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Boooooooooo.

They were probably legally in the right too, considering that Germany is a signatory to the Mine Ban Treaty:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Treaty

Focus on the problem, not the people.

I hated it even more, which is why I now live in the crawlspace of a supermarket.

One thing that bugged me about this today was that after I changed my password on desktop, my mobile session wasn't invalidated. Apparently it's an option for mass password resets, but it really should be mandatory.

Go search for "Prevention Of Terrorism Act." We'll wait.

I've worked with Oleg before he founded 500px. He's one of the most outgoing and enthusiastic people I've ever met. Definitely not a Steve Jobs imitator (I've worked for a couple of those too). Whatever the story was within 500px, I'm pretty sure it did not involve him being an asshole.

They have reduced uptake amongst the next generation and need to find a computing experience they can ruin for them specifically. This is about $20/player, which is pretty good value compared to the cost and effort required to convince school departments to make 100 million kids sit through Excel 101 classes.

That wasn't a dream. As we move closer to the CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN configuration, natural Sensitives will find themselves drawn to installations with high levels of occult activity.

Of course, this represents a national security threat, so we've determined your location using a traceroute-on-steroids that Bob whipped up for us. The Plumbers are en route. If you have any especially nice rugs that you'd like to bequeath to a family member or friend, please make sure you're not standing on them about 3 minutes from now.

But that's the worst month they could have chosen! June would make a lot more sense.

Pretty sure the last thing the world needs is Less Wrong cross-pollinating with Hacker News.

Because reading about his awesome life makes me want to develop a SaaS product and charge for it from Day 1.

Yikes - "over the next 6 months" => MS will be a disaster area until 2015 as people bicker and fight for a position on top of the human life raft.

I use this (and the services of the Crow's Nest as mentioned). It's a neat little app, built to be mobile-friendly. They're probably charging too little for it. (paging patio11...)

A shitty one.

What is with the terrible stock images?

I thought much the same thing. Back in the day getting anything .ie registered was a massive pain, and you could pretty much forget it if you weren't an Irish business or highly motivated individual. They'd even try to impose content restrictions (ie. no adult content)

IIRC it got to the point once that a satirical radio show ran promos for what it claimed was the first porn site on .ie, but the link was actually to a gallery of a disheveled blonde helping to push a car out of a ditch. Which I suppose would count for some people, Rule 34 after all.

Which has nothing to do with hood.ie - overall I'd say it looks interesting, and a great way for a FE dev to build a prototype or v1.0 of a web app. I'd be very nervous about scalability though.

In a decade of managing teams on and off, I have had more melodrama from male staff members than female. The major flameouts and freak-outs have all come from men. Given that I never got to 50% parity and we're talking less than 50 hires overall it would be a mistake to draw any major inferences from my experience, but the same is probably true of hers.

That said, different people need different management styles. But IMO this is mostly cultural, not gender-based. It happens that in Western culture there are gender behavioral norms that you have to allow for. This is something you just have to get over, because a) nowadays you'll never get away with only hiring people just like you and b) the benefits of hiring people from different backgrounds far outweigh the hassle of having to display some sensitivity and treat your reports as individuals.

Oh look, Fink.

Not enough upvotes in the world.

It pretty much describes the startup ecosystem, so it may indeed cut too close to the bone ^_^

tl;dr: we re-implemented imagemaps.

FWIW, whoever built a system that had no redundancy or disaster recovery plan or even properly separated environments was responsible. You were just unlucky.

http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=05312002

(I don't do regular credit.)

Jobs was many things, but not filthy rich at the beginning.

[Deep breath] Your resume is terrible. Not in the sense of not covering off your skills and experience, but in the sense of making you seem like you care about what I need as a hiring manager.

First off, it gives no sense of the importance to the business of anything you've done. You could produce the best-engineered code in the world, but if it's not fit for purpose or it doesn't help us achieve definable and verifiable goals it's junk. You need to show that you understand that. The best way to do that is to include accomplishments like "Wrote a Perl simulator that improved test throughput by X% and saved Y hours of development time." Even better are ones that include "made $Z million dollars". You have to relate your achievements to the goals of the business.

Second, it's got things that would make me worried about even calling you for an interview. Why do you feel the need to specify reasons for leaving positions? That makes me nervous. Why do you need to tell me that your phone handles SMS? That's weird.

This feedback's based on building and leading teams over the past decade or so. I'm younger than you though not by too much. You will probably be dealing with people of my age or younger who are going to be focused on the relevance to the company if what they do, more so than its technical sweetness. You should tailor your message accordingly. I do not advocate dumbing down your resume. I do recommend focusing it on relevance to the business.

I also recently struck out again first as a contractor and then in a purely technical (no people management) full-time role. I got some time with a career consultant which helped immensely, though they were useless when it came to actual recruitment. I'd recommend you do the same, as they could help you tailor your message to the industry.

(I also built a Linux distro back in the day btw (early 2000s), for an PC104-board-based embedded systems project an acquaintance of mine was working on. It's not on my resume, because that project didn't go anywhere, and isn't really relevant to the kind of jobs I want now.)

Now picturing a kaiju-style Regulatory-Leviathon-mecha daintily picking its way through Tokyo and raising a foot over the Mt. Gox offices...

The lack of positive news?

They're saying that they think Google was conned - or at least manipulated into a higher price than the company is worth.

This is the Internet, so I'm sure this random opinion is both well-informed and valid.

...last year.