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I’m so glad to see my hometown referred on HN, which is pretty rare…

There are many things that you could be annoyed with in Georgia and for these reason many young people flee the country in search of a better life. I somehow declined dozen of relocation offers on the software engineering roles and stayed alongside my big family, which I don’t regret.

If you ignore some parts of the uncomfortable environment, adapt to some of them and construct the comfort around you and your loved ones, I believe life can be comfortable in many places of the world, unless your physical existence is under danger.

From the other side, living in Georgia has many benefits: dollar-value, cheapness, amazing food, really good and cheap wine (for 10 USD you buy a bottle which costs 25-35 abroad), beautiful and diverse nature, safe environment… and steady flights to the EU countries (which I got to used before pandemic) makes travel very easy… I was literally flying in EU every second weekend.
Your comment inspired me to check out a bunch of other banks to see what the deal is.

It seems like a few of them have some perks like travel insurance, cashback or airpoints/reward points, but most of them have no or very tiny perks on their cards. A lot of the airpoints are also locked behind a minimum spend in the first 3 months.

For me personally even the "good" cards aren't that great because I just don't spend that much money. Though travel insurance would be nice once the world opens back up.
Sadly, they did reply. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28031787
If you haven't already, get one of those apple (and pear) slicers. I don't usually advocate for single purpose kitchen appliances, but these are life changing.
But that's only true after they read you the Miranda rights. Officers need to say those words so that the accused understands that their statements will be taken seriously in the immediate future.

It's not supposed to refer to anything that you have ever or will ever say in perpetuity...
> there's been a ton of progress in the field of recycling for instance. Also in renewable power sources.

Obviously that is not the kind of progress we were talking about here in the context of transitioning to 5G here.
Very few stores choose not to enforce copyright. Those that do have smaller selections of works for sale because copyright holders refuse to sell their stuff there. The result is still a service that's inferior to copyright infringement.
How about we call an infrastructure attack an infrastructure attack, not something that has a completely different meaning like terrorism

Hackers are not terrorists!
That's not how things work. Apps aren't just the end app that you use, but the frameworks that create them that are part of the OS SDK.
I completely broke down and put in all my sick leave. I haven't cried like this in years and I have to go through therapy and all the things. I'm going to be ohkay at least my code still works and is still making the company I currently work for a lot of money. So I am just taking some time off to heal myself and address my burnout at the same time. There is hope after falling hard like that.
I had same question, i was pissed because that was another stiupid question. My answer was: Because its easier for ninja turtles to jump on.
Here’s a presentation by Grischenko on Chronofold https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dKzMZsg5EVA
They also don't have any idea where complexity lies in an opaque system. More than once I've heard about users wanting more control over how a certain view sorts records. Users will pitch strange ways of getting some kind of stable sort. When you realize they want a field tracking creation order or update time they think you invented the idea. (Good PMs can figure this out, too)
Mine (and the public's) growing awareness of surveillance adtech really has taken away from my desire to apply to Google or Facebook.
It’s in – and big: Senators produce $1T infrastructure bill
> It's so much worse than that.

Hollywood accounting, but for your pay.
Being on the hiring end, it’s less out of incompetence and more of not enough time, and open source code is low signal that the candidate can actually solve problems.

If I submit some “open source” code as some proof that I can code, how do you know I didn’t copy the code from somewhere?

Also, writing code for the sake of writing code doesn’t tell a hiring manager if the person can take requirements and translate that to an automated process. It just say that person isn’t that busy and can, excuse my language, shit out code for the sake of appearing productive.

Writing code can be a hobby, sure, but that’s only a small part of a software job and no amount of open source code can tell a company if the candidate can work with others and solve problems.
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> all these people writing web applications would just be writing desktop applications

Good.

> The complexity of the problems being solved wouldn't change, and it would basically be the same hell of large projects being done by large teams with little in the way of planning.

That's a non sequitur... The complexity largely hasn't changed, it's been hidden by layers upon layers of libraries that aren't fully understood by the people building with them, even within the same company who built the library, and increasing levels of bloat. If it weren't for the never-ending pace of "marketing says we need a new UI" bugs might actually get fixed once in a while.

Imagine if people went from "we need shared libraries for disk and memory efficiency" to "we need completely separate environments for every module of our program" in 20 years. Oh wait, that happened.
Are there companies that don't have a revolving door? Talent retention seems to be solidly tagged #wontfix.
I'm also here; I've even seen it on cars.
What do you think the "United Nations" should do actually? Is the world so well?
If you're living in a domain in which your core competency is in constructing complex stone structures, then leaking that capacity to another kingdom or empire would be a risk.

Pharonic Egypt circa 2580 was not without neighbours and there was both trade and warfare in North Africa and across the Levant and Mediterranian, notably with Syria, Canaan, Lebanon ("cedars of Lebanon" are a significant reference, as Egypt had virtually no timber), Ethiopia, and Nubia, amongst others. There's also the prospect of defection to internal factions. The Old Kingdom seems to have been generally peaceful with little internal or foreign warfare, at least until the First Intermediate Period, which was largely an internal rivalry. But it wasn't entirely without defence concerns.

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

https://www.worldhistory.org/Egyptian_Warfare/

I'm very happy to admit that my hypothesis is just that, and that there's no evidence and only a very little external support, though there is some. But if you're going to develop an advanced skill that would be of use throughout the region, it might be advisable to find ways to hold on to it, and as a pragmatic explanation for what was an absolutely immense effort ... there's some sense in the concept.
I’ve interviewed with Google twice. It’s not that many separate rounds: You have the recruiter sell Google to you, then there are two phone screens, then it’s the all day interview (with multiple people). Which is reasonable. I didn’t get the Google job, but, looking back, my life is better because I didn’t relocate back to Silicon Valley to work for Google.

I’ve never had a company string me along. Four separate phone screens or interviews seems to be the limit. I’ve even been hired after one video conference interview.

I once was given a “we want to hire you, but we need to get the funds together before we can give you the offer” spiel during the great post-mortgage economic recession, but they did hire me after about a month.

After five separate rounds (again, talking to multiple teams on the same day after one or two technical phone screens and one recruiter call doesn’t count; that’s standard practice with many companies), I would tell a company they need to either, as my father put it, “shit or get off the pot”.

In terms of take home assignments, I have no problem doing them, as long as the employer has no problem having me put my answers on a public GitHub repo. I will not do Codility tests, because my experience is that employers who do those kinds of tests are Unicorn hunters.
Unfortunately one does not need to be religious to realize that it’s foolish to assume there is no “god” when we have no way of proving that with science since we can only deduct reliably.
Building an HTTP library myself, I have to disagree.

I drop two things here to counterargue that HTTP is easy to parse: 206 multiple ranges (requests will not always be responded to, and ranges from servers are almost always invalid when resumed) and Transfer Encodings (br inside gzip inside deflate inside chunked, anyone?)

Both headers are implemented spec incompliant by every single web server I've seen, including nginx, apache and others.

Source: building a peer to peer web browser that shares its bandwidth (and cache and downloads) with trusted peers. [1]

[1] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth
I guess this is how I think of it. I enjoy the fruits of modern society, the airplanes and fast food and nice phones. But to make that happen, you need specialization, you need people know get really good at flying planes then just do that, and people who get good at making fast food and iphones and everything else. And inside that, you need people who specialize at every part of the supply chain, and what you end up with is people who have spent basically their whole lives fixing bugs in webservers used to sell analytics software to businesses etc. etc. and it becomes so abstract and you’re so disconnected from the feeling that you’re actually helping anyone or worth anything to society that it doesn’t really matter that intellectually you know the whole system would collapse if you don’t have people doing jobs like yours. And you should have friends outside of work, but many of us don’t really, at least not to the extent that way like, and even then work is literally most of your waking day most days of the week, and the knowledge that not even your coworkers or superiors or anyone else really cares about you in this grand societal project called modern civilization that you’re basically dedicating your life to maintaining, I can see how that would get to someone.
I submitted it right after reading the paper from gritzko’s post but the story didn’t get any traction :(
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28020792
The suspense is killing me. What was the question, and how did you answer?
I have a small startup. We try to be super responsive when someone applies to a job. Generally within 2 weeks of an resume being submitted we can have an offer letter to the person.
Ok but consider - is there any department at Microsoft other than marketing that Richard Feynman would have been suited for?
>Class action lawsuits rarely benefit the users financially.

...because courts approve unreasonably low settlements.
Does Square have anywhere near this kind of cash or stock value, for a 29B acquisition? I just don’t really get this stuff..
The US Northeast has so many apples that don’t travel well and have so much flavor: Spenser, Macoun, Empire... on the West Coast they’re all lacrosse balls that taste OK to decent but mainly travel well.
> And that's a risk that could potentially be spotted by a competent HR.

It's a risk that could only be spotted be HR, don't know about the "competent" part. There would be no emotional-kid risks to speak of if it weren't for useless HR.

> Maybe, but juniors are (unfortunately) seen as a commodity by the market. Commodities are about uniformity and adherence to some standard, rather than uniqueness.

It's making even less sense now. If we are commodities and it's all about uniformity and standard, why do we see senior engineers complaining about this, too? It also makes no economic sense to spend so much time and effort on elaborate bullshit on "commodities". I don't mind being a commodity if the standards that you speak of exist, and I don't want to be unique. But guess what? It's the HR that wants us to be the unique commodities.
I made a catalog of all of the out-of-copyright books in the Library of Congress, a pun generator that has all puns of the form 'You put the X in Y', and language learning resources: https://www.locserendipity.com/.
How is he allowed to just "knock off" 10mph from the ticket? I assume he had you on a radar.

I really hate selective enforcement. Perhaps our laws would not remain so wrong if they were enforced more routinely.
Advancements in technology will probably not do away with what we already understand about physics, it will likely just add more details.
There is no shame in staying comfortable. HN makes us feel inadequate all the time but that’s not what matters.

If your job is comfortable, pays well enough, and doesn’t demand all your waking time then why chnage?

Sure you can always get more money elsewhere, sure there are jobs that pay double what you’re making now, sure there are jobs where you get to do insanely cool shit… but it’s a lot of luck and effort to get these jobs. And then, you free time might vanish (either because it turns out these jobs are “always on” type of jobs, and/or because you’re so drained at the end of your day that you don’t have energy for anything else)

There is really nothing wrong with contempt in my opinion. Especially after 10+ years when you understand how most jobs are basically the same, that there is more to life than work, and that we can’t all be doing cool stuff all the time.

To hedge against being in a position where you’re laid off and can’t get a new job anymore, consider saving aggressively. 50% of net pay is a good starting point. This makes you give very little fucks about whether you’ll get laid off or not and after about 12 years of doing that, you won’t even really need a job anymore.
I work currently in distributed team and if you want water cooler chat you can join status meeting some half an hour before and have that. There is always someone online already.
> this guy who tells us he can learn

I'm assuming you have actually learned something and can show the results. Don't just declare yourself a learner, unless your real skill is amazing charisma.

Graduating and acing leetcode is evidence of ability to learn something. What's yours?
Yeah... reminds me of a past coworker. He spent weeks writing weird comments in code, then writing weird code to read comments. From the actual source files. Then when deployments didn't work, he said they worked on his machine the deployment must be broke.

He was hired by FAANG less than a month later.
Also strange not to mention potential state actor. Each time an attack in carried on US targets there is a premade list of countries from which it supposedly come, and here nothing.
Brazil’s Nubank is all-in on clojure:

https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/36297/nubank-buys-firm-...

Sweden’s Klarna seems to be using Clojure along with other FP languages:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23379264
> Not encrypted, hashed.

In modern systems, sure. SunOS shipped with crypt_unix as the only option for many many years, which used the lower bits of the first 8 characters of your password as a 56-bit key. This was then combined with one of 4096 possible salt values and used as a key to DES encrypt a fixed string.

Solaris 9 (I think?) added the option to switch to sunmd5, so at the time OP was probably correct in it being encryption (abet one way) and not a hash function.
yup - Wish paid a lot in TO as well but then again, their product isn't necessarily appealing.
Seems like software engineering too often attracts personalities that like creating uncessary complexity. It is deeply ingrained in the culture.
> Again, did you miss the "(after some back and forth)" piece in my previous comment.

I didn't miss it. How can there be any "back and forth" if you fill out the form anonymously? They can't contact you for back and forth because you aren't giving them any contact details for that.

If you print the PDF form out and snail mail it, they can't find out who you are, unless they engage in some kind of forensic investigation (tracing the printer, DNA testing, etc). Or you could fill it out electronically and email it to them using an anonymous remailer.

> If you're in any way unsure, then go and try it. After a while, you'll find out you're not anonymous, and are relying on them to provide anonymity. eg it's a fantasy

Did you try?
So much time and money is spent interviewing it seems like it would be cheaper to just subcontract the candidate to do a real task as a trial run. That would give a much more meaningful signal. People say it's a risk mitigation strategy to do so much interviewing; but, is it? Are we sure it isn't just making us feel like we are mitigating our risk? Do we have any data that hire quality goes up with each incremental interview?
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Every year, Google receives over one million resumes and applications. Only 4,000-6000 applicants will actually be hired — that's less than a 1% hiring rate.

Given those odds it's not worth it.
The problem of a probationary period is that it pushes all the risk to the employee.

While I agree interviewing has gotten ridiculous with all the leetcoding and ten rounds of interviews and FAANG cargo-culting and whatnot, one small advantage - assuming I'm not desperate for a paycheck - is that it gives me, as a prospective employee, time to consider and withdraw my application if I see too many red flags or I just prefer the devil I know.

A short interview process with a probation period on the other hand is a big roll of the dice. Maybe I'm not able to ramp up on time, or make a silly mistake due to unfamiliarity with the codebase or underlying business logic. Maybe I don't get on with the team or manager. Maybe I'm going to be dumped into a doomed death march project on day 1. I could find myself unemployed a month later with an embarrassing gap in the resume. Perhaps on the other hand a better interview process (not longer, just have properly trained people and constantly improve the process with feedback) would save us all that pain.
i can't imagine a real world scenario where knowing that helps you.. especially when you.. can.. just.. google it
And they both get gold. I do not understand how this is spun into a feel good story. It's like you are told something is nice so you have to believe it.

I guess giving out gold medals is nice, so giving out more is nicer....

Italy's bonus is $212,400 USD for Gold & $106,200 USD for Silver, so that's also not putting $100,000 on the line.

Oil rich Qatar's bonuses in the past have also been 'generous'
> Just think - every software engineer’s resume worth anything mentions Linux and Git.

This is noise on a resume, in my opinion. I'm going to be assuming familiarity with these in most circumstances.

I recognize that different markets have different tolerance for nonsense on resumes, though: I've never heard of anyone in Europe adding extra-curriculars and things like "Eagle Scout" (or analogs of it) on resumes, and it'd be almost embarrassing interviewing someone who did.
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Audio management better on MacOS?

There is no system level volume mixer, you can't route audio between apps, you can't even monitor an audio output device.
To do anything sane with audio on MacOS requires external applications like Loopback or Blackhole or any of the virtual cable applications.
> Do you have an alternative?

Yes, building one ;)
Brisbane has plenty of tech jobs. I'm netting $250,000 inc bonuses as an SRE and the markets rife for oppertunity.

Not FAANG either.
^ This.

Multiple responses, especially with chunked encodings, are really really hard to get right. Even more so when you have to be able to resume downloads due to socket instability.
Like others have already pointed out your challenge is not only your accent. If you tackle it as language ackquisition there is a large community for adults learning languages. Working in the US gives you a big advantage but immersion alone will not automatically solve all issues.
In my experience you can benefit from language tandems. In this setup one has a conversation with a native speaker who learns your native language. Half of the time you speak your native language, the other half his/her native language. In this setup it is not as awkward to correct each other as it is in daily life conversations. Tandems can be online or in person. If you want to maximize your time speaking and being corrected you can pay some students to act as a teacher. I had some really good experiences while learning Italian on italki.com. Just look for community teacher. Unfortunately they no longer support forming tandems. But there are plenty of sites for this.
Yes, same for me. I was going through my past interviews, and the most I’ve had before an offer has been two, both scheduled on the same day. And I’ve worked in agencies and big orgs, in both private and public sector. Maybe we’ve just been lucky?
When I visit this BBC article I get a pop up asking me to sign in and then my browser just freezes up and becomes very unresponsive. This is Safari on iOS. Anyone else experiencing the same?
Interest rates are 2-5% right now I think, minimum equity is 20% in most cases.
oh hey there! I remember trying this out sometime ago and I didn't recall it being open-source prior to now; kudos for making this open :)
SRE's in Sydney are on $250,000K for Google, + equity.
Here most of them seems to be pointing at number of interviews that's being conducted for a candidate by the companies and how emotionally torment it can be.

I can tell you it's not an easy job to take interviews as well. I have been interviewing candidates for my company for past 4-5 years. It drains your brain a lot than giving interviews IMO. Sometimes I get exhausted and frustrated for the day after taking 4-5 interviews. start to feel, brain stops functionating. And frustrating thing is you have to provide feedback for audit purposes in more than 100 words. Especially rounds like System Design, Hands On coding, Knowledge of Technologies, Resume drilling.

Also interviews been happening continuously at least for past 2 years due to attrition issues linked of pandemic. So never ending process now a days to take interviews in the company.
Yeah, I meant you :-)

Some time ago I was drafting an article on CLI UX principles, and I wondered if there are specific a18y issues or annoyances that could be included. I couldn't find a lot of resources on this.

I do remember this old bsdtalk interview from years ago[1] about a Braille user, and what she said pretty much mirrors your comment: "CLI apps are usually really good, curses can be tricky". My feeling was that there wasn't much written about it because there's not much to write about: "it just works".

Still, there might be (small) things that might make a difference; as you pointed out in your other reply, it's hard for me to truly "experience" this. I thought it might be a good idea to check in with some people.

[1]: bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2008/03/bsdtalk143-bsd-hobbiest-deborah-norling.html
I wonder if this is a way to crowd out competitors. Take up so much of a candidate's time that they can only interview at a handful of places successfully. Either the candidate goes all in on you or they pass without using your resources. Kinda the grocery store shelving model of competition.
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> Shouldn't we get an opt-out of the class action email?

I am not a lawyer and this isn’t legal advice, but you typically get directions on opting out as part of the class action notice you receive:
https://www.classaction.org/learn/class-action-opt-out