News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

np32

Devon Zuegel is a great thinker in a large breath of subjects ->

On Urbanism:

Her podcast Order without Design [0] where she interviews the Bertaud couple

Fields note on Miami [1] (with beautiful pictures)

Metamuse interview on cities [2]

and a lot more on her blog

On tech :

She was the PM for Github sponsors (and I believe other open-source friendly projects), great interview of her by the changelog [4]

The Pioneer series (of which this interview is an episod), favorites are Louis Pouzing and roundtable about Hamming [5]

[0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/order-without-design-h...

[1] https://devonzuegel.com/post/field-notes-miami

[2] https://museapp.com/podcast/33-cities/

[3] https://changelog.com/podcast/370

[4] https://www.notion.so/blog/topic/pioneers

I find Rob's writing highly enjoyable too. It is witty without talking to the reader like he is 10.

Not very HN-y, but I recommend his serie on being a parent : https://robertheaton.com/married-with-kids/

Re:How to Work Hard on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @03:58PM (#27680960)
"My heart is in the work" - Andrew Carnegie

Probably a very stress-inducing sentence to a lot of CMU CS grads

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Learning? on Friday June 25, 2021 @04:49PM (#27636076)
If you are interested in more maths and 3D Geometry, the bible of the field is "Multiple view geometry in computer vision" by Hartley and Zisserman. Szielski's book is very hands on, but is it more of a formulas + litterature review book than a clean derivation book.

A lot of 3D Geometry algorithms are based on clean derivations and estimations, thus depending on your math fluency, you will find great enjoyment in that book too. The proofs flow really well.

Re:Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @05:35PM (#26961936)
From JB Kempf of VLC, and supported by Xavier Niel who is a huge VC in France and founder of Free, which totally disrupted the ISP mafia in France.

This video is a great interview of JB + story of Shadow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0c1CJT8X8A&t=20s

> Nothing about Lambda School is predatory

I think the PR vs actual results of Lambda is a big problem when a lot of complains on higher education are about the gap between the dream vision of what a degree does for you, vs reality. But fine. The complains about ISA are mostly unfair

> I have never lied

That's probably one of the things you should never say ever. People will find moments you were either not telling what turned out to be the truth, or were not accurate, and will paint you as totally dishonest.

This assumes talent is geographically homogeneous. IMHO, Talent in top cities in the US is better than the one in the rest of the countries, and so it goes for other countries.

For top US firms, it may well be that there is a better pool for top talent, but not THAT much better. I believe it would be possible to do inferences from # of non-US citizen in FAANGs.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021) on Monday February 01, 2021 @03:45PM (#25993665)
Hey ! Still no visa sponsoring for the London role ? :(
Re:How Huawei controls its employees in Europe on Thursday January 14, 2021 @03:48AM (#25773825)
Monzo, Revolut vs Deepmind are not at all in the same ballpark of salary though. Deepmind pays 2x as much.