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Location: NYC
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Go, JavaScript, Python, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Electron
Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-e-97a490178/
Email: phil@multiprocess.io

Dev and manager for the last 10 years. Dev manager at a series A startup and then at Oracle. Quit Oracle last year to scratch my own itch and see if I could build a company around open-source data tools [0].

Over the last year (12 months) I've gotten nearly 5000 github stars across a few repos, thousands of users, 10 or so open-source contributors, around 20 blog posts and projects on the front of HN (across eatonphil.com and multiprocess.io/blog), ~900 members on a hacker discord and 300 on a virtual hacker meetup. I talked to a bunch of VCs (including YCombinator) and saw similar products not further along get funded but ultimately couldn't nail it myself. So I'm headed back to full-time employment.

Either interested in engineering management at a late stage/public company or interested in flexible roles (more toward the cofounder spectrum or director of engineering) at earlier stage startups in the data and devtools space.

[0] https://datastation.multiprocess.io/blog/2022-06-11-year-in-...
Exactly this. The historical value of tech companies was that they provided safe, stable employment that gave employees enough slack to do things of value to society while tending to the profit engine. As these companies have evolved instead towards tightly-managed, low-slack organizations focused on KPIs, they now actively (and coercively) divert talent and attention from the "exhaust" that had been the positive externality. In this new state they become an active drain on society.
Thanks! Folks, keep these coming!
There is definitely a lot of bullshit out there but when companies decide to pay for climate mitigation, even as a marketing ploy, I think that is net good.

Many companies are certainly looking to buy the cheapest credits they can find but there are promising indications that things are changing, led by companies like Stripe and Shopify.
Google should be made to donate a few $M (or 10s/100s) to help defend Ukraine then, although it's still a completely shitty situation that a country fighting for its freedom is being "traded" for the temporary economical benefit of certain parties.

How about Western telecom carriers and IT resources stop providing services to Russian military complex? We still have Western telecommunications providers supplying IT and communications services to companies directly related to Russian Ministry of Defense and its war machine.
Could you summarize what you feel the mistake is? Normally I'd RTFA but in this case it's a lot of arguing in threads and I'm missing context.
> how long until they lose their fear of humans and see us as prey?

If you're asking about individuals, it already happens that individual animals target humans for predation. If you're asking about genetic change in populations, it probably won't happen, because we identify and kill the rare individuals that attack humans.
Germany had a fascist past as well.
> It shows that Riccitiello has no foresight into Unity's financial situation.

The sudden lay off could hint that there is a deeper and more complex problem going on. They invested in tools that must be integrated in a their engine as soon as possible to recover this money from movie makers. So they increased their workforce, but their technical debt would cause a large resistance, making much of the workforce ineffective. They just realized it.

And the deeper problem is that transforming these tools into an appealing work flow that brings clients is a very hard problem that isn't too technical, but more like a "way" in the philosophical/psychological fields.
The comments on the linked article feature a number of examples of this, despite already having had the worse stuff moderated-out. For instance:

> You are an abhorrent and miserable human being, Ron Gilbert. You should be ashamed of yourself. One can only hope that you retire from the industry and never return.

Which, you know, not cool.
No, that’s not the problem. Not the problem that’s relevant to this discussion anyway. The problem is that people are either relentlessly telling him that they didn’t like the art or hatefully attacking him for choosing that art style. Hateful is what made him decide to close comments and not share stuff anymore. But relentless, even if polite, criticism also takes a toll.

And art style quality is subjective. I, for one, don’t think he made a mistake. If it does hurt sales, it is an objective evidence that it was a mistake commercially speaking. Which is just one dimension. He might still be happy with his decision.

Regardless of sales effect though, I think people feel entitled to be heard by him. They are not happy only with voting with their wallets, or just telling friends that they didn’t like the art style, that are making a point of going to him pointing fingers that he messed up. That’s not fine in my view even if they do not use hateful words, which a minority does. But the majority is still pointing fingers at him.

For me Ron is doing the right thing in managing all this. Stop sharing stuff, close comments, go back working on it silence. If, because of that, the game is a commercial failure, so be it. It is his risk to take. People are acting outraged no because Ron is screaming rude things back to them, because he is not. People are outraged that he just won’t change the art style at this point. That he is not pulling a Sonic on this. And I think the behavior of those people demanding change is just silly. And dangerous when potentialzed by the scale of the internet.

So good for Ron going back to silence. It will be better for him and the team. And, I think, better for the game as well.
In the article being discussed, Ron writes:

> I'm shutting down comments. People are just being mean and I'm having to delete personal attack comments.

These comments is what you are requesting.

Browse them using wayback machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://grumpygamer.com/rtmi_t...
Ask HN: Is there any good Node.js Reddit / HN clone that I can buy?
I would like to build a social network similar to Reddit or HN but dont want to start from scratch. I have folks who are good at NodeJS and so I'm wondering if anyone has any NodeJS + React or other Reddit clone or HackerNews clone that I can buy to jump start?
There is a link to the IPCC report a few paragraphs down where you can read about this and other statistics to your heart's content.
Ask HN: Why not have reverse life insurance that rewards longevity?
In particular, reverse life insurance would only pay out to your loved ones if you live beyond a certain age.

This would encourage your loved ones to keep you alive until you reach that age.
Yes this is augmentation only but it is essential to have. This is what replaces a driver to driver communication part. Like two drivers at a four way crossing sometimes signaling each other.

BTW being opinionated is fine but no need to downvote
WARN was written before remote work was common. I'm very curious to see how WARN is interpreted by the courts for remote workers. There is no case law as far as I know, and a quick ctrl-f of that DoL PDF for "remote" has no results.

For example, is each remote worker considered to be working at a different "plant" (their home)? If so, it seems like the WARN act could never be triggered for remote workers. So a loophole is that fully remote workers don't get WARN protections. That seems to clearly violate the intent of the law, which is that reasonably-large businesses should give advance warning of layoffs.

Or, are all the remote workers collectively considered to be working at one "remote plant"? In that case, WARN would be triggered if a company of, say, 20k people lays off as few as 3 remote workers in each state. That seems silly also.

What about hybrid workers, where 1000 people "report to" or are "based at" one office, but nobody ever actually shows up (or maybe they do, but only for team-building exercises twice a year)? Are those workers truly "working at" that office site (and thus covered by WARN), or are they working at 1000 independent sites (and thus not covered)?
I took the 609 test and got my card. The test seemed to mostly check if you had a heartbeat and weren’t asleep. I went away without much confidence that 608/609 certification was really worth much in terms of trusting certified people to really be on top of the whys and how’s of proper refrigerant handling.
Is It Better to Repair or Replace Your Aging Vehicle in This Car Market?
This is irrelevant since the Air is not meant to be encoding 8K video
To me it looks very similar to Alegria corporate art which kind of turns me off, but he should do what he wants and I have no reason to think I should give him my feedback.
Amazon Restricts LGBTQ Products in United Arab Emirates
> In Europe it is common for multiple months of high pitch negotiations between "wanting to lay off" and layoffs. Usually without any riots or panic.
I don't think a sudden layoff at any time is an assurance for workers in the sense that it is better to pretend everything is Ok until it isn't.

It's important to note that this is typically a legal requirement (e.g. the requirement to consult prior to redundancy in the UK) rather than something typically done out of any good-will by the companies/employers.
I think the reason is adult humans are too large to be easy prey. Yes, they do go after prey that size sometimes but not normally because the cost benefit probably doesn’t work out.
Nowadays I would immediately think about Nestle or Monsanto.

In the past, the east India company seems like a good one.
I believe the current rule is actually that any refrigerant has to have a GWP (Global Warming Potential) equal to or less than CO2. R290 (propane) has a GWP of 0.02, the new refrigerant for automotive use R1234yf has a GWP of less than 1. CO2 has a GWP of 1.

So it's not required that it's CO2 or R290, but rather than you can use any refrigerant that has a GWP of 1 or less.

R290 seems an ideal refrigerant, especially since the technology to use it as a refrigerant is so old/mature. The challenge is that it's /highly/ flammable. This is true of most refrigerants with a GWP less than 1. R1234yf partly exists because of a desire to reduce flammability.
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic, or if you actually live in a country with poor safety standards on produce and it is a risk for food-borne diseases to eat uncooked food.
$39/mo... for someone to call me?
I don't see how you can say this. The 2 most valuable tech companies started in the 2000s are Facebook and Google. Those 2 companies are glorified Ad Companies that happen to provide a service so they can aggregate data to sell more ads.

Other than organizing the information of the internet (lately it is debatable as to how well they have been doing this lately) via google, what value addition would you say facebook or google is providing?

Same thing with Uber, now that VCs are no longer subsidizing Car rides for the entire world, it's just a more expensive cab.

What are the tech ventures that have been adding value addition to society. Based on the experience i've had with family members becomes complete Q psychos i'd say net negative on facebook's part and they dont even build anything.
Go read the HN comments, and then imagine what a cesspool like Youtube or Reddit would do if HN itself was that "down" on it.

Personally I think it's a better art style than Tumbleweed, but I had issues with that game's story.
AirPod cases have Bluetooth and report battery levels to the paired iPhone.

From there, one could imagine it working like any other Bluetooth tracker.
Young people, they asked. When you have a mortgage to pay and family to feed/clothe/school then you have different priorities and your number one priority is a salary to pay the bills.
It varies by country but I'm not aware of any country that has fully phased out HFCs -- the EU I believe is already imposing import quotas but it is still legal to use.
Sometimes it is. That's the whole point.

In any case that's not what Copilot does, unless you deliberately make it do that.
I'm not sure if it's even an exclusively nostalgia thing. Over the past few years I've seen a lot of complaining around art style changes. Notably the Civ V -> Civ VI art style change pissed a lot of people off. Personally I loved the game, but a lot of series veterans didn't even bother to try it.
Release-plz: release Rust packages from CI
Unity is the iTunes of game engines.
Some people don't like the art style chosen for the new game, which is pretty stylized. Some of them are being extremely (vocally) shitty about it.
Ask HN: Office 360 Colab Tools
What tools and how do you use in office 360 for your team collaboration? I use one note and planner but the team gets bigger, cross regional and more complex. Any ideas will be helpful.
Very good points! In addition, the "AI" can be used as a kind of shield to hide bias or racist policies, because it is "blamed" for the tainted outcomes and not those who have created it or the creation of the pretense that the AI couldn't be wrong.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30624579

The above article recently posted to HN doesn’t fall clearly into “steals IP” or “can’t invent their own stuff”.
Even the "political stability" angle does not look so good after their chaotic Zero Covid policies that continue until today. These policies today look less rational and more like "we have a mad emperor on the throne" episode, especially when the rest of the world basically considers the epidemic history by now.

Edit: Interesting that someone downvoted this. If I were a foreign investor, a chaotic policy of locking down big cities and subjecting foreign visitors to humiliating anal swabs etc. in order to keep down a respiratory virus with extreme R0 rate, much less deadly than original Covid, and with a ton of existing vaccines available, would be quite off-putting to me.
Keeping this separate from my main HN account as I am currently employed.

23 years of experience in software engineering in both web and application-based settings on a variety of platforms utilizing a variety of languages in a wide range of industries. I have worn a lot of hats over the last 23 years. The last 4 years have been mostly at the managerial level as a team lead and engineering manager, and I think I would like to continue down that path. I still enjoy a bit of hands-on development work, but working with people is actually more interesting!

Location: Alabama, USA
Remote: Yes, Preferred
Willing to relocate: Yes [0]
Technologies:
- Concepts: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Project Management, Team Management, Engineering Leadership, SDLC
- Languages: Bash, C, CSS, Forth, Java, JavaScript (mostly Node and Vue, but a bit of React Native), Lua, Objective-C, PHP (Laravel, Lumen), Python, Swift
- Systems: FreeBSD, Linux (Ubuntu, Gentoo, RedHat/Fedora/CentOS), Mac OS X
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Résumé/CV: Full resume available on request
Email: hire2022@epsilonthree.com

[0] The answer to this is complex. We would probably be looking to relocate even for a fully remote position. Not to put too fine a point on things, but Alabama is not a safe place for us anymore and is trending more and more unsafe. However we need to stay within a reasonable driving distance of our aging family. So places like Maryland, DC area and Delaware, and possibly northern Virginia or maybe Georgia at a stretch (in and around Atlanta) would be options.
When I lived in Morocco, they had this Bedouin tribe, called the "Behr-Behr."

They were known as "The Blue Nomads." because their skin was often tinged blue, from the dye on the heavy wool robes they wore.

In the desert, wool actually keeps you cooler.
check your PI mail, syn9; the game is on
I'm curious if there are legal hurdles to doing something between homeschooling and private schooling.

E.g. is it possible for me and a few other neighborhood families hire a private tutor for our kids?
Supreme Court curbs EPA's ability to fight climate change
> Even if they were fully grown humans this wouldn't "override" pregnant person's right to decide about their own body.

Of course it would. Should you be able to murder your kids in your house because "your house, your choice"?
> A survey of first-time hires by ZipRecruiter found that a diverse and inclusive workplace outranked paid sick time, vacation and health insurance.

Good news for cynical employers looking to save a buck?
SEEKING WORK | UK, REMOTE

15 yoe developing software systems with FOSS and contributing back.

I've worked on Linux kernel drivers, a Linux reverse debugger, OpenPGP implementation, VVoIP servers, IPTV servers, a CCTV server, packaging (Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo).

Github: https://github.com/andrey-utkin/

Website: https://autkin.net

Email: hn@autkin.net
Some references can be found here: https://kotaku.com/return-monkey-island-ron-gilbert-art-styl...
Hey.... even if people are attacking V-lang, don't worry. Any good thing that disrupts existing "kings" gets thrashed initially. That's human behavior. Ignore it.

But, if lead dev replies in ways that seems offensive, or attacking, that is something that actually creates permanent dent in the adoption. Even if you are right in saying what you are saying, it still matters, a lot, to be polite.

I'm someone who really really wants V to succeed. I love what rust is able to achieve, but not the complexity it brings. V-lang gives me what I want from a language.

Language is beautiful, now it's your turn to be the same. Ignore the trolls. Many of them are paid.

And best wishes.... keep the good work. It never goes in-vain.
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We also believe strongly in positive mental-health and work-life-balance of our employees, and we back this statement up with our many benefits including 4-day work weeks during the summer months (June-Sept), paid time off on birthdays, half-day vacations before all statutory holidays, an employee wellness benefit that can be used for therapies and gym memberships, retirement fund employer contribution matching, and a generous profit sharing/bonus program (paid quarterly) and available to all employees.

We're rapidly expanding with major initiatives to expand and upgrade our payment platform and to build out a comprehensive new data engineering / analytics pipeline. We are looking to fill multiple roles, so we'd love to hear from you if you're interested.

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Mitch McConnell effectively blocked Obama from picking a justice, so your take is not in line with what's been happening.

Campaign contributions are effectively bribery if they are large enough.

And Citizens United allowed for a lot of dark money to be spread around...
The world will get by if we have fewer coinbases, SaaS companies and other tech jobs. If we have fewer factories, oil refineries, meat packing plants; there will be shortages and riots.
> I read this argument in the issue too. How is that remotely relevant?

How is that remotely irrelevant?

What kind of behavior do you expect?
It's a matter of perspective. We have a culture that largely puts business interests above independent peoples interests. If you agree with this then it makes complete sense that it's better for the company because that employee might have been kept and we want to keep them stable. If we warn them, they might become a flight risk and we might not need to cut them. Information asymmetry is our friend so let's give them only the information that's beneficial to us.

If on the other hand you take the perspective of supporting a bottom up independent worker interests above a business's (I fall in this category), then your point is quite valid. Information asymmetry here put me in a terrible situation, if you would have told me earlier, I might have made different decisions. That might not include leaving, but it might have included tidying up my resume and prepping for interviews, just-in-case. Maybe I follow through or maybe I just keep some backups lined up in case things go south. Some may just pass the risk back to the business and jump ship since they assume they have better odds doing this and may even get a promotion.

Personally I don't believe any business leadership's words, I skim financials, I watch movements in the laborforce especially around management, I look at markets and make my own interpretation. I assume they're providing intentional incomplete information to their advantage and try to infer reality from that combined with the other data sources. Businesses are not your friends and will lie to you to their advantage above all else. I'm not a subscriber to Hanlon's razor when it comes to self-interest. What can typically be attributed to self-interest should be considered above incompetence, especially when looking at something as strategic and methodical as a modern business structure that have countless meetings to sit around and discuss and analyze these sorts of things or contract specialized skilled services in these domains.
If they were asking a company/corporation, yeah, maybe.

But this is a small open source project with a single maintainer on a personal account on GitHub.
Yeah, why enable a feature you never use?
This is The Way. It also inevitably comes with a written agreement.

What always gives me pause with this is that my open source software comes with no warranty and I don't want to compromise the license terms. So nailing down the written agreement (what are they going to do with it, and what are they attempting to hold you liable for?) is an opportunity to address that.

(Full disclosure: haven't had this come up in well over a decade.)
SEEKING WORK | Europe | Remote preferred, Onsite possible

Hi, my name is Till.

I always like to help people, so if you need help with anything, let me know! :)

I'm mostly offering short-term consulting. Usually, I work remotely, but I'm open to traveling to visit you short term. I can help get things running, especially when you're a young startup or launching a new project.

For example, maybe you have written a web app and need it deployed to the cloud. Or maybe you want to scale your product to meet the demand. Or maybe you want to launch your app in a new market, requiring a translation system and a new cloud deployment strategy. I can help make these things possible!

Buzzwords: C#, F#, .Net, C++, Typescript, Rust, Elm, C/C++, AWS (Cloudformation, CDK, S3, CloudFront, ECS, Lambda, RDS...), Rust, and terraform

I've also worked with hiring and product planning. You can also reach out if you just want feedback on your app or code.

CV: https://docs.zohopublic.eu/file/6ptn130f37fb9bb38457b94cd56c...

Email: hn@till.red

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Please mention this thread when writing me :)
This was a video walkthrough of the browser from a while back. I agree the communication on the github and website page need to improve a lot.

https://www.loom.com/share/93c7c0012f514c37b58a42fa65badc88

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28446147