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Kogan.com is a pioneer of Australia's online retail industry and Australia’s largest pureplay online retailer.
Our software engineering team have end-to-end responsibility from idea to launch for all kogan.com built apps - including Kogan.com and dicksmith.com.au as well as purchasing optimisation and other internal applications.
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We welcome new technologies, ideas and ways of working.

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Our careers page has a pretty good rundown on our team and hiring process: https://careers.kogan.com/software-devs-engineering/
Our in person interview is generally focused on debugging a python script or javascript on a laptop, with full access to google/docs/tools you prefer.
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That mount blocks your AC vents and most infotainment screens are 2x bigger or more than a phone.

I have a similar (but magnetic) mount in my car, and if I'm not careful my phone will fall off and cause a distraction.
>Currently only PodPlayer supports that after KMP turned into an adware

Potplayer became adware too...
> partnered with Valve and shipped something mind-blowing

I tend to agree. In these cloud game streaming wars, Steam is a reservoir of totally untapped crude oil. Its the largest and most active western game platform, period, its beloved by its users, and Valve hasn't even remotely signaled an intention to compete. Companies and products like Steam are one in a million; Stadia, Luna, GeForce Now, xCloud, PSNow, are not. There is no amount of money they could pay Valve to make that partnership happen that would not pay dividends.

Valve/Steam is just "behind" in all of this modern gaming crap, and the fact that they're still the most popular platform (and its not close) speaks volumes about whether the CloudStreamingGamePass-way things are going is actually the right one. Its reasonable to believe that people who identify as "gamers" right now are not interested in that stuff, and the strategy Google/Amazon/etc have of "Netflix for gaming, no console, convert non-gamers to gamers" won't work. Time will tell, but maybe Valve's traditionalism is the right one long-term.

You know where Valve is investing their money? VR and Linux. God damn do I love that company.
There are a fair few MPV GUIs out there. I believe Celluloid is available in the main Debian repos.
I think this has pretty well cemented that perception.
Criticism must have context so your statement was indeed a bit naive and too generic.

In the case of MongoDB, many people thought that with it you'll have all of the benefits of, say, PostgreSQL, without having to think much about your data schema. History has shown that this is not the case -- as usual, it's about tradeoffs. There are no absolute wins: if you want an RDBMS, you have to put more work in X, if you want a document store then you have to try really hard with Y.

"MongoDB vs. RDBMS" is a very old and tired argument by now but it basically boils down to: people started using MongoDB wide-eyed, optimistically and with more enthusiasm than engineering skill and of course, there were harsh reality checks.
great, that’s exactly the approach i was looking for to build a web based app without js, only python and html. can you recommend a resource for learning htmx?
what would the equivalent code without partial application look like here?

Also, this is another pet peeve about 'functional style' F#, the use of actual Linked Lists, which is a huge performance pitfall to accept on modern hardware.

And also that F# Seq are not well optimized.
I think that a big part of it comes from trying to map a multidimensional belief space down to a one dimensional belief space (left to right, or liberal to conservative), combined with the US having a de facto two party system.

If your beliefs aren't actually particularly aligned with either the Democrats or the Republicans on most issues (or even on many issues), you are still arguably better off supporting whichever of them is the least objectionable of the two rather than supporting a third party.

So let's say Bob is a COVID conspiracy theorist believer, and is spreading falsehoods about the virus and the vaccine, and gets suspended or banned from some social media site for violating their misinformation policy.

Bob may actually align more with Democrats than Republicans on most issues, but Bob's biggest immediate concern is that he thinks COVID and the vaccination program is just cover to inject microchips for nefarious purposes.

Bob sure as heck ain't gonna be voting for Biden. Biden made a big deal during the campaign that the government was not being forceful enough in its anti-COVID measures and he would change that. Bob is going to feel his chances of avoiding getting chipped are better under Trump. So you look at Bob's other social media posts, and sure enough, he's endorsed Trump, and so Bob gets counted as a conservative being censored by social media.

If we had a voting system like ranked choice which does not greatly disfavor third parties, Bob would be a member of some third party. If you looked at his social media to see who he supported, the top spot on his ranking would be the candidate from some anti-vaccination party.
I worked with a startup using satellite imagery around illegal dumping and land use litigation, and affiliated with a university looking at illegal fishing! For some types of illegal dumping open satellite data gets you a long way even with 10m pixels: the real difficulty is getting actions taken or proof of who's doing it when its not the landowner.

I think the 10cm resolution could be as significant in opening up new use cases.
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Gotta say, I’ve had the Honeywell for a couple years and I’m quite happy with it. I haven’t had any of the problems that the article cites — it works well, easy to clean, easy to refill.
I’d be quite confused about whether article has the same product, except that the photos match my model.
Reading and researching the concept of naked shorting and counterfeit shares, done via hedge funds, paints this current situation in an eerily similar light to that of of Sedona's plight in the 2000s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH5cMQLJRUo

Form your own conclusions, personally I am convinced the author is wrong and hedge funds really are the human incarnation of evil.
Is it one tiny increment better? Maybe? I'm with others who are not really impressed. For years the best Facebook could do were "Hot single [your gender preference] in [your city] are looking for [your age] [your gender]". Thanks, Mad Lib ads.

But for the sake of argument let's say there is some small increment. What is the cost we are willing to pay for that? Databases that know exactly how much time we spend on the toilet? Political disinformation campaigns? Insurrection attempts?

It's like making baby monitors a little bit more convenient, but in the process opening the door for pedo hackers to speak directly to your children's cribs. Tiny conveniences aren't worth sacrificing everything we have.
I don’t handle it.

I just try to stay fit with exercise and nutrition, get plenty of sleep, and do what I can. Mentor where I can, and also learn from the youngs and learn their perspectives.

And I don’t beat myself up over any perceived shortcomings.
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=145522

First result on google.
I have undiagnosed ADD. I know partially because I observe my own behavior, but also because once at a party I took adderall and while everyone else frantically danced themselves into a heavy sweat, I was compelled to go into the kitchen and do all the dishes and reorganize my closet.

I don’t like how stimulants make me feel, even though I know they might make it easier to fit into society. It is probably hard to describe how they make me feel to someone who does not have the underlying condition, like trying to describe how it feels to get a prosthetic arm to someone who has never lost their arm to begin with.

Compared with other people, my internal experience/world seems frantic. If I sit for more than 30 seconds alone without my phone I will have wild daydreams—-my mind works kind of like the old website StumbleUpon. Or like being in a crowded restaurant and trying to follow everyone’s conversations. My favorite quote regarding ADHD: “my brain never takes the same route twice”.

But I don’t think that stimulants make me have a “normal” experience like “normal” people do. Yes, on one hand the increased dopamine means that I am actually able to maintain a mental checklist for more than 5 minutes. I’m sure I would be the best employee ever, and the yessiest of yes-men. There is an element of taking stimulants that feels just like putting on noise-cancelling headphones and produces the same focusing effect.

But there is also a dark side. I can’t relax. I feel absolutely driven to accomplish things. The outside world impinges so much more heavily on my mind. My access to my intuition and creativity are diminished. My jaw is clenched. Instead of forgetting to eat like normal I am just not hungry, my stomach is churning. It makes me feel like a golem. There is a chance that minus the physical side effects normal people do feel this way mentally, but it is so much more sterile. It’s like trading the lush forest of imagination for a cubicle farm of execution.

My personal theory is that ADHD is just at the far end of the normal distribution of personality and that it is a trait that is very useful for raising children. In a real way there is a childish wonder that I have never lost, even as I see those around me “grow up” (i.e., become rigid). I have heard other theories regarding it being adaptive for hunting. Either way, I enjoy my existence as a space cadet. My whole life is shining with such a rich and imaginative inner experience and I don’t think I owe it to anyone to dim that brightness just so I can fit into their terribly boring, rigid, and repetitive world more easily.
It is true that it's still under support, however that page you linked is almost 100% about migrating away from FTA to kiteworks which is their new platform. I would be relatively shocked if it's actually revenue generating in 2021, unless they charge for support. At my company at least, anyone calling about a product on that page would be very clearly told we're not selling new contracts for that, would you like to hear about NewShinyThing instead.

That said a SQL Injection vulnerability in a 20 year old product definitely raises certain, questions.
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Altus empowers higher education institutions to look beyond book smarts, and to identify and nurture exceptional professionals by using unique data to generate meaningful insight that influence key academic decisions.

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We're a team of 11 developers working across several Javascript focused stacks. You'll have the chance to work with a range of different problems and hopefully learn some new skills too. During product development you'll be able to focus on implementation of the feature from start to finish. If that involves making database changes or spinning up a service on AWS you'll have the freedom to do so.

We’re hiring across a number of open positions:

Software Developer (Intermediate & Seniors) - We have a few dev teams hiring. https://apply.workable.com/altus-assessments/j/9706468867/

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We don't have a public posting for this role but if you're a DevOps focused individual please do reach out. Ideally looking for someone that has experience with scale, comfortable with leading discussions, and taking ownership on decision making for cloud related decisions. We have some interesting (IMO) problems as we're growing quickly and so is our cloud presence!

If you want to know more about our team culture or have questions about these roles feel free to email me at gguja [at] altusassessments.com or apply directly.

We don't do white boarding/puzzle questions as part of the interview process, however we do ask applicants that pass the phone screen to make a presentation on how you would approach a system design problem.
As someone living on the east coast and having a very sensitive nose, I have tried different humidifiers and sadly no humidifiers have been perfect. There are three main types of humidifiers:

1. Warm mist humidifiers boil water and generate steam which humidifies the air. But, they are a burn hazard and consume a lot of energy.

2. Cool mist (non ultrasonic) work like miniature swamp coolers. They are essentially fans which draw air through a wet paper wick. The Honeywell mentioned in the article is of this type. The fan is however very underpowered and it doesn’t work well in anything bigger than a small bedroom. Vornado makes a version with a much more powerful fan which works very well in large rooms, but their tanks are finicky and prone to breaking and leaking. The wick absorbs minerals in the water and will eventually have to be replaced.

3. Ultrasonic humidifiers: A vibrating diaphragm will aerosolize water. Unless you use distilled water, minerals in the water will turn into dust and reduce air quality.

I happen to like the non ultrasonic cool mist ones because they use less energy than the warm mist ones and replacing crusty wicks is cheaper than using distilled water in ultrasonic ones. The problem is everything currently on the market has issues. Any company making incremental improvements to existing cool mist humidifiers will probably get a lot of eager buyers.
My comment is being downvoted by an emotional crowd, it seems, but read this: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.15.426911v1

"Our experiments indicate that these variants, and potentially others that carry K417N/T, E484K and N501Y mutations, can reduce the neutralization potency of vaccinee plasma."

Preprint, not peer-reviewed, but still concerning.
Yes you have more money than you started with, but you will still be down compared with an index that did not have a 50% drawdown at any point.

- Unless you were late to the party. If you didn't get in the fund until (say) November, you have lost money.
This has been true for a decade. Gmail had nothing to do with management for example. Google has some really smart engineers but their management has never been better than mediocre.
We didn't do it because of performance, we did it because of size. We deal almost entirely with encrypted data which means binary blobs. Msgpack lets us send binary data directly without the base64 overhead.
Valve have their own VR headset, the Valve Index. Steam Link was previously a hardware dongle but has been replaced by android/smart TV apps with the same name.

I'm surprised Nvidia didn't attempt to partner with them rather than developing GeForce Now as a separate product, they could have taken advantage of Valve's developer relationship/client/store front and handled the actual running of the hardware, which Valve seems much less interested in.

Stadia on the other hand is just a demonstration of the level of hubris Google is capable of engaging in. They thought they could launch a brand new store with the twist that people would need to pay a subscription to continue playing the games they had bought and without the option of using your own hardware should you end up purchasing a capable machine.
FWIW I have an AirCare humidifier and no complaints. It has a fan and a big cellulose filter/wick of some sort for the water to evaporate from. Works fine.
I am not professionally employable without ADHD medication. I'm willing to that risk for roughly $3m in career earnings.
Your body throws the kitchen sink at SARS-CoV-2, it may generate spike-based antibodies, but it also might generate core-shell-based antibodies, which might mutate more (and therefore bypass acquired immunity in the future).

That’s one reason why spike-based mRNA vaccines are so exciting...
At least they are winding things down faster. Google announced the studio in mid 2019 and shutting it down in early 2021. Microsoft decided retail stores were a good idea in 2011, and only closed them off last year. My bet is that Google is learning this mistake faster, no doubt with MSFT as an example.
This is the case with pretty much every Marketplace out there. Same thing happens with Amazon and same thing happens with Airbnb as well.

What a Marketplace cares the most about is maximizing transactions. Hence, they care about having plenty of vendors and showing good reviews for those vendors so that people will buy. They really don’t want to police vendors too much because that means reducing offer and transactions.
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And as someone who lives in Brisbane Australia I’m right there in confusion with you!

We run our aircon on the de-humidify setting haha
An irregular verb is not ungrammatical. It just follows an exceptional rule of conjugation. Same with a fish sandwich with cheese.
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curious to hear OP's thoughts on Numerai? I'm a fan of their model, and am curious how OP's is different
A friend of mine is named Jim. I was working with him one day and received a "He's dead, Jim" error from Google Chrome. He became very confused.

"Why is it calling you Jim? How are you signed-in to Chrome?"

"I'm not. I don't use that stuff."

"Why is it calling you Jim then?"

"It calls everybody Jim. That's a quote from Star Trek."

He assumed the error message was personalized based on how you were signed-in to Chrome.

Turns out that, though he's a big Star Wars and Dr. Who fan, he managed to completely avoid Star Trek TOS. I found the phrase to be used ubiquitously too but, apparently, not so much that he ever noticed it.
Great! We're looking for a replacement for bravado. Thanks for this awesome project.
Even without a system that has >100% efficiency (i.e. a heat pump), home heating systems often use a source of heat that is significantly less expensive per watt than electricity. (For example, natural gas.)
I would down an energy drink when needing to do long drives and would have a calm, almost euphoric, feeling. Definitely not stimulating.

Similar to the feeling (although much weaker) hydrocodone gave me after I had oral surgery.
Victims of AT&T unlimited-data throttling get only $22 in settlements
Access to people that don't want to buy a gaming PC.

Or can't, these days, considering how strangled the GPU market is.
My friend asked me if I'd tried Stadia.

"What's Google Stadia?" I replied.
Yeah, I would think, be on a bus with 40 or 50 schoolchildren? $20/an hour would not be enough.
Respectfully, I don't think the point is to be 100% accurate :) I'm having fun just immersing myself in other places
Also a big django fan taking the plunge (we've started using FastAPI in production at work, and really love it!)

An admin interface would be wonderful, but given such a heavy API focus, I find Insomnia or Postman to work well enough for those interactions, so I haven't missed it all that much.

Seconding the SQLAlchemy friction though. Built-in ORM support would really help cut down the boilerplate required to wire FastAPI/Starlette models into the database. I think django devs feel the issue more acutely since defining FastAPI objects feels so familiar to making django models. But at the end, rather than having to wire up DRF serializers and viewsets, you need to wire up the database.

One other benefit to taking a more opinionated approach to database interactions: with a sensible-defaults-but-customizable user model, FastAPI could offer token based authentication/authorization out of the box by implementing something similar to Django+DRF+Djoser endpoints

Anyway, seconding the gratitude for this wonderful project, and really looking forward to using it more!
I’m unsure how Nvidia’s approach is worse. On GeForce now you can play games from Steam or Epic, right? Isn’t Stadia the same except you are locked into only Google’s store? That’s pretty significantly worse.
It's actually way cheaper to buy the console if you're just gonna play one game. You get a PS5 for $550 these days, so that's $330 total for a AAA game ($630).

Then instead of $10/m, you have a console for 10 years ($120*10 = $1200).

Even cheaper if you go for the PS4.
Seems like Google is really streamlining the process between optimistic launch of a new product and it's eventual demise.

Is anyone collecting objective data on the average lifespan of google products that aren't search, ads or maps?