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Do you think there is a market for an extension/service that allow you to browse any site in a lite version?(not by just blocking all optional files...but by adapting the site automatically)

If you’re getting your bang for buck on it as a consumer (and I know I am), then moral arguments are useless. As with all things the market makes the ultimate decisions, not the individual.

You could use the same train of thought for Soylent Green.

I actually tried launching that last year lol, I had a similar code to OP(except I was more thinking about sending jokes or meditation videos)

The conversion rate of the landing page were very low so I didn't go further

I'm curious, were you actually making true friends at work? or was it just people who were nice enough to make it easier to spend the whole day working?

I've never met someone I could remotely call a friend as an employee.

I made a few friends when I was in college, but absolutely none at work.

That's not the question, I'm aware of that.

I'm not asking what it knows I'm asking what it does.

" the blockchain is now reinventing software development. "

what is it reinventing exactly? how to handle data as inefficiently as possible?

Is this yours or did you shamelessly stole it? https://github.com/jserv/facebooc it's mentioned in a comment in the source code of your site

Paul Graham knocks on your door and congratulate you, before giving you a $1 million dollar check, equity-free, for your new startup.

The damage of adding roads and cars is already done.

No.

We build millions of cars every year, they still consume fuel everyday, they still have to be repaired, they still crash and kill a lot more often than any mean of public transportation.

A few farmers using cars is not a problem, but cities like Austin needing that many cars is outrageous.

First of all, there is ghettos INSIDE Paris too:18th, 19th, 20th districts....

Transit lines are not used to confine them to the suburbs, they're the only thing allowing them to actually have any opportunities.

As a poor student I lived in a rich Parisian neighborhood and I also lived in a very poor suburb. I definitely preferred living in comfortable housing with a 40min commute than in a closet with a 10min commute.

There is some places where there is actually no opportunities because of the LACK of public transportation, like in some neighbors in the north of Marseille where there is 80% unemployment.

statistics are saying that caffeine users are less productive

but statistics are only part of the story

I mostly quit a year ago: Less anxious, less insomnia, less diarrhea, less headaches when I don't have caffeine.

Didn't seem to affect me negatively in any area.

The only times when I used caffeine in the past year was when I was sleep deprived(I rarely am now), and in that case modafinil is way more effective.

Are you joking?

Cars and planes are an ecological disaster, I don't know a single place on earth where the ecological impact of public transportation is worse than the impact of cars and planes.

That doesn't change the fact that trains and public transportation in the US are crap.

In the US, can you travel +1000km for next to nothing at +300km/h in an environmentally friendly way?(in most cases you can arrive up to 5 minutes before the train leaves btw, no waiting)

It's easier to travel through Europe than through the US and we're like 40 different countries....

not that much actually because the image are handled at a lower resolution and with a smaller set of colors, to make the models train faster(a lot faster)

so they look pretty much the same to a computer vision algorithm

how to explain the luck of being born in a 1st world country and not in a Somalian village?

how to explain the luck of being a living being on earth and not a rock on mars?

how to explain the luck of the people winning lotteries?

Statistics?

If you do Math.floor(Math.random() * 10000000000) and you land on 0, how do you explain the luck of landing on 0?

There is nothing to explain really, sounds like the kind of ridiculous question you hear from theists

"but they can be removed by doing a clean install or just using a brand new (known clean) VM disk image."

Not necessarily ?(firmware, bios etc...)

No.

When I was using windows for gaming my mindset was basically to act like my computer was compromised from day 1 and everything I was typing could be read by someone else. Using an antivirus monitoring everything I do or mining behind my back would be like actually making sure I was compromised from day one....

Anything that needs to be a bit secure goes on linux, and I don't use antivirus on linux either. If you don't download garbage and aren't directly targeted by a state actor or world-class hackers you should be fine in most situations on linux, so I don't see the point. And if you are actually targeted by this kind of people an antivirus won't save you. A sandbox and acting smart might.

Generating a realistic city and a self driving AI are two wildly different tasks

It's a good career move. But it's also contributing to an evil company.

I only heard negative feedback about toptal

I started the process and they ended up spamming me for days/weeks so I schedule an interview before a nonsense deadline or they'll lock my account, I didn't go further...

Turing.com seems better, but REALLY selective

there is no labor shortage there is benefits and decent salaries shortage

the fact that nobody is volunteering to become a slave doesn't mean there is a labor shortage

I don't think anybody is dreaming of being an underpaid delivery worker for ubereats with zero benefits, high risk of accidents, and just overall terrible working conditions

when we invented aqueducts who cared about the water delivery workers?

those are terrible jobs and they should be automated/replaced

maybe they pity the students who are going to get cold pizza 2 hours late?

I don't see how coding in front of someone(no matter the problem) can be worse than a random non technical guy trying to guess if you're lying or not

"many liars and cheats" I guess it takes one to know one?

A decent technical test would weed out any actual liar, no? or do we need people who thinks they're fbi interrogators?

Look it's okay to not know what every language does, or which library is doing what.

But a lot of them are not even using the tools at their disposal correctly or are just being wildly dishonest and incompetent, a few examples:

-In the past 2 weeks I got contacted 3 times for expert JAVA/JEE jobs, java is NOT on my resume/linkedin/github, you don't have to know what it is to search for a keyword

-I got contacted for a Senior SRE role by a DECACORN, and actually invited to an interview, I'm neither a senior, nor doing SRE, none of these things are mentioned on my profile

-I get contacted for on-site jobs 1000miles away, when I'm basically mentioning everywhere that I only do full remote, even WORSE, sometimes they start by saying "open to remote/remote friendly" only to tell me after a few messages: "oh btw this requires moving to [FARAWAY_CITY], are you ok with that?"

-even worse than all that, yesterday I got contacted by a headhunter, after a terrible experience with him and a lot of time wasted, I guessed the name of the company and messaged the CEO, turns out they're not even one of their clients: they just message every dev possible then when someone say yes they message the CEO to TRY to sell them your profile for a public job posting

-they don't want to share information, we have to play a cat and mouse game to know basic stuff like what's the actual stuff I'm going to build, for what salary, using which technical stack, remotely or on the other side of the country, I feel like I'm playing a crappy game of "Guess Who?"

If this is not ignorance/incompetence or downright villainy, then what is it?

I think some industries are rotten to the core and this is one of them, there is nothing wrong with saying it. Do you have empathy for spammers?bankers?insurers?

I'm not even building anything yet, just thinking. If what I described is "simpler" that linkedin tools, either their algos don't work or the recruiters are too incompetent to use them correctly.

also my post wasn't really "rate my thoughts" but "how would you fix tech recruiting?" i.e how would you build a better process than unqualified spam?

Also my theory on Linkedin, is that they have absolutely no incentive to make actually effective tools.

A recruiter have no other choices, Linkedin is basically a monopoly, if they build a tool that is actually effective at recruiting, you'd need less recruiters, so less linkedin memberships, and more engineering/processing power needed on Linkedin side, they have nothing to win by making good tools to find candidates, they just have to look good enough to purchase a membership since they have basically no competitors. It's kind of like Google Search, it's ineffective and infested by ads, by design, for money, they're just a monopoly and can get away with it.

No I'm considering making tools for recruiters and/or candidates.

I probably don't understand all their problems, but it certainly looks like a lot of them come their...how do i put this? either ignorance or stupidity.

I'm not just talking about the crappy companies with low budgets. On more than one occasion, it was for companies with big budgets(either unicorns, scale-ups or startups who just raised millions, and it really was the recruiter/headhunter who was screwing it up.

One of my first strategy would be to use a model to detect the candidates who are the most likely to quit their jobs(I was about to build that but I saw a startup launched something similar) (of course I shouldn't even mention "open to work" or out of work devs, that's obvious)

2nd, I would do scoring based on exact keywords matches(some of them don't even do that correctly), then on similar technologies, ie:angular/react/vue, java/c#, on which roles they used it at, for how long etc...

3rd target the employees of companies with low/declining glassdoor ratings

4th, I may scrape github accounts, to find people who just started learning a technology but may not have it mentioned on their job experience

What I don't get is, you can only contact 100 to a few hundreds people per week on linkedin, so why they do they target us so badly? Sometimes it looks like they just look for the word developer and send a message to the 100 first results

It's not like they even use fake accounts to have unlimited messages, I've rarely seen recruiters with even just 2 accounts, so they waste the small amount of messages they have on totally awful matches

I'm certain with a decent algorithm and 10-50 linkedin accounts I could do the job of 10-50 headhunters

I guess what I meant is:why is no one doing better than them?

Most of the decent approaches I've seen were either coming from founders or once from an ex-engineer who became a recruiter, basically never from a typical recruiter, why is no one obliterating them?