andyjdavis (u/andyjdavis)

andyjdavis commented on Innovative container ship features hemispherical bow asia.nikkei.com/Tech-Scie... · Posted by u/jasoncartwright

dogma1138 · 10 years ago

Sink it with what? they attack it with fishing boats and AK47's you'll need a literal ton of explosives to sink on of those ships. They can't offload the containers and other than the money in the captain's vault there is nothing of value other than the propane tanks in the galley (that and the med bay is the only thing they raid).

andyjdavis · 10 years ago

I said "try to sink it" not that they would necessarily succeed. That said if they are on board and have unlimited access to the entire ship it may be possible to sink it without any explosives. Not all ships even require explosives to be scuttled.

>They can't offload the containers

I never suggested that they would. Rather I suggested that they would ransack the ship and cargo looking for valuable components or equipment that is transportable.

andyjdavis commented on Ask HN: What makes a company worth staying with as engineer? · Posted by u/eric-hu

andyjdavis · 10 years ago

I used to work at a place that was able to hold onto a sizable proportion of its technical talent for many years at least in part by allowing remote work.

In the minority of cases this was an in-office employee who went for remote either indefinitely or for a period of a year or two so they could go live somewhere else.

In the majority of cases it was someone in another location who was hired. They had the option to move to where the office was (including help with the visa system if necessary) or just staying where they were and working remotely. If a person is particularly attached to where they currently live and that area happens to have relatively modest employment options for technical people then chances are you will retain that person for a very long time.

I would note that whether retaining staff for 5+ years for reasons like the lack of similarly well paying options elsewhere is somewhat debatable. Holding onto staff for a long time is not in and of itself always a good thing.

andyjdavis commented on Innovative container ship features hemispherical bow asia.nikkei.com/Tech-Scie... · Posted by u/jasoncartwright

dogma1138 · 10 years ago

The Pirates ransom the crew they can't do anything to the ship or the cargo they have no where to offload it.

andyjdavis · 10 years ago

I suspect there would be enough of value that could be stripped off the ship and removed to make it worth the pirate's time. Bear in mind that it doesn't matter to pirates if they cause millions of dollars of damage to extract a small fraction of that for themselves.

Cripple a hugely valuable ship and destroy much of its equipment and cargo to extract a few hundred thousand dollars worth of stuff that you can take with you? Sounds like a reasonable deal for a group of pirates. Hell, they might as well try and sink the ship once they are done with it to make it hard to gather evidence and determine exactly what was stolen.

It would take some time for people to do the math to determine what components of ships and common cargo have the highest value Vs their portability but someone would figure it out eventually.

andyjdavis commented on How do I improve search engine ranking? · Posted by u/qweserinfolabs

andyjdavis · 10 years ago

Google wants to provide people with the best quality content. If you happen to have the best quality content around a topic then your search engine rankings will improve over time.

andyjdavis commented on Citigroup fined $7m after legit transactions mistaken for test data for 15 years theregister.co.uk/2016/07... · Posted by u/adamnemecek

BallinBige · 10 years ago

what were these transactions for?

andyjdavis · 10 years ago

There is mention of trading data which suggests to me that it might be to do with traders employed by Citigroup ie staff members whose job it is to use a block of the bank's money or outside investor's money to buy and sell shares, commodities and pretty much anything where they believe they can buy and sell to turn a profit.

andyjdavis commented on Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left recode.net/2016/7/12/1215... · Posted by u/prostoalex

lojack · 10 years ago

However, most of that software can be filtered and controlled via the API. Part of the reason Twitter is so hostile to third party apps (with exceptions) that duplicate its own functionality is so they can get analytics about actual users and not marketing bots.

andyjdavis · 10 years ago

Do you know if they publicly release analytics about humans Vs bots? I would be interested to know the proportion of tweets from actual humans.

andyjdavis commented on Ask HN: Do companies ever request test solutions to build solution benchmarks? · Posted by u/p4wnc6

andyjdavis · 10 years ago

>what steps should a candidate take to avoid completing such tests and investing personal time that results only in giving the company free performance data?

Probably nothing different. I suspect that investing additional time and energy is not going to be a net win for you.

>The revised ad also made it sound like the position was far more junior than when I initially interviewed.

It is possible that there was discussion internally and they decided against paying whatever it would cost to hire someone like you. "We're not paying that, get a new grad" is not an uncommon refrain in some circles. If it helps, places that like are usually not nice places to work.

andyjdavis commented on Seagate Technology to cut about 6,500 jobs; stock jumps 22% latimes.com/business/la-f... · Posted by u/tosseraccount

matt_wulfeck · 10 years ago

Maybe if all of the cuts were in the Bay Area. However the article suggests it's the "manufacturing footprint" in Asia that will be most affected.

Potentially that's not a very bad severance.

andyjdavis · 10 years ago

I read somewhere that Thailand is currently the world's largest hard drive manufacturer. It is therefore entirely possible that a substantial number of these job cuts with be in Thailand which definitely has dramatically lower salaries than the Bay Area.

source on the Thailand and HDs for those that are interested. This article from 2011 claims that 25% of global HD assembly is in Thailand. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/f0f9a234-fb33-11e0-8756-00144feab4...

andyjdavis commented on Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left recode.net/2016/7/12/1215... · Posted by u/prostoalex

dkarapetyan · 10 years ago

What exactly is valuable about it? I keep hearing this but it is just a jumble of collective stream of consciousness. Has anyone that has read Ulysses actually made any sense of it? Twitter is the collective analog of Ulysses.

andyjdavis · 10 years ago

>it is just a jumble of collective stream of consciousness

Much of it isn't even that. A huge proportion are not even real humans but are instead accounts being operated by one of the myriad of pieces of software that enable automatic posting on behalf of a human.

Perhaps my view is skewed as we have a travel blog and know many other travel bloggers but a vanishingly small percentage are real humans actually typing their own tweets in real time.

andyjdavis commented on NASA Camera Shows Moon Crossing Face of Earth for 2nd Time in a Year nasa.gov/feature/goddard/... · Posted by u/dnetesn

SeriousM · 10 years ago

Now it's official: no evil cooperation operates on the backside of the moon.

andyjdavis · 10 years ago

Although how awesome would that have been.

"Ok, the photos are coming through now. Which, lol, should provide conclusive proof that no one is operating on the dark side of the.... what the hell is that?"