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Location: New Brunswick, Canada

Remote: Yes

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Technologies:

Primary Languages: Ruby, JavaScript

Databases: SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB)

Infrastructure: AWS, Heroku

Back-end: Rails

Front-end: VanillaJS, React, jQuery

Other Experience: TailwindCSS, Bootstrap

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I have been working in the field doing full-stack and back-end web apps since 2016, though I lean a bit more to the back-end. I'm a generalist with experience working on mostly small (2-4 developer) teams. My industry experience includes software for recruitment, commercial and residential real estate, finance, and sales.

I'd prefer a full-time position, but would also consider contract roles.
William P. Murphy Jr., An Inventor of the Modern Blood Bag, Dies at 100
> How do those untrenchable locations receive water and sewer? If water and sewer can be installed underground, why not fiber?

I am not a civil engineer, I only drink with them occasionally. I'd imagine there are some big differences between heavy pipes in various states of liquid internal pressure above the frost line and bundles of relatively lightweight cables, but I'm very much just guessing at that point. I do know that there are lot of processes in place to plan that sort of work and it can get very expensive. (I see some of my sewer bills. Though the city is also unfortunately in the middle of several huge combined-sewer-overflow rework projects.) So yes, cost would be a big factor, but I think the cost is partly such a big factor because of the physics of all of it and planning it in safe ways that don't damage the neighborhoods, at least that is my very lay understanding of it.

> Google apparently didn't even want to spend the expense running it on utility poles, which frankly, I would naively think would be the cheapest option.

That's the part that still most boggles my mind. That was by far the cheapest option than a bizarre R&D for "exotic new epoxies" and all the money spent in digging up and then replacing asphalt. At one point (after the epoxies failed) they pawned a lot of that cost of the replacement part off on the city by picking up the city's normal pothole/repavement maintenance plans and dredging their nano-trenches just before, which was "smart" cost cutting in an evil sort of way.

Not only was using the utility poles the cheapest option, it was the planned option for years. It was the option that the city spent millions of tax dollars litigating for free for Google's part to make it even cheaper, about as cheap as it could possibly legally be. Google didn't pay a dime for those legal challenges. The city won those court cases! They had the go ahead to Google to do "just about whatever they wanted" with city utility poles and Google decided to do "Plan B" at the 11th hour after the go ahead.

I guess some impatience comes in to play, because it did take years to get that "go ahead" and I guess Google thought a "productive" use of those years was to experiment with silly glues and then they accidentally sunk cost themselves with R&D money into going with that Incompetent Plan B even though Plan A was still on the table and extremely viable and cheap. It's still hard not to also call that impatience its own form of incompetence, though, because that R&D didn't seem to take much reality into account. (Glues? In streets? Streets that experience weather? Streets that Americans drive heavy cars, trucks, and SUVs on? Really? They wasted how much money on that?)
If you want to feel small again, on the other end of things, 173,000 terawatts of sunlight hits the Earth. Earth's biosphere uses something like 1% of that (depending on your definition of "used", but whatever), so we have Earth's biosphere at something like 1700 terawatts, dwarfing both us and Earth's fiery core.
Amazing. The one time the monks perfectly inserted something into every copy of Tacitus, without leaving any evidence for you to point at, is that part where he says something inconvenient for you.
It does? In what way? I have used Firefox mobile for years on HN without noticing issues. What am I missing?

Edit: I used Firefox on Android, the issues you describe might be Firefox on iOS, which is a different beast.
Non-technical as in "the average user isn't a nerd" ?

For non-nerd populations, these numbers seem high.
That's the mother of all reaches.
I would be more afraid of X banning my account for posting something that violates a random British, Saudi or Chinese law.

Fundamentally, no one should want banking and social media being in the same place. All it takes is one belligerent government to apply pressure.

We already saw Canada freeze bank accounts of people who were protesting in the capitol. I don't need the possibility of my speech locking my account.
Finally! I can entrust all my banking to a company that fired most of its SREs! What could go wrong?
I don't really buy that line of argument. There's still useful signals, like upvotes, known human writing, or just plain spending time/money to label it yourself. There's also the option of training better algorithms on pre-LLM datasets. It's something to consider, but not any sort of crisis.
Google's expense reimbursement emails were systematically considered to be SPAM by gmail.

Google knew this because they even issued warnings.

Still, using your own domain and machine is different.

Unless you've had an interaction with that email address it will be considered SPAM.
Brainfuck, while difficult to actually use, is very easy to implement. There is one array data structure of ints, and iirc 8 operators that work on the array. They either manipulate the current pointer to the array cell by either moving up or down, or increment or decrement the value there. And then there is a simple conditional and a print command. That's it. You can write that in an afternoon if not in an interview session. Now actually doing something productive with the language is a whole different situation. It's clearly Turing-complete as the infinite paper is just the array and the operations are exact copies. A fun little exercise.
"Corporations have never imprisoned anyone for their politics"

Really?

Let me introduce you to Steven Donziger.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jul/26/lawyer-stev...

Ho and what about all those corporations that used Jewish slaves during world war 2?

Or just today, Coca Cola killing people protesting them taking their land away or Amazon imposing atrocious work conditions to their employees?

Before blindly defending corporations I'd try and take a look at reality...

It's not as simple as "government bad and corporations good"
I meant very young eastern European women who did not speak French and clearly did not have any business there (also not sure if some weren't minors, there was a scandal with that and football players around the same time), and people being clearly drunk who snorted coke to 'get right' and be able to drive home.
Not strange at all! Leave those assumptions behind, take a look at symfony/console and minicli. PHP is not shiny or snarky as Python, but resilient and "boring". The "dirtness" that you are feeling is just a way to keep those insufferable people that you mentioned out.
I'm not familiar with WeChat but whatsapp has some business features and also payment integration at least in some countries. Not that far from this description of WeChat: "WeChat provides text messaging, hold-to-talk voice messaging, broadcast (one-to-many) messaging, video conferencing, video games, mobile payment, sharing of photographs and videos and location sharing. "
This is really cool, at least in theory. I keep hearing from only iPhone users on podcasts that they find it annoying to message amyone not on iOS. As an Android user, I couldn't imagine this being a concern to me; have any of you Android users even had the passing thought that you're missing out on hypothetical conversations between people who only use iMessage?

I use Messenger for the gen x people in my life, Signal for others, and sms and google chat for some others, but I don't even know what devices any of my friends use on a regular basis, seems arbitrary to me.
> IMHO, you have to be deeply weird to be a frequent contributor.

Weirdo here.

Actually, I don't contribute much to Wikipedia (aside from the occasional edit for clarity or grammar).

But I do upload a number of images to Wikimedia commons. And I occasionally nominate some of my photos for evaluation as Quality Images and Featured Images.

Some people definitely act as gatekeepers and can be harsh in their criticism. But in my experience, most people give courteous, constructive criticism--even when they're rejecting your nomination!

I pretty much ignore the impolite people--or I try to point out that they could have leveled their critique in a better way.
Unfortunately, I'm still getting the error even after switching this on.
How fast can you validate UTF-8 strings in JavaScript?
As well as under the “Recommended uses for product”section it says, “ Pet, Spy”
Are you aware how most companies external apps look like? Here's how: They don't.

What you compete with, what you have to beat, is not "something custom branded and more flexible". It's nothing at all. Cutting yourself out of that market with a tool that would easily be powerful and user friendly enough to fill this gap does not make any sense to me, if that is in fact your true reason. (And also I don't understand how that could make any sense intuitively if you just look at how often you see google forms being used by a big company as an external data collection tool).

It could be such an obvious differentiator for any of the competitors – but, like I said, I suspect the actual reason to why people are so ready to give up on this is rooted somewhere else.
They still work. Apple doesn't stop services from working or programs from functioning.
> Voice datasets also underrepresent: non-English speakers, people of colour, disabled people, women and LGBTQIA+ people.

How does being gay change your voice?
What happened at the end of It Looks Like etc, after it's killed all humans, and it launches the ICBMs? Does it decide to kill itself for some reason? Couldn't decipher that.
People who should know better keep on using chrome just as people
who should know better keep on using vscode. I guess that's the zeitgeist, accepting the corporate trojan gift. Let's just hope alternatives like Firefox don't completely vanish.
Which is a good thing. Running ads is triple pollution. On the servers, on the browser, and by the manipulated comsumers buying crap they don't need in the first place.

(Yes, I do pay for content I care about.)
oh, i definitely wasn't arguing for ai enforcement. Not even a little, i was just saying that laws are written with the assumption that enforcement takes resources.
The Brightline West proposal is so incredibly sensible that I feel like it may even be completed on-time and under budget.

For one, it will go down the median of a highway, so the right of way won't be a huge problem.
> an app that everyone uses

Wouldn't that be the "everyone app"?

And in any case, I assume Elon would want both.
> $50/month all in all with a beefy instance on Hetzner Cloud

That's really small amount per month but for 100K a day you can use almost any extremely low-end VPS
> would be drastically different without a Leninist government

It probably would've been drastically different had the socialist-liberal coalition held on to power. It likely would've been overthrown in a couple of years politically/socially it would have still played out quite differently (bolsheviks were pretty unique amongst socialist group in their single mindedness, hatred of democracy and support of totalitarianism and mass terror).

> develop at a similar rate to the rest of Europe

Unless you were one of the subjugated Central/Eastern European countries. Economically the gap between Czechoslovakia, Poland, Estonia, Latvia etc. and Western European countries considerably wider in 1990 than it was in the 1930s.
But why can you register an iMessage account with no email and no phone number? It doesn’t make any sense to me. Signal avoided that and that protocol is documented.
Discussion from April 2022
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31104691
I'm guessing this model was made to be small simply to keep costs low and make sure that they could feasibly train the model with the amount of time/effort they had. But to some extent I'm left wondering whether this technique would continue to be fruitful when scaled up to a huge model and with a bigger initial training set.
Go for what you already have. Use your supervisor to cut and twist your proposal plan to fit 5 months. I don't know where in this world you are, but where I've taught, a master's thesis is about demonstrating what you can do in the time given towards a relevant result. A proposal is a plan. Relevant mileposts should be reached, and the final goal to some extend. But details can be adjusted and cut during the process. A supervisor should help with adjusting the project plan. Up front as well as during your project.
idk, your line "questions related to assessing academic performance of the students were phased out" seems pretty weird to me. Like when I imagine a workplace survey, I think of things like "how do you get on with your colleagues", "do you feel safe in the environment" etc, not "are our clients good at their jobs". It's standard HR fare in every workplace.

I can't imagine how many questions about academic performance of students would ever have been crowbarred into a survey given to teachers about this sort of stuff in the first place.

Were it a question given to students, or about students in any way, I might be inclined to investigate a little further. But in general, there is a whole lot of outrage generated around school stuff, and every time I try to look into it, the claims usually just kinda dissolve and it turns out to have been entirely fine, usually something that I, you and everyone else experienced in school as part of normal expected curriculum sensationalized and passed through chinese whispers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_linguistics#Accents_of_En...
"Disruptive" Technologies Retrospective
Every time I turn on FK constraints I wind up regretting it and ripping them out of the schema. Not one time have I ever ran a non-query, received a constraint violation, and thought to myself "thank god, what a relief".

Any time I am doing something that could violate some logical constraint, I am probably trying to fix something that is already fucked. The safety nannies simply add insult to injury at this stage. I will delete broken rows in whatever order I please.

If constraint violations are adding value to your solution, you probably have a far more severe problem repeatedly slamming into the wall somewhere.
EU approves ban on destruction of unsold clothing
Not to my knowledge, though I may have some traits.

That said, in Norway the literary form is/was spoken on e.g. TV and radio similar to how RP (received pronunciation) is/was spoken on the BBC, more so (in both cases) before than now where dialects are more broadly tolerated. On top of that, in affluent areas of Western Oslo and adjoining affluent areas the dialect sits mostly within what is "allowed" in Bokmål, and actually mostly towards a more conservative end of the allowed range than where I sit, and it's somewhat political, in that more conservative forms of Bokmål historically tended to be associated with social status (or aspirations...).

It's unusual more in that the pockets and social groups where dialects that overlaps fully or almost entirely with Bokmål are fairly small.

My spoken dialect is within that spectrum, exacerbated by reading a lot of older literature at early age that used quite old fashioned forms of Bokmål, and picking up more formal language than many of my peers spoke through that, but I tend to be closer to the more affluent dialect in writing than spoken.

(EDIT: My spoken dialect would probably fit as a somewhat "posh" version of Urban East Norwegian[1] today, with somewhat more conservative word choices in places where contemporary Urban East Norwegian would have deviated from Bokmål in minor ways in the 70's and 80's by being somewhat more "relaxed" in ways that have since been accepted in subsequent adjustments of the rules)

If you heard me alongside my dad there'd be relatively minor differences between our dialects, and I'd probably sound marginally less formal as I adopted some spoken patterns from the more working class area I grew up in outside Oslo, while he at least when younger would be recognisable as having grown up on the Western edges of Oslo.

Beyond that, language has always fascinated me, and I tended to take a certain level of delight in torturing my Norwegian teacher who favoured the other official language - Nynorsk. Nynorsk and Bokmål overlaps very significantly, and more so after recent language reforms which have tended towards allowing more Nynorsk forms of words, or ones closer to them, in Bokmål. Our Norwegian teacher very much wanted us to use those forms (that'd be favouring "sola" over "solen" etc.), and I used to express my distaste for Nynorsk by instead exaggerating my preference for the more conservative Bokmål forms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_East_Norwegian
Well, that’s what you get when you’re a Public Service. There’s an idiot living on the top of a mountain that needs some basic infrastructure? You got to get your truck out and build that supply line. You won’t do it? Then the government that granted you that Public Service status has renounced sovereignty on that part of the country
Big companies like Google are already doing this without AI. Will AI make the services more tempting? Yes, but there's also a lot of headway in open source AI and search, which could serve to topple people's reliance on big tech.

If everyone had a $500 device at home that served as their own self hosted AI, then Google could cease to exist. That's a future worth working towards.
$50 a month is almost certainly not dedicated.
I had some issues with several sites around 2-3 years ago but I haven’t been experiencing them recently.

I guess FF has issues on a fairly small set of sites which some users use a fair bit while most users don’t see those sites at all.

The only site I use regularly which has issues is google earth and the reason why is obvious.
Yes. There are big banks, Microsoft, Amazon, JetBrains, Avast, quite a few mid-size US companies, all paying well. Smaller Czech companies not so much.
And yet you listed several reasons why folders are not directories and vice-versa.

No computer system, from the command line, has a command that allows you to "make_folder" but every system has a "make_directory" (mkdir) or "change_directory" (cd) and so on. If there is little to no difference, then why is this so?

Why are there no folders from the command line?
Location: Pakistan

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Django, JavaScript, Firebase, SQL, AWS

Email: contact @ kashifaziz dot me

Availability: Part-time or contract

I am a senior software developer with experience in web development and data processing. I have worked with start-ups, mid-sized business, and some very large organizations in the US and Europe. My work involves building rapid MVPs as well as maintaining legacy code bases.

Brief list of accomplishments:

Data pipeline to ingest book rankings, aggregate, and generate structured JSON for further consumption

Data pipeline to ingest property listings from 3rd party services and ingest into a WordPress based website

Web based employee benefits management system (IAS-19), transforming Excel based model to Django-React based solution.

Backend for a Life Insurance illustration generation mobile app, served to thousands of consumers nationwide.

Backend for a mobile application for golf tournaments in US including player profile management, updated scores and marketplace.

Translation web service that can translate Excel documents from one language to other using Google Cloud Translate API. The translation preserved sheet styles and formulas.

Web service to generate PowerPoint slide using icons from certain websites based on provided keyword.
> they have a backup solution available.

Im a decade+ daily driver of Firefox. If a website doesnt support it, I make a mental note that I hate this company now, close the tab, and move on. I don't open it in a V8 browser, i look for an alternative.
The Bill of Rights (i.e. the first 10 Amendments) are individual rights. There's plenty of commentary about this, but quoting from the ACLU in particular:

"The entire Bill of Rights was created to protect rights the original citizens believed were naturally theirs."

https://www.aclu.org/documents/bill-rights-brief-history
How would a key compromise look like? A server-side key compromise just gives you public key material, which is useless. A client-side key compromise gives you an encrypted private key, but you've completely owned the client at that point so you've won already regardless of how weak or strong the authentication method is.

Traditional server-side 2FA (e.g., "give me a password and a 1-time code") is superfluous in a passkey world, because it's ultimately just a hack to make up for the fact that password-only auth is weak. Key auth is incredibly strong, so a server-side 2FA challenge doesn't buy you much.
Seems like another program that's loaded with good intentions every which way - basically all of which making the programs slower and costlier to the point of totally uncompetitive insanity.

We are not too bad at cost effectiveness in b2b and b2c projects (although... see giant software projects, healthcare, auto repairs, etc), but we are truly terrible in government funded projects.
It's not the work now that's at issue but the work of the future to fix "Mr. Smith is a poopy head" vandalism on content that gets few views.

Things like names of teachers or sizes of current classes - those temporal things (which are correct now) become broken windows of "someone needs to update it" in the future.

And if one says "Ok, this one is acceptable" - then how much more maintenance and curation of pages are the core group of volunteers expected to take up?

If the answer to that question is "none" - who is doing it? or is it going to become a repository of outdated information?

Having content is an ongoing cost of time to the people who maintain it. If it isn't maintained, it isn't valuable (or notable) enough to be put in there in the first place.

It might be better served as a part of a larger page that covers the school district. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dallas_Independent_Sch... which are a name and optionally a note. Other districts don't even have notes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Metropolitan_School_Di... ).

If it was just a paragraph of content that was timeless (when established, mascot, municipality, etc...) then consider reformatting the school district page (which may well exist) to include the information rather than creating a new one.
If in the data sent across (via Apple servers) the IMEI and serial no of the device are also transmitted, then Apple can in that millisecond query on their various lists/inventories that this device is legit (activated device + IMEI + serial) and if all lights are green, proceed to deliver, otherwise drop it.

(perhaps different sets of data can be used, but it must be something that Apple already has, and the user has already provided (i.e. the iMessage email or the iMessage phone number, from the iPhone's enabled Settings)
I don't think anything they're doing today is working. They had something great in, like, 2008, and have been at best coasting since then.
Have you thought about AI and its applications to cybersecurity? Intrusion detection, vulnerability scanning, etc. Or crafting new threats or countermeasures.