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Ah this is so refreshing! I'm glad to see something completely different in the CS job ads sector. And Pentagon, Arlington, VA as a location? Oooff, every single one who grew up with X-Files would be excited about that!

Salary is average at best, completely agree, but the other major bummer I can call out is this:

> This position is subject to pre-employment and random drug testing

This is such an outdated, self-limiting, and practically barbaric requirement modern days! Can you imagine the amount talent they are blindly passing on.?

I would even dare to bring up the Bill Gate's (yes that guy!) alleged talk in Saudi Arabia [1], which goes as something along these lines: "..if you’re not fully utilizing half the talent in the country, you’re not going to get close to the goal you have set for yourself..."

[1] Bill Gate's precedent was about the issue that is an order of magnitude more severe/significant than a drug testing: women's rights, but I find the analogy quite applicable and illustrative here

Of course it's possible. It's also very political and dirty.

Emmy Award would be a lot more relevant. heck, even Oscars would make a lot more sense here

yeah, but you can't be moving forever. When you stop and setup a base, you will need something more than a basic walkie-talkie, right?

> Otherwise the parts can only be sold as a kit and stuff

Yeah. Disaster Radio does not look like a "kit" at all. Not for "an average user" at least. I'd be cautious building and operating hardware that can potentially get me in trouble with authorities.

Still great general idea though, to build a solar-powered kit that's easy to setup and operate, a kit that makes sure there is a "plug-and-play" solution in case of a disaster (natural or not), kit that also delegates legal responsibility to the "creator"/manufacturer.

Interesting, so how is it different from similar projects, e.g nycmesh.net, I mentioned above? Is it a promo for the custom hardware design initiative? hardware that's more modular, cheaper, focused than traditional brands?

was my first thought as well, but after watching the video it looks like it's something you can quickly setup AFTER the incident. To deal with the aftermath I guess?..

Disaster Radio. Does one need an FCC ham license to own/operate an endpoint? What are the frequencies? After some light poking on the website I don't see any info on that. Love the idea though.

there is also this: https://www.nycmesh.net/ , somewhat related and can be used as a back up information/communication source

> why this is being downvoted

Oh my, important internet points! Such a treasure is being taken away haha

On a more serious note, who cares? Your comment is a valid criticism, there is a multitude of reasons for why some decided to downvote without leaving a comment, but again, why should you care?

Refreshingly, HN is not an echo chamber (not gonna work if you are seeking any sort of validation), there are a lot of people who do not share your views, as well as people who do. whether or not to freak out about it is up to you (I wouldn't)

Got it! Thank you all for clarification, my comment is irrelevant then.

> one which went away a little bit after after the early 2000s dot-com crash

You have at least 15 years of experience and can't get an offer of 120K in Chicago? I don't believe that it’s plausible. Well, unless it's not a "high-tech" job you are talking about, meaning that your comment is not relevant to the article or discussion at all?

If you are a software developer (or data-scientist, or anything that qualifies as "high-tech"), it is very strange that after 15 years your skills did not appreciate or improved enough to qualify for a 120K offer.

"parts of the main video that are ads" - well, i'm not sure what those are. Is it something that happens when they record a program from a TV and then upload that video to youtube without removing TV ads?

Is this extension even relevant? I haven't ever seen those on youtube. uBlock + pihole do the job.

Smart TV, on the other hand, manages to bypass my pihole (as if adds were burned into the vid), that's where I need to figure something out.

There are a lot more comments than upvotes to the story, it's not gonna be a good one, isn't it?.. Sensitive!

"as knowledge approaches zero, money approaches infinity", also to rephrase: as knowledge approaches infinity, money approaches zero, - sounds like industry vs academia salaries?

Ah that's a well written and thoughtful response to my comment. Thank you for that! However I can’t say I agree with the trigger premise though, even if suggestion perceived as personal. Psychological problem suggestions, gentle nudges if you will, are inherently beneficial even if those generate a defensive response. Defensive response is a response! That response is a deliberate thought in itself, an analysis. In modern, developed societies, it seems that the only appropriate time to suggest therapy is when the following sentence includes a suicide hotline phone number, how crazy is that? Therapy or any psychological self-care should be normal, and not in any way different from a regular, scheduled visit to the dentist.

It's not psychiatry, it's psychology. Not even remotely I'm making an attempt to diagnose a psychiatric pathology as in no way I'm qualified to do that. You are giving me more credit than I actually deserve.

I’m not sure I follow, I don’t think that if a white guy is present during your interview, he is automatically racist? What I got from your post is that you are having problems during interviews because you are not comfortable with white people conducting your interviews. It’s sounds like you are automatically assume that white interviewers are racist? You are broadly generalizing people who happened to be white which does not sound good any way you look at it.

I might be paranoid a bit - I'm skeptical about "you can pick your location" feature. And generally I have a very little trust in US-based VPN service providers.

No matter the location, they'll keep logs forever for the gov or some other equally unreliable entity.

Childish website. Flack Friday is crucial for retail, economic growth and beneficial for the consumers as with larger movement of goods, margins are dropping. As a matter of fact it also carriers a sentimental vibe with a hint of a tradition.

I only see some straw man anti-arguments that don't really explain why black Friday or consumer driven economies are bad (hint: they are not)

EDIT: looks like I overreacted by taking the OPs intent seriously. It turns out to be just a landing page for referrals? Oh the irony.

Also curious if FB outages affect global internet traffic? Are there any relative stats? (E.g. if google to go down, it would have an economic cost comparable to a natural disaster)

the scale FB operates on is staggering! Human factor, while still present, is very low. Wonder what could have happened there. They don't usually release postmortems, right? (since the general service they provide to the masses is "free", meaning minimum obligating to reporting. Would be curious to read the postmortem, analysis of what happened.

Well, general suggestion is to build pricing model that is relative to what users (businesses?) can afford and not relative to the cost.

This looks great!

The only note would be pricing? Margins look too low for the tech product? You need to sustainably acquire and maintain a very large user base in order to make it work, the larger the base the more expensive maintenance will be, can potentially be dangerous. Let me know if I'm missing something.

No the worst, just meh.. average.

Are they really being left out though? I understand the notion of ageism, and not at all saying it doesn't happen in software development, the point is, what if there are other factors also in play here? What if this "trend" is just a natural phenomenon?

Software Development is one of the most aggressive industries that are out there. Tech evolves daily with major trends shifting monthly. It's extremely hard to keep up!

And it's extremely easy to become "part of the road" if you don't invest heavily in your professional development by studying the "steamroller". What if older software developers are just the road, modern tech "steamroller" is rolling over? There are quite a few percent of the bright and knowledgeable older software engineers, but what about the "average" ones? Ones who got tired, have families and just don't want to be bothered with making themselves uncomfortable by trying to "keep up"? What about those who were sitting comfortably a decade with the oldest tech you can imagine that was "current" in early 2000, and now wind has changed? It seems logical to assume that a job search for those is gonna be tough!

Also about bootcamps, Erik Meijer makes an interesting point about "amateurs in our industry", that people who live, sleep, and breath code for 20+ years should be able to comfortably retire near 40, meaning this problem we are discussing here should never be a problem to begin with.

Yep. Exactly.

“How one can be a car mechanic without knowing how to blacksmith and forge car parts manually, from metal ore”.

What is this? A Benny Hill show or Hacker News?

Enzyme is on HOLD.

Oh boy, major deprecation/refactoring is coming my way.

airbnb is not as influential in JS world as it used to be

> what drives people to sign up, and what value you are getting

It might only be me, but this question is silly.

I'm getting the news, updates from a project or company I'm interested in.

Thoughtworks' tech radar is a great example of a project I love getting regular updates from: https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

Newsletters are not spam, it's a deliberate, on-topic tune-in.