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clutchski··on Show HN: Sonar – A tiny CLI to see and kill whatever's running on localhost
Mine is called “porthole”

https://github.com/clutchski/dotfiles/blob/main/home/bin/por...

clutchski··on Safe relational database queries using the Rust type system
This is the correct answer.
clutchski··on A group of activists got leaf blowers banned in the nation’s capital (2019)
Did you read the article? The article was primarily about noise pollution.
clutchski··on The Wisdom in Kung Fu Panda
The Panda is also a bumbling unskilled male who fails upwards while being supported by a female who put in years of work to build real expertise (Tigress).
clutchski··on Ask HN: Move to product management at 35?
There are lots of PM jobs where an engineering background would be really helpful.

Shameless plug: we have a bunch posted at datadog.com/careers. Take a gander.

clutchski··on How Politics and Bad Decisions Starved New York’s Subways
NYC's airport transit isn't as good as other cities (Tokyo, Toronto, etc) but nobody who lives in New York would make that trip by car at that time. They'd fly from LGA or JFK or take the car.
clutchski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)
Datadog | New York, NYC, Paris | FULL TIME | ONSITE, REMOTE

Datadog builds state of the art monitoring tools. If you can make thousands of machines work as one, love grinding 10% more performance out of a function, build amazing data visualizations or just love hacking, drop us a line.

https://www.datadoghq.com/jobs-engineering/

clutchski··on Show HN: Rebridge – A transparent bridge between JavaScript and Redis
Code that obscures network access is not good. How do you handle errors, retries, reconnects, timeouts, etc?

It's not worth it :)

clutchski··on Toronto is poised to become a producer of tech startups
"Toronto is already home to a number of successful venture-backed businesses, such as Shopify, KIK, ..."

Fact check time. Shopify's headquarters is in Ottawa. Kik is in Waterloo.

clutchski··on Mary Meeker's 2016 Internet Trends Report [pdf]
I tried it last night. It was amazing. Going to be huge.
clutchski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)
Apply! Remote will work for the right people. :)
clutchski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)
Datadog | datadog.com | New York, NY, Paris

Datadog builds awesome monitoring tools. We have tons of challenges and are looking for great build to help tackle them (processing millions of data points a second, integrating with hundreds of pieces of software, sifting anomalies from live data streams, building data visualizations, etc). Come and build great tools that are by developers for developers.

https://www.datadoghq.com/careers/

Write if you have any questions :)

clutchski··on The Financial Industry Is Having Its Napster Moment
If index funds become the default investment of choice, will their value diminish?
clutchski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)
Datadog | NYC | Full-time | ONSITE / REMOTE

Datadog builds killer monitoring tools for dev and ops teams. We are looking for talented people who can solve hard problems:

- processing millions of data points a second

- writing rock solid client code that runs on hundreds of thousands of machines

- teasing trends out of a massive pipeline of data.

- writing solid, modern front-end code and visualizations

Check out the positions and apply here:

http://jobs.datadoghq.com/

clutchski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)
Datadog - http://www.datadoghq.com/ - New York, NY

Generalists, front-end, back-end & data developers.

Datadog is a product built to give dev and ops teams great visibility into the health of their system. If you want to come and build systems that process persist, analyze and visualize tons of data (millions of data points per second), come and check us out.

For me, a backend dev, it's been incredibly fruitful helping build, grow and run a system at this scale. We've tackled lots of hard problems and there are lots left to solve.

More details here:

http://jobs.datadoghq.com/

Drop me a line if you have any questions: mattp@datadoghq.com

clutchski··on Stopping expensive queries before they start
Never underestimate the need for a pressure release valve in a time of crisis.
clutchski··on MDBM – High-speed database
Because it will persist between restarts?
clutchski··on One hundred rules for NASA project managers (1995) [pdf]
"Most international meetings are held in English. This is a foreign language to most participants such as Americans, Germans, Italians, etc."

Zing.

clutchski··on Audio Tour App Detour Steers You Away from the Typical Tourist Traps
Louis CK is from Mass and lives in Manhattan, so his Brooklyn tour is probably not what you're looking for.
clutchski··on The story behind football's innovative yellow first down line
This was a terrible invention.
clutchski··on Uncss – Find unused CSS
If this worked across a whole site rather than a single page, that would be great.
clutchski··on Analyzing S3 and CloudFront access logs with AWS RedShift
Glad to see Canadians still like hockey almost twice as much as the other sports ;)
clutchski··on OS X Command Line Utilities
tmux seems to choke on tons of console output far earlier than screen.
clutchski··on Rails – The Missing Parts
I thought Etsy uses PHP. Could be wrong.
clutchski··on Typing.io: Typing Practice for Programmers
Touch typing is like cursive writing. I want to be able to do it, but I probably never will, and I think that's ok.
clutchski··on PEP 450: Adding A Statistics Module To The Standard Library
Batteries included is a fine philosophy when starting a language to encourage early adoption, but at this point, I don't think it's worth adding new libraries to the stdlib. Here's why:

- It's very easy to find and install third party modules

- Once a library is added to stdlib, the API is essentially frozen. This means we can end up stuck with less than ideal APIs (shutil/os, urllib2/urrlib, etc) or Guido & co are stuck in a time consuming PEP/deprecate/delete loop for even minor API improvements.

- libraries outside of the stdlib are free to evolve. users of those libraries who don't want to stay on the bleeding edge are free to stay on old versions.

clutchski··on How Hugh Jackman Taught Me to Make a Lasting Impression
Yea, I heard Bill Clinton was a master of this.
clutchski··on Open-sourcing Stylo
I don't like the "kudos" widget. It's not clear you're "giving kudos" just by hovering over a widget and there's no way to retract a vote. Kind of cheesy to me.
clutchski··on Why Erlang?
Not exactly what you're asking for, but check out Elixir, a Ruby inspired language that targets the Erlang VM:

http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2011/03/why-rubyists-should...

clutchski··on Examples of beautiful Javascript
I don't use it, but I am quite impressed with the cleanliness of the Google Closure source.

http://code.google.com/p/closure-library/source/browse/trunk...

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