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soroso··on Seeking new custodian for godoc.org
It is not dubious advice. It's disingenuous to frame it like that. And more importantly, it is not only a matter of license issues. Changing where you host the content won't change the risks Google lawyers put force. Stop spreading FUD.
soroso··on Ketamine Could Soon Be Used to Treat Suicidal Ideation
Is the incidence of suicide lower among regular ketamine users?
soroso··on Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
sidekick - the TSR app for DOS
soroso··on Facts and charts that show the world is getting better
MiniPlenty - 1984
soroso··on Cycling Is Key to Safer, Healthier, More Vital Cities
I am under the impression that the author never really biked in Amsterdam 5:30pm from center to south in a week day.
soroso··on Google tracks users who turn off location history
11 months ago, I posted a Ask HN exactly about that. I got flagged. Now I see that I was at least partially right.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15170372

soroso··on Microsoft promises to keep GitHub independent and open
I don't believe Microsoft.
soroso··on Ask HN: Any recommended resources to develop system thinking?
Russ Ackoff's "Ackoff's Best: His Classic Writings on Management" di Russell L. Ackoff.

http://a.co/6LvRWPO

And also Ackoff's talks on Systems Thinking:

https://youtu.be/EbLh7rZ3rhU

soroso··on Operation Serenata de Amor – An AI project to analyze public spending in Brazil
Serenata de Amor is a brazilian candy: https://hibrazilmarket.com/products/garoto-serenata-de-amor-...

From their faq: https://serenata.ai/en/faq/

1 - We were inspired by the Toblerone Affair, a case in which a Swedish politician was pushed to resign after being caught paying simple Toblerone chocolate bar with public money. That’s what we want to do: empower social control of public expenditures including values as low as a chocolate bar.

soroso··on Ask HN: What was your most productive (day|week|month|year) ever?
First I acknowledge that is not really useful to single out a day as productive or not. The finest-grain level I check is days streak. And in that case, I usually say that I had a good week or good weeks, or once I had a whole good quarter.

When I average the year, I have been having more productive years more or less consistent. Like the global warming, the year that wasn't really productive was still higher than the least productive year before the last peak.

Well, with all that said, some patterns seemed clear to me:

1 - Societal overload: that place and country you live directly affect your productivity. I lived for many years in the biggest city of a 3rd World country, where the government works daily to make your life miserable and hard. The moment I moved to Europe, I had a surge of productivity because those "little" things that rob you of your energy were gone: the violence, the crappy infrastructure, and a technology market generations behind than the 1st World.

2 - Peers Level: being the ugliest among the pretty is better than being the prettiest among the ugly. When you are the least good among very competent engineers you have a lot of opportunities to learn from people that know more and better than you. You become a sponge of methods that can help you to work better and faster.

3 - Reused experience: The best world scenario is to be a generalist and be able to work on whatever is thrown at your hands because you are clever and skilled. However, it doesn't mean that you can't get really skilled and experienced in some aspect of your craft. For instance, through the years I become an expert on bootstrapping greenfield projects and prepare to hand them over to a team that will look after them. This has been invaluable and my longest days streak happened in this situation.

4 - Keep reassessing your toolset all the time: we tend to feel comfortable and confident with the tools we know how to use. That's fine. But keep an eye open to new technologies. There might be one new technology that solves (or attempts to solve) some fundamental problem that you daily face - that if it didn't exist, you would be even more productive.

5 - Manage your attention: nowadays we live in a world perfected to steal your attention. Learn how to manage it effectively. You can't be productive if you are distracted or constantly interrupted.

I hope it helped you. (PS: HN is a huge attention stealer.)

soroso··on Why is writing mathematical proofs more fault-proof than writing code? (2011)
Not really because the StackExchange thought police really does not let people freely answer the questions. It means in practice that if you write an answer not in alignment with the correct thought you get scolded and penalized.
soroso··on Why Google stores billions of lines of code in a single repository (2016)
I wonder what do the bots commit in the monorepo. It is something that has been making me curious for a while.
soroso··on Show HN: Ondevice SSH – Terminal emulator for devices without public IP address
Similar to StrongDM, except it does less. SDM implements the SSH protocol which allow both session logging (for audit and training purposes) and on-prem deployment. It supports all SSH services such shell (for interactive operation) exec (for remote scripting, like ansible and scp) and subsystems (like sftp). And on top of that it supports DB connections through the same tunnel (again with query logging for audit purposes).

The on-prem part is really neat.

Disclaimer: I work at StrongDM.

Edit: fixed typo

soroso··on What boredom does to you
The researcher didn't test MacGyver (the original one)...
soroso··on 10 Tricks to Appear Smart During Meetings
This reminds me of a document, allegedly from CIA, teaching spies infiltrated in decision committee and alike on how to derail meetings.
soroso··on July 2017 Hacker News Hiring Trends
Lovely that PHP has been relegated from programming language to framework.
soroso··on UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU
#PunishUK
soroso··on How Social Isolation Is Killing Us
They do, but not the same type or intensity of extroverts. That's another facet of what I call "extrovert's dictatorship". Extroverts just assume that their way of doing social interaction is the healthy and correct one.
soroso··on How Social Isolation Is Killing Us
This is the very representation of what I call "extrovert's dictatorship". This idea simply assumes that everyone is extroverted and long for social interactions. It is far from the truth.
soroso··on How Social Isolation Is Killing Us
Not entirely true. Often people work in a different time zone than their neighborhood, thus rendering the proposed effect useless. That's my case.
soroso··on IronFunctions: language agnostic open-source alternative to AWS Lambda
Yes - when you create a function you may tell whether it is sync or async, and just push tasks into it.
soroso··on IronFunctions: language agnostic open-source alternative to AWS Lambda
It is built on top of Docker, so if you dockerize a Java application, it just works.

It does work also with Java lambda apps, you can import them straight from AWS Lambda API using the CLI app.

soroso··on Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
https://camlistore.org/
soroso··on Ask HN: (O/S) DevOps Tool to Identify Wasteful Cloud Spending
CloudHealth?
soroso··on Scottish Tech Map
What's the point of this thread? Honest question.

I have the feeling it is pointless keeping such map from the perspective of Brexit. Soon Scotland will be off of Eu, and all these businesses will be facing very different realities in short time. I would refrain make business with companies with whom I'd face more taxes or red tape just because their countries would left the EU.

So what are we trying to do here? Explore more the Scottish market? The soon-to-be limited UK market?

I am lost. Could someone explain it to me?

soroso··on Phpfmt for sublime text 3 just changed business model and nuked the Git repo
http://law.stackexchange.com/questions/832/is-a-copyright-li...
soroso··on Phpfmt for sublime text 3 just changed business model and nuked the Git repo
there is nothing in BSD-3 clause stating it is irrevocable. So it is up to you to decide if you are willing to take the risk. Many people are saying that the fmt.phar has a BSD-3 license in it, therefore is free. I would be cautious.
soroso··on Phpfmt for sublime text 3 just changed business model and nuked the Git repo
I wrote:

---- Hey Nanch,

The engine itself is no longer my copyright.

The plugin though is mine. I, hereby, transfer to you the copyright of the sublime-phpfmt and its derivatives.

Therefore, sublime-phpfmt and its derivatives copyright are yours, David Nanch.

Regards, Carlos

soroso··on Phpfmt for sublime text 3 just changed business model and nuked the Git repo
You misquoted what I wrote, Nanch.

I mentioned the engine also. fmt.phar is not part of this transfer. So you still have problems, only not with me.

soroso··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)
Iron.io | San Francisco, CA | Full Time | ONSITE | Operations Engineer at Iron.io HQ

Hey all,

We're looking for Operations engineers to work on large scale distributed systems at Iron.io HQ in San Francisco. We're the makers of IronMQ (our cloud message queue) and IronWorker (our asynchronous task execution service).

Here are some fancy numbers to describe us:

* IronWorker has scheduled and launched over 1,100,000,000 Docker containers to date since we started using Docker (see http://blog.iron.io/2014/10/docker-in-production-what-weve-l... for more))

* All of those containers run 3rd party code on behalf of our customers

* We execute over 500k process hours worth of user code per month

* We serve over 5 billion API requests/month

* We run services in many regions across multiple cloud providers

Here's our StackOverflow company page with more details about us. (check https://careers.stackoverflow.com/company/iron-io)

If you're interested in the job, send email to jim+opshn@iron.io with:

* Your Github handle

* Your resume or description of your experience and projects

* A short description of your favorite operations related project and why it's interesting

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