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This is so AI coded that it’s almost impossible to get through the whole article. “Genuinely useful”, “the skill gap no one predicted”, “the gap wasn’t x it was y”.

Kaedonon Implementing the President's "DOGE" Workforce Optimization Initiative

This site is lousy with ads

Kaedonon Full $71M breakdown for The Village by M. Night Shyamalan (2003) [pdf]

DI probably also involves at that time the cost of scanning it into film. I worked in the industry a little after this and some of the DI theatres rent out for 1K+ per hour, plus there’s conform artist time, incorporating new cuts, etc. I could see it.

Kaedonon Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://www.kevinlondon.com/

I write most commonly about experiences in big tech, code reviews, and navigating hiring processes

Kaedonon In 2022, Web3 went just great

I don't know that I'd want to spend the energy to engage in this kind of behavior.

Kaedonon Social justice for the bald man

That’s fair. I’ve probably been reading too much Blind and miscalibrated.

Kaedonon Social justice for the bald man

Why is it that in every post about a problem there's this what-about-ism? We can talk about the issue at hand and then the other ones separately.

Kaedonon Prime Video Uses WebAssembly

The challenge would be that Prime Video is distributed on many client devices. Here’s a list of a few TV OSes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smart_TV_platforms. How would you manage a different native app for each of them?

Caveat: previously worked at Prime Video though not in this area, still at Amazon

Kaedonon SpaceX's rise can be traced to a critical launch from a Pacific isle

... what are you saying?

Kaedonon Choose boring employees

For whom do you imagine this is tl;dr? The article itself is quite short.

Kaedonon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)

At ChowNow, we build online ordering systems for thousands of restaurants. We're launching new projects in the coming months that I'm really excited about. Most recently, we launched https://eat.chownow.com and the iOS app (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chownow-food-delivery-and-re...). I love working here as a software engineer. It's a great balance of challenge, responsibility, and freedom.

We're looking to bring on a Principal Front End Engineer to help us build out the new products and update some of the existing ones. We use React for our newest projects and have some Ember.js projects too. The position is here: http://bit.ly/chownow-frontend

In addition, we'd like to hire another senior-level backend / full-stack engineer to work on our Python-based services (http://bit.ly/chownow-fullstack). This is the team I'm on! We have interesting opportunities coming up related to scaling, architecture, and new products.

You can find all our open positions at https://jobs.lever.co/chownow?lever-via=MO5-ac-qvc or read more about ChowNow on Glassdoor (http://bit.ly/chownow-glassdoor). If you have questions what it's like to work here, please contact me at kevinlondon@chownow.com or Candice, our recruiter, at candice@chownow.com. Thanks!

Kaedonon Netflix Originals: Production and Post-Production Requirements v2.1

I'm so, so glad I don't have to care about deliverables requirements anymore. Every studio has totally different set of requirements that are as complex as this and it's a real bear to make sure you're fully in compliance with them.

Kaedonon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)

At ChowNow, we build online ordering systems for thousands of restaurants. We're launching new projects in the coming months that I'm really excited about. Most recently, we launched https://eat.chownow.com. I love working here as a software engineer. It's a great balance of challenge, responsibility, and freedom.

In addition, we'd like to hire another backend / full-stack engineer to work on our Python-based services (http://bit.ly/chownow-fullstack). This is the team I'm on! We have interesting opportunities coming up related to scaling, architecture, and new products.

Kaedonon How Homeownership Became the Engine of American Inequality

My apologies. I've taken it for granted that if I submit a duplicate link, I'll be redirected the already-existing HN post. I'll be more careful.

Kaedonon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)

ChowNow | Los Angeles, CA (Playa Vista) | Full Time | Onsite | https://www.chownow.com/

At ChowNow, we build online ordering systems for thousands of restaurants. We're launching new projects in the coming months that I'm really excited about. I love working here as a software engineer. It's a great balance of challenge, innovation, and freedom.

We're looking to bring on a Principal Front-End developer to help us build out the new products and update some of the existing ones. We use React for our newest projects and have some Ember.js projects too. The position is here: https://jobs.lever.co/chownow/909fd10f-ff59-434d-8cf6-efb271...

In addition, we'd like to hire another backend / full-stack engineer to work on our Python-based services. This is the team I'm on! We have interesting opportunities coming up related to scaling, architecture, and the new products. https://jobs.lever.co/chownow/a9dc2301-e807-4e6e-b0eb-54e2a6...

You can find all our open positions on our careers page at https://jobs.lever.co/chownow?lever-via=MO5-ac-qvc. If you're interested or have questions what it's like to work here, please contact me at kevinlondon@chownow.com or our recruiter, Candice, at candice@chownow.com.

Kaedonon Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements

How do you imagine sites that are ad free would appear? What's their business model? I don't think that's a given, especially since most users won't pay (see the rise of freemium style apps vs paid ones in the app store).

Kaedonon #Resist

Is this the line you're referencing? "But after the recent executive order aimed to block people on the basis of nationality and religion, a line was crossed."

How are these false claims? The executive order directly mentions religious grounds and allows "minority religions" in the 7 listed majority Muslim countries to be allowed in while prohibiting the rest.

Kaedonon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)

ChowNow | Los Angeles, CA (Playa Vista) | Full Time | Onsite | https://www.chownow.com/

At ChowNow, we build online ordering systems for thousands of restaurants and millions of diners. We're launching a few new products soon that I'm excited about. I love working here as an engineer. It's a great balance of challenge, freedom, and impact.

We've been growing quickly and we're looking to hire an Operations (DevOps) engineer! As background, we had a manually configured AWS infrastructure that we've retired in favor of an Ansible / Terraform-based setup. We've automated infrastructure and our deploy process so it's a great time to come in and shape where we go from here.

We also have positions open for a Principal Front-End Engineer (Ember.js / Node) and a Data Analyst on our careers page at https://jobs.lever.co/chownow?lever-via=MO5-ac-qvc.

If you're interested or have questions what it's like to work here, please contact me at kevinlondon@chownow.com or our recruiter, Candice, at candice@chownow.com.

Kaedonon Georgia Tech Offers Online Master of Science in Analytics Degree for Under $10K

I'm enrolled in the OMSCS program currently (nearly graduated) while working full time. I started the program because I was already taking the online courses with Coursera, edX, etc, and it felt like a natural fit to get a degree while I continued to do so.

I didn't have a Computer Science undergrad degree, so perhaps I have a different outlook on this than you did. I'm currently working as a software engineer, so I'm also not forgoing earning a living by taking the time off from school.

In other words, while I can understand why you feel disappointed by your educational experience, there are other lenses through which this program makes sense. I feel good about having gone through it so far and I'm looking forward to finishing.

Kaedonon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)

ChowNow | Los Angeles, CA (Playa Vista) | Full Time | Onsite | https://www.chownow.com/

At ChowNow, we build online ordering systems for our over 4000 restaurants. We're launching some new products in the coming months that I'm really excited about. I love working here as an engineer. It's a great balance of challenge, freedom, and impact.

We've been growing quickly and we're looking to hire a DevOps engineer! For some background, we had a manually configured AWS infrastructure that we've just retired in favor of an Ansible / Terraform-based setup. We've automated infrastructure and deploys so it's a great time to come in and shape where we go from here. For example:

* Dockerize everything?

* Build out a Kubernetes cluster for our services?

* Use Spinnaker for a Continuous Delivery pipeline?

To be determined!

If you're interested or have questions what it's like to work here, please contact me at kevinlondon@chownow.com or our recruiter, Candice, at candice@chownow.com. This position is not yet formally posted but we are taking applications for it.

We also have positions open for Front-End (Ember.js / Node), Back-End (Python) engineers, and a Data Analyst on our careers page at https://jobs.lever.co/chownow?lever-via=MO5-ac-qvc.

Kaedonon Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week

I'm guessing the negative votes have to do with painting a group of people in a casually pejorative way. The left, as a whole, does not rejoice in censoring all sorts of speech. The left is filled with many people with a variety of opinions and many of them value civil liberties as you presumably do.

Kaedonon Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week

An audience can have more than one interest. For example, tech sections in newspapers are roughly analogous to political stories on HN.

Kaedonon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)

ChowNow | Los Angeles, CA (Playa Vista) | Full Time | Onsite | https://www.chownow.com/

* Dockerize everything?

* Build out a Kubernetes cluster for our services?

* Use Spinnaker for a Continuous Delivery pipeline?

To be determined!

We also have positions open for Front-End (Ember.js / Node) and Back-End (Python) engineers on our careers page at https://jobs.lever.co/chownow?lever-via=MO5-ac-qvc. If you're interested or have questions what it's like to work here, please contact me at kevinlondon@chownow.com or our recruiter, Candice, at candice@chownow.com.

Kaedonon Ask HN: What projects are you currently working on?

Yeah, that's a good suggestion. I should start storing and using that info. My hypothesis is that humor is inversely proportional to the number f helpful votes. For example, 0 of 57 helpful is probably funnier than 3 of 3.

Kaedonon Ask HN: What projects are you currently working on?

A Twitter bot called @AmazonArtReview that tries to find funny 1-star reviews of media on Amazon. It's using some crude machine learning and just a fun side project.

Finding humor's tough! I've read some papers on finding humor in reviews, e.g. https://cs224d.stanford.edu/reports/OliveiraLuke.pdf. That's been helpful. It'd be great if I could use the Yelp review set for finding humor as they did but the humor doesn't translate between data sets. Mostly it's still manual curation, which is ok too.

https://www.twitter.com/AmazonArtReview

Kaedonon Ask HN: As a developer, how can I take advantage of time spent driving to work?

Listen to software conference talks! It's true that some of the more technical ones will not translate as they require too much concentration. Ideally, you can find some that are more conceptual or do not rely directly upon watching the slides.

I posted a few of my favorites from last year here: https://www.kevinlondon.com/2015/09/10/10-software-talks-to-...

I, too, generally dislike software podcasts in the car. For me, they usually are paced more conversationally, so I find that I get disinterested.

Kaedonon Django security releases issued: 1.10.3, 1.9.11 and 1.8.16

I'm glad to see this update! It doesn't like a must-update version, unless you're using a production dataset on your local dev database.

I'd also recommend against using a production dataset for your dev database.

Kaedonon DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

What other providers would you recommend than Dyn? Route53? Cloudflare? Something else?

Kaedonon DevOps from Scratch, Part 1: Vagrant and Ansible

Looks like this is a little closer to what you're looking for I think: https://medium.com/aws-activate-startup-blog/running-service...

Kaedonon AWS CloudFormation Update – YAML, Cross-Stack References, Substitution

Yeah, I use Terraform and like it quite a bit. Terraform tends to be quite responsive to changes in AWS land and `terraform plan` is incredibly useful. It's saved me from blowing away instances a few times.