HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

downvoteme1

188 karma · joined October 2, 2019

submissionscomments
downvoteme1··on EA Lays Off over 200 Apex Legends Testers over Zoom Call
Almost all work contracts that I have signed have clauses to break the contract with a two week notice.
downvoteme1··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023)
Do you have to be a citizen or just a green card is OK?
downvoteme1··on 50% rejection rate for iPhone casings produced in India shows Apple’s challenge
Sorry but I am a bit naive here but when Apple asks a company to manufacture a part , do they also enlist the steps in the machining process that goes in to manufacture that part

Or

Do they just give a finished sample to the factory and ask them to figure it out on how to manufacture this part.

If it is former, then is this Indian company skipping some steps in the manufacturing process?

downvoteme1··on Algorithmic Trading: A Practitioner’s Guide
For starters, open a brokerage account at a broker that provides an API. There are many currently available including Ally, Tradier, Alpaca, Think or Swim, Interactive Brokers etc. Although, I think Think or Swim is currently not providing new keys due to their merger with Schwab.

Once you got that part setup, try to write a simple program that buys or sells an equity from the command line .

From their own you can start exploring trading algorithms. Some are pretty basic, like when the price crosses above a 200 DMA, then buy a stock as that usually signifies an upward run, while selling if the price falls below the 200DMA as that is bearish.

Then you can read some books on price action, fundamental or technical analysis and build your own algos.

downvoteme1··on How the Wealthy Save Billions in Taxes by Skirting a Century-Old Law
TLDR - by using tax loss harvesting . At the end of the year, sell your stocks which are down and then buy them back. Then you can use the losses to offset the gains. Although this is also available to masses .
downvoteme1··on Ask HN: Using Java for a web application in 2023
I think Java is a solid choice for a data heavy application in 2023. As many have mentioned spring boot is a man excellent choice for the Java backend . You should also take a look at JHipster. It combines the strengths of Java with a modern front end like React or Vue or anything else of your choice to make a modern front end .
downvoteme1··on Glovo lays off 6% of staff following fresh fine from Spanish government
How was the cab experience in general in Spain before the influx of Uber and other tide sharing services.

Was it like the you could fail a can and it would take you where you wanted to go for a reasonable fare or would cabbie in general cancel rides, ask for more fare than the allowable maximum etc.

downvoteme1··on Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu?
Do you have any issues with Debian. It is very stable and is the base for Ubuntu and many other os’s.
downvoteme1··on Internet Archive Takes Down BBC’s Documentary on PM Modi: Report
Many nation states do not have freedom of speech and have laws that content can be taken down if it is considered bad - and the definition of bad is always changing based on the current ruling party.

Thus, they might have just the threatened YouTube with domain level blocking if laws of the land are not followed.

Also I am not sure, why the ruling party is so uppity about this documentary. It doesn’t even show Modi in too much of a bad light. Basically just shows that he was incompetent in stopping riots.

Also not sure, but does the BBC have an agenda with releasing this documentary now on an event that happened around two decades back.

downvoteme1··on IBM to cut about 3,900 workers while still hiring in ‘higher growth’ areas
IBM of today is way past a company that advanced computing. It is a body shop and an American company in name only. Most of their revenue comes from GBS which is basically an offshoring division.
downvoteme1··on Ask HN: What are the worst names given to employees of specific companies?
Metamates.

Microsofties.

downvoteme1··on Evidence that Adani Group has engaged in stock manipulation and accounting fraud
This is something that is well known to Indian investors that most of Adani companies are vaporware that basically have no revenue and trade for price to sales ratio much higher than other companies.

However this guy and his family members are pretty well connected and would be fine as long as Modi is India’s PM. In fact it is even stated that this guy is basically a kingmaker as his massive inflated fortune funds the political contributions to the ruling BJP party.

downvoteme1··on Microsoft held an invite-only concert for execs, 1 day before announcing layoffs
Here is a Chat GPT generated sincere apology coming soon in the next press release

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/10hg7yn/microso...

downvoteme1··on Salesforce, but for Dating
Is he still married ?
downvoteme1··on Software horror show: SAP Concur
As an ERP consultant, I love when these discussions come up. It spreads more hatred for Oracle and SAP among the developer community and keeps my jobs safe.
downvoteme1··on Ask HN: TLD Recommendation?
.xyz are very bad tld for email or even hosting. So much that you cannot even send domains with that tld as a text message to certain users in the US. E.g. TMobile blocks all reference to .xyz domains if sent as a text message .
downvoteme1··on Applying to College, and Trying to Appear ‘Less Asian’
Can a business do the same discrimination while hiring but only for black applicants.

Systematically reject them and if a lawsuit comes over , just say that you were rejected on the basis of “personal rating” — a subjective score for traits like self-confidence, likability and kindness wherein you scored less than candidates of other races ?

Won’t this make a total mockery of the affirmative action clause.

downvoteme1··on Elastic.co lays off 13% of team
Yahoo finance is a good product. I use it and keep looking for replacements in case something good pops up, but it’s good for now.
downvoteme1··on SAT score distributions in Michigan
Is it 1500 for everybody or 1500 for Asians, 1400 for whites, 1300 for African Americans and so on. Just curious?
downvoteme1··on Google sued for violating MN law requiring video rental records to be destroyed
I am surprised. What about Netflix , Amazon video and Apple? Surely they all must be keeping these records as well.
downvoteme1··on Immigration accounts for over 94% of Canada’s population growth in Q2 of 2022
They don’t even need to train mor doctors. Canada imports a lot of medical professionals as part of their immigration programs. However due the CMA regulations, they cannot practice in Canada even if their degree is from an accredited university.

Even doctors trained in developed countries like UK have no guarantee that they will be approved to work in Canada as noted on the BMA’s own website [1].

On top of that most medical professionals moving to Canada are not from highly developed but rather developing countries and they spend years just trying to get their license and give up in the end .

https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/career-progression...

downvoteme1··on Ask HN: What are you doing now to profit from the current or upcoming recession?
800k down and 11% loss. Was your portfolio 8 million at the start of the year?
downvoteme1··on I Visited Bucha Today
Well if Ukraine did not have the American made weapons, they would have folded in less than a month. The United States has spent close to 100B in aid for Ukraine in the last 6 months and other amounts of money by the EU as aid. All told it is about 5-10x Russia’s yearly military budget.

All in all, Russia is a very weak country with less than 1.5T GDP. As a result, any infusion of huge sum on money by external actors will tilt the balance in the favor of the party that gets the money .

downvoteme1··on Old, Good Database Design
Why don’t you use varchar(max) as the range always. The varchar data type specified that the length of this attribute is variable in each record and the memory allocated depends only on the number of actual characters stored in the column.
downvoteme1··on Britain’s CO2 Emissions Have Fallen to Levels Last Seen in 1890 (2018)
I think the world should also start noting methane emissions . That gas is 400 times more potent than CO2 in trapping heat and is escaping rapidly from fracking sites everywhere . The United States is leading the pack in methane emissions but I think no central agency is tracking that.
downvoteme1··on Gitlab reducing free tier CI/CD minutes from 2000 to 400 minutes
I see a lot of comments citing gitlab as devious or showing statistical lies. The basic point is that gitlab is a business that is competing in an area where competitors have infinite pockets. GitHub can allow users to use 2000 minutes and even make it free for teams because Microsoft has a huge war chest. Gitlab on the other hand is valued at 1/1000 and has to be profitable to survive.
downvoteme1··on The Lancet: World population projections by 2100
Isn’t this too much of variability. For example it projects India’s population range from 0.72B to 1.71B . That is like either being number one by a wide margin or dropping to 10th spot or lower.
downvoteme1··on Walmart Plus takes on Amazon Prime
There is a whole lot of middle america that would love this. For all of Amazon’s extensive collection, a lot of users still spend a lot more on groceries and household goods monthly than on Amazon.

I think this will be popular in those places where Walmart is the retailer of last resort which encompasses a lot of mid-west and even the south.

downvoteme1··on Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track ‘labor organizing threats’
They already have a company stores. Just hire your own police force and we can be back to colonial America .
downvoteme1··on The World of Legacy IT Systems
I think this comment highlights your inexperience in enterprise it systems. There challenges facing enterprise IT are not due to there being no good engineers - because all of them are working in Silicon Valley.

It is a people problem. Every department, every group, entry business unit is its own little kingdom that is fiercely defended by its workers. They cling on to it because that’s all they have done for the last 20 years. They know that if this system gets modernized, then their job is toast. Their job is vapor ware and they know it.

Having worked with many state and local governments, I see that these entities are never in favor of a business process redesign that simplified things, unless the consultants carve out a special exception for their little Access database or somehow save their pre historic C# ASP.Net application.

Page 1 of 4Next →