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Uber | Software Engineers | Hybrid (Denmark) | https://www.uber.com/dk/en/careers/locations/aarhus/

Work with an amazing team responsible for the infrastructure software that makes Uber’s data centers around the world reliable and scalable. If you want to solve the toughest engineering challenges alongside some of the smartest people in the industry, Uber Aarhus is the right place for you.

The team in Aarhus build and operate the stateless and stateful compute platforms used by nearly every other engineer in the company (Up - https://www.uber.com/en-GB/blog/up-portable-microservices-re... and Odin - https://www.uber.com/en-GB/blog/how-uber-optimized-cassandra...) as well as other related infrastructure projects such as Cadence - https://github.com/uber/cadence.

In the UK you can be fired for any or no reason, except a specifically illegal reason, until you have 2 years of service. It's like at-will employment but with a notice period.

https://www.gov.uk/dismissal/what-to-do-if-youre-dismissed#:...

> My manager was super mad and asked me when I was leaving. I said two weeks.

Serious question for Americans as maybe this is cultural: They're an at-will employee, seemed to already have a new job lined up and the company seemed to have burned all goodwill with them, why not resign effective immediately?

I've heard so many terrible stories about working at Amazon that I'm not sure I would ever work there, both in the media and from friends who were severely mistreated.

It's a shame, because some of the tech they work on (like S3) is super interesting and high scale, but I do not want to acquire a mental health crisis from work.

Can you please share the email?

> The closest I've every been to a British bank, was getting a Curve credit card, where they wanted a picture of me and my passport. Which imo. Was hilarious and must be way to easy to forge.

Yep, and this is standard operating procedure at pretty much every bank in the UK, and they wonder why they have to spend so much money on mitigating financial crime (not to mention employing people to review pictures of customers full time)...

go and do business with the DPRK then

Oh hey, this is the thing I work on.

We're giving a talk about this at KCD Denmark on the 14th of November "Keynote: Uber - Migrating 2 million CPU cores to Kubernetes" if anyone is in the area and has any particular interest in this.

I've just been hit with this message when opening Youtube on my work computer (I have premium on my personal account)

Looks like Youtube are cracking down hard on Ad-blockers

At the transport level: The EU has a lot of power, but the power to force the IETF to withdraw an RFC globally? That would be a reach even for them.

This is part of why I think politically there is no point trying to co-operate with these people and convince them to maybe not collect so much.

The only way to stop them doing this is for folks in the right places to make it technically impossible.

In a similar note: The fact that its taken years to roll out TLS ECH and DoH which would make a lot of passive surveillance of the internet much more difficult is only enabling bad faith actors like Europol et al.

Even if it might have been eventually struck down under the Charter of Fundamental Rights that would take years to arrive at, and by then their access would be de-facto entrenched. They know this as much as anybody.

Publishing this from the UK is rather risky given What3Words have a tendency to engage in SLAPPs on anyone who pulls back the curtain on their product

In my opinion the UK has always been against that group and others who stick out, and that's not going to change in the future.

Unfortunately if you're a tech hobbyist in the UK your best option is to leave, especially if you're any good with technology. There are plenty of other countries that will treat you far better than the UK ever would.

Does it matter? The UK can't enforce anything outside its borders. Just putting another nail in the coffin of UK tech startups that aren't in Financial Services.

On the plus side, if Canada double down and lose it will set a strong global precedent against these rent-seeking laws.

Sure, but if you've built your life in the United States that still means moving country

Some of the remaining engineers may be stuck due to H1B

If this stays around that's Twitter dead and buried as a product.

Unfortunately Google makes it extremely hard to report this sort of Abuse to them, offering no free-form input to tell them what the issue with the application is.

If the US government spent a decade destroying my life I'd also hate the United States, I'm not sure why that's surprising?

Do we know they're paying peanuts as salary at this point? There are a lot of companies in Europe who will pay engineers 200k+ EUR and beyond, however admittedly nearly all are US companies or very closely connected to the US capital markets

Heard about the Arkose sale tactics at Roblox (a site whose usability is also nuked by them)

I've been told Arkose pay people to run these captchas and present lots of fancy metrics of attacks they've stopped (when in reality with Captcha's like this a lot of that is normal users) which is why some websites seem to be ok with destroying user experience by running this

I'd be surprised if anybody in a technical role decided on this provider

GitHub outages are very reliable, as I live in Europe and they always come in the afternoon they're a great reminder to go get lunch

It's a feature, not a bug!

archive.today took a snapshot of the repo homepage: https://archive.is/bYBxS

This is already pretty common across a lot of open source projects due to parasitic hijacking of compute time and space, in Kubernetes non-members can't run CI without having an ok-to-test label on their PR

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No paywall: https://on.ft.com/3HX5gzq https://archive.md/fUycW

No paywall: https://archive.md/ditx0

Still available (for now) in the UK via https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0dkb2kx/india-the-mod...