ohstopitu

What sort of skills would come in use for such a position?

I'm a Software Engineer (graduated in 2016) and considering a full time MBA (2 yrs) next year. This sounds like something I'd enjoy - just wanted to get more info from someone in the field.

How does one become a Management Consultant (and how much experience would one need to become one) ?

Is it something you enjoy?

and is that so bad? As in, this is like how our parents used to say "you are glued to the TV" and that's exactly what TV channels wanted...to sell your attention.

What's wrong with those microwavable stuff (like noodles, and others)? I mean it's not healthy, but if it's once in a while, it's cheaper and imo tastes better!

And that is why they succeeded imo. Because Facebook bought Whatsapp for it's 1 Billion users, and Whatsapp would never have hit that mark had it not been for the fact that they focused on market outside the US (where cheaper phones with android, candybar and other OSes were more popular).

While Whatsapp is still not as big in the US, it's literally the defacto mode of communication in countries like India, Brazil etc. to the point where "Msg me" would automatically mean "Msg me on Whatsapp"

That + the fact that it was tied to your phone number was in my opinion genius. I for a thousand years would not have though too much about Global Market (because I'd be focused on revenue and users in 1st world countries would be generally the ones with spending cash for messaging apps).

So TLDR:

1. We want to hire experienced programmers for 500k

2. We don't want to train junior programmers to become senior programmers because they'll leave for BigCo.

3. BigCo. with bigger budgets are stealing such senior employees and somehow it's not fair

I'm still waiting for the "it's satire" post. That said, out of curiosity: why a Github account? If you are that good, and work that hard currently, you'll probably not have time for a Github account that'll land you a job anyway :/

Or are they looking for "branded" devs that work in open source? (because not all companies even allow for open source on stuff you work on)

oh I totally agree, almost all those apps don't fit in with Gnome or even Unity (almost all electron apps feel out of place). But imo, it helps make life slightly easy!

I used to use linux desktop since 2012(ish) and I remember the time when most of my apps were Windows and Mac only! As a broke university student, I could not afford to upgrade to a Mac just to use some tools!

Electron has made me forget those days! Today, most of the tools I use are available on all platforms and while they do take up a lot more ram and disk space - both are generally things I can buy and fit on my computer and will be supported out of the box but not having those apps won't.

I know it's great to hate Electron because of how much ram and disk space it takes, but for those few on Linux, it's truly made life easy!

I had worked with ~2 TB of data in CouchDB (a few thousand endpoint calls / sec) for my capstone project at University and I thought I had experience, but reading these comments, I realized how much less experience I really have.

Maybe you don't hang out with the kind of crowd that thinks like that, but the number of times, I've been requested to do commit crimes - form classic fraud and insider trading all the way to straight up hacking is insane.

Funny enough, even the semi-technical ones are guilty of such requests too.

Over the course, I've learnt the hard way that saying no upfront is better than dealing with the fallout later

They appear to have missed this flowchart!

http://i.imgur.com/HlAul8o.jpg

Thank you! This is extremely useful!

I've always wanted to break into Go, but pointers scare me after my experience in C in University. While I got the usefulness and it's functions (and usage), it was not something I felt comfortable with.

This definitely it easier!

I thought it was based on the % you traded?

So for example, if I was using an 100k account to trade, I had another 100k of leverage no?

If I were to host this myself, I'd still need a static IP that had a good reputation. GCP and Azure both mention that we should not be hosting mail servers on their platforms (rather, they all suggest we setup mail servers + relays to a reputed IP).

How would I go about getting a static IP or a reputed IP?

a friend of mine used to say "you can cry in a corolla, or in a Ferrari, but I sure as hell would want to cry in a Ferrari"

have you thought the consequences of that?

No I'm very serious: we are unable to protect smart TVs. Networked smart cars (because let's be real - Google and co. would want to monetize this with Uber-like services, Ads in cars etc.) are a magnitude more likely to be hacked by both the state actors and rogue individuals (altho I don't see why we make this distinction...both are criminal acts).

The worst that can happen if your smart tv is hacked, is that they can listen and maybe watch you in your living room. If your car is hacked, they can probably kill you and hurt others while they are at it. If this happens on a large scale, it's extremely dangerous.

So while I have no problems with self driving in itself (or with Google for that matter of fact), I have a problem with banning human driving cars on the road without a viable (non-intrusive) alternative.

quick question about preemption instances:

if I were to launch an instance of Kubernetes (via container engine) with such VMs, would it have an issue? (as in, if I had more load, more preemptible vms would be provisioned automatically based on a previously set max amount and if a vm was removed, another would be assigned based on my minimum amount)

am I wrong in thinking that this is a much better option than running dedicated vms?

so would you say those fields that have >50% women would need to work on their gender diversity to include more men?

I had this issue initially when I was developing on Windows. We hit the limit of Windows's 255 char file path limit.

We also have had issues with node_modules takes minutes to download to the point that we basically had to cache it in our CI builds - which in itself was a really bad idea (thankfully Yarn seems to fix a lot of those issues)

I've used nodeJS at 3 of the past 4 startups I've worked at (currently using PHP). I had a hand in choosing it at all those 3 places and my main reasons boiled down to:

1. most devs know JS (so it's easier to hire & onboard new devs)

2. while everyone claims node's dependencies are hell, I love the choice available (although over time, it's tiring).

3. The community is generally awesome (helps during meetings, online etc.)

4. Developer Exp: With TS, Tslint etc, devx is not too bad IMO (and there's no dearth of opinionated articles around on the correct way to do things)

5. Finally - we can quickly churn out prototypes for features to production (but I guess that's more experience than the tools?).

6. In general, we'd be using JS on the frontend anyway (React), so it just made sense to use one language everywhere.

7. In general, most tools have JS SDKs and JS language support is always around (an exception I found was Tensorflow) - as an example, AWS Lambda supports Java, Python and JS.

I don't get this train of thought...Why minorities? should it not be - hire the best for the job? (and if you don't get the best, then you are not paying well enough?)

Not trying to be sarcastic, just wanted to know a more in-depth view point.

wow! I own a couple of these headsets, and while I've never used the app (I don't feel the need to install an app for an headphone device thank you very much), I'm disappointed in Bose.

Does anyone know any other headphone manufacturer that's got as good a sound + build quality as Bose?

I have seen this advice throughout this thread - "first find customers, and then build it" but I can't seem to understand the following:

1. why will those customers wait for your software?

2. what if you delay launching your software?

3. As a software dev, I've noticed that 90% of the product is built in 10% of the time. However, it's the final 10% that make/break it - how do you account for that (as you have already promised your future customers a product that you have yet to build) ?

how would you go about doing that...especially with FaaS (GCP / Azure / Firebase Functions for example).

Some animals are raised just for their leather while the meat from them is an additional source of income (especially if you consider luxury cars - one that finally got me was the fact that Lexus does not like leather from animals that were raised in farms that had barbed wire....because it damages the skin and hence the leather. I felt that that animals were raised and looked upon as numbers and use instead of them being organisms with feelings for example).

I did go vegetarian (been vegetarian for ~15 yrs now).

Back during the birdflu scare (2008-09), my parents decided to stop eating meat (chicken - which was the only meat I used to eat). I was ~12-13 yrs old.

Overtime, I wanted to switch back but for some reason or another (saw some videos on Youtube about how chickens are treated and killed didn't sit right with me), never did.

We cut meat immediately. While I didn't miss a lot it, I did eat a lot of soy in the interim period (ofc a few friends of mine who tried didn't succeed).

Just as an FYI: Don't watch those videos if you like stuff like leather for example...I love the feeling of leather seats, but I'm looking for synthetic leather in my next car.

One thing that was awesome about Uber, was that you could go into a city internationally and just use one app (instead of installing new apps every city or multiple apps for one city!)

The taxi game is becoming more like the Social Media game where you have multiple platforms like Fb, Twitter, Snapchat etc each doing it's own thing.

While that's great, I have 10 different apps on my phone just to deal with Social Media.

BTW I am not suggesting that Uber not be regulated or anything of the sort, but just that, if all taxi companies start having their own apps, I won't install any (from a registration, security and ease of use point of view).

This is great news! I wonder why we can't legalize all drugs?

I have a side tracked question about this:

Let's say you were in prison for dealing Marijuana. What would the status of your case be now considering that it would be legalized?

(as in, would you still have to serve your term even though the crime you did is now considered legal?)

This was unclear from the article...but from what I understand the police want info on anyone who searched a specific term on google for a specific image from geo-location/IP in that city a week before the crime took place ?

1. What if the criminal didn't use Google?

2. What if the criminal did use Google but used a VPN or Tor or a Proxy?

I've used Gitlab CI before and I do like it, but TravisCI allowed for some granular control that Gitlab CI does not have (or that I am doing wrong) - for example, ability to run specific tests in case of pull/merge requests (TrasisCI has an environment variable for it).

As for other projects - the most important one for me was clubhouse.io (Gitlab Issues is great but just not as good as clubhouse.io)