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gitonup

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Seattle tech since 2006.

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gitonup··on First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News
In the context of that sentence I take independent to mean "unrelated by connection to each other" rather than "unrelated by ideology." In that context I don't see a claim that they're non-partisan.

For that matter, nor can I think of any outlet in modern days which would both a) report that information were they to find it and b) not be immediately and loudly labeled partisan by a significant portion of the internet.

gitonup··on Turning Sublime Text into a Lightweight Python IDE
I've edited my OP and hopefully what I'm saying is more clear.

If the entire ecosystem is your IDE, you're not "Turning Sublime Text into a Lightweight Python IDE".

I don't know how else to phrase this to make it clear that I'm not attacking, denigrating, claiming inferior, etc., composite workflows like vim + GDB. But if you get to an article that says XYZ is now your IDE, and it offers a piss-poor debugging experience unless you leave XYZ, then that article is not turning XYZ into an IDE.

gitonup··on Turning Sublime Text into a Lightweight Python IDE
My definition of what? I literally said there's nothing wrong with taking that approach. I quite purposely did not argue productivity.

My issue is with the acknowledgment by the author that the standard for "IDE" includes debugging capabilities and then goes on to provide a plugin that provides follow-along only via running GDB, which would need to be configured (I assume, since the author does not specify) the normal ways.

If you want to argue UNIX is the IDE I can get behind that definition, but the debugger is absolutely not integrated into Sublime (or Vim or Atom or N++ or ...) in any meaningful way.

gitonup··on Turning Sublime Text into a Lightweight Python IDE
> The final requirement for a reasonable IDE experience is to be able to follow a debugging session in the file where the code exists.

> There is no plugin for SublimeText that supports this. But there is a Python package you can install into the virtualenv for each of your projects that does it.

This drives me batty whenever I see "turn XYZ into an IDE for (foo)." The author of this post at least lists debugger integration as part of the IDE experience, but comparing against actual full fledged commercial / non-plugin-composite IDEs? I haven't seen one article for turning Atom/ST/Vim/etc into an "IDE" that comes close (edit: that is, close to a reasonable debugging experience, in an integrated way) capability-wise.

There's nothing wrong with taking that approach, but if you need to shim on GDB and use a plugin to just follow along in source (forget setting watches, gutter-click breakpoints, conditional breakpoints, etc., from Sublime Text), that's pretty definitively not integrated into Sublime.

gitonup··on 50 Bytes of Code That Took 4 GB to Compile (2013)
Spez (The CEO and one of the admins) has admitted to shadow-editing comments posted by other users without visible tracking (normally edits get a *, and I'm otherwise not aware of any mod- or user-facing ability to do so for comments that are not yours) on /r/The_Donald[1].

[1] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/spezgiving-how-re...

gitonup··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)
Indeed | Senior Developer IC | Seattle, WA | ONSITE | Fulltime | www.indeed.jobs

Work for the world’s #1 job site.

https://www.indeed.jobs/career/JobDetail/Senior-Software-Eng...

Our Seattle office has exploded in size in the past couple of years and we need developers with strong CS backgrounds. Web focus is a plus. We run an MVC webapp-backed-by-microservices platform, with a large Hadoop slow-cycle processing backend and more and more technical challenges to work with daily at a global scale with millions of users.

We have a gorgeous office space downtown near Pioneer Square by the water. All of our openings for this office can be found at: https://www.indeed.jobs/career/JobListSeattle

We're looking for someone who Has a passion for run-time performance Thrives on simplifying complex information Loves to learn and develop new skills continuously Has a strong sense of ownership in every application they build Requirements BS in Computer Science or related area, or relevant work experience Minimum 6 years experience in software development with at least 2 years in Java programming Deep background in information retrieval (IR), knowledge representation or computational linguistics Significant experience with large scale, high performance systems. Experience building solutions for high traffic web sites a plus

You can drop our Seattle recruiter a direct line by b64decoding amdhYnJpZWwtY2UraG5AaW5kZWVkLmNvbQ==

gitonup··on The world needs a better spreadsheet
I've seen orgs run on Excel spreadsheets: one electric utility I worked for described their load in one massive Excel sheet. Where I think this analogy falls apart is that so many spreadsheets come to depend on macros (which my experience did, via ODBC), which makes them a meld between 2 and 3. I've definitely written systems at level 2 -- at the same company -- that have had way more ROI than the spreadsheet based system that was previously employed, but the spreadsheet could have employed macros to do the same thing.
gitonup··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)
Indeed.com | Seattle, WA | Fulltime | Multiple Openings | ONSITE, VISA (can transfer H1-B) | https://www.indeed.jobs/career/JobListSeattle

Indeed in Seattle is hiring for many roles, but especially for Technical Product Managers and Product Scientists.

In a Technical Product Manager we are looking for a feature owner able to wear many hats with a strong CS background and a track record of delivery. Our Seattle office in particular is launching new teams around privacy and our pipeline of jobseeker data acquisition among others: https://www.indeed.jobs/career/JobDetail/Technical-Product-M...

In a Product Scientist, we are looking for a hybrid Data Scientist and Product Manager. We are continuously improving how we match job seekers to employers and vice versa, as well as improving our understanding of how millions of people monthly are using our site. An ideal candidate will use quantitative analysis, data mining, and machine learning techniques to understand how users on our site interact with each other, and use that information to drive new product features and improvements: https://www.indeed.jobs/career/JobDetail/Product-Scientist/3...

We have a gorgeous office space downtown near Pioneer Square by the water. All of our openings for this office can be found at: https://www.indeed.jobs/career/JobListSeattle

You can drop our Seattle recruiter a direct line by b64decoding amdhYnJpZWwtY2UraG5AaW5kZWVkLmNvbQ==

gitonup··on Friendship Paradox
Head Squeeze did a bit on this a while ago, as applied to Twitter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_15zbgNpHk
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