15:[[11535210,{"by":"lscore720","descendants":7,"id":11535210,"kids":[11536469,11548054,11540837],"score":14,"text":"Hiring Managers:

I'm curious to hear how your experience has been finding software engineers over the last 6-12 months. How's the length of time from job opening-to-hire versus recent years? Any metrics to support whether it's been more difficult or easier recently?

Thanks for your input.","time":1461166677,"title":"Ask HN: Hiring software engineers in '16 vs. prior years?","type":"story"}],[11538811,{"by":"insamniac","descendants":32,"id":11538811,"kids":[11541835,11540615,11538883,11539003,11539033,11538965,11558118,11542268,11539069,11550953,11540108,11546319,11539138,11547043,11539032,11544683,11540823,11541660,11540132,11538984],"score":14,"text":"I work in an alleged data center, building enterprise Java applications. For remote work we're "upgrading" to VDI clients with a single core and 4GB of RAM. I posted on an intranet forum that this was insufficient, and the reply from our de facto Java guru was: "..physical workstations at sadplace only have 4GB and that works fine for most developers. We have made a request for 6GB - that's under review.."

My reactionary response would be something like "Dude, it's 2016. Eclipse, Chrome, and WebLogic max me out" (Yes, WebLogic, that says it all.)

Should I just leave this place ASAP, or has anyone had success in lobbying their company for better hardware? If so, can you give me some tips on how to pull it off? Your tax dollars are involved!","time":1461198783,"title":"Ask HN: Our lead architect says 4GB is enough for a developer machine","type":"story"}],[11522816,{"by":"fatimafouda","descendants":3,"id":11522816,"kids":[11527623,11540763],"score":4,"text":"Any curveballs?","time":1461010316,"title":"Ask HN: How were the YC interviews today?","type":"story"}],[11536542,{"by":"tostitos1979","descendants":8,"id":11536542,"kids":[11536796,11539545,11537467,11549009,11539632,11546244,11536696,11540736],"score":8,"text":"I dabble in front end development, and every time I have to do a project, I am amazed at how incredibly bad the process is. The tools in fashion change every few months (grunt, gulp, webpack, babel,browserify). Frameworks deprecate and remove stuff every few months (looking at you react). How do full time front end devs keep up with this nonsense? We seriously need a moratorium on this crap.","time":1461176492,"title":"Front end tooling is borked big time","type":"story"}],[11532852,{"by":"digitalengineer","descendants":13,"id":11532852,"kids":[11534768,11532926,11532953,11535465,11558828,11533635,11532916,11532865],"score":15,"text":"I do a lot of online projects (one man show) with a lot of 3rd party's, licenses and time spend in each project. Can any of you recommend a tool to keep track of the costs and hours? Something that allows me to see how many dollars are left? (I'm constantly going overboard. I don't mean a time-tracking thingy). I would love to find a good tool... Thanks in advance!","time":1461138163,"title":"Ask HN: Leaking hours and money. I need a tool to keep digital projects in check","type":"story"}],[11516215,{"by":"ingve","descendants":72,"id":11516215,"kids":[11517124,11516918,11517167,11518248,11516901,11516606,11516676,11517377,11516793,11516967,11517305,11517007,11517415,11516613,11517003,11517177,11519715,11516675,11517070,11517178,11517453,11516834,11518037],"score":319,"time":1460925762,"title":"Develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris","type":"story","url":"http://raganwald.com/2016/04/15/laziness-is-a-virtue.html"}],[11506567,{"by":"userium","descendants":21,"id":11506567,"kids":[11506914,11512144,11544099,11548393,11509984,11509907,11542692],"score":11,"text":"Website: https://stayintech.com/

Over 40% of women leave tech mid-career. Our goal is to decrease that number and help companies increase diversity of their workforce.

See which companies take diversity seriously, and find a better job in tech.

If you have any questions or feedback, we'd love to hear from you!","time":1460745205,"title":"Apply HN: Over 40% of women leave tech mid-career, help us decrease that","type":"story"}],[11463272,{"by":"chris2chris","descendants":12,"id":11463272,"kids":[11463630,11502063,11495817,11495811,11502832,11465639],"score":7,"text":"Job portal for women job seekers.

Problem: Where are the women job seekers?

Solution: Take the struggle out of searching for female candidates with the right skill set.

4 team members: 2 software developers, 1 QA engineer, and 1 business developer/designer/junior developer","time":1460235327,"title":"Apply HN – HireFemale","type":"story"}],[11486401,{"by":"agocorona","descendants":8,"id":11486401,"kids":[11490014,11506571,11495915,11499191],"score":18,"time":1460532533,"title":"Show HN: A Haskell library for web and distributed composable applications","type":"story","url":"https://github.com/agocorona/transient-universe"}],[11482471,{"by":"_ahacker_","descendants":4,"id":11482471,"kids":[11495890,11482898,11483287,11484582],"score":10,"text":"Hey HN,

I'm a graduating CS student at a top 3 university taking a year off after graduation (in a couple months) to build a product from start to finish. I have a long list of ideas, and I'm looking for a fellow hacker who's crazy enough to take a risk and join me on this journey. I'm currently living on my own in the bay area in a small space. It's not super comfortable, but I think it's good enough and rent is cheap. If you're interested, shoot me an email with a little about yourself. email -> ahacker1729 at gmail com

_ahacker_","time":1460487429,"title":"I'm looking for a roommate/hacker (bay area)","type":"story"}],[11483583,{"by":"Joof","descendants":10,"id":11483583,"kids":[11483895,11484124,11484250,11484251,11495874,11492631,11497938,11497965],"score":12,"text":"There's a lot of news about privacy violations, wealth equality, filter bubbles and the abundance of advertisements on the internet. I'd love to see some counterpoints about software that truly improves people's lives or the welfare of society. How does hacker news contribute to the general welfare?","time":1460495185,"title":"Ask HN: How does your job benefit society?","type":"story"}],[11495651,{"by":"chris2chris","dead":true,"id":11495651,"kids":[11495809,11498324],"score":4,"text":"Job portal for women job seekers.

Problem: Where are the women job seekers?

Solution: Take the struggle out of searching for female candidates with the right skill sets.

4 team members: 2 software developers, 1 QA engineer, and 1 business developer/designer/junior developer.

Money: Subscription and ads","time":1460632438,"title":"Apply HN: HireFemale","type":"story"}]]

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