jowdones

Eastern European here. I remember going to Mallorca and see clubs advertise 20 EUR entry for an all-you-can-drink night. We went there just to see with our own eyes and indeed it was. Vodka + tonic or beer and not even cheap crappy one on tap in plastic cups but bottled beer in small bottles. No idea how it was profitable to them, we drank a lot but couldn't match the Brits there who got totally wasted :P

"Quantra is a REST wrapper for QuantLib, the indrustry-leading library for quantitative finance."

I live in Eastern Europe and long time ago, before the Internet and Netflix, I used to go to the library and read books for entertainment.

I likes SciFi and at some point I fell on some really weird anthology of Soviet stories from the 50s.

I remember one of them was about time relativity, a cosmonaut went with a rocket close to the speed of light and when he came back, on Earth have passed hundreds of years... jolly joy perfect, because in the meantime communism has become a reality. You know, the idea was socialism is temporary and only a stepping stone towards communism.

Well that's one story.. another one was about using nuclear blasts to level mountains and transform them into fertile plains for growing crops. That has stuck me as particularly idiotic: what the heck people, what sort of crops? Radioactive ones? They didn't know about radioactivity in the 50s?

There's an untranslatable phrase to describe the concept, in my language: "decât să lucri de-a pula, mai bine stai de-a pula".

Hope the moderators won't delete it, since it contains some profanity.

I'm in my early 40's and started programming 20 years ago. Did C++ and Java with touches of Perl (recently Python) and SQL databases. Also have 10+ years in quant finance.

I gave up trying to "keep up with the Kardashians". I know software development (and finance) but I'm aware of the fate of older guys if they need a new job: in the increasingly disfunctional environment that's recruiting, not only we're required to jump through more and more (automated) hoops, if you're old you have to know everything. One wrong answer and you're out the door.

So apart from doing my job and working on a finance / trading side project, I'm limiting myself on recapping / reading common crap that's asked in interviews. I sort of mentally settled for the fact that either I make it through my side project or one day I'll be phased out. When you're phased out it's always your fault, problem is no matter how much you struggle the way things are progressing, failure, bankruptcy and homelessness are inevitable.

I'm thinking that rather than struggling desperately and still failing, it's better to fail through just not caring.

Cool. After like 5 random clicks, all I get is black as the bottom images. Eventually the bottom right says "unable to load this image".

And in today's interviews environment, telling the greatest stories along the greatest CV, training for months and months on leetcode problems and being able to convincingly act like you never seen them before during the interview, generally bending over backwards and taking it into your ^H^H^H or what else, all that that will dramatically raise your chances of getting hired from 0.1 to 0.2%.

Whatch'a cofounding?

>> Tara, a smart [...] alternative to Jira

If someone there were smart, they would have named it Tira.

The outbreak occurred in a building where the commercial offices were located on the first 11 floors, and the rest was occupied by residential apartments.

Of the 1,143 people tested for COVID-19 in the building, 97 were diagnosed positively and 94 of them worked on the 11th floor, for a call center with 216 employees, indicating an infection rate of 43.5%, says researchers in a study published in the CDC Medical Journal.

What fieldwork consists of:

1) No abominations like above, which by the way does this:

void printNTriples(int n) { int i = 0; for (int z = 1; ; ++z) for (int x = 1; x <= z; ++x) for (int y = x; y <= z; ++y) if (xx + yy == zz) { printf("%d, %d, %d\n", x, y, z); if (++i == n) return; } }

To my experience, any team and project manager that's incompetent enough to allow for such "genius" to unfold themselves in a production and comercially bound project, well they get slaughtered. I haven't yet seen companies incompetent enough to do that but I've seen projects spanning over the course of 3-5 years with dozens of people involved being tossed away and the geniuses (and company) be supported by the humble C level of "mediocrity" of the printNTriples.

2) There are hard algorithms to be implemented and they usually involve hard and horrible domain knowledge that takes a heck lot of effort to aquire, effort of which as wishful you may be you'll never be able to factor out time and lots of it, is plain nasty and entirely non-portable outside of the environment that never pays you enough for dealing with it. Ex: for those who complain on "no documentation", the domain knowledge of the domain last amateur level project yet $500M worth commercially project that I worked on could be described in maybe 5 pages of documentation, the contract we work on that's worth some $5B has 1111 pages of documentation in some 20 chapters and my assigned one leads to some 20 other documents amounting to more complexity.

All the while the greatest challange, in C++21 still remains to compile the damn thing. Not that it takes 2 hours to compile what in Java essentially it's Borland's Pascal 5.0 responsiveness (latency and throughput). We've learned to be so traumatized by C++ that as long as it compiles*, we're happy.

Not to mention BUILDING the damn system, like setting it up for first time use, with dependencies and all. Everytime I change projects, I cringe and pray from a miracle from God if the process takes less than one week. Not that I complain about that week - see above.

I would have bet on "die", just coze it "sounds right".

As a Romanian who had to study German in school, I testify to that. I still remember the word "Umweltverschmutzung" but no idea if it's der, die, das, dem or des umweltverschmutzung :P

Shoulder MR scan in Romania: €115.

https://medimar.ro/tarife-rmn/

>> I have never named and shamed the first company

You should. Does it look like they give a fuck about you? Who are they?

>> A good soldier behaves differently. A good one wants to [blah blah]

The article and formulation smells of entitlement as bad cologne across the room.

You don't question your boss, you lowly peasant. Know your place.

Although I'm gonna change the World, not much network so far on my side. And I'm not taking trying to be friends with the rich and powerful. The poor and hopeless are equally unfriendly.

One word: middle class.

I'm Romanian living in Romania and in physical conversations while not drunk, people are cautious. But drunk (e.g. Okto berfest) or under anonymity of Internet forums, the dark side of humanity did surface out. Of course it's a small percentage of people but racism and xenophobia is alive and well.

May I point out that it's racist to call them monkeys? The correct term is "ape".

Just kidding, btw, but I recall having heard something along this.

Heh. Good one :)

Core count is becoming more and more bullshit. If I get performance X using 1 core and Y using all cores, then true core count is Y / X, regardless of what advertised CPU count the manufacturer may dream.

Geekbench scores: -----------------

Intel Core i7-8086K: 6288 single core, 29927 multicore, asvertised cores: 6, real cores: 4.75, bullshit factor (advertised/real): 125%. Decent.

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X: 5838 single core, 68457 multicore, advertised cores: 32, real cores: 11.7, bullshit factor: 270%. Ridiculous.

The word "ciorba" comes from Turkish "çorba": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorba

Ciorba arrived on the table of the Romanians on a historical whim, being boiled first in the kettles and boilers of the Sipahi troops of the Ottoman Empire. It was so closely related to the image of the troops of the Ottoman military that the heads of the regiments of the Sipahi were known as "ciorbagii", perhaps because by their tent was always near the canteen, where the best tripe or ram soups were made, flavoured with leaves of mint, added vegetables, pepper and for ornament, parsley.

Tracing the name you can observe with precision the route of the Ottoman conquests. Greeks call it τσορβάς (ţorbas), Bulgarians cook tchorba, a.s.o. I asked some of my Hungarian colleagues if they also have the word in their language and they do... but only designating a single, special type of soup: tripe (in my opinion the quintesence of çorba). The regular word for soup in Hungarian is "leves" and being weirdos, they have another special word for cabbage soup: "lucskos".

When I started with computers back in 1992, Eastern Europe, noone around me had the slightest idea what computers can do. I sort of imagined (and hoped) they will (magically) solve math problems for me so I won't need to actually make the hard effort to understand.

27 years later, not just 99.99% of the humans in general but of my "fellow" programmers, if I can call them so, are still stuck at this petty ignorance level.

While I think debating ways to implement UBI is a very valuable thing as it may eventually lead to a realistic solution, it doesn't take reading much into this "thought experiment" to realize it's a naive, New Age sort of happy happy joy joy utopia.

I'm probably the smartest guy in Romania and can tell you I got my certification that I can do 99% by making sure my usual cognitive load stays at 1%.

I was also poor, which means there was no way to enforce my internal policy which means today, 20 years later, I'm using 99% of my brain power to solve issues a simple state/high-powered enforcement checklist would do.

At my 90%+ I still dreamed of a better future. Now I only wish my own death. Tomorrow I hope and make sure you all die.

"The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on".

"the caravan" == employers.

It reeks of "scientific management", a scrupuleless way of exploiting the slaves^H^H^H^H^H^H employees.

Ruthless con named Frederick Taylor looks for a way to make himself a ton of money by "consulting" on improving worker productivity.

"How did Taylor arrive at forty-seven and a half tons for Bethlehem Steel? He chose twelve “large, powerful Hungarians,” observed them for an hour, and calculated that, at the rate they were working, they were loading twenty-four tons of pig iron per man per day. Then he handpicked ten men and dared them to load sixteen and a half tons as fast as they could. They managed to do it in fourteen minutes; this yields a rate of seventy-one tons per man per ten-hour day. Taylor inexplicably rounded up the number to seventy-five. To get to forty-seven and a half, he reduced seventy-five by about forty per cent, claiming that this represented a work-to-rest ratio of the “law of heavy laboring.” Workers who protested the new standards were fired. Only one—the best approximation of an actual Schmidt was a man named Henry Noll—loaded anything close to forty-seven and a half tons in a single day, a rate that was, in any case, not sustainable. After providing two years of consulting services, Taylor billed the company a hundred thousand dollars (which works out to something like two and a half million dollars today), and then he was fired."

This IS the greener pasture.

"Boss is 90% of employee experience" was only true for 1 of my 4 employers so far (across 20 years).

Now the bosses are great but I hate the nature of my job deeply and sincerely. Maintenance and bugfixing, only reward after tormented patching of a pile of crap is more piles of crap coming up.

I've been reading recently books on the former Soviet Union. "Beria, my Father" by Sergo Beria, "Krushcev" by William Taubman, "Conversations with Molotov" by Feliks Ciuev...

Then tried "Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva" by Rosemary Sullivan but could't finish it. Compared with the 'bad guys' her biography is just dull.