The economics of cyber crime have changed. Big business has raised the barrier to exploit just enough to make medium and small businesses a viable target. This in turn has created a burgeoning industry around threat detection/hunting, BUT threat hunting is a very labor intensive job. Our value proposition is acquiring successful companies in this space and utilizing machine learning to exponentially increase their efficiency.
We are looking to hire a senior software engineer who can hit the ground running, tackle ambiguity, and mentor junior engineers in the process. These traits are of greater value to us than any particular language or technology experience.
I feel like so many of these questions require the applicant's identity and sense of self to be completely rolled up in their career. Even the question about passion for hobbies is just a proxy for understanding if the candidate will put an unhealthy amount of their life into their work. We're more than what we produce!
I've been using NodeJs for about 4 years now. It really lends itself to the microservice paradigm. It makes great networking glue as you can handle many simultaneous connections without using many resources and since most web server operations are just fetching/updating data between databases or other services this works out well in NodeJs. The trick is to use it for this purpose only. Long running computations should be offloaded to the database or workers running in another process or machine.
A lot of the problems mentioned in that article are the author misunderstanding libraries and not actual issues with NodeJs itself. For instance the problem with the Postgres library was that he didn't read the docs. The lib uses a session pool by default. You have to release the session when your done or else it will not become available again until the default session timeout is passed, which is quite large in Postgres. In respect to using Coffeescript "Classes", forcing JS to work like other languages will create unexpected behavior. It uses prototypical inheritance, not class inheritance.
Almost 10 years ago I read a study that attributed (not too much or too little serotonin), but sending the wrong serotonin allele types for various social situations. This correlated to genetic predispositions to both social anxiety and certain forms of autism. It seems odd these later studies seem to be focusing on a far more general use case of whether more or less serotonin in general is a cause.
I may be missing something, but it seems as though QV is associating how passionate a party (specifically a minority) is about a topic with the importance that their view be equally represented against an apathetic opposition. The problem inherent to this is lack of education of topics that will be well know to a minority party but unknown to a majority. The majorities ignorance is not the same as not caring, and the impetus to gain knowledge may not always be clear. Beyond this its seems like minority opinions no matter how impassioned should not become the center of debate merely because they have spent more money. The act of voting involves far more than the act itself as evidenced by the prolonged campaign periods in the US. The national attention span is short and is already dominated by the extreme and the rich.
As Marty Gillens argues in his book Affluence and Influence (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9836.html), on almost every issue there is a sub group within those who feel a particular way on an issue that is highly informed about that issue and a subgroup that is less informed. 1p1v gives both groups equal weight while QV gives much more weight to the informed. This is much fairer, because the uniformed group will typically be easily swayed by advertising and manipulation to vote the other way, making groups with more uniformed people easily undermined even if there are some members that are informed and who could speak for this group's interests. This is a major problem in American politics: the poor often favor less redistribution than the rich do (again see Gillens)! So I actually think QV would improve the situation precisely along the dimensions you are highlighting.
+1 it's amazing how great you'll feel once you officially quit. In addition, try to remove any crutches from your life i.e. drinking, smoking etc... It's very rewarding long term.
