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scalesolved commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026) · Posted by u/whoishiring

timgl · 13 days ago

PostHog | Full-Time | Product engineers, backend engineers, Technical AMs | REMOTE (all remote) | Hiring GMT-8 to GMT+2

PostHog equips developers to build successful products by combining product analytics, feature flags, session replay, a data warehouse, CDP and many more.

* we have a public handbook (posthog.com/handbook) if you want to learn how we work, pay and more in complete detail.

* we are growing through more autonomy and transparency not through process.

* we have a ton of scale and a bunch of super interesting technical problems to solve

* we're building 20 more products over the next couple of years, so you could end up building one of those

* public compensation calculator! see immediately what you'd get paid

* we're hiring: product engineers, clickhouse operations engineer, backend engineers, product managers, technical account managers and technical customer success managers.

https://posthog.com/careers

scalesolved · 12 days ago

Very cool on the transparency! I was surprised to see Spain (all one bucket) has higher salaries on your calculator than places like Edinburgh.

scalesolved commented on World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating theguardian.com/sport/202... · Posted by u/notamy

raffraffraff · a year ago

It's not a sport, it's something that kids used to do pre 1950s. People were poor, didn't have manufactured "stuff", so they made their own toys out of simple things like stones, sticks, old wheels etc Football was likely popular because a single ball could keep a while bunch of kids happy for an afternoon (if someone could actually afford a ball).

I'm almost 50, and to me the image of boys playing conkers only comes from books or TV based in early 1900s UK. I've never actually seen anyone play it.

And nowadays people don't really grow up at all. They continue playing right into adulthood and old age, with luxury toys.

scalesolved · a year ago

> I'm almost 50, and to me the image of boys playing conkers only comes from books or TV based in early 1900s UK. I've never actually seen anyone play it.

Did you grow up in a city? I'm mid 30s and we used to regularly play conkers in the village where I grew up.

scalesolved commented on Ask HN: Has anyone found a job from the monthly Who's hiring on HN? · Posted by u/amrrs

scalesolved · 4 years ago

Yup, I found my current company (Sourcegraph) through a hiring thread!

scalesolved commented on Ask HN: How much gas we could save in EU if we reduce our heating temp by 3°? · Posted by u/ciccionamente

empressplay · 4 years ago

In Australia, the state of Victoria in particular, most houses are not heated outside of the 'lounge room' which is not itself generally heated overnight. In the winter months it routinely gets down to or below 0C. Energy is expensive and many houses are not sealed properly.

As such, Australians tend to wear more clothing indoors during the winter months, including hats and sometimes even gloves. Electric blankets and hot water bottles tend to be used in bedrooms. Doors between rooms are kept closed, and only rooms that have people in them are heated, and only while people are in them.

So yes, if people in the EU were willing to accept living like this in the winter, they could save a lot of energy. Similarly, in the summer, most Australian houses only cool a single room, and even at that set the AC to around 27 degrees. If people in the EU lived like Australians, they could most likely survive without Russian gas.

scalesolved · 4 years ago

It reaches 0C inside?

scalesolved commented on Ask HN: Why crypto is rising so fast when its not creating value? · Posted by u/tuyguntn

JohnFen · 4 years ago

I'm not "anti-crypto", but reason that I won't touch it is that it's not stable. With dollars, I know that the money will have a roughly constant value across time. Cryptocurrencies do the opposite of that. By the measure of stability, gold is also preferable to crytocurrency.

If I were a speculator, that instability would be attractive. But I'm not.

scalesolved · 4 years ago

The dollar hasn't had a roughly constant value across time, perhaps on short time periods.

scalesolved commented on Tell HN: My MD says that Europe is not preparing for containment but pandemic · Posted by u/eveningcoffee

bjourne · 6 years ago

Is there any indication that the health care system will fail in any European country excluding Italy?

scalesolved · 6 years ago

At the current point no, if we hit anything like 1% or above infected in a single country then yes we'll probably see that.

scalesolved commented on Tell HN: My MD says that Europe is not preparing for containment but pandemic · Posted by u/eveningcoffee

bjourne · 6 years ago

You can't really stop a virus. But on the bright side, in France only 11 persons have died of 949 infections. In Germany no one has died despite 800 infections. That indicates that with access to proper medical services the death rate is actually quite low.

Find stats here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/coronavirus-m...

The death rate for European countries is about 0.7% at the moment.

scalesolved · 6 years ago

If European countries could keep the number of infections low I imagine the death rate would stay low, the issue is going to be when hospitals are saturated.

scalesolved commented on Complete Corona lock down of Milano and greater areas in “red zone” · Posted by u/haayhappen

maremmano · 6 years ago

Very easy to say. Very difficult to implement. Save human life without destroying (an already bad) economy in between. Especially in Italy a country full of strong opinions.

scalesolved · 6 years ago

We're going to see the same in Spain, from 50 to 500 plus cases in a week but still a very relaxed attitude. Spain ought to learn from China/Italy/S Korea and lock stuff down now.

It seems each country think it'll play out differently for some reason. I imagine in 7-10 days Spain will have 5k cases plus.

scalesolved commented on N26 will be leaving the UK n26.com/en-de/blog/leavin... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon

kristianc · 6 years ago

> As a customer of N26 and Natwest/Barclays I feel that N26 in my experience has won in every category.

And if NatWest were the only competition in this market, I’m sure N26 would have done fine. Monzo, Starling and Revolut all have far superior products and market offerings however.

scalesolved · 6 years ago

Oh for sure, Monzo and Starling I've heard very good things of. Revolut doesn't have a banking license so hesitant to include them here.