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Full Stack Team Lead with 12 years years experience, a habit of reading through protocols and hobby coding (with vi on Linux). Looking for challenging problems to solve.

Location: Toronto, Canada
Remote: Yes, prefer on site.
Willing to relocate: Yes, Eastern US preferred.
Technologies:
Python (ETL, Web, performance tuning, memory management, asyncio)
JavaScript (D3, Vue, Webpack, Grunt, CoffeeScript)
PostgreSQL (performance tuning, ETL), CI/CD (via Gitlab, for Python, Javascript, Qlik, using Docker)
Web (WebSockets, pushState, localStorage)
Qlik (app, mashup and extension development, performance tuning).
Résumé/CV: Available on Request. Check out my blog: https://llvllatrix.wordpress.com/. range(n) is a good read.
Email: thereisnocowlevel@gmail.com

Ask me about my autographed Laptop.
Osmedeus v1.4 Fully automated tool for reconnaissance and vulnerability scanning
CNI, CSI, OCI
I’ve been posting in the "Who wants to be hired" threads occasionally since they started (somewhere in 2014 if I recall correctly) and have been doing so monthly recently. I'm also including a basic Q&A in my posts. I've varied the tone and content a bit over time. It's not an A/B test, just an attempt to keep things entertaining.

You can find my recent post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20326583

What each month brings is very diverse. Companies are of all shapes and sizes, from different locations and different lines of businesses. It's fairly interesting by itself. I've gone through multiple interview hoops through the years and those tend to also be very diverse. I've done HR chats and tech chats, phone screens with code and phone screens without. I've done take-homes and I was twice flown to on-sites. There is also a fair amount of spam, canned recruiting emails and the automated "CTO bait-n-switch", but the overall positive far outweighs the negative in my mind. If you are considering to post - just do it.

I've learnt a lot from those postings. Reaching out is not easy and I'm thankful to whoever does. My main take-a-way is this: by reaching out, a person shows that they are the proactive kind who cares for their organization and tasks. That fact by itself is a very positive signal to me. I'm thus always trying to put best effort into whatever organizational recruiting process follows.

I have yet to be hired as a result of those posts.

P.S - ... but that one from last month that is still in process would be perfect for me. Especially if it goes south... ;)
Do Not Get Priced Out
i’ll pay that cost, not to drive.
well that was super cool.

i love that it feels older, i wasnt around for any of the BBS action back in the day but getting involved with something similar would be cool.

any other places on the internet like this anyone know of?
The idea the article proposes, that $782,000 for a house in North Carolina is an example of "affordable housing", is incredible. Is the article's author a Rockefeller?
Location: San Jose/San Francisco Bay Area
Remote: If necessary
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: React, ES6, Node, HTML/CSS, Gatsby, Next.js, Jest
Résumé/CV: http://jillcrobinson.com/static/docs/JillRobinsonResumeMar2019.pdf / http://jillcrobinson.com
Email: contact@jillcrobinson.com

I'm a full-stack/front-end JavaScript developer living in the South SF Bay area. I have around 3 years of experience and I'm looking for new opportunities with room for growth and learning new technologies. I'm also interested in UI/UX and design work, although my experience is more on the technical side. Thanks!
A few years ago I read travel by a man who spent a summer with nudists/naturists in Europe. His intention was a travel article about about the nudist subculture, but towards the end of summer he found himself hiking nude beside a frozen lake. "I didn't even feel the cold." The article then became about the ability of the human body to adapt. He realized that by wearing so many different types and layers of clothes we deny our natural ability to adapt.
I've mentioned before a friend that lives in a small town with one gas station. Their gas is expensive. So everyone tries to get gas when they do their weekly shopping 80 miles away. It's the town you would think wouldn't be a candidate for electric vehicles. But a Tesla Model 3, Late Model Leaf or Chevy Bolt could make the shopping run. Especially if there was a charger at the Walmart. Bonus you can top batteries up at home and not worry about running out of gas and getting bent over by the local gas station.

If the gas station stopped selling gas then electric would be the only real viable option.
> The social structure in those two examples will be very different. You would not want to do what you suggest.

I didn't suggest anybody do anything in my post. I merely postulated on scenarios where technology can (and does exist to) solve problems that aren't your own.

> IRC remains popular

I don't doubt it; in fact, I never disputed that. Further, in no way did I imply that IRC should cease to exist because other options are out there that address other peoples' needs, nor did I indicate that I think any IRC users are wrong to prefer it.

> so same to you buddy

Please keep your language respectful; your tone in that reply was nothing short of dismissive and needlessly condescending.
It's not a matter of "it must either be a desert or either a rainforest."

Neither OS is faultlessly perfect in any area, but the macOS side of the UI consistency fence is definitely, objectively, much greener.
To be fair, all-time-record-breaking temperatures are (the start of) "basically a new apocalypse." The fact that Western Europe's temperatures are commonplace in other places on earth does not diminish the fact that these temperatures are abnormal and dangerous to the populations experiencing them, and are a harbinger of things to come. Summers will on average only get hotter from this, and not just for Europe.
Disclaimer: long time Atlassian employee but I do not work on Jira/Conf/Bitbucket & all words here are my own opinions.

A major problem is that many deployments of Atlassian products are Server deployments (i.e. not Cloud), which means there's basically the embedded Lucene engine and that's it; anything else starts hurting either performance or deployment options at scale. And most Server customers have a much greater interest in scaling (while keeping servers performant & easy to run) than getting tweaks to search algorithms - in particular many customers refuse to upgrade unless there is a major bug fix or performance boost they're going to get.

On the Cloud side, for better or worse the focus has mostly been on letting people find their work, not find new content they haven't seen before. For example, Confluence's My Work tab (or similar - I forget the exact name), or the search in the cross-product https://start.atlassian.com/ are both useful for getting back to things you've seen before. Hopefully some day we'll finally make some headway on the "I don't know what I'm looking for but I know how to describe my problem" use case.

And just to buck the trend, search works as advertised in the Atlassian product I work on, statuspage.io ;) (but then our search use case is straightforward and rare enough to just use elasticsearch with some minor tweaking).
I personally found that a good methodology: each team member has clear area of ownership/responsibility. John does X, Jane does Y, Ann tests X, Jeff tests Y. Everyone logs their own tasks. We define and work towards a sprint. No elaborate planning, no estimates. The peer pressure is enough to get everyone moving.

Managers often tell me that my process is chaotic. They want more visibility and deterministic completion dates. We adopt Agile process. Now we have long sprint meetings. I think we get less done.
No, it was a clear winner for your use case. It's missing a significant amount of features from k8s, though, and if you don't need those, then great. But don't pretend they're comparable.

I think it's more fair to say the suit different use cases (an MS person on HN explicitly said this last year), rather than competing.
Personal journal entry: How to slow down time
That post would probably be of interest to a lot of HN readers. If they want, we can look over a draft if someone sends it to hn@ycombinator.com. Just be aware that we can't always reply right away—our worst-case latency sucks.

Same offer goes for anyone else who's putting a lot of work into a post they hope will interest HN.
I'm pretty good at this at home in the southern hemisphere, but I'm much worse when visiting the northern hemisphere and the sun "goes the wrong way"...

My instinctive sense of direction doesn't work with "the sun in the south midday" thing, and I need to pull that up into the intellectual part of my brain all the time.

"Ummm, I'm in SF, if the sun's over _there_ and it's mid morning that much be, ummm, south east-ish I think. Yeah. So north must be (turns around) _that_ way".

I _never_ end up thinking those things at home, I just "know" which way north is. It doesn't even occur to me to question how or why I know that.
Interested in freelance work only.

Location: Cleveland, OH

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:HTML5, Photoshop, CSS3, Bootstrap, SASS, JavaScript, JQuery, PHP, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Laravel

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Yes, they do. But the Crimean Tatars are what, 15% at most? Some people are acting like they should decide for everyone.

More than 15% of Ukrainians opposed Maidan (including Crimeans). Yet they were subjected to it.
Makes sense. Most people I know usually work during the school year / summer as research assistants under a professor in their lab before going on to intern somewhere. Unlike with computer science, with more hands on type of sciences like chemistry, I'm sure having some lab experience is pretty important if you want to be a meaningful contributor during your internship.

I don't know much about how job postings online work, but quite a few companies come recruit during the school year, and all of the events are open to everyone as long as you're a student. So I'm not sure it's necessarily as closed off as you're making it out to be with having to be contacted on an individual basis.
That's a common misconception but all the things that it relates to SI units are themselves redundant. There's an entire parallel system of constants and units built around it which only exists for legacy reasons, as well as people's desire to avoid very big and very small numbers.

If we started from scratch, Avogadro's number would be a simple exact power of 10 or nothing at all and we'd just tolerate extreme numbers the way computer people tolerate terabytes and electronics people tolerate picofarads. There's nothing natural or fundamental about it.
Macao is too Chinese (meaning the CPC is in control), the emperor is further away in Manila.
No, this is awesome. All of that time is yours without having to worry about the road.

I wish we'd install more rail corridors. Especially outfitted with business and luxury amenities. I'd travel by train everywhere I could to avoid planes and long distance driving.
I think one major issue with this is that ES basically can't break backwards compability, ever. Observables are a good example, actually. If we look at RxJS, which is sort of the inspiration behind observables I guess, we'll see that they are now at 6th major version of the library. Migration from 4th to 5th made bunch of renamings and other breaking changes, which just wouldn't work in ES. Migration to 6th includes an additional compability layer, which again would be permanent piece of bloat if it was in ES standard.

And all this while some other HNers are saying that the browsers are too complicated and its so sad that there won't ever be completely new independent browsers... :)
We like ASCII art too but please don't use visual gimmicks in these threads. (I took that one out.)
>who want deadlines, not estimates, and who consider the difference between the two to be as fuzzy as it needs to be.

This is exactly it. Well said!
We've just passed 400 ppm, everything was pretty different when it was much higher https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-the-world-passed-a-carbon...

> To find a time when the planet’s air was consistently above 400 ppm you have to look much farther back to the warm part of the Miocene, some 16 million years ago, or the Early Oligocene, about 25 million years ago, when Earth was a very different place and its climate totally dissimilar from what we might expect today.

Towards the end Miocene was when grasses began to emerge significantly

> The higher organic content and water retention of the deeper and richer grassland soils, with long-term burial of carbon in sediments, produced a carbon and water vapor sink. This, combined with higher surface albedo and lower evapotranspiration of grassland, contributed to a cooler, drier climate. C4 grasses, which are able to assimilate carbon dioxide and water more efficiently than C3 grasses, expanded to become ecologically significant near the end of the Miocene between 6 and 7 million years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miocene#Flora
Are you saying that they smell?
What event was this?
It's early, but I wouldn't call it rudimentary... Cryptocurrency implementations are complicated distributed systems problems. If the code were more complete, I'd wager the author would be complaining that too much of it was developed in private.

Idk, we don't need to depend on Bloomberg's opinion, we can check out the code ourselves: https://github.com/libra/libra .
This article doesn’t jive whatsoever with my anecdotal experience as an urban dwelling elder millennial.

As my friends and family form families, they either stay in the city.

After all, having a kid or two and staying in NYC or SF is the ultimate status symbol.

Or they move to more livable cities such as Philadelphia from NYC or Austin from SF or Pittsburgh from Chicago.

The exception is moving back to the suburbs to be close to our boomer parents who of course still live there.

Seriously, no one I know my age (35) willingly moves to the suburbs. Curious if this is my bubble or consistent.
They're comparing it to the Greater Seattle Area (specifically Bel-Red) housing market. Don't they mention that the same house would cost double there?
Not sure, I just imagine people attempting to shoot them down for absolutely no good reason. You would at least want to make them not blow up (especially aviation organisations).
Rickover and the Nuclear Navy (Dept of Energy, 1990, 374 Pp) [pdf]
Yeah, I know right? Because we've _all_ got Google maps in our pockets!

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3078087/google-map...

(And our phone battery never runs flat! And cellular reception in ubiquitous and reliable!)

(BRB, off to write a blog post titled: "Falsehoods hackernews readers believe about being human"... <smirk> )
This seems like a terrible idea. Computer controlled systems lead to optimization and smarter decisions.
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> An area of Amazon rainforest roughly the size of a football pitch is now being cleared every single minute, according to satellite data.

A football pitch is 7,140 square meters so that’s 10,281,600 square meters per day. That’s 10.3 square kilometers per day, which assuming 24/7/365 work progress comes out to 3752 square kilometers per year. According to Wikipedia the Amazon rainforest is about 5.5M square kilometers so that’s 0.0682% per year assuming zero regrowth.

Honestly that does not seem like a lot.
Those were different plants, adapted for their times. Thousands of generations of natural evolution and human domestication led to the crops of today.
FWIW Atlassian's perspective is generally more like "they don't have much money yet, so let's get them while it's easy to get them". Small companies grow into big companies, and small single-team deployments tend to spread into big whole-company deployments - but small customers are much easier to get than large customers :)

Disclaimer: long time Atlassian employee but all words are my own.
I get that. Using uMatrix, it becomes really obvious how many websites are reliant on jQuery and likely don't really need it.
Can someone explain why a monolithic Registry is a good idea, compared to something like macOS's .plists?

I can usually intuitively infer where the plist for a particular app or subsystem may be stored, or just search for it using regular file system tools, and I can use many tools to read, edit and selectively backup/restore plists as well as compress them (something I make use of often, to restore settings only for specific apps on a fresh machine/installation, something that was very cumbersome to do with the Registry.)

I also have yet to experience plist corruptions even once for even one file on macOS, but several times with the Registry during my time on Windows, with multiple unrelated parts of the monolith crumbling at the same time.
The article makes clear that areas that aren't under the massive undesertification programs you bring up have shown the same results.

Kind of like how towns that got fluoride in the water and towns that didn't both experienced an increase in dental health during a period in which there were massive advances in dentistry and fluoride toothpaste became a thing.
The triangle tends to be pricey. Good public schools, both primary and Uni level, lots of tech work, nice weather 10 months of the year, close to the coast and the mountains. Apex and Cary tend to get lots of Yankee expats (compared to Long Island 700K is nothing), also driving up prices there. Drive 20 minutes and you can get a nice place for half that.
One gets bored with the lies, so is it better now we've gone from a 'Football pitch' a second.... to one a minute!!!

The fact it's such a old cliche but can be pulled out as new is the real problem, alternate facts, it's clearly a lie since any adult should have heard it before, but they still chose to believe the article.

The rainforest issue: Myths and facts (1997) [There will be many articles before this talking about football fields a minute/second feel free to source the original lie]

"From movies to classrooms to the nightly news, Americans are constantly being told that of the world’s environmental “crises,” the staggering loss of tropical rainforest, and Amazon rainforest in particular, is right up there at the top. Pictures of charred remains of once lush jungles flicker before our eyes, we are shown the exotic plants and wild species that are being made homeless by the chainsaw and the flame, and numbers likened to one football field per second are used to describe this devastating loss."

https://www.cfact.org/1997/01/01/the-rainforest-issue-myths-...
I had a couple of phone conversations based on posting in the "Who wants to be hired". Nothing led to work but enjoyed speaking to people who reached out. I'm in a less popular niche with manufacturing applications so I think it's good for spreading a wide net.
It's designed the way it is expressly because of the issues BTC/ETH/etc. have with price stability and regulators. Libra is basically an in-between, it's not fully distributed, but it's not fully centralized.

I'm personally in the "rising tide lifts all boats" camp atm; I think Libra will act as a bridge and help explode the rest of the crypto economy by making the fiat -> crytpo acquisition process way quicker and easier.

So I guess my answer is, I don't think you should use Libra if you don't trust it, and I'm not asking you to. I'm just pointing out that there's a lot of FUD right now about it from people not reading the whitepapers or not caring to be accurate.
For the uninitiated: WALL-E

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wall_e
China probably also sees the Philippines as a potential rival as a manufacturing base and sea resource claims. This moneymaking scheme should increase leverage the CCP has over Manila.
If they're high enough, blowing up might actually be the safest option. Better that all the hydrogen burn off up there than on the ground, when it doesn't have enough to be bouyant but still enough to do damage.
What is your response to this front page reddit post? https://old.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/c7xhih/protestors...
Won't they be way up high? Even if one blew up, it'd be too high to hurt anyone. In fact it'd probably be tough to make one blow up from that distance. The best one could do is shoot at it, which won't ignite the hydrogen.
Please don't take HN threads into classic flamewars. Nothing good is going to come of it, only repetition. Repetition is the enemy of curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Devious and effective. I approve of this. :-)
But examining the circuits of a computer doesn't tell you anything about a data structure, does it?

What would an iPhone schematic tell you about how GarageBand works?
England's Roadsides Blooming with Wildflowers
There are also NERC compliance requirements that require USB ports be disabled at and OS or BIOS level.
It amuses me a little that this mirrors how Undernet itself got started - in that case, by the ops of #hottub on Dalnet.

There's a certain whimsical botanical style to the way in which IRC networks tended to grow large enough to start budding off new networks, some of which were able to find sufficient purchase to grow large themselves and repeat the cycle anew.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall: WeWork and Uber fight against reality
I enjoy the hypocrisy of Google punishing sites that aren't "mobile-friendly," and then deliberately disabling ZOOMING on their own mobile sites.
> If not, there is no point for them to build this product.

The second point you mentioned literally disproves this point. There's a massive opportunity for making money if Libra works exactly like they say it does.

Google Pay and friends can't move into emerging markets because they depend on banking infrastructure that doesn't exist there. WeChat maybe could, but that's a scary thought, so I'm glad this alternative will exist.
I dated a girl in college ca. 2003 because we connected when she showed me she could "speedrun" freecell on my PDA. Not like these videos, but not far off either. Just thought I'd share that.
>> I always have this overwhelming desire to comment on people's posts in those threads. I wish they had a peanut gallery.

Which would be rude and off-topic. But by all means, make a fresh post where the goal is to learn by commenting on excerpts of peoples posts. Not sure if that will work but why not try?
Urban SF dwelling elder millennial here. My experience is the opposite. Everyone seems to end up in the suburbs (the peninsula). Eventually, I'd like to too.
Absolutely, I believe Libra can be the gateway into crypto for the general public that we need.
Please don't do flamewars on HN.
The article also says Iceland is connected by ice?

> The shrinking of the polar ice pack is having an impact on Arctic foxes - they can no longer visit Iceland, for example

When was Iceland regularly connected by ice?
> Curious if this is my bubble or consistent.

Depends where you live! I’m in Pittsburgh and there is still a culture here of bailing to the well heeled suburbs (cough cough Fox Chapel) when having kids. You couldn’t pay me to leave the city core, but the Midwest still clings to that suburban status symbol life more than the rest of the nation.