Hacker News Reader

3majon New Dementia Prevention Method May Be Behavioral, Not Prescribed

pretty much, or if you're put in an extremely quiet room you'll start to lose it.

3majon New Dementia Prevention Method May Be Behavioral, Not Prescribed

I thought this too until I learnt what tinnitus actually is. Tinnitus isn't your ear ringing, its you losing hearing from loud noises and the loss of said hearing fucking with your brain and then due to that your brain creates that ringing noise.

3majon FTC acts against private equity firm’s acquisition of veterinary clinics

Couple of comments.

Hedge Funds don't invest in trailer parks, if they did they wouldn't be hedge funds they would be PE firms or REIT's.

While the US Industrial Complex is a cancer to the system I don't think they're to blame for Russia invading Ukraine. Instead, the US government needs to stop non-bid contracts and paying these companies "cost + Percentage" contracts.

Also the FP article misses out on a lot of nuances in the futures markets but thats a bit too much of a pain in the ass to get into.

3majon FTC acts against private equity firm’s acquisition of veterinary clinics

For the last 5-10 years one of the most popular strategies for mid-sized PE firms has been the dental clinic roll up.

3majon The state finally letting teens sleep in

Laughs in Northern Canadian

3majon Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories

Looks at wahoo kickr in corner

Hello old friend, we meet again.

3majon Ask HN: What are well-paying alternative jobs to being a software developer?

Project/Product Manager.

3majon Hackers disrupt payroll for thousands of employers, including hospitals

There is a lack of cybersecurity investments in almost every industry. The issue is that the executives making the decisions 1) Usually aren't knowledgable about CyberSec and 2) don't justify the investment because it's not something they can physically point at and take credit for. .

3majon Ask HN: My boss doesn't think I'm doing good work, how to proceed?

I generally suggest that all dev teams send at least one person that's in the trenches daily to the steering committee meetings and any other decision making meetings.

This way, there's always someone that can keep expectations in check and can relay any minor/major changes back to the team. Ideally, these would be the tasks of a competent PM/Sr.BA but it doesn't always work like that.

3majon We created a new programming language just for our interview process

I agree.

If they sent me a home test with a custom programming language I would laugh and tell them to withdraw me from consideration. I'm busy, I'm not learning a new language so that you can pat yourself on the back, others might, but I won't.

3majon Ask HN: My boss doesn't think I'm doing good work, how to proceed?

I'm looking at this from a PM's perspective and not a devs perspective so take it as you will.

>he basically tells me this project should have been finished a long time ago and he can't believe it's taken this long >>Sounds like a manager with a MBA and lack of hands on technical experience.

>he says I probably just misinterpreted an offhand comment of hers as a hard requirement >>The problem isn't you not understanding her requirements, its a lack of documented well defined requirements - and any changes to said requirements should be noted and tracked.

>no longer necessary due to changing requirements >>Once again, this sounds like your manager is deflecting the fact that they didn't have well thought out and well defined requirements before the project began.

3majon Quit Your Job

Shoutout to the Slavic Homie Nikola Tesla, was one of the greatest inventors of all time but died in poverty.

3majon Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among people ages 18-64

Probably a big one. Drug overdoses have killed more 18-54 year olds in Canada than Covid has.

Hell, in British Columbia there have been more drug overdoses than Covid deaths across all ages.

3majon Risk of myocarditis following sequential COVID-19 vaccinations by age and sex [pdf]

Government of Ontario (Province in Canada) published data months ago showing that young men were at higher risk from heart issues. Nobody cared and the all the local and federal news outlets refused to report on the numbers.

3majon Children develop robust and sustained cross-reactive immunity after Covid

This is complete nonsense. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.01.21259785v...

In Israel (I use them because they have a fantastic dashboard) not a single individual under the age of 19 has died of covid.

Stop fear mongering.

3majon Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg

Worse, FB doesn't care about the facts and neither do journalists anymore. All that matters is clicks and political leanings.

3majon Netflix Executive Sentenced to 30 Months for 700K Bribes, Kickbacks from Vendors

Happens in manufacturing allll the time, especially if you're contracting our work to companies in India/China/Vietnam/etc.

3majon Reddit files to go public

As far as I'm concerned they're recreating Club Penguin.

3majon Reddit files to go public

Here's a wild idea, meet in person.

3majon Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system

We're going to get to a point where instead of advertisers paying per click they'll pay per look since the glasses will be able to track eyeballs. Hell, there might be a premium that pays "x" per every millisecond spent looking at the ad.

3majon Twitter has a new CEO – what about a new business model?

Twitter will never replace bbg.

3majon Twitter has a new CEO – what about a new business model?

Twitters Revenue/Employee Headcount (not counting any contractors) is currently around 636k/employee. As far as FAANG companies go Twitter has an over bloated workforce.

3majon Jimmy Wales’ Final Email

To be fair, this is one of the few non-profits that benefits most people and that is actually used day-to-day by the majority of people with an internet connection.

3majon An oral history of Bank Python

>Firms like GS, JPM, etc have fatter margins (I think) and can afford to pay devs/strats/etc.

From what I've seen on my end the Insurance firms have started paying somewhat of a premium to compensate for the lack of "excitement" that is associated with the insurance industry as a whole.

>Would love to dig more into that if you're willing.

Always willing to chat!

3majon Two men with long criminal histories stole bikes. What should S.F. do?

If you haven't figured out that you should be quiet while robbing someones house after 13 attempts you deserve prison.

3majon Apple Hires Tesla Autopilot Software Director for Car Effort

How many guys are there in North America that can be considered "experts" in Autonomous Driving? It can't be that many... Theres probably a couple at each of the major auto companies, a few at the major tech companies and then a handful independent ones like GeoHotz?

3majon Why the Job Search Sucks (2018)

100% Agree. I'll take the initial phone screening, learn more about the role and the team, but the last question I always have is something along the lines of: "I know you're extremely so in an attempt to not waste anyones time whats the salary range? This way we're all on the same page before moving forwards"

I have never gotten a recruiter that doesn't tell me the salary when I do this.

3majon Ask HN: Coping with cancer in the family

When my father was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer his sister, my aunt who is also a Dev, explained the situation to her team and took some time off here and there to help out. Even if theres nothing your coworkers can do they will be more than understanding, they wont get ticked off if you're late with something. You might notice theres a good chance some of them will pick up the slack and never ever mention it. We're all human and we all have a natural tendency to try and help those that we are surrounded by.

If you take anything away from this is don't keep it to yourself, that never works.

Best of luck to your family and your mother.

3majon Why Co–Star Uses Haskell

The Day trading quant gets cold sweats as he reads this.

3majon “Losses caused by or resulting from a Cyber Incident are not covered”

I saw a really good comment the other day.

We're in the "hoverboard" with wheels timeline.