When I proposed to my wife, I met her after a couple of years and didn't know at the time if she was seeing someone. I nudged the conversation towards that topic and once I found out that she isn't, I literally proposed to her in office jargon. I said, "So if the vacancy is still available, can I apply?". She said yes, and we got married eventually but she still isn't too happy about that proposal line.

So, if I get it right... You didn't meet that woman for years. You meet her, subtly ask if she's alone, then propose?

That was bold of you, but even bolder from her to accept.

Safe to assume this is Indian or muslim culture where it’s customary to set up a marriage between acquaintances, no dating as we know it.

We went to university together, had a semi-romantic friendship before as well. I always liked her and I thought she liked me back too but after graduating I was focused on other stuff, wasn't actively looking for a relationship. Hence the gap.

Thanks for your transparence about that gap in your romantic resume. :-)

Yeah, I'm confused by this to. Did they not even date first, or was this how they asked her out?

I think they meant that they'd dated in the past, but hadn't seen each other in many years.

Still bold.

I was about to say I was suprised she ended up as your wife after that.

To be frank: That is among worst possible lines you could've come up with, but glad it still worked out for you XD

You can definitely re-use the paper filters around least 3 times before throwing them away.

Emby doesn’t have good apps for as many platforms as plex does. I use plex on my PS4 where Emby doesn’t have an app.

Yeah, this is probably the main reason. I know two friends who use Plex exclusively on their PS4.

I'm also not the only one in my group maintaining a Plex server, so they'd incur a transitioning cost as well.

Recently applied at CataWiki and aced the actual coding problem, but was later rejected because I failed the 2 hours whiteboard part of the interview. I have to say, those hours in front of the whiteboard are really not pleasant and I would have performed much better if I had real-life problems to solve using real-life tools.

Sorry, but on second thought this reply only lists the negative side of my experience. On the positive side, CataWiki has been excellent in communication and sharing feedback throughout the process and they have a really nice office and great culture. Definitely a place I could see myself working at so the company itself is not bad, just that the whiteboard part of the interview process could be improved/replaced.

Location: Tallinn, Estonia Remote: No Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: typescript, node.js, react, ruby on rails (lots of small experiences in other technologies) Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmadarsalan/ Email: contact@arsalan{dot}me

I've spent most of my career (4.5+ years) in early stage startups and now I'm looking to move to a mid-sized company preferably working on a product having a positive effect on the world.

Guys, can't we just detect a program doing spectre-like behavior and just kill it instead of having every other application suffer a performance hit by the proposed changes? Antivirus software already does similar stuff

It seems like they support every model but exactly mine. I'm running TP-LINK TL-WR845N

I'd wait for the ecosystem to mature before building a business app with Phoenix. You never know what taken for granted library is missing in Elixir, and it's going to be damn hard to hire a developer experienced with Phoenix. Everyone on your team will be slow and will be making a steady stream of mistakes as they learn the framework

I think Phoenix (and Elixir) is mature enough already to use in production. I've made pretty good, bordering on oracle-like :) predictions about directions in technology over more years than I care to think about; so I'm confident that Phoenix is only going to grow in use and positive attention.

It will be the logical successor to Rails. It already is.

That said, I use a good mix of Elixir+Phoenix and old-school cron launched Python utility scripts, and that works nicely. Anything that's difficult (probably because I am still a newb) in Elixir I can easily do out of band with a Python script.

But your point about difficult to hire experienced people is the reason for my reply. This is the mentality that is ruining IT and development. Yes, having someone with hands on experience in all of your tools is nice - a rare luxury in fact. But it's really not necessary. I would be quite happy to have someone that has willingly built something in Rails, Django, and Nodejs with an "Oh I can learn that" attitude. Especially if you come from a modern MVC framework, Phoenix itself is easy. Elixir is the part that requires some real effort, imo.

How do the waves have inertia then? We know for a fact that photons exert force in the surface they strike