PopSQL (YC S19) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering
Ideal candidate Strong with our stack, front and back Hands on enough that you can contribute code ~50% of the time. You’ll be looked at as the most senior engineer on the team, making architecture decisions, managing technical debt, helping teammates debug issues Previous engineering management experience: mentoring/coaching reports, creating a high performing software team, […]
TLA+ Action Properties
There’s not a whole lot on TLA+ technique out there: all the resources are either introductions or case studies. Good for people starting out, bad for people past that. I think we need to write more intermediate-level stuff, what Ben Kuhn calls Blub studies. Here’s an attempt at that. Most TLA+ properties are invariants, properties […]
Apple to build battery-based solar energy storage project in California
By Stephen Nellis 3 Min Read FILE PHOTO: The Apple Inc logo is seen hanging at the entrance to the Apple store on 5th Avenue in Manhattan, New York, U.S., October 16, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo (Reuters) – Apple Inc said Wednesday that it will build a battery-based renewable energy storage facility in Central California […]
Hitachi to buy U.S. software developer GlobalLogic for $9.6B
By Makiko Yamazaki, Sam Nussey 2 Min Read TOKYO (Reuters) -Hitachi Ltd said on Wednesday it will buy U.S. software company GlobalLogic Inc for $9.6 billion, including repayment of debt, as the Japanese industrial conglomerate pivots from electronics hardware to digital services. FILE PHOTO: The logo of Hitachi is seen at an office building in […]
NFTs unbundle ownership from enjoyment
After the last piece about DeFi, I wasn’t going to write about cryptocurrencies for a while. But with recent chatter about Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), there’s a surprising amount of fear, uncertainty, and doubt. I think people are mistaken when they write it off completely. Hence, I wanted to put down my thoughts on why I […]
Taking on Google
On making an impact With Plausible everything starts from privacy and so our core impact comes from building an ethical and privacy-focused tool. About 80% of websites use Google Analytics, which gives you the insights you need, but it’s also connected to Google’s business model of advertising and collecting as much personal data as possible […]
Cheaters are likely to dominate cheating-enabling environments
Selection effects on dishonest behavior Judgment and Decision Making, Vol. 16, No. 2, March 2021, pp. 238-266 Petr Houdek* Štěpán Bahník# Marek Hudík$ Marek Vrankaa Abstract: In many situations people behave ethically, while elsewhere dishonesty reigns. Studies of the determinants of unethical behavior often use random assignment of participants in various conditions to identify contextual or psychological […]
Android’s new Bluetooth stack rewrite (Gabeldorsh) is written with Rust
Currently, the Rust components are built differently on Android vs Linux. We are missing Rust support in our GN toolchain so we currently build the Rust libraries as a staticlib and link in C++. This may change in the future once we have better support. For now, you can build all of the Rust code […]
Ask HN: I’ve realized I’m a bad software engineer and I’m over 30, what’s next?
Ask HN: I’ve realized I’m a bad software engineer and I’m over 30, what’s next? 99 points by mxmpawn 55 minutes ago | hide | past | favorite | 102 comments Hi folks, I’ve been working as a software engineer for about 10 years but always in small companies with few or none programmers or as […]
Show HN: Find people to play tabletop roleplaying games with
Does Roleplayful cost money? Roleplayful is completely free and the core functionality always will be. Later on, we may offer an optional paid plan with premium features. How do I contact you? You can email [email protected]. Do you do any shady stuff with my data? Absolutely not. We never rent, share, or sell your data […]