategic reasons if you refuse to cooperate

The same is true of Australia, the USA, and the UK - these nations have no issues with imprisoning each others citizens if it behooves them - i.e. if the individual chooses not to cooperate with the military-industrial-pharmaceutical complex.
A compulsory xkcd https://xkcd.com/1883/
The reason that insurers dont cover it is because there isnt a test to see if men have been exposed, the vaccine doesnt work if men have been exposed already, and after a certain age you can assume that men have been exposed and function as carriers. The cancers men get from hpv are either due to cunnilingus or smoking, and there is no way to tell
A married female is the property of her husband, therefore the investment is being made by a non-saudi national if she is married to a foreign national. Just your everyday Saudi sexism.
They even had a version of Java for .Net called J# (J-Sharp). That didn't last long.
breaking up big tech (sanders, warren):

- US short sellers dream: will truly and finally cripple the US and its dominant IT companies; long overdue as US is at most a medium level country

- huge rise in Chinese IT companies; left without competitors assume the Chinese giants will simply control everything and everyone; a new era of Chinese world dominance begins
I think the point is that the permission management is manual, not systematical.
Same as WeWork, offload the risk to the public now that the major profits have been taken.
The Symbolics Lisp Machine could run Ada, of course.

And then there was the Rational/R1000s400, the first only and last "Ada-only" Computer.

http://datamuseum.dk/wiki/Rational/R1000s400

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_R1000

The R1000 was a workstation released in 1985 by Rational Software for the design, documentation, implementation, and maintenance of large software systems written using the Ada programming language. The R1000 featured an extensive tool set, including:

- an Ada-83-compatible program design language

- an integrated development environment that doubled as an operating system shell

- automatic generation of design documentation

- source-language debugging

- interactive design-rule checking and semantic analysis

- incremental compilation

- configuration management and version control.

Excerpts from Articles Filed Under: Rational 1000

http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/category/rat1000/

Rational 1000: A Time-Travelling Debugger with No Future

http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2006/03/25/rational-...
I've always liked the idea of electronic music that eschews keyboards and the 12 tones, but a lot of the stuff I've heard is, uh, wank.

I don't think the problem stems from the technology used or the musical ideas at play, but rather the fact that something like a Buchla or Max or whatever invites solitary improvisation, which rarely ends well. My criticism extends to all the bullshit made on conventional modular systems with standard keyboards as well. It's too easy to have fun and forget to write an actual song.

So I'm interested in hearing these tools used in a collaborative and polished setting. There's still a lot of potential there.

Here's Richard Boulanger playing some weird 3D controller (made by Max Mathews I think?) The piece is in Bohlen-Pierce scale. Yet it still sounds heartwarming and musical. I need more stuff like it in my life:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Jq8RIE3iDD4
Any data that leaves your own device unencrypted can be read by other people. Is that newsworthy?
This assumes that the user plans to go online using these OSs. For offline use (legacy/classic gaming, or embedded tasks) there'd be no problem.
I’ve worked for a few, in Europe mind you, but I can say with certainty we did not do this.

It would be naive to think none do of course.
2 trillion market cap?

Corrupt russian oil and gas companies trade at 4x earnings. At that valuation with annual earnings of $90 billion aramco should be valued at more like $360 billion.

Sorry, but that's the penalty you pay for being a corrupt journalist murdering autocrat.
>> The urban legend that DNS-based load balancing depends on TTLs (it doesn’t - since Netscape Navigator, clients pick a random IP from a RR set, and transparently try another one if they can’t connect)

Unless you do not return an RR set and what you return is based on geolocation and data center health.
Fastmail has a fair Australian presence; my limited understanding is that Australian law forbids secure-by-design encryption pipelines - so someone in Fastmail can read your email.

Whether or not that person works in support is an interesting but somewhat minor detail. It would be advisable not to use an Australian provider for your data if that is important to you.
Make great infrastructure. Not war.
Great. I'm sure US government never coerces its citizens, never spies on its citizens.. After all, USA is the chosen land by god, and its people has every reason to believe they are superior in morality.
I don't think you wish to hear that your airpods suck because of the price you paid. However Apple is well known for taking products and charging a premium for. I assume you have this problem on all headphone types (bluetooth or hardwired) and across multiple USB audio devices? Or is it limited simply to the airpods which should work noise-free like other headphones of its class including Sennheiser, Bose, and Dr. Dre Beats.
DSLRs have also got better with time as smartphones improved too. Their dynamic range for one has improved dramatically in the past 5 years.
Non-Newtonian fluids turn into solids when pressure is applied
It's for games, apple tv supports a lot of games that are modified for the large form factor and can get quite large(like crossy road)
I saw this comment on Reddit:

>HPV in men causes a significant number of anal and mouth cancer, it is not symptomless. And of course, vaccinated men can't pass it on to unvaccinated women.
Yes, this is old school racism wrapped in company policy. Bigoted leadership in this country gives this kind of activity permission.

The wiser among us know historically garbage thinking when we see it.
Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art (2003)
Was the maths ever wrong on the Excel spreadsheets? What was the cause when that happened?
It's obvious that someone who has to process your stuff in plain, unencrypted form (e.g. for spam filtering) can also access it when debugging etc.

Apparently they have strict policies in place to first ask users for consent first whenever they need to, seems good to me (happy customer of pobox since 1997 / fastmail since 2013).
I meant there were (and still are?) consumer products with simple installers (next > next) which were integrated on Windows as an extra disk - no need to create it manually. Syncing was just that - drag & drop to that disk/folder.
The question is how much percentage of your legitimate customers respect DNS TTLs. Amazon relies on DNS pretty much, this is how they shift traffic from one datacenter to another.
I get where you're coming from, but I actually think that governments probably should fund some open source software projects. Some of those projects are so fundamentally important that basically everyone relies on them, including governments.
This has indeed been spun in a way that it should not have been. But the way I see it is that out of the 700 possible sectors of industries in the EU, there are 72 "where the use of physics – in terms of technologies and expertise – is critical to their existence." [1]

These 72 sectors have a revenue of 4.40 million euros. This means that for example, if you ban all physics education tomorrow, all this revenue will drastically fall because they critically depend on physicists. Note that this is about ensuring that physicists of today are trained to continue working in this industry. And not what some physicists might have done in the past.

[1] https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.eps.org/resource/resmgr/policy/eps...
I have a mixed feelings about this IPO

I do appreciate when a company does hard work to grow, But I really dislike the Saudi Aramco industry and what it causing to our planet.
Since this thread is about water splitting and woo, I thought I'd share my favourite example of using radio wave resonance to burn saltwater.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a2840/4271398/

Because that sounds so absolutely nutty, nobody seems to notice the published evidence that it actually works. The energy efficiency is so-so -- but the point is that the woo-connection creates a sort of forcefield around the topic, preventing scientific study.

You'd hope it would produce the opposite effect. E.g, "wow, this has public interest, let's test and disprove -- and maybe make a practical discovery"
Ask HN: Why Early Life Nutrition Is Essential for Child's Growth?
Probably because in 10-15 years time an oil company won't be able raise any significant amount of money. Major investors have already started divesting from fossil fuels.

If they're smart, the money will be invested in creating the post-oil economy SA will need. They could keep on being an important energy exporter, sunlight is very abundant there after all.
It seems like there's a presumption that a Saudi woman who marries a foreigner will take his citizenship. Eg in [1]:

> 17 - Considering Articles (132 – 133) of Legal Civil Procedures System, the Saudi female does not lose her Saudi Citizenship if she married a foreigner, unless she is allowed to leave the Kingdom with her husband, and joined her husband's nationality according to statutory laws of this nationality.

> 18 - Saudi wife of a foreigner has the right to recover her Saudi Citizenship in case of divorce and returning to the Kingdom.

So, although it's explicitly not the case that a Saudi woman automatically loses Saudi citizenship on marriage, reading between the lines a bit, it seems that it's common that she does in practice, because she takes her husband's nationality. Perhaps it's common for the citizenship rules in other Arab countries to require that? So if a Saudi woman marries a Emirati man, maybe Emirati law requires that she becomes an Emirati citizen, so she stops being a Saudi citizen. This is speculation, though.

[1] https://www.refworld.org/pdfid/3fb9eb6d2.pdf
Don't worry many companies use DNS for failover (including Amazon).
You don't even need to be considering outside/government intervention for this to be concerning. How many sites rely on JS from the Google JS CDN? (https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/)

For the vast majority of people, the negative effects of Google tracking them is probably more concerning than the government tracking them.
It all works juuuuust until it doesn't and you have to upgrade to the next tier. I assume the experience will be like the one i had with netflix, where once i had a 4k tv i realized i HAD to upgrade my account and internet bandwidth coz otherwise stuff would look blurry and buffer(for kids who can't tell why stuff doesn't look as good as on the neighbors device)

Obviously not a problem for people who can just buy all the extras but if you're budgeting then it does get quite nasty and lead you to the media server route
Who do you imagine is responsible for making sure your app doesn’t contain malware?

The only answer is that as a developer, you are responsible. Yes, we have to make calculated risks. But the buck stops at you. There is nobody else who can take responsibility for the contents of your app.
As a data point, the term seems to be in use in the UK, as I came across it now and again while there.

It's not in common use in Australia though.
In-n-Out is another chain I know of that is privately owned, and I wonder how many similarities there off. Off-hand, I imagine not as much. I bet the chain is small enough that their ‘support networks’ are much denser. But in the other hand, whenever I’ve been able to identify a ‘manager-type’ at In-n-Out, they always seem to be as involved as everyone else.
The biggest concern for me is not opt-in vs opt-out, and not even data mining. They create another side channel which can and eventually will be exploited by the party they can't imagine now. They weaken the security of their otherwise good products.
The importance of “day zero values” in a startup’s early days
that's great news
Right, but in the US, there's a big difference between murdering someone and taking investors' money.
I don't remember that happening to me back when I had an issue where the dates of all my emails got screwed up (that was kind of my fault, btw). Due to the nature of the problem (and probably most problems that require support), it was obvious they'd need access to help me, though.
> For me, currently, "canary" means a set of basic automated integration tests that are continually running in production with alarms that feed into a master aggregate "switch".

I've never heard of this practice described as a canary before (shrug)
> Is that a joke? Surely you aren't suggesting that developers should have full knowledge of all transitive dependencies that compose their application stack.

This will be borderline impossible for a nodejs developer, but a perfectly realistic expectation for e.g. a Django project.
> So you really can't build desktop quality audio systems with webaudio and siblings.

Nor should anybody even be trying. We're better off without any of this sort of horseshit.
Same with Wallet, Watch, Maps - they seem to omit the ’Apple’ in app titles used on the devices, and occasionally in marketing copy on a second mention.
I disagree on reaction emojis. The alternative is to leave a reaction as a new message or not react in any way. They are filling a gap between responding and ignoring. Like a head nod but with more flavors.
It looks like the actual target of the drone was the Egyptian al-Banna. In any case, IMHO either you are able to target active terrorists without judicial overview or you're not, whatever their citizenship. I'm a Brit, so no skin in that particular issue, but for the record I have no problem with British jihadists that joined ISIS getting bombed. They made their choice.
Nothing about this is a virtual machine. It is an API that exposes a lower-level Audio interface. I don't need to spawn a virtual machine or mess with any DLLs or figure out libraries because I can simply load a browser. Nothing is saying this needs to be on a remote server, it can be a local .html file for all it matters.

But hey some of us still run around with MS-DOS 5.22 on that new Spectre-ridden, rowhammer-ready i7 because DOS/4GW is hella stable.
Bill gates retired 19 years ago(2000s) and his name is still synonymous with windows due to choices he made.

People still ask Wozniak about his opinions on devices(iphones etc) that he had absolutely no input on and they do tinge people's perceptions of those devices

Jobs penchant for secrecy persists to this day at Apple, the personalities of the people who were in charge/first affect organizations more than you'd think