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creyes

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engineering manger @ Alteryx carl.reyes@alteryx.com
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creyes··on Launch HN: Noloco (YC S21) – Build internal tools from data without code
Disclaimer: I work for Alteryx

We're launching a product early next year that can do all the things you listed + more. It's built on top of users Workflows and the rest of the Cloud platform, but it's an exciting AppBuilding experience once you've done the Analytics part. https://www.alteryx.com/products/alteryx-appbuilder

creyes··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)
Catch Benefits | YC W19 | NYC (onsite) | Full Time | https://catch.co/join/

Catch is the first portable benefits platform. In an easy to use app, independents can manage their own personal payroll and benefits automatically taking care of taxes, investing for retirement, and enrolling in health insurance. We do the hard stuff so that our customers can focus on what they do best: hustling, creating, building, and living their lives.

We have a few open positions: - Full Stack Engineer (React, React Native, Python, Mongo) - Front End Engineer (React, React Native) - Platform / Devops (Python, Mongo, Terraform, Docker) - Product Manager

If you're interested in any of these positions - my email is in my profile or you can check out think above!

creyes··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)
catch (W19) | Engineering and Product positions | IN PERSON NYC | https://catch.co/join

Catch helps independents build a modern benefits package. We help contractors, freelancers and gig economy workers get health insurance, save for retirement, pay their taxes and more all from one easy to use app. Our stack is Mongo/Python/Grahql/React/ReactNative and we're looking for full stack engineers who want to work for a fast paced startup on a product that makes a difference in peoples lives.

Apply at the link above or shoot me an email carl@catch.co

creyes··on Moving from Hey to Fastmail
Probably related to this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26944192
creyes··on National Collegiate Athletic Association vs. Alston [pdf]
tl;dr in 2 quotes from the decision. Wild shit that the NCAA got this far

> The NCAA does not contest that its re-straints affect interstate trade and commerce and are thus subject to the Sherman Act.

> With this much agreed it is unclear exactly what the NCAA seeks. To the extent it means to propose a sort of judicially ordained immunity from the terms of the Sherman Act for its restraints of trade—that we should overlook its restrictions because they happen to fall at the intersection of higher education, sports, and money—we cannot agree.

creyes··on Google to use patient data to develop healthcare algorithms for hospital chain
"Lots of systems" is a stretch, only a few do. In fact, "support" is a stretch. Most EMRs (Cerner, Epic etc) only support HL7 as much as it gets them their CMMI / Promoting Interoperability certifications which are not relevant for actual use.

That being said, it is JSON but much worse

creyes··on Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?
I'm a big Hey fan. Have been using it since launch. The screener feature is great, and I like being able to organize my feeds. They've also done a good amount of iteration in the ~9 months I've had it so I'm hopeful for a consistent release of features.

I do with it had better calendar integration, or maybe it's own calendar. I'm not sure, but that's the big thing that Gmail has that I really miss

creyes··on The Rise (and Inevitable Fall) of Citizen Kane
Yea idk what he’s talking about. I thought Mank was incredible. The costume and set designs were great. Gary Oldman, like usual, gave an Oscar worthy performance. Amanda Seyfrieds portrayal of Marion Davies will probably get overlooked but I think it was one of her best performances. Great film, especially if you’ve seen Kane recently. Definitely recommended
creyes··on Uber open-sources tool to automatically clean up stale code
oh interesting, tbanks for the clarification!
creyes··on Uber open-sources tool to automatically clean up stale code
Is this drastically different than https://unused.codes/ ?
creyes··on Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn how electricity works?
This is an incredible resource. Learned everything I needed to know for an IoT side project and more from the AAC book
creyes··on Ask HN: How bad should the code be in a startup?
I think I disagree with this. I think the short-term harm of this kind of tech debt is more substantial than you're leading on. "Causing myself problems for the future" might be true, but that future could be in a week when you need to pivot because of user testing, a shift in the market, product market fit etc.

I think the mistake you're making is conflating "getting code written now" with expediency. Adding/removing features and shifting when necessary are "expediency." That's the value of a thorough test suite.

creyes··on Researchers crack Covid-19 genome signature
> The machine-learning method achieves 100 percent accurate classification of the COVID-19 sequences and more importantly, discovers the most relevant relationships among more than 5,000 viral genomes again within minutes.

I only have a basic understanding of ML but isn't 100% accuracy this early on (limited dataset) an indicator of overfitting?

creyes··on Choosing Between Rust or Go?
I think you're right that the level of abstraction is the same but the language ergonomics are drastically different. Go was designed so that anyone coming out of school could read/understand/write it very quickly. I'm not a Go expert and I can reason about code pretty well and even write some stuff.

That's absolutely NOT true of Haskell. It's a much more nuanced language and while I'm sure it's great once you learn it, the learning curve is steep. Because of that I think it's much easier to hire Go developers than Haskell developers too

creyes··on Show HN: Self-Published Book – Health Data Privacy, HIPAA, and COVID-19
I appreciate the consolidated information - but at a time where people are trying to help / donate resources for COVID-19, putting this behind a paywall seems out of place. A donation button might be easier? I'll make a website for you for free if it opens up that information, feel free to shoot me a DM.

Also I'm not sure this is covered in the book, but HHS has relaxed some of it's HIPAA rules because of COVID-19. Specifically telehealth providers (think Google Hangouts) are going to have some leeway as we get through this pandemic. https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/e...

creyes··on Pro drivers are competing with gamers after F1 and Nascar canceled races
It's a risk thing too, i don't think it's just physical exertion. F1 drivers could literally die if they make a mistake. Not so much a problem in a sim
creyes··on Nvidia Geforce Now launches at $5 a month
I've been using NOW for ~6 months now and it's incredible. Are you going to get 144hz 4k gaming performance? No for sure but I've been using it for a couple of reasons:

1) Games that aren't available on my Macbook. Simple things like Legends of Runeterra and Magic Arena and Magic Online. Not super graphically intensive Geforce Now has worked better than Wine/VM solutions

2) Games that my Macbook just can't play like F1 2019. Good enough for both single and multiplayer.

Gonna miss it being free but easily worth $5.

creyes··on A Sad Day for Rust
The problem here was not that there was criticism, it's the TYPE of criticism (anger, hate etc).

And you know what's a good form of criticism? An issue with an attached PR

creyes··on U.S. Supreme Court keeps ruling barring prosecution for sleeping in public
But they're tax exempt - which is kinda like getting public money. Or at least, not paying money other businesses have to pay
creyes··on Ask HN: We are shutting down our startup, I get our code. What now?
This makes sense to me. If it's entirely unrelated then yeah totally. But if they're doing a shopify store to sell these workshops then I think OP should get some points
creyes··on Introducing Threads
I typically like having less apps on my phone rather than more. This feels like when Facebook spun off Messenger, I just stopped using it on my phone
creyes··on Why Go and Not Rust?
Isn't the Google codebase infamously a monorepo with billions of loc? That seems like it fits "scale of codebase complexity" as well as "web scale"
creyes··on Running GitHub on Rails 6.0
Different philosophies. I think the biggest difference is that Rails has a much bigger ecosystem and more developers than Django does. There are gem's out there that support almost everything you want to do and if there's not there are resources from people who have had to solve similar problems.
creyes··on Updating our advertising policies on state media
Doesn't catch entities like PAC's and Fox News though
creyes··on Terminating Service for 8Chan
Unless any of the people who were killed in El Paso were Cloudflare customers
creyes··on Kdenlive: an open-source video editor
GIMP is an open source graphics program and Blender is an open source 3D graphics program. Both incredibly high quality products that are open source
creyes··on Introducing draft pull requests
This is rad. I usually like to put up a PR early and add a WIP label. This lets my teammates take a look at the early direction of whatever I'm doing and I can make changes as necessary. This is a small but really impactful feature!
creyes··on Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Courses
I think that it's probably better to start with a solid vimrc and then make changes from there. Ours is pretty standard and included with our standard dotfiles https://github.com/thoughtbot/dotfiles/blob/master/vimrc

A HUGE problem with developers learning VIM is that they think they have to go from 0 - 100 immediately when you can adopt VIM gradually and still see noticeable efficiency increases.

creyes··on Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Courses
Hmmm. I'm not sure I agree with this. That's like saying that people use a screw driver to screw in a nail because it's a much lower investment and not everyone has the energy to use a drill.

The premise of the article is that the VIM is better enough than alternatives that it's worth the learning curve. Just like a drill is better enough than a screwdriver to learn ho to use it. If you want to contest that, that's a different discussion.

If your argument is, "some people don't have the energy to use the best tool for the job"... idk how to respond to that.

creyes··on CSS grid garden
A combination of both is really ideal. CSS Grid seems great for full screen things and FlexBox is really great at laying out small components.
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