aaron465

Advertising and AI colliding is gonna be horrible, but their post is also just an ad itself

Exactly this; that's why for both Messenger and WhatsApp the APIs are very closed and protected so that nobody can make any third party clients.

E2EE is great but does not help at all if you don't want Facebook to read your messages and profile you based on their content / who you talk to etc.

HDMI cables too!

As a techie who understands that there are many different types of USB-C and HDMI cables depending on what you need to use it for, it's an incredible amount of effort to find the right thing to buy.

When you consider that most brick and mortar stores (I'm looking at you, Currys PC World) massively rip you off with £100+ gold plated HDMI cables, and the search results on Amazon are filled with knock-off Nigel rubbish (or worse, listings that out-right lie to you)... it's a total minefield!

Imagine what it's like for the average consumer! A complete disaster!

Oh my god yes! Who TF even invented paste with formatting?!

It depends, you just need the right culture and management which respects and trusts the employees.

I love it, and my manager has never rejected a PTO request, it’s just a formality. I took more than the UK standard 25 days in my first year and we haven’t talked about PTO once.

In fact, sometimes people say stuff like “oh I’m gonna go to $place for two weeks and I’ll just work in the daytime and vacation in the evenings and weekend” and management will actively encourage just taking the time off and enjoying it, coming back refreshed instead.

I just don't store anything locally that I don't mind losing. If we are talking about software development then everything is tracked in git. If I'm still part way through some changes at the end of the day I will just `git commit -am "wip"` and push to a remote branch for safe keeping. Then you can rework the commit[s] locally before opening / flagging the PR for review.

Documents and stuff are all in google docs/drive or something like that, all my dotfiles / config is in a git repo. I even work like this on my personal machine which is also used for gaming. In case of failure I can just wipe the OS drive and start fresh without any worries.

Confluent | Remote US & Europe | confluent.io/jobs

My team is hiring in the US and Europe; we are the Kubernetes Platform Team and we have a GoLang service (kubernetes operator + grpc api) which manages the lifecycle of all the kubernetes clusters in Confluent Cloud. We look after thousands of k8s clusters and tens of thousands of nodes across aws, gcp, and azure.

Confluent cloud is an Apache Kafka (and more) SaaS.

Apply direct or contact me on atrout @ company domain for more info.

Confluent | REMOTE or London, Mountain View, Other office locations

Confluent helps businesses "Set Data in Motion" with Apache Kafka (and related services like schema registry, connect e.t.c.). We have a fully managed / SaaS cloud offering (Confluent Cloud) as well as "Confluent Platform" which offers tooling (inc. Kubernetes Operator) and support for running Kafka on your own infrastructure.

I joined a little under three months ago as an SRE; my team is spread across Europe and was fully remote prior to COVID-19. There are also major offices in London, UK and Mountain View, California as well as some smaller offices in other locations.

There are many positions open across all teams in Engineering: https://www.confluent.io/careers#open-positions

Stack varies by team/area; there is a lot of Java (Kafka/connect etc are all Java) but a lot of our internal services and tools are written in GoLang.

I can be found on LinkedIn if you would like to ask any questions before applying: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aarontrout