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by alacombe 8y ago
Increase is home value is not always desirable, especially if you are tight securing a mortgage. With higher interest rate, this is going to be a no-no real soon.
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by alacombe 8y ago
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. -- Ronald Reagan
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by alacombe 8y ago
Implicit variable declaration, multi-value return, so semicolon / parenthesis... sounds a lot like Golang.
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by alacombe 8y ago
To my defense, all interview are being recorded, so it would be very easy to verify my points. My issues is that there is an obvious difference between their talk and their action (eg. I'm still waiting for them to follow up on the sup
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by alacombe 8y ago
I'd assume that the policy is to stifle negative comments, especially in these days where criticize is frowned upon.
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by alacombe 8y ago
Yes, less inertia. If the Linux folks decides to change a central datastructure, they do it, don't care if anything break with some proprietary module. With the BSD... well, they can't even agree on a modern DCVS, changing any cen
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by alacombe 8y ago
#1 is not true for bazaar-style (ie. rather few inertia) open-source projects, say the Linux kernel. At best, subsystem maintainers can push their own agenda, but even this level of control is rather limited. However, I do concede that it&#
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by alacombe 8y ago
I'd add a tad of context to my original comment. I probably have a lot of hard feelings against companies hiring behavior, some justified, some merely emotional. Karat however went over the top. They're trying to be extra-nice b
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by alacombe 8y ago
> it makes your product much more attractive to people who will improve and promote your product for free This is a huge myth. 1) even if you open-source, the company retains control over the project, and push their priorities first. 2
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by alacombe 8y ago
Be careful during their interview. The interviewer will trick you (with a witty "all candidates fail on this case") in a corner case mentioned orally but missing from the written test cases to support. Also, be careful, the while
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by alacombe 8y ago
I've had a lot of bad luck with isync. Gmail keeps locking IMAPS access, even if "insecure app access" is enabled. When trying to access the account through thunderbird, it redirects to an online login page to authorize the a
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by alacombe 9y ago
You are greatly over-estimating kernel developer's pay. Unless you're an open-source rock-star (ie. Linus & a few other), kernel development does not pay bazillions. A local shop was looking for Android kernel dev for CAN$75k
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by alacombe 9y ago
> That's the kind of thing that happens when people lie. The industry expect people to lie... "Do you have 5 years experience in <3-years-old-tech> ?"... "Yes, sure".
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by alacombe 9y ago
Welcome to the club...
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by alacombe 9y ago
> Many times a candidate regardless of age is stuck in one tech Because companies themselves don't understand that the full stack developer, from kernel work to UI is a real thing, ie. you can easily transfer competence from one tec
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by alacombe 9y ago
"In the PATH."
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by alacombe 9y ago
Once a contractor, always a contractor. Especially if you remote. You'll get the condescending "can you work 9 to 5 in a cubicle ?".
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by alacombe 9y ago
Not necessarily, if there is one constant in the jobs I've been in is that even if we've got the funds we're pretty much constantly under staffed (ie. overloaded). HR is the broken link.
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by alacombe 9y ago
I would not recommend `node-fetch', it's pretty crappy in term of performance if you are hitting a same host and expect some kind of keep-alive / pipelining. Switching to `make-fetch-happen' fixed all my issues.
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by alacombe 9y ago
Then perhaps OS vendor should start thinking about unifying their UI SDK using web engines, because having to support the finicky toolkit of every OS is a waste of engineering time.
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by alacombe 9y ago
Why am I an Engineer ? Because my school, based in Europe, is accredited to deliver a proper recognized engineering degree. Last time I check, I could get a P.Eng (proper engineer order here in Canada), but don't see the point forkin
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by alacombe 9y ago
no careers / jobs page and no contact info on this post ?
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by alacombe 9y ago
you forgot about mbedTLS (formerly PolarSSL) which seems to originate from ARM ltd.
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by alacombe 9y ago
from interior BC: % bash ./dnstest.sh test1 test2 test3 test4 test5 test6 test7 test8 test9 test10 Average cloudflare 32 ms 28 ms 29 ms 25 ms 35 ms 26 ms 26 ms 36 ms 26 ms 2
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by alacombe 9y ago
Obligatory question nobody's ask: who is generating the wallets, and what realistically, prevent them from keeping a copy of the said wallets ?
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by alacombe 9y ago
Aren't we getting enough Russia bashing from the MSM ?
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by alacombe 9y ago
At this point, they can give any plausible reason, it wouldn't make a difference. They're just bending over to the US... It's surprising they lasted that long already :-/
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by alacombe 9y ago
> In pitch darkness, IR cameras can only see more than a visual light camera if you somehow had IR headlights Did you ever use a thermal IR camera ? What you're saying only apply to cheap chi-com cheapo"IR" CCD (the ones
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by alacombe 9y ago
> US lawmakers tend to be very reactionary, except in rare cases like gun laws. And for a good reason, they are constitutionally prohibited to .
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by alacombe 9y ago
> Example: the Las Vegas shooting prompted a lot of talk of bump stock bans. Bump stocks are so rarely used at all, nevermind in violence, and they will generally ruin guns that weren't originally made to be fully-automatic very qui

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