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And for every company which wants to have a DBA there are thousands which just don't care, or claim having a DBA is just too expensive as the programmers are enough. The results are quite terrible then... but almost nobody cares. Just my small remark after long time of looking for a job as a postgres DBA :).

And you just believe that the data will really be deleted?

I'm in the top 3% and I've noticed another thing: it's enough to have 10k points to be in the top 3%. I haven't been answering anything for a couple of years, and I still get something like 200-400 points per week/month - it depends. So I think I will be in the top 1% next year doing absolutely nothing :)

I want to live in a world when we have normal recruitment process for programmers. I have about 17 years of experience. And really my university grades are not important (yes, some companies want to see that). In all places where I worked I knew databases much more than all other people together, I organized training for them etc. Despite my database-oriented CV, I'm always asked basic database questions usually asked by someone who doesn't understand them, and then doesn't understand my answers. I also got some stupid IQ tests with multiple good answers (however exactly one was in the key).

I can talk about bad recruitment processes for hours. I just want to meet competent recruiters, and managers - just like they want to find a competent candidate.

I'm waiting for recruiting doctors like that. Oh, you are a surgeon with 17 years of experience? Cool. How about you make a surgery at home, record it, and send us a video?

More pathetic are only companies which have only one question at the beginning (without any further contact) "how much do you want to earn" and after that there is no negotiation. Sometimes I feel like I'm drowning in an endless sea of candidates. Oh, wait, no, the same companies publish the same job ads over and over for years. So maybe not.

Yea, everything to beat the other trackers :)

Can, but it doesn't mean that they send. My IMAP accounts keep emails on servers, and in my client.

I'm almost 40, and I have problems with getting through the recruiters wall. They usually tell me two things: "the company is looking for someone more culturally fit (younger)" or "you are almost 40, and you still are not at manager". The thing is I want to be a programmer :)

So looking for a job is harder, but when I finally get one, it's funny to work with those young people, who usually have no idea of many things. Example from this week: when you connect to 127.0.0.1 from your machine, it's not connecting you to the testing server.

I think that if you are "old" and you are looking for a job, just don't give up, and ignore all those "young" companies.

Btw, I was always wondering what they will do in 10 years, when all those "young" people will be "too old for them to hire". Will they fire them?

Well, if you will allow such a guy to operate alone without any code review, then I'm sure you have much more serious problems in the code, than a build system.

In two years Donald Trump will resign from those tariffs, and he will say it is his great success... and millions of people will be repeating that he's the best president because he removed bad law. The sad state of the peoples' minds.

The PEP8 myth is quite funny. Almost all people I've met who were repeating "follow the pep8" like a mantra, have never read it. The main idea behind pep8 is: be consistent... however even the python library is not consistent. And it looks like no one cares. There was a great moment to make it nice and consistent - creating the python3, where many incompatible changes were introduced. Instead, the mess is like it was, and people repeat the mantra "follow pep8".

Before you say that I'm crazy... please, go and read pep8.

Nope. Just try insert code formatter with 8 spaces into code formatted with 4, or 2. IDE will make something that compiles, it doesn't mean that it works properly.

Deletes the profile, Facebook keeps the data :)

10% seems quite a lot, I'm wondering if your hour rate is so high that the 10% doesn't matter.

That's what I saw in simulations for a 30 year mortgage shown by multiple banks. The amount of what I'd pay was twice the house cost. The interest rate was then around 3-4%, the appreciation rate about 2%, if I remember correctly.

So generally 100% more is a lot. However after 30 years you can sell the house, and what you get is still much more than renting, when you get nothing at the end.

If you compare the cost of a mortgage, and a rent, they are very similar in Poland. So after 30 years you can sell the flat/house and you will get half of that money back. It's better than nothing.

Half, because usually the total mortgage cost for 30 years is about 100%.

... and monitoring of all things people do... and then using it against them... and people will be grateful for that

Did you hear about coins, and banknotes? It's like pen, and paper - it just works.

Yea, and buying a bread would cost my daily salary. Bread will be cheap, the daily salary will go to pay the transaction cost.

Just a coincidence. The g depends on the mass of the planet, while pi is rather universal for a perfect math circle.

In reality the g constant is not a constant, the value depends on the place of the Earth.

So if I work for US companies, and I live in Europe, I suppose I will also need to pay additional 3%, right?

No, there is no justification for bad tools. If someone makes a tool only for ASCII, fine, but don't expect that people will say it's a good tool.

Even huge sites have problems when I want to use my real name, or the name of the city I live in. They are usually made by US companies, which is strange, as you have all kinds of people there, with different names. Unfortunately the reality is that those US companies don't care about supporting normal characters people use. Even websites like Upwork don't allow me to enter my real name. Isn't that strange? I have told them about that months ago, nobody cares.

So getting to the real problem: supporting unicode is not as hard as it seems, just use from the beginning.

> Also, can we please, please, please keep source code files as pure ascii? Asking as a non-native english speaker.

I'm a non native English speaker. That's why I hate tools, and websites which don't understand that people have different letters in names. Just use good tools.

I've been using only Lamy pens for the last couple of years, my kids too. We have about 10 of them, and we usually use the cheapest ones. The ink is also made by Lamy. And we have no such problems.

Yea... how come that "I don't care" became a virtue.

Sure. And randomly generated UUIDs should not conflict... unless they do, and blow up a huge app in production. Yes, I have experienced that once.

I usually feel like it's yesterday :)

> Though it shouldn’t be the case, but there definitely seems to be some evidence for it disagreeing with prominent HN’ers that have a large number of fans is another way to get downvoted, that shouldn’t happen but there is definitely evidence for it.

This makes me sad. I have experienced that... so I just stopped placing such comments here. The toxicity of the community is just too high here. You can either agree with the crowd, or be forced to leave. Your experiences or arguments don't matter.

IMHO it's very good, and decreases the typing time ONLY if you understand the code, and you know what it's doing. Too often I have seen programmers with a strange approach: "I don't need to know, I don't need to think because I have my IDE".

I haven't, however for the last 20 years I've been working with people who didn't care about things like that. The worst thing is that they were proud of that, and they got promoted quite fast. Of course the software was buggy, but the manager got bonus for deploying things on time :)