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Interesting. Have you come across TileDB before?

https://tiledb.com/

> of the calibre that FAANG style companies could put out

Facebook search is abysmal

Amazon search is (now) abysmal (bloated with promoted shit)

Netflix search is... kinda ok? (but rarely use it)

Apple I'm not familiar with.

Google search is the best we've got, and these days is also pretty shit a lot of the time. (https://searchengineland.com/google-search-quality-crisis-27...)

> GDPR was great in principle but all we ended up with was annoying cookie pop ups.

Read through this list - there's more than just cookie popups:

https://www.tessian.com/blog/biggest-gdpr-fines-2020/

Seems cool but I'm wondering what their business model is, and what will happen to the product and user data in future.

Literally any pre-compiled binary could do nefarious things... why make a big deal out of this one?

Yeah it's a quality article, but it's more "The Story That Took 13,200 Years to Tell"

> Is it fair to say that MapBox is moving into auto services?

It seems so

https://www.mapbox.com/fleet

https://www.mapbox.com/dash

https://www.mapbox.com/navigation/

Perhaps that's just their 'thing' for now and their core mapping/viz work will continue - I hope so as it's great tech and still relatively open compared to other cos.

Entitled much? Instead of 4 hours of your time [0], you get to waste up to 90 days of an employer's? (or more likely some multiple of that, counting interactions with others on the team)

[0] it probably takes even more of the employer's time in reviewing and discussing the application.

Hiring sucks for all parties. Everyone should try to meet half way, and be respectful of the other's time.

Amazing! Everywhere needs this

We are all thinking bananas (with a little rounding) [0]

[0]: https://www.pfizer.com/news/articles/how_genetically_related...

Love everything about this. Well done team.

A rebuttal to the rebuttal (without examples)...

How many French people speak Breton?

In the normal course of events, absolutely. This is hacker news though :-)

how do you propose we achieve that - remove the right to vote at age 50?

Could do without the ageism

I also enjoy not worrying about how the next field I add to my JWT can be exploited after a base64 decode :-)

Yeah, to be fair it's not as black or white as I suggested. But it's super difficult to gauge the actual impact of your work anyway, most of the time.

Companies exist generally to make money first, and any societal benefit is a side effect. Beware of companies that promise otherwise - they're lying either to themselves or to you. Either take the hit on the paycheck and work for a non-profit or academic/government institution, or just try and find something you find interesting - there's still lots of good stuff that comes out of the bleakest-seeming corporate environments, e.g. learning materials, open source projects.

In many cases, the front end doesn't need to read the JWT, just pass it on to some API.

An encrypted JWT is still convenient as it can be decrypted and deserialized into a common data structure using existing libraries.

It's the other way round - the front-end shouldn't need to read JWTs, just pass them on.

> This idea has been obvious and in progress for a while now with lots of prior work.

Such as?

It's kinda baffling that JWTs are unencrypted by default, to be fair.

As a broke student, I would pay €20 a year. Monthly billing for productivity/creativity apps scares me for some reason.

That is meant just as a data point for you, not to diminish your work (which is awesome).

Nice!

I would suggest having the site open with one of the examples, rather than the blank canvas.

Regardless, it's very cool!

True. And I guess that's for a full-fat engineering role?

It's still a bunch of work but I think i like that one a lot more. It's more open ended and less 'worship us, btw what is your favourite distro?'.

Exactly. This does not seem like a cool place to work.

There aren't many jobs in Cobol or Fortran, and they tend to be powering things that aren't very junior-friendly.

I would go for C#, Java, or (if you have a masochistic streak) C++. And SQL.

Honestly Go seems to be over its honeymoon period and is probably a safe bet also (there's 500 Go vs 600 C# jobs on my regular UK job search site).

> Behind your “software development job” are 100 Chinese and Indian applicants lined up and they are willed to do your job it for a handful of rice.

A troll, or very isolated individual (perhaps both).