In Germany, it is not accepted very well if someone changes jobs frequently. Especially if the company goes insolvent in the near future.
Depending on where OP lives, simply trying can be to his disadvantage in the future. Not everyone lives in the US where job hopping is apparently not seen as a concern for most employers.
That's a myth being told by those who have a clue and know that they have a competitive advantage by changing jobs whenever it works better for them. Yes, also in Germany. I would even say especially in Germany, precisely because this myth is more prevalent. That hiring manager who quizes you about why you have been moving so much is exactly the clueless who has stayed at their job for decades and can't stand others who had more fun and became more successful faster. Smile, you're going to be their boss very soon :)
People asked and I told them and had 3 independent better job offers despite switching often.
And I was on the other side as well(still am) and yes of course you think (mmhhh hope he/she stays longer this time) but you know what? Finding good people is hard enough.
If you have a good resume and know what you are doing, switch jobs often when you are younger to get experience and pay raises.
When you start being 40, probably 50 it's getting harder.
Germany is a very bad example to follow. In many areas and especially in work culture and innovation.
If someone changing jobs frequently is considered a red flag, that’s a failure of imagination on the part of the prospective employer. You look and see a “reliable employee” I look and see a no-nonsense individual who knows his worth and interests and is not afraid to pursue that.
In my experience hire fast fire fast works best. Because the really good ones don’t get fired.
Germany's Mittelstand has leaders in many niches, but, as I discovered, those niches tend to pay SW devs less than CRUD or mobile app devs earn in SW focused companies, since the market of those niches is already old and saturated so the economics are similar to that of a zero sum game with minimal space for growth.
Well, that’s not something OP can easily change. But as someone working in Germany I’d say unless it’s literally a string of jobs you stayed in for less than a year each it’s not an issue- it is quite normal in software to switch jobs every 2-4 years.
I dislike this kind of overblocking a lot. Not just TLD blocklists, but also IP blocklists.
I recently had to write an email to my local police station (xx@polizei.nrw.de) and their server was rejecting it because my IP (vultr) was on the "Proofpoint® Dynamic Reputation"-blacklist. I owned this single IPv4 for at least 3 years, so they whole vultr range must have been blocked by Proofpoint.
Great if you can't even contact your government because they are using some shitty blocklist product.
Personally, I run a mailcow instance with Rspamd and get only very few spam mails, albeit my email was being leaked in the ledger.com hack a few years ago. When I was still using mailbox.org, I got crypto spam mails (update your wallet yada yada) in my inbox twice a day. So just a configuration thing(?).
> Great if you can't even contact your government because they are using some shitty blocklist product.
I wonder how this is legal. Then again, I guess them throwing snail mail into the trash or refusing to open letters from particular individuals (as an example) would carry a different weight than some technical solution that nobody understands acting badly, with no particular person really being "responsible" for it.
I made similar experiences with a Hetzner VPS that I use to run mailcow (the TLD I'm using is .xyz). I refuse to give up though. One time I tried to contact my local city authority but they straight up blocked my emails. What followed was an email exchange with a slightly annoyed undertone by the guy that I reached via the postmaster address. In the end he apparently put me on some whitelist and my mail could be delivered.
Especially annoying is that in some cases filters blocking my mail are used on the postmaster address too, so to resolve an issue I have to use my gmail address.
I gave up on sending email myself and switched to smtp2go. I couldn't even get gmail to deliver my custom domain's email if I sent it from home (it was including my home IP in the outgoing headers!).
For low-volume home use, I definitely recommend just outsourcing SMTP to a company that does it professionally.
You need to host your email somewhere else. Any of the big name VPS providers are going to be on a blocklist. I've tried a bunch and its always the same pain
Gave up hosting my own, just not worth the headaches.
Pretty long post for "I know that I know nothing".
However, there is gold in the comment section: Kristen McLean actually throws some numbers at us [1]. "66% of those books from the top 10 publishers sold less than 1,000 copies over 52 weeks". Well, uh, that's what I thought. Interesting nonetheless.
I know that I know nothing is a very important realization, though, and if a lot of words helps someone else realize that they know nothing, too, it's probably worth it.
Sure, but don’t click the publish button. There is already so much noise out there that we shouldn’t actively drown out people who actually do know something.
Completely disagree. There is value in someone laying out the facts and saying "What does this mean? No idea!" Second, these post are usually a vehicle for someone who actually knows something as seen in the comments of this article. Finally, it's their slice of the internet and they're free to publish whatever they feel.
Actually I think the post highlights that even the statistic you quoted means less than one thinks it means. For example, some of the books included may have been only a few weeks on the market. Some titles may be niche books with the expected lower sales volume calculated in the price. BookScan only covers a certain percentage of print sales in the US, the total sales could be more than double that.
No it's a very good stat, I think they mean measure after 52 weeks, and note they exclude self published books, it's the crème and still suffers from huge Pareto (as expected)
“data showing at least 1 unit sale over the last 52 weeks coming from publishers of all sizes, including individuals.”
“Collectively, 45,571 unique ISBNs appear for these publishers in our frontlist sales data for the last 52 weeks (thru week ending 8-24-2022).“
Both descriptions mean books sold for 1 of the 52 weeks would be included. You would need to see how quickly sales spike and fall off to see how much those statistics underestimate sales over a books first year. Similarly they cover 16,000 retailers, however it could be some of these books like say textbooks are primarily sold outside of these channels.
I used to work for a big name scientific publisher, and we published a lot of super-niche research monographs that didn't sell many copies.
What a lot of people don't understand was that our bread and butter came from university libraries. We published a lot of books not because they sold individually, but libraries wanted them. They like collections!
"The long and short of it is publishing is very much a gambler's game, and I think that has been clear from the testimony in the DOJ case. It is true that most people in publishing up to and including the CEOs cannot tell you for sure what books are going to make their year."
Maybe this is splitting hairs but this didn't make publishing seem like gambling to me. It sounds like if I can publish enough titles at a low enough cost per title I'm guaranteed to make money.
You're guaranteed to make little money, yes. The big publishers make most of their revenue from a small number of titles that make publishing any other title viable.
I tried to understand the segment analytics open source sdk coming from the apache unomi project's documentation. It seems unomi is using analytics.js syntax in tracking users.
I still don't get the benefit, though.
I know quite a few analytics tools and have implemented my fair share of these. But still. I just run into a wall every time I try to understand the OS analytics.js benefits.
> I would shoot straight. Not once in my career have I ever suffered for an honest assessment given humbly
Same. It is frightening how many comments point to the exact opposite, presumably with the ulterior motive that this increases the chance of self-preservation.
But at the same time nothing can be improved by this. Although a team should have exactly this as a goal: improvement of the product/service.
People can have opposite experiences from the same situation, and all of them are equally valid. People are complicated and social structures are even more so.
It's valuable to provide people with context when giving advice from personal experience. The person hearing the advice needs to understand how the situation you presented mirrors theirs and also have an idea of how similarly they are going to be perceived compared to how you were.
This is exactly what you should tell athletes, especially ones in team based games. Going to the coach and demanding more play time will usually get better results than just silently being a good player.
Obviously this doesn't apply in individual pursuits like swimming [edit] or in situations where the coach is beholden to other parties (a paying audience).
[edit] To clarify: A coach should incentivize things they believe win games. An athlete should do those things so that the coach gives them playtime. An athlete should also promote the fact that they are doing those things to the coach.
"Challenging the government" doesn't make sense there, because the government never ordered anyone to take down the source code.
Microsoft just did some risk management and decided that it's not worth it to keep their own users data. I find it quite interesting that someone puts Github's management in a difficult situation. Are they gonna terminate Prof Green's account too? Are they gonna hunt down every copy of the source code on Github? Are they giving high-profile users a special treatment?
Even if some activist executive would allow it, Microsoft’s lawyers would absolutely not.
And the shareholders also wouldn’t.
Don’t forget that the purpose of a business is to create shareholder value (as defined by the shareholders themselves), and I highly doubt that the majority of Microsoft’s shareholders would see any value in this. Just liability.
Conclusion - not worth it.
> Are they gonna terminate Prof Green's account too?
Probably not.
> Are they gonna hunt down every copy of the source code on Github?
Technically, a corporation exists to distribute risk to facilitate a venture that may produce a return, not necessarily fiscal, but nevertheless valuable to the group undertaking it.
It's a perversion of the concept to jump to must produce a positive financial return. Sometimes you just need an organization to coordinate something that eases a societal ill.
That business schools have forgotten this, and that we don't remind people of this consistently is a tragedy. It cuts off entire avenues of collective organization to get things done. Some times "getting it done at minimum outlay" is enough.
OT: I just went through Adyen's prohibited businesses. Why does every major payment processor prohibit vendors of adult toys from using their payment services?
I mean, those aren't even high risk businesses. Credit card fraud usually happens when you offer high priced electronics. Chargebacks usually happen when you sell digital goods like templates, ebooks, videos etc.
You need a merchant account from a high-risk processor, combined with a generic gateway like Authorize.Net. (Don't use their built in processor) The all in one solutions like Stripe or Adyen are convenient but they aren't what high-risk industries need.
From the article: “According to Section 43.23 of the Texas penal code, although it doesn’t clearly state dildos, the law still regulates the possession of ‘obscene devices’”
I've wondered about this, too. The simple and unhelpful answer is because banks/CC companies are conservative and consider them high risk. So why is that? I've been able to find two factors: 1) associated (correctly or not) with the sex industry, which is taboo, possibly regulated or outright illegal. 2) high rate of chargebacks. Factors leading to high chargebacks could include no returns allowed and taboo/shame. Imagine an insecure partner finds a charge on a CC and the other partner claims they didn't purchase it, leading to a chargeback to support the lie.
The credit card networks have brand protection clauses in their operating procedures.
They likely don’t actually prohibit adult toys specifically but payment processors can be conservative in fear of having major disruptions from the networks.
I tried to create a spotify client for the nintendo switch as my very first rust project. I initially wanted to use librespot as a backend. I gave up pretty quickly, things just went over my head and got too complex.
Yeah, Rust and the Switch don't mesh together very well, at least for now. I was tempted to take that route also, but I ended up reimplementing librespot in C instead, which serves as the backend for this.
Depending on where OP lives, simply trying can be to his disadvantage in the future. Not everyone lives in the US where job hopping is apparently not seen as a concern for most employers.
I would go this route: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32798617