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The Anatomy of a Technical Hiring Process

psergeant — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 02:42:08 +0000

Article URL: https://careersjs.com/developers/how-to-get-paid-more/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24477391

Points: 2

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Patterns for Asynchronous Operations with Async

psergeant — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 23:15:40 +0000

Article URL: https://careersjs.com/magazine/async-patterns/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21021680

Points: 1

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New comment by psergeant in "At Doomed Flight’s Helm, Pilots May Have Been Overwhelmed in Seconds"

psergeant — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 11:04:30 +0000

I follow all of that, sure. But I still don’t think you can blame either on “bottom of the barrel staff” given that the proximate cause appears to be much much closer to the money than them.

New comment by psergeant in "Georgia’s secretary of state posts personal details of absentee voters online"

psergeant — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 02:47:10 +0000

All this. It’s surveillance where your observation comes into its own tho.

New comment by psergeant in "Raku Perl 6.d [pdf]"

psergeant — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 09:39:31 +0000

mst doing some interesting work with babble, a babel for Perl 5. Hoping we get a typescript workalike in Perl.

New comment by psergeant in "Mundane: Rust cryptography library backed by BoringSSL"

psergeant — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 06:14:44 +0000

From the install notes, can someone tell me why BoringSSL needs Perl to build?

New comment by psergeant in "Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing (2017)"

psergeant — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 18:23:05 +0000

I get asked for single characters of mine a lot

New comment by psergeant in "The End Is Near for Mobile Apps?"

psergeant — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 08:17:34 +0000

> I don't know what the story is in Apple-land

The walled garden is great and protects my privacy.

Perl 6, now also officially known as “Raku”

psergeant — Sun, 04 Nov 2018 15:14:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/9twsk1/its_raku/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18376191

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by psergeant in "The New Retirement Plan: Save Almost Everything, Spend Virtually Nothing"

psergeant — Sat, 03 Nov 2018 19:44:38 +0000

There is a “web” link on this article. If you click it, you’ll find a search engine link to the article which will give you access

New comment by psergeant in "Housing can’t both be a good investment and be affordable"

psergeant — Sat, 03 Nov 2018 09:43:10 +0000

We’ve also not convinced our peers to vote in anywhere near the numbers that the boomers do.

New comment by psergeant in "Housing can’t both be a good investment and be affordable"

psergeant — Sat, 03 Nov 2018 09:40:32 +0000

> That's tantamount to saying that life now is on balance worse than it was in the pre-boomer period

I don’t follow your logic there at all

New comment by psergeant in "Run Perl in the browser with WebPerl"

psergeant — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 10:06:09 +0000

my $self = shift;

can fuck right off.

New comment by psergeant in "How Curry Became a Japanese Naval Tradition"

psergeant — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 08:22:11 +0000

> Internet and satellite communication had existed in the days of Mahabharata. How could Sanjaya (the charioteer of King Dhritarashtra in the epic) give a detailed account and description to the blind king about the battle of Kurukshetra? It means internet was there, the satellites and that technology was there in this country at that time”

> Mr Deb said that while European nations and the United States may claim to have invented the internet, the technology mostly began in India and was built by its people.

> "Internet and satellite system had existed in India lakhs of years ago. The richest culture belongs to our nation and I feel proud of it"

New comment by psergeant in "Run Perl in the browser with WebPerl"

psergeant — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 00:54:30 +0000

> That doesn't prevent launching a new ship.

Amen. I’d love to see a rebrand to Rakudo and Pumpkin, where the latter is Perl5 plus some long-overdue backwards incompatible changes, but also 99% compatible.

New comment by psergeant in "The City That Had Too Much Money"

psergeant — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 15:34:21 +0000

> the UK

Probably not for much longer, given the rather interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexplained_wealth_order

New comment by psergeant in "The next big restaurant chain may not own any kitchens"

psergeant — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 04:21:35 +0000

> the choice is a fake one

I can’t buy a Whopper at Pizza Express, the parent companies of both are owned by different people, both parent companies have different supply chains and the franchising rules for both are separate.

In what way don’t I have a choice? Because Compass are contracting the cleaning, logistics, and personnel (who, for what it’s worth, will go through entirely different franchise-mandated training)? Seems a bit of a reach.

New comment by psergeant in "The next big restaurant chain may not own any kitchens"

psergeant — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 04:16:09 +0000

> thousands of food carts and trucks

And indeed restaurants themselves in the UK, especially pub ones, will order quite a lot of their food partially prepped already

New comment by psergeant in "Listen to a SIM-Jacking, Account-Stealing Ransom"

psergeant — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 03:47:43 +0000

Sounds like a good reason to use a password manager and good backups to store them?

New comment by psergeant in "Naming Names, Turks Turn Up Heat on Saudis in Consulate Case"

psergeant — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 18:27:39 +0000

While I’m sure there are occasional counter examples, weren’t these largely from either war zones or with the cooperation of the host country?