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by polack 9y ago
USSR tried to keep Chernobyl blowing up a secret until caught and preassured by Sweden to admit there was an accident. I really don't expect Russia to act different today. Just look at the "we have nothing to do with it" hand
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by polack 9y ago
Slightly OT; I'm guessing that for every developer that goes through that horrible "sign our contribution agreement" there are 99 of us that would just fork+patch and get on with our lives.
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by polack 9y ago
> A democratic government derives it's legitimacy from the fact the people they govern choose to be governed by them. If the people obviously do not want this government, then isn't it the government that's obviously illeg
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by polack 9y ago
What do you mean with "auditable way of wiping data"? Just that there will be a log that the data was wiped, but the actual data is gone forever? The reason I ask is that all "Big Four" auditors has been on my company th
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by polack 9y ago
I'm going to go against the stream an say -1 on "Designing for Scalability". Not that it isn't a good book, but the title doesn't really reflect the contents. It's more of a beginners book on Erlang/OTP th
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by polack 9y ago
This was already "optional" information requested in the ESTA application since at least last year, so what's changed since? That it states more explicit that a failure to enter the information could prevent you from getting
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by polack 9y ago
I hope people just stop buying american products instead. That will have greater effect, both economically and politically.
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by polack 10y ago
They could be making a good chunk of money from stock lending, like zero cost index funds are doing.
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by polack 10y ago
I think you have missed the fact that this money was given during the Obama administration. Since Trump have cut funding to the EPA it's hard to believe that all the "Flints" out there will have it better after 4 years...
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by polack 10y ago
I agree with you that it's sometimes good to focus on getting things out the door fast instead of the code quality behind it. But surly there must be a point when the pendulum swings back and you should switch focus to quality. I would
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by polack 10y ago
That explains a spike 1992-1993 and 2004-2005, but how do you explain that it has almost doubled since 2005? It's not really plausible that there has been a legislative change basically every year since then.
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by polack 10y ago
Source video: http://www.svtplay.se/video/12505960/veckans-brott/veckans-b... He says that "if you look across the board on all convicted crimes it's half-half between natives and immigrants. But if
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by polack 10y ago
It's totally irrelevant that the crimes has decreased. The point is that a majority of all violence and sexual crimes is performed by immigrants (as confirmed by Sweden's most famous crime professor GW a couple of days ago). Why a
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by polack 10y ago
Have you tried to setup a Yubikey with RSA-keys and click-to-sign? It's things you expect "just to work", but the tooling around the Yubikey sucks big time and thats what holding them back. It's a shame though cause they
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by polack 10y ago
One would have to be really naive to believe that Google, Apple and the other big ones aren't backdoored by the three letter agencies by now.
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by polack 10y ago
So how does one migrate from the two password to the one? I like the idea of protonmail, but since they made it incompatible with normal public key encrypted mail it's pretty useless for many of us, unfortunately...
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by polack 10y ago
The more you pay the worse performance (per $) you get. Pretty much a "take 2 pay for 3" kind of deal. No matter if it's a good price or not I would feel like a schmuck if I went for any other option than the 5$ one.
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by polack 10y ago
No, there is no garbage disposal fees for private individuals (companies have to pay) when disposing those kind of things. I think the reasoning is that people would throw away environmentally damaging stuff in the normal trash or dump it i
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by polack 10y ago
Not sure about 10, but I have a dongle for my XPS 13 (older version) that can do 1 Gbps.
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by polack 10y ago
I think quite many of us developers are happy with not having the thickness of the laptop doubled just to add an ethernet port. You already need to carry a chunky ethernet cable with you, so adding an usb-ethernet dongle isn't that big
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by polack 10y ago
The other members was not happy when they found out that GS applied for patents that could affect R3. My guess is that GS thinks they will make more money on their own when they built up a nice patent portfolio in this space.
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by polack 10y ago
Those are migrants, not immigrants. They are allowed to stay for 3 months without a job (but there is no checks on how long they stay) and they do get a lot of free healthcare and other "benefits" they don't have in their ori
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by polack 10y ago
Interesting that "criminal" and "indictment" is "offensive or disparaging when displayed in conjunction with a person’s name" but "racist" is not.
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by polack 11y ago
I think we are paying around 1.6 times more for the consultants right now. I understand that many of them have pretty sweet deals, but at the same time there is a lot of perks being employed over here too, especially if you have kids. We ha
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by polack 11y ago
This is great advice. I will try to reach out to some more high-profile people here in the local community. Maybe a nice title and a position with lots of freedom could interest someone.
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by polack 11y ago
You might be right, but we are pretty certain that we pay at least 20% more than the larger companies around here. Nobody has requested a salary that we have said no to. The feedback we have been given is that we do pay better, but that it
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by polack 11y ago
We're actually in Copenhagen. Probably should have mentioned that in the OP. Point taken though, we should consider taking in remote workers. My only "fear" is that it will be hard to build a good company culture without a &q
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Ask HN: How do you hire good developers?
41 points by polack 11y ago|60 comments
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by polack 11y ago
Exactly. It would be pretty stupid to only take the last event into account when judging something, but OP clearly showed that he could change his views despite not liking their history.
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by polack 11y ago
I had major wrist issues and made the switch to programmer dvorak around 2 years ago. Took around one to two months before my wrist got better and about the same time before I didn't feel constrained by the new layout. Now two years la

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