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steindavidbon Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer

> The most underrated skill to learn as an engineer is how to document. Fuck, someone please teach me how to write good documentation. Seriously, if there's any recommendations, I'd seriously pay for a course (like probably a lot of money, maybe 1k for a course if it guaranteed that I could write good docs.)

Highly recommend a journalism class at local community college.

steindavidbon Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work

tl:dr; "I want to be a postdoc"

steindavidbon Ask HN: What are real-life useful use-cases for blockchain (not currencies)?

Do you mean blockchain or technology inspired by blockchain? Lots of cool merkle tree stuff (trillion, certificate transparency); also several international shipping supply chains use blockchain for chain-of-custody (txns are irrevocable cosigned transfer of custody with no trusted overseer). I would love to see criminal evidence and deeds of ownership move onto a similar framework.

I expect digital ID will also benifit from an auditable, immutable log (e.g. sovrin)

steindavidbon If founders treated their investors the same way they treated their employees

Hi cs-szazz. I remember being in your situation; it's frustrating because you can't Google for answers. Here is advice I was given when in a similar situation.

- Find the other people at the company in your situation (size of grant, type of options). Share your learnings with each other. Consider getting professional advice, the Bay is full of attorneys and CPAs for whom this is a familiar situation.

- If you're at a unicorn, you probably have co-workers who are veterans of other unicorns and have been through this before. Ask them for advice (or an introduction to their source of professional advice)

- As a group, consider asking your board to arrange a limited second market sale to cover exercise costs and taxes. Many institutional investors are happy to buy a little extra stock, especially if it helps with keeping senior staff happy and focused on the right things.

- If you're going to be doing anything involving stock without board approval (like trying to build some kind off house-of-cards, pseudo-legal collateral package for a loan shark) you really need to hire an attorney.

- if you only have options, you might not be a shareholder. Your rights and access to information might be different once you've exercised a share.

- You can't extend the 90 day exercise window on ISOs, that's a federal law thing. The company can convert to NSOs to extend the window, but the setup for that conversion is complicated and expensive.

steindavidbon Signal threatens to dump US market if EARN IT act passes

Senator Feinstein (D-CA) is a do’s-onshore of the bill. Here’s the form to contact her office and encourage her to not support the bill: https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me

steindavidbon Sites with dumb password rules

obligatory thread naming good open-source password entropy checkers. I'll start.

zxcvbn: https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn

steindavidbon Vermont's Remote Worker Grant Program

(for a single filer) at $100k income, this lowers the effective state income tax to 0.8%

at $200k income, this lowers the effective state income tax rate to 4.4%

New Hampshire is literally next door and has no income tax.

steindavidbon CS 189: Introduction to Machine Learning

this works fine over http instead of https. is there a way to fix the link?

steindavidbon What's in those mysterious cabinets?

It has to do a lot with reliability and cost. A smart car has a lot of expensive sensors and an expected life of a few years with regular maintenance. There's also a huge market opportunity around smart cars. Those cabinets can last decades, in all conditions, with minimal upkeep. Adding sensors decreases reliability and increases maintenance cost. There isn't usually an appetite to put traffic signal upgrades or extra maintenance headcount in city budgets for non-critical infrastructure upgrades, so the financial incentives to innovate are more limited as well.

steindavidbon Don’t buy the MacBook Pros even on sale, in my opinion

My SO and I have three MBPs between us. Two have had keyboard failures (one the "8" key, the other the space bar). Both took about a week for Apple to repair.

steindavidbon Software Testing Anti-patterns

This website is unreadable on iPad, the font size changes every time I scroll.

steindavidbon Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all our published stories

Commonmark is a wonderful and well defined markdown standard (ie the one GitHub uses)

steindavidbon Ask HN: Resources to learn real analysis?

I taught myself 18.100a from the book and website when I took it because class was too early in the morning and found them sufficient to make up for the missed lectures. Wonderful resources. Highly recommmend.

steindavidbon #deletefacebook

I did this by running a sikuliX script. Took about 5 minutes a day for a week to iron out all corner cases it got stuck on.

steindavidbon Ask HN: Best books you read in 2017?

Travels with Charley in search of America

steindavidbon Dropbox Professional

this is actually fixed with selective sync in dropbox pro

steindavidbon Ask HN: Learning modern web design and CSS

Going straight to the spec is really great for HTML/CSS. Also worth looking at the CSS snapshot from w3 https://www.w3.org/TR/css-2017/

steindavidbon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)

Appboy | New York City | Full Time | ONSITE

Appboy is currently looking for full time software engineers to join their team! Appboy is a NYC based start-up specializing in smart marketing automation. Our powerful SDK and dashboard have enabled companies like Urban Outfitters, Samsung, EPIX and iHeartMedia to create targeted marketing campaigns to their users. Check out our open positions and feel free to apply!

(full stack) Software Engineer: http://grnh.se/71t6rx1

Senior Mobile Engineer: http://grnh.se/1yp0wx1

Engineering Lead-Internal Tools: http://grnh.se/by2x4a1

Sr. Product Engineer: http://grnh.se/qhfa131

Sr. Software Engineer: http://grnh.se/6plc1d1

Sr. Software Engineer- Data Infra: http://grnh.se/cvn6fk1

Software Engineer- Support: http://grnh.se/x17dik1

Security Engineer: http://grnh.se/ulo3e41

Technical Recruiter: http://grnh.se/y5pi061

steindavidbon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)

Appboy is also looking for someone to head up technical recruiting - https://boards.greenhouse.io/appboy/jobs/571121?gh_jid=57112...

steindavidbon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)