Mc91

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by Mc91 6y ago
> I don't think anyone will be travelling for the bulk of this year, especially with the looming threat of potentially getting sick in a foreign country or away from your home. I became an Airbnb customer in early April because of t
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by Mc91 6y ago
Reading Unix Use and Security From The Ground Up by The Prophet back in 1989 familiarized me with how to use Unix (anyone remember uucico?), launching my career into IT, initially as a Unix systems administrator (anyone remember when corpor
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by Mc91 7y ago
At my workplace, people work from home when their kid is ill or whatnot, but management has been pushing back against us having more work from home days, and there has been much Sturm und Drang over this. If management is so concerned over
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by Mc91 7y ago
I am on one of those arrow paths from New York City to the upper south. Sort of. They fly me in from NYC during the week for four days, then fly me back for the weekends. I didn't really make a decision to move, I was looking for work
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Ask HN: What's a typical non-California startup IP assignment and non-compete?
1 points by Mc91 7y ago|0 comments
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by Mc91 7y ago
> I'd be surprised if lack of degree was a sticking point for a talented coder trying for a job at Apple/Google/Facebook Google contacted me for a position years ago. I later found out they hire only 1 of 1000 applicants.
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by Mc91 8y ago
> many of my peers have resorted to streamlining for whiteboard interviews, and unsurprisingly, they end up with well-paying jobs I switched into programming and am low paid, and am doing this right now for interviews. Practicing for wh
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by Mc91 8y ago
In my CS major, continuous math, discrete math, graph theory, probability and statistics, linear algebra etc. were prerequisites to other courses. So see if those books are blocked as a "threat to order". If those get through and
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by Mc91 8y ago
The last good paying work I had I somehow passed the coding interview, but I bombed out of the last few I had and went back to basics. I signed up to Project Euler and Hacker Rank and have been doing problems from them. What I do is start
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by Mc91 8y ago
> why if you have this confidence that your first three questions contain 90% of the signal, that you spend the rest of the interview doing anything vaguely related to that? When interviewing people maybe one in six answer questions corr
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by Mc91 8y ago
> Some studies show that based on folks viewing the first five minutes of an interview, they can usually predict the outcome. One can interpret that in several ways I have interviewed dozens of people, possibly hundreds of people. I do g
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by Mc91 8y ago
By project Sometimes I have a file in the project's top level directory explaining what the subdirectories are. Or if I have five or six scripts which accrete over time with data going in one end and coming out the other end, I write a
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by Mc91 8y ago
Location: USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Depends Technologies: Android programmer. Java and Kotlin. Know Jetpack, Room, MVVM, LiveData, data binding etc. Know JUnit and Espresso tests. Know 3rd party libraries - Retrofit, Okhttp,
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by Mc91 8y ago
In the USA, there are a number of factors which lead to marriage stability. One is education - high school dropouts have a high divorce rate, college graduates have a lower divorce rate. Another is age at marriage - people who marry befor
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by Mc91 8y ago
To look at spying rationally, the first thing to do is to not look at it with romantic mystique. Meeting people in a foggy, dark alley at night, who are going to uncover the identity of a major agent - this makes for a suspenseful movie, b
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YouTube now suggesting independent information on misinformation videos
2 points by Mc91 8y ago|0 comments
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by Mc91 8y ago
In addition, Eich was never "silenced by a tech company". He was not fired, he resigned.
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by Mc91 8y ago
> This spring I visited Notre Dame in Paris. I saw four soldiers patroling the street, spread out a few meters apart from each other, one finger close to the triger, barrel pointing to the ground...This may be all security theatre. Or th
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by Mc91 8y ago
Watching the Internet develop since the 1980s, this leaves a lot of stuff out. Yes, decentralized protocols like NNTP are not around like they used to be. The reason for this is because Usenet was effectively crushed by the US government.
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by Mc91 8y ago
I used to be in this building all the time, lots of companies colo'd their setups in the building. I know Forbes did, as well as other companies. The building had security but was not incredibly secure. https://www.busines
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by Mc91 8y ago
> why would someone work for them when they could be working for world changing startups and big companies? You can be a world changing startup that, say, sets up web sites for businesses, and early on a porn company can come in and want
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by Mc91 8y ago
You should do the move. Sysadmin is now a niche discipline, people work in devops now. The tech economy is good and their skills are getting more obsolete. Just start slowly migrating things, and train them in devops skills. Then, even i
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by Mc91 8y ago
I know a mid-level manager at a Fortune 100 company. Somewhere up the management chain, someone read an article about how data science is the hot new thing that your company has to be doing or it will have missed the boat. So word was sen
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by Mc91 8y ago
I have heard from the horse's mouth that small retail investors orders/trading data is used as a contrarian signal. In other words the Big Traders see what the small retail investors are doing, and do the opposite.
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by Mc91 9y ago
Looking at that chart...unremarked is the 1991 $1.9 billion merger of Manufacturers Hanover with Chemical...it's more a commentary on the reality than the chart, a $1.9 billion bank merger doesn't make the cut as being important e
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by Mc91 9y ago
> Nobody wants to do a take-home assignment that doesn't really impact their prospects of getting a job I spent a few days on one, sent it in and was told that day that they had made an offer to someone who accepted the offer. Then
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by Mc91 9y ago
I agree. The most important question for me when looking at a position is whether the team has a lead or manager, if they have a lead it is a bad sign. They are too busy coding to manage, they are territorial and are responsible for the a
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by Mc91 9y ago
> It's certainly true at financial institutions It's certainly not true at financial institutions. By financial institutions I mean Fortune 100 financial institutions, as well as smaller financial institutions. If by "pre
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by Mc91 9y ago
I am 44 and visit the Bay Area from time to time. I have the same feeling on various levels. Anything older than two years has disappeared into a vortex. I mean I remember when the peninsula was the center of the tech industry - I mean Fa
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by Mc91 9y ago
I did the same thing. Times are good now, but they were not in 2001, or 2009, and having a degree helps. even saying you're halfway through your CS degree helps. I was working and took one class a week, at nights and/or on weeke

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