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I was quite interested in one of the CEOs from a premier league team who runs StarLizard which is a private gambling syndicate focused on sports. They're making a lot of money off building models to predict sport outcomes.

I'm not sure if you'd discount that as obviously thats completely different than 1 person sitting in their bedroom placing bets but just thought I'd raise it incase this level of sports betting interests you.

From what I understand they place their bets in Asian markets rather than the markets consumers in the west would.

If anyone is a fan of podcasts and this subject, there is a really good podcast series called 'Ghost in the Machine' which does a deep dive into motor doping, how it could be occurring, the current state of technology to enable it and also looking into Femke van den Driessche's case which is mentioned in the article.

I'd recommend listening to the first hour of the podcast this is taken from just as he was more candid than I thought he would be.

Zuckerberg at points brings up how the EU as is very defensive and has taken social media companies to court for the sum of 30 billion (never mentioning why). He laments how the US government need to be more protective of US tech companies overseas specifically naming the EU. When talking about Dana he says how he will explicitly help with them work with difficult foreign governments (be that through how he did it with the UFC or his relationship with the new administration).

It sounded quite like they're preparing to more confrontational with the EU and he at one point mentions how he thinks the new admin is going to protect them more with foreign countries.

Have you looked at all at the ZSA Voyager and if so, what were your thoughts? I realise it cuts down on the number of thumb buttons compared to the Moonlander but I saw quite a few Moonlander users who have used both saying they'd opt for the Voyager[0] or have got both and prefer the Voyager. Many people seem to have issues with the Moonlander's thumb cluster especially with smaller hands.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/comments/17ee1tr/...

Out of interest, do you find many working on software projects at hacker spaces? Each one I've looked at online seems to have more of a focus on hardware, electronics, metal/wood working with little mention of software. The caveat is that I've only really looked at UK based ones so this may be regional.

I've been trying to find a space that has a similar energy as my old university CS lab. There was a bit of a perfect time in my final year, whereafter 2+ years most people seemed to know each other and at the same time everyone was specialising in their degree. So you could walk into the lab and find people working deep in their own game engine code, others would be working on ML models and others may be working on mobile apps or websites. But with a sense of overall camaraderie and sharing of what you're working on and why.

I suppose it just sounds like I'm describing something like a WeWork but when I've attended those they seem much more employee focused and I rarely saw employees of different companies talk to each other.

I also realise that some of what I describe is often fulfilled by talking to others at your workplace, I'm fully remote so I am missing out on that part.

If anyone knows of anything similar to what I describe above in or near London feel free to reach out to the email in my profile!

Many of the engineers I've worked with in the UK carry EE degrees (I'm unsure how different this is to electronic and computer engineering). It's certainly not seen as a bad thing or a reason to not get interviews compared to a pure CS degree from my experience.

Yea I'm in the same boat, seen a recommendation for AirVPN which seems very affordable and easy to use but then also those recommending to set your own up, is this doable without much knowledge in the area of VPNs?

Any idea who would have "126 million images along with their accompanying Exif location data."?

That seems an insane amount to me.

Ah sorry about that, didn't think to check the history.

Did you skim read? It introduces him as:

"One can be sure that Uber's Design Director, Shalin Amin".

Any reason for the use of Perl both in this and in DDG? I'm a recent Comp Sci graduate and haven't seen a lot jobs for Perl or use cases over say Python/Ruby which seem to more popular.

I haven't used the Suface Pro 3 myself but I'm wondering, can it become your sole/main dev machine? Or is it only good for some light coding?

As someone interested in this lifestyle, do you receive your work from a network of clients you built up from a more traditional job or do you use online job sites.

I work in England but a co-worker here mentioned that the law says he can't carry them unless he had a very good reason e.g. he is a locksmith.

Sorry, should have been clearer, couple of months in my job and past 4 years at university.

Glad to hear though, I'll try it for my next android project.

I realise this is subjective but how hard have people found converting over to Android Studio for someone used to Eclipse? I was taught to use Eclipse in university and having been using it full time at my job for the last couple of months so its workflow is quite ingrained in me.

Very interesting, just wondering but do people think this benefits one company more than the other?

I originally thought Microsoft as its a great reason to keep Word relevant by teaming up with such a used storage platform and not succumbing to Google docs, but is that offset by dropbox being able to enter the enterprise world?

What sort of things do you miss? Never got to use NeXT so purely from a 'seeing what I'm missing' point of view.

Some really interesting speakers, will any of the talks be put online afterwards?

Has he talked much about his writing process for this book? Would be really interested to read his thoughts on it.

Try searching 'club mate' and your country. Results came up for a UK branch for me, just checked and the same happens for the US.

Since he's not asking you to leave the company but instead to stop writing code, is there work to be done elsewhere in the company?

You might find this talk from Ian Hogarth (Songkick) at Hacker News London Meetup quite relevant. He talks about how he would fill a role at Songkick before getting a more specialised person in to fill that role which would see him moving to another completely separate role within the company which needed to be filled.

http://vimeo.com/59187050

Thank you very much, I'll have a look at those 3. Completely agree about the parent book, it does seem very interesting. Although potentially only available in the UK as an import.

Would you know/recommend any books from the early Microsoft era? I enjoyed Masters of Doom and would love to know if there is anything which goes into that much detail of the early days of Microsoft, actually any company would be interesting.

That's interesting, it was the opposite here with all the developers having workstations and spec'ed up laptops whereas sale/marketing would be given some generic thinkpad.

I would of thought Brazil may be changing as they were getting a new office there and hiring when I was at the company.

Guessing this is USA? This did not happen for UK based interns , only full time employees received surfaces as gifts over here.

I'm still very young compared to the original poster on stackexchange, however a comment in that thread reminded me of something I did myself which filled me with motivation.

"And finally, if you get a chance, help students with things. For example I judge and coach for Imagine Cup (sponsored by Microsoft) but I am sure there are equivalent things in whatever tech field you're in. This is a self-selected group of passionate and innovative young people who are building something they think will change the world and make them rich, and spending some time with them will get you fired up again, I guarantee! My first judging trip left me feeling ten years younger, so now I'm hooked." - Kate Gregory

I helped out at CoderDojo (http://coderdojo.com/) whose primary participants on the days I helped were 10-15. I helped the kids out with programming, learning myself and helping them program quadcopters amongst other things. Seeing the enthusiasm the kids showed and hearing what they were trying to build in their own time was incredibly inspiring. If you can, see if there is a local club teaching kids programming, I'm still only a university student but the club I helped out at were incredibly eager for anyone with coding experience to come in and help out. I can only imagine how happy they would be with someone with that much experience helping out.

I was looking for the same thing, ended up using ddd, has watches, breakpoints etc. If you've found a better solution than that though feel free to let me know.

Hey! I've been to a few of the HNLondon meet ups and going to miss them a lot when I'm back in Newcastle this year.

If you want to chat at all about potentially setting something up in the North this year I'd be happy to help out. Not sure if I can dedicate myself full time to it though due to final year university demands hence why I'm not putting myself forward by myself to look into it.