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deusex_··on Why the AfD Wins
much of it can be expressed via this visual which made the rounds a few years ago

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1519735033950470144/photo/1?

the topics have different emphasis than in the US, but the principle remains. immigration, de-industrialization, green politics, erosion of trust based society

deusex_··on What is the worst SaaS you've ever used?
iCIMS for applicant tracking, I can deal with any other backoffice system but not this one
deusex_··on Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
Edge is easy to switch to and could be a great way to break the Chrome dominance.

Safari also started catching up over the last 2 years

deusex_··on Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Postgres
Another distinct set of similar tips that I found useful https://medium.com/productboard-engineering/eight-tips-to-re...
deusex_··on Not by AI
I can only recommend the fantastic "Everything is a remix" series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ2GuvUWaP8

deusex_··on Microsoft Azure Outage
Do you have any good resource summarizing these laws?
deusex_··on Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked?
There is such a counter, CVE databases.

If you would actually take a look, you would realize you are spreading FUD.

phpBB has been rewritten from scratch around 2008 with phpBB3 and hasn't had a single severe vulnerability since. That's 13 years.

deusex_··on Ask HN: How much equity should an early employee get?
If few and several come from Heroes III terminology, few would be 1-4, several would be 5-9.
deusex_··on Ask HN: If the Internet were redesigned today, what changes would you make?
Because this puts an individual with limited resources at a great disadvantage to corporations
deusex_··on Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies
But what minikube backend are you using for this? The preferred one is Docker and all the others are also paid on Mac.
deusex_··on Gitlab 14
From a skim read of both blog posts it's still impossible to understand what's actually new in this version. Just introduce the features in the post, no?
deusex_··on Golden Handcuffs
Individual Contributor, as opposed to Manager
deusex_··on Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
They only have the form for people in California or Europe.

long live strong consumer protection laws

deusex_··on Why Rocket Internet has come down to earth
Look at their global results, Europe is largely irrelevant compared to APAC and MENA. Germany exit was loss of prestige losing home market but also not a major loss of revenue compared to gains elsewhere in the world.
deusex_··on The nightmare that colleges face this fall
There’s an old story about a guy taking a smoke break with his non-smoking colleague.

“How long have you been smoking for?” the colleague asks.

“Thirty years,” says the smoker.

“Thirty years!” marvels the co-worker. “That costs so much money. At a pack a day, you’re spending $1,900 a year. Had you instead invested that money at an 8% return for the last 30 years, you’d have $250,000 in the bank today. That’s enough to buy a Ferrari.”

The smoker looked puzzled.

“Do you smoke?” he asked his co-worker.

“No.”

“So where is your Ferrari?”

deusex_··on Microsoft is giving parents 12 weeks’ paid parental leave
Czechia gives you options from 1-3y (fixed total cash amount, let's you choose speed). And employer must keep a job for you when you come back.
deusex_··on Microsoft is giving parents 12 weeks’ paid parental leave
And even longer up to 3y if you are part time (Elterngeld Plus). Keeps you connected to your job but allows you to raise your kids.
deusex_··on AWS EC2/RDS Outage in us-east-1
Your us-east-1f is not the same one as on other accounts. The letter is randomly assigned to the AZ to spread load.
deusex_··on Anyone made the jump from MySQL to PostreSQL? It is worth it?
Uh, no? The idea is to have a full featured object mapping layer that can work with multiple database backends.

Doing mapping of db result sets to object is non trivial, no need to do develop it multiple times for each RDMBS when 90% of the code would overlap.

I'd work on the sarcastic attitude though

deusex_··on Lyft’s revenues double, losses quintuple and prospects darken
The loss comes from variable costs, not fixed costs.

Early on, they hoped to become monopolies and raise prices, reaching profitability.

deusex_··on Office 365 global authentication outage
Your personal home use case of Office is not really relevant here. Good luck organizing a huge company on that.
deusex_··on Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor
There's a joke going on that the Pirate Party is the IT department of the communist party.

In general the trouble with Pirates is unpredictability. They are very socially liberal, but economically and geopolitically they attract a wide mix of opinions. The have a higher incidence of conspiration theorist, they have a strong anti-US base, and in general they avoid to address these topics since it cannot pass the internal voting that is part of their control structure. In communal politics it does not have so severe implications, so the biggest question is how fit he is managerial wise.

The new mayor was virtually unknown before the election, it's just a gamble at this moment and everybody is "let's wait and see, can't be worse than the previous arrogant mayor Krnacova from ANO"

deusex_··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)
Delivery Hero | Lead Python Engineer | Berlin, Germany | Full Time Onsite | Visa support

One of our leads is going on a path to build his own startup and I'm looking for a replacement for an established team of 5. I am looking for a tech lead with a Python mindset and empathic leadership skills. The team is building and now bringing live a Python-based platform we use to analyze and optimize our geographical coverage. I promise a automated cutting-edge environment with global scale and no firefighting. All focus is on building the best tool out there.

https://app.jobvite.com/j?cj=oXLk8fwU&s=Hacker_News

deusex_··on Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B
Ever heard of selection bias?
deusex_··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)
Delivery Hero, last-mile logistics | Scala Engineer | Berlin, Germany | ONSITE, Full-time, extensive VISA/relocation support

We're the last mile logistics team of Delivery Hero. We power algorithmic dispatching in over 40 countries. Our challenges are real-time tracking, optimization problems (not only VRP), high-throughput processing and data analysis. Our stack is an extensive Kubernetes/AWS setup with full automation on all sides. Infra-as-code, decoupled services based on messaging are already the basic requirements of our components. We deeply care about team fit and leveraging individual skills of our engineers.

Apart from Scala engineers (production Akka experience even better), we're looking for any combinations of Java/Ruby/React/AWS/data engineering skills.

https://www.deliveryhero.com/career/jobs/#/detail/1810 - Scala

https://www.deliveryhero.com/career/jobs/#/detail/1822 - Ruby

https://www.deliveryhero.com/career/jobs/#/detail/1504 - Java

or reach out directly to vojtech.vondra@deliveryhero.com in case of questions

deusex_··on Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager
This is an AWS Serverless version which can run pretty much completely in Free Tier and you have HA out of the box https://github.com/vvondra/bitwarden-serverless
deusex_··on Time for developers to address the chaos of Node.js and NPM
How is it different from maven deps?
deusex_··on Show HN: OpenBSD Email Service – A free-email alternative
It's fun until it becomes a chore. And until you realize you're always one step behind people trying to break through with spam or attacks.
deusex_··on How Fact-Free Parenting Policies Rob Kids' Independence
Europe is a lot more relaxed and kids are given a lot more freedom. When we were kids we just were expected to wait for the other sibling and take a 20min tram ride home together. At 15 I probably started spending nights not at home occasionally (I also never caused any real trouble, so we built trust with my parents).

Though there was a difference if you as a Central European visited France for example. The kids were way behind us in being relaxed and confident without parents around.

deusex_··on Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper
That's one of the advantages of off shore turbines, no disturbing.
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