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Re:Ask HN: Over 60 = no engineering jobs? on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @03:10PM (#18242620)
Why aren't you running your own business, maybe as a consultant? You shouldn't be selling your services but your knowledge.
exactly, the USA had a case of antitrust against Microsoft for doing that. The whole world is aware of that except that "journalist".
> standards compliance that won the browser war, not Microsoft's extensions

OMG, what about the whole antitrust case of the USA against Microsoft in the 2000ies?

I can't read any other paragraph written by "journalists" like those.

Re:Hired – Technical Interview Score on Monday November 13, 2017 @03:43PM (#15690045)
Suppose you have a job for a Kernel hacker. You have John, who has zillions of non-trivial patches applied upstream available, but "flubbed a BFS traversal". And you have Joe, who you haven't heard before but took a whole year doing nothing but traversing graphs and trees to pass your interview. Who would you reject?
Re:Ask HN: Why do you hire H1-B workers instead of natives? on Sunday November 20, 2016 @04:02PM (#13001202)
if you answer why there are american companies milking till the last drop of our natural resources I can answer why we get your jobs.
Re:Parody O'Reilly book covers on Saturday April 09, 2016 @07:21AM (#11460838)
'code written by some stranger on the internet is always perfect' - AWESOME! :D
Re:Using virtual machine serial console via Web on Friday March 18, 2016 @04:07PM (#11314533)
The web serial console is a new feature released by Kimchi, an HTML5 based management tool for QEMU/KVM. Now it's possible to access both VNC graphical console or the serial console using a web browser only.

More details about Kimchi: https://github.com/kimchi-project/kimchi Suggestions, bugs, patches are always wecome.

Re:Modern C++ from ground up on Monday March 14, 2016 @07:34AM (#11282208)
A new wiki based on github on how to write programs using modern C++. It starts with a base knowledge up to details on how atoms are implemented in different architectures.