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- soccer

- X murdered Y

- something about the police

- bad thing Z happened on freeways

- how the weather is going to be on the weekend

- world news: the weather in India is apparently very nice today

:-)

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- fix typo

- ps: i'm also looking forward to have some extra time to setup Gitlab on the Pi2 as well (either Docker preferably or https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/21/gitlab-on-raspberry-pi-2...)

The general idea is that you (the user, manually or through a client) locally PGP encrypt the text with the public PGP keys of the friends or family whom you'd like to receive the text by e-mail. The encrypted text is then sent/uploaded to the webapp. If you don't report back after X amount of time, the web service sends the text by e-mail to the selected friends or family. The webapp would not have any private keys therefore no access to the unencrypted text.

Not sure if there's already a similar service.

So i guess censorship would actually be the worst case.

Ps. This line of thought relates to some of the other comments in these threads ("... [T]here's no protesting capitalism. There's nothing you can say about capitalism that it won't subsume and sell back to you." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10093768)

* Codility (online timed) test. I like Codility and their tests; worse case can always learn a new trick and believe my skills (not my recruiting standard answers) would improve if i spent more time solving their problems, so -1 kudos here for me. Never faired better than a 40/50% result and companies that use it don't follow up with applicants that score less than 60% or more.

* Hackerank (online timed) test. Not a good experience at all and separated this entry from the above, instead of just categorizing "online tests", just to express how crappy i felt it was. Weird and poorly described problems (written by the customer, unlike Codility, as far as i perceived, may be wrong). Small textbox in which to type the solution, without any kind of editor like feature (not even syntax highlighting) which you DO have to utilize all the time (no separate editor copy paste), since they do key logging on it, which they then allow the customer to view as video. Actually spent a large part of the minutes or so hacking that texbox (size) on Chrome Dev tools, which was actually the only interesting thing in the whole process :) Since the goal of a test is to demonstrate ones abilities and not have "fun" per se, -1 kudos for me here as well. Although, should also note that i was asked on a Friday (afternoon was it), to complete two of these assessments over the weekend, for a Monday noon interview, which ended up being cancelled 30m before since the company was not happy with the test results (nice one guys!). Sour butt and all, if a company feels entitled to "push around" an applicant like this, what should the applicant think about when it's on a payroll, to say the least.

* The surprise timed sample project test. This was actually the process that irked me. Was asked to set a day and time in which i'd have 2h availability, for implementing a surprise task i'd be sent over e-mail and which i'd have to reply 2h after receiving the task with the result, by providing a github/bitbucket/etc url. Ok. After some persistence, managed to squeeze information in that i would have to implement a web page as to "behave a certain way". The test ended up being about implementing a small django project in which you'd be able to enter an URL in a form, press submit and information about the URL would be displayed (page title, word count, meta tags and other stuff). In the e-mail that contained the task, and only then, was i informed that in the case i did not implement the full solution in the couple of hours, i would have to deliver the full solution at a later date. Not gonna -1 kudo myself on this one, that's for sure. Felt like i was doing free work for a client that either didn't knew what it wanted or did not wanted to tell me :) though i can go as far as understand why they were behaving this way.

* The sample project. Applied for a role in a company which the main language was new in my skillset (Ruby) and was tasked to do a small web app. They were aware of that. Bring it on, challenge accepted! Didn't implement all the features, but learned enough Ruby in one week to, in my opinion, demonstrate enough skills (as in "i know what i'm doing") on the frontend and backend (picked up some Sinatra, Sequel and took the opportunity to utilise Docker Composer in something useful). Ongoing recruitment process.

* The talks. Was invited to the offices for informal chats where i was asked about previous experiences, tech related and test questions. Was told directly what the company was about and had chance to ask what the company is expecting from the role and did my best to pass on my previous experiences (and passion about the tech areas that related to the role). Ongoing recruitment process.

All in all, even though i understand companies need to be able to, for example, put pressure on applicants so as to understand in a short period of time, how they would behave and perform and what their skillset is, i feel that there's some arrogance and irrealistic test methodologies around, but the truth is that if someone asked me the best way to asset a candidate, i wouldn't have an asnwer either. Personally, at the end of the day, i only want to improve my skills, solve real problems, get paid, not becoming better at interviewing.

edit: fixed some typos, added extra sour butt comment :)

Some of the images workflow as deploying/removing from a host, replacing existing images (upgrades), dependency management (app image v1.0 depends on Nginx image v2.0), metadata like OS startup scripts (pg image needs to start on boot) seems to already be covered by apt/rpm and that tools like Ansible/others leverage for deployments in infrastructures.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tPhW2FLjHG47rS6xJGzP6R30...

and this article was a good read.

:-)

http://www.applepharmacy.co.uk

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meaning, users will confound Candy Crush with The Banner Saga as much as Apple Computers and Apple Pharmacy, which is none. they're only picking on the little guys because they can.

It's Jan 2014, still my power horse and going rock solid, i'm quite happy.

* Python development - Django (South, Celery) - Fabric - Google App Engine

* Deployment - Red Hat Openshift - Heroku - Linode - Puppet - Vagrant

* Javascript - Dojo Toolkit (including Dijit development) - JQuery - Node.js

Resume: http://zemanel.eu/pages/resume.html

I think this is important because it may be transpiring a very bad image to the less informed, because i see Bitcoin as a tool, which will be used for wrong doing as any other. Wish i had the link to a recent article that bashed Bitcoin into oblivion.

Case in point is that, for the first time i remember in the short 32 years of my life, a few weeks back i angrily got up from my metro seat and went sat dow as far as possible of a women sitted right in front of me, which was having a loud and unnecessary family discussion with her mother over the phone. She was:

* very notably by the look on peoples faces, not only causing distress to me but to the surrounding people (later afternoon rush hour)

* i could still hear her clearly 2 carriages away

* she publicly admitted during the conversation that having those kind of public conversations was uncivil but would not turn off the call, by her own will

Same goes for the latest tendency (around here at least) of people playing music loud on their phones, again, on public transportation.

There is civil freedom in public space of course, but there are different types of public spaces; closed quarters public transportation is very different from a town square and can only imagine how discomforting it will feel when i'm sat across someone wearing Google classes, wondering if i'm being recorded or not and most importantly, if i as a citizen complain about my privacy, will be recorded and shown up on Youtube in the next minute.

http://ipythondemo-zemanel.rhcloud.com/1f98e2af-dfdd-4ba5-a5...