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A developer’s guide to hiring good developers

Aug22
by on August 22, 2019 at 9:37 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Podium


Last week, a good friend approached me with a question. The organization he works for is struggling to attract engineers for their technical team, and he was desperate to find ideas. As a developer myself, I appreciated that he came to me to understand what motivates technical minded people to consider switching jobs. The hiring funnel The process of recruiting, hiring, and retaining employees would be too long to explain in here. Let’s just say that people smarter than me have identified the four majors steps of the hiring funnel: Identifying candidates Motivating them to apply Evaluating them for your…

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France sticks to its unilateral ‘Google tax’ — even though Trump is pissed

Aug22
by on August 22, 2019 at 9:10 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google


French President, Emmanuel Macron, has started turning up the heat before this weekend’s G7 summit. At a press meeting yesterday, Macron stuck to France’s policy of upping taxes on big tech, calling the system which provides companies with a “permanent tax haven status” simply “crazy,” The Local reports. Europe has been cracking down hard on American tech companies, issuing billions of euros in fines and implementing strict privacy laws like GDPR. Under Macron’s leadership, France has tried to take it even further by unilaterally fixing loopholes in global tax rules. “The global tech players do not contribute financially to the…

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Satoshi Nakabato: ‘Japan’s central bank is in love with Bitcoin tech’

Aug22
by on August 22, 2019 at 8:55 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Hard Fork


Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Bentham used to say: Do what you love and you’ll never work another day! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, August 21 2019, at a price of $10,138. That’s a worrying 5.82 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$626.52. It was the lowest closing price in six days. We’re still 49 percent below Bitcoin‘s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017). Bitcoin market cap…

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Thief jeopardizes state secrets by using nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrency

Aug22
by on August 22, 2019 at 8:42 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


People will do anything to get their hands on that sweet cryptocurrency including, perhaps one of the most audacious yet, using secret areas in a nuclear power plant to hide and power mining machines. According to a court case, a person with high level access to parts of the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant placed mining machines at one of the plant’s administrative buildings and siphoned electricity from the local grid, RT reports. The mining network created by the individual was connected to the nuclear plant’s intranet. As a result, authorities believe the scheme has compromised the site’s security arrangements,…

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Apple: Don’t keep your precious Apple Card near denim or leather

Aug22
by on August 22, 2019 at 8:35 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


The Apple Card is such a delicate piece of technological wonder it apparently needs its own cleaning instructions. Just kidding: it’s a fucking titanium credit card with fancy coating, which also happens to require a laborious cleaning process. It also turns out it shouldn’t come into contact with denim or leather – or so says Apple. In new guidelines posted on its website, the Cupertino giant says that “[s]ome fabrics, like leather and denim, might cause permanent discoloration that will not wash off.” This basically means that your elegant leather wallet and cool denim jeans’ pockets might not be the best…

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