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New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?

Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting? 774 by genedangelo | 141 comments on Hacker News. In May of 1963, I started my first full-time job as a computer programmer for Mitchell Engineering Company, a supplier of steel buildings. At Mitchell, I developed programs in Fortran II on an IBM 1620 mostly to improve the efficiency of order processing and fulfillment. Since then, all my jobs for the past 57 years have involved computer programming. I am now a data scientist developing cloud-based big data fraud detection algorithms using machine learning and other advanced analytical technologies. Along the way, I earned a Master’s in Operations Research and a Master’s in Management Science, studied artificial intelligence for 3 years in a Ph.D. program for engineering, and just two years ago I received Graduate Certificates in Big Data Analytics from the schools of business and computer science at a local university (FAU). In addition, I currently hold the desig
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New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology

Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology 598 by trianx | 382 comments on Hacker News. This just landed in my inbox. The discussion on hackernews ( https://ift.tt/3c2KiNO ) surely helped Triplebyte understand that it was a mistake to create public profiles of their users by default: Email by Triplebyte CEO, Ammon: --- Hi xxxxx, There’s no other way to put this--I screwed up badly. On Friday evening, I sent an email to you about a new feature called public Triplebyte profiles. We failed to think through the effects of this feature on our community, and made the profiles default public with an option to opt out. Many of you were rightfully angry. I am truly sorry. As CEO, this is my fault. I made this decision. Effective immediately, we are canceling this feature. You came to us with the goal of landing a great software engineering job. As part of that, you entrusted us with your personal, sensitive information, including both the fact that you are job searching as well as the resu
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New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public

Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public 596 by winston_smith | 256 comments on Hacker News. Fortunately this email made it through my spam filter. Looks like they want to take on LinkedIn and are planning to seed it by making existing accounts public unless you opt OUT within the next week: Hey [redacted], I’m excited to announce that we are expanding the reach of your Triplebyte profile. Now, you can use your Triplebyte credentials on and off the platform. Just like LinkedIn, your profile will be publicly accessible with a dedicated URL that you can share anywhere (job applications, LinkedIn, GitHub, etc). When you do well on a Triplebyte assessment, your profile will showcase that achievement (we won’t show your scores publicly). Unlike LinkedIn, we aim to become your digital engineering skills resume — a credential based on actual skills, not pedigree. The new profiles will be launching publicly in 1 week. This is a great opportunity to update
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New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list? 613 by iameoghan | 452 comments on Hacker News. For me a couple of interesting technology products that help me in my day-to-day job 1. Hasura 2. Strapi 3. Forest Admin (super interesting although I cannot ever get it to connect to a hasura backend on Heroku ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 4. Integromat 5. Appgyver There are many others that I have my eye on such as NodeRed[6], but have yet to use. I do realise that these are all low-code related, however, I would be super interested in being made aware of cool other cool & upcoming tech that is making waves. What's on your 'to watch' list? [1] https://hasura.io/ [2] https://strapi.io/ [3] https://ift.tt/2p6eimS [4] https://ift.tt/1N3LkvM [5] https://ift.tt/1T5iPym [6] https://nodered.org/
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New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?

Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites? 410 by cJ0th | 165 comments on Hacker News. Discovering unknown paths of the web seems almost impossible with google et al.. Are there any earch engines which exclude or at least penalize results from, say, top 500 websites?
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New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: Call Mom

Tell HN: Call Mom 558 by benatkin | 208 comments on Hacker News. I remembered this post from six years ago, and thought it would be good to have a post like it on HN today. It's especially important to call important people in your life today with the pandemic, both for the caller and the person (or people) being called. It may also be worth setting up a Zoom (or Jitsi Meet, or Google Hangouts, or Facebook, or another group video call service) gathering. I joined one for my little brother's birthday late last month, and it was really good for feeling connected. https://ift.tt/RCxrJ0
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New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips?

Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips? 446 by kanyethegreat | 455 comments on Hacker News. I recently started integrating tmux and vim into my workflows. Obviously, it was a huge efficiency booster. What are some other tools (custom built or off-the-shelf), hotkeys, workflows that were game-changing for you as a dev? I'm interested in hearing about anything and everything (stuff from ctrl+l to clear the terminal to little-known git commands to larger-scale strategies like CI/CD)
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New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?

Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives? 543 by capableweb | 130 comments on Hacker News. Since Keybase is being acquired by Zoom (see https://ift.tt/3bbkVJc ), it would be lazy to not start looking at alternatives already I myself mostly use the following features from Keybase: Chat, KBFS, Git repositories and encrypting messages sent out-of-band via PGP in Keybase (and the various cryptographic tools [signing, validation etc]) What alternatives have the features outlined above, but are ideally either FOSS or at least not run by a for-profit company? I mainly used Keybase to make using those features easier, so please don't suggest the cli of gnupgp (or similar) as alternatives.
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New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?

Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why? 483 by aspyct | 517 comments on Hacker News. I've been managing servers for quite some time now. At home, on prem, in the cloud... The more I learn, the more I believe cloud is the only competitive solution today, even for sensitive industries like banking or medical. I honestly fail to see any good reason not to use the cloud anymore, at least for business. Cost-wise, security-wise, whatever-wise. What's a good reason to stick to on-prem today for new projects? To be clear, this is not some troll question. I'm curious: am I missing something?
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New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How do you manage self-study?

Ask HN: How do you manage self-study? 478 by ruph123 | 162 comments on Hacker News. I often feel overwhelmed by the amount of things I either wish to know or that I should know already. Be it theoretical knowledge about ML, CS, mechanics, math topics. Or lack of experience e.g in some algorithms I need to understand, control problems, programming lanuages. And I really struggle to organize a propper study schedule. What should I do next? Should I continue learning this one programming language? Continue reading this ML book? Try to set up and solve some control problems? For each topic I would like to learn, I already have the right material (books, problems to solve, etc.), so at least this is not a problem. Often I am so overwhelmed that I just watch stuff on youtube. I wish I had a tool or found a methodology to a) stay focused on the things I want to learn and b) to somehow track my progress. Are there any tools or methodologies that you can recommend? Please don't tell me &
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New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020) 535 by whoishiring | 533 comments on Hacker News. Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE. Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name, please explain what your company does. Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here. Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job. Searchers: Try https://ift.tt/2Yk5tc6 , https://ift.tt/2Ib3ASF , https://hnhired.com/ , https://ift.tt/1ZbOG0z , https://ift.tt/1RJIwB2 . Don't miss these other fine threads: Who wants to be hired? https://ift.tt/2zPeY7F Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://ift.tt/3bWxmtg
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