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Europe car sales lowest since 1996 after 12-month decline(cnbc.com)
2 points by mkl95 4y ago|0 comments
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by mkl95 4y ago
How can large companies with high turnover like Google and Facebook afford to stop hiring engineers? Do they downsize teams, shut down projects, or something else?
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by mkl95 4y ago
> Look at all the rich people in the world, look at how old they are, and ask, are they retired? No! People who are driven and smart don't suddenly earn their first $5m go off and buy an annuity. They're more likely to go off a
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by mkl95 4y ago
One reason may be that they want to build a high level wrapper of that C API, something that is well documented in some languages (i.e. Python)
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by mkl95 4y ago
I'm no real estate developer, but isn't $50M very cheap?
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by mkl95 4y ago
To be honest I use Spotify the same way I used iTunes back when I was a teenager. The main difference is that I'm paying to browse some company's filesystem instead of using my own.
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by mkl95 4y ago
Their marketing spin doctors have been preparing for this wave of firings for months, they just wouldn't stop spamming ads bragging about how many people they hire.
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by mkl95 4y ago
> People are going to end up either starving or being a burden on their working children or the state because they don't earn enough to save for retirement: we're going to need to bring back defined-benefits pensions, peg Socia
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Methamphetamine Use: Lessons Learned (2006) [pdf](ojp.gov)
2 points by mkl95 4y ago|0 comments
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by mkl95 4y ago
The look-and-feel of the AWS console reminds me of some low budget sites of the late 2000s / early 2010s, which is common across cloud providers. Although I understand that this document refers to the design system, not its implementat
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by mkl95 4y ago
I used to work for a Python shop where developers were routinely replaced by workers from an Asian country after quitting. Results were mixed. The quality of their work was mediocre, which is impressive considering how cheap they were. Thei
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by mkl95 4y ago
These are the endemic issues I have experienced after working for several SaaS vendors: 1) Rampant tech debt. Engineers are not empowered to fix it or their focus is on something else. 2) High barrier of entry. Most SaaS companies are bad a
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by mkl95 4y ago
Good news. But let's not forget that fission is the present and near future of nuclear energy. And it just works.
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by mkl95 4y ago
I'll leave it unedited for the giggles.
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by mkl95 4y ago
> Overnight, I received a response that my appeal had been denied. So a human being, someone who works at Twitter dot com, looked at that video, looked back at the rule it was breaking, looked once again at the video, and went “Yeah, thi
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by mkl95 4y ago
.it may be the .tk of the 2020s
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by mkl95 4y ago
Is there any relevant (non-fabricated) research about the causes of fabrication in research? Is it just money or is there something else?
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by mkl95 4y ago
Spammers != headhunters. The former tend to post low effort, programmatic crap and may not be allowed to give straight answers to your $$ questions. The latter will offer you an above market salary range up front, and then help you negotiat
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by mkl95 4y ago
My point is that work is not that personal anymore. The best example is probably Amazon, which is running out of people in some areas due to massive churn over the last few years. No point in taking stuff personally in a highly volatile env
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by mkl95 4y ago
LinkedIn has worked wonders for me lately. So the key is something like networking, networking, then some networking. There is an acute shortage of senior engineers, tech leads, etc. that is not going to go away anytime soon.
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by mkl95 4y ago
If you are an engineer, you could be making more money than your manager within months. In the post-COVID era it really isn't that difficult not to care about some jerk, unless you are a particularly sensitive individual.
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by mkl95 4y ago
Simple statistics can be deceiving. Just because there are no 40C+ temperature records at some location it doesn't mean that won't change next year. Southern Europe has been learning it the hard way for a while.
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by mkl95 4y ago
> Just for one day in the park and one night at the hotel, we were looking at over $1k and that didn’t even include food That's doesn't look like a competitive tag anywhere on Earth. Do you REALLY have to take your kids to Disn
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by mkl95 4y ago
> Needs an RDBMS too You could add MySQL and you'd have a MYFART stack, which is pretty robust
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by mkl95 4y ago
Market segmentation, copyright trolls / bullies and extreme monetization have made Youtube lose most of its attractiveness. I created dozens of YT playlists over the years and copyright trolls ruined them, so nowadays I use Spotify ins
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by mkl95 4y ago
One of the issues I take with this mentality is that companies are always looking for excuses to sell bad software. As an engineer, I really don't enjoy maintaining crappy SaaS, particularly if they are built with weakly typed, dynamic
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How the Brain Can Rewire Itself After Half of It Is Removed (2019)(nytimes.com)
6 points by mkl95 4y ago|1 comments
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by mkl95 4y ago
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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by mkl95 4y ago
A particularly egregious example is "Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24506303
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by mkl95 4y ago
GoDaddy is a well-documented garbage fire. I used them once, then switched to Namecheap and I've never looked back.

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