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I'm a full stack developer with 10+ years of experience who can take your web or mobile project from concept to delivery.

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Previous experience: Full stack development (JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, PHP, Java, OCaml), modern web frameworks (Express, Vue, React, WordPress, Django), mobile app development (Android, iOS, PhoneGap/Cordova), cloud hosting (AWS, Google, Heroku, Firebase) and website optimisation (performance, security & SEO).

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Portfolio: I've independently created two commercially successful apps where I was responsible for the concept, design, development, graphic design, UX and marketing.

- Checkbot for Chrome (https://www.checkbot.io/), a website auditor browser extension that checks 100s of pages at time against 50+ SEO, speed and security web best practices. This included authoring a modern web best practices guide (https://www.checkbot.io/guide/). Technologies: TypeScript, Vue, Node, Express, Firebase, Netlify, Paddle.

[ Rated 4.9/5, 25K+ active users, 100s of paying subscribers ]

- Fresco for Android (see https://www.seanw.org), a digital painting app which was one of the first on the platform to support layers. Features customisable brushes, image filters and robust undo/redo/autosave while being highly optimised for devices with low resources. Technologies: Java, C, JNI.

[ Rated 4/5, 500K+ free downloads, 10K+ copies sold ]

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Show HN: Ryze- Automated Investing for Bitcoin (Beta/MVP)
Hello YC Community,

I'm Abhay, a co-founder at Ryze. Ryze manages your investment in Bitcoin with our quantitative strategies.

We launched our beta in mid-August and are outperforming a Bitcoin buy-and-hold strategy by ~11% for our 70 users. Our MVP integrates with Coinbase to manage the funds in your account.

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Most of the Democratic primary candidates.
> This project is nearly complete.

wrong, it is already complete.

But it's a sort of softer (or blurrier) slavery.

one difference between old classic slavery and modern employment slavery is that the slave-employees are not bound to a single master. They are "free" to change employers. But they aren't really free to quit working altogether. Only people who own enough assets are free.

And surely it could be argue that I exaggerate, that people are indeed free to enterprise and try to make it on their own, as business owners (only really possible if you have enough assets to begin with). But then "the market economy" will subtly force them into hiring employees.

If the only way to be "free" is through the enslavement of others, is that true liberty?
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Music, friends & family. Oh, and project hacking...
Does anyone remember a video about 10(?) years back predictioning something like Google merging with Amazon merging with some other tech companies?

I remember it was somewhat of a parody of how Skynet would come into existence.
Funnily enough - they moved to signal. They are not telling me - but I assume they have an exploit for that as well - but it isn't controlled by Facebook.
Serious question, what innovations in Linux would FreeBSD even want? I honestly can't think of any.

IMO it's Linux that should want the features from FreeBSD/Solaris. I want ZFS, dtrace, SMF, and jails/zones. Linux is basically at feature parity, but the equivalents have a ton of fragmentation, weird pitfalls, and are overall half baked in comparison.

For example, eBPF is a pretty cool technology. It can do amazing things, but it requires 3rd party tooling and a lot of expertise to be useful. It's not something you can just use on any random box like dtrace to debug a production issue.
Really sad to see this, I remember relying on cdnjs at a few old jobs over the years. Hope they get this sorted.

If anyone is looking for alternatives, I created Pika CDN as a modern alternative for cdnjs/jsdelivr/unpkg. It runs off of npm (so no approval bottlenecks) and is 100% modern ESM (so you can `import` every package directly in the browser without a bundler).
https://www.pika.dev/cdn
The development tools are wonderful. The debugger in Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition (free) is better than anything else out there.
Exercise. Socialize. Try to combine the two.
Users should be treated with respect and given control over their own devices, while platforms should do their best to implement safe defaults, and educate users about the potential risks of certain actions.

CORS is a security directive set by sites over which users have full control through browser configuration and extensions.
That is him. He just ages and gets older like everyone else.

https://lwn.net/Articles/799259/
Why do we need to work?

edit: I am 100% serious about this. It is already economically viable, if society chooses to do it, to simply guarantee food, decent housing, and health care to everyone, whether they work or not. At that point, what we do with our time becomes a choice, more than the choice of "work or go homeless and starve". People could still choose to exchange their time and skills for money, and most would, I think. But the coercion of the current system, and the "safety net" holes in that coercion, would disappear.
What's interesting to me is -- for every "burnt out" coworker I see another one with similar pay and title who isn't burnt out.

I think a lot of people think they are unable to say "no" nor "pushback." In my experience, saying no actually gets you more respect than saying yes.
Or unless you get $100 every time your "pager" beeps you into duty. Or a day off the next day or some sort of payback...
Yeah, exactly. Malware could also just delete vanilla firefox and replace it with the developer edition. Just overlay ads over the browser window itself. Or anything else really.

Trying to protect against hostile code already running on the same computer as the browser is futile. At best, it should warn the user if suspicious modifications were made.

And it comes at such a high cost for such a narrow measure of protection.
We run Erlang on bare metal for "soft real time" applications and there's no problem with it.
You can!

You'll get redirected to Stripe, just login & you'll have full access to TillyPay.
>I really have no trust that google will keep promise not to use the data

Worth clarifying that they didn't even promise this. What they said was...

>The company never sells personal information, and Fitbit health and wellness data will not be used for Google ads

That means they won't sell personal information but they will probably sell anonymized health and wellness data and they will absolutely use the data themselves, just not for Google ads.
That's roughly the same as saying that you won't eat the food prepared by a chef if they don't use your favorite brand of knife. You've diminished the value of your previous comment substantially with this one.
Yes, branches look like full copies, but they are sparse copies. So only any changed data on the branch gets actually stored in the repository.
Of course it doesn't, but hiring people in a country with a functioning court system that follows the rule of law decreases your chance of being scammed. And at the very least offers a possible remedy if you are scammed.

Beyond being scammed, your chance of finding a great developer by looking for the cheapest developer is very low.
I love much about Fossil and used it a lot several years ago, but my workflow have mental model have since come to rely heavily on interactive rebase, a philosophy that Fossil abhors.
Measles Wipes Your Immune System's 'Memory,' So It Can't Fight Other Infections
My girlfriend's cellphone displays ads pertaining to our conversations. No wake word needed when some app has managed to seize mic access.
Probably wouldn't have become popular as quickly, but it still would have caught on, I'm sure. Don't most popular FOSS projects start with low-profile programmers?
Universities did not want to pay. Therefore, of the available options, they wanted UNIX. Why is that so hard for you to accept? [Edit: On reflection, my comment here is unjustly harsh. That is the gist of your second paragraph.]

Yes, AT&T shipped them a tape. Yes, technically that falls under the grounds of "marketing". The impression you are giving of how this played out, though, is totally false. You're making it sound like AT&T was aggressively pushing UNIX. It wasn't. It was much more passive - shipping a tape when requested. People were coming to them; they weren't going to people.
I think it's reasonable to turn the philosophical question around and look at it from the other direction.

Why should a person interacting within society have the option to opt out of surveillance?

We don't imagine that in pre-industrial-age communities, people believed in a right to not be seen by, say, the butcher or blacksmith when they went in to buy meat or metalwork, or a right to not have their commerce recorded in books of accounting. And people weren't immune to town gossip---the low-speed, high-latency, low-accuracy equivalent of having your disparate data points aggregated. Has society changed or has what it means to be seen changed? Is gossip qualitatively different now because it's fast, low-latency, and high-accuracy?

Framed from this angle, I think the question is less about opting out and more about "How much gossip is it polite to engage in before people should see one as an asshole for being that nosy?"
Google makes 80% of revenue from ads. It covers the entire web with adsense/adwords, records anything you search, has users login to chrome, scans gmail for purchase history, tracks your gps location and where you live and work with your commute + waze.. plus much more through android. It has microphones in homes and knows about all your iot devices with nest, it knows about any other online accounts you have because google sso....

Now it has something it couldnt really capture, detailed health data that users willingly provide.

This is all in support of the monster data vacuum that google has become - not about web indexing, its about people indexing, health indexing, interests, habbits all to support ads.

It knows exactly what its doing.
TrackMeNot
> Why do Github employees get a special right to withhold consent ... ?

Why do you ask question in such a biased frame?

Why don't you ask instead:

Why don't other companies have moral standards?
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> First time I was junior enough to care and put up with it.

I think that's the game at a lot of companies, to just prey on the young and hungry who probably don't know any better and are more likely to put up with bullshit like that.
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Sex carries 'little risk of harm'? Do we live in the same world?

I think your definition of risk is rather narrow.

Going out, finding a wife, grinding at a job, taking a mortgage, starting a company, not starting a company - all risk.

You might be able to claim that physical risks are harsher and less expected, but getting a mortgage, having children, getting married, a lot of the good stuff in life entails risk because you're making commitments that are extremely difficult or impossible to walk back if you don't want them any more.
Even with encryption, WhatsApp could provide users' contact lists, message send time and volume, IP addresses, phone numbers.

Having a phone number is almost same as having person's location and identity. That's why really secure messengers won't require a phone number.
I'm not advocating for no JS or something like that. All I'm asking for is web-devs using less resources. Use all those frameworks, but do you really need 100 requests to show a blog post?
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I don't suppose the complaining here was the reason, but I have noticed several major UK sites (in retail and delivery) become more friendly to browsing without javascript recently. So-called progress is not inevitable.
SEEKING WORK | Argentina | Remote

Email: hn.eafer@gmail.com

I'm a programmer, most familiar with C on Linux (both userland and the kernel). I'll be happy to start a project from scratch, or to maintain any old codebase. For a sample of my work please see [1], a naive filesystem implementation I'm working on.

My country is going through one of its regular economic meltdowns, so my rates are very cheap. For what it's worth, I have a background in math.

[1] https://github.com/linux-apfs
Thanks for spotting that, corrected. “Monolithic kernel” apparently isn’t a term spellcheck takes kindly to, and I wasn’t paying enough attention...
4 would be great progress, but I see 3 days as the point where we've really won—when "your job" is no longer the dominant force in your life. When an ordinary working person can answer with something other than what they do for a salary when asked "what do you do?" without being deliberately obtuse or "cute". When society and the economy are structured so a working person can actually put their family first, in terms of use of time in a week.

I'm a pro-family, pro-entrepreneur (UBI! Healthcare for all!) dirty socialist, I guess :-)
> They are said to have said everything.

Which one of them said that?
Depends on what you want to do with it. If you just want a relatively dumb watch that tells the time, shows notifications and lasts for days, a Pebble may still be a good choice. The firmware has largely been reimplemented by the Rebble project, so you're guaranteed to be free.

If you want serious tracking and are prepared to spend a lot of money, Garmin makes good devices.

If you're okay with giving up data as long as it's not to Google, Jawbone and Mi fit devices are pretty close to Fitbit offerings.
“Only” 15 vacation days?

I’m not sure if you’re in the US, or if you’re including paid holidays, but 15 days is the average number of vacation days for people with 25 years of tenure in full time jobs in the US. Most people with less tenure get much less.

So that wouldn’t be an “only” in the US.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ebs.t05.htm
No. It's only encrypted "so only you can see it" if it never touches a remote server.

Anything that ever touches a server you must assume is done so in plain text (including passwords).
Deepmind Health was a pure-data play, like most Google acquisitions; including Fitbit ─ which might initially suggest it is a way to sell gadgets or a platform but reverse is true ie. it is a strategy albeit not a cohesive one, to acquihire and/or gain foothold in a sector, especially where it does not have a dominant presence, in order to integrate a disparate portfolio of existing services.

https://deepmind.com/blog/announcements/deepmind-health-join...
>Last thanksgiving my boss (from the US) was on Slack. So were... all but one of my US colleagues

I work for a startup in a customer facing role and if I'm not on the schedule I simply don't get called. The Jewish person is the primary contact on the days around Christmas and the non-Americans take Thanksgiving and the 4th of July (and the boring old Christmas-celebrating Americans cover the holidays that they want to take vacation around, everyone wins). I work 40hr/wk and up to two weekend nights per month (off hours production stuff). I used to work for BigCos and it was even easier, thanks to being global we had people everywhere and nobody ever needed to be woken up unless they were the owner of something broken in production.

Every previous job has been reasonable like this. No employer I have ever encountered expects more than 40hr unless it's specifically negotiated. I know of one person that works 60+hr weeks but he works in education and voluntarily leads an extracurricular he is very passionate about.

Of course my experience is anecdotal and I know there exist 60hr/week sweatshops but for white collar employees they don't seem to be the norm, at least in tech in my region.
Ask HN: What startups were acquired and immediately shutdown?
I would definitely avoid unpkg.com

https://twitter.com/centrisimo/status/1190213354213838855

https://twitter.com/vdanielpop/status/1190234073987518465

https://twitter.com/BaggaleyGeorge/status/119026004939189043...

https://github.com/mjackson/unpkg/issues/176
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Certified AWS Solution Architect Professional for hire. Oversaw a team with a portfolio of web applications on AWS before leaving that job to get into freelancing and online courses. Experienced with and interested in DevOps tooling and Infrastructure as code work. Have a look at my company website, https://groundedit.solutions/ , my Udemy course, https://www.udemy.com/user/grounded-it-solutions-llc/ , or my personal website, https://terrycreamer.codes to get an idea about what I do and what I'm about.

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The goal is to minimize illegal immigration. And yes, that looks like a pretty standard detention facility to me. Every person in there knew the risk before deciding to break the law.
Sorry, but by and large that's "red goes faster" type of reasoning.
Back in 2003, people were saying the same thing about walmart. This article talks about how the demand for 'lower prices' almost drove a pickle company out of business:

https://www.fastcompany.com/47593/wal-mart-you-dont-know
That last comment is absolutely golden. Once upon a time I had the privilege to spend a few years working in Swansea University's compsci department, which punches above its weight in theoretical computer science. One of the moments that made me the programmer I am today (whatever that's worth) came when I was meeting with the head of the department to discuss a book he was writing, and while we were discussing this very point of data vs code, I said to him, realising the importance of choosing the right structure, "so the data is central to the subject" (meaning computer science in general" — to which he replied emphathically that "the data IS the subject". That was a lightbulb moment for me. From then on I saw computer science as the study of how data is represented, and how those representations are transformed and transported — that's it, that basically covers everything. It's served me well.
Ceremonies are part a process to get shit done. Being agile doesn’t mean to follow a strict process but to create a process that suits all stakeholders and the dev team in particular.

I’m trying to say your team isn’t agile, it’s using a cookie cutter process template most likely. Print out the agile manifesto and tape it to the cofee machine.
Accurate software estimation is a technical skill that can be learned like any other. It's disappointing that so many developers don't take it seriously or make disciplined efforts to improve their skills.

https://stevemcconnell.com/books/
We’re Building a New Central Resource for Public Data
Me, as in personally or as a small business? Obviously not, but note that your description also describes the dynamics of large companies with captive markets better than any individualist-entrepreneurial ideals, which would also be foolish to directly compete with.

Note that I was arguing against dumping a product on the market below cost. So if you're actually trying to support open-world market competition as opposed to closed-world capital consolidation, you should appreciate what I said.
Git was already the scm of choice when Github selected it. It was faster than Mercurial (by far in some operations). At the time there was whygitisbetterthanx with benchmarks on various operations

Edit: thanks webarchive
https://web.archive.org/web/20081218003732/http://whygitisbe...
Elasticseach is notoriously hard to roll out and develop against (for smaller companies especially), and so I am happy to see smaller projects in this space.

I've also been working on a light, fast, typo-tolerant search engine: https://github.com/typesense/typesense

It's been around for a couple of years now, and have a few happy customers who have had great success in replacing $X0,000/year popular hosted search with Typesense!
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Location: The Netherlands
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Go, Ruby, Rust (see résumé)
Availability: Full-time/part-time/contract, January 1st 2020
Email: email@jeanmertz.com

I am a senior software engineer focused on the combination of high-level
abstract APIs and low-level performance-driven systems. I am an avid learner
and an excellent communicator. I am a pragmatic ethical engineer with a knack
for software architecture, an eye for user experience and a capacity to lead.
Are you still only hiring Ruby on Rails devs?
Just one year? That's a brief stint to learn a lot of valuable lessons about organizational behavior. And you probably have some great stories.

It's easy to spend 3-5 years at a startup that implodes. One year is failing fast, and at least you got paid the whole time!
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We're hiring Quality Engineering Specialists, Machine Learning Devs, and Developers to work in all areas of our stack. Possibilities include working on Clojure web server, backend data processing services, and both our platform API and SDK. We use PostgreSQL to store our data and don’t hide SQL behind big frameworks. We also use many other popular technologies such as Go, RabbitMQ, Zookeeper, ElasticSearch, and Docker.

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