agilord

"Learning to write games on the side"

Agilord | Software Engineer | Budapest, Hungary | remote | https://www.agilord.com/

We are a small consulting shop, slowly moving to build bootstrapped products, currently looking for a frontend software engineer.

The candidate should be familiar with modern web technologies. Experience in writing games is a plus but not required. We build our new products with Dart (both frontend and backend), non-fancy SQL DB and common sense.

E-mail: jobs@agilord.com

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Randomizing children at hospitals would likely have big negative impact on society. On the long term, everyone would loose social cohesion because of the lack of bonds between brothers, nieces, whatever.

Families would lose every incentive to have a child in the first place, if it would be randomly switch to another (things like inheritance, family history and lineage comes in my mind). On the other hand, adoption would surely skyrocket.

Care to provide pointers on the correlations (research paper, whatever)?

Last time I've tried to install (~ 9-10 months ago): - Stash: it was a no-brainer (easy setup, easy use). - GitLab: hours spent with frustration (hard to setup, but this might have changed now, I need to try it again).

Stash seem to have a larger team behind it, with more features, documentation and snappier responses, but GitLab is promising too. I hope they all can be profitable and keep up the speed of improvements in all of the products.

If you publish something, it can be read everywhere. There should be no surprise that people will judge your words based on their customs, on their laws, on their terms, and they will act within their jurisdiction.

But that goes both ways: if a "Nigerian prince" scams you, you will not stop just because you were originally out of his jurisdiction.

I think Tim O'Reilly or Jeff Jarvis or Clay Shirky (unfortunately I don't have the bookmark anymore) already addressed this:

The case is a prime example that what you write is not only the jurisdiction where you write it, but also the jurisdiction where people read it. (And the jurisdiction where it stored and where it is going through as network traffic.)

Is there any benefit to use Presto on top of Riak or ElasticSearch (assuming someone writes the required connectors)? What are the main differences there?

You do realize, that because of the increase of content publishers, getting ranking becomes harder anyway (independent to Google).

I agree, banks and financial institutions are data driven businesses.

I have seen several banks from inside, and most of them think that they are driven by financial analysts, figuring out clever equations for managing money (e.g. lending rules, mortgage policies, etc), while IT is just a cost center for tracking the transactions. It's old school, and they change very slowly.

Sooner or later they shall realize that the transaction data they are tracking is a good source of information, and they could use "hard" data (through some machine learning and data mining), instead of or alongside of the "soft" intuition of their analysts.

I assume you have 'events' that you will 'merge' together in a single state object (in case you want to display something). So the operation is to fetch every related event, merge, display.

Now the 'folding' can be defined as snapshotting the 'merged state'. Instead of fetching 10 events, after the folding + GC, you will fetch e.g. 2 + the folded one. You are saving some CPU and bandwidth over time and that's it.

> but if each user action that triggered a one cell update becomes an event I have to keep forever, I see my database size exploding

I think there might be a balance here: you can always garbage-collect events that are already merged in an updated value of the given object. Depending on the requirement, this GC can be done e.g. after days or after months of that merge...

Which payment provider are you using? AFAIK most of them are very picky on the subject.

oops, something deleted the part: [that was used by] US government to access [everything in plain text.]

It's not about questioning the law, it's about uncovering the internal works of the law. My previous readings pointed to this bill as one of the earliest regulations that was used by everything in plain text. A nice way to describe backdoors without saying them explicitly, especially if the product claims to be secure from snooping. But what message does it send that the law orders you to screw your customers?

This specific bill might have died (I'm sure the patriot act superseded it), but every NSA-related revelation (and the FBI ones ~3 years ago) point in a direction that something similar is still in effect.

    "Comprehensive Counter-Terrorism Act of 1991"
    "Sponsor: Sen Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [DE] (introduced  1/24/1991)"
    "Cosponsor: [...] Sen Reid, Harry [NV] - 1/30/1991"

"It is the sense of Congress that providers of electronic communications services and manufacturers of electronic communications service equipment shall ensure that communications systems permit the government to obtain the plain text contents of voice, data, and other communications when appropriately authorized by law."

edit: link is not working, but search for the title, it will open up from something like this: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d102:S266:

Not entirely true. You can always offer to provide them electricity at a lower cost than they would get from the nuclear plants. There is a cross-country marketplace for electricity in the EU, and probably nobody will stop you to sell such thing to Japan.

> "Which might explain why some people describe their purchase as watery and bland."

This is true.

The other part of the explanation is that many people just don't appreciate the coffee that is anything different than what they are used too. Just watch someone from the US in Europe drinking an espresso, or the other way around. People have different opinions based on their personal habits, and saying it is "watered down" should mean nothing without context and references.

There is a lot of room in-between.

From the FAQ:

"Can Social Fixer hide the Sponsored ads?

Yes, just click on the "X" in the upper right of the box, and all boxes with the same title will be hidden every time you load a page."

There is a lesson here somewhere...

I'd love to see your business plans, upcoming negotiation agendas and planned budgets. And I am not even your competitor, as I don't know what business you are in. Imagine your competitor's eagerness for such data.

I am a big fan of postgresql, but I am always having issues with the cluster configuration part, e.g. failovers, automatic new master election and all these crazy administration about the wal shipping. Was there any improvement on this either in the code base or by a 3rd party? What do people use to handle larger postgresql clusters?

As a contrast, I really like Riak's ability to just work with one node down...

Secondary market provides liquidity to the shareholders, but not to the company. There is no cash-flow to or from the company if you buy an AAPL or GOOG. As I've said: the cash comes to the company only if it decides to have another public offering.

I see where you are going with the "what motivates people to buy ownership" part, and it has truth in it. My grandparent response was to the part "moving real capital to real businesses in need". Many people don't realize that the secondary market is not moving capital to the business, only the public offering.

> I think its reasonable that as a US citizen you're okay with the NSA being able to break crypto.

Because the world is divided to US citizens or the bad guys? C'mon, there is a non-US world out there, who are not bad guys, but who've just lost every respect for the US tech sector.

> People often forget that underneath the glitz, glamour and dazzling array of numbers of the stock market and Wall Street, the purpose of "the game" is moving real capital to real businesses in need.

Well, if it is a public offer, yes. But most of the time people are just buying stuff on the secondary market, meaning that the ownership of the company changes (a bit), but there is no capital move to and from the company. Nevertheless, this might help companies to create and time new rounds of public offers.

> It seems impossible to limit someone's exposure on Facebook,

I don't think anyone is forced to use it. I know several families who have account, yet, they don't share on it or use it for anything that could be embarrassing in the later years.

> especially when any 3rd party will happily post a photo of your family member online.

You should always explain to your friends what your expectation of privacy is. If they don't respect that, they are not your friends anyway.

> If you read the original piece, it's perfectly clear what was meant, and there's absolutely no room for anybody to misunderstand it.

I'll give you an anecdotal example: myself. I did misunderstood him first, and the explanation makes sense. I don't need more "fix". pg won me over this issue. So, are you sure that it was a bad move?

What if - on a rare occasion - you did say something that was misunderstood by a lot of people who trust your judgement? Would you be ignorant at that time too?

We definitely need educators with good communication skills and sensitive social approach. They need to explain to the greater public why this matters and what they can do about it. They need to get over the threshold of "this is conspiracy nuts, leave me alone". This is the most disturbing thing I've seen: people see some of the facts, and they decide that it is paranoia.

If we have the educators, we need to advertise them to extreme limit, ensuring that everyone gets their message at least five times in some format.

The topic is really hard, because one needs to crush various myths: - that we can be safe, no matter what, - that the people in government are good and honest, - that it can happen to them and not only to others...

... while you keep their engagement level and focus up.