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guilton Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (2016)

Are you implying that because you went through a couple of good interviews with them, and because one director who works at Google said that they don't hire this way, it doesn't happen?

That's the worst logic ever.

I'm blaming Google for doing this, and you take it to imply that I said you work at Google? Maybe you didn't accept those offers from Google. It still doesn't mean those things didn't happen at Google - and it is extremely shameful that you resort to defending them.

Congratulations, what you have done is just free PR for Google. I'd rather listen to everyone else than you.

guilton Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (2016)

Then you're most likely trolling everyone, by commenting that you know more about their processes than most outsiders do.

So stop right there and run back into your PR cave.

guilton Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (2016)

Yeah, try discrediting the article than fix your mistakes.

Real mature, Google.

guilton Engineering management lessons (2014)

Big Companies have management who cash in at the expense of young exploitable engineers.

Personally I'd like to see the top management get fired.

guilton ArcaOS 5.0 now available: new OS/2 distribution

Their installation Guide has some previews:

https://www.arcanoae.com/wp-content/uploads/wiki/ArcaOS50_In...

guilton Spanner: Becoming a SQL System [pdf]

Did they just write it during CockroachDB's release?

So sketchy.

guilton JDK 9 modules voted down by EC

This is not a good thing.

They were finally getting to have a fully built out environment - which could lead to better end user packaging, stripping down a library to its bare essentials.

For instance: what have jpackage achieved for a distribution like RedHat? Does anyone's Java App even pick up these RPM based dependencies for Classpath? Heck no.

Every known large scale Java application pretty much bundles a bunch of JARs. (Probably not logstash - but only one exception)

It is very clear that JDK9 will not be as awesome as it was originally supposed to be. Deeply disappointed.

guilton Time to Dump Time Zones

I think the first thing to dump is the daylight savings time concept.

Then rebase the timezones based on UTC.

It won't help when you have a polar winter or a midnight summer - but at least it will remove unnecessary conversions.

guilton Poor kids who do things right don't do better than rich kids who do things wrong

I don't think some people realize the value of a hard day's night. I think it is completely fine to pretend they didn't exist.

And finally - I don't respect the rich and the meaningless kind that have been plaguing corporate America for years.

guilton Hyperlapse makes first-person videos smooth and speedy

Microsoft should consider uploading to Vine :)

guilton The state and rate of HTTP/2 adoption

For AEAD, We'd most likely look at ChaCha20(Poly1305(Text)+Text) and I think that's a great idea. :)

We're definitely looking at non-NIST algorithms, we've just had enough of those.

guilton Ask HN: “Best” Functional Language for the Web (key on Performance)

Well, if you get the build process right. It takes some time for the setup, but I was able to Google it and get it right.

I use SBT, it works rather well, manages my dependencies right.

guilton The state and rate of HTTP/2 adoption

It's been an honour meeting you here! Thank you for cURL! :)

guilton The state and rate of HTTP/2 adoption

Yes - and I'd say WebSockets have been sucking the juice out of the DataCenter if your clients are mostly idling!

I'm not disagreeing with you here. Our point was that HTTP 2's features start doing amazing things after the first request, now that they have a connection going. Do read that we are excited about what it brings - just not for the very first request itself. And honestly, if they changed that, we'd be a happier lot.

guilton The state and rate of HTTP/2 adoption

If we don't support TLS, doesn't mean we don't care about E2E Encrypted Data, or E2H Encrypted Data, or Signed Data.

I do understand how the system works - and I've seen ISPs issue fake real certificates (which CA issues Google's certificate?) and I think sometimes, you just have to do it deeper, and yourself, if you have to do it right.

guilton The state and rate of HTTP/2 adoption

We've decided that HTTP/2 may not be a great fit at its present state, and here's why we thought so:

http://blog.geog.co/post/111535045146/our-thoughts-on-http2

Also, is that article from the Author of cURL? We <3 cURL!

guilton Ask HN: “Best” Functional Language for the Web (key on Performance)

I like Scala because of the amount of Libraries, Concurrency Primitives available.

Algebird is one of my favorite projects of all time.

guilton Choose Boring Technology

We started building with that approach. We're looking for people to tell us what's cool and what's not!

We at GeoG are building a safe, easy and sustainable platform for IoT. We can totally do everything if we put time and effort into it - which we are ready for! What we want you to do, is start hacking and building things with us. No strings attached!

We recently set up a Community page http://community.geog.co where we want to start listening to you, your needs and suggestions.

Did we mention we have an API? We'd like you to start beaming data and create cool things with us. http://api.geog.co

Also, if you have reasons to hate us, bring it out! We're listening.

guilton Fork My Dongle

https://github.com/guilt/nicedongle

Everyone is welcome to Fork this repo without getting offended.