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Redoubtson John Carmack Leaves Meta

> This was admittedly self-inflicted – I could have moved to Menlo Park after the Oculus acquisition and tried to wage battles with generations of leadership, but I was busy programming, and I assumed I would hate it, be bad at it, and probably lose anyway.

Redoubtson Username cannot contain 'clyde'

Can't be that well, it's not an underaged anime girl.

Redoubtson Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

This feels closer https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwA4jzxVoAAeCSU.jpg

Redoubtson Python 3.12.0 is to remove long-deprecated items

or even just getting rid of sprintf formatting.

Redoubtson Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2022)

Hudson River Trading (HRT) | Python & C++ Engineering Roles | New York City (NYC) / Chicago / Austin / London / Dublin / Singapore | FULLTIME ONSITE REMOTE VISA

We're one of the top automated trading firms (HFT) in the world. Comprised of mathematicians, computer scientists, statisticians, physicists, and engineers; HRT researches and develops fully automated trading strategies and employs them in every market we can. Despite being embedded in the finance world, we pride ourselves on feeling like a tech company on the inside. Code is our business, and engineers are first class citizens.

My team is looking for experienced Python developers, with strong systems knowledge (This is NOT an AI/ML/Web role):

https://grnh.se/6bbfd02a1us (link is the NYC role, but browse the board for other cities and locales)

We also look for strong C++ programmers:

https://grnh.se/4ab726661us (link is the NYC role, but browse the board for other cities and locales)

And plenty of other things you might expect an HFT to do (eg FPGA / Hardware Engineers, Business Development, DevOps / IT, Office Managers, etc):

https://grnh.se/e06708c01us

Redoubtson The United States’ Unamendable Constitution

Hot take: we really should rethink those lines, since they were drawn to balance a power struggle resolved >150 years ago.

Redoubtson San Francisco is spending $1.7M on one public toilet

> it seems like the most anti-diversity thing you can do. Can anybody from SFO relate their experience?

Black people have been leaving SF steadily for 50 years. That's the experience.

Redoubtson San Francisco is spending $1.7M on one public toilet

It's why I left. You can't even fix this.

Redoubtson Retired U.S. generals, admirals take top jobs with Saudi crown prince

> the RAF has gone the furthest, setting ambitious targets to more than double its recruitment of women to hit 40% by 2030, as well as to ensure ethnic minorities make up 20% of new recruits.

“Stopped recruiting white men“ eh?

Redoubtson Lessons learned since posting my salary history publicly

> it burns a chunk of trust if you've demonstrated will to walk away.

I still don't understand this advice. As someone who has done this a few times at the same company, I have not witnessed it. Usually the whole point of an outside offer is to convince someone outside your management chain what you're worth (HR). At that point, the question isn't about loyalty, it's about the value of the work to the company on the whole (does your org even need an expensive engineer).

Redoubtson Facebook reportedly laying off thousands of employees

Hah, does anyone use this?Seems like such an odd product for business…

Redoubtson Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

Oh I don’t know about that. I would say the vast majority of a threads discussion happens in the first 12 hours here. The who’s hiring threads don’t have that much longer of a tail.

Redoubtson Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

As someone on the other side, HN as a funnel isn't much better than a linked in job ad. Scanning through The Who Wants to be Hired thread might be better, but that's obviously more work.

Redoubtson Resumes and cover letters: An extension school resource (2021) [pdf]

New grads typically put school above internships in my experience.

Redoubtson How San Francisco makes it insanely hard to build housing

There's really no other way to read the intent of these policies except for this exact outcome. Black people have been leaving for 50 years straight, and yet people won't even bother to ask why.

Redoubtson US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design

> they are currently replacing coal power at a greater rate then France,

Germany is like 40% coal, and France is maybe 5%. It's easier to reduce at a faster rate when your use is still massive.

Redoubtson The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas

> So why did it make sense for USA to restrict oil pipeline build and reduce oil drilling permits in past 18 months?

Because "Russia is going to do something stupid" wasn't on the radar then.

Redoubtson Learning Go as a Python Developer: The Good and the Bad

Really? Swift feels so much closer than this.

Redoubtson FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores

Dunno, but China blocks all of those.

Redoubtson Why wasn't the steam engine invented earlier? Part II

https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf

https://summerblizzard.tistory.com/87

for the curious

Redoubtson Can Analog Make a Comeback?

Yeah :(

It’s really shocking to me how much easier software was, but the rewards are inversely proportional as well.

Redoubtson When Carl Sagan sued Apple twice (2014)

> Is there a word for this kind of logical fallacy?

You just don't know what a fallacy is.

> Oh, so you want to jail every offender of X?

This is not what I'm saying. I'm disagreeing, and putting forward a stronger, opposite claim.

Redoubtson Elon’s Out

You can find the thoughts of an M&A Lawyer here: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-07-09/elon-s...

Redoubtson When Carl Sagan sued Apple twice (2014)

I don’t think people outside the company should get a say over internal code names at all

To think otherwise is a much stronger arrogance

Redoubtson Why BART uses a nonstandard broad gauge

Only for the route to Marin, which Marin didn’t want and was never built.

Redoubtson Why BART uses a nonstandard broad gauge

Which also comes to full stops outside of stations, because it shares tracks in Connecticut

Redoubtson Former PM Abe Shinzo dies after being shot

The gun has a bizarre sound, I think I’d be confused and bewildered hearing that right behind me too.

Redoubtson Ask HN: I’m 41 and still unmarried – what should I do?

You're not entitled to a relationship either.

Redoubtson Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful (2018)

https://github.com/python-trio/trio

AFAIK it's a very popular and active library still.

Redoubtson Ask HN: I’m 41 and still unmarried – what should I do?

> But that's not here, which (a) is interesting and possibly important; and (b) makes it hard to say much constructive.

Many questions like this all over the submission, but none of them are answered despite her continued comment activity.