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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 man…

I think FreeBSD code in C is very well organized: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src

My neighbor had a custom made keyboard for his ZX spectrum, based on reed switches: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_switch Mine was manufactured at a tractor plant, and one ha…

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 y…

I wonder whether the following analogy is correct: Walking - library Riding a horse - framework

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 ri…

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.…

Looks like they have upgraded the API version, but have forgotten to update the Web page. Here's the correct API call: https://api.honeybook.com/api/v2/careers/get_careers Maybe th…

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" giv…

Most of Israeli "repatriants" from USSR can

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 * DevZ…

This paper was published back in 2015: https://michael.steindorfer.name/publications/oopsla15.pdf I wonder why the improvement wasn't adopted yet by the Clojure and Scala communiti…

I wonder how this issue affects cloud providers?