muse900

I've finished CS at Uni and I can tell you that now a few years down the line, I don't remember stuff. I only remember what I practice everyday, so if I am to pursue changing jobs I'll need to go off and recap what I've done at Uni. Same applies to a friend of mine that has over 15 years of experience, has a Uni degree in CS... and he had to go read Uni stuff that he's done 15 years ago just to go get another gig... his github repo has good projects and 1 project that has been stared for more than 4k times, he has an outstanding stackoverflow account etc but thats not enough... he still goes to companies and ask him to balance binary tries on the whiteboard to prove his worth...

Personally can't agree more! I definitely can download anything thats on netflix etc. The only reason I am subscribed to it, is the ease of use.

Yes in reality if you go up to him and ask him in person, or me, I won't use the term Nazis but the term Germans. I just felt it wouldn't be right to blame it on the newer generation of Germans reading yc news etc. I hope that they understand and remember what happened almost half a century ago.

My village in Greece was burned to the ground and the Nazis executed 30 people, including women and kids.

I have a family member that fled when he was 12 y/o (now 86) with his brother, while his father, mother, sister and 2 brothers were executed. Yet nor he or his family were ever reimbursed or even acknowledged. Unfortunately he never made it big, nor he was lobbying in the US :(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallikratis to whoever wants to read a bit more on that. If any blogger etc wants to get in touch with him (he has a lot of stories to tell) let me know. He won't charge or get paid, he'll just welcome you to his house and treat you. (I can also translate for free).

Where the Title is taken from: http://imgur.com/a/uyDQk (contains some strong images. Author has posted it as NSFW)

Discussion about it on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/66ecgc/this_is_what_a...

Or another example of how I see ads on the internet:

You walking down the street having a guy handing out leaflets, trying to force his leaflet on you... You're most likely to get annoyed by them.

There is a little stand at the corner having leaflets, without anyone yelling in your face or handing it out, you're more likely to go grab one if the product fits you.

Walking to work every morning I have created my real life AdBlock, where I just ignore people handing stuff. (Not their fault... just businesses not understanding how to change ways)

I believe thats in her late stages I guess.

Don't forget, old people have issues with chewing etc.

I'd say good olive oil is the answer! And no fast food?

We'll see, personally I think its a big mystery... life that is.

It was a pure genocide!

The development of the area in general is though. Limassol 5 years ago is no where near to what Limassol Now has become. And that has nothing to do with Tech/Dev's moving to the area.

I agree with your comment, as there is a factor that increases the cost in the cities where developers live in.

Bringing up Limassol though, is not a valid argument. Limassol on its own has had a lot of rich people from Russia moving there permanently and in the past few years a lot of development went on there. The Marina or the pier etc makes it feel like you are in Miami of some sorts, so that definitely bumps the prices up and it has nothing to do with developers going there. Most rich people there didn't make money from tech but from illegal sources.

I personally find the title could better be worded "Moving my blog from Node.js to ASP.NET" or "I just found out that ASP.NET got much better than it used to be"

When I first read the title I thought it was a node.js dev moving to ASP.NET.

TL;DR The poster of the blog found out that ASP.NET fits his needs better, since he seems more capable on that bit etc and he wants to highlight that ASP.NET has improved a lot towards supporting other platforms than Windows and other capabilities other than webforms etc.

Yes and no. Where I come from... Greece more than half of Taxi-meters have been tampered.

I agree with you mostly, but isn't fb a forum? It most certainly has more capabilities like playing games etc, but it still carries basic forum principles. So is facebook wrongly designed?

What I don't get is why we need coins anymore? Can't they just make £1 pound note same to the £5 one? I am always annoyed when I got coins on me and I never pay attention to them. Why not make £1 worth more by making it a note? Why not move away from notes nowadays? Is there any specific reason to that?

Is there just too much metal sitting around that they thought that would be an ok use of it?

Sorry but I find that this blog has an error.

It says encrypting it and throwing the key away is going to make data unrecoverable.

While thats true for now, what happens when tech reaches the point that current encrypted items can be done within milliseconds?

So yes while encrypting it will make it so that the person that wants to extract information out of it can't do it with the current tech, but whenever a breakthrough on that field will happen then that person will be able to decrypt the SSD.

I agree.

If uber implements tipping, it might be exploitable by the drivers e.g you don't tip me ill give you low rating kind of thing. There is an issue where drivers supposedly make little money, but thats up for the company to solve.

Personally I use uber quite a lot in London, and I am asking most uber drivers on how they find the job etc. The vast majority of them reply that they can work whenever they want and its flexible so they like it. On the money side of things they claim that if you work properly and don't rent a car, you could be making around £2-3k a month, which is above the minimum salary in the UK and London. So I think uber drivers are mostly unhappy that they are under self-employment instead of fully employed by Uber etc. Although I can't see a company that would give you the flexibility to work as much as you want and when you want and having to pay for your holidays etc. Its more of an issue of the Gov fixing up some self-employment rights rather than uber itself (my opinion).

Companies differ, and what they are asking of software engineers.

I was working with a brilliant guy in the same company. He was very technical and you could say that easily he was programming all day long non stop. His intelligence and technical expertise amazed me. Thing is he wasn't good with people skills, hence he wouldn't fit the company I am currently working for.

There are companies that hire devs to solve a problem and give them time, space etc to go all hardcore. Then again there are companies that require from their dev's to be able to communicate with the rest of the team, and take part on meaningful theory-crafting meetings.

So neither whiteboarding, nor tell me a story question is wrong.

I just find it that whiteboarding difficult questions should be asked from the very technical jobs, and I've found whiteboarding difficult questions when interviewing for a company that wants to move out of wordpress to their own website in angular.

I believe the hate comes from unprecedented and hard CS questions asked on the whiteboard.

I recently went to an interview that asked me to balance a binary tree on a whiteboard. It can be done, and I can do it. Thing is when you go to interview for that company that has 2 developers(small team, small company) and ask you that kind of question it puts you off thinking that those guys won't be great to work with (arrogance etc comes in mind).

I am fond of simpler questions, like you said fizzbuz etc. Obviously if you are interviewing a guy that has 2+ years of experience, he has to be able to pass the fizzbuzz test. When you are interviewing someone with 5+ years of experience for a higher up position I guess you do have to ask some harder question, but I personally think just speaking to the guy and asking him stuff about his past projects etc will give you a hint on if he has the skills he is talking about or not. Asking him to outline a hard task he took part and how he solved it is an amazing start. As a 5+ years guy personally would rumble about a few things and it would take me days talking about them. (That will give you an understanding if I've worked before or not on the things outlined on my CV).

I agree with you. This is one of the main issues small-medium scale companies I've worked for have, they just have a dev team that has to keep on creating stuff constantly.

Although I've never worked on a company with the size of FB, and I believe the same logic wouldn't apply to them. They have to keep creating stuff, as fb still has a lot of potential on becoming way more profitable.

Sorry about that and the late response.

I was asked to balance a binary tree on a whiteboard!

I walked out of there instantly, but generally all the interviews I went to had very similar questions.

I am sceptical about that.

I've always had the feeling that Youtube had bad management. If they weren't the biggest library of videos online they'd probably be out of business by now (Thats my personal opinion).

Take youtube streaming for example, it can't take over Twitch . I find its hard to fiddle with youtube's UI changes.

I don't know really, I think we'll have to wait and see, but still $35 a month for 40 channels that seems a hefty price.

As a person that have lost over 40kg's in the past I'd say this is a very true point.

I converted from an obese man to a gym body person.

The process was long and took a lot of discipline. After years keeping it I'd say the thing I've learned from it is that your diet is around 70% of the effort you have to put in.

A lot of people think that lets say bodybuilders are just a product of drugs "oh ye if I take steroids I'll become like him" ... No. Thats definitely not true. While I don't condone the use of any enhancement, I have to admit that being a bodybuilder is a lot more tougher than you think and it requires a lot more discipline on your schedule than you'd think. So yes cut down food and yes exercise a bit... dont just stay inactive, even walking helps ( You'll find out later that the more active you remain by walking etc the easier its going to be when you are older ).

Practical work. No matter how many books you read, if you don't practice it you won't learn it.

Also a very important thing that I've learned over the years is that the difference that a Developer has and a Junior Developer is the confidence that he/she can succeed the task handed to them.

I personally as a developer, think that I can achieve anything you give me task wise, no matter the technology involved, I'll just learn it and do it. The time etc of course will vary and if you give me something hard that is out of my current profession it might take a lifetime to complete but my confidence that I will get it done is what makes me a developer (I believe).

Once you find the confidence to call yourself a developer then you'll be a developer.

Note: That leagues of developers vary a lot. I'd consider myself a very median developer, and I've seen others that are doing crazy things, that doesn't put me down. I am as valuable as they are, one person might be lacking a bit on maths but might have a better artistic side and the opposite. Generally over the years you will see people doing things that you think it would take you a lifetime to do but its just who they are. Don't lose confidence, your skills will be as important as the other people skills. Personally I combine an artistic side and as a median dev I can create nice mobile apps and websites and work both on the backend and frontend of things and thats helping small companies that employ me to get a kickstart. If I was to go to google, I'd prolly fail all the interviews and people there would be a lot better technically, but again they might not be able to bring the same skillset that I bring to those small companies. So by saying that I believe everyone is different and anyone can find a fitting place as a developer.

"The only reason WoW is preserved for the future at all with third party vanilla servers is because during the beta they made a mistake and leaked a ton of debugging info and world data early on. Ideally (from the company's perspective), we wouldn't even had that and one of the biggest blockbuster MMOs in history would simply be lost"

I'll disagree with this one right here. I've been part of the wow emulation community at its very early stages and it was in fact some inside info that a few people got. (Angry employees etc you name it) The earliest wow emulator is from late vanilla. The world data also exist on the client side making its easier to use them. Blizzard has found more ways of countering decrypting actual packets from the server to the client but of course as always at some point the c3-c4 packet algorithms are leaked by an unknown source.

I find uberpool less useful, at least for me. I used it only 4 times until now and I ended up saving £3-4 while I ended up making circles around London to get home and all 4 times I got home 20-30 minutes later than uberx would take me. Although I dont use uber to commute to work, only when I am going somewhere on my own times, it seems like your issue is a bit more trivial and it all comes down to property values. I think its very common now in major tech cities like SF, London, NY etc that the rents are too expensive and you have to get out on the suburbs to get something. The UK Gov has already recognised the problem with the housing market and of course its planning on doing something but I don't see anything actual coming out of it in the next 10 years.

A great idea for lyft or uber would be judging by your case and thinking your not the only one doing it, to have a "commute to work" service or something similar, where they arrhythmicaly merge people like you that commute from around your location to town etc putting in minibuses with certain stops. The data is there, I mean they can clearly see that you are using Uber at a specific time going from A to B repetitively, if they can find another 15 people doing it around you going to the same place as you, why not put a minibus and then charge you a bit less or a monthly fee? (Of course the downside would be that this would reduce uber jobs around).

Smart idea, don't know how it will affect the quality of games moving forward as it seems that titles that would sell for lets say $40 a piece will now be included in a bundle and probably get a fee out of that $10 a month.

On the other hand yes subscription/rent is the way to move forward. You lease a car, you subscribe to netflix, prime, hbo, now you subscribe to gaming libraries etc at some point will happen with food if its not there yet.

The offer was at least 10 years ago, we weren't renting most of them back then. I gave it as an example because I don't know what the actual evaluation of each apartment is.

Santorini boomed the past 5 years I'd say to the point that this year the Government had to cut down Ships from mainland to Santorini because the Island couldn't afford having that many tourists on it.

Using your calculations yes it would go for more than 6m euros although you have to calculate the fact that Greece is currently in a very unstable economic state, with heavy property taxes etc, and of course being close to the Middle east tourism can be affected heavily by wars etc. Although again I have no idea what the actual price of any of the apartments would be nowadays.

Well Santorini is a really expensive location. I'd say my parents bought those apartments really early on 60 years ago, before Santorini became so popular. (goldmine for my family)

We had an offer for 1 of the apartments for 6m euros. (Not selling it) The lowest rent per day is at 2k euros. 2k euros is a high monthly salary for a worker. So I'd say it makes quite some revenue.

(Note that my sister is running the business so I am not very familiar with the details)

My family owns a few luxury apartments in Santorini. We always have them overstaffed. The apartments are 80% full during all seasons and 100% March to November.

The revenue is exceptional.

Our clients are quite happy I'd say, judging by reviews in tripadvisor, booking etc (9.5 booking, 4.5 tripadvisor).

Even during times that electricity is cut off and there is no water due having an electric pump to bring water up the cliff.

Its a win win scenario. We get a few customers that are on their honeymoon etc, meaning they are paying way above their actual price range, and they are always happy with the things provided.

Even on unfortunate moments like 2013 I think where half of the island was out of power for 4 days so thats 4 days without water, electricity on a 2000+ euros a night trip, I'd say customers were pretty understanding of the situation and also they were glad we did everything we could to accommodate their needs such as giving them ton's of bottled water etc.

The point am trying to make here is that people that are willing to pay for a luxury apartment are usually nice enough and understanding when there is an issue, and the ones that can't really afford it but its their big moment in their lifes, appreciate things like "bed/mattress" etc luxuries that they never had before.

Btw people living on our apartments will pay 100euro taxis and 600 euro boat trips... (way overpriced compared to general market prices) and generally they will spend a lot more money than just accommodation

Personally I think the entertainment industry is approaching the pirating issue the wrong way.

They should all be looking into expanding their web tech. Serve ad's to people that want to watch your content for free, have a pay service for those that don't want ad's.

On the other hand I had sky... I paid £70 a month which is A LOT compared to netflix etc, and everytime I wanted to watch something I had to be served with 3 x 1:30' ad' sessions for a 20' episode of friends... I mean why do I even pay if you going to serve me intrusive ad's. No thank you, I prefer having netflix and amazon prime that has a lot to watch and if I want something specifically that isn't available to those 2 am gonna torrent it like a boss.