matzipan | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)
Do you guys do summer internships?
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matzipan | 10 years ago | on: Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech industry
My degree should be proof that given some time to study I am capable of implementing it.
matzipan | 10 years ago | on: Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech industry
Applied for Thales UK a few months ago. I was met with 19 pages of personality quiz. Seeing that, I decided I don't want to work there anymore, but I dared myself to finish that questionnaire. It was excruciatingly painful and felt really no regret when I was rejected.
matzipan | 10 years ago | on: Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech industry
The 960 day github streak is an illustration of his passion to code, of the fact that he is doing it for the pleasure of coding. He said it himself that it's not there to show any skill.
matzipan | 10 years ago | on: Why “Uber for X” companies are struggling even as Uber thrives
Why does Uber require scale to return profit?
matzipan | 10 years ago | on: Why “Uber for X” companies are struggling even as Uber thrives
There is no way in hell that loss is going to turn into profit this millenium. Unicorn valuation is basically a very expensive game of hot potato.
matzipan | 10 years ago | on: Why “Uber for X” companies are struggling even as Uber thrives
Uber thrives?
matzipan | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Hyper_ – Simple and Secure Container Cloud
Wait, so is this HyperContainer thing, like... a virtual machine?
matzipan | 10 years ago | on: An 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe [video]
This reminds me of the computer collection one of the lecturers in my department owns (http://www.computermuseum.org.uk/). They have quite a number of historical pieces finishing with a number of Crays, an IBM Blue Gene a few nuclear plant control units.
matzipan | 10 years ago | on: Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Tablet – Pre-order
It's called a Chromebook :P But I do get what you mean
matzipan | 10 years ago | on: FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format
Forgot PNG is lossless :P
matzipan | 10 years ago | on: FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format
You have a point. But I also like fast, snappy websites :P
matzipan | 10 years ago | on: FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format
It was not born out of necessity. It was born because of the way your brain percieves the images. There is no need in adding detail if your brain can live happily without it.
And if FLIF achieves such great lossless compression, imagine what amazing compression you can achieve with lossy compression.
matzipan | 10 years ago | on: FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format
How often do you need lossless images on the web? Almost never.
matzipan | 10 years ago | on: AppImage: Linux apps that run anywhere
More like app ecosystem.
matzipan | 10 years ago | on: FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format
Does anybody understand how lossless JPEG works? To my mind, the whole point of JPEG is to get rid of high-frequency components.
matzipan | 10 years ago | on: Wikimedia Foundation director resigns after uproar over “Knowledge Engine”
That's most of human nature you're describing there.
matzipan | 10 years ago | on: AppImage: Linux apps that run anywhere
My argument is that you'd have cross-distribution appimage maintainers who would press a button and rerun the build script with the new library if it's needed.
matzipan | 10 years ago | on: AppImage: Linux apps that run anywhere
I've been spending a lot of time in the embedded area lately (sub-200Mhz 32k RAM automotive systems, firmware and fpgas) and I agree with you. But there's always tradeoffs. In this case you're trading some memory (which is cheap nowadays) for up-to-date, secure, usable apps, which seems to be a pretty complex thing to do. Nobody solved it so far. The people using node-webkit are offloading the library compatibility issues to the people who built Chromium and are provided with a consistent container to run their application in.
matzipan | 10 years ago | on: AppImage: Linux apps that run anywhere
I believe Ubuntu has done a some progress in this area with Snap packages.