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Senior Engineer need resources on helping my company acquire a small firm
I'm a Sr. Engineer at mid size web development firm. We assist clients with lots of different technology stacks and solutions, but regarding one particular set of technologies we've had problems hiring, staffing, keeping engineers, growing our team, and getting quality output.

We recently lost a bid for some work to a much smaller, less mature company who happens to have really high competency in this one particular stack.

I've seen other firms have great success acquiring small firms like this in what is essentially a talent acquisition.

I know absolutely nothing about the factors that go into acquiring a small firm and I was wondering if anyone here has any advice or good resources about the process. I want to educate myself and if this comes up, perhaps be involved even though its outside the realm of my normal expertise.

Thanks!
Isn't this already the case with nicotine and cocaine?
Why should we distrust the source of the claims when the opposing entity, amazon, already has a well documented and long history of pulling shit exactly like this and who’s been caught lying about it multiple times?

I’m not even saying the worker/organizer is completely beyond reproach, but the only other entity with anything to offer is amazon themselves whom have already obliterated anything resembling credibility on this topic. Amazon corporate could tell me the sky is blue above a union organizers head and I would want it verified.
What happened to having people trained by external trainers for what you need? That’s much cheaper than having everything externally “managed” and still having to integrate all of it. The number of services listed in TFA is just ridiculous.
Yeah I have heard the legends and even met one person once. I do not think that one needs to be in the excel gang, though, to be disturbed by such interference patterns while looking at a spreadsheet in VisionPro.
So you’re saying we should stop refining the laws because it’s impossible?
It's not the Java model because Java just makes every operation atomic (from the point of view of the model, I'm sure the JVM and javac must do optimizations to avoid some of them), while Rust enforces that multi threaded access must be through atomic operations, but if there is no multi threaded access or the type is not meant to be used in a multi threaded context, that information is encoded in the type system. This might sound like an academic distinction, but it is different: the developer is in control. You could even go as far as lie to the type system and claim a racy type is actually thread safe. I wouldn't advice doing so, but I can't stop you.
Better than nothing but you want to go reasonably heavy to get the improvements in bone density. Also hard to get hypertrophy in the posterior chain, which is a major area for atrophy with age.

I think calisthenics/gymnastics can give a heavier load but there is a substantial skill component there, much harder to learn than, say, squats and deadlifts.
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Do you have annual leave from work in Scotland? Or is it called something else?
Chicago, DC, Boston, SF, Philly (depending on "international"), Portland (walkable but not really international - it's just 90s-2000s white Americans doing 90s-2000s white American stuff, you'd think Kurt Cobain still roams the earth)

Though if you want affordability, that leaves Chicago and Philly.

NYC sucks in that sense though, as a lot of industries that are conglomerated in NYC haven't ensured salaries keep up with those in High Finance and Tech

At least Boston has relatively affordable suburbs and Bay Area level wages, DC has plenty of federal jobs that pay competitively, and SF has the larger tech industry (which is still going great despite a couple high profile layoffs)
Sounds like modern day slavery. I assume they must just pay pretty well for completely unskilled labour compared to the competition, otherwise why would people put up with those conditions?
Loosing the ability to read and think deeply
Even true claims need independent verification.
They have completely different diet and their methabolism is also different. That's comparing oranges to apples
The article explains that they are pre-vetting renters and handling showings and such. They add value for the landlord, not for you. But, they are also probably extracting the maximum amount of blood from you, because they can...
I've started doing the same but with oapigen; github.com/deepmap/oapi-codegen

I thougt it would be boring writing the spec, but it was not nearly as bad as I thought. Also, a spec is needed, so might as well write it up front.
R2 is great. Our GCS bill (almost all egress) jumped from a few hundred dollars a month to a couple thousand dollars a month last year due to a usage spike. We rush-migrated to R2 and now that part of the bill is $0.

I've heard some people here on HN say that it's slow, but I haven't noticed a difference. We're mainly dealing with multi-megabyte image files, so YMMV if you have a different workload.
My wife is Russian. This card (from another country) is what allowed her to retain bank accounts at various different institutions.
They do lift weights daily. Themselves, their offspring, branches, fruit, lots of things.
Got a blog post about building this?
That is on IEEE, not on the author - the article was originally published on the (fast, ad-free, privacy-preserving) author's site at https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/a-2024-plea-for-lean-softw...
It works in the sense that the system keeps existing, but it doesn't work in the sense that affordable rental housing exists for everyone.

Ask anyone actually living in Stockholm, and you'll hear how the system really works. Last I heard there was a 20 year wait to get an apartment the legal way.
Indeed, I believe Gemini is equally capable, but its response style significantly differs from ChatGPT 4's. My expectations for how chatbots should communicate have been largely shaped by ChatGPT's approach.

Specifically, Gemini's tendency to structure responses with bullet points and headings from the start doesn't appeal to me. It feels more like receiving an essay in response to a simple question, whereas ChatGPT's responses facilitate a flowing conversation. Gemini aims to provide exhaustive answers, which can be overwhelming when I'm interested in a more open-ended dialogue that smoothly transitions between topics. In essence, Gemini Advanced focuses on delivering detailed answers without allowing much time for reflection.

Therefore, when it comes to preference in RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback) chatbots, ChatGPT-4 is my favorite for its ability to better engage in the type of conversational dynamics I prefer.
How many people have millions on hand to buy an apartment building?

Just to have a place to live?
On the brighter side, the Monado project is not too far away from a fully featured experience for WMR devices on Linux, and maybe eventually on Windows, too. Currently, the headsets even work with positional tracking and hand tracking.
Un-maximize your browser window, then resize it to 9 inches wide.
No they don't. The market determines rent. Lower demand or raise supply and watch prices drop, regardless of what the landlords want.
I've never seen this example. There are set implementations which maintain order, but in my experience it's fairly rare to both need "no duplicates" and "items inserted maintain order".

It's fairly easy to remove the set and replace it with something else if this does come up.
Unions have their own problems that aren't often spoken about. Just recently, in fact, several hospital unions made concessions on employee safety due to COVID crises.

As for me, personally, I don't plan on working for a company my entire life and see a union as a roadblock to my selfish goal to financial freedom. Nothing would drive me off a job faster than getting my CoL raise after the union rep "fought so hard" for the pay. The reality is in most cases they're in bed with the C-levels and the "fight" was the three martini lunch at the country club. If you actually understand the balance sheet allowing a union almost never makes sense. In some cases it's cheaper to just fire everyone and outsource. In the case of Amazon they are large enough doing this in total is a little hard... but they're still working on it I'm sure.

The proper answer, I think, is if working conditions suck start your own thing and make the working conditions better. If you really do have a solution you will have an eternal wellspring of employees willing to do nearly anything for you. This, of course, would require the person to not go home and play video games or binge netflix. A path that isn't for everyone. Alternatively you could start a union and clear high 7 figures a year as the rep fighting for those "hard-earned" raises. A perfect example of this is the teachers and trade unions. Most of the time - a union is just an inversion of control that's designed to enrich the people running it. The socialist idea of a true trade union can't, and never will, manifest in a reality where humans are selfishly driven to improve their own conditions while sacrificing the comfort of others.
There's no contradiction.

It's not impossible to be just with a spurious lawsuit; the just resolution is to throw it out (and sanction repeat offenders).

Maybe there's a misunderstanding about what the judge meant? He was talking about how sometimes things are not as fungible as the law would like to pretend. So take Solomon and the baby. Solomon chose to award 1/2 the baby to each claimed mother. An actual judge would have to award a whole baby to an arbitrary mother, along with a monetary transfer from that one to the other one, which may be a lawfully equitable judgement, but lacks the justice of Solomon's.

> > One doesn't blow a whistle when nothing has happened.

> You don't get to choose.

Are we mixing the judges' problem with the referees'? I absolutely get to choose when to blow the whistle; I'm wearing it. (as mentioned earlier: as foreseen by the rules, if the fouling team would benefit, I should not whistle)
Colloquialisms mustn't be taken literally
It’s not really gated by prescription. There are tons of prescription-mill doctors and clinics that will happily do the bare minimum “exam” to not lose their license and charge you a few hundred bucks for a piece of paper that lets anyone buy this wildly popular class of drugs.

It’s easy money for them. All propped up by the state that prohibits the sale of the medication without that slip of paper.
And you think the court wasn't independent enough?
If you're able to increase your strength using body-weight exercises, then they're excellent. And they can go a long way - most people probably can't do a pull up, and very few will ever be able to do a pistol squat or a handstand pushup. However, for basics like pushups and squats, body weight offers only a beginner's level of resistance, and going to the gym not only offers the ability to continue making improvements, it makes incremental progress accessible for all kinds of movements, not just those two. Specifically, most people doing pushups and body weight squats are probably doing no pulling movements, or overhead movements.
(I work at Notion)

The way I see it, we have more ideas than we have people to work on them, but we have plenty of money in the bank. So, we buy a small company close to one of our idea so we can work on it now, instead of in 2-3 years time. I’m bummed we aren’t keeping Skiff’s mail product running though.

Overall Notion has matured a bit more to a place we can make more investments in the future, especially on the engineering side. I’m finally working on a performance focused architecture project I’ve wanted to do since 2019 — that doesn’t feel like death knell to me.
Maybe mediocre for tech workers making 6-7 figure. For someone toiling away in Amazon's warehouse it can only get better. If that wasn't true Amazon wouldn't be offering raises and firing people whenever they heard faint whispers of a union.
Yes that's right! 10 years is an understatement. It means simply that the city is "locked out" for everyone but locals who inherited rental contract from their grandfathers, or multimillionaire cash buyers.
Relicensing isn't possible because the project doesn't have a single copyright holder.
It's a dystopia either way. I'd prefer the one with fewer diabetics on scooters.
If this is what self regulation looks like I really don't want the government to get involved.....
Maybe the default should be "fuck you, pay me" instead of "megacorporations can do whatever they want".
I recommend printing some documentation from the government website wherever it says that $x is allowed or $y is deprecated. It won't stop some officious c*nt at the border, but when they call their supervisor, the latter might be able to recognise enough of the words to look it up and figure it out.
Each gorilla I have met has been an accomplished gymnast.
> Theory and real-world case studies mean that this is so obvious, that I just assume anyone that's passed economics 101 and is advocating for rent control is either grossly incompetent, currently very drunk, or is disingenuous and actually wants to use the power of the government to make sure other people cannot obtain secure and stable housing.

Or they are one of the lucky few living in a rent controlled apartment.
My mom in Indiana pays $0.11/kwh.

I pay $0.35/kwh here outside of Boston. The electricity generation part of my bill alone $0.19/kwh dwarfs her entire bill
I knew which video it was without even watching. That video came out at a particularly difficult time for me, and it's message is strong.
Without reading the article, I agree with you regarding journalists doing some research and adding facts to their articles, like number of warwhouse death at Amazon and elsewhere or the fact that a court already ruled in favor of the fired employee.

That being said, the union organizer bit and "far left" magazine bit were uncalled for. If anything, being a union organozer would be further reason for Amazon firing them, and doesn't mean at all thwir accoubts are less believable.
Hopefully a new group of developers joins the project to continue it.
This is a very silly idea, Canada's population isn't even that large. Why would we build new cities that have no economic basis when we could just scale up our existing cities? Toronto could be a megacity but it isn't currently.
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Landlords can ask for any amount, but supply and demand determines how much they can get.
Quitting your job and finding another one better is a privilege few workers have, not the norm.
Yes I saw that, and it factored in. The "about 10 years" claim was evidently too potentially libelous for comfort, so instead we got that grammatical monstrosity.
Well, you can't have a working democracy, market economy, and affordable housing at same time. Something has to give.
There are so many more disturbing things on Reddit than piracy

If those don’t deter advertisers I can’t imagine piracy would.
Nobody likes skinny people because they're fit. People like skinny people because it's rare, because food is so abundant. 200 years ago, it was beautiful to be fat, because everyone was skinny (because poverty).

Being skinny because of drugs will still be desirable, because only rich people can afford these drugs right now. Once we see generics, maybe that will change.
Most users of WMR headsets had a Reverb G2 because it was by far the cheapest headset with its featureset, and were willing to bother with the issues that WMR brings and tinker around.
> My rule was that a vehicle was an artificially powered object capable of moving itself along with one or more people (not necessarily comfortably! This is just a mass threshold).

So... motorized wheelchairs are vehicles?
You would think things like spread spectrum clocking and low passing power would thwart this attack but really it just means you need to take a larger average and computers are really fast.

See for example:
http://www1.ece.neu.edu/~saoni/files/Chao_ICCD_2015.pdf

I still can't believe that worked.

That said, these techniques are pretty old now and vendors should be mitigating this attack.
Make your calories count. Whatever calories you do manage to ingest are low carb, high protein, high vitamin.

Think cod and brocolli with no butter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZSxb8QIIa4

jeff geerling made a video on this, has some details on FM/AM translators, and how difficult it is to dismantle a tower.
I can offer a example of bird. seem like the toxic butterfly just let birds feel terrible, so they actually learning from trying different butterflies.
Right. Poster doesn't dispute any of the claims, just pours FUD on.

As an example, the piece is clearly identified as an "interview." Presented as a dialogue between CASPAR SHALLER and MAGDA MALINOWSKA.

Poster lodges this comlaint: "I knew something was up when the author asked the subject"
They don't have to pay well, people working that kind of job don't have a whole lot of options. One leaves 10 more want to take their place. Employers are having a very easy time of it.
Many people live paycheck to paycheck and do not have the privilege to quit and search for a better job.
Right, I still find it faster to manually provision a specific instance type, install PyTorch on it, and deploy a little flask app for an inference server.
Sometimes it’s not necessarily individual but societal pain. Carlin or Hicks were great at that. I’m sure both had individual pain too but their material was more broad
Too lazy to do that. Need a button
When you look at a power trace of a whole AES operation, it's usually quite obvious when it starts and stops - you can see a pattern that repeats for each round. If you acquire a slightly larger window, you can align your traces after you've captured them (by shifting them until the average difference is small). This is quite doable but it is a whole extra step, so a trigger pin is always preferable.

The ChipWhisperer Husky has an "analog pattern" trigger mode[1], which can help with this sort of thing.

[1] https://rtfm.newae.com/Capture/ChipWhisperer-Husky/
They also kick back some of the fees back to the landlord. Not openly or directly of course because that would be illegal. But only an idiot would think that landlords are not getting a cut of those fees.
And when you have performance issues you still need a DBA. Because RDS only runs your database. It is up to you to make it fast.
yet another example of DNSSEC "adding value"
Depends on the fitness of the person doing them, really. For many populations, they might be too advanced. For others, too easy. As long as the person has to exert themselves, it's a good exercise. Make sure to use all the muscles you'd like to keep (which I hope is all of them).
Just ask daddy for a big loan, and you too can start an amazon!
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Your response is only true if using electricity to heat is cheaper than using gas to heat. It isn’t for resistive heating. For heat pumps it can, but it has to be high efficiency heat pumps that start efficient even at cold winter temps
Just think logically about this for a second.

If landlords determined rent, why isn't rent infinite?

There is some force that pushes rent down from the infinite amount of dollars that landlords would love to have. That force is competition from other landlords.

Supply and demand.
Work account should be pro and paid by the company then.
"It doesn't matter" in this context doesn't mean "It has no value", it means "There is nothing at stake".

For example, I can afford to be a lousy jogger, because nothing bad is going to happen if I don't become faster. I couldn't afford to be a lousy engineer, because my family could end up homeless in a foreign country. That was the reality I lived at the beginning of my career.
While I disagree with the GP's sentiment, a court ruling in her favor just means that the court agrees that she was unreasonably terminated, not that the things she said happened (please correct me if I'm wrong).
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They also do well. The mechanics of this process can be described as the body, given calories defecit, will start optimizing energe consumption and will start 'turning off' big consumers (muscles). In general you just need to use your body muscles in two directions - endurance and strength. Two because we have two (simplified statement) types of fibers, strength and endurance.

Good example of body weight excercises could be calisthenics.

edit: improved example
I'm probably not the average python programmer.

But I normally just create two terminals (I have a tiling window manager) and in one I open a python file under /tmp/ write my code and execute it in the other terminal.

I would probably use a REPL if it was integrated in my favorite editor ( https://helix-editor.com ).
But everything else I tried was to "clunky" for me.

Though I work with data scientists, and they love to do everything inside jupyterlab.
The word "just" here implies quitting is a simple solution. For most people quitting is anything but simple. Leaving a job can be costly and risky, if not outright dangerous. Rather than suggesting people quit their jobs if their jobs are awful, we can attempt to build a society where providing awful jobs is not permissible, specially when the cost of being less awful is not a huge for the employer.
A huge fee in order to start paying rent to an 'owner'?

This whole deal has very much jumped the shark.
The real testimonials are here: https://github.com/bloomberg/memray/discussions/226
Imagine how much better their lives would be if they exerted themselves just a little more.
Why don’t we fix the union we already have - our government?

My biggest gripe with unions is they’re the political version of “let’s make a new standard”. Yeah it works - for a time - but ultimately just adds complexity to temporarily address a symptom of the problem.
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New Fortinet RCE vulnerability potentially under exploitation
Trust isn't so much an issue for me; I trust some of these larger SAAS companies more than I trust myself to manage security and updates
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I was just thinking about this, I saw a comedy bit about a man taking to one of his children that was the result of his wife having an extra-marital affair [1]. It’s a really terrible situation for everyone involved. The comedian made it hilarious. Comedy is trauma packaged as entertainment.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/StandUpComedy/comments/1ah5cyk/i_ha...
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Yes, agreed you'd need a larger average. The thing I'm trying to get at is whether or not this is a practical attack, as in: feasible in the real world, without being able to control the code running on the device. Because if you can do this to any random ESP32 without being able to manipulate the code and it coughs up the keys in a few days, weeks or even months that's an entirely different level of threat than being able to do this the way the article did it.

And I'm having a hard time figuring out how big that difference is, it may well be 'impractical today, childsplay tomorrow'. And ESP32 devices are in a lot of different places. Access to the hardware should be assumed (because you're not going to be able to monitor the 3.3V line with this level of accuracy otherwise), I'd assume any caps after the monitoring point would be removed and the only capacitance left would sit on the supply side before the current transformer. If that's your setup and you have no knowledge of what's running on the chip is it doable or not?

The article suggests that any key can be recovered in a couple of seconds but I don't think that's the case at all.