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Daniel Shumway

Location: Philadelphia

Remote: Yes, preferred

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Javascript (ES8+), HTML, CSS, C#, Sass, Handlebars, Vue, Git, Linux, Docker. Both functional and object-oriented programming and (recently) dabbling in Lisp-like languages like WASM. Whatever is necessary to get the job done.

Industry Practices: Test driven development, continuous deployment, accessibility, responsive design, Agile, basic front-end security. I have experience and am comfortable working with distributed teams across multiple time zones.

Website: https://danshumway.com

Resume: https://danshumway.com/resume/base

Gitlab/Github: /danshumway

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielshumway

Email: listed on resume

I am primarily a web developer with roughly 4+ years of heavy low-level Javascript experience. In general, I work with pure JS, which allows me to more easily adapt to different libraries and frameworks, and just to be more flexible with my tools in general. Nowadays I'm usually working in Node or regular Javascript/HTML/CSS, but in previous positions I've tended to wear a lot of different hats: building out tools to help with our build processes, helping with docker setups, mentoring teams on testing and version control, integrating with other programs, and so on.

That flexibility has forced me to become fairly good at working with obscure technologies and solving obscure problems. I'm comfortable diving into and debugging 3rd-party source code (even minified JS), but I'm also comfortable getting my own minimum viable products up and running from scratch. I'm used to solving weird problems. If you're working on problems that don't have clear solutions, or where you're not even sure where to begin looking for solutions, talk to me and I will help you find one.
On a related note, sea search & rescue still primarily relies on spotters looking out the windows trying to see something.

Seems like a place where pattern recognition could be an asset, even if it just supplements rather than replaces a spotter. Or heck, send a Google Maps-style image to land, and let volunteers flag points of interest.
As was recently demonstrated, online mob harassment is very doable on Mastodon:

http://wilwheaton.net/2018/08/the-world-is-a-terrible-place-...
I'm a front-end Dev based in FL who works 100% remote. Mostly HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and liquid. Usually nothing too crazy. Mostly making custom hand-coded brochure type sites for a smaller but growing company. Started at $60k and increased to $65k after a year. I've only been coding for about 3 years. No formal education. All self-taught after discovering a passion for code. After 2 years with my current company, I'll be looking to branch out to find something more challenging (full-stack) with higher pay but I think so far where I am at is a decent place to start considering I got here without a cs degree.
There are mant factors, and you listed several good ones, but I think the most important one you missed is ergonomics.

Rarely is coding something you do for just 20 minutes or even for just 2 hours. The smallest projects are measured in days of work, the largest in person-years.

As a programmer, your body needs to engage with your workstation for most of that time. If you try to do that entirly on a small, portable device with on-screen input, you’ll quickly discover how poorly your body can sustain the necessary postures.

That’s not to say that mobile coding tools aren’t useful. Punching in some extra lines on the couch or on the train or in the bathroom at a boring Holiday party is a great opportunity to exploit, but it will always be a secondary mode. And because it’s secondary, tooling will be slow to keep up with what’s available on primary workstations.

Will we reach a point where you can punch together a whole useful program on a mobile device? Sure, but they’ll usually be smaller and simpler programs and will probably beneifit from visual programming languages that operate on large-grain components. More like automation scripting than systems-level programminng. Apple’s new Siri Shortcuts are an example for personal/consumer scripting. You could see similar tools succeeding for Enterprise Reporting, DevOps, etc.

TLDR; it is and will be a specific niche for a number of reasons, not the least of which are the ergonomic concerns.
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From what little I have played with Void Linux so far,

* Void Linux is minimal by default, and comes without Systemd

* It can be had with Musl instead of Glibc as a lighter weight alternative

* Option of binary packages or source pages that you can compile yourself with -native

* LibreSSL by default.

Not saying that all of the above are how all Linux distributions should be, but the lack of Systemd already hooked me in to try it out.
mind showing the math on this? i really can't see how converting energy twice (ac -> motor -> magnets) can only be a few percent difference in efficiency instead of converting it once (ac -> electric stove).
Good geology would be knowing to stay away from the tell tale danger signs and recognize the area as best unbuilt. Given that it would also require knowing all about the chemistry and dangers which may be extraordinarily subtle and they likely weren't even at protochemistry it is essentially life being grossly unfair to them.

Even Dwarf Fortress fans would object to colorless odorless gas occasionally killing entire settlements with no way to detect it. Especially when one counter - torches for burning methane can itself lead to carbon monoxide another toxic one in addition to explosion risk. To add insult to injury radon also kills and doesn't cause tiring or burn and the player can actually know that these exist. Those sort of impossible to know before dangers happened a lot - like early days of radiation research. Let alone retrospect foreseeables like "should have known inhaling any smoke would be bad for your lungs".
The brainwashing and propaganda are by design. The system was hijacked by Marxists who were playing the long game.
I prefer the hybrid approach, having a mix constantly repeated utility styles for things like padding, margin, floats, and colors, and then having custom SCSS/CSS for the rest.
Yes, Reuters & BBC are already in my feeds, along with Google searches in sci/tech, and carbon fiber (my biz area).

Just always looking for more sources...
> "food as it would grow anyway, without human intervention". I pointed out that without humans, bananas as he knew and loved them (I think he ate plenty) would become extinct quite quickly

In a lot of cases, the result of that wouldn't be anything we would recognize as food. The vast majority of our crops have been so altered by humanity that the notion of their growing "without human intervention" is a farce.
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As predicted Spectre/Meltdown were just the first fruit of a major new wave of investigations into these avenues of side-channel attacks in CPUs. Now we're seeing more as it gets more attention, and it's interesting stuff. That said I think the researchers might go too far here:

>"This is the main reason we released the exploit -- to show how reproducible it is," Brumley told us, "and help to kill off the SMT trend in chips."

>"Security and SMT are mutually exclusive concepts," he added. "I hope our work encourages users to disable SMT in the BIOS or choose to spend their money on architectures not featuring SMT."

I don't blame them for being security focused about all else at any cost and any layer, that's their gig. But I think the real response here is likely to be a lot more subtle and interesting. Of course perhaps SMT can in fact be fixed for this without a wholesale tossing in which case it'll just be a universal hardware revision somewhere down the line. This increasing level of public research and awareness of this specific class is still relatively early days after all. But taking it as a given for argument that there really is a fundamental conflict, the fact would remain that SMT can provide significant performance gains, and furthermore that we're still far from the point where SaaS/IaaS is everywhere. Lots of systems are still under single user local control, and in turn attackers being able to co-run their own arbitrary code on the same physical core isn't necessarily part of the threat model at all (and more specifically if attackers get that far least common denominator kicks in, they've already owned what's important). Even if it's desirable to run some risky code as well, hard core affinity for non-secure processes is a brute force solution in a local system context that seems like it shouldn't be a big deal given the a surfeit of physical/logical cores for many work loads.

But perhaps this could be a leading edge of true processor level physical differentiation required between IaaS and more traditional deployments, and that might make for an interesting change to the competitive landscape there. It'd change the cost/benefit in some scenarios, or require more custom processor work to enact harder (and performance costing) boundaries that a traditional setup might take care of with machine isolation. I wonder if that could shift things back away from the Cloud and centralization trend in some instances, or at least create and more dynamic market?
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What kind of board is everybody waiting for than the Raspberry Pi(zero) isn't providing?
nice concept. can't find information on if this is based on another distro, or if it's an all new one, but the underlying idea is solid as for me it tries to solve one of the fundamental issues with linux which makes people move to things like containers or complicated deployment tools and scripts. this seems a lot more straightforward.
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At this point it feels like we are just retrofitting a meaning to a word. The truth of the matter to me is that "organic" says more about people's alienation from modernity than about the product we are trying to describe.
I've always received soooo much push back from this and I want to scream when devs wonder why the work they do in a project now takes 10x the devs it used to.
People might remember Flickr for its communities, but I remember it for being a great archive of public photos.

I have over 22,000 photos in my account — all of them privately shared with my family.

I'm a Pro user, however I only became a Pro thinking that if I stop paying, then the photos I uploaded will be safe from deletion. And I renewed my subscription right after SmugMug announced the acquisition, along with saying that they "don't have any plans to change free accounts". I guess that wasn't a reasonable expectation.

Unfortunately I might have to move off Flickr because it's not a safe storage for my photos. I guess that's the point of their upgrade, heh? They don't want archives, they want communities.

Except that for actually sharing photos with people, Facebook, Instagram, Google Photos are wildly more popular. Which makes Flickr just a forum with a slow interface.

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I do understand the business reasons. If it keeps the lights on, then I guess it's better than the alternative.

But I'm also afraid that this will kill Flickr for good.
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I imagine an orbital server farm would probably be in a higher orbit than the Starlink satellites, and would just connect to them, vs people planetside connecting directly.

Starlink sats already move past <planetside location> quickly, which is why they propose loads of satellites and phased array antennas that switch from satellite to satellite as they move by.
I regularly check out this graph on Wikipedia and wonder how thoroughly Wikipedians track the Linux distro ecosystem.
IOW, "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."

(Sorry, I know this isn't a substantive reply but it's all I could think of reading your comment.)
so possibly induction cooker can be modified to run straight from DC power

I ass-u-me that's how the induction stoves in modern RVs/caravans work, rather than wasting house battery inverting DC only to convert it to something else.

EDIT: well, I guess that's why "assume" is hyphenated. According to the company that makes stoves for Winnebago, from their manual:
"1. Plug into standard 110 outlet."
I thought that the Space Shuttle used an HP 41c for some extra navigation functions, maybe that was after Gene Kranz had retired.
The name is quite descriptive for its decentralized nature. I don't see a problem with it.
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How dare a for-profit business focus on making money!
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Easier just to quote the reason he gives:

“With inline styles, there are no constraints on what values you choose... Utilities force you to choose...

You can't just pick any value want; you have to choose from a curated list. Instead of 380 text colors, you end up with 10 or 12.”
>I can speak out against the government here and not get disappeared

Wrong. Try speaking out against the US government in any meaningful way and you'll be murdered by it. Dissent is not welcome here and you will be punished for it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

>A social credit score which can limit my ability to associate with certain people, get good employment, good housing, and unrestricted travel.

How is this different than our credit score system and 80% of people living paycheck to paycheck? Employers check it, housing checks it, travel is about to implement face scanning. Not seeing a huge difference here. There aren't even many good jobs (https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/1809629002If). If we don't fully have it yet, we sure as shit will soon.

Everything we do is tracked, watched, listened to, recorded. Look up and view all of the easily hackable cameras loaded with back doors literally everywhere. It's really not much different than what we're told about China. Talking in work Slack I often get "move to Signal" because our workplaces are authoritatian and strip you of your rights when you walk in the door.

Are there even any examples so far of China's social credit having any effect on anyone?
When your styling tool (CSS) doesn't do what you actually need (layouts).
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I'd imagine an enemy combatant would be using camouflage unlike a a lost hiker who would want to be found.
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If it's "debatable" then it isn't justified. The only universal, objective justification for a violent response is that the other person already did the same thing, and thus cannot claim that responding in kind is wrong without simultaneously condemning their own actions. If you claim that your response is justified on subjective grounds then they can just as easily claim that their actions were justified from their subjective point of view, at which point the whole situation devolves into a case of might-makes-right and justification becomes irrelevant.

None of your "debatable" examples would be justified because the actions you are proposing a violent response to are not themselves violent. Even when the original action is violent, the response must be proportional: applying the death penalty for theft would not be justified because it isn't a response in kind.
The Pluspora pod has seen 6,700 members joining, virtually all since 8 October, with numerous others at other pods. I've long had a JoinDiaspora account myself, and revived that.

This compares with 2,900+ members of the G+ Mass Migration community on G+, also since 8 October. (I am one of the mods.) The Change.org petition to retain G+ has seen 31,000+ signatures.

I'd previously conducted assessments of publicly visible G+ posting activity, and arrived at an estimate of 5-10 million such profiles, from a population at the time of about 2.2 billion registered profiles (from a time when Android & Gmail registrations defaulted to registering for G+). Stone Temple Consulting expanded on that research and methodology:

https://www.stonetemple.com/real-numbers-for-the-activity-on...

Google have never been forthcoming with statistics on actual on-G+ activity, though a solid core of single-digit millions, with an extended engagement of 30-120 million, as of March 2015, seems likely.

Other platforms, particularly MeWe, are reporting tens of thousands of new accounts from G+ refugees (Reddit AMA).

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9sq3jf/im_mark_weinst...
> It isn't even the first time GCHQ has been caught spying on other European countries

The polite open secret of espionage is that spying on your allies isn't just normal, it's part and parcel of basic modern statecraft. Being able to anticipate the moves of your allies, understand their thought processes, and watch them for compromises are all incredibly useful things, and the first two very important for working closely with an ally. This is, quite frankly, normal stuff.

What generally doesn't happen is public discussion of it. The public tends to think of espionage as something that would only ever be directed against enemies or threats. That's at odds with the information that enables diplomacy to function well. Every world leader knows their allies are spying on them, and tries to do the same in return. The only weird thing is being publicly exposed, at which point every leader postures against the thing they all rely on.

There's really no need to suspect a commercial conspiracy when normal diplomacy is sufficient to explain this kind of thing. But I guess this is boring by comparison to imagining that a historical financial center only functions through ill-gotten commercial intelligence.
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See also, Fedora Silverblue: https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/

Uses rpm-ostree for atomic updates with desktop applications run in Flatpak containers and development done in VMs or Docker/OCI images.
I admit, after the middle of that article anything would look good.

It's a good realisation that there is no real separation of semantics and styling between HTML and CSS. XSL would have been one solution, but it was just too XML-ly. Personally I found it a joy; I could design my pages with pure semantics alongside a turing-complete stylesheet.

However now we have web components - your HTML and CSS are tightly coupled, but scoped. And the semantic / styling separation is provided by the shadow DOM. So no need to create inner platforms like Tailwind.
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Yes, how dare we care about other things?
Afaik it is all new.
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1. The law, and its enforcers, are presumably flexible enough to not simply prosecute the figureheads, but any accompanying accomplices as well. Puppets can be made to accept plea bargains and squeal.

2. Corporations are people, my friend, and should be punished accordingly as persons, if there isn't an actual human that can be made liable.

And given the current fracases over outsourcing, immigration, big box chain stores, vertical integration, monopolies, ad-funded tech, etc., etc., it isn't simply to shoot down a proposal simply because "the products become much more expensive." Not even the public is as simply mollified by cheaper goods as they were a decade or two ago.
The tech required for search and rescue is the same tech required for search and destroy.

We seem to be running headfirst into the autonomous killer bot future without giving so much as a second look at the implications.

Slaughterbots [0] is a pretty good look at what can be achieved by refining and integrating technologies which all exist today.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA
Communists are insane and violent individuals who don't care about data and reality.
NixOS is based on Nix the package manager and the package collection managed by it, which is "the distro" for all practical purposes.

Interestingly, you can use Nix under other distros and even MacOS just fine, due to the way it isolates dependencies: https://nixos.org/nix/
How would have React adoption looked like if it wasn't backed by a tech giant? React propounds a very controversial idea: to put HTML inside Javascript. Of course, once you get the hang of it, it all makes perfect sense: tight coupling and composability.

Tailwind, along the same lines, proposes a contrarian idea and it will only make sense once you start working with it. Here's what I have seen happen frequently: As the CSS grows, so does the bloat and repetitiveness of the same basic style. Let's say you want to position elements in the center of a component? "display: flex, align-items: center" easy. But what do you do when you encounter that same requirement again? Creating a utility class and replacing existing once will be a pain, so you add the same styles again. And that's how folks you end up with a megabyte of CSS doing a job that could be done in <100Kb.

This pattern is more pervasive than you think. The fundamental problem is that we are not thinking about styling in terms of composability of basic styles.

The benefits of utility classes outweigh the cons. You can iterate faster, you don't have to fight the framework, you don't have rethink abstractions at every point ("this style belongs to a component or a utility class") and as CSS becomes more expressive you'll need fewer classes anyways. I hope Tailwind takes off because styling definitely needs to be less painful than it's today.
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But does that delete it for both parties?