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www.nntp.perl.org 6y ago

Perl 5.32.0 Released

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arstechnica.com 6y ago

Facebook permanently deletes accounts of NSO Group workers

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medium.com 7y ago

How Companies Turn Your Data into Money

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github.com 8y ago

Show HN: ViyaDB – In-memory analytical database

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middlewareblog.redhat.com 8y ago

Java EE Moves to Eclipse Foundation

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techcrunch.com 9y ago

Scientists have inserted a GIF of a horse into living bacteria

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www.cs.purdue.edu 9y ago

Writing High Performance Simple SQL Engine in Scala Using LMS [pdf]

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www.pentaho.com 9y ago

New release of Pentaho now supports Spark as transformation engine

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blog.acolyer.org 9y ago

FarmBeats: An IoT platform for data-driven agriculture

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fabxc.org 9y ago

Writing a Time Series Database from Scratch

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www.google.com 9y ago

Out-of-office email patent

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aws.amazon.com 9y ago

AWS startups blog: the Israeli recipe

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blog.daftcode.pl 9y ago

Hype Driven Development

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www.streetinsider.com 9y ago

Broadcom to Acquire Brocade in ~$5.9B

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bugs.launchpad.net 10y ago

Ubuntu bug: Microsoft has a majority market share

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www.tapwithus.com 10y ago

Wearable keyboard that turns anything you can touch into a typing surface

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www.elidedbranches.com 10y ago

The virtues of Laziness and Impatience

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arxiv.org 10y ago

Sybil attacks on Waze

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jsystem.org 10y ago

JSystem Website was hacked

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blog.takipi.com 11y ago

Clojure at Scale: Why Python Just Wasn’t Enough for AppsFlyer

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medium.com 11y ago

10 things I wish I knew on my first day at Google

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tldrify.com 11y ago

Show HN: TLDRify – URL Shortener for text selections

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www.youtube.com 12y ago

Expanding the Input Expressivity of Smartwatches

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developer.mozilla.org 12y ago

App Basics for Firefox OS

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tldr.es 12y ago

Show HN: Create a short link to any quote on the Internet

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www.hack-test.com 12y ago

Webmaster security game

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so.cl 14y ago

Microsoft launches So.cl social network

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stackoverflow.com 14y ago

Try-catch speeding up my code?

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producten.hema.nl 14y ago

Web developers get bored at Hema?! (open and wait)

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Please review my weekend project

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I used to think that it's much harder to find a manager job than a dev job. Eventually I learned that this is not the case - quite the opposite. There is obviously lack of good managers. After reading "Peoplewhare" I understood why. There are two main manager objectives: 1) Advance the project 2) Advance the people. I can't even imagine how one finds a symbiosis between people's ambitions and project needs. Someone has to get hurt.

What always surprises me is the fear about a company having tools to track you. Yes, there are tools, and yes you can be tracked at your workplace. The bigger question is whether your employer really uses this data to judge your contributions, or there are effective review processes where your work can be evaluated rightfully.

GDPR is coming really soon, but it's still unclear how "Big Data companies" prepare to it from technical perspective. In addition to "getting consent" requirement there are "the right to be forgotten" and "the right of access", and it's not obvious how implementing these two are feasible or, at least, cost effective.

Two favorite programs of my childhood:

  10 REM drawing a galaxy
  20 FOR r=1 to 50
  30 CIRCLE 150, 100, r
  40 NEXT r
  50 ...


  10 REM playing a song
  20 BEEP 1,0: BEEP 1,2: BEEP .5,3: BEEP.5,2: BEEP 1,0
  30 ...

People, who downvoted my comment - care to explain? Does downvote button on HN compare to "I don't like what you're saying"?

I'd like to act as devil's advocate for a bit.

Showing ads according to a search term is totally possible, but having no attribution attached to a "click" or to an "impression" give very little advantage for the marketer who is paying for the ads. There are cost models allowing to pay for the actual action (like installing an advertised application) not just for clicks or views. Re-targeting people who had expressed their interest in a product is a useful tool for marketers as well. Having some kind of link back to the advertising campaign, which your users came from along with their LTV allow you to measure campaign productivity, which helps optimize future campaigns. And much more.

I really like the idea of not being tracked on the Internet, but it's seems like currently it's not feasible to remove a tool many marketers get used to.

Here's the list of great technical podcasts I've been listening during commute to my previous work:

* Software Engineering Daily

* Software Engineering Radio

* The Changelog

* DevZen (in Russian)

* Reversim Platforma (in Hebrew)

Look for previous shows, most of the great content is there!

PS: It takes about 5 minutes to drive to my new work, and I really miss them now.

Did you think about your work beyond these four hours a day? I you did, then it makes a lot of sense. Normally, thinking should take a half of the work time, the rest is dedicated for the implementation. So, if the four hours a day is the implementation net time, and another four (may be more) you were chewing all possible solutions, architecture, optimization, learning new technologies to apply, then totally it becomes much more than 16 hours per week job.

I work in a big company now, and I try to split my time exactly the same: four hours - I'm thinking/reading/learning, another four or less - I'm typing some code. And this scheme is proving itself as much more optimal comparing to a daily 10 hours implementation rush in a start-up where I worked before.

The Pivot 12 years ago

From my experience, pivoting does not motivate people who work for a start-up on a salary basis. Once you've made something, which you start liking, your bosses (start-up founders) tell you that they are going to pivot to a different direction. That simply drives away any sense of satisfaction by the work you've done.

Great utility, though is less useful than browser extension that makes it easier to store/restore credentials. Also, lack of mobile support would prevent me from switching to it from Lastpass.