Those algorithm test platforms are completely useless. I stopped using them long ago. No engineer I hire has to sort shit or filter out duplicates. I assume they know the sort functions in the language. I ask engineers with a blank GitHub to implement a small demo project which shouldn't take longer than 2-3h to finish and they have 2 weeks time (or actually as long as they need) to deliver. It gives me a lot of insight, I can see how people structure their code and if the code looks sloppy etc. You don't get a normal day at work result if you put people under pressure with these pseudo-hacker platforms. Most of the candidates have a life and I don't expect them to spend their evenings on some platform to impress potential new employers.
I'm 41 and just hired a 50 year old devops guy, because he's good, a little nuts and fits our salary range. The problem with older developers for me is mostly the salary expectations. I'm looking for mid level or senior people, but for most developer positions a few years experience are enough – we're not doing rocket science and the extra experience only makes them more expensive, not more effective. This looks totally different for architect level positions where someone at 25 years just isn't credible enough.
I'm hiring a lot at the moment, I have multiple interviews every day, we had 100s of candidates, but not a single one had more than a getting-started project on their GitHub profile. I'd take open source code any day over our coding exercise, but I cannot hire people without seeing some code first.
I'm also wondering where this is coming from. So far I've heard this exclusively from American movies. In Germany this kind of thing does not exist at all and I haven't heard anything like in South-East-Asia where I live since 7 years either.
Are you living in the US? I live in Singapore and my ISP encourages me to host my own stuff. With a static IP and 1GBit/500MBit there's enough bandwidth available.
Is there a docker(-compose) setup I can use to give it a try? I think this would lower the barrier to entry a lot. I have a blog running on ghost I wouldn't have without a maintained docker container. I miss Instagram, pixelfed looks like a great alternative!
It's actually good intentions. If you only have one customer, they push you in the direction of full employment to make sure you're not being exploited. Employment (in Germany) has health insurance included and your employer pays into your retirement fund. And of course minimum wage! Although that shouldn't be an issue in anything IT related.
As a fellow photographer (even the same gear), I understand the author's pain in losing it. I really hope they can get it back and the thief is held liable. What I truly admire is how professional the blog entry is written after being badly ripped off like that.
I just removed Google's ReCaptcha for a honeypot solution with an additional name and url field. But there's also a timer which checks how long it takes you to submit the form. If you can fill out everything in <2s, you're most likely not human. I have to figure out how people with disabilities can use the page though. Good to get a reminder here. So far it performs way better than ReCaptcha, I haven't received any spam so far and plenty of ham of course. No human complaints either.
I very much want to believe that Google cares about small email providers and self-hosters. I believe that you care personally, but have a look at the documentation. All the help articles target bulk-hosters, the documentation doesn't even mention humans! The case that a human wants to send an email to another human, which is the very reason email was created in the first place, is not even covered or planned, so I'm pretty sure Google doesn't care about collateral like us, who have fun caring about their own email servers, playing by the rules and doing everything to not be on blacklists.
Why not count the amount of emails coming from those domains and give them a "softer" filtering algo if it's below a certain threshold? Or open a whitelisting program where you can go full Google on people who violate the terms? I think there are (automatable) ways to solve this problems, but only if Google understands that emails are for human interaction, not to receive ads.
I think Nietzsche is one of the writers where it really makes sense to read the German original side by side with your translation. He's a master with words, which you can appreciate a lot more if you understand his play with words. It's like watching the dubbed German version of a Netflix series, if you saw the original you cannot go back anymore.
There are definitely languages which are a lot easier to learn than English or German, like Malay. It has a simple grammar and no intonations, so you should be able to speak properly after 2 months full time study. I'm pretty sure you can learn most of the language within a year, faster if you are exposed to other native speakers.
While it's an impressive piece of technology, I think it's the wrong way to approach this problem. Of course big scale agriculture needs to spray glyphosate and the like, but a technology to minimize the usage combined with a more customized method of application should be considered, too. Hops farmers in Germany e.g. only apply insecticides to the roots of a plant to protect them from being eaten up. If the farmers add some bee hives to the mix, it might help to recover the bee population, which is better than giving up on bees and replace them.
The StarTrek game was the first game I ever played. I asked my father to teach me decimals to fire the photon torpedos properly. Seeing this again brings back some really early memories.
A proper logo is certainly a good start, but you need a well thought through Corporate Identity if you want to continue with your website. Think about the colors, the fonts etc. This must all match the logo or it looks strange. I use the color tool from Adobe [0] a lot to figure out matching colors.
In Germany it's a stereotype that all doctors or health work related people have to wear them, but they're not really trendy or anything. In Singapore where I live now, they however are quite visible in malls and people seem to like them here. For myself I think they're too hard, otherwise I'd prefer them over caging my feet in too much plastic. Good reminder to give them a try again.
How can INTEL tell people what to do with their CPU, I own it so I think I can do with it what I want or not? Only because the microcode update is considered software? I wouldn't be scared to benchmark it and publish the results in the EU. I wonder if this is binding in the US.
This article reminded me of the Buginese who have 5 different genders: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugis#Lifestyle.
Unfortunately they're not going into more detail, I'd like to know if they're as equally accepted as with the people from the article.
I also don't think it's a good idea. If you don't use the database specific functions out of fear you aren't able to switch anymore, you are probably wasting a lot of potential performance.
The first question which came to my mind was if OpenBSD already supports fast enough WiFi devices to work as a proper access point – looks like last time I tried was quite a while ago: https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20101216231634
It supports Realtek USB adapters and I remember how easy it was to enable traffic shaping with pf and always have lag free ssh-consoles!
If you assume that every hoster is reading your mails, then moving them to China would give you the advantage, that your content and your meta data are not relevant to your new Chinese hoster, so ad targeting etc. would be gone, because you probably don't check Chinese sites frequently
I remember that in Germany you can buy bags made from corn starch, but they're very thin and very fragile. You need to be really lucky to bring home your shopping bags safely and you definitely cannot reuse them. But you can put them on the compost, which is really cool! If they work on making it a little more robust, bags like that would be my first choice
That's all true, couple of years ago it made more sense to actually burn plastic waste, e.g. to use it to make steel than to recycle it. But the problem in India and China is that the plastic is dumped in the rivers and ends up in the food chain where we are all eating it later on. Steaks and glass bottles do no harm to the environment when just thrown away
I was using 0bin quite often, but a couple of weeks ago they had problems with their SSL certificate, so no browser would let me use the site. Happy to see it's back!