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by pyb 7y ago
How were they allowed to rezone their land to residential ? Are they getting preferential treatment?
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VC Slams Silicon Valley Heavyweights for Poaching London’s Top Startup Talent(forbes.com)
1 points by pyb 7y ago|0 comments
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by pyb 7y ago
Many people disagree with "the reason to choose Java".
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by pyb 7y ago
How was Z3 useful for CTFs ?
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by pyb 7y ago
It's commonly because they don't know the answer, but still feel the need to answer something ...
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by pyb 7y ago
Despite all the rumours about a glut of capital, the stats indeed show that raising VC is not easy. But to put things in perspective, it is common, even for great people, to go through job searches that are tougher than this. (despite all t
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by pyb 7y ago
He said that, being from a consultancy background, it hadn't even occured to him that they might want the work done for free.
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by pyb 7y ago
A few people exist who are genuinely able to use Racket macros, but they all have a PhD in CS. As opposed to the larger group who think they understand them. I was once in that group, but now I've just given up.
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by pyb 7y ago
We regularly hear reports like this, that interviews are getting randomly harder every year. It just goes to show that there is in fact no shortage of senior developers... rather a glut, in fact.
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by pyb 7y ago
I don't know how to reconcile this new trend for take-homes, and more generally, ever more arduous recruitment processes ; and OTOH, the usual claims that there's a deep shortage of good candidates for software development jobs.
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by pyb 8y ago
Did they hire someone off freelancer.com to fix this ? (in reference to : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19318498#19329754 )
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by pyb 8y ago
I disagree very strongly. For most of human history, the arts existed for a huge part in the service of religion, and therefore were instruments of power and wealth.
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by pyb 8y ago
>> the state wouldn't actually regain $75k by releasing one prisoner. Neither would Harvard, so at least the comparison still stands.
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by pyb 8y ago
Not at lawyer, but using a third party's persona to collect money (for whatever purpose) sounds like a blatant breach of personality rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights
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In the winds of crypto winter(techcrunch.com)
2 points by pyb 8y ago|0 comments
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by pyb 8y ago
Unfortunately, you are absolutely right. The tech industry is in love with complexity
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by pyb 8y ago
A smartwatch?
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by pyb 8y ago
At the moment, what are some notable startups founded by ex Googlers ?
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by pyb 8y ago
> "The fact that they received a Nobel doesn't mean they were notable before they received the Nobel." It does, pretty much by definition of a Nobel prize.
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by pyb 8y ago
The interview process is getting longer than ever. For instance, getting a homework step before the in-person interview never used to be a thing. Now, it seems to have become commonplace.
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by pyb 8y ago
Similarly, I was expecting the GPU situation to come to a head, meaning : Imagination technologies starting a lawsuit. The fact that this hasn't yet happened, led some commentators to conclude that a confidential Apple-IMG settlement h
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How to Hire Your First Engineer(triplebyte.com)
6 points by pyb 8y ago|0 comments
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by pyb 8y ago
I've started reading French books again recently, and found some great ones: Les Choses, Georges Perec Alcools, Guillaume Appolinaire (poetry) Francois Mitterrand, l'Abeille et l'Architecte (essay/diary)* Bernard Henri L
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by pyb 8y ago
Relatedly : a rarefaction of unicorns ? https://avc.com/2018/05/a-changing-of-the-guard/
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by pyb 8y ago
What I've seen happening is people buying ebooks with stolen credit card numbers. Presumably, the criminal had published ebooks just for this purpose.
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by pyb 8y ago
Most Big-tech companies, and even some startups, seem to prefer recruiting people with an existing big tech background, so taking the offer will indeed improve your career options in the long run IMO.
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by pyb 9y ago
I am not saying these crypto startups are doing anything useful ! 90% + of them aren't. Which is why their increasing hiring power is getting to be a problem.
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by pyb 9y ago
Furthermore, we're starting to see that all those crypto startups have made so much money from their ICOs that they're starting to distort the job market as well. The kind of engineers who'd be naturally drawn to smaller star
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by pyb 9y ago
Well spotted thanks !
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by pyb 9y ago
This looks more like a manual. Where does it say that the infrastructure is open source ? I didn't see any source code.

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