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Location: India

Remote: Yes. 4+ years of experience

Willing to relocate: Yes

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Technologies: Android SDK, Java, Kotlin, Git, SQLite, REST, Firebase, Android Studio

About Me: Seasoned Android Developer who has worked on a plethora of sophisticated projects, including apps like taxi-booking, IoT, radio streaming and a live app with millions of active users, among many others. Have worked solo as well as on a team. Looking for a full time position.
Domain-Oriented Observability
I've looked around before, but I couldn't find anything like this (other than DIY-style licenses that may or may not have sufficient legalese to be enforceable)
> That's why cameras also have a bump at 400mn,

This explanation is incorrect.

Your graph is on a log scale.

You can make a camera out of any invertible linear combination of human cone cell responses and you will end up recording basically the same information as far as an idealized human observer is concerned (that’s the basic idea of the CIE system of colorimetry).

The specific choice of computer display primaries has to do with maximizing the possible gamut (as well as other technical and economic criteria), not precisely targeting specific cone cells.

> when you see yellow on web pages, it isn't really yellow

You are using a non-standard definition of “yellow” not accepted by color scientists or color measurement experts.
Total number of bitcoins (at t = infinity) is a conserved quantity. Do you think this sort of analysis applies to cryptocurrencies?
And the Tokyo growth rate is 0! It was 2 Million people in 1900. It has been the same population for 10 years, and it's shrinking into 2020.

http://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/tokyo-populati...

If you want to work in Tokyo, you can take a 1-2hr train ride each way, like the locals do... or you (and your family) can live in a typical 600sq ft apartment.

I love Tokyo, riding the transit and walking around the streets, but be honest about what it is, how people live, and how it got that way. I also love my 12 min commute, back yard garden, and walkable neighborhood in a rapidly growing "metropolis" of 1 million that barely existed 50 years ago.
100% agree here, moving the ESC key to Caps Lock saved my marriage and made me a better father.
> Wish Lenovo could match up with form factor and screen quality.

Come on over to the Linux side of the house! Between system76, ZaReason, Purism & Dell, there are some great options for a developer laptop.

And you get to customise a system which works for you, which I consider a plus.
Is there any technical reason we can't make a distributed tracker/community like what.cd, given that torrents are already distributed and ZeroNet et al exist? All we'd need is the forums and ratio bookkeeping.
I guess he hasn't heard of Richard Liebowitz, who "sues regardless of whether the original photograph would have licensed for $12, $1,200, or $1.20":

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/richard-liebowit...
Yeah Linux will never be as smooth it seems :(

Its workable but its not like ballet.
I predict the next step will be less growth-hungry sites taking over that have less VC pressure on them. So businesses with cost structures that can make a few people rich but don't need to show 140% YoY growth. Sites like craiglist, projects from indiehackers. They wouldn't nag me for push notification access – why annoy your customer when your product spreads mostly through word of mouth?
They find some accounting details, rather than something more interesting.
Buy a Dell XPS
Step 2 is to never sign up for utilities under your real name or fill in product registration cards.
I would also prefer to buy an "official" Linux version, just to vote with my wallet. But the only issue I ever saw with my XPS 15 on Fedora was related to udev and external displays with the Dell USB C dock. Every time I connected and disconnected, the display IDs would iterate higher, which threw off my sway config. Relatively minor issue, and recent updates seem to have fixed it.
Remind | Backend, Fullstack, or Android | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time | ONSITE or REMOTE

Remind is building a communications platform for education, to help every student succeed.

We are a mission-driven startup with lots of passion, lots of integrity, and lots of users — 31 million MAU!

As a team of 30 engineers serving those millions of users (the whole company is about 85 people), each of us makes a huge impact on the business — and on the lives of the teachers, students, and parents using our platform!

Do you:

- like to move fast (but try not to break things)?

- want to drive engineering quality and rigor?

- thrive in the complexity, ambiguity, and rapid change of a startup environment?

- collaborate cross-functionally to get stuff done?

- want to regularly see heartwarming messages from teachers about the difference your product is making in the lives of kids?

Please consider applying:

Backend: https://boards.greenhouse.io/remind/jobs/496462?gh_jid=49646...

Fullstack: https://boards.greenhouse.io/remind/jobs/44809?gh_jid=44809

Android: https://boards.greenhouse.io/remind/jobs/1408512?gh_jid=1408...

Remote work is fine, within 3 hours of Pacific Time.
> "card-carrying"

> "I used to see Stallman lecture."

I see this more often. Is this somehow to indicate the level of engagement you felt? Because Free Software is about the 4 software freedoms, everything else is maybe your own romanticised version of what that should mean, and you somehow felt let down by those expectations. And that's regrettable, but ultimately very much your own experience, and mentioning it lends no credence to any argument.

> I started noticing that these beliefs weren’t really actually helpful, and were frankly, mostly harmful.

No, not "these beliefs", your beliefs, as reality likely didn't quite pan out as you expected it would.

> even though I was a passionate Free Software advocate, I found myself near-exclusively building Open Source software.

Maybe you're not the best person to write about "Free Software" vs "Open Source", or what would or should come "after Open Source".
I'm clumsy and lazy and treat my devices badly. It was one of the reasons I was a fan of Apple laptops. I dropped one of the pre-unibody models while carrying it around with one hand on a Skype call and it got a nice dent but kept on trucking. My 2012 MBPr followed me around the world, working out of a dusty cafe in Cambodia, poolside in Singapore, backs of Thai buses... and I still get to use it when my 2017 MBP goes in the shop.

If I have to go to Lenovo to get a sturdy laptop I'll be sad.
Try selecting Brazil in the Economist link. Are houses there really that expensive?
True. But people are very aware of green branding in any form that it presents itself. Idaho's population growth was 2.1% in 2018, tying with Nevada for the highest in the country. I assume this is largely driven by similar population growth in Boise in the same period which was the highest in the top 100 cities in the US by population. I don't have data on this, but given what Moody's says is the demographic driving this (tech workers from the Bay Area and Seattle), I would think that all else being equal, this green image is a huge draw for the state.
A student with their times tables down isn't going to do any better in a calculus course than one who relies on a calculator.

A linear algebra course, on the other hand, is going to make mincemeat out of any student who can't do basic arithmetic in their head at high speed. Gaussian elimination, matrix multiplication, determinants, diagonalization; all of these tasks are extremely arithmetic-intensive. If someone needs a calculator to multiply 8x6 then they are not going to be able to solve a linear system in 4 unknowns on an exam that disallows calculators (which is all math courses at my university, besides stats and act sci).
Front End Developer | OfficeLuv | Chicago | Full-time, Onsite

We’re growing here at OfficeLuv (https://www.officeluv.com) and are looking for a Front-end Developer to help us shape our product. You will help design, develop, and deliver the technology that powers OfficeLuv and our loyal customers. You will work within our tech/product team to build applications in the browser and on mobile devices.

We’re building for the long run. You’ll be excited about our rapid, iterative progress and providing direct benefit to our customers. We’re standardizing and automating a process that’s ripe for it. You’ll be shaping the management of offices across the country! We are automating and expanding the pulse of purchasing and communication in the workplace. You are a thinker, a maker, and a passionate advocate for the Minimum Delightful Product that helps us "ship it" every week.

We run a very collaborative and growth-mindset product team. We focus on automating as much as possible (continuous integration and deployment for all systems) so we can all sleep soundly at night. If you want a taste of our management style, [you can read about it][0]. [We contribute][1] to the open source community and communicate within our company continuously. Read more and apply here: https://officeluv.applytojob.com/apply/kRxZ5TEgX1/Front-End-...

[0]: https://github.com/andjosh/as-your-manager
[1]: https://officeluv.github.io/
What kind of argument is that? Do you choose to either prosecute a burgler or put a lock on your door but not both?

That said, the media industry as a whole has pushed more than what's necessary to protect its content (eg. DMCA, extending the copyright window) and a more fruitful course of action is to get Congress to change those laws.
It’s not funny when you consider that BART police have shot and killed at least three unarmed people in the last few years, not to mention they’ve even engaged in fatal “friendly fire” of their own... This is easily one of the most violent transit police departments.
I get that and feel the same. But as a parent that loves his kids, I'd love to leave them a little something (heck, even help educate the grandkids)...It feels like our legacy is being sapped by the high cost of eldercare. Compare a quarter mil a year to the historical 'Grandma comes home to live with the family' that was not uncommon in the past.
Would it have made the user experience of DRM any worse than it currently is, though?

The DRM module would still ship with Chrome and Edge (and likely Safari too, given Apple became involved pretty quickly), you'd still need multiple different streaming formats (in the form of different DRM formats) as you do today, and maybe you'd need slightly different JS codepath per-browser too (but that's not a big difference to today with the different DRM formats).

It's very unclear to me that the W3C refusing to be involved from day one would've led to any outcome very more than subtly different than the one we ended at. At the point that the specification went to Recommendation, there were already multiple interoperable implementations, so objecting at that point was purely a matter of principle, it literally wouldn't have affected the outcome in any way.
> I can't speak for the person you're responding to, but it doesn't seem like much of a mystery why non-techies don't know about the specific details of why they can't save a streamed movie to watch it offline, or in a non-approved open source video player.

To me, the mystery is not that the people don't know about these details (these details are indeed somewhat complicated - I agree), but how much they don't care.
I was a mac laptop user. I’ve now switched to an imac pro and ipad pro, and am much happier for it. My mad has ports and I can use my own keyboard. The ipad is much nicer for work around the house away from my desk.

(Mac mini + the new ipad air would probably work as well for many use cases while being cheaper)

The laptops are a huge error though. They’re the most popular type of mac, and they’re all flawed. My macbook air from 2011 still runs perfectly. I couldn't confidently tell someone their butterfly keyboard model would last that long, and desktop + ipad is a more expensive, niche combo. Not everyone can do that. Really bad for the ecosystem in the long run.
I'm even more bummed the old stylish plugin was really malware

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/05/browsers_pull_styli...
I’m going to have to try this, thanks for the diagram. Heavier usb hubs etc fall out too easily currently.
It's an open question, but there is some reason to believe that bacteria can survive a journey through space. Multicellular life would be much less likely to survive, although I'm constantly amazed at how hard it is to kill a tardigrade!
You should probably just retain those rights then and encourage people to contact you for permission to use it commercially under a more specific license. No harm in mentioning that you'll probably allow people to use your work if they aren't in a position to pay for it or working for someone you don't like.
I doubt you're a bad grandson, but I'll share this story with you.

I was raised by my grandparents, and I had enormous respect for my grandfather, who was the most badass human being I've ever known, though you would never know it to see him. He was very quiet, he spoke little, always watching and listening.

But he grew up in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression and fought in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalcanal_Campaign , with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrill%27s_Marauders among others.

He was in his 50s when I was born and lived with them permanently when I was 5 years old. He and my grandmother were my parents.

They were always patient and kind, and always stoic about everything. One day while camping my grandpa was sitting next to a dart board, and one of the darts I threw went crazy wild; it hit and stuck deeply into his left calf. I just stood there with my mouth open while he puffed his pipe, staring at me. After a couple of moments, he calmly pulled it out, wiped the blood off of it, and carefully tossed it back to me, saying, "Careful where you throw those, boy."

I always had a lot of respect for them, though I didn't show it. In fact, by my actions, I took them for granted.

They both died of old age when I was in my 30s, even as I was just starting to truly appreciate them.

Now, many years later, I would give almost anything to be able to spend another day with them. There's so much I'd ask, so much to learn.

In summary: spend as much time as you can talking to your grandparents while you still have them, because once you're old enough to really appreciate their value, they might be gone.
1) Bring Matias Tactile Pro keyboard from home.

2) Realize that the MBP only has USB-C ports.

3) Buy or requisition a USB-C combo dongle (i.e., a computer wart).

4) Plug keyboard into computer wart, plug computer wart into laptop.

5) Fixed!

Thanks, Apple!
Firefox on Ubuntu 16.04 NVIDIA proprietary driver here. I searched for 1080p on YouTube and the first result is this harmless video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQuhA5ZCV9M
It started at 720p, then I switched it to 1080p and it started playing at that resolution. However I didn't count the lines and I don't know if this is the kind of streaming you're writing about. Maybe Netflix? I can't check that.
RTFA. Widevine is owned by Google. Google gives Firefox permission to use Widevine. Google took 4 months to give this individual a one-line rejection, ostensibly his only option for supporting DRM in a chromium-based solution like the one he is using (Electron). Now what?
There's an Austrian site with a massive variety of puzzles like these, all playable online for free: https://www.janko.at/Raetsel/Uebersicht.htm

It's mostly in German, but each game page usually has a rules section in English and links to other sites with the same puzzle type.
Maybe my monitor is misconfigured but that font is so thin it doesn't render well.
"That sounds exactly like an urban myth along the same lines as 'seatbelts kill more people than they save'. Has it ever been proved?"

I hope you will look further into this - you may be interested to learn (I was) that a nearly perfect intervention for red lights being "run" is to lengthen the yellow signal.

It costs nothing and works as well, or better, than red light cameras - and with none of the artificial, unexpected driving behaviors that can cause rear-end accidents.

http://saferstreetsla.org/679/case-studies-longer-yellow-lig...

https://www.motorists.org/issues/red-light-cameras/yellow-li...
thanks, i just fixed it
Largely agree, window management on OSX is odd to me. However, you are looking for alt-~ (tilde), which will switch windows of the same application. That was a game changer. Still honestly don't see a reason to have those separated.
Google blocked... what? The blogpost shows the answer from Google, but crucially omits to say what exactly the author was asking for.
Or maybe we evolved weights to work for us
But this is not the case when the company suing has actually been induced by the fraud to purchase images. Then they have knock-down standing, because they have an individualized legally cognizable injury.
Ah, I've been misinformed, thanks for correcting me. It sounds like the SSD shouldn't be affected for a keyboard replacement then. I'm honestly surprised that the cost breakdown has been $600 parts + $100 labor for this, I would have guessed higher on the labor side.

I've done repairs on older laptops before, but looking at the instructions from iFixit I don't think I'd try this one.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Retina+MacBook+2017+Upper+Case+...
> Current India was born as the Socialist democratic Republic of India and had closer relations to the former USSR than the US, so naturally, the US aligned itself with Pakistan.

Not true. In-fact just the opposite. India started non-aligned movement and tried to remain non-aligned to the extent possible. Pakistan joined SEATO in 1954[1], India-Russia relations started a year later in 1955[2]

Also, India was not born Socialist, although it may have socialist policies - much like any other country. First mention of socialism was in 1976 [3]

> You are mistaken. India has been an aggressor as much as a victim.

I think you could easily have add examples to support your claim rather than making statements

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asia_Treaty_Organiza...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%E2%80%93Russia_relations...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_socialist_states#Curre...
Imagine asking to certify your completely open software that , e.g. prints 3d guns. Free also means free from gatekeepers
Same, I just bought a refurbished 2015 MBP instead of the new model.
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> No, blame the movie studios, record labels etc. They're the one which require asinine DRM support for web browsers. Google/Microsoft/Apple/Adobe want to support media content, but to do so requires towing the line with the media companies otherwise they refuse to license the content (at least in HD+).

Let's say Google, Microsoft and Apple announce that they will be removing any DRM from their browsers on 2020-01-01. They will also remove any DRM playback app from their App Stores. So no Netflix on PCs, Macs, iPhones, iPads or any Android device (including stuff like Android TV).

What do you think would happen?
Set Up an SSH and Kubernetes Bastion for AWS EKS
It’s not begging, begging is not immoral. This is stealing.
I paid for Evernote for in-pdf and -docx search. It was too slow, though. Too slow, too slow.

Nowadays my personal notes are all written in paper and filed in cardboard boxes. My work stuff is all in gmail somehow anyway.
I get the feeling design people took over Apple with their insane intelectual masturbations and then marketing/sales wanted their piece of the kingdom.

Actual product people were relegated to complete Jira tasks on an arbitrary deadline ( which is how the vast majority of companies work ).

I'm not Apple insider but I started to get this feeling about Apple ~5 years ago.
for the basketball and hockey arguments you made...i'm fairly certain things like stimulants can be and are used to help maintain focus during practice. 3 point shooting is a boring mechanical repetitive motion. Doing that motion 1000 times a day is boring. Taking a stim might allow you to continue to focus and get the reps in that will allow you to perform the motion better. Taking the right drugs might allow you to avoid injury and reduce fatigue.
AI Training a Humanoid in Unity with Tensorflow and ML-Agents
Yet I have a whole shelf full of 30 year old console games that I can just stick into the relevant console and be playing within seconds.

Progress!
Freeling seems to think they already do in saying, "Go to a nursery and buy them."
What do you mean? The 2013 MBP SSD is user serviceable, I just pulled one out yesterday. You can even upgrade it to a 3rd-party nvme ssd, there are kits all over Ebay.
I recently switched from a Macbook Pro to a Thinkpad T470s running Arch Linux.

I switch between GNOME, KDE, and i3. I think GNOME and KDE are as pleasant, if not more so, than macOS.
I would agree, but then it makes accepting outside contributions much trickier.
Fair point: open source isn't really my day job. But, I do ask, what qualifies as an open source developer? I definitely work on open source, even if it's not my primary work. If you only count people who work for OSS companies specifically... Isn't that a bit selection-bias-y?
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Blood test shows promise predicting presymptomatic risk of familial Alzheimer’s
You might have actually had an easier time on a nerdy arch or Gentoo setup. The Nouveau driver is heroically reverse-engineered by volunteers, and distros that ship with more recent versions of the Linux kernel might include additional features or bugfixes your hardware may need. This is specially relevant if you happen to be using a recently-released video card.

These days having to fiddle with drivers on Linux is a rarer and rarer occasion. I haven't had to worry about this ever since I ditched my NVIDIA card a couple of years ago.
Do you have a link to the paper as I'd be interested in reading it.
Procedurally generated Chinese landscape painting
The entire point of the original article is that Google's constant killing of products makes everyone fear what will be next, bc even seemingly popular products get killed off for little to no reason. The entire point of this article is that Google's own actions are fanning the flames of this speculation.
An excellent essay that puts to words something I've been feeling of for a long time. Particularly:

"following the letter, but not the spirit,"

I'm unhappy with the GPL because companies do the bare minimum to comply, and sometimes make their forks difficult to even find.

And freedom to me means freedom to have propriety forks, because either your downstream fork plans to last as long as upstream, in which case diverging from upstream makes rebasing more and more costly over time (incentivising you to minimize that divergence as that's less work/cost in terms of maintainership), or you have a very shortlived product that won't be relevant for long.

And the point about paying developers to still contribute to upstream even when downstream has propriety bits is lost in a lot of people.
I find myself needing more force to hit the keys, but I can still type 120+ WPM without much of an issue. I regularly go back and forth between mechanical keyboards with MX Reds on my Windows machines and the MBP without an issue. It's actually going to my workplace's Dell Precision and other lower quality rubber membrane-based keyboards where I have the most issues.