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slaman··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)
AppNeta | Sr. Software Engineer, Software Engineer in Test, Full-Stack Developer, SRE, Engineering Manager, Technical Account Manager | Vancouver, BC | Full-Time, On-Site, https://www.appneta.com/ We help IT and Operations have peace-of-mind when it comes to their applications and infrastructure by offering comprehensive monitoring and forensics of network behaviours and application preformance. More info about the open positions on the careers page: https://www.appneta.com/about/careers/

jslaman@appneta.com

slaman··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)
AppNeta | Sr. Software Engineer, Software Engineer in Test, Full-Stack Developer, SRE, Engineering Manager, Technical Account Manager | Vancouver, BC | Full-Time, On-Site, https://www.appneta.com/ We help IT and Operations have peace-of-mind when it comes to their applications and infrastructure by offering comprehensive monitoring and forensics of network behaviours and application preformance.

More info about the open positions on the careers page: https://www.appneta.com/about/careers/

jslaman@appneta.com

slaman··on Avoid Else, Return Early (2013)
> with tabs you can configure your editor to your preferences.

Configure 1 tab to be 4 spaces.

Sometimes it's easier to go with the flow. I like tabs for the reasons you mentioned, but fixed-width spaces are a bit better for some reasons too. IDE's can do the heavy lifting of re-formatting indentation levels and converting tabs to spaces for me, and it means if I cat a file on a remote server regardless of the bash tab width settings or if I'm in your code or the stdlib it will all make sense.

slaman··on Show HN: Hacker News Classics
Link for those who are interested:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8581/8581-h/8581-h.htm

slaman··on Why It’s So Hard to Actually Work in Shared Offices
I just ran over AWS by hosting my mom's webpage with 40% uptime.
slaman··on REPL-Driven Development (2017)
It's a REPL with the ability to arbitrarily jump to chosen points in your application's execution, as opposed to attempting to populate the scope with copy-paste or dummy variables.
slaman··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)
AppNeta | Sr. Software Engineer, Software Engineer in Test, Full-Stack Developer, Engineering Manager, Technical Account Manager | Vancouver, BC | Full-Time, On-Site, https://www.appneta.com/ We help IT and Operations have peace-of-mind when it comes to their applications and infrastructure by offering comprehensive monitoring and forensics of network behaviours and application preformance.

More info about the open positions on the careers page: https://www.appneta.com/about/careers/

jslaman@appneta.com

slaman··on Is-thirteen: check if a number is equal to 13
Original thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11378103
slaman··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)
AppNeta | Sr. Software Engineer, Software Engineer in Test, Full-Stack Developer, Engineering Manager, Technical Account Manager | Vancouver, BC | Full-Time, On-Site, https://www.appneta.com/

We help IT and Operations have peace-of-mind when it comes to their applications and infrastructure by offering comprehensive monitoring and forensics of network behaviours and application preformance.

More info about the open positions on the careers page: https://www.appneta.com/about/careers/

jslaman@appneta.com

slaman··on Open-source clone of the Age of Empires II engine
This is mentioned in the first sentence of the ReadMe.
slaman··on Haven: Keep Watch
So it is either trivially defeated by commodity cellphone/wifi jammers, or has a huge risk of false positives.
slaman··on Tesla big battery outsmarts lumbering coal units
The first rule of Tautology club is the first rule of Tautology club.

https://xkcd.com/703/

slaman··on My name is Ivan and I want to make the best photo editor
Do I have something wrong with my eyes? The first pic looks closer to the original.

Chrome on a mbp.

slaman··on My name is Ivan and I want to make the best photo editor
You want to crop a photo over the shoulder of a friend's computer. You're going to grab the keyboard and do it in a minute in the browser with this, or spend as much time installing gimp on their computer?
slaman··on My name is Ivan and I want to make the best photo editor
This is absolutely amazing. Too many times I'm looking to do simple things and don't have photoshop, the fact that I just opened this up and instantly felt at home and could do complex operations without even thinking is honestly revolutionary.

Every other online editor is a challenge to find, learn and use, and by the time you have spent 15-20 minutes you realize that you can't do what you want and need to get a local copy of photoshop anyways.

This is so far ahead of commercial competition in usability and speed I am astounded. Excellent work, I'm excited for where this takes you.

slaman··on Google collects cell tower info even if location services are disabled
The parent argument is that without transparency it's difficult to actually know.

Apple's true incentive is to provide value for their shareholders.

If they can improve the value provided to shareholders by hoovering up information while also maintaining consumer confidence and sales then why would they not?

I think that Apple's incentives are better aligned with my desires for privacy, but it's only an assumption.

slaman··on Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983
Not everyone it prepared to host, maintain and secure a server cluster of OSS.
slaman··on 900 out of 1000 people say a car is blue, what's the probability it is blue?
I'm the jerkwad who always answers undecided, because invariably these multiple choice answers force you to choose between poorly-defined extremes.

This one is pretty clear, but I could see in some context in some (perhaps post apocalyptic) society where legally killing and eating your young is a morally justified position. It's certainly seen in the natural world with chimpanzees and many other creatures.

I didn't always do well academically because of this, but I like to think it might help me as a programmer?

slaman··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)
The position has been filled.
slaman··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)
Cycle Component Network | Django Developer | Vancouver, BC | Onsite | Full-time

We're a small team, working out of North Vancouver. You'll join a eight person in-house dev team who are excited about new technologies and best practices. We are proud to have built a programmer friendly culture, with no strict hierarchies or rigid job roles. You'll get the chance to work on new exciting technology, and influence the direction of a rapidly growing company.

http://ccnbikes.com/

Send a resume to jordan@ccnbikes.com

slaman··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)
It is!

The bicycle to employee ratio is pretty high most days and a handful of us used to or still do competitive cycling.

Definitely not a job requirement though.

slaman··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)
Cycle Component Network | Django Developer | Vancouver, BC | Onsite | Full-time

We're a small team, working out of North Vancouver. You'll join a eight person in-house dev team who are excited about new technologies and best practices. We are proud to have built a programmer friendly culture, with no strict hierarchies or rigid job roles. You'll get the chance to work on new exciting technology, and influence the direction of a rapidly growing company.

http://ccnbikes.com/

Send a resume to jordan@ccnbikes.com

slaman··on The Average Student Does Not Exist
Classics are classics for a reason, they've stood the stand of time and scrutiny as literature of value.

Reading level of the material aside, I think it's more valuable to read The Catcher in the Rye than The Hunger Games because of the subject matter and impact on popular culture.

Classic literature is genre defining and gives you appreciation for the art of novelization.

It's hard to gain an initial appreciation for reading if you don't enjoy the reading you do, which is a good argument for the bestseller list, but it's hard to gain any depth of appreciation without understanding it's roots.

You might say you like hip-hop because lil-yachty made your head bounce on the radio, but without listening to N.W.A. you can't really say you understand it.

slaman··on Nestle says it will cut sugar in chocolate by 40%
You might be able to sell more volume if it says '40% less sugar same great taste!'
slaman··on 12-Foot Traffic Lanes Are Bad for Safety and Should Be Replaced (2014)
I agree with you up to the stress bit. Until we have reliable autonomous driving we should be fully alert while piloting heavy objects through shared space at high velocities. It adds to your cognitive load sure, but so does killing an equally distracted pedestrian.
slaman··on 12-Foot Traffic Lanes Are Bad for Safety and Should Be Replaced (2014)
I've found the older cities I've lived in with much tighter roads have much better drivers as a result. People know their distances and are hyper-aware of their surroundings because it is a necessity in order to avoid minor collisions.

In cities that are more 'designed' by traffic engineers there is ample room so people don't know the dimensions of their own vehicle and travel at greater speeds while letting themselves be distracted more frequently. The accidents that result are usually frame-bending as opposed to bumper replacements.

slaman··on Rats free each other from cages (2011)
I think they are arguing the difference between "that sound is annoying I'll turn that off" and "his situation is awful I don't enjoy being trapped"
slaman··on AWS X1 instances – 1.9 TB of memory
because they can only put these into racks so fast
slaman··on Cron best practices
'luckily' - that's the strangest spelling of 'sanely' I've seen yet.
slaman··on Develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris
False. You did the arithmetic in stead of the computer, this is more work.

and if instead of addition it was a function call...

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