Ask HN: Do non-tech folks read Hacker News?
Assuming most of the readers are in developer jobs, I'm interested in knowing if people in completely different professions e.g. law, medicine, plumbing, cooking etc read this site.
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Re:Ask HN: What is your go to stack for REST API?
on Monday November 11, 2019 @09:05AM (#21504875)
It's just a beefed up EC2. I don't have high traffic so cannot say how well the autoscaling works but apart from that, not much different than putting your app on EC2.
Re:Ask HN: What is your go to stack for REST API?
on Monday November 11, 2019 @09:04AM (#21504869)
I use Sequelize as my ORM. There are debates around using/not using ORMs but personally I feel weird writing raw SQL in any language except a SQL terminal.
Re:Ask HN: What is your go to stack for REST API?
on Friday November 08, 2019 @01:43PM (#21485351)
Where my node folks at?
Node + Express + Nginx + Pgsql on Elastic Beanstalk.
Re:Ask HN: What Is the Best University in Europe for MS in Computer Sc...
on Friday October 18, 2019 @10:48AM (#21291833)
1. ETH Zurich
2. EPFL
3. Cambridge
4. Oxford
5. Imperial College London
6. TU Munich
7. TU Delft
8. KTH Sweden
PS: I have a MS CS from one of the above.
Ask HN: Advise for Software Engineer Moving to Finance
Dear HN,I've been working for 2 years as SWE and recently moved to a finance role in NYC as an Analyst. I have never taken a Business/Finance/Econ class in school and having a hard time understanding the Wall St lingo.Looking for some suggestions/MOOCs/books to understand the capital markets, strategies, trading and other related things.
Re:Oracle allegedly underpaid $400M in wages to underrepresented emplo...
on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @02:00PM (#18981433)
Ok, let me put this from another viewpoint. (I do not work for/endorse Oracle.)
Every year, hundreds of thousands of Asian students (~90% Indian and Chinese) flock to US universities for grad studies. They work hard, get a good GPA and want to continue their stay here. When they apply for jobs, the pool is very very limited because not all companies want to carry the burden of VISA/lawyers/immigration etc.
Oracle is one of the handful of big firms that feed on such students. They have the capital and resources to carry the immigration burden. And they hire students in bulk. I personally know a lot of students-turned-Oracle employees from all major universities.
At that point, the students just want to stay in the US legally, salary takes a backseat. They know the fact that if they can stay for long, money will eventually come.