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by markshuttle 4y ago
Lots of people won't do this work, it's true. But the ones who will, are much more likely to make phenomenal colleagues. They care, they are focused, they are diligent. Things work better when you are in a team with more of that.
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by markshuttle 4y ago
Famously, paraphrasing, "my apologies for the long letter, but I did not have the time to write a short one" :)
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by markshuttle 4y ago
This is not a South African thing :) The written interview serves multiple purposes. First, it is a response to a massive flow of applications. We can more fully and fairly assess those who show they are willing to do some work to be part o
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by markshuttle 4y ago
Indeed.
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by markshuttle 4y ago
Psychometrics work, but they are only one dimension. Interviews and competence assessments give us other perspectives on a candidate. For a single role we will have 500-3,000 applications, each step of the process helps select the best.
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by markshuttle 4y ago
Really.
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by markshuttle 4y ago
Snaps are pretty fantastic for IoT, which is where we started. We have some sucky things to fix for snaps on the desktop, such as astartup performance and permission handling when you want to go outside the sandbox, but we will fix those. I
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by markshuttle 4y ago
Red Hat is 20x the size of Canonical, by revenue. We more than hold our own.
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by markshuttle 4y ago
Either that was a mistaken position by the hiring lead, or they were just shy to tell you that you were not the best candidate. Either way, my apologies.
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by markshuttle 4y ago
* What is the salary range? That of course will vary based on role, experience and location. We have hired people from 50+ countries which is remarkable for a company of 800. We tend not to hire in the most expensive locations because we ge
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by markshuttle 4y ago
Our talent assessment team include several people with Masters and PhD level qualifications in psychometric and behavioural assessment, so that we can provide a rigorous and professional perspective in this regard. Every candidate who gets
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by markshuttle 4y ago
To be clear - every application resume is screened by one of my colleagues or me, and every written interview is read by at least one of us, usually two. I personally screened 40,000 resumes last year, and hired 100+ people into the company
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by markshuttle 4y ago
Yes, I do want to work with people who are passionate about what we do. It makes for more interesting meetings, more interesting ideas, more interesting software. I love what I do, and I choose to set things up to maximise the chance that t
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by markshuttle 4y ago
You're welcome, and thank you :)
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by markshuttle 4y ago
Yes, that's one significant benefit of the written interview. We had 110,000 applications to Canonical last year, which is a lot to process for a company of 800. We offer a very high-quality remote-first employment experience, with int
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by markshuttle 6y ago
That's because by default ALL containers in LXD are unprivileged. They use the term unprivileged because the term rootless wasn't around that far back ;) LXD uses various mechanisms to map the uid-in-container to a uid-on-host. S
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by markshuttle 9y ago
The GPU story gets better and better
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Easy tutorial for deep-learning with k8s on AWS(medium.com)
2 points by markshuttle 10y ago|0 comments
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Nifty tutorial for creating and distributing a Python app with snapcraft(blog.simos.info)
3 points by markshuttle 10y ago|1 comments
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by markshuttle 10y ago
A man with a wonderful mix of wit, intellect and humanity, he will be missed.
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by markshuttle 10y ago
Administration of the machine - installing and removing software- generally requires proof of admin rights at some stage. Using the apps daily does not require admin rights. That's quite sensible.
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by markshuttle 10y ago
Looks like the edge channel has 8.0.x and the beta channel has 5.7
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Home-built bare-metal GPGPU K8s for fun(medium.com)
2 points by markshuttle 10y ago|0 comments
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by markshuttle 10y ago
Docker and LXD don't compete. Docker is great for running clustered processes - cloud-native apps - where Docker gives you hyperelasticity. CS Docker Engine provides more coordination facilities for those cloud-native apps. LXD is more
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by markshuttle 10y ago
Snaps are just a package format, an alternative to .deb which puts control of updates in the hands of the upstream. They enable an upstream to deliver a set of stable releases across versions of Ubuntu and other distros. In this case, it me
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by markshuttle 10y ago
The VM experience ("guests") without the VM overhead. A virtual machine like Xen or KVM or ESX lets you run a guest kernel of a different OS, like WIndows. LXD avoids the overhead of hardware virtualisation and the guest OS, which
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by markshuttle 10y ago
Mycroft just open sourced their framework. They are using snaps on Ubuntu Core to make an open home voice gateway.
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by markshuttle 10y ago
mjg59's comments are fair. ZD's headline is clickbait :)
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Erle-Spider Is a Six-Legged Drone Powered by Snappy Ubuntu Core(newsnow.co.uk)
1 points by markshuttle 11y ago|0 comments
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by markshuttle 12y ago
You can use Ubuntu Core, snappy install docker, and then launch your docker containers. All neat and transactional.

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