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Location: Colorado, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Go/Golang, Python, Java, C, web dev, SQL, git, Linux, Docker, cloud hosting, distrib sys, threading, concurrency, perf & scalability, some ML (plain math, queries, Bayesian models/inference, OLS regression, game actors, data-driven strategy, real-time planning, constraints, rules)

Résumé/CV:
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Email:
groglogic@gmail.com

decades of prog. solid fundamentals. problem solving. comm. (native US English)

tech lead/architect. SRE-ish. solved hard legacy bugs & shipped, repeatedly. author of cheatsheet on perf

highlights:

* ex Orbitz on core tech (JVM, GC, perf regress follow-up, ops, logs, intrum, caches, sessions, threading, db conns)

* research & due diligence for US State Dept to bolster public defenses against foreign adversarial propaganda & disinfo

* game engine creator & toolmaker since kid. once built & ran small sw biz

* recent client: (de facto) sys prog R&D on mem alloc latency & SEGV resilience. C on Linux. deliv new code, benchmarks, a diagram & report demo-ing how to upgrade perf & uptime of their soft-realtime, $-sensitive, ad-bidding backend (where ns diffs impacted $)

* latlearn: latency instrum & reporting lib (FOSS)
> It was also a type of work that was preferred by some employees and not others.

The labor market has changed. Many people got to try WFH and fell in love with it. Not everyone, but a huge number that had never been exposed to it before.

Now if a business wants to stay competitive they need to tap into that labor market. The vocal resistance to RTO is expected, we'll never go back to having such a large percentage of the work force working in an office. It's just that a lot of managers haven't figured that out yet and/or are personally incentivized to keep up the charade.
> 1) There's a difference between a government and people living in that country. If my country does something evil, that doesn't mean you should attack me (personally). The firebombing of Dresden by the allies in WWII is widely considered a war crime since it targeted civilians and killed many little children.

This. 20 years ago I read an article that spoke of the Iranian peoples' admiration for American people, while the two governments were actively hating each other. It changed everything about how I perceived other countries. We don't have to be our governments.
There are two ways to make that work. You can burn at an ultra high temperature or you can install scrubbers. Both of those reduce boiler efficiency.

Note the power output on the one I was referencing was only 90MW, and it serviced a metropolitan area with ~1 million people. That’s 90 watts of base load per person, which is not zero, but it is close. Average energy demand per person in the US is about 3.4kw (including commercial and industrial, etc), so it’s mostly just useful for waste disposal. It’s possible the boilers on it were crappy, but if they were above 50% efficient (which is plausible, given its age), then the upper bound on a modern plant is 180W per person unless people start throwing away a lot more flammable stuff.

Thermodynamics say that whatever energy you get from gasification will also be rounding error.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_of_the_Un...

Cheap graphene might be worth it though.
Healthcare capacity in the US is a function of your ability to pay for it. We contend with limited supply today, we just kick the limited supply to groups of people who by and large aren't posting on this website.
Yes. I’ve written explicit code that needed this 100s of times.
https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-college

That has a breakdown for you.
Show HN: CareerCupid. OkCupid for Jobs (Relaunch)
Last year I made a Show HN for CareerCupid, which I launched with only the quiz and could let people answer questions about different topics and was meant to check how compatible co-workers could be.

I'm now taking some time to work on it again, and now I'm actually working to add useful functionality for job seekers and hiring managers. The following has been added:

- Profile pages (mine is at https://cupid.careers/profile/lullis)

- Actual calculation of the compatibility score, based on the algorithm from OkCupid. (https://web.archive.org/web/20151001034248/http://www.okcupi...)

- (Paid plan feature) create up to 10 listings, filter candidates by their matching score.

- (Paid plan feature) browse candidates according to how they match to the company, the job position and/or team members.

Given that it's the first (week) day of the month, I'm going to make a relaunch special: I'm opening up the "create company" (https://cupid.careers/company/new) and the "add listing" pages (https://cupid.careers/listing/new) and giving a 30 day free trial for everyone that signs up today.
It just reads like someone who hasn’t really had to compromise much in their lives.
> an office is superior for productivity.

If I'm forced to commute to and work in an office 8 hours/day, 5 days/week, then I will be more miserable, lament my job, and thus be less productive towards my day job. I will feel more like a wage slave worker bee who has little autonomy over their work, having to regress to the humiliating dynamic of having to ask my boss for "permission" to work from home. As a night owl, I'll be forced to conform my sleep schedule to the CEO's, and still show up bright and early on days where I didn't get enough sleep, and look busy until 5:30pm+ - maybe stretching out work that could've been done in a few hours to an entire work day because when you're stuck in an office there's little incentive to work faster since you're trapped their all day regardless. When I'm finally sick of it all I'll accept the offer for that remote-friendly company that doesn't care what time I wake up, what hours I work, or where I work, just that the work I produce is high quality.

If I have the flexibility to WFH, not waste hours/day commuting, and live wherever makes me happiest (as opposed to the city my company happens to have an office in, which is probably a city like NYC or SF which may not be my preference), then I will be happier with my employment arrangement, more productive, and more loyal. Also I personally find it easier to accomplish deep work when working under my own conditions, as opposed to some open office with no privacy, constant chatter, and the drudgery of wage slaves who clearly don't want to be there but have no choice.

There are far too many variables at play to be able to make that kind of blanket statement with such confidence.
There's a few elements to understand here:

1) In general, in the open-source community, there's a LOT of JS frameworks and many of them have caused developer frustration. This has lead to people being generally more skeptical of ANY new framework, just because there's so many & its considered a saturated space, so critique will be more strict.

2) With JS taking over as the "everything language", there's also some general backlash against JS itself.

3) On HN, this is even more pronounced for some reason.

However, apart from the above, most of the negative comments seem to just be direct replies to certain claims you've made on HN (keys unnecessary & the ES6 DSL): there aren't as many negative comments on the actual submitted website. Personally I quite like it - I particularly love the narrative history lesson & to-the-point inline examples; you're a great communicator. As for thte library, there's elegance in simplicity, & while the framework may not be practical at the moment for some applications, there's still value in using software that is essential grokkable.
Let's be real — NPR executives are more concerned maintaining their agitprop operation than employee productivity
Nope. And I really don't need another lo-rez TV.
… and nearly everyone does.
You still see all the answers from old versions sitting around, often at the top. Part of it is because of how often they changed such fundamental things. String length changed 3 times. Every other language figured these things out before the initial non-beta release.
Why is this getting downvoted? The parent asked for critique and they got critique.

I worked for a company that did something similar to this, most of the day was spent “team building” and it was painful. The fun bit was going to the pub after.

I’d say the best thing to do is to not organise any activities and just make time and space for people to hang out. The people who want to come will come, and for the people who don’t, you aren’t gaining much by forcing them to attend, so why bother.
> you are probably not doing real work

A bit uncalled for but ok...

Mind you, I didn't say it was the same as in person. Just many common frictions of video conferencing -back then- were already eliminated. The room knew which video conference to join, noise cancellation was good, screen sharing was trivial...
My entire team is remote and we use Zoom calls regularly throughout the day. Our collaboration and morale is really good.

We meet in person once or twice a year, but the in-person experience is not significantly different.
Someday we could search the Web privately: new paper on Tiptoe encrypted search
Those weathered by enough time and strife in this forum could predict this comment and ensuing thread a mile away after reading the announcement. After enough iterations, it all feels like a dance or ritual. Like watching birds mingle and bicker out your window. Just another day, the universe humming along. Things are as they should be :)
When you say it, it’s an ultimatum. When I say it, it’s a boundary.
> Sometimes the costs are hidden from most people. [..] It’s like immigration

The costs of immigration are not hidden, nor are its benefits. Financially speaking and from the point of view of the state, immigrant are net negative in the first couple of years - and then they are net positive for the rest of their lives. Immigration exists because market demand for workforce exists... I always find hilarious that it is the most free market advocates who tend to ignore that.
Unsurprisingly, "disease surveillance" is actually surveillance of people and their behaviors.
The US spends more on education than the military, it is difficult to defend the idea that spending on education has not been prioritized. Per the OECD, US spending per student is among the highest in the world by a large margin, which raises the question of value for the money already being spent -- any deficiencies compared to other countries aren't for lack of money.

The US also spends a lot of money on the military. Whether prudent or not, at least that spending produces an objectively superior product. We spend even more on education with ambiguous results.
The logic is that a good education is actually useful for the student outside of signaling membership in a zero-sum social elite.
"While Malone promotes himself as an inventor of mRNA vaccines,[1][7] credit for the distinction is more often given to the lead authors on the major papers he contributed to (such as Felgner and Wolff), later advances by Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman,[3][19] or Moderna co-founder Derrick Rossi.[13] Ultimately, mRNA vaccines were the decades-long result of the contributions of hundreds of researchers, including Malone.[3][20][21] In April 2022, Davey Alba, writing for The New York Times, said that "[w]hile he was involved in some early research into the technology, his role in its creation was minimal at best", citing "half a dozen Covid experts and researchers, including three who worked closely with Dr. Malone."[7] "[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Malone
As an Australian who benefited from a great public college (or as we call it uni) if public schools were free and high quality what would motivate the demand for elite schools? Yes elite schools are still networking grounds. But wouldnt the hope be that if people who already came out of public schools weren't saddled with crippling debt, enough of them could pay it forward to the broader group than their own elite school buddies?
I think I average around one illegal spam email or phone call from Australian companies per year. I will always respond to them, though I don’t think I’ve ever actually got any to acknowledge the bald illegality of their action, and normally I will report them to ACMA.

As far as email is concerned, a part of the problem that leads to moderately generic spam is that addresses are often readily available, and there are then no technical means to stop the sending of the message (… though filtering can block receiving the message). The difference with push notifications is that each provider gets a unique address to send to, and you have to at least install an app or accept push notifications (on the web) before they get that address, which guards against the completely casual you-don’t-want-any-notifications crew.
One week per month in-person is probably too much. Either have short monthlies or longer for a couple times a year.

It doesn't really make sense to have the employee pay because some who are fairly close by will come in and cut the day short and those who have to pay for a flight/hotel will either shrug it off as essentially a commuting cost or will deeply resent it.

Some people make enough and are mostly fine with the mental accounting to pay for certain business expenses out of pocket but a lot of people absolutely are not--especially if it's required.
Institutions on a small scale a long time ago are not easily comparable to institutions means to serve a much larger fraction of a much larger population.
Like you I don’t have any work apps or accounts on personal devices, so it’s very easy to shut the work laptop down at the end of a day and keep the separation of church and state.
> The people on the assembly line would look at you like the most spoilt people in the world.

It's not a matter of being spoiled or not. I'm talking about what is necessary to get the job done and the elimination of redundant rules that serve no purpose.
I was in a remote office from the main one before and about 30% of the time people would forget to dial in, and another 20% of the time the AV setup would be broken. They ironically got that all fixed during the pandemic, and it's great now. At the minimum the default is you will be on VC now and so it makes it much better for everyone, and everyone has the hardware all figured out.

We had a large onsite last week and a ton of the young engineers said to me "people told me stuff immediately in person that I've been trying to find out for months". Humans are still kinda humans.
A 20th-century society on a Ringworld
Are any of these releases based on leaked source code? Or have they simple repackaged existing builds?

https://linuxreviews.org/42.9_GB_Of_Microsoft_Source_Code_Le...
We work, on average, 365.25 days per year. But we're not heartless, leap seconds are always PTO.
Hard disagree from me. I've had a lot of Chromebooks and 3 frameworks, and it's a terrific match IMHO. I do wish you could switch back and forth between Linux and Chromebook without replacing the main board, but even that is a great fit. As needs change, you have options. Chromebook is great for many users especially now that it runs Linux apps, and can even be a very capable dev machine.
This is unnecessarily pedantic. Of course there are exceptions.
Your comment is confusing; the point you are trying to make is not coming through.
No, most jails and prisons don't sell supplements. You only got whatever vitamin D you got from the slop they serve you :(
You could always make public colleges free, and also make the exams to get in actually hard.

That comes with its own suite of issues, of course.
Before COVID there were a ton of people who wanted to work remotely but couldn't because remote jobs were few and far between. COVID finally gave them what they always wanted, but now it's being taken away, and remote jobs are getting harder to find again.

That's why there is resentment. There was resentment before too, but it was more below the radar because it was always shot down with "we work better in person" and there really wasn't much an argument to be had.

But now those people have hard data that they clearly work just as well at home or even better. So now they have data to back up their desires.
I think the right model for management to adapt to is “let your workers work the way they work best.” It’s a false dichotomy that it’s either everyone in the office or everyone work at home. In my entire career of over 30 years most meetings were held with some remote person in some other location as most companies of size have many locations already. I don’t see a huge difference between that model and a “work how you work best” model, other than the knowledge the other people aren’t in a corporate supplied human Habitrail but are in their natural environment.

Ultimately the argument is about control, extorting and coercing compliance under threat to some will. The alternative is a relaxing of control. In that model no one tells you to work in the office, and no one tells you to not. Instead of management exerting coercive control their job would become ensuring productivity given a lack of control.

Tax advantages are part of the story, but the other part of the story is most managers aren’t very good at managing people. They’re in their job through some career twist, either under the delusion that management gives them scale of influence or because they don’t really like computers that much and went to CS for a career. The easier policy to enforce is the coercive one because it requires no thought, and it’s uniform in its application. The harder one for management is figuring out how to adapt to a changing environment and maximize productivity by understanding their people and how they work and smoothing the landscape for them.

This challenge extends not just to the line managers but to the CEOs and everyone between. None of them are usually very good people managers. Often senior management are better at strategy and manipulation of the organization. They are perplexed by ambiguity, and when you’re used to being in control being perplexed is uncomfortable. And when you feel like you’re in charge you don’t have to feel uncomfortable alone, you can make it someone else’s problem. Layoffs, resignations, turmoil are all issues they are used to. But a changing work environment that fundamentally rethinks the structure of corporate engagement that’s focused on lack of control in exchange for productivity and reduced operating expenses and freeing up of capital? That’s scary stuff, and they don’t need to feel scared - it’s easier for them to make you feel scared.

Anyway - tax agreements expire, leases lapse, cultures adapt, management learns new playbooks, and things change. In 5 years the cold hard dollars will win - eventually no board will accept hand waving culture arguments when confronted with an improved EPS, freeing of cash flow, and reduced capital commitments coupled with improved morale and productivity and the “Bring your own office” moment will be here. BYOD saves a few million a year, BYOO will save dump trucks of money. It will happen.

Disclaimer, I just quit my cushy senior exec job at a mega cope over RTO and joined a forward late stage startup with a mixture of remote and in office “work the way you work best” structure.
> People can share data in whatever format they have and it wouldn’t be hard for me or others to import it one way or another.

It's one thing for a highly-skilled user with a decade of experience to be able to import it eventually, another for an unskilled user to just have off-the-shelf tooling do it the same way for everyone automatically. This is more about meta-studies and unlocking new use cases. It sucks that the state-of-the-art for sharing academic microscopy data right now is basically looking at raster images embedded in PDFs, or email the authors, and then write a custom Scikit-Image script. Imagine if you had to read a PDF catalog and then email someone to order something off Amazon, or if your favorite CRUD app consisted instead of having an expert read a PDF and email a screenshots to you. What if sending those very emails to different recipients required implementing each users custom IMAP-like mail client. That sounds absurd, but it's kind of the way academic data sharing works now, lots of people are re-inventing the wheel and creating custom file formats.

Consider, for example, the work of Dr. Bik (example at [1]) who identifies cloned sections from microscopy data. Or what if, instead of each researcher having to generate their own images, or get lucky and remember a particular image there was a Getty Images/AP Newsroom platform where you could just filter for your particular subject and imaging parameters and share your data. A collection of proprietary RAW files with randomly-formatted Excel documents for metadata would allow individual researchers to get their work done, but would be pretty worthless in comparison.

[1] https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2023/06/27/concerns-about...
You thinking like 30s? 60s? Maybe once humans turn 100 they're emotionally capable of being normal on the internet?
If I was hired as a programmer and my employer decides they would rather I pickup dog shit all day, I'm damn-well going to complain about it.

Both TFA (and the comment you are replying to) are about people specifically hired for remote work prior to the pandemic; the status quo before COVID was those people working remotely.
Software positions seem to be US-only (not London).
I know this is personal preference, but in the past 10 years I've used Google Chat, HipChat, Slack, and Teams, at 3 different companies, and I honestly feel they're all "good enough" to collaborate and get work done. Not once have I thought, "We'd be more productive if this screenshare were higher resolution."
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Setting aside philosophical questions around relativity, yes.

Thanks, will dig deeper. Curious.
The thing that amuses me is that I know of companies that are trying to a) commit to being a net zero company, reducing business travel etc and b) encouraging people to commute to the office more often.
Seems to be a cultural issue in the USA, as this is not happening in Europe. Quite the contrary; going to private colleges is very widely perceived as a last-ditch way for rich kids with bad grades to get some paper at least.

I guess this in the USA this is an insider/outsider problem where "elite" school insiders prefer other "elite" insiders over other, potentially equally capable candidates.
SEEKING WORK | Indiana, USA (Eastern timezone) | REMOTE | Full stack & ops, mentoring, team facilitator

Remote: Yes, but can be on-site 1-2 weeks per quarter.

Technologies: React or other modern front-end framework, Python, .NET, all relational databases and provisioning workflows.

Resume: https://neolefty.org/resume/resume.txt, https://github.com/neolefty

Blog: https://neolefty.org

Email: bbbaker@alum.mit.edu

Hi, I'm Beecher, an experienced engineer (22 years) who can help a team gel or navigate a difficult transition — I lead by example, mentor, listen, make friends, and communicate. Fully remote since 2018. Experience with startups, established companies, and scientific research. I love a good startup, can wrangle a crisis, and navigate legacy situations / upgrades.