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Pretty cool! One piece of feedback: > An illegal site's servers were siezed in a recent operation. Please submit all users number of posts' details. Please make sure there are no duplicates.

There's no declaration of what attribute should be used for considering distinct users. After guessing it gave a hint to the effect of "there are duplicate Given Name values". This is rather counter intuitive since many people share a given name.

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When you start an interview an EC2 instance is provisioned. This will include all the (mis)configured software needed for the challenge you select, and you'll get access to that instance via the browser based terminal.

One of the interesting parts about building the outage related challenges is ensuring not just that they break, but that they break in a consistent and reliable manner. Also, that they don't interfere with your candidate's ability to work on the host.

Yup! After each interview a recording of the terminal session is available for you to watch. You can also download a copy of the contents of the user's home directory.

That's definitely true for some folks, but it's not universal. I split my time between contracting and my bootstrapped business. The business is profitable and operational costs are very low. The only financial risk is the opportunity cost of not being employed full time.

Through contracting I make about 30% less than I did as a salaried employee, but I am immensely happier than when I was employed full time. Even if I wasn't bootstrapping a business, that tradeoff feels worthwhile to me.

Hi Everyone,

I’m the creator of Opterview. It’s a CoderPad like experience for interviewing DevOps Engineers with challenges for screening your candidates. You get a shared terminal in the browser connected to a dedicated host configured for the challenge you choose. Some example challenges include:

* Debugging a web application that’s experiencing an outage

* Diagnosing issues on a misconfigured Docker host

* Writing configuration management code to deploy a web server

* Using Terraform to provision resources in a dedicated AWS account

Opterview has been in a private beta since this spring, and last week I finally opened it up to everyone. I’m a solo founder, and Opterview is at this point fully bootstrapped. If you have any questions I’m happy to answer them!

Correct! Wife works in the field (source for my anecdote), and she confirmed I was confusing PrEP with antiviral treatment.

It's lower. You're safer having unprotected sex with someone who is confirmed to have HIV but is taking PrEP, than you are when having unprotected sex with someone whose status is unknown.

The problem with the "salary bump" is that it is usually a "salary leveling". You were slightly underpaid because you're at a startup so the bump is to a market rate. Or, even if you were at a market rate, you may have been with the startup long enough that you could get that bump just by leaving. So in the end they're not offering you anything you couldn't get by going to many other employers.

So it's not bad per say, but it's not valuable at all. Even though it's being sold to you as such.

> I know I could only survive on this little sleep because I wasn't exercising.

And exercise itself has a major influence on T levels.

tldr - Yes, because low quality software slows down feature development over time.

Sadly there are people who would use a tool like this to make decisions like what to pay their employees. I guessed based on the title that you might fall into that camp. Glad to hear I was wrong.

I could imagine search with some standards (commit message format, branch/rebase strategies, requiring an associated tickets) would be really effective, though not so much the general case. Hope you can share in a follow up post if you find ways to deal work around these problems.

Sounds like a useful tool for tracking answering questions like "who knows the most about file/subsystem/internal concept X". Questions where false positives are more or less in inconsequential and easily corrected.

But number of commits is a horrible way to infer seniority. Unless you value "frequency of checkpointing changes" above all else. You get what you measure, so I suspect OP is going to get a lot of small commits in the future.

+1 for Console2, back when I had to use Windows at a previous job I used Console2 as it was the closest thing I could find to the linux terminal emulators I'm used to.

Presidential candidates have been getting security briefings since Eisenhower: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...

So it's not the case that there was a huge cache of information that he didn't have access too until entering office. It could have been the case that there were some details that weren't made available to him, but that seems unlikely to amount to anything that would lead to a complete reversal of policy.

The Cosi on 8th between Greene and Mercer by NYU is the same way. Even when I can't get a seat at any of the surrounding coffee shops this place is mostly empty with plenty of outlets and free wifi.

As someone who choose hg over git w/o reviewing bitbucket vs github, I'm curious what makes github superior. Can you elaborate?

They did a little shy of ten years ago with VB6. People did indeed go batshit, but the government did not get involved.

I speak for all developers, VBA is an abomination.

At least, I speak for all developers that have used it.

I think you may be right for jobs you _are_ underqualified for, but what about all the jobs you only _think_ you're underqualified for?

You really have no way of knowing if you're underqualified or not from the amount of information about any particular job you might come across (on a job board or a company's website). Now obviously they may list a bunch of technologies you've never worked for, but even then they might be willing to let a smart person learn.

Also, it is gonna be even more of a pain to change a flat.

"Salesforce.com is the original cloud company."

I stopped reading after that line.

As someone who is looking for a job, I'd be more than willing to shell out a couple of bucks if I knew it would put me in contact with people I'd want to work with.

Right now on the candidate side of things it's pretty much the same situation. Go through job listings, send resumes to any that sound interesting, do about 4 phone interviews a week, pass on roughly 3 of them because they either aren't working on something I find interesting, the position itself isn't something I'd enjoy, or my gut tells me to walk away due to the impression I got from the person I talked to. I will pay you to not have to deal with this.

> I believe, and you'll call me crazy, but the indicator for this second trend will be a focus on automated testing (not just unit testing)...

I get that for most companies that are developing software it is to support some other profit center and not their primary focus. They hire subpar engineers because that's all they really need (and they're not compitent enough to tell the difference), so a lack of automation in this context, especially test automation, is not surprising to me in the least.

But the idea that you would have a software based profit center that isn't automatically tested, especially with the competitive nature of the web requiring rapid turn around on features, absolutely blows my mind. Are people firing from the hip and hoping nothing breaks or clicking every link on your site? In which case you're either way too overconfident in your own abilities or have no value for your own time.

The data dumps are in an xml format, you don't need SQL Server to work with the data.

I'm a little disconcerted that in each case it was other people that had to convince the author of the alternative approaches given that the he has been "doing software architectural work for a long time now".

Kudos for acknowledging the benefits of their approaches, but I feel like it's the architect's responsibility to reconize the most cost effective solution for the context at hand. How many problems aren't we hearing about that could have been solved with a new network switch instead received an application rewrite with an SOA architecture?

Old blowhard hard wants to use the law to preserve his revenue stream rather then innovate. News at 11.

TrueCrypt already has this feature: http://www.truecrypt.org/hiddenvolume

Saddly MySQL has become the Paris Hilton of open source databases. It is famous for no other reason then the fact that it is famous.

Me too. I felt like I was listening to half a discussion.