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derFunk··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)
ottonova | DevOps and JS Dev | 65-85k€ | Munich, Bavaria, Germany | Onsite | https://www.ottonova.de/en/jobs

We're creating the best digital-only private health insurance for Germany. We're a young funded #InsurTech startup. Bright future ahead! Highly tech centric company, senior IT team.

DevOps Job Ad Is also here: http://stackoverflow.com/jobs/137445/senior-devops-engineer-...

Contact: careers@ottonova.de

derFunk··on Ask HN: What macOS email client do you use?
Mail.app but only because integrated GPG support (with OpenGPG tools).
derFunk··on Ask HN: Do you make more than $200K? What did you have to do?
Side question: What is the current average rent per apartment in SF/SV? What's the current average income? This report from 04/2016 states around $118k/year for income, probably base, and $4,5k rent: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-05/san-franc... - What do you think - still up to date and realistic?
derFunk··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)
At the young startup ottonova we're creating a new digital private health insurance for Germany. We're looking for a full time on-Site Senior Android Developer for our Munich office. English is our primary language, we'll support with relocation/Visa, we're very tech centric and also count ourselves to the FinTech and InsureTech hype. Job Ad: https://www.ottonova.de/en/jobs/senior-android-developer
derFunk··on I made an iPhone game with PhoneGap and won't do it again
I used PhoneGap professionally 4 years ago for hybrid apps. Since I stopped using it my sentiment is "Cordova has to die".
derFunk··on I made an iPhone game with PhoneGap and won't do it again
Monogame is impressing and open source, also for PS4 development. Also Xamarin is awesome if you're into .NET.
derFunk··on I made an iPhone game with PhoneGap and won't do it again
Never experienced frame lag with Crossy Roads, and I played it a bit. Something like this _can_ happen with Unity, but if it happens it's 99,99% bad programming, and not the engine's fault, unless you do graphically extensive things, which Crossy Roads certainly didn't.
derFunk··on Ask HN: Any good resources for finding software jobs abroad?
Yes, you're okay and safe with €60-80k in Berlin.
derFunk··on I lived in Korea for 5 years. Here's what happened when I came home to Nebraska
You're probably right, I should have changed the headline here (I didn't write the story), but I found it so interesting and worth sharing that I totally not thought about it. Also the link to "reverse culture shock" in the story added a reason for me to share it here (doesn't always have to be about tech, I personally enjoy non-tech stories on HN a lot, because my whole life is tech already :) )
derFunk··on “PayPal has demanded that we monitor data traffic as well as customers’ files”
AFAIK PayPal only do this if they have internal proof that laws are already being broken on the according websites. I don't know Seafile, but the same happened to other file hosters in the past which silently and willingly accepted that copyrighted material is exchanged by using their services.
derFunk··on Guccifer 2.0: DNC's servers hacked by a lone hacker
I agree. This leads to the question what the heck Bing is translating here.
derFunk··on devRant
I'm then going to switch to another SSO devRant will be offering after one service shut down.
derFunk··on devRant
Initial thought after installing: I'd love to see a SSO with Google/GitHub etc. Creating accounts is so 2012 ;)
derFunk··on 31 years later, we found the flight recorders
If I entered the coordinates correctly, this is the location on Google Maps: 16°40'08.5"S 67°46'26.8"W

https://goo.gl/maps/cYD3aXH5PuN2

derFunk··on Monument Valley in Numbers: Year 2
Very well deserved. This inventiveness has to be awarded. I'd be interested in even more numbers. What did they spend etc..
derFunk··on Show HN: IPsec VPN Server in Docker Container
Great work. How easy would it be to add support for multiple VPN user accounts?
derFunk··on Tesla crash after flying 82 feet in the air shows importance of a crumple zone
First thing you should do with an Old-timer like this is replacing the original steering rack with a collapsible one, because like you said, it would perforate your head or torso on a front crash.
derFunk··on Linux Sysadmin/DevOps Interview Questions
That's a good pool of questions to choose from. How long do you think would not take an applicant to fill all of the questions?

My questionnaire for the same purpose (hiring) has 30 similar questions, yet including some that query soft skills.

E.g.: "you got the following email from a customer, please write down your answer to her inquiry".

Or: "the CFO, the CEO and the CTO are approaching you with the following different requests, how do you react to them and in which order would you process them".

derFunk··on Linux Sysadmin/DevOps Interview Questions
Ist just remembered only "xvzf" 20 years ago, not knowing the meaning of each switch back then.
derFunk··on Automated Testing for League of Legends
Wow, this is pretty sophisticated and commendable. I'd love to have the resources to do something similar. In contrast to 'standard' application development, automated testing is really rare in the non-AAA games industry. At least in terms of logic-/active gameplay testing. It's pure luxury, you can only do it if you can afford it. In a project-based work for hire game shop this is an almost unthinkable thing to do, because you don't get it sold to your contractors/customers. They just won't pay for the effort you don't our directly into the game. The only thing you can do is to develop your own automated testing framework over time and over projects, which is a tedious thing to do because you cannot really focus on it (because it's not a first class citizen in your project schedule).
derFunk··on How we found a bug in Amazon ELB
Really interesting. Only two weeks ago we've been told by an AWS Architect that "if you need persistent TCP connections to servers avoid the ELB and connect straight with your [scaled] EC2 instances". This was for a higher load scenario though.
derFunk··on Atari co-founder: mobile games make me want to throw my phone
I envy you.
derFunk··on Atari co-founder: mobile games make me want to throw my phone
Yes, I preordered the PS4 VR, that's going to be awesome.
derFunk··on Atari co-founder: mobile games make me want to throw my phone
Game Dev CTO here, having worked with Spil already I'm curious with what he will come up. I totally agree that we need a change in mobile game design. I love the tech behind the games, designing backends which quickly have to serve millions of players. But I'm hardly actually playing mobile games, because they are repetitive, always the same pattern, hence boring. I love disruptive games which bring in new tech like Supercell's Clash Royale, which took real-time gaming on mobile to a new and never seen before level.

On a funny side note, Nolan has eagerly started to follow mobile game devs on Twitter. The day he started following me I just wrote "I can quit now, my life is complete" :) Now I know what he's up to.

derFunk··on Xamarin Open-Sourced
Yes, Android, with the use of the NDK.
derFunk··on Uber wants access to browsing history, bookmarks, and running apps
If you'd find out the Uber app is sending home your browser history, this is big news already! I'm in CEST, if I wouldn't be sleeping right now I'd start up Burp, Charles or Fiddler to check.
derFunk··on Uber wants access to browsing history, bookmarks, and running apps
I agree. Yet this is Hackernews, and if the creators don't do it we can.
derFunk··on GoDaddy CTO and Cloud VP Heads to Google
Unqualified comment, I admit, but GoDaddy as well as other domain shops seem to be stuck in the late 90s. With UI, tech and support quality. Also Namecheap, which I'm using primarily. They just put a fresh UI on top of parts of their customer acquisition facing system couple of years ago and still run the same core system.
derFunk··on Uber wants access to browsing history, bookmarks, and running apps
Come on guys, where are the academics? Instead of overreacting please just reverse engineer, get the facts and check WHY the Uber app actually requests these permissions. I mean, it's still Java, so you got the source. I don't think they're using native code or do more obfuscation than the average app (disclaimer, haven't checked (yet)). Who's first?
derFunk··on Effeckt.css – Performant CSS transitions and animations
Not exactly sure what you mean, but the funny thing is that there seems to be no single-word translation from the German "performant" ("with high performance") to English. Or is it?
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