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Democrance | https://democrance.com | Python/Django/Pyramid hacker and a VueJS Frontend ninja | Dubai, UAE & Riyadh, KSA | REMOTE optional (although Dubai-UK timezones)

We're a mature micro-insurance/insurance SaaS startup, building software to help bridge the gap between insurance companies and those who are not insured or under-insured. High traffic, mobile first + SMS and USSD platform that requires some interesting compliance and security requirements with deployments in countries with variable quality infrastructure.

Stack is Vue.js with mostly django in the back end although pyramid/sqlalchemy is being introduced. Plenty of third party api integration. Gitlab, unit tests, and continuous integration are standard.

Our devops stack includes Ansible and Terraform, and we operate across the major cloud providers, as well as a few smaller players!

Mature and international dev team with a few PhD's included.

Ideally we're looking for a mature developer - industry experience is of course welcome, but not necessary at all.

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The United States wrote the Japanese constitution after unconditional surrender after WWII. US had incentive to ensure a pacifist Japan, after losing many thousands of troops against the IJA. It has now permitted Japanese rearmament, and likely would support Japanese nuclearisation.
I have learned this from experience. If you think this is bad, real people in real situations are actually worse. If you can get them to speak quasi-coherent sentences that’s a major win in itself. Sounds sad, but the reality these gadgets must operate under.

It’s not that people are stupid, but they operate under a surprising amount of varying conditions ranging from fully inebriated to severely demotivated and/or burned out.
Covid fizzled out, then we were told we were amidst an imminent climate apocalypse. Good time to make that end to unnecessary commuting permanent, right?

Didn't last long, did it?
V7 is an AI training data platform enabling thousands of companies to teach AI at scale through no-code workflows, making it more accurate and trustworthy. We were named as Linkedin’s N2 startup in the UK and Sifted’s N9 soonicorn in Europe. We raised a $33m Series A from Geoff Hinton’s Radical Ventures, and are backed by some of the best minds in AI, from Ashish Vaswani (Attention is All You Need), Oriol Vinyals (Deepmind), Christian Szegedy (X.ai) and the AI leadership at Twitter, Amazon, Isomorphic, and Google. We exist to help turn valuable human knowledge into cutting edge AI, and play a major role in the evolution of AI as a technology.

This month we’re hiring for:

-Senior Platform Engineer

-Security Engineer

-Senior Backend (Medical) Engineer

-Senior Product Manager (API)

- Backend Engineer (Elixir)

-Senior Frontend Engineer

All roles and applications here!: https://www.v7labs.com/working-at-v7
> Wasting their valuable time on earth for the sake of a manager's dictat.

I mean, isn't that what work is?

You get paid, in exchange you spend your time doing stuff at your boss's behest, which you wouldn't do if you weren't being paid?

I mean sure, there are some jobs like being a doctor which you might consider a higher calling, but nobody joins Facebook expecting to do socially useful work, it's an ad company.
For all the conspiracy theorists claiming that RTO is being driven by CEOs propping up the commercial real estate investments of their buddies, anecdotally I'm seeing quite a bit of companies not renewing or even breaking leases, putting most expansion plans on hold, and either leasing much smaller dedicated spaces or even just making co-working arrangements.
DuckDuckGo is just a proxy for Bing, the results are the same. Kagi and Brave are actual competitors.
> finally, what does this have to do with Google's antitrust?

Just having a laugh. Satya isn't the only one who gets to ;)
Interesting that 'laptop' won the poll. The e-ink screens are quite fragile, and are actually the only device that I have ever broken.
Comparatively, my laptop already went through so much abuse that I'm pretty sure would have destroyed a standard laptop equipped with an e-ink screen. Have you already taken that into account and plan for a design that would take that into account? Are the potential buyers aware of it, or would you risk facing backlash because many screens would be inadvertently broken?

The demo is impressive. I bought a Mira Pro yesterday so I'm excited to see more options in the space.
The roles you mentioned are not listed on the website.

I am interested, how do I apply?
I am a huge fand of learning by doing. This is a great way of dealing with problems you cannot anticipate. But it is just bad planning, if you are not dealing in advance with the problems you can anticipate. Like not having enough desks in the first place.
this is a valid definition of “working class,” (I.e. non-owners), but it’s not how the phrase is typically used.

This phrase would include any non-owner professional like lawyers or doctors or even upper management.

On top of that many tech workers don’t fit even your definition because equity is often an important part of comp. That’s not the case for lawyers or doctors or management in other industries.

Using standard and customary vernacular, tech workers are not “working class.”
Couchdb/pouchdb remains one of the best: it's super easy to setup and is production-ready, but it's gonna be json docs with no transactions, so it can be limiting.

Y.js and automerge emerged as solutions combining CRDTs and content transfer, they look really promising. There is a Y.rs version if that's better for you.

I've always dreamt of building something on top of Syncthing, ie something that would use file synchronization. It's more versatile and will definitely last longer than anything else, and it has some built-in capabilities for having a third party helping transport but not being allowed to read content.

I recently came across https://github.com/superfly/corrosion , a service discovery and state management tool that is working completely p2p. CR-SQLite, in particular, allows multiple tables from multiple databases to be merged thanks to CRDTs. I'm sure there's a lot to build on top of it.

I feel like you're not really interested in full p2p but want some centralization point to manage some auth stuff, so I'd investigate couchdb/pouchdb first.
It also seems a bit strange for the company to have an overarching goal around building a "metaverse", but not to try to figure out how they themselves might use those tools for their own work. No appetite for their own dogfood?
> If there’s one area I’d love to see Silicon Valley actually disrupt, it’s real estate. There’s too many middlemen in this process

when has silicon valley ever actually disrupted anything, rather than creating a new, well-funded middleman?
Just having the most popular product doesn't mean you're liable in an anti-trust case, you have to abuse the position as well (IANAL though). There are no viable competitors for a PC desktop OS for them to abuse and haven't been since the 80-90's I guess.

A bit off topic, but to me it's interesting that they couldn't extend their desktop OS dominance to the mobile world when they launched Windows Phone with a huge war chest. That must have demonstrated how huge the disjunction is between desktop and mobile use-cases in general, or the strategy should have worked (and could have re-fuelled the anti-trust aspects)
Ngl i'm very willing for languages to cater to my CQRS needs. Boilerplate city amirite?
Interesting that there's several corroborators here. My own Kagi searches have been consistently speedy. I'm a heavy Kagi user on a Kagi for teams plan, in the UK, if any of that is relevant.
If you read my post again you will notice I didn't say anything about the situation at hand. I just refuted your general statement that one cannot reason about mental states from the visible actions.

I agree that one should be cautious with early accusations or hopping on trains just because they are rolling.
Extremely impressive. I'm confident this will become integrated in Photoshop in a few years just like Generative AI was added recently.
iPhone 4 and 4s were designed with Jobs still around to reign in Ives and others. It was after Jobs passing but before Forstall’s and Ive’s departures that things went to shit.

Forstall pushed skeuomorphism to the extreme where Apple might as well be handing you the things they’re trying to emulate and call it a day. Ives, given total freedom, took a steamroller to the UI.

The beauty of the early designs (iOS 1 - 5) was the contrast between materials in the UI. Things you could press were shiny and made to look like they had the feel of the glass screen. This was not the usual way to interact with any device at the time, as most digitizers were plastic sheets laid over the glass that had some give. In contrast, things you could not touch were made to look matte.

Between Forstall and Ives, this all got blown up.
The death penalty isn’t THE problem here, but it definitely is A problem here.

The problem with the death penalty is masked slightly because of the US’s lengthy appeals process and the Innocence project which delays a lot of these death penalties from being carried out which has meant that in many instances they have succeeded in delaying the death penalty long enough for the science that could acquit the innocent to be established.

And in states which care about justice, as opposed to bloodlust, it’s saved innocent lives (and equally importantly, in some cases, helped nab the actual guilty party).

But these stories are becoming increasingly rare because the states that care about justice as opposed to bloodlust have increasingly joined the first world by abandoning the death penalty altogether. Imprisonment for life still allows for innocence to be proven. The death penalty eliminates that option and it’s impossible to know at the time of sentencing whether new evidence would turn up.
"adapting to the platform" is mostly related to the goroutine topic, as we are working on the js/wasm support and these applications prefer async/await operations.

re: goroutines

the official go runtime spawns goroutines during program startup, which makes the usage of M:N goruntine mandatory, and they have to call lockOSThread()[1] before initializing packages for certain applications (mostly GUI application).

We like the design of goroutines (especially the idea of a `g` register), but `pcz` currently doesn't have goroutine support, and we are making it possible to spawn goroutines with custom allocator (with or without gc) and scheduler attached, so you can chose 1:1, M:N model for goroutines on your own (as decided by the scheduler attached).

you can find more details in the project ROADMAP.md[2]

[1]: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/352c8835e7609ad72872b5a63b...
[2]: https://github.com/primecitizens/pcz/blob/master/ROADMAP.md
Meta has more or less had this for many years -- besides the public shaming aspect.
If that includes salary compliance I’m aiming to use that as evidence to legislators about why to strengthen and how to
I don't know. I guess they simply don't.

My approach would be to categorize user content into

- CRDT-enabled content considered as the norm, and

- content trapped in legacy containers that do not support CRDT.

With an implied warning for the user: legacy content offers a limited user experience.

Migration from "legacy" to "normal" should be fully supported, and as transparent as possible (but needs dedicated support for each file format). Converting "normal" (CRDT-enabled) content into files/blobs should be treated as a "take an snapshot" export operation.
The whole LLM ecosystem is the result of discarding determinism and anything resembling "linearity": you get way better results, but only most of the time, and can no longer predict or control the full possibilities.
Did you ever look at Adam Chlipala's Ur/Web? That was really something. Look for wayback machine snapshot of impredicative.org.
Iteration can be good to more effectively optimize metrics, but what are they optimizing for here? Is there any particular metric that is currently down and should be up, other than butts-in-seats?
Does anyone who prefers these types of languages have any thoughts on Idris? The ecosystem is small but the language seems to satisfy the Haskell use case without the language extension issue.
Location: Italy
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Jack of all trades, web dev & devOps currently.
I fix things all around, short CEO/CTO experience, bots & chatbots builder.
Every now and then I get friendly, personable marketing emails for "Ms. Ligma"
The only point of RTO is to make the C-suite and managers happy to be back in control, since the only thing that gets them going is the thought of their underlings being miserable.

These sociopaths don't care if it's awful for everyone involved as long as they get to see their minions at their desks, knowing that they're the reason dozens/hundreds of people are having their lives wasted on thumb twirling in some depressing office.
Yes, I came to the same conclusion. DDG doesn't feel as good as Google once was, but Google is almost unusable now, the entire first screen is almost always 5 paid placements and 5 SEO scam sites.
It depends on the specifics of the union. There certainly have been/are unions with fairly strict pay scales based on seniority and related factors. The SAG is obviously not one of those. (It's mostly, as I understand it, minimum pay scales for time actually spent working--a lot of SAG members don't work very much.) Public sector jobs can often be.
My first thought would have been to use a vacuum cleaner, so thanks for sharing that tip haha
No, that's not it. It's about using computational techniques to address questions of social science. Using big tech data is not a goal, but it will sometimes be a source of data.
IMHO healthy life expectancy should be the thing which is discussed and referenced. Back then you’d likely just die if you were too sick to comfortably live.
The pub lunch is the thing I miss most about my first job.

Every Friday almost the entire office would decamp down to a local pub for lunch and a pint or two.

The quality of the food was always very hit-or-miss (unless we went down the king's arms*, but that was seen as a bit pricey and fancy), and for many places if there were too many of us would get arsey for not booking ahead.

But it was a great opportunity to just hear what everyone was up to and have a good chat in an unstructured way.

I don't know if it's changing attitudes over the past 20 years, the particular companies I found myself at, the price of going to the pub, but it hasn't really been a thing at any of my places since.

Now with WFH of course there is a complete absence of unstructured conversation. Every meeting has a purpose, every interaction there's something someone has in mind they want from the conversation.

And while it's not impossible to chit chat still, it is impossible to overhear chit-chat, which is an underappreciated thing.

Overheard conversations are a gold mine of knowledge sharing, many an interesting idea has come about because, "I couldn't help but overhear...".

Now don't get me wrong, I don't want to suffer an hour long commute for that benefit, the cost-benefit skews all wrong. But I would like if everyone lived a 5 minute walk from the office.

* might have been the king's head, memory plays tricks.
I know a lot of investors like Warren Buffet. I bet they work harder than you do.

People usually believe investors are those scammers that advertise in Internet along rented Villas and Lamborghinis talking about how to live without working and so on.

They usually do not spend too much, as they are into the habit of saving way more than what they make.

Those that waste their money are not the investors themselves, but their families, like the trophy wife or the spoiled children.
It's impossible to read the article without logging in lol
> wouldn't off us following some goal to monkey paw specificity

No, it'll off us because profit is very important to someone's career, and it can save the company a lot of money that it would otherwise have to pay disposing of deadly neurotoxin safely when it could just dump it in the river.
You don't want to be divided from the miners who extract the minerals and the factory workers who assemble the crappy tech that we design? I do. It's absolutely squalid over there.
If the US didn't have the death penalty he'd just be sentenced to life in prison and nobody would care.
Another argument against corporal punishment I suppose.
I think the opposite concept, "reverse ETL," is actually more popular. You put everything into your data warehouse and then pump whatever you need out from there.
I hope all the potential plaintiffs get together and initiate what could effectively be a "grassroots" class action, by coordinating their strategy, information, jurisprudence research, etc.

Were there confidentiality terms in the arbitration clauses of the original contracts?

Also if enough people flood them with arbitration you can outscale the company, to the point where they're begging the courts to more efficiently tackle the matter, eg: https://archive.li/kZu1h
This breaks down if you have teams in more than one location which have to interact. So yes, for smaller companies, being together at one location and reaping the benefits of direct collaboration is a thing, for international companies less so.

Then there is the problem, if you do put everyone in the same room, that can be distracting too. A lot of software development requires quite time for concentration. Yes, having direct access to your team members is great, but not all the time.
Implementing internationalization into a Next.js app using the App Router
There's realtors in Canada...
But that's less efficient than 10 desks for 15 people!
Were I used to work they did all the things you suggested and it worked well. Every desk had a good setup, nice chair, massive screen etc. There were plenty of lockers and other storage if you needed to leave things in the office.

Some of us had laid claim to a desk if we were always in, but most people tended to be in only a few days a month. Different teams tended to cluster in particular parts of the office when they were in. There were plenty of desks so there were no arguments.

Hotdesking, hybrid working, remote working and fixed desk in-office setups can all work, but they require people to actually think about how space and systems are designed, and to put enough resources in place.

Unfortunately, most companies just don't put the thought in to the details, or the resources in to make them work properly, so they become terrible work environments and then they complain that no one wants to come to the office.

I have very little sympathy for companies that can't make hybrid work because they just put the minimum effort in, and then complain that it's all the employees fault.
Optane Resurgence?

The tech looks super cool if it does get commercialized.
Watch this fade into obscurity the same as Intel's 3D X point.

The world is not ready for the diseconomies of scale of a second memory type. DRAM and SSD fabs are struggling so why shouldn't they?

Goodbye promising technology!
adding onto multithreading, other parallelization models such as OpenMP or OMPSs take sequential code and parallelise it. They delegate onto a runtime system the efficient execution of the code to achieve a balance between programmers productivity and code performance.

But for large problems the article falls short. Scientific applications may need to use several computers at a time, COMP Superscalar (COMPSs) is a task-based programming model which aims to ease the development of applications for distributed infrastructures. COMPSs programmers do not need to deal with the typical duties of parallelization and distribution, such as thread creation and synchronization, data distribution, messaging or fault tolerance. Instead, the model is based on sequential programming, which makes it appealing to users that either lack parallel programming expertise or are looking for better programmability. Other popular frameworks such as LEGION offer a lower-level interface.
Is it any surprise? What if someone made their political career on this conviction. That would be embarrassing.
I'm sure that a bike stolen from a large chain store would be investigated before a bike stolen from a member of the public would.
Unfortunately the problem with non-experienced (excel) users is that they don't know what they want rather than lacking who to ask.
Nobody can read the article. Posting it here was a waste of time.
Yeah they’re willing to help destroy our rights and shred the constitution so they can play James Bond.
That is for stores that sell Steam Keys. Last I checked, there's nothing in the TOS about other storefronts on other system.
Sounds all interesting work. Like above is saying. Please your comp range to save for everyone
You're right, but why would either of us be using UUIDs for that purpose, when an auto-incrementing integer would suffice?
Because it isn't true. None of the things you mention happened to Greece due to Varoufakis, in the end he left Government and what he was fighting against materialized. Also, whitewashed??
Maybe it's just me projecting. I don't like being dragged into the office all the time. I like meeting up with coworkers a couple times a year (if only to get a feel for our "real personas", which can be hard over async text and video). It's also a good way of establishing a certain rhythm for progress.

And ultimately onboarding remotely is super tough and isolating compared to having someone around physically for a bit.

This is easier for me to say, as I do not have kids and am generally fond of staying in a new place for a bit every once in a while.

I think twice-yearly team get-togethers (especially if they're organized in the understanding that work won't really get done) is a good breather. Get people to give little talks about stuff, chill out, have blue sky discussions about future plans... all the advantages that people get at conferences, on a small scale.

I think people whine about "pointless" RTO (especially when executives calling for it aren't even following it), but what I'm thinking about at least has some defined point and pretty time gated. Some people really don't like adult field trips though (for good reason).
As trevelyan stated, and for clarification: the protocol described in the OP is not PoS. I think that was assumed, but maybe not clear.
Yeah, why don't you record a video ? It's pretty simple.
> people on average were way more gullible the further you look back in time

Only because they kept running into the protagonist, Odysseus Polymetis.

(seriously, there's a long history of tricksters; people are on average the same level of gullibility but inventing a new trick format or new fraud is a technological level up in the same way as a rifle against a phalanx is. See cryptocurrency)
> I am Russian by nationality, but I (...)

It sounds like Pakt Publishing might be bounded by law, and you're experiencing a consequence of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

> Since Packt is based in London, is this even legal? A quick search shows the following: The Equality Act 2010 makes it (...)

A quick read of Wikipedia's article on the International sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine show that the UK enacted a number of sanctions targeting the banking sector, including a deposit limit for Russian citizens in UK bank accounts.

I think that you might already be aware of that, and if that's the case you're making a very disingenuous and bad-faith case against a publisher, which is rendered obvious by the way you purposely omitted any reference to the root cause of the whole problem: Russia's invasion of Ukraine.