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tckr··on OpenGeni – The Open Agent Runtime
OpenGeni is a managed-agent service you run yourself. Durable sessions, sandboxed tool execution, replayable event history — and a public API your product talks to directly. Embed it inside your product, or stand one up for your whole org.
tckr··on Nordic Semiconductor Acquires Memfault
Parsing the stock exchange notice [1], the three founders seem to have received 42 Million USD. If they had the same amount of shares, they received around 14 Million each.

> The three founders of Memfault - CEO Francois Baldassari, CTO Chris Coleman and VP Developer Experience Tyler Hoffman – will reinvest 30% of their share sale proceeds in Nordic Semiconductor shares, totalling approximately USD 13 million.

[1] https://newsweb.oslobors.no/message/649971

tckr··on Cloudgeni – Secure and compliant infrastructure on Autopilot
Cloudgeni automates Terraform security and policy enforcement with AI — from configuration to PR protection, across new and existing infrastructure.
tckr··on Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?
Yes.
tckr··on Air Force B-21 stealth bomber runs Kubernetes
Source: https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110560/witnesses/...
tckr··on SwimOS: Distributed platform for building stateful, real-time streaming apps
Previously: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
tckr··on Show HN: Verify JSON using minimal schema
JSON schema and ajv are my go to tools for this: https://github.com/epoberezkin/ajv
tckr··on No Code Of Conduct (2018)
2015!
tckr··on List of Homeferences (Remote Conferences)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/homeferences
tckr··on [dead]
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12298986
tckr··on Show HN: Pixaven – modern GPU-powered image processing API
4. I'm unable to find the address of your company on the homepage. This is a no go, especially when dealing with images which are potentially sensitive user content, I need to know exactly who is responsible for operating the service.
tckr··on Show HN: Pixaven – modern GPU-powered image processing API
1. I really love to have a dedicated image manipulation API which is not tied to a (headless) CMS.

2. I don't care about speed. Image manipulation can never be instant, and while the operation may be super fast on your end, the image data still needs to travel the wire, and be rendered on the UI. Your performance argument therefore is mute for me.

3. I do care a lot about having smart features like face detection, auto rotation, optimization (e.g. optipng), this should be on your start page.

tckr··on Meetup Payment Changes
I've started to collect the open-source alternatives here: https://github.com/coderbyheart/open-source-meetup-alternati...
tckr··on Ask HN: People are looking for a meetup.com replacement – what are the options?
I've started to collect the open-source alternatives here: https://github.com/coderbyheart/open-source-meetup-alternati...
tckr··on NPM secures funding until 2020
The CEO of NPM, a startup that provides a crucial service for 11 million developers, told employees that it’s secured a deal that removes ‘the threat of running out of money’ until early 2020

On June 7, NPM CEO Bryan Bogensberger told employees in an internal Slack message that the company had reached a deal with its board of directors to provide enough funding to take it through at least the first quarter of 2020. He also implied that NPM had faced the possibility of running out of money, saying: “This is absolutely the best of both worlds because we can run a proper raise process without the threat of running out of money and with the full support of the board.” NPM is a small company with about 50 employees, but nonetheless provides a crucial JavaScript programming tool to some 11 million developers. This look into NPM’s financial situation comes about a month after 17 employees wrote an internal letter demanding better working conditions and criticizing management’s lack of financial transparency, in the wake of a controversial layoff at the company. Click here for more BI Prime stories.

NPM, a company that provides an important JavaScript tool to 11 million developers, has secured a commitment from its board of directors for enough funding to take it through the first quarter of 2020, CEO Bryan Bogensberger announced to employees.

Bogensberger told employees in an internal Slack message on June 7 that the company has until the end of July to take the offer. In the interim, he said, NPM leadership is being encouraged by the board to continue the fundraising process with outside investors. He also implied that NPM had faced risks of running out of money.

“This is absolutely the best of both worlds because we can run a proper raise process without the threat of running out of money and with the full support of the board,” Bogensberger wrote to employees.

tckr··on Ask HN: Which editor do you use for JavaScript Development?
Webstorm because VSCode ways of handling global search and replace does not work for me.
tckr··on Hammertime
Hammertime is the name given to a Unix time with milliseconds. Which is the same as saying the number of milliseconds since 1970. It has finer granularity than a normal Unix timestamp and thus is often used in realtime applications.

According to startup lore, Hammertime was coined by a startup whose founder had an interesting interaction with M.C. Hammer. There was no name given to "Unix time with milliseconds" and while brainstorming ideas (because Unix time with milliseconds is a confusing mouthful), someone suggested Hammertime and it stuck.

tckr··on Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests
The title is misleading. Path style request "/foo/bar/file.ext" are still supported.

What changes is that the bucket name must be in the hostname.

tckr··on We built a distributed DB capable of running across 100s of global locations
Where do I create an account?
tckr··on Real-time traffic light status in Palo Alto powered by swim.ai (open source)
Websocket connection timeout.
tckr··on Real-time traffic light status in Palo Alto powered by swim.ai (open source)
The app shows no data in my browser...
tckr··on Async/Await on Array method – JavaScript
Where do you see the advantage of this package of established "batteries included" promise libraries like http://bluebirdjs.com/docs/api/collections.html ?
tckr··on Fractal Design Launches Define R6 Casing With USB-C
These are the best PC cases I have ever owned.
tckr··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)
Nordic Semiconductor | IoT Backend Developer | Trondheim, Norway | ONSITE, VISA (Relocation package) | Full-time

For our cloud services team working from Portland and Trondheim we are looking for an experienced candidate who can lead the cloud solution development for nRF Cloud and other cloud-projects from day one on their own responsibility.

This requires substantial experience with building web-based applications on AWS Web Services (especially serverless services AND IoT) and deploying and operating these services, as well as significant proficiency in Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript and test-driven development in general.

The Nordic Semiconductor R&D team is a group of talented development engineers of many nationalities based at our R&D headquarters in Trondheim Norway. You will be working closely with both hardware designers and system architects as we develop and validate a highly scalable IoT infrastructure to enhance our existing and future products which are helping our customers make excellent products based on our system-on-chip products (nRF microcontrollers).

https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=27...

tckr··on I Don’t Believe in Full-Stack Engineering
I agree!

I blogged this with the point of view of a full-stack developer that can do front-end development, but rather didn't a while ago: https://coderbyheart.com/the-full-stack-developer-trap/

tckr··on The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user
Netflix deliberately doesn't verify sign-up email addresses. They are to blame.
tckr··on Amazon Dash is illegal in Germany
Amazon Dash is illegal in Germany, a German court ruled in a lawsuit by a consumer protection office:

- Users have to be informed about the actual item and price before the order

- Button must have notice that using it creates a payable order ("zahlungspflichtig bestellen")

Reasoning for lawsuit is, that the Dash button limits consumer ability to compare prices.

tckr··on Ask HN: My company plans an ICO despite my opposition as CTO, any advice?
I have been in similar situations, where I could see that the direction was willing to go was against my personal values and would also put the startup into even more risk.

What I asked myself in these cases: what if I am right? Do I want to stick around for voting rights / equity later of a corporation that is worth nothing in a year? Why waste more time in a team and on a product I no longer believe in.

tckr··on WebGraphviz: Graphviz in the Browser
I personally find http://viz-js.com to be superior.
tckr··on A Critique of “Clean Architecture” by Robert C. Martin
Thanks for that input!
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