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Most generally, I'm a developer of distributed systems. Usually these take the form of TCP/IP (and other non-IP) network overlays, and from a programming point-of-view using basic user-space level TCP or UDP sockets is…

For myself - and a great many people I know - switching jobs has led, on average, to 40-50% pay raises. Performing well and getting promoted at a given company one rarely exceeds a low-single-digit adjustment. Why does…

When do you know when to leave a startup (Assuming you are not a founder)? If the money in the bank is out and the product doesn't have much traction, sure, that's a clear answer. But what about when the company and the…

It seems like Vettery is doing a huge push and could be a huge asset to job seekers -- yet I also tend to be suspicious of new things like this and am curious if anyone has found success using it?

If I were to work backwards from the goal of making a salary at $250K+, what would they be? Given context, I'm an MS in computer science, about a decade of experience in software development (both in R&D and production…

Despite the relatively good news this morning (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/28/technology/fcc-tightens-privacy-rules-for-broadband-providers.html), I've been thinking about how best one can alter their browsing habits…

I remember looking at it a few months ago, but have completely forgotten the name. The idea is that you can hire people in your area to do an assortment of things: a handyman, maid, organizer, errand-runner, etc... I've…

At first I fell in with the bandwagon hailing Snowden as a true American hero for blowing the whistle on the Prism surveillance program, as well as anecdotes of other unethical/illegal behavior on the part of the…

I've a launching page up that collects emails and comments. It's been up for almost a month so far. Recently, I've started to get a few quite nasty and sarcastic comments from potential users who are evidently excited…

I'm asking this question on behalf of a friend who works in cybersecurity for a large-ish technology firm. I know HN may not be the ideal place to ask this, given it's purpose, but I know a lot of people here would have…

A certain caveat of Stripe is that you cannot use it for age restricted content -- i.e., anything that requires your users to be above a certain age. Does anyone know of any convenient payment providers that do not have…

Not quite ready to associate my real identity with my evolving side project on the tubes (for several reasons at this point), I've decided to use a pseudonym. So, for example, my e-mail is…

In many dating sites, the desirability of joining the site is in many ways simply a function of the number of people on the site. There's been a fair amount of discussion on bootstrapping a user base on HN so far, but I…

Simply: I mainly develop for embedded systems (that must not use any type of non-deterministic memory allocation). For associated projects, I've started to use Python quite a bit and have fallen in love with the tuple…