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SEEKING WORK, Auckland, New Zealand, Remote

Full Stack Engineer with 7 years experience

Portfolio + CV:

https://nelsonshaw.com

Contact:

contact@nelsonshaw.com

Recent Work:

https://contento.marketing (React + Firebase)

https://finappster.co.nz (React + Django API)

https://salesjaguar.com (Django App)

Primary Skills:

* Python (Django)

* JavaScript (React)

* iOS (Swift)

* Firebase (Realtime DB, Firestore, Auth, Cloud functions)

Secondary Skills (a few projects here and there)

* Android (java)

* Rails

* Java
With XAML Islands, Edge can now be embedded in Win32 and WinForms/WPF apps. There's an official wrapper control for it that binds a mostly compatible API to the old IE control and you can almost just "drop in" replace any existing uses.

Also, Windows has native HTML/JS application support as a part of the UWP platform, and among the best support for PWA applications on top of that. Apple has been the biggest holdup for PWA adoption.
It is not. If you prefer, you can use just a password, in lieu of Face/Touch ID, but there's no support for requiring both to unlock.
ATT didn't sell it; Dish and sling did, and I'm pretty sure customers aren't going to continue paying for HBO while it's blacked out. I don't understand your approach at all.
I wonder at what price people will consider switching from iOS to Android. Seems like they sold an incredible number of iPhones at ASPs higher than analyst predictions.
Nah, the amount of power used for data is just also low when not being actively used. I'm sure some people update over 4G, but not many.
Isn't this just a super-vendory marketing version of the blog post Kevin himself wrote about the ICMP vulnerability earlier this week?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18349942

Note that Kevin himself did not claim he had managed to get code execution from this vulnerability, but rather that he'd just verified heap corruption. (In terms of evaluating the vulnerability, yes, you should assume kernel heap corruption is morally equivalent to RCE. In terms of evaluating bragging rights, which is what this Semmle post seems to be about, the difference is pretty large.)
Ask HN: B2B software, state of the art?
I am trying to develop an app for my clients to use (small business) but inmediately got surrounded by terms like: microservices, SaaS PaaS, IaaS, etc...
Now i dont know where to start, or what is the state of the art. Tried searching a course i remember from edx (SaaS on ruby on rails) but its archived. got the feel that this business model is a bit outdated or something new is trending. Is there any place to start?
I mean, my point was that a few dozen light sources times a few hundred sprites isn't large amounts of math, unless they're doing something really fancy with each pair. Language speed definitely isn't key here. It's got to be something else.
What an idiotic comment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy, like really?).
Is HBO Now good these days? Last time I used it, it was terrible.
Agreed with everything you said, and will add 2 major points:

1) God help you if you choose 80% coding and 20% management. Your team will be very unhappy. Maybe you'll take care of the HR/Admin work that noone else can, but their career growth will stagnate, and morale will be low.

2) If you do pick 80% management, and 20% engineering, understand that your growth as an engineer will completely plateau. Yes, you can still participate in design reviews, even weigh in on code reviews, and ship the occasional bug fix/perf improvement/nice-to-have feature or some operational tool that will save your team a bunch of time and make your oncall happy.

But without hands on struggle with a new paradigm or scaling challenge, you won't grow. And given the choice between improving as a manager or improving as a hands on techie, you have to make the choice to work to improve as a manager, and start doing all the invisible things you never realized a manager does (least known and most annoying is managing UPwards)

SOURCE: Just spent a year stepping into a vacant engineering manager role on my team, tried to do the 80-20, didn't love the management role, am back to a full time senior engineer, and am frustrated with my skills that appear to have atrophied.
If you continue to troll threads by tossing in flamebait, we're going to end up having to ban you. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Or how about reasonable levels of power? Ten watts per kilo is an absolutely nutso-bismol bonkers level of radiation compared to what real people and animals are exposed to. I don't spend twelve hours a day inside a magnetron.

I'd like to see the results of an experiment where they have a highly controlled pair of populations that are identical in every way except one group of rats is in a Faraday cage. It would be ideal if they were still exposed to natural radio frequencies--after all, radio is not an exclusively man-made phenomenon. But of course GSM doesn't get through the atmosphere easily. A long-term study like that might actually be useful.

These studies where they bathe the rats in a few thousand times the average ambient power of our cell network are utterly blatant examples of confirmation bias in science publishing. They cranked up the amplitude until it had to have an effect on biology--stopping just shy of "significant heating" of tissues. Basically it's a microwave on defrost, complete with a scattering reflector and turntable to make sure the rats cook evenly. Doesn't seem like good faith to me. And of course dumbed-down science journalism will immediately clickbait it into the headline "Cellphones Will Literally Kill You," as is tradition.
It doesn't say anything about hiding photos, that I can find?

It does say that if you were over 1000, you have a month where you can't upload any additional photos, but before they start deleting photos.
Because it's incorrect and because it's obvious and tedious troll bait.

The link posted says you can't carry some knives in public unless you have a good reason.

That's different from "Locking knives are illegal in public".
Not sure why I got downvotes. I live in a shuttle bus with a similar running cost to an overland truck. Massive offroad tires are $500-1000+ each. The engines hold gallons of oil and changes cost over $100 for materials. They typically get 8-12mpg.

If you stay parked somewhere for a long period of time sure, your costs will be low. But in that case it doesn't matter what you're living in, maintenance costs will be roughly the same.
Ask HN: Paid app to free and Patreon?
I’ve got a paid Mac app that was mildly successful for a time, but trickled off. I’m considering making it free, and creating a Patreon account/blog to talk about technical issues and let patrons ask for specific features. Maybe it could even be open-source — I’m flexible.

I’d also be willing to sell sponsorships to companies, if any were interested (though I have no idea if any would be). Everybody hates ads but done well I’ve seen them work, when they’re not annoying.

Another option is making the app free, and then using an IAP to enable advanced features. Honestly, the part I hate most about that is the complexity I’d have to add to the software. I’d rather just give everybody all the features, and let people who want to financially support me do that. I don’t know how the economics would compare, though.

What other considerations should I have, for this type of change? What am I forgetting? What other alternatives should I consider, to try to monetize an app so I can keep working on it? Has anyone done this, and how did it work out for you?
I do wonder why they got cancer. The industry always told us that non-ionizing radiation is harmless and it’s laughable that it should have ANY effect. So now there’s at least brain and heart tumors, and, strangely, improved kidney function.
Apple 1999 Earning Report: First Quarter Profit of $183M
Also, Microsoft supports PWAs as native apps, supporting almost all the standards, giving them access to the full UWP host environment as a feature-detection-supported bonus, and even ingesting PWAs directly into the Microsoft Store when found by the Bing crawler.
I was working on gathering my links and that was one I was going to suggest. It's a very approachable intro, and also written by Hillel. I've added his (now published) book to my queue to purchase and read through. I may do that sooner rather than later so I can provide feedback here on other discussions regarding it, beyond saying that it exists.

The talk linked at the top of that page is pretty good as well as a tutorial, though hardly complete. As I recall he presents his examples well and has good motivating examples for using TLA+ in it.
Highly Recommended Things (by Bret Victor)
chopsticks are useful too, especially when you can't easily wash your hands and want to eat something a bit messy, but they only work for food well cut up in advance...
> Not even close to the same level, but yes I'd leave.

Sure, I used a more serious offense, but they are both illegal activities so the reaction should not be too different.

> I'd also probably report them to the police. Why the hell would I stay there?

My point exactly.
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This is ultimately drove me to leave my last job. The company believed the word "manager" meant, "do everything that needs to be done." You're the senior developer? We need this fixed. No, I'm the manager. I manage people. What about the project? You're going to run it right? Is the project a person? No. What was really sad is that I had to abandon the management portion to do everything else. They were completely dumbfounded as to why there was no professional development going on in the entire company.
I wonder about this. If they're giving you that level of service, aren't you paying too much? Who really wins here?
Location: EU (changes frequently)

Remote: Yes !

Willing to relocate: Maybe US / Canada / Singapore

Technologies:

* Crypto/Blockchain - building Crypto infrastructure (multiple Blockchains), customized libraries and APIs, as well as front-end (MetaMask) solutions - Highly motivated to continue working with this.

* NodeJS/Meteor/SailsJS

* Serverless (going heavy on that one)

* Cloud technologies (AWS/Azure/GCP)

* Wordpress/CodeIgniter/Yii/Drupal (Components, Hacks, Themes) - less motivated, unless truly cutting edge (or WP VIP projects)

* CI & Unit testing - Jenkins, Mocha & Karma for JS, Toast for PHP, as well as Selenium

* Django (general Python too) - to a lesser extent

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Email: dev (at) azdv.co

Looking for Challenging projects. Most recently worked extensively with Serverless & AWS APIs, building cloud-related prototypes, before that worked as an AngularJS specialist
>Are you unaware or ignoring the censorship of thought that Google and Facebook have been doing lately?

Google can only censor Google, and Facebook can only censor Facebook. Neither of them can censor Twitter, which can't censor 4chan, which can't censor Voat, Gab, etc. No one controls the entire network, and no one can censor the entire network.

>You are acting like it’s 2005 internet, and it’s not.

It actually still is, people have just gotten so cynical that they've forgotten how to see the forest for the trees. Being popular on the internet is not the same thing as having authority over it beyond one's own domain.
1) where is the magic in the aforementioned code?

2) the ThreeProvider example is contrived indeed. In real projects this is used to provide different implementations for loggers, or sms gateways or other things that can differ between environments (prod, dev, test)

And to decouple the construction of objects from their usage. For example a rest api controller should not care how to instantiate a database connection and associated code, it should just require an implementation of a Repository interface for the model it uses.
Indeed. And you don't even need square roots for identifying the three closest, since squared distances are just as good for that. So it's, what, a few instances of very basic arithmetic and then three roots? I don't see the complication either. It would be nice to know which part of their process introduced the difficulty. Was it the update frequency?
What an interesting read. Thanks for finding and sharing.
That is definitely true. I work on the infrastructure/engineering side of municipal government but I have worked on the private side in companies that also do land planning. Developers always promise anything the city wants in order to get approval for a tentative map, then phase the construction. Phase 1 residential goes in and gets certificate of occupancy, next day "phase 1 went way over budget, we just cant do it right now." Not all developments go this way but a lot do. I am always very careful to structure conditions in such a way that they at are obliged to construct all public infrastructure and as much of the development as I possibly can prior to giving them public works signoff.
Flickr CEO Confirms Virtual World Photographers “Are Photographers”
On a side note, when Red Hat went IPO, I was given an opportunity to buy a small amount of shares pre IPO due to some minor bug reports I had written. When it went public, the shared shot up considerably and the amount was enough for me to quit my job and pursue my master degree for two years with little income. And it worked out even better because soon after I went back to college, the tech bubble collapsed and I was able to ride out the down economy while furthering my studies.
All of the things that humans have done, which you are referring to - can be traced back to one thing - cheap energy - in the form of OIL.
Why is it not well founded? Here an abstract amount (so a state) seems more realistic measure than the ratio which is a function of wine and water.
> The cheap seats have very low margins, oftentimes negative… so it just infeasible economically to give everyone good service.

An empty seat costs the airline more than a paid ticket. They can’t exactly fly just 189/233rds of the plane.
> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Good luck with this! Way back 10 years ago I started a private ning group for close old friends who were still very conservative online. Un & pw protected closed community. They are mostly on FB now and just don't understand about your digital rights online.

I think and hope people may start waking up a bit with the FB and Yahoo fiascos...
An independent judiciary with judicial review of laws is a cornerstone of an effective democracy that ensures minority rights.

Judges are accountable. You just have to impeach them.
I would wager Flickr stopped growing significantly a while ago, and therefore doesn't benefit from any marketing that people with free accounts might do for them.

And as the saying goes in creative industries: you can't eat "exposure." The only way to make money is the charge money, and it's generally worth it even if it means pissing off people who expect stuff for free.

Heck I bet this change will drive up awareness of Flickr. I can't even remember what I have there, but now I'm going to look up my creds and log in to find out.
Seeking Work, San Jose, Remote Ok

Programming Languages : Python, JavaScript, Go (Not expert but can understand any existing code base), RUST (Cannot write great code but can debug and understand existing code base)

Tools: OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins

Love to speaking with people and troubleshooting their issues.

Looking For: Anything
> But whole idea of quantization is that we have whole things, i.e. particles.

False.

> Yes, abstract thing can exists everywhere, mathematics have no limits, but real physical thing cannot.

False.

> As you, dual particle-wave behaviour can be implemented at macro scale too, so quantum world is not special in this regard.

Using macro-scale physical analogies to as an argument for quantum behavior is wrong on many, many levels.
In a lot of organizations a Lead Dev is still a coder, but keeping an eye on the long game.

Personally, I think that the sort of code you're talking about here is a big part of the mix of things that a Lead should be working on, or at least championing. You don't actually want these people to have too much code with their name on it for the same reason you don't want Managers to do it: It gets treated as a sacred cow whether you want it to or not.

For myself, I'd estimate it's about a 40-40-20 split between DevEx code, the most safety-critical functions in libraries, and example code respectively. But, I'd aspire to flip the last two numbers (on a high functioning team I should be able to trust other people to do bits I barely trust myself to get right).

And unless you enjoy bottlenecks (some people do because it makes them feel special), you should be trying to get most of the code written by people of average skill (the peak of your employee bell curve). So if I'm writing even half as much code as they are, things aren't going well at all. You want a light touch.
It's also incorrect. Read the link. You're allowed to carry and use a locking knife, but you need to ahve a good reason. If you don't have a good reason you have to find another tool.

This law is not aimed at the few people who carry opinels, but the many football hooligans who were carrying eg stanley knives.

There are knives that are illegal in the UK. One example would be flick knives.
People keep saying this, but it assumes that companies are completely rational actors in hiring, unaffected by human bias. Which is clearly bullshit. For one thing, you can simply prove this by considering the existence of discrimination in the other direction - surely, if companies were hell bent on optimizing their hiring for optimal return on investment, we wouldn't have some of the most profitable companies in the world engaging in the kinds of hiring practices that, e.g., Arne Wilberg is suing about?

See also Dan Luu's discussion of this argument: https://danluu.com/tech-discrimination/
NetBSD!
I actually don't have any email about this in either my linked Yahoo account or my "primary email" in Flickr which is my main gmail account.

So reading your email apparently wouldn't have helped you at all.

Great job, SmugMug.
Frequent flyers are usually not footing the bill themselves.

Giving them frequent flyer points or free lounge access is like a tax-free bonus to the employee and incentivizes them to convince their employer to not switch airlines.
The Benefits of Decentralization Go Far Beyond Ideology
I wonder if photobiomodulation is the cause of improved kidney function. PBM leads to nitric oxide release which in turn leads to lower blood pressure (beneficial for kidneys).
direct linking to `google.com/search?q=intercom+bad+experiences` is kind of ... very crude
Those questions don't seem consistent with just wanting to chat. Aren't a lot of people concerned about delivery times?
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> Things which are more concrete are what enables and empowers the abstractions – they make everything work. Without concrete elements, software is nothing more than a beautiful shell of uselessness.

That is very profound! I never thought about concrete realities as empowering the notion of an abstraction, its as if an abstraction is a compression of reality/concepts.
> Zeta Global, whose clients include wireless carriers, generates scores using data points such as the number of times a customer has dialed a call center and whether that person has browsed a competitor’s website or searched certain keywords in the past few days.

Wait, so this means I dial a number and they link my identity to my browser to tell whether I've browsed a competitor's website in the past few days? Is this really how far tracking has come?
It's right in the header for this thread: Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
This is correct: if you see that you're taking part in building something you know (or suspect) is a bad thing, you are responsible if you continue to work on that.

This only reinforces my point: if you think it's a wrong thing, walk away from it. Leave that job at Facebook data science division; there's a number of other well-paid data science jobs.

But I'm not trying to talk about what "they" have done wrong, and could have done differently in the past, or what regulators should be doing. I'm talking about something you and me can do right now, and what is completely within our own power to do.
Oh I never said that the GOP (or any group) is entirely consistent in ideology, or is homogenous. But it’s a common part of their platform and has been for years.

https://www.statesman.com/news/20180904/commentary-republica...

https://www.thenation.com/article/this-is-how-the-republican...
It's a meme "we should stop working in October [IIRC] because we are only paid for 10 months compared to a man's full year". It's not an actual plan.

I've seen this specific meme a few times; dozens of posts about gender pay gap including from under-30 part-timers who have a good chance - according to the available stats - of being paid more than men in an equivalently skilled role.
Traditional media also run 3rd party ads on their platform. CNN for example, has Google ads on its website and complains when I visit the website with an ad blocker.

Even with sales person involved, and better money trail, the problem is not gone.

Also, traditional media have their own political bias. Even if they don't make obvious fake news, carefully selecting the truths to report on can also have major influence on people's opinions.
What's terrible about it? It's the only way I've consumed HBO shows since the day it came out (and the reason why I instantly dropped my cable subscription as soon as standalone HBO became an option with HBO Now).
https://ghost.org/

You can host it yourself. Made by former Wordpress people that wanted to narrow the focus to be just about blogging (rather than a huge CMS).
It's over the top to invoke 'terrorism' in this context and at this point you're basically trolling. Please stop, and please don't take HN threads on flamewar tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html