justinlilly

I did writing to a similar effect yesterday. https://justin.abrah.ms/2022-01-27-my-thoughts-on-crypto.htm...

tl;dr - I would really love to like the crypto stuff that's being worked on, I just can't get on board with the big problems I'm seeing.

For those looking, this is the diff. I'd be really curious how that got in.

https://my.diffend.io/npm/ua-parser-js/0.7.28/0.7.29

One of the key FAQs missing is: Is it ready? Should I use it? What should I expect my experience to be?

It's a mix of personal interest and seeking to develop an expertise. It's also a lot of discipline. I wrote more publicly in the early part of my career, but my writing is more company-internal these days.

The linux (ubuntu?) version of `open .` is `xdg-open .`

Any specific devices? Or just generally the brands of oculus & microsoft?

I think he means he's the tech equivalent. As in, "he was near many historical events, but not the focus or beneficiary of them"

I use lsp. It's not as good as pycharm, et al, but it's good.

Admissibility in court feels like the barest minimum of requirements here, to say nothing of the other services like counceling the linked thread discusses.

For the arrow coming from github to the cdn, I would bet that's a deployment where the existing docs site gets deployed as a lambda. From there, CDN calls that aren't cached go to the lambda which are then served up.

barnacl.es is HN for bootstrappers, iirc.

I left Google after 3 years to join a startup in the project management space. It was clear that I could work on a product that made lots of money (ads) or was in front of lots of people (maps), but I couldn't actually make a difference in how the company operated. So I joined as employee #2 of a startup and eventually managed some people.

I now work at Amazon. I understand that I'm working for a company who will pay me very well in exchange for me to show up and write code and not think about engineering any other time without prior allowance (lol opensource). This is a bargain that I feel fine with, now that I've entered into it with eyes open.

Eventually, the money won't be enough to keep me and I'll look around for a medium sized startup that sells thing to people for money and has a sustainable business model (aka not into hypergrowth).

Save all of the assets that are loaded? I suspect that if you published your asset bundle, others would figure out the greasemonkey script to let you just keep that UI until they change their APIs. :)

I believe there are logical holes in the article posted.

> According to data compiled by The Washington Post, 50 percent of the victims of fatal police shootings were white, while 26 percent were black. The majority of these victims had a gun or "were armed or otherwise threatening the officer with potentially lethal force," according to Mac Donald in a speech at Hillsdale College. > > Some may argue that these statistics are evidence of racist treatment toward blacks, since whites consist of 62 percent of the population and blacks make up 13 percent of the population. But as Mac Donald writes in The Wall Street Journal, 2009 statistics from the Bureau of Justice Statistics reveal that blacks were charged with 62 percent of robberies, 57 percent of murders and 45 percent of assaults in the 75 biggest counties in the country, despite only comprising roughly 15 percent of the population in these counties.

This is saying that while cops shoot more blacks than the population would indicate, we also arrest them at a higher rate. Because they are arrested at a higher rate, we would expect the shooting rate to be high b/c they have a higher-than-population-level-would-indicate interaction with police.

So.. it's unclear as to whether there's selection bias here. Are blacks given disproportionate police contact which increases arrest rate (aka differential exposure)? This would also lead to the same circular logic.

In Portland, Oregon, where I live, there was a report tracking different ethnicities through the criminal justice system called the Relative Rate Index. Article about it: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2016/02/blacks_... and source: http://media.oregonlive.com/portland_impact/other/RRI%20Repo...

In there, it says the rate of each stage of the prison pipeline is approximately the same across race. So to explain why 4x the number of black people are in the pipeline than the population would point to the pre-sentencing side of the world.

I have a friend who left tech and went to art school. Now makes puppets for a popular TV show.

Find something that makes money, retrain, get it done.

Hard to say what you should go to without knowing what you disliked about the current thing.

I've poked at trying to build this multiple times for the last 10 years, but always ended up looking at the wikipedia XML and just balking.

The one difference that mine theoretically would have had is that I think it would be rad to include the paragraph you found the link along the edge in the graph, so you could see a little story.

Also, excluding years and places to make the routes more "interesting" (e.g. longest path under a limit without cycles).

Media live is for live video. You have video on demand it seems. Slightly different. S3 or MediaStore + CDN. MediaConvert sounds right tho.

It being stated that it's zero tolerance and "well, give him one more chance b/c he's a top performer" [especially in small orgs with young employees </bias>] aren't quite the same thing. People are willing to make exceptions for their implicit biases.

Just because people know how to write for a blog doesn't mean they know how to scale a web server.

As opposed to those people who are executed for just reasons? Who decides?

Has anyone figured out how to create lambdas? I can't seem to create one via the CLI because I don't have the correct IAM role setup?

It's team dependent. I joined (AWS) because it was a neat project, they pay high for my area, the Google office in my area didn't have interesting projects, and they offered to move me across the country. I will stay 2 years. Perhaps more.

I think automated style checkers are great too. One problem I have with them is it fails the build, which has poor locality with the problem. Instead, I wanted the failures to actually comment on the line of code. That's why I wrote an automatic style checker to do that. You can run without having it baked into the company process (just from the CLI), which was important for me at the time. You can find it here: https://github.com/justinabrahms/imhotep

I also wrote a service version of it at https://betterdiff.com/. One relies on the other, so the CLI app will have the same feature set, just not automatic. Several people use the CLI app from jenkins or similar. :)

adding "saas" makes a bit more of a difference: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=software%20as%20a%20...

The three trend graphs at the tops are disingenuous. Here they are in relative comparison to one another: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=software%20as%20a%20...

Software as a service is a completely flat line by comparison.

It looks like what you're doing is quite similar to Sprintly. https://sprint.ly -- Including your advanced GitHub integration which they've had for a few years.

What would you say makes you different from them?

Tableau is for business users to generate graphs. Also d3js is a bear to work with until you've steeped your brain in it.

By your logic, there's no need to use MS Word, people should just use TeX.

The group I work with at MIT (the Office of Digital Learning) is hiring.

Tech: python/django, docker/heroku, react/redux/webpack

We're helping build online courseware through open source technology. The majority of your work is open source. You can see the project I'm working on here: https://github.com/mitodl/ccxcon

If you have questions for an engineer, ask me at abrahms@mit.edu or you can apply at http://odl.mit.edu/about/jobs/senior-software-engineer-0 -- The ad is for senior engineers, but we're hiring mid level (and maybe junior) too.

Boston, MA; Remote Possible; Full-time.

Apparently there are fixes for this even in our own country. Oregon's state legislature, for instance, has a clause which says what the bill is about. Any amendments that don't meet that qualification are not allowed to be tacked on.

I have this laptop. The 8gb ram is a real issue for me (due to VM usage), so I'm looking to switch away from it.

That said, aside from the memory issue.. I love this laptop.