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by lbriner 5y ago
It's not always as easy as that though. The range might be literally £20-80K depending on experience so OK, that helps someone on £100K to know they are not likely (but not impossibly) going to get the same or more salary.
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by lbriner 5y ago
Remote can be challenging for different reasons. We do have remote (UK only) folks but as soon as you extend that to other countries, it is kind of like offshoring but without the value-add of local management. Risk are: * Time zones can ca
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Ask HN: How do small companies do recruitment?
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by lbriner 5y ago
I think it is related to but not the same as the OP but to me, something that you don't think of much is that this was invented by Google for Google-scale issues. What does this mean? Lots of things that would be relatively easy for Go
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by lbriner 5y ago
This article sounds like a strawman. He is saying that you don't need the cloud but is hosting a VM on a cloud provider, which is probably what most "cloud" users do. Cloudflare? Clue's in the name. Use Linux tools for b
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by lbriner 5y ago
Any decent book or course on programming microcontrollers. Ideally, if you can get a cheap microcontroller test board, you can quickly see and appreciate what your instructions do. That said, using assembly in a PC is quite a different abst
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by lbriner 5y ago
Isn;t one of the problems that not everyone is a net benefit to society so if they already cause 70 years of disturbance, who would want them living another 70? It;s one thing for an Elon Musk type who has loads to do and never wants to die
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by lbriner 5y ago
There are lots of reasons why you might suffer a performance hit when working remotely. Sure, most are probably solveable with enough cash but there are plenty of things that are not: * One of your prized developers lives by themself and su
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by lbriner 5y ago
That's a bit unfair, seeing as millions of people use Android every day. That said, I find that my Samsung S8 has got progressively slower to start apps, particularly, and in that time, nothing else has noticeably changed. I understand
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by lbriner 5y ago
Hasn't it been said before that it is inevitable in a company with 100K+ employees that to get noticed and promoted, it is not acceptable to accept what you already have is decent enough, you have to think of something new and then con
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by lbriner 5y ago
I don't personally agree with paying the ransom but the logic seems sound. If you pay them, they might keep their word. After all, how much would they get paid for a list of passwords compared to a ransom payment? If you don't p
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by lbriner 5y ago
I echo this. As a hiring manager, depending on how many applications I get, I need someone to stand out. Most of the time, I am not sure about someone so anything that helps me to feel like you would fit well is a good thing. Things that gi
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by lbriner 5y ago
All very well but aren't these devices in most cases the cause of software that is too damned slow? What happens when devs with their 128GB RAM and 64GB graphics cards write things like MS Teams, Slack, Visual Studio, most other IDEs e
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by lbriner 5y ago
What are the theories about why the real Satoshi doesn't just move all the coin to another wallet himself to prove that Craig Wright is just a scammer?
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by lbriner 5y ago
There is a massive issue here of which this is merely a symptom. The amount of harmful content available today is orders of magnitude more than it was 30 years ago. Sure, there has always been porn and abuse etc. but the scale that is per
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by lbriner 5y ago
> It's disgusting. They have no morals. You've gone pretty extreme there. There is a much more plausible explanation, which is that they genuinely believe that more people would be saved if the security services could access me
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by lbriner 5y ago
I think this is one of those things where people generally agree that better insulation and lower energy costs is a good thing but who pays for it? In the UK, there is a constant demand for "affordable housing", which is caused by
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by lbriner 5y ago
I think the assumption is that with regulations, the government can force builders and buyers to accept the higher standards and the associated higher cost in return for the common-good.
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by lbriner 5y ago
Sometimes this is down to "micro" draughts rather than the temperature. Currently, I am sitting in about 19 degrees C inside and that should be plenty warm but in my T-shirt, I can feel very low level cold draughts caused by windo
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by lbriner 5y ago
An easier solution is plasterboard already bonded to PIR or XPS. The XPS is cheaper and I don't think it will make a massive difference depending on all the other challenges like windows and doors. You can simply stick this to existing
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by lbriner 5y ago
Because lots of people still think the internet is a democratic society with a decent police force and not the Wild West.
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by lbriner 5y ago
Also, a lot of people I suspect still have old email software (Outlook Express anyone?) which might not even have spam filters set up. It is sad because I think it isn't just gullible people generally, but those who did not grow up wit
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by lbriner 5y ago
> not to share what exactly triggered the ban in order to protect their systems from spam and abuse That's kind of true but I think that a company the size of Google could afford to assign someone to look into providing more informa
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by lbriner 5y ago
Why do people constantly talk about the Government funding things? The Tax Payer funds government spending, the government simply allocates is, so to spend X 100 million + requires cutting other services or raising taxes, neither of which a
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by lbriner 5y ago
This article might be describing the US but I think in Europe, unless you are willing to have overseas remote working (which brings its own challenges), then there is a genuine shortage of ability. Youngsters aren't choosing engineerin
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by lbriner 5y ago
At a certain size, though, workplaces become unavoidably bad places to work. Imagine you have ambition and you work in a team of 100 people. How do you get promotion if you don't want to leave? Headline-grabbing stuff, not good, solid,
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by lbriner 5y ago
It's more complicated than that. In many cases, those in the cities that have decent public transport might not have parking spaces so they are forced into the decision rather than it being a choice. In places where car ownership is po
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by lbriner 5y ago
I'm not sure how that would help? If you had a flywheel and you didn't need the energy, what do you do with it? At least without a flywheel, you can easily stop the turbine. Also, any flywheel that would add significant difference
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by lbriner 5y ago
Agree and this depends on the union also. The RMT in the UK is famously militant. When a new General Secretary was voted in a few years ago (before the current one I think), he didn't promise to "represent his members" but in
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by lbriner 5y ago
That's my question too. I expect that the larger companies can afford to require qualifications for entry or promotion but for most of us, there is an insane demand for developers and I can choose to learn more about things that I find

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