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jroes··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)
Snowflake (Streamlit) | Bellevue/San Mateo | Open Source | Full-time | https://www.streamlit.io

We're hiring in many engineering roles on the Streamlit team, and many neighboring teams at Snowflake. At highest priority, I'm looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Streamlit Open Source team. Streamlit is a popular open-source project that's changing the way people visualize data and build interactive apps. We're seeking someone who loves UI/UX + Data, a background in managing full-stack teams, and a drive to innovate in the open-source space.

Our ideal candidate has 3+ years of experience in leadership roles, a startup mentality, and high energy to champion Streamlit. This is a really special role for us. Proficiency in Python and React is a plus, along with experience in data science or interactive visualization tools.

Apply directly here: https://careers.snowflake.com/us/en/job/7118167002/Software-..., or drop me a line at jon.roes at snowflake.com.

jroes··on The legacy of fy_iceworld, Counter-Strike’s divisive, popular custom map (2020)
Not sure the industry is moving away from mods universally. You or your kids ever play Roblox?
jroes··on Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool
I agree that orgs of all sizes should use SSO. The pricing should scale appropriately.

But as we have seen, companies are not doing enough to secure the sustainability of the open source software they rely on for their businesses, and I think a balance needs to be struck.

jroes··on Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool
I feel like charging for SSO is a reasonable request of enterprises when adopting open source software. Most enterprises require SSO as policy (and should). Most enterprises also don't contribute financially to the sustainability of open source software, so this is one way to ensure that happens.
jroes··on Ask HN: Is Anyone Else Tired of the Self Enforced Limits on AI Tech?
Ever seen the movie Real Genius? Many scientists and engineers who have invented technology that ultimately led to mass bloodshed and destruction have regretted their participation.
jroes··on 717 Gigapixel Image of Rembrandt's Nightwatch
Anyone know if it's possible to load something like this up on a VR headset, like an Oculus?
jroes··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)
Streamlit | Engineers and Designers | REMOTE in North American TZs

Streamlit is the fastest way to build and share data apps. Streamlit turns data scripts into shareable web apps in minutes. All in Python. All for free. No front‑end experience required.

We're growing a lot following our series B found of funding. Open source library + a cloud-based hosted platform.

* Core Engineer - https://boards.greenhouse.io/streamlit/jobs/4407488003

* Cloud Engineer - https://boards.greenhouse.io/streamlit/jobs/4361316003

* More openings at https://streamlit.io.

Tech stack: Python, Go, Javascript, React, GCP

"Some of the kindest people I've ever had the opportunity to work with" - A recent hire

"The most prepared founding team" - Our board

"Really fantastic", "I'm thrilled to see this functionality" - Users about our feature launch yesterday

We'd especially love to hear from diverse candidates!

jroes··on Ask HN: What are the books you wish your colleagues had read?
Crucial Conversations
jroes··on This AI Boom Will Also Bust
I have tried it. I owned a PSVR for a month and tried everything available. It was a pretty incredible experience, more immersive than I expected for sure. Most of my family and friends had a great time with it as well.

Ultimately, however, I resold it after a month. There are too few interesting full games available. Nearly every game is mostly a short trial, and most of the games are also very experimental and uninteresting to me in general. As an example, a full 1/3 of games available were musical demos that seemed to be geared toward folks having fun experiences while presumably smoking weed or otherwise in an altered state.

There was never a reason for me to come back to the system, but I would like to see if there are very imaginative useful practical applications that eventually see light. After surveying the other VR options I'm not convinced anything exists yet.

jroes··on Coding for Lawyers
I like the idea of niching down for a use case, but I've never met a lawyer I thought had the time or energy to devote to learning programming. I'm also having trouble understanding how a lawyer might use their programming skill to improve their daily lives. It seems to me that other folks on a lawyer's staff would be more likely to be interested in this subject and use it to the firm's benefit.
jroes··on Prosecutors Are Reading Emails From Inmates to Lawyers
I was listening to NPR recently and there was an interview with a former Clinton administration official [1] who mentioned almost in passing that prosecutors regularly infringe on the right to privileged conversation between a defendant and their lawyer. Specifically, he mentioned that the room you are given with your lawyer has paper thin walls that the police and prosecutor folks can hear through easily, and when in jail there is no way to have a real private conversation with your lawyer as well.

[1] http://wfae.org/post/webb-hubbell

jroes··on Tell HN: I want out
I don't know if you have the patience or time for it, but The E-Myth Revisited, an old book with a cheesy name, was made for you and this situation.
jroes··on An Introduction to Programming in Go
Another resource I like is gobyexample: https://gobyexample.com/
jroes··on "OpenSSL has exploit mitigation countermeasures to make sure it's exploitable"
Here's an interesting thought.

The NSA isn't the only entity who could stand to benefit from a privately held exploit to most SSL implementations. The NSA is also not the only group who could actually accomplish this.

Who's to say there aren't groups out there that are doing this already to steal and profit from corporate information, credit cards, etc.?

jroes··on A Request for a Startup: Gmail 'Waiting For Reply' Tab
I'm interested. What's your e-mail address?
jroes··on Density.io
I've actually seen a crude version of something like this on a trip to Taiwan a couple of years ago. I was at a mall and I noticed a wifi network called "People Counter." I wasn't entirely sure what they were doing with it, but I assumed it was counting MAC addresses.
jroes··on Show HN: Firesub – Reusable checklists for teams [MVP]
Yeah. It works really well on a dev team. We use it in our team all the time for things before we transition them into a fully-automated process.
jroes··on Show HN: Firesub – Reusable checklists for teams [MVP]
If you like the idea of this sort of thing, you might also check out https://github.com/csquared/checkcheckit. It lets you make checklists in Markdown, execute code in code blocks, and share progress live on the web with your team.
jroes··on Heroku XL
How many hours do you spend a month on devops tasks? And on top of that, how diligent are you with applying patches, testing backups, and all other sorts of drudgery necessary to keep a production site running smoothly? Take that number of hours, multiply it by your consulting rate, and there's a good chance Heroku may save you money.

For most production apps, you'd need at least a part time ops person to do things right. That's the kind of cost Heroku saves you.

jroes··on Heroku XL
Heroku isn't just a transparent proxy to EC2. You are getting several other services that are not easy to put together on your own - routing infrastructure, simple git push deployment, world-class postgres tooling. To put this kind of stuff together on your own is costly, and you will likely make a lot of mistakes on the way (mistakes Heroku has already made and learned from).

Another thought: When you use Basecamp, are you calculating how much they are spending on hosting your data?

jroes··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2014)
San Francisco, Remote - Heroku - http://heroku.com/jobs

We have tons of openings right now. We are growing our team significantly this year.

I'm not a hiring manager in any way, but I'd love to work with more awesome people here at Heroku!

jroes··on Adblock Plus Payday – $ 30 million from Amazon, Ebay, Google and Yahoo
Wait a second. Didn't ABP have a big donation page it would take you to after installing? I remember donating. This is unbelievable.
jroes··on DataHand
Think you forgot to include the URL?
jroes··on DataHand
As someone currently suffering and having gone down the road of expensive keyboards and changing keyboard layouts -- can I confirm with you the specifics of your strength training program?
jroes··on iPad onscreen keyboard designed for LaTeX [video]
I'm interested in seeing the same approach taken for programming.
jroes··on Show HN: A Clojure game library
Just curious - any particular reasons you dislike Unity?
jroes··on No Man’s Sky Is A Huge Procedurally Generated Sci-Fi Exploration Sim
Anyone know what engine they are using? The visuals look excellent.

EDIT: Think I found it: http://www.crytek.com/cryengine

jroes··on Sigil
I've always loved http://robohash.org/, which solves a similar problem.
jroes··on Show HN: Free hi-resolution photos for your website. 10 new photos every 10 days
Since Dropbox is 509'ing, can someone who's downloaded the photos mirror them somewhere like imgur instead?
jroes··on Posterous Migration Guide: All known importers compared
Some folks are also working on a jekyll import here:

https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-import/pull/12

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