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SEEKING WORK | Full Stack Development / UX

Location: US Remote, happy to be on site in San Francisco proper.

Email: thomas@hoverstate.dev

Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, Svelte, React, CSS, HTML, MySQL, Postgres, etc

CV: tommichaelweber.com

I've been working in web development for 10 years now. I've worked anywhere from 5 person startups to IPO level 3,000 person orgs. I'm able to do technical project management or code projects end to end.

Lately I've of course been dabbling in LLMs. My most recent project which I built single handedly received a $2500 token grant from OpenAI!

https://realiterate.com
I'm more productive in the office, but I prefer working from home.
Tbh, if you only work half of the time while at home, you're probably not working much more while you're at work. You probably spend more time pretending to work while at work, but I'd be amazed if the net productivity is any different.

That, at least to me, seems to be the big elephant in the room that no-one wants to address.

Office workers are not productive 100% of the time, every single minute at work. I've worked manual labor where we actually worked every single minute, sans 15 minute breaks every 3 hours, but never in an office setting. Even white-collar workers that are putting in 80 hour weeks are spending a good time of that just waiting, pretending to work, and just doing otherwise "unproductive" things.

A lot of employers simply want their "moneys worth" of your time. They'd rather you be unproductive at work than home.
I got "allergic" to computers but I still like algorithms and playing with mathematical/logical structures.
I spent some time in the Australian outback with nothing but a pencil and a block of paper.
I had heard of topology in science fiction books so I decided to study that from scratch.
Soon I had discovered a family of hyperdimensional geometries that led me to an efficient algorithm for the complete resolution of a traveling salesman problem and a non-Boolean logic.
Therefore I think that creativity (work!) in preparation for coding doesn't need anything but a curious mind.
I suppose it is a cultural thing, and American or Western European firms simply expected people to come into the office. I was active in the Eastern European/former USSR backpacking and travel-as-lifestyle community, and eventually quite a few of my peers with programming skills managed to get remote positions already in the first decade of the new millennium. Some companies in the region didn't care whether the work got done from a beach in India or a resort town in the Andes, as long as it got done.

This was truly transformative for some Eastern European programmers' lives. Doing the work from a developing country where you could get by on 5-10€/day, but making a relatively elite salary, allowed them to begin investing in real estate, which has brought great prosperity and security.
With enough RAM, i suppose.
Every framework? Which comes to your mind first?
The timing changes everything. In a wash sale I immediately churn the asset with successively higher “selling” prices. In a buyback, the sale was many years ago, to someone else in the market. That’s makes all the difference.

Just like if I buy a share of AAPL in 2007, sell it in 2011, buy another one in 2015, and sell that one in 2023. I did absolutely no wash trading. I just entered and exited a position a couple of times.

Buy backs are a one-way event. They’re not a loop for the purposes of artificially increasing market cap. If the company decides to offer new shares for sale in five years, that doesn’t mean some sort of loop is formed. That’s a separate event.

Wash trading aims to increase (apparent) market cap by creating trades through insincere activities.
A nearly content-free article. The idea is not new, and little data is offered to support it.

The success criteria seems to be "enrollment", which leaves a lot of room for things to go wrong. No downsides are mentioned aside from cost, which is dismissed with a tax that sounds like free money.
I have followed Veracrypt closely over the years and , while it works very well and seems to be a very capable effective option- I wish the MBR/BIOS vs UEFI thing wasn't a limitation

For those who don't know, -and this is more of the result of the EFI Boot partition scheme- before that, for MBR systems ,one can use Veracrypt to encrypt the entire System Drive - and this allowed a unique option that I have not seen anything else ever able to replicate- it enables an option that lets one hide an entire OS-

The Hidden OS option is restricted to legacy boot mode- and that's being more and more dissuaded in general- So i fear the airtightness of the Hidden-OS capability will no longer be reachable for consumers.

I had seen one effort on it -
https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/russian-doll-steganograph...

and
https://i.blackhat.com/eu-18/Thu-Dec-6/eu-18-Schaub-Perfectl...

However, I have since then not seen anything on this sort of capability- and no other encryption software has focused on steganography and encryption/plausible deniability capabilities to this level.
It's absolutely silly for the RTO people to force their preferences on everyone. The fact that RTO folks only consider it a win if everyone comes back, rather than trying to build out flexibile working conditions that make everyone happy, is the real problem.

People who want an office to work in are just as valid as people who want to work from home. It's the people who want to force RTO on everyone that are real assholes.
With Dropbox (and most other cases) you are paying for something you don't already have, but what is unusual in this case is that you are paying to remove something you do already have. Not exactly the same I know, but the two wrongs doesn't make a right reminds me of Juicero (that expensive juicer which only worked with expensive packs of juice), where reasonable followup questions would be "why not just squeeze the juice packs yourself without the expensive juicer?" or even "why not just buy an ordinary juicer which works with pre-juiced fruit and veg?"

And that is leaving aside the whole question of whether an effective solution to an addiction problem is to pay someone to try to stop you from accessing what you are addicted to.
How do you objectively measure productivity? Same question for "better for people".

The former can be somewhat measured by in-effective methods such as lines of code produced, revenue per emp in division, and other measures. The latter via surveys.

A company's direct objective it to turn a profit. Their indirect objective is might be to do that via retaining productive workers, or they may take a churn approach. Is it surprising they'd put more effort and weight on the former (prod) than the latter (better for people)?

What math function allows you to strike the correct balance between the 2 measures. For some employees you might make them maximally satisfied by paying them a lot to do nothing. For others they might want little to no money for socially rewarding work. It's not going to be the same for every person.

So in your mind what's the right optimization function for this equation?
> the Bay Area would become even more crowded

To be fair, you wouldn't need an "outdoor office". Everyone could stay remote and just work in their backyard.
Surrogate pairs were new to Unicode 2.0. Unicode 1.0 didn't anticipate the need for more than 65,536 code points (who would ever need more?); the main perceived threat to that limit having been resolved by Han unification.
Yeah both are stupid.

Euthanasia should be allowed only after 18-36 months of therapy sessions.

Guns should be allowed for all that aren't criminals and/or mentally ill.
Agreed, and if anything what the author proposes would intensify the competition to get into those elite schools, for it would simultaneously increase the worth of a diploma from an elite school and devalue the diploma from the public college.
I work for a tech startup that is focused on cooperatives and so have been learning about the cooperatives a lot lately. Cooperative have and still are playing a great role in things like energy and farming. Much of the grid in the US has been built by cooperative. But the legislation around them is outdated and also inter-cooperative support structures are lacking, for example the massive farming lending cooperatives will not lend to energy-related co-ops. Our founders moved to Colorado to start the company (which specialized in delivery cooperatives) because Colorado offers the Limited Cooperative Association entity [0]. (As an aside I have interviewed with a startup, that we are also in communications with, called React Network [1] that is specifically focused on co-cops that coordinate energy production and storage). I am honestly not sure what point I am trying to make except that I wish co-ops played a great part in the energy future.

[0] https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/business/news/2012/20120402...

[1] https://www.reactnetwork.io/
> many of which changed several times between Swift versions

This was true while Swift was developing but it's been stable now for several years. At some point that complaint is no longer valid.
I really don’t understand this. If the company isn’t getting the productivity they expect, they should deal with that. If they can’t tell, what difference does it make?
> the company has no obligation to keep an employee working in a remote context that the company doesn't favor anymore.

Some people who were hired in as permanent remote, now are being demanded to sell their homes and move to cities they’ve never been to before.

Companies have no obligation to keep any USA-based employee working (other countries may have different laws), but some reasonable severance payouts would be much more appropriate than firing “for cause”!
> I basically work 20-30 hours a week!

Wow, that's really efficient. Most office workers probably get 12-20 hours of real work done in a week!
You can download dependencies before you leave while you have internet...
I guess it depends how load-bearing you are for your organization/team. If I and everyone else worked in the office in 2 out of the last 3 jobs I had, I'd have an interruption at least every once an hour, and maybe a queue at times.

And yes, I should stop working with people that barely know how to work Git or Bash or the package manager for the language they use (even those I don't even use; if I indulge a request for help I often just become a glorified interface to Google). People just don't seem to value my time over their convenience a lot of times.

Platform engineers are for some reason always implicitly responsible for every engineering question that's not specific to the company's product.
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A lot of over-the-counter lab tests are pointless and have no therapeutic benefit. Look up a company called Functional Diagnostic Nutrition. They sell lab tests through people who pay to go through their program, but the tests don't really tell you anything. The company is making millions of dollars and in my humble opinion it's a total scam.
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From what I observed during the pandemic, I sincerely believe that the only reason remote work is worse than working in person is how little effort teams tend to put into making remote work equivalent to in person work. The biggest thing I saw throughout the entire pandemic on multiple teams was zero effort to create a culture of meet on camera for quick ad hoc, hey I have a quick question on this, ah cool thanks bye, it's always have a big fat meeting with lots of people or we're all just poking each other on chat with long reply latencies, which works very poorly. The only solution that was tried at my company was taking attendance, which is crazy, anyone who's gone to school, which is everybody, knows that taking attendance does zero to create collaboration, it just marks down whether you were there. Ass in seat? Check, we're done, mission accomplished. To me if you're taking attendance you've already lost because attendance is table stakes.
Either copy/paste or rolling them into config objects and passing those down is generally preferable. Copy paste doesn’t always feel great for pass through arguments but it’s perfectly interpretable.

Naked kwargs is so difficult to work with that I hesitate to think of a use case where it wouldn’t be an anti pattern.
I was a remote worker at Apple pre-pandemic and had no problems. After COVID I was told that moving states where I live would have to get some approval and is not guaranteed. I left Apple shortly after and have been contracting since.

When I was in an office full time, I had to work my life around my work. When I have forty hours to fill out over a seven day period, I'm working my work around my life.
Yeah, I have been developing websites for thousands of clients 100% remotely for the same company over the past 8 years, well before the pandemic. No need to drive to an office to code websites, or many other development positions.

And no, Elon is 100% wrong on this one-- we work just as hard from home, if not harder than developers who work in an office environment, partially due to the fact that we can pick up and work at a moment's notice. I'm surprised he hasn't picked up on this aspect, it's similar to how he sleeps at the factory and can be ready at a moment's notice. I feel like it's causing Tesla to miss out on extremely talented developers who are not located near one of their office locations. They are blowing it big time.
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We are building the modern accounting & finance platform. Companies like Wealthfront, AngelList, Clearbit, and more depend on Numeric's workflow and data platform to collaborate, monitor and analyze data, and share insights about their financials.

We're an early company with top-tier investors, wonderful customers, and large ambitions.

Looking for product & customer-focused engineers[1]; this will fit if you like to build quickly, contribute to product planning, and know your users. We're taking on some foundational challenges and need great engineers who want to dive into the details of the domain, execute with high velocity, and have high ownership.

Bonus points for startup experience and/or full-stack experience with Typescript. 4+ YOE.

Apply: Email andrew@numeric.io (mention hackernews in subject)

[1] https://numeric.notion.site/An-80-20-rule-for-product-develo...
Management would gladly taker lower company productivity in exchange for more personal power.
Good point. Not where I work (big corporation) but certainly in a lot of other companies. I think it's also the larger companies that are now forcing a return to office.
Refusing to help Ukraine in that case was complying with US policy of not providing guided weapons with that range.

But alas, it's clear you aren't actually interested in hearing the truth.
Why do so many want to video conf specifically when audio is all you need? Hell, of these, text chat is all you need and is more practical most of the time.
I have the pixel watch and I don't use the Fitbit stuff. Google fit is now first class on it, and it is a super well thought out and polished implementation. I'm really pleased with it
Why pay sf/nyc salaries when you can hire utah/atlanta sde's and have them work in the same timezone +- 3 hrs and speak english?
You seem to have missed my point that all of those options require someone to actually be at their workstation and available. With WFH, half the time people aren't. In the office they are.

If WFH is going to be the future, then there should be uptime requirements with associated penalties so that someone is as available as they would be in the office. Software development is a team sport, you don't get to walk off the field whenever you feel like it just because you're home.
I actually felt that way as well (and I have dogs, not kids). I felt like 2 days a week in the office was like a mini-vacation from home. Other than the commute (which negated most of the benefit) getting out of the house felt like socializing.
I downvoted it because it just leads to 2/3s of the thread being an off topic flame-war.

Also like others have said, upvotes are not for agreeing. They are for rewarding higher quality discussion, on topic discussion, etc.
The existence of ChromeOS Flex dulls the excitement here for me, but this is good for people who can’t install ChromeOS on their (old) laptops.
>> Walking over and talking to someone is still far superior to any online communication.

Says who? And for whom?

I personally dislike being subject to disruptions on the whims of others. If they need something, they can ping me on Slack and I’ll respond when I feel like. If it’s truly urgent, they can call me over Slack (and I’ll answer if I feel like).
Thanks for putting me on this topic. Will do much more research.
Reasons: language, culture, legal, accounting, taxes...
> Today, as some companies are changing their remote work policies to be return-to-office, there seems to be a lot of resentment about this, and I don't really understand why.

Remote work availability and pay were often much lower. Further, if you were in my company, you had HR and C-Levels saying "Remote work is here to stay and will never go away" early on and often. It wasn't until about a year in that they started changing their tune and gaslighting us with "we never said remote work was here to stay, where did you get such a silly idea?"

I resent being lied to. Had they been more careful and put this out more as a "Hey, this is only temporary" I'd be far less disappointed. That's not how they rolled and they didn't even have the guts to simply admit "Hey, we just made a mistake here, remote work isn't working for us"
It's a shame that a basic spam filter can't be inserted between the app and the OS notifications. That was the good thing about email, you could have filters sit between the app and your inbox.
I have one. 64GB of memory and 2TB NVME. Pretty cool to be able to run android apps, crostini (lxd) and KVM machines (with nested virt) all at the same time.
I've been using it for 3 years comrade and I still prefer Russian snooping to Alphabet snooping or Microsoft security lapses. I'd rather get Collabra going via Nextcloud but my laziness stops me.
My preferred way to read the first of the 10 words is as anti-religion.

The minority tribe in many places wanted relief from the majority religion (then coupled with slavery/work and promoted through great works like idols and pyramids).

So they essentially said:

1. Any limited or concrete representation is not authoritative
2. Any priesthood is invalid (as taking the name of the lord in vain)
3. We get a day off

Interesting that the punishment for (2) was visited upon children and grandchildren - pretty serious, likely because the benefits of clothing oneself as a religious authority are immeasurable. (The punishment hasn't worked even among believers.)

Most interesting for this discussion was that (3) was expressly extended to wives, slaves/workers, et al. (though without speaking directly to them as agents).

The liberation theology of the 1970's-80's and Islamic radicalism both created a protected space for anti-oppression, but for the most part religion and government have renewed their mutual protection racket in every corner of the world, dropping antagonistic aspects in favor of courting each other. It's unlikely either would operate as a real limitation on the other -- ironically because we are in an era when legitimacy is so contended.
Well, with the constant enshittification of literally everything, this might actually be a sound strategy. Buy everything you can today, because the only thing available tomorrow will be way worse.
CodeApprove does not have that feature because we don't currently do any smart code parsing to understand what would make a file "related". I think Viezly (https://viezly.com/) does the best job at that.
To all the sibling repliers:
PICO-8, TIC-80, Load81 and probably others are somewhat Lua oriented.
What is it about Lua that makes it so popular in this area?
If one company were to hire all the slackers and the other all the busy beavers, one will be more likely to succeed vs the other.

Unless being a slacker becomes a protected class companies will hire the productive people, given a choice.
What's the problem if they get the tasks required of them done? A lot of employers don't want just that, they want a control of the employee's time. Remote means they might not respond to that urgent request immediately like they need to in a face to face conversation.

I believe that is the main thing that is so disturbing to these employers that lament remote work, not that productivity is affected.
The future is LLM agents behind every API call
> and the company has no obligation to keep an employee working in a remote context that the company doesn't favor anymore.

Unless laws change to require them to [1], workers organize to require it be provided [2], or you've had the working arrangement codified in your offer letter or other contractual documentation so that requiring you to come into an office is constructive dismissal [3]. This whole "employers can do whatever they want" era can't come to an end quick enough.

[1] https://globalnews.lockton.com/new-remote-working-legislatio...

[2] https://prismreports.org/2020/04/23/suddenly-working-remotel...

[3] https://www.newsweek.com/let-them-fire-you-remote-worker-urg...
Originally it was thought that alcohol metabolism had zero order kinetics (alcohol concentration goes down over time linearly, irrespective of dose/concentration) and now there is evidence to suggest it's first order kinetics at least in some regimes (rate of disappearance depends on instantaneous concentration). So the practical implication is they need to do a few more blood draws over time to extrapolate concentration a few hours ago:

- Lazy (old model): Take one blood sample, assume all people metabolize alcohol at the same rate, add delay time * generic zero order constant
- Not lazy (old model): Take 2 blood samples to determine that person't zero order constant + add delay time*K to original sample
- New model: Take 3 blood draws, do a quadratic curve fit, determine original concentration from that
TL;DR people claim that there is a relentless pressure to push out content and therefore there are lots of benchmarks incorrect, factual problems and many problems where the correction is blended as a text instead of just cutting out incorrect stuff or reshooting lines.

There are also claims of undeclared interests and biased reviews, also some obvious assholery where for great fun and ignorance they destroy/sell/bash development samples from startups.

Just search for "ltt drama" on youtube and you see pages of tubers flaming it.