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20171026on “Manager READMEs” from some tech companies

This is excellent and exactly the motivation I need to keep hustling to stay independent.

20171026on How China Is Buying Its Way into Europe

You can't make a similar article because foreign investments are tighly controlled except for cases where business processes or IP can be studied and eventually expropriated.

No investment fund in the west would be able to just walk into China and start buying up real estate, infrastructure, and large private enterprises.

20171026on The Unhealthy Desire for Prestige

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance_hierarchy

20171026on Ask HN: Are there any reasonable alternatives to MacBook Pro for developer?

I've had my 9560 for about a year and love it as well. I run Ubuntu on it flawlessly.

20171026on Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)

Did you apply for a social media marketing position?

20171026on Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)

Does publishing YouTube programming videos and career advice count as social media?

20171026on A Clojure learning journey

Any suggestions for someone who's a competent developer, and an excellent communicator with a knack for explaining things to a non-technical audience?

20171026on A Clojure learning journey

Would you share info about how you transitioned out of coding? I'm looking to do the same.

20171026on Designing Distributed Systems E-Book

Seconded. One of the best technical books I've ever read. Wish more were like that.

20171026on Switzerland “Should Become the Crypto-Nation” Says Minister

https://www.finews.com/news/english-news/29947-monetas-bankr...

The couple now accuses Gevers, who also invested in the ICO, of helping himself to an outsize bonus from the proceeds. Gevers remains the foundation head, and is poised to emerge from the conflict as the unexpected winner, as finews.com reported last week.

20171026on Coming Soon: Machine-Checked Proofs in Everyday Development

I was thinking the same thing. I just got an Ethereum certification but I don't want to just develop Solidity contracts at an hourly basis that just get hacked after I leave.

Would the resources in the original post be worth looking into to build secure contracts?

20171026on Introducing the Crypto University

Sounds really soft: https://thecryptouniversity.io/p/the-crypto-masterclass

20171026on Accuracy dominates bias and self-fulfilling prophecy [pdf]

Hungary?

20171026on “Why I cancelled my ReactiveConf talk”

I'm non-white and live in Eastern Europe. I love the humor here. :-D

20171026on “Why I cancelled my ReactiveConf talk”

So Eastern European.

I was at an Elastic conference in Poland where there were all sorts of ads which would be considered offensive here. Like one depicting a Native American chief in full head dress spouting some vague Indian-ish proverb with a tech slant.

20171026on SEC fines Zenefits and former CEO for misleading investors

We as a civilization are two missed meals away from chaos. When that happens, there will be those who eat and those who starve.

Laws are just there to compress the variance of outcomes. Where as in the past you would've starved, today you just struggle to get by.