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adamgambleon Rails Needs New Governance

I have met both DHH and Tobi in person several times, and although I don’t know them well they have always been warm, kind, and pleasant to be around. Their contributions to the engineering community have been almost immeasurable. So what you disagree with them personally. Who cares? Do you like ruby? Do you like rails? Are you able to build a career doing something you love? Is that not enough?

If you disagree with things he’s done with Rails that’s one thing. But I would strongly suggest you reconsider the notion that he should be removed from leadership on Rails because of all his personal beliefs.

He’s writing a web framework man (along with thousands of other people who may or not agree with him), he’s not directing your personal life. You should strongly reconsider this blog post. One day, the same sort of ire you’re pointing at him will be pointed at you for no reason other than people disagree with you.

adamgambleon Tesla Cybertruck deliveries on hold as trims are flying off 'bulletproof' truck

I think two things are true, the government needs to cut expenses drastically and also that Elon should spend way more time at Tesla and spacex.

I didn’t buy my truck because of Elon, I bought it because I needed a truck and all the other truck manufacturers are completely brain dead when it comes to software.

I definitely wish Elon would shut up often, but he’s clearly not a nazi. That’s all nonsense.

His work at doge has been underwhelming so far, I had higher hopes. But it seems like most would rather have the status quo of major deficit spending and debt. Overall I would prefer drastic reduction in spending and waste with an actual plan and less chaos.

None of what Elon does makes me regret my car purchase. Why in the world would I make a personal decision like a car based on some billionaire I’ll never meet? I didn’t buy the truck as any kind of virtue signal. I bought it because I like it despite how dumb and crazy it looks.

adamgambleon Tesla Cybertruck deliveries on hold as trims are flying off 'bulletproof' truck

As good as FSD is now, he definitely oversold it for years.

adamgambleon Tesla Cybertruck deliveries on hold as trims are flying off 'bulletproof' truck

Also while I’m getting down voted by a bunch of folks that have never driven one… Supervised FSD is getting very very good. I use it most days to drive and very rarely have to disengage. It is significantly better than the other driver assistance systems that I’ve driven. It’s come a long way

adamgambleon Tesla Cybertruck deliveries on hold as trims are flying off 'bulletproof' truck

I own a cybertruck and completely love it. It’s wacky and fun and it gives me all the tech I wanted, plus I can use it like a truck when needed. I actually think it’s opposite, once people drive it they realize it’s really compelling. It does have some minor build issues that are fixed for free under warranty. Then again so does my gmc.

adamgambleon Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]

Is this innovation depot?

adamgambleon Apache Superset

We use metabase heavily at work. However where it seems like all these tools fall down is organization around the hundreds of dashboards and questions. I wish it had like a built wiki or something to build out more navigation. Anyone know of any good ways to do that?

adamgambleon The 7th Guest gets VR remake using volumetric video

I can still hear “He was a drifter…” in my head.

adamgambleon AOL pretends to be the internet

https://www.bhamwiki.com/w/The_Matrix

Here is the story.

adamgambleon AOL pretends to be the internet

So apparently a local Birmingham, Al BBS originally had the name America Online. Steve case purchased the name from him for 10k and that BBS became known as the matrix.

adamgambleon Elixir saves Pinterest $2M a year in server costs

"The combined effect of better architecture and Elixir saved Pinterest..." I appreciate that they also call out better architecture here. People often read these kinds of headlines and think "Oh Elixir is better than python" or whatever.

I remember when twitter had fail whales constantly and they rewrote it from ruby to java I think. At the time everyone assumed it was all ruby's fault, and that might be partly true. But it's also true that the engineers who rebuilt it understood the problem much better now, and knew the major pain points. They also completely changed the architecture to be better suited to the problem. I submit that a lot of rewrites could happen in the same language and still have major gains.

All that being said Elixir is great, and particularly well suited to these kinds of problems.

adamgambleon Blocked by Cloudflare

One thing that sometimes gets lost is site owners that use cloudflare have sort of global options for how paranoid they want to be, then they can make specific WAF rules that can be as granular and aggressive as they want. So at least in some cases, cloudflare gets blamed for website owners setting really aggressive rules. The effect on the end user usually looks exactly the same.

Case in point, I set a waf rule that blocked all non verified bot traffic from several big datacenters (Google cloud, OVH, digital ocean, etc). That turned out to be a mistake because a lot of corporations were routing their traffic through those ASNs for some reason. Now they’re blocked. They could have gotten pissed out cloudflare, the error page looks the same, but it was really misconfiguring it.

adamgambleon Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked features

I also would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

adamgambleon CloudFlare’s last Warrant Canary was published over a year ago

You're right. That definitely wouldn't be surprising!

adamgambleon CloudFlare’s last Warrant Canary was published over a year ago

Ha thanks for the reply, was mostly just joking didn't expect a reply from Matthew directly :). I appreciate that you're active on HN though!

adamgambleon CloudFlare’s last Warrant Canary was published over a year ago

What am I missing? They literally decrypt all the traffic to your website, do some stuff, then re-encrypt and send it on to your server.

adamgambleon CloudFlare’s last Warrant Canary was published over a year ago

Why wouldn’t they fund the worlds largest MITM attack?

adamgambleon CloudFlare’s last Warrant Canary was published over a year ago

I love cloudflare, but honestly I assumed they WERE the CIA/FBI not just compromised by them. It would be the perfect front company for the government.

adamgambleon Can Dell’s 6K monitor beat their 8K monitor?

Although I haven’t used these monitors, my experience with high dpi on windows and Linux has been a nightmare compared to OSX. It’s surprising me the non Mac world hasn’t made this a bigger priority.

adamgambleon Ask HN: V2 – Laid off folks, are you getting hired yet?

You're better than you think you are, and there is space for you. You need to find someone to talk to, there is help. Please don't kill yourself.

adamgambleon Meta Quest Pro

You might be simultaneously right and also totally missing the point and rude.

I agree with the gp. The quest 2 has helped me connect with friends in different states that felt way closer to inviting them over to hang out at the house than just video chatting or whatever.

There is real value in that. Even my wife who is not techy at all enjoyed it after first laughing in my face at the idea.

For better or worse, meta seems to be the only company currently trying to push this forward. So meta it is for now.

adamgambleon Cloudflare had a partial outage

Slack seems to be having trouble sending messages as well. Was trying to let my team know i've acked the request and am unable to do so.

adamgambleon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2022)

Eezy | Software Engineering Manager | Full-time | Remote | https://www.vecteezy.com

Eezy.com is a rapidly growing freemium stock marketplace, whose mission is to make beautiful graphic resources available to everyone, everywhere. We currently serve millions of monthly active users, from 150+ countries in 7 languages across our portfolio of web properties, vecteezy.com, videezy.com and brusheezy.com.

Founded in 2009, Eezy is proudly self-funded, profitable and 100% remote. Our growing team of 70 are made up of engineers, product designers, marketing and customer success folks in 3 countries.

Our Software Engineering Manager position is a people-management focused role that requires a technical background. To be successful in this role you'll enjoy: * Leading the people - Identifying and improving the team processes and communication, attracting and retaining engineers, managing compensation, and coaching engineers to greater competency. * Managing the work - Understand the product roadmap, serve as Scrum master to drawstring communication while measuring and maintaining a predictable and sustainable delivery velocity. * Molding the Environment - Facilitate a healthy team environment where product discovery and project delivery co-exist peacefully. Ensure the team is sticking to org/industry best practices. Ensure the team is collaborating and making wise technical tradeoffs.

Full job details are available at https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2849359998/

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Eezy | Site Reliability Engineer | Full-time | Remote

We're looking to hire our first dedicated site reliability and infrastructure engineer. The ideal engineer will have an automation-first, automate everything mindset who is familiar with modern, distributed environments and infrastructure-as-code.

Full job details are available at https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2769996889/

adamgambleon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)

Eezy | Site Reliability Engineer | Full-time | Remote

Eezy.com is a rapidly growing freemium stock marketplace, whose mission is to make beautiful graphic resources available to everyone, everywhere. We currently serve millions of monthly active users, from 150+ countries in 7 languages across our portfolio of web properties, vecteezy.com, videezy.com and brusheezy.com.

Founded in 2009, Eezy is proudly self-funded, profitable and 100% remote. Our growing team of 70 are made up of engineers, product designers, marketing and customer success folks in 3 countries.

Full job details are available at https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2769996889/

adamgambleon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)

Sr. Backend Engineer

Eezy | Remote | Full-time

Eezy.com is a rapidly growing freemium stock marketplace, whose mission is to make beautiful graphic resources available to everyone, everywhere. We currently serve millions of monthly active users, from 150+ countries in 7 languages. We’re looking for Engineers with deep commercial Ruby (or equivalent) experience, who have built high traffic applications, and that like working in cross-functional teams. You'd be primarily doing backend work on a Rails 6 application, but a plus if your comfortable full stack. Link to apply: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2531002403/?refId=1kzth8h...

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Director of Engineering

Eezy | Remote | Full-time

Eezy.com is a rapidly growing freemium stock marketplace, whose mission is to make beautiful graphic resources available to everyone, everywhere. We currently serve millions of monthly active users, from 150+ countries in 7 languages. We’re growing our team and we’re looking for a leader to help manage, grow, and scale a team of Engineers. As the Director of Engineering, you will work alongside the CTO in leading the Engineering organization. You will manage a team of engineers, and work with the team to build and maintain efficient engineering processes. Link to apply: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2526729157/?refId=1kzth8h...

adamgambleon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)

Sr. Backend Engineer Eezy | Remote | Full-time

We’re looking for Engineers with deep commercial Ruby (or equivalent) experience, who have built high traffic applications, and that like working in cross-functional teams. You'd be primarily doing backend work on a Rails 6 application, but a plus if your comfortable full stack.

Link to apply: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2468541315

Director of Engineering Eezy | Remote | Full-time

We’re growing our team and we’re looking for a leader to help manage, grow, and scale a team of Engineers. As the Director of Engineering, you will work alongside the CTO in leading the Engineering organization. You will manage a team of engineers, and work with the team to build and maintain efficient engineering processes.

Link to apply: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2483746401

adamgambleon Svgrepo: Browse SVG vectors and icons

We've had to tackled the provenance problem at my company (https://www.vecteezy.com) by getting all of our content directly from the original designers. It was a crap ton of work and took us several years, but that allowed us to also back it up with legal indemnification. We now have a team of 18 folks reviewing all our content for legal and copyright issues now and we back it up with up to $100k in legal indemnity. So far it seems to be helping.

adamgambleon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)

Eezy | Bowling Green, KY | REMOTE | Full-time, Remote | www.vecteezy.com

We help designers find the digital assets they need to up build their best designs. We're growing rapidly and are looking for more engineers to join our team!

1. Senior React Engineer - https://bit.ly/39AFQrw

2. Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer - https://bit.ly/39Fnhm5

adamgambleon Startups that have hit more than $1K MRR in about 12-24 months

Monthly recurring revenue

adamgambleon FDA emergency use auth for the use of hydroxychloroquine against Covid-19

Did we do this because Trump pushed it through? Or do they actually think it might work?