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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2022) on Friday July 01, 2022 @04:22PM (#31952272)
Location: Chicago

Remote: Yes or In Person

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: ReactJS, NodeJS, Salesforce, Apex, LWC, Javascript

Résumé/CV: https://mgarf.com/Resume.pdf

Email: [email protected]

Re:HTC will announce something big tomorrow on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @09:19AM (#15293401)
I'm surprised by the author using Motorola as a historical example of acquiring that went wrong. I thought the goal of acquiring them was for the patents and the sell off was the bits Google didn't want or need.
Thank you! This helped hugely
Re:Brilliance – f.lux for Philips Hue bulbs on Monday March 28, 2016 @03:49PM (#11376826)
This great! Any plans to bringing this to Android/PC?
Re:Oculus Rift Pre-Orders to Open on January 6 on Monday January 04, 2016 @11:39AM (#10836526)
It looks like it hasn't been announced yet:

[ While Facebook and Oculus VR aren't quite ready to reveal a price of the Rift, Luckey suggested that it'll cost more than the $350 developer's kit.

"You know, I'm going to be perfectly honest with you," Luckey said in an interview back in September. "We're roughly in that ballpark... but it's going to cost more than that. And the reason for that is that we've added a lot of technology to this thing beyond what existed in the DK1 and DK2 days."

While $350 may be too low, $1,000 seems to be too high. Elaborating on the Rift's pricing on Twitter recently, Luckey stated that Oculus VR has the backing of Facebook and doesn't need an immediate hardware profit.

"A company that has to survive on immediate hardware profit would have to hit with a much higher price - think $1000+. Not greed, reality," he tweeted. "1st gen VR users are being heavily subsidized by major players who want VR business to grow, though few seem to understand that." ]

Source of Above: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/120994/20160103/oculus-rif...

Very cool. Like what devhxinc said this is hugely useful. I was not looking forward to trying to decipher let's encrypt at home. I'm impressed how quickly this was put together.
Re:Moon Parka: Outerwear Made from Synthetic Spider Silk on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @11:24AM (#10464939)
ah - so it's possible that the reasoning behind this is the low weight mixed with its huge strength/durability gains?
Re:Moon Parka: Outerwear Made from Synthetic Spider Silk on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @10:15AM (#10464544)
Interesting, confused as to why weather wear is where it ended up? It doesn't seem to talk much about insulation or any of the keep warm themes just general strength.
Re:The CIA's most famous ship headed for the scrapyard on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @05:39PM (#10188362)
My grandfather was an engineer on this project - it was done as a hedge against it coming out.
Re:Streaming Music Is Ripping You Off on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @03:13PM (#10081458)
While the system is definitely a better solution, you also have to look at it from a database performance level. I would prefer the above, and to be honest my knowledge of databases is not strong enough to say that the below makes it impossible or difficult to implement but something that needs to be taken into account.

Spotify currently has a database that tracks the number 'Plays' each artist gets. They then roll that up into a combined number that gives them their royalty payout for the year. Have lets say 100,000 artists, that is 100,000 records accessed when they run their end of year report. On the user level (lets say you have a million users) you now need to keep track of the number of clicks per artist per user. Most likely through having each user have its own click counter table that has a record for each artist they listened to (probably through a foreign key) and then the number of clicks for that artist. When the end of the year report rolls around instead of simply looking at 100,000 records. You are now accessing 1 million records times the average number of artists a user listens too and then running calculations to figure out how much each artist gets by the user. I'm sure there is better database design then the above mentioned but you still run into a more power intensive process to calculate it.

Not something I think will completely stop companies like spotify from switching to this model but something worth considering...

Re:SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition on Monday June 15, 2015 @07:02PM (#9722736)
That fact really made me laugh when I looked into it. Thank you for the cycloped fact.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2015) on Sunday April 12, 2015 @06:28PM (#9364968)

  Location: Currently, Minn - Looking to relocate back to New York, NY or Chicago, IL
  Remote: No
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Javascript, Meteor, HTML, CSS
  Résumé/CV: Available on request
  Email: [email protected]
  Roles: Either a IT BA Role or a Frontend Developer Role

Ask HN: Headhunters in Chicago and New York City

I am currently looking to move out of my current job and head back to Chicago (where I went to University) or New York (Where I grew up). Currently undecided between moving towards a BA role (currently working as) or a programming role. Any suggestions on good headhunter agencies to reach out too in those areas to help with the job search.If you have worked with an agency you're recommending,...

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