I remember it well - thank you!
We all know the Daniel Radcliffe story, right? (He performed The Elements from memory on a UK talk show, which was allegedly what got him hired to play Weird Al in his 'biopic' -…
It's obviously a slightly different combination of technologies, but I've been using NFS over wireguard pretty happily for a while...
This article is a masterpiece of deadpan Nordic understatement! Also a good read...
Location: Leeds, UK Remote: Happily Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Django, Flask, Linux, shell, HTML/CSS/JS, SQL, PHP, etc. Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vmlinuz/ Email: richard@vmlinuz.org I'm an…
That's exactly what happened to me during lockdown - hired at a bank on a fixed-term contract, purely by phone interview. When I started, they required me to work on-site because I wasn't permanent staff and therefore…
And why exactly should we listen to a German when it comes to these things?
SEEKING WORK | HONG KONG (currently) | REMOTE LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vmlinuz/ Experienced engineer, originally from the UK, worked on a large variety of different products at different levels of tech…
While technically my first Linux was a generic boot/root floppy pair in late 1995, my first distro was Slackware in 1996. I've used Red Hat, SuSE, OSX, Solaris, Unixware and (rarely) Windows since then - but last night…
Location: Hong Kong Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No (possibly yes, in the medium-to-long term) Technologies: Python (10+ years), Django/Flask, SQL, Linux (25+ years), bash, HTML, etc. Resume:…
Thanks for this - I've been using it for a while for my and my parents' personal domains and it's been pretty much flawless!
This kind of post is somewhere between depressing and surreal to me. I live a long way outside the US - UTC+8 - and these sort of numbers are utterly unreal for most of the world. In my recent experience, pre-, during-…
I'm a Brit - got a grad job at SCO in 1998, then moved to Sun in 2000 when SCO imploded, then decided to emigrate when Sun started imploding in 2005. I was initially planning to move to Israel - I'm Jewish, so don't…
I know it sounds like a broken MP3, but I don't see "support for Linux on non-servers" on that list of improvements - apparently because they still think only Linux users have large hard drives...
Ok, so I'm going to hijack this slightly... I'm an elderly (mid-40s) non-USian techie, and I've never done Instagram. On Facebook I mostly follow people I've largely lost touch with in real life (particular these past…
Of course there are specific niches, but it's pretty easy to answer in general: 'actual professionals' need some combination of two criteria - capacity and reliability/durability/usability. A device which can handle…
Many, many years ago, I used a custom build of Plucker to build an offline reader for the schedule of a large conference in the UK - to the point of rebuilding the schduule file daily to include updates, and using an…
I started a 6 month contract at A Large Enterprise about 7 weeks ago and it's been intensely wierd. My team is split over two sites (same timezone, different countries) and every single member of the team - including…
To be clear, TikTok and WeChat are quite different 'threats', both real, but it's not clear how dangerous: TikTok is aimed at a wide market, and it's a content app - there are two worries with it, data and influence. If…
D'oh! I did notice the typo after I'd posted it, but it was too late to do anything about it. Thanks tyrankh and dang :D
I can recommend everyone look at this jobs page, even if you're not interested in applying, for sheer style points!
"[T]his role will start as a fully remote position, but will likely convert to an onsite role in NYC at a yet-to-be-determined date in the future."
Location: Hong Kong (UK citizen, HK Permanent Resident, English-speaking) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Primary: Linux/Unix, Python, Django, PHP. Secondary: SQL, git, AWS, JavaScript, Android, shell,…
So I'm not going to get into an argument, just make three basic points to reply here: Hong Kong did not always belong to China, and was not leased to the UK - part of Hong Kong's area (the New Territories) was leased,…
I remember it well - thank you!
We all know the Daniel Radcliffe story, right? (He performed The Elements from memory on a UK talk show, which was allegedly what got him hired to play Weird Al in his 'biopic' -…
It's obviously a slightly different combination of technologies, but I've been using NFS over wireguard pretty happily for a while...
This article is a masterpiece of deadpan Nordic understatement! Also a good read...
Location: Leeds, UK Remote: Happily Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Django, Flask, Linux, shell, HTML/CSS/JS, SQL, PHP, etc. Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vmlinuz/ Email: richard@vmlinuz.org I'm an…
That's exactly what happened to me during lockdown - hired at a bank on a fixed-term contract, purely by phone interview. When I started, they required me to work on-site because I wasn't permanent staff and therefore…
And why exactly should we listen to a German when it comes to these things?
SEEKING WORK | HONG KONG (currently) | REMOTE LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vmlinuz/ Experienced engineer, originally from the UK, worked on a large variety of different products at different levels of tech…
While technically my first Linux was a generic boot/root floppy pair in late 1995, my first distro was Slackware in 1996. I've used Red Hat, SuSE, OSX, Solaris, Unixware and (rarely) Windows since then - but last night…
Location: Hong Kong Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No (possibly yes, in the medium-to-long term) Technologies: Python (10+ years), Django/Flask, SQL, Linux (25+ years), bash, HTML, etc. Resume:…
Thanks for this - I've been using it for a while for my and my parents' personal domains and it's been pretty much flawless!
This kind of post is somewhere between depressing and surreal to me. I live a long way outside the US - UTC+8 - and these sort of numbers are utterly unreal for most of the world. In my recent experience, pre-, during-…
Location: Hong Kong Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No (possibly yes, in the medium-to-long term) Technologies: Python (10+ years), Django/Flask, SQL, Linux (25+ years), bash, HTML, etc. Resume:…
I'm a Brit - got a grad job at SCO in 1998, then moved to Sun in 2000 when SCO imploded, then decided to emigrate when Sun started imploding in 2005. I was initially planning to move to Israel - I'm Jewish, so don't…
I know it sounds like a broken MP3, but I don't see "support for Linux on non-servers" on that list of improvements - apparently because they still think only Linux users have large hard drives...
Ok, so I'm going to hijack this slightly... I'm an elderly (mid-40s) non-USian techie, and I've never done Instagram. On Facebook I mostly follow people I've largely lost touch with in real life (particular these past…
Of course there are specific niches, but it's pretty easy to answer in general: 'actual professionals' need some combination of two criteria - capacity and reliability/durability/usability. A device which can handle…
Many, many years ago, I used a custom build of Plucker to build an offline reader for the schedule of a large conference in the UK - to the point of rebuilding the schduule file daily to include updates, and using an…
I started a 6 month contract at A Large Enterprise about 7 weeks ago and it's been intensely wierd. My team is split over two sites (same timezone, different countries) and every single member of the team - including…
To be clear, TikTok and WeChat are quite different 'threats', both real, but it's not clear how dangerous: TikTok is aimed at a wide market, and it's a content app - there are two worries with it, data and influence. If…
D'oh! I did notice the typo after I'd posted it, but it was too late to do anything about it. Thanks tyrankh and dang :D
I can recommend everyone look at this jobs page, even if you're not interested in applying, for sheer style points!
"[T]his role will start as a fully remote position, but will likely convert to an onsite role in NYC at a yet-to-be-determined date in the future."
Location: Hong Kong (UK citizen, HK Permanent Resident, English-speaking) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Primary: Linux/Unix, Python, Django, PHP. Secondary: SQL, git, AWS, JavaScript, Android, shell,…
So I'm not going to get into an argument, just make three basic points to reply here: Hong Kong did not always belong to China, and was not leased to the UK - part of Hong Kong's area (the New Territories) was leased,…