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andreis_··on My name still causes SQL errors
Thank you, I was wondering where I knew this guy from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCSUmwP02T8

To be sorta on topic, I lived in many countries and I had to get used to people mangling my name in the most creative ways. As long as there is some form of ID or customer reference, I don't care.

andreis_··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)
You have _the_ best job opening article I've ever seen. Congrats! https://boards.greenhouse.io/khanacademy/jobs/15823
andreis_··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)
Went through the interview process, can confirm the red flags raised in this thread.
andreis_··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)
Same here
andreis_··on F*** You, I Quit – Hiring Is Broken
I've interviewed at Google, and their phone screening questions are exactly that, some basic coding exercise. E.g. how would you serialize a binary tree, or find the largest substring in lexicographical order.
andreis_··on Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics
Not on my computer: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
andreis_··on Gentoo Tesla – T2 Edition
Amazing how many people took the bait (myself included). Thanks for the link!
andreis_··on Steve Miller: The Whole Music Industry Is Fuckin' Gangsters and Crooks
Related-ish: someone linked to this fantastic read [1] today in some HN thread, and after going through it in awe, I come across the guy's Wikipedia page [2]. Yikes!

1: http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/javaorigin.html

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Naughton

andreis_··on Ask HN: Pick startups for YC to fund
Some sort of support for people working on building "lifestyle businesses" as side projects would be fantastic. Not all of us have megalomaniac dreams of running the next AirBnb. Question: would YC Fellowship be a good fit for that?
andreis_··on Unintuitive Things I’ve Learned about Management
Like @overgard, I feel like you show a healthy understanding of the topic. Are there any books you can recommend for programmers turned managers?
andreis_··on Tay – Microsoft A.I. chatbot
Dumb as a cucumber. https://twitter.com/TayandYou/status/712776646890106880
andreis_··on Apple March 2016 Keynote – 10am PDT
The Verge: https://live.theverge.com/apple-iphone-se-ipad-pro-event-liv...

MacRumors: http://www.macrumors.com/2016/03/21/live-coverage-iphone-se-...

TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/21/liveblog-apple-event-keynot...

andreis_··on Original Diablo Pitch Document (1994) [pdf]
Wow, Matt Uelmen is fantastic! Also, he seems to be on Twitter. https://twitter.com/uelmendrado
andreis_··on Mr. Fart’s Favorite Colors
He's a very good writer. I realised when looking him up on Twitter that he's also the one behind the Silicon Valley scripts. https://twitter.com/blakeross
andreis_··on Why We Chose Kubernetes
I was going to recommend the same. If you have a small number of servers and services, Rancher is the perfect solution.