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This seems like a new set of buzzwords with which altar.io can say "we only hire rock stars".

I notice that the previous post from the same author, dated 2017, was titled "Powering BBC Online with nanoservices" [0]. Nary a mention of nanoservices now. If I were a cynic, I would say they are going out of fashion.

[0] https://medium.com/bbc-design-engineering/powering-bbc-onlin...

> In addition, there was massive use of an anonymous, decentralized ecosystem called Utopia P2P.

O RLY?

This bug falls in with "reasons connection attempts to your server may be mysteriously failing" - this is a bug in connection setup, when you'll be setting up your secure connection.

This isn't all that new - I've lost the link to the press release, but this thing will also do 1Gbps+ at 1km: https://www.siversima.com/wp-content/uploads/product-brief-t...

There was also a digger remake, which is now so old that it's also nostalgiaware! https://digger.org/

> On July 7th 2005 I was on a bbc engineering course in a non-disclosable secret nuclear bunker in the Cotswolds,

This one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_Norton,_Worcestershire#Th...

The quote is:

> North American stocks returned 14.6 percent and amounted to 41.4 percent of the equity portfolio.

That's to say 41% of their equities are North American stocks, not that they own 41% of all North American stocks!

...I had to look up Tucker Carlson to discover if this was satire or not.

It's not a "meaningful vote" today (29th) - it's only a vote on the withdrawal agreement, not the political declaration. According to the Attorney General that means it's not a "meaningful vote" as previously defined.

And it's going to be voted down, of course.

As I understand it, they're owned by different entities; the street lights/traffic poles are often owned by local authorities (in the UK) while manhole covers are owner by the utilities.

I suspect that one aspect of this is to give them leverage in getting access to antenna sites.

I don't turn them down - bridge burning is for pyromaniacs - I just make non-committal noises and don't usually get back to them.

I should clarify that I was thinking more of outfits that respond to my enquiry with "Hi $candidate, please do this generic exercise after which we'll deign to look at your CV". Bonus points awarded/deducted if the requested exercise is for something already available on my github profile.

And 4-6 hours is typically my free time (not free computer time, total free time) for a week.

I'm the UK, 15-20 years experience, depending how you count it, and my skill-set is diverse :)

Not really. I've never needed to research a job beyond a bit of Linkedin/glassdoor stalking and reading of corporate guff.

I've never had a full day interview for a company I'd actually want to work for (based on what I've learned while grinding through the interviews) so I'm beginning to take requests for those (along with requests for advance coding exercises) as a recruiting smell.

An interview is a two-way process. I typically find out a lot about the company and the people I'll be working with. Even a 30 minutes phone call is as much for me to be able to filter them out.

With this approach you'll miss good senior people; I have dependants and very little free time outside work. Last time I was looking for a job I skipped everyone who wanted me to do prep/homework. If the other interviews hadn't worked out I'd have gone back to them, but I didn't need to.

I found this blog post to be a higher level, and slightly clearer, overview of Pulsar vs. Kafka:

https://streaml.io/blog/pulsar-streaming-queuing

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertold_Wiesner - 600+ offspring!

(In third place on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_the_most_c... ...)

Off the top of my head, ARP &. NDP are rather different - NDP is an IP protocol, unlike ARP.

I've only been asked for this when I applied to a "digital design agency" (i.e. web development) during a moment of madness.

They asked me to write a GAE based web app for something or the other. I told them (politely!) that I'd do it, if they provided me with their diversity policy, specifically with an explanation of how this sort of exercise didn't discriminate against anyone (as noted in the article.) I got a "sure, we can do that" and then never heard from them again. I didn't consider that a loss.

Well, there's this (in London):

https://www.ovoenergy.com/careers/vacancies?gh_jid=903885

...turnkey HPC clusters with liquid cooling, DC power distribution, extraordinarily dense compute blades, custom HPC network fabrics, and embedded management processors throughout to gather monitoring data.

National Geographic, fwiw: https://i.imgur.com/GGKLx.jpg

So less this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYzuXJ0E4cA

And more this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEekXRNztVI

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I've had burns from hot drill bits...

1111 1111 = 255

1 0000 0000 = 256

Anyone who claims to understand integer overflow from actual experience, rather than memorizing textbooks, should know that by inspection.

I'd forgive that in a CS grad (possibly) but if someone claimed to have been working in C or other unsafe languages for more than a trivial amount of time I'd be very suspicious.

Several things I searched for were cheaper at bike24.com

True - the equivalent Netflix spec is this one;

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9DJydDVOVKKLVdCdlF2cFVDVEE...

...again, a bit less detailed.

Wow, this is pretty scanty. For comparison, the BBC's technical requirements:

http://dpp-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/specs/...

Companies/organisations whose data leaks I have discovered through spam to single-use addresses:

  * monster.com
  * linkedin
  * Pragmatic Programmers (pragprog.com)
  * audioscrobbler (now part of last.fm)
  * The London Cycling Campaign
  * The Economist's subscription department