lordbusiness | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why is it so hard to find remote jobs in Europe?
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lordbusiness | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why is it so hard to find remote jobs in Europe?
lordbusiness | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why is it so hard to find remote jobs in Europe?
You're most likely looking in the wrong place. The usual customary recruiting channels are setup to be usual and customary.
You need to find the remote job boards. Oh, and networking, networking, networking.
lordbusiness | 11 years ago | on: Why Hasn’t the World Been Destroyed in a Nuclear War Yet?
I couldn't agree more. Expansionist policies at the expense of the incumbent population are less and less accepted.
It's difficult to be convinced of this assertion when we have ongoing wars, but broadly speaking we are evolving to talk it out as opposed to fight it out.
lordbusiness | 11 years ago | on: A Rust Contributor Tries Their Hand at Go
My hat is off to the author of this piece; what a beautifully written fair evaluation of two technologies.
Kudos.
lordbusiness | 11 years ago | on: On problems with threads in Node.js
Heh - maybe you're right, and I wish the world were as you describe. :-)
There is however a deeper underlying issue; decorum is important and communities that exhibit genuine 'niceness' are nice. Communities that allow, or worse, overlook dark behaviour degenerate.
Flagging and down voting is one part of the solution, but when the nastiness reaches a level that the nice people start to disengage and go elsewhere, it's clear to me that we need another element of control. Perhaps algorithmically detecting repeat offenders? Perhaps more granularity with down votes?
There's are differences between a down vote because one disagrees with the author, and a down vote because one believes the author is ill-informed and spreading misinformation, and a down vote because the author is being downright juvenile.
A number of hits on the third case against a given author on multiple comments could conceivably constitute an automatic warning and / or banning system.
I don't want people to be unable to express their views, but when the mean-spirited people who contribute nothing but nonsense start to represent a large percentage of a community, it's reasonable to see if anything can be done.
lordbusiness | 11 years ago | on: On problems with threads in Node.js
Do you realize that comments like this are what is breaking the community here at HN?
Are you aware that people like you are destroying something that was once brilliant?
HN is going through an Eternal September.
lordbusiness | 11 years ago | on: NASA data API
I had an aw shucks moment too! api.predictthesky.org doesn't resolve, and there is nothing on the API GitHub repo. The landing page says 2013 so I'm wondering if this got abandoned. Would have been really neat to play with.
lordbusiness | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: What OS do you run?
OS: Mac OS X (But likely switching to Ubuntu soon)
Hardware: Retina MacBook Pro (But XPS 13 Dev Edition will be next)
Tools: Atom, Git, whatever toolkits necessary for my current working language.
Edit: formatting and typo
lordbusiness | 11 years ago | on: SSLMate – Buy SSL certs from the command line
If ever there was proof that "someone out there has the same idea as you" is true, this is it; I've been conceiving an open to audit public, free CA for the past couple of weeks.
It looks like my dream is coming true!
lordbusiness | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Anyone using a “no hands” setup for programming?
http://www.looknohands.me/ This New Zealand designer has a great setup that works for her.
lordbusiness | 11 years ago | on: Meteor 1.1 Released – Now Supporting Microsoft Windows and MongoDB 3.0
+1 vote for a relational alternative. I am a fan of NoSQL, and I am a fan of Mongo, but I'd love to have the power of Meteor with a relational backend too.
lordbusiness | 11 years ago | on: Meteor 1.1 Released – Now Supporting Microsoft Windows and MongoDB 3.0
The tooling is where Meteor really shines. I must admit I found React to be quite cumbersome to get off the ground, in contrast Meteor is pure bliss.
It hasn't all been roses; I've had plenty of obstacles to overcome as I've learnt the framework, its capabilities and its limitations, but the community has been helpful and I can honestly say that working with Meteor is on the whole very slick.
https://atmospherejs.com/ is your close friend. Iron Router is a very, very close friend.
Good luck!
lordbusiness | 11 years ago | on: DDoS attack on GitHub has stopped? Status is green again.
Not by a long-shot; this was reported as a big deal (and I'd love to have more insight and data available), but this kind of thing has been going on for many years.
Ask your local DNS admin for some war stories. :-)
lordbusiness | 11 years ago | on: React Native is now open source
Ok now I'm even more excited!
Thanks! :-D
lordbusiness | 11 years ago | on: React Native is now open source
I'm very excited about this, but it's worth highlighting this from the FAQ:
Q. Can I submit my own React Native app to the App Store?
A. Not yet, but you will be able to soon. If you build something you want to submit to the App Store, come talk to us ASAP.
lordbusiness | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: I am the dumbest person in the room. What should I do?
Life is too short to spend it being unhappy and unfulfilled. If the situation is as you present, then get out as fast as you can, and go find something you can care about with people who are stimulating to be around.
Always vote with your feet.
lordbusiness | 11 years ago | on: New Jersey legalizes direct Tesla sales
Agreed on this point.
How will the balance of power manifest when Google, Apple, Uber, others with deep pockets start selling cars without haggling or BS in a 'car store'?
The future is bright after all!
lordbusiness | 11 years ago | on: I Hate the News (2006)
Not really, though I don't claim this has been a truly scientific study. :-)
Generally, the principle relies on "if it's not important [1], people don't talk about it". In other words, anything someone directly or indirectly mentions to me may be of value, everything else is just soundtrack. [2]
Further, I often find that news that does matter comes to me from the likes of a more considered periodical; I learnt a lot of fact-based detail regarding the Alberta oil sands from National Geographic, and I learn about peace process break downs from twitter users I follow far quicker and with less bias than from mainstream media outlets.
Local news tends to be handled by random people I meet on the street. It's effective so far!
[1] This is an overly burdened word in this context. Darfur is very important, but we rarely hear about it, for example. What I mean in this context is "relevant enough to daily life to stop me in my tracks and get my attention". It's worth highlighting here that a lot of very important news doesn't make it to us via mainstream media because mainstream media selects for sales and / or target audience bias / interests, ergo in that sense, I'm actually NOT hearing about important things by tuning in to traditional mainstream media.
[2] People murdering each other due to orders from invisible people in the sky is going to be a soundtrack to my life thanks to the era I live in. I know this happens. It will continue to happen for my life at least. No, I don't need daily reminders of this universal constant. The way I conduct my life and my advocacy against such acts will not be altered because I don't get those daily reminders.
lordbusiness | 11 years ago | on: I Hate the News (2006)
I've been running an experiment for the past several months to outsource relevant news curation.
It's super simple and super passive. Basically I only read news brought to my attention organically; social media, word on the street which I later look up, etc.
Thus far I haven't missed anything of genuine humanity-shaking importance, my emotional state has improved, and I have much more time for reading, hacking, and all other aspects of my life.
It resonates with the "millennials consume news differently" piece submitted elsewhere on HN actually.
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Big companies that are incorporated in many countries will just employ you in the most relevant country (including your own).
Smaller companies can't do this (overhead, financial burden, regulation, blah blah blah), so they just hire you as an independent contractor. You get paid by whatever arrangement, and file your taxes accordingly. They pay an invoice file their taxes accordingly.