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imsofuture··on Launch HN: SannTek (YC S19) – Breathalyzer for Cannabis
You're missing the point that the war on drugs is racist, oppressive, expensive and counterproductive. Adding technology does not improve any aspect of that.

FWIW I do not think driving high is safe at all, but I don't think it's a serious problem either (by the numbers).

imsofuture··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)
NetApp Kubernetes Service | Senior Golang Developers | REMOTE | Full-time

NKS offers customers a simple click-to-deploy production Kubernetes cluster across clouds and on-premise. My team builds application management features on top of this platform, using tools like Golang, Tekton, KNative, Helm. Example projects: develop secure tunnel for remote access to on-premise clusters, design buildpack workflow for building and deploying services directly into Kubernetes clusters, build GraphQL API for exposing remote cluster logs and metrics.

We're looking for experienced developers to write applications and tools in Golang. Kubernetes experience is nice, but not required.

If interested shoot me an email: jeffreyz@netapp.com

imsofuture··on What Gets to Be a 'Burger'? States Restrict Labels on Plant-Based Meat
I guarantee this is more cultural signaling than a threat the beef industry sees as real.
imsofuture··on GitLab – A $1B business where all employees work remotely
I'm not sure there's a great canonical and generalized source of this information.

Anecdotally, 7 years ago, remote, at a bootstrapped 15 person company, I made ~10% more than the absolute max Gitlab would pay me right now. The difference is wildly worse now.

imsofuture··on GitLab – A $1B business where all employees work remotely
Gitlab's idea of market norms is "market where you live + us, literally the only company that hires remote in the world".

Spoiler: that only works hiring those who are ignorant of the remote employment market.

imsofuture··on GitLab – A $1B business where all employees work remotely
This is a bad argument, because there are many other remote employers.

I do not live in a low CoL area because I'm from here and never left, nor did I move here to save money. I moved here because I was able to keep a high paying career, and live somewhere I wanted to live.

Gitlab is flat-out non-competitive.

imsofuture··on FreeBSD 11.3
How does Docker work on FreeBSD these days? I'd be pretty tempted to switch if I knew most of my normal work would continue on working.
imsofuture··on Lessons from Hiring a Remote Team
As an insatiable reader: yikes!

There has got to be such a poor correlation between reading and being a good hire, I'm shocked you'd admit to seriously using such an awful filter for hiring. Hiring people that are most like you in appearance, philosophy, mannerisms, hobbies is a TERRIBLE way to hire.

imsofuture··on Ask HN: Why do new(ish) programming languages eschew OOP features?
Because OOP is a good idea that's been ridden into the ground by dogmatic implementations.

OOP is fine, and it makes sense for lots of things. But going crazy with OOP makes for a mess, and a lot of software and languages and tools have chosen "let's do OOP" over "let's do good software". So non OOP stuff is just the natural backlash to OOP gone wild.

imsofuture··on Always Own Your Platform
Counterpoint: https://i.imgur.com/CJVL9bF.png
imsofuture··on Why aren’t more companies remote-first?
It is competitive, but you don't see that competition because you flat-out tell people you won't pay them competitively. I would never consider Gitlab for that reason, it just doesn't make financial sense.

Money isn't everything, I've certainly taken a significant paycut to take a job I wanted and believed in. But I'd have to take a 50% paycut to work at Gitlab, so... no thanks. And worse yet, you'd openly pay a city dweller on my team twice as much to do the same work.

imsofuture··on Bill to put health warnings on soda and sugary drinks advances in California
Same question for you, except private corporations. Inundation with advertising is exactly private corporations using their power to modify behavior.

The only difference I see is that the government has your best interest in mind (ostensibly, of course, don't mistake me for thinking it really does). Advertisers do not.

imsofuture··on Almost 40% of Americans Would Struggle to Cover a $400 Emergency
Extracting as much money as possible from the financially illiterate absolutely is.
imsofuture··on Almost 40% of Americans Would Struggle to Cover a $400 Emergency
I didn't even sort of say that.
imsofuture··on Almost 40% of Americans Would Struggle to Cover a $400 Emergency
And of course, billions of dollars are being spent to convince you that you shouldn't actually live that thrifty lifestyle, even if you are able to.
imsofuture··on Almost 40% of Americans Would Struggle to Cover a $400 Emergency
Both being hallmarks of capitalism, does it really matter?
imsofuture··on Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal
The older I get, the funnier that quote gets.
imsofuture··on Linux Network Queues Overview
Great overview!
imsofuture··on Cockpit voice recorder of Lion Air jet depicts pilots' frantic search for fix
Those fixes are inarguably lower level than training. Not just to be pedantic but the whole reason Boeing is in this mess is because they figured all the lower level things could sort out issues, without engaging higher level fixes.

I'm skeptical of the amount of automation the big manufacturers are pushing. They're creating wildly more complex system interactions in the process.

imsofuture··on E.U.’s Biggest Economies Ban Boeing Max 8 Jets
I believe only the MAX-8s are in service. MAX-7s exist, but not sure if they're in use, or just on order. The 9 and 10 haven't been produced yet.
imsofuture··on Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021
Yeah, it seems likely to be a mid-capacity, mid-range 757 replacement.
imsofuture··on Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com
I get a lot of updates on the kids (not my kids) from one specific person (I've responded to them, they keep doing it), and an occasional W2 (not my W2).
imsofuture··on Boeing 787 Suffers Rare Dual Engine Failure on Landing
Tech is the worst. Fetishizing disruption leads to neophytes thinking they're breaking new ground when they're just re-discovering long dismissed ideas.
imsofuture··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)
DigitalOcean | NYC | REMOTE | Sr Engineer: Platform Core

My team, Platform Core is hiring a Sr Engineer. Our team develops an internal PaaS based on Kubernetes, and operates the underlying infrastructure. Lots of fun and interesting stuff to do: we run over a thousand different services on our platform, and are constantly evolving it to expose new features and make operations simpler and better for the whole engineering org. The work is a healthy mix of operations (chef, docker, linux, kubernetes) and development (golang). Ops experience is a big plus for background and context, but the work is heavier on development.

Actual job post: https://grnh.se/ae902dc11

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DigitalOcean | NYC | REMOTE | Sr Engineer: Platform Core

My team, Platform Core is hiring a Sr Engineer. Our team develops an internal PaaS based on Kubernetes, and operates the underlying infrastructure. Lots of fun and interesting stuff to do: we run over a thousand different services on our platform, and are constantly evolving it to expose new features and make operations simpler and better for the whole engineering org. The work is a healthy mix of operations (chef, docker, linux, kubernetes) and development (golang). Ops experience is a big plus for background and context, but the work is heavier on development.

Actual job post: https://grnh.se/ae902dc11

imsofuture··on Republicans Were Sent to Spam More Often Than Democrats
I'd love to see some word counts and sentiment analysis as part of this.
imsofuture··on At Blind, a security lapse revealed private complaints from tech employees
I agree that there's a lot of toxic stuff, especially in the general communities. I do think it's a net benefit for company-wide chatter though. There is good and useful perspective in there, it's just harder to find than all the garbage.
imsofuture··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)
DigitalOcean | NYC | REMOTE | Sr Engineer: Platform Core

My team, Platform Core is hiring a Sr Engineer. Our team develops an internal PaaS based on Kubernetes, and operates the underlying infrastructure. Lots of fun and interesting stuff to do: we run over a thousand different services on our platform, and are constantly evolving it to expose new features and make operations simpler and better for the whole engineering org. The work is a healthy mix of operations (chef, docker, linux, kubernetes) and development (golang). Ops experience is a big plus for background, but the work is heavier on development.

Actual job post: https://grnh.se/ae902dc11

imsofuture··on Venice Anti-Flood Gates Could Wreck Lagoon Ecosystem
QED why we are where we are.
imsofuture··on Dark web dealers voluntarily ban deadly fentanyl
It's accidental. The problem with fentanyl is that it's so ridiculously strong.

So you're selling heroin and figure "hey, I'll cut it and make more money". You add something inert and then add a tiny bit of a fentanyl and oops you added too much, now it's poisonous for users to take a "normal" dose.

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