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I'm super happy with it. The perf are great.

2 big drawbacks: the plastic is super fragile and you will need an external microphone (or your coworkers will complain about fan noises)

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Link to the slides: https://third-bit.com/talks/greatest-hits/

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and still a very successful game [1].

  > 1.9 million people played LoL in April 2021.
  > LoL is the third most watched game on Twitch. 
  > In March 2021, 117 million hours of LoL gameplay were watched on Twitch. 
  > LoL is the second most popular eSports in the world.

[1] https://techacake.com/league-of-legends-player-count/

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Each year there is a HN thread, here is the one for 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25537230

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If you prefer sidenotes: https://www.gwern.net/Sidenotes

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The lockdown looks quite effective in France [1]. I believe they have started at the beginning of November.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/france/

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> Science is the pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world following a systematic methodology based on evidence

Can we claim that we have some evidence based on a sample of 6 people?

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I agree that integrating a 3rd party solution has multiple hidden cost.

> This is one of the most common and damaging mistakes I see

Interestingly, the most common mistake I see is people neglecting the cost of developing a solution themselves:

1. opportunity cost

2.long term maintenance

3. documentation & training new people

...

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It seems that you have to balance it with Vitamin K2

https://info.dralexrinehart.com/articles/vitamin-d-and-vitam...

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maybe this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10513015

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Do you run in the morning or in the evening?

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> There's a specific reason why they do this and ask you to make a decision in an instant. It's called accommodation. Your eyes will quickly try and accommodate and find focus if they're allowed to stare too long. This could explain the reason he got such different results from the exams. He was trying too hard. Just follow directions.

I don't have a long experience with glasses but I have never received these instructions and my experience is similar to the author.

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IMO you are mixing 2 different things.

1. The business and product

2. The engineering quality

You can have a tech company (business level as described in the article) and produce ugly code (ex: facebook?).

You can sell groceries on the internet and have great code.

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Yes, the lack of knowledge is definitively one of the issue.

But starting a "gather requirements - write software - deliver it" lifecycle because you are confident that you have all the knowledge is one as well.

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Some additional great resources related to hiring:

How to hire your first engineer - https://blog.ycombinator.com/how-to-hire-your-first-engineer...

Convincing Engineer to join your team and a basic structure for the process - https://blog.ycombinator.com/convincing-engineers-to-join-yo...

General thoughts about hiring - http://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-hire

The book "Who" gives a good idea about a good process. Hard to apply when you are not looking for a "generalist" - https://www.amazon.com/Who-Geoff-Smart/dp/0345504194/

Some of the manager tools podcasts episodes - https://www.manager-tools.com/map-universe/hiring-0

Edit: formatting

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TradeMachines | NodeJS Developer | Full-Time On-Site | Berlin, Germany

At TradeMachines our mission is to make the machine business smart. We connect machines buyers and sellers all over the world and provide them with insights into the market.

As part of our small engineering team, you will work closely with other members to create and run our different services in production. We are working on a big variety of technical challenges (marketplace, data pipeline, data science, scraping ...) based on a modern architecture.

Technical Environment: Microservices / AWS / NodeJS & Typescript / Docker / Terraform

Requirements:

  - Love for continuous improvement and learning
  - Comfortable with NodeJS

Unfortunately, no visa support is available at the moment.

Send me an email at [email protected]

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Have you changed your diet?

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TradeMachines | Junior NodeJS | Full-Time On-Site | Berlin, Germany

As part of our small engineering team, you will work closely with the other members to create and run our multiple services in production. We are working on a big variety of technical challenges (marketplace, data pipeline, scraping …) based on a modern architecture (Microservices, AWS, NodeJS, Docker, AWS Lambda…).

Requirements:

  * Love for continuous improvement and learning
  * Good team player and agile enthusiast
  * Good coding practices: software design, unit testing, source control…
  * A desire to learn more than only backend development (either by developing some DevOps or Frontend skills).
  * 2+ years professional experience with NodeJS (TypeScript is a plus)
  * 2+ years professional developing web application, rest API or data pipeline
  * 2+ years of experience with databases (relational or NoSQL)

More infos on our website: http://trademachines.com/info/junior-nodejs-developer/

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TradeMachines | Junior NodeJS | Full-Time On-Site | Berlin, Germany

As part of our small engineering team, you will work closely with the other members to create and run our multiple services in production. We are working on a big variety of technical challenges (marketplace, data pipeline, scraping …) based on a modern architecture (Microservices, AWS, NodeJS, Docker, AWS Lambda…).

Requirements:

  * Love for continuous improvement and learning
  * Good team player and agile enthusiast
  * Good coding practices: software design, unit testing, source control…
  * A desire to learn more than only backend development (either by developing some DevOps or Frontend skills).
  * 2+ years professional experience with NodeJS (TypeScript is a plus)
  * 2+ years professional developing web application, rest API or data pipeline
  * 2+ years of experience with databases (relational or NoSQL)

More infos on our website: http://trademachines.com/info/junior-nodejs-developer/

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TradeMachines | Junior NodeJS | Full-Time On-Site | Berlin, Germany

As part of our small engineering team, you will work closely with the other members to create and run our multiple services in production. We are working on a big variety of technical challenges (marketplace, data pipeline, scraping …) based on a modern architecture (Microservices, AWS, NodeJS, Docker, AWS Lambda…).

Requirements:

  * Love for continuous improvement and learning
  * Good team player and agile enthusiast
  * Good coding practices: software design, unit testing, source control…
  * A desire to learn more than only backend development (either by developing some DevOps or Frontend skills).
  * 2+ years professional experience with NodeJS (TypeScript is a plus)
  * 2+ years professional developing web application, rest API or data pipeline
  * 2+ years of experience with databases (relational or NoSQL)

More infos on our website:

http://trademachines.com/info/junior-nodejs-developer/

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