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- Given requirements, provide guidance on scope and design

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Backend developer specializing in three areas:

1) Early product R&D and implementation

- Given requirements, provide guidance on scope and design

- Develop initial mockup, MVP, or product

2) Focused short-term problem solving

- Drop into an ongoing project to work past specific problem area(s)

3) Automation

- Create processes to eliminate redundant or manual effort

- Data processing and extraction

- 3rd party API integration

Tech stack is varied, but I tend to use:

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- Clojure

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I don't fully understand the 5k monitor. Is the difference noticeable? I find anything over 'retina' to be unnoticeable, but maybe with a 30 inch monitor it's different
How is that anthropomorphization? Humans do all sorts of comparable things. In floundering economies, the wealthy get more greedy and protective. There is no end to the historical examples of cannibalism in dire times.

We technically have social regulation norms, but those are ultimately threats of abandonment. Our emotions are dependent on mutual approval because that is beneficial to encouraging group-compatible behaviors.
Apparently... seems like some kind of malware seed that somehow made it past the moderators. Read the entire site and the description is entirely useless.
If this subject interests you, I strongly recommend this book: https://beautifulracket.com/introduction.html
No fairy tale is allowed if the plots were set after 1949, when the New (P.R.) China regime was established.

This should actually be interpreted as a loophole/compromise under the draconian censorship as fairy tales are indeed allowed before the regime.
> Quick search and I found a dual EPYC 7281 with 256GB DDR4, 2TB nvme, 2TB ssd, and 12TB HDD for $500/m in LA.

And if you're willing to actually get a physical server, Dell happily sells single nodes with 6 terabytes of RAM for a few tens of thousands. Other vendors go much higher.
Just because scientists can’t understand something doesn’t make it “mysterious.”
Yes. This is exactly what would happen. It is sad.
I still don't understand why there isn't a Rails' way for authentication and/or authorization systems.
I disagree with the assertion (it is unsourced on wikipedia) -- colloquially the average is the arithmetic average, not a median or mode. At a next level up, average typically refers to

- Arithmetic mean

- Geometric mean (exp of average of log values)

- Harmonic mean

Mode and medians are measures of centrality, true, but are not equivalent to the arithmetic mean.

Fun fact (h/t John Myles White) the arithmetic mean, median, and mode are the same calculation under different L-p norms.[0]

[0] http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2013/03/22/modes-medi...
> They were trying to demonstrate that this field uses no rigourous empirical methods, and that the reviewers and editors apparently have no knowledge or understanding of how to check for bias or even validate empirical data that's presented. The hoax authors checked this in multiple ways by reporting data with very specific, obvious biases that would never pass review in other fields,

Let me stop you right there. The replication crisis has shown repeatedly, across disciplines that have testable hypotheses, that bad articles are accepted in academic journals.

> In fact, many academics in this field argue that science, logic and math are themselves corrupt enterprises of oppression.

I'm assuming you're talking about the conclusion many have drawn - which I think is pretty uncontroversial - that science, logic and math are not fields free from bias. We only have to got back to relatively recent history to encounter periods when women were excluded from universities and phrenology was considered science. Unfortunately I think what you might mean is that people in "this field" (what field?) think science should be entirely thrown out. You'll struggle to show that more than a tiny majority (please quantify in your response) of people in any field (even theology) saying that science is in itself a "corrupt enterprise".
> so what should happen to the person making $70k/year?

They should ask they employer to only pay them $59k?
The first introduction to the “Dark Forest” theories is worth the first book and the lead up in the second. I enjoyed the first book, was blown away by the second and the third felt like it went too far though it did introduce interesting concepts, I did not care about the main female protagonist at all. I do not and could not recommend the entire series wholesale though. It’s definitely not fore everyone.
You're very strange. What line of work are you in?
UnionFS came out of the my advisor's first phd students new lab (stoneybrook). Aufs itself was inspired by that. My inspiration came from saying we should combine this semantic with linux package management semantics (as can be seen clearly from the papers where I give a summary of it).

I took unionfs and modified to be more dynamic. i.e. for persistent containers, enable layers to be marked unlink and replaced with different layers (they would remain part of the union for data operations, but would be invisible to file system name oriented operations, ex: lookup()/readdir()). Idea for this was to enable a container to upgrade itself if the template it was based on was upgraded. I wasn't thinking what became the cattle/pet metaphor, was focused on creating a system that would work equally well for persistent and ephemeral containers.
Let's connect. Could you shoot me an email real quick? j.horne2796 AT gmail. :)
Completely disagree. The science was pretty good, for a pop audience, but there was zero character development - beyond Luo Ji, zero characters develop in the _entire series_. I don't want to spoil anything, of course, but you can pretty much decide the rest of the series based on what I've already written. Extremely disappointing.
The war on drugs is also a big contributor to the LEGAL gangs such as police,distric attornies, defence attorneys, prison officials and worst of all judges.
Definitely an industrial economic complex similar to the Military Industrial Complex.
If you're trying to do only clojure and nobody is biting, you might want to pivot to a less obscure framework/platform...

I picked vue because I prefer it's templates to jsx, and I like vuex and it's sort of well documented for use with laravel. But if I hadn't picked vue, I'd have gone with react because of market domination.

I'm currently even thinking of pivoting from laravel to node based backends because it seems js devs make all the $$... and I'm not so locked into laravel that I can't move or jump to other frameworks.

The more you know the more you can charge...I have many friends who target a specific vertical like Fintech that charge between $100-200/hour for js/node development as freelancers. Working on teams I've made around $35/hr, solo depending on the client I've pitched 40-60... I work w/ a lot of small businesses who that's on the high end for them --they're used to wordpress devs at $25 or less per hour on upwork.

Clojure being a bit obscure though, I think freelance would be harder to secure, but a full-time gig at a shop/agency or startup who's apps are built on that framework would be easier, as long as you have a good portfolio and very active github showing activity w/ that.
What do you mean by at scale? At what scale?

In the past, I've supported a few million daily active users on a single MySQL database.

Use cases obviously vary, your numbers may not line up.

But I'm pretty sure there are lot of startups that would be fine starting with an architecture that can scale to 2 million users per day.
I'm the same, although I have noticed the same usernames on comments here and there on hn - but not on reddit.

I only look through the post history of someone if I feel they have a particularly interesting outlook, or if they're batshit crazy and I'm a bit bored.
Yes, the solution is to get a job in tech. The purpose of prices is to inform participants in a market what to supply.
If it makes you feel any better, in the job market it made me realize my worth. I started making $40k/yr when I was 19 (because the investor/entrepreneur knew I'd do all of the work, had no other options, and would be hungry). At the end, I think he got me up to $120k/yr (no 401k, no a lot of stuff lol) but then deducted my pay because I argued back with him that I didn't want to do sales calls once.

From there, it helped me negotiate higher salaries because I could say and prove "I can build entire web platforms front to back and maintain them (and architect/deploy them) in production". I don't make $350k/yr Netflix/Google money but... I do pretty well for my age/skill set/years of experience I think.

I'd say the startup helped me go from junior to mid to senior level engineer quickly, and gave me the confidence in interviews to demand and know my (reasonable) worth.

Let me know if you ever want to vent. I'd love to listen and console.
Nah, the core problem is Prop 13 (and its extensions). There's no solution to allocating dramatically less housing than people demand, regardless of how pro- or anti-tenant the law is.

Rent control, which Costa-Hawkins limits, is a form of artificial price controls that remove a bunch of housing inventory and the incentives to create more. But it's a mere footnote in the margin of Prop 13, a state wide regime that has been in place twice as long and has the effect of removing a bunch of housing inventory and the incentives to create more.
I don't disagree with the problems outlined. But, for this particular case, start and end with the fact that the restaurant has 3.5 stars on Yelp and people were consistently dissatisfied with the food and service?

SF has incredible 4-5 star restaurants of all price levels. So who wants to eat at a very expensive 3.5 star one when there's a Michelin Star place 5 minutes away?

If SF's problems are so insurmountable, how do other good restaurants do it, even ones not owned by some major group?
A couple of things that I recall. Any commercial activity was severely frowned upon. No adds, promotion, etc. Anyone remember the "Green Card Lawyer"?[1] Raised quite a stink with his spamming usenet for business. And I recall there being rumors of anonymous ftp sites containing pornography. But word was such a site couldn't exist as it would immediately swamped with so much traffic that it would be shut down. Times have changed...

[1] https://www.wired.com/1999/04/the-spam-that-started-it-all/
I responded to muffins comment. I want to get in touch with you guys. I'd love to see where this goes.
Hmm. What would be a better definition for "mysterious," if not "something not understood?"
Generally speaking, if you can't trust someone directly then the next best thing is consensus among others. Ideally, a connection only occurs in real life because one or more mutual acquaintances have decided they trust both parties involved. Relying on the word of others, on a network of trust, is paramount. Remember, these distributors also have their own set of problems when it comes to trusting others.

Most open marketplaces on the internet, not just darknet markets, provide reputation systems for this purpose.

Even Amazon has a review and rating system in place, which was integral towards building initial trust with its buyers and sellers.
Any network where a single server somewhere runs a domain is not going to be reliable. People can use timing attacks to figure out who is running what.

SAFE Network is much better, as was stuff like Freenet and PerfectDark.
IRC bots are trivial to implement and run so I don't consider many of these, which are commonly provided by IRC bots, as legitimate arguments against IRC. I don't consider "but you need a bot" to be a legitimate gripe.

Rich text is generally worthless except for code highlighting, but pasting large amounts of code into the channel is generally considered antisocial on IRC anyway, and pastebin services are used for this. It's not unusual for a company to provide their own internal pastebin services anyway, since it's generally useful with other systems like email. Ditto file sharing.

> "Oh come on can we drop the cat pictures trope?"

No, because in my personal experience that is OVERWHELMINGLY the most frequently used feature of slack/etc that's not present in IRC. For every time I've seen pasted code, I've seen easily a hundred inane pasted memes. I wouldn't bring it up if I didn't earnestly believe it's the primary reason people prefer systems other than IRC.
exactly, who on earth would prefer dealing with some street tough
I ended up becoming roommates with three pals I met on IRC. This was in the mid-/late- 00's
“Grievance studies” (like “social justice warrior”) is a made up term whose goal is to group together a large group of people with a wide range of interests, ideological premises, methodologies, etc., and dismiss/discredit them collectively without bothering to engage with their work.

You have called these scholars unintelligent, an infection, gangrenous, an existential threat to the university, etc. who must be “gotten rid of”.

What is your definition of “insult” if this doesn’t qualify? Or are you maintaining that “no person” is insulted if you aim your vacuous broadsides at a group?

You and others supporting your position here haven’t specified precisely who you are talking about, given any concrete evidence/explanation about what you are so mad about, provided any serious analysis, etc.

It’s pretty much “those Sneetches with no stars on their bellies on them are really terrible. We Sneetches with the stars should make sure to keep them out of our hallowed institutions.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sneetches_and_Other_Storie... (Trigger warning to delicate STEM students: Dr. Seuss with his message of diversity and toleration was a famous “grievance scholar”)
Boy, do I feel old. HiSeq 2500 was a gold-standard, $750k machine when I was starting grad school. Which was not that long ago, or so I thought.
I refuse to use automated ordering. If I'm at a restaurant I want to be served by a person.
Humans have managed to wipe out most of the interesting things on the planet without even trying
> Consider adding forward-secrecy

Considering. But since it is user-to-user, you can only trust the user to store it how they want since they are gonna see it in the clear at some point. Forward secrecy for the data at rest (i.e. in the DB) could have value but my current on-disk DB doesn't support this. But on the wire assumes MITM which should not be the case for user-to-onion. There is some defense in depth, but it's not something I'll target for MVP. There will be a built in data-expiration feature.

> and encrypting the payload

What does encrypting the payload help with when talking to an onion is already E2E encrypted? I do plan on encrypting at rest, but not in transit at least not at first. Could move to do TLS, but I'd be doubling Tor efforts because I'd probably just encrypt+sign w/ that same ed25519, so there'd be no real value.
And the only time they even find drugs is when a package busts open and they can see it. Otherwise they have neither the time nor budget to have even a single digit fraction of packages be dog sniffed or xrayed. And how often will they be legal shit they open up and find anyways?
Yeah, it takes finding people that you can trust, that won't be shitty to you for telling them you are having a hard time.

Close friends, siblings, or parents are often a good source of support.
I actually thought that there was some character development (like the Swordholder woman, I forgot her name). It's not "good" development but I think it's there. I also think that other parts of the series make up for it. Ofc, to each their own, books are subjective.
I'm a Chinese and I prefer using telegram via proxy to break GFW. But most friends or relationship using wechat, so it is helpless to keep using wechat.
PBS Spacetime is a great series, and delves deep enough for interested layman as well as practitioners to be interested. I find the videos really good. Here is a link to one of many on black holes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNaEBbFbvcY
I think legally he knew he had to give me something as a parting gift to cover his ass (he was really smart. He once sued a company by spending a ton of $400-$500/hr lawyers just to get them to change their name because it was too close to his on another product line he had going) so when he fired me, he told me I could keep the iMac he had let me order when I was an employee.

I never looked into my rights because I knew he was worth $50m and I was worth $5 and he'd win no matter what.

I still drive past his new Ferrari sometimes and wonder about what could have been if I just kept my mouth shut and agreed to be his whipping post bitch...
I believe the parent was referring to a yacht "for hire". It makes sense read that way.
I've had in the neighborhood of a hundred fail in servers at work. With two models (different manufacturers) a large number of drives failed within the first weeks of use. The other model fails randomly in our systems with raid controllers and sas expanders, possibly connected to a firmware issue on the ssds. In any case, the failure mode is the same -- the disk disappears from the bus, never to be seen again. The failure rate is much less than when we ran similar number of conventional hard drives, but the failure mode is much worse. We don't have a particularly high write rate, so none of the failures were connected to media wearout (to my knowledge)
McD kiosk UX is hands down awful. Dozens of button presses for a simple order.
If you have Ember Inspector in your Chrome, you can see it.

- Main TV Channel (Close to million user per day): https://www.tvnz.co.nz/
- Largest bank app (Half of the population using it): https://www.anz.co.nz/personal/
- Other bank: https://www.co-operativebank.co.nz/
- Christchurch's public transport website: http://www.metroinfo.co.nz/Pages/default.aspx
- Ministry of Social Development web app (half million active user): https://my.msd.govt.nz/login
- Election System app is not public.
Read Tarbell’s deposition

https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-LsKJJAOvP4fDfuhV/Ulbricht%20...

Or TLDR read some news article from the time

http://mag.newsweek.com/2013/10/11/crossing-swords-with-pira...
You can't have it both ways. Either change the city and build upwards or stop complaining about the price of living.

The notion that a city should not change and keep it's "feel" across sunch long times is backwards thinking. Cities grow.

I say this because the same people who want lower rents seem to also vote down big new apartments because it will ruin the atmosphere. But I can't for the life of me understand why anybody would want to preserve the current atmosphere. The one you think you are defending is long gone.
That seems like a very impactful project. Hundreds of thousands of people (millions?) have used Live videos on FB. Not many engineers can say they've made an impact like that. Congrats!
I worked in a advertising network company which is a major player of one city. I re-write the ad-serving algorithm to solve some of the problems. That piece of code is running 24/7 for 5+ years. If you are in that city and browsing the web. It will run through my code path.
I don't think maximizing hourly rate is the general overall trend. Sure it describes the small ambitious part of society, but I would argue the majority of workers (not society, because less than 50% of the society works), just strive for decent work conditions and adequate pay.
Click on 'web', i.e. https://www.google.com/search?q=If%20True%2C%20This%20Could%...

and then try the first Google result?
That's why you'd use a burner.
Need a Funnel to Sell Your Product/Service?
> And I think here it's the only possible one.

> Can you seriously imagine the journal accepting an article even slightly negative about the field?

There are plenty of critiques of these disciplines that come from within. For people with a deep understanding of these fields, there is nuance in them, and argument. From outside, perhaps they seem entirely cohesive.

The truth is it is entirely possible, specifically in philosophy and gender studies, two subjects I've worked in at a postgraduate level, to find progress and disagreement, even with hints of ridicule! Hell, I've been exceptionally critical of some popular views in those fields and come out the other side unscathed.

But the difference between those critiques and the Sokal Squared caper is that it doesn't offer any meaningful critique of the field.

> which is corrupting academic research

This is a politically-motivated, biased leap to a conclusion that the hoax doesn't support. All the hoax showed is that bad papers can get accepted in academic journals in these fields. We can add those journals to the list of journals in the fields of medicine and psychology that have similar problems.
Do not use instantdomainsearch
It is extraordinarily cheap at scale, you can buy a gigabit port that you can blast at 1000mbit all day, every day, forever for around $300 a month (which comes out to about 300 TB of traffic in a month).

If you stick with providers like AWS or Amazon, sure its absurdly expensive, but its yet another way they have a huge amount of markup.
It’s probably intergalactic TV like sports, infomercials, or something religious

/edit or a cellphone network
> I wrote the thing in django but it doesn't look like django is compatible with amp.

This doesn't make sense at all. Even if I hadn't previously built a site on django before which served AMP pages, I would be willing to bet that no pure backend web framework limits what your frontend can achieve.
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Also, Things are always harder for amateurs, just keep working hard man.
Caisse-outils
> The Q was how does one manage large numbers of heterogeneous containers

my god this man invented UPS

> At the time the primary container mechanism was Solaris Zones and people uses ZFS clone functionality to create per zone container file systems.

oh wait nevermind he invented docker
Do you have marketing/advertising skills or do you think I'm over-exaggerating how hard it is to gain marketshare?

I think we need a blend of developer related skills and non-developer related skills to be successful.
It was not always like this. In first albums it was quite smooth, for lack of better word. He started experimenting with voice straining a bit later. I always wondered if he "destroyed" his voice by this.

Host that rag.
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> If they won't pay more, your product might not be worth it and your business was never viable.

That's what I wrote.
Edge of La Vanoise, near Les Trois Vallées, mid-eighties.
They literally don't see how they constrain supply and how that leads to higher prices.