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Slight tangent, but how does one with SWE/product skills get involved in climate work? There seems to be some research every other day indicating how disastrous
by neilsharma 10y ago
Slight tangent, but how does one with SWE/product skills get involved in climate work? There seems to be some research every other day indicating how disastrous global warming is going to be, but a dearth of jobs outside of solar installation or academia.
- adrianN 10y agoMake the Linux kernel more efficient, save a bazillion CPU cycles in datacenters all over the world.
- brianwawok 10y agoWhich hipsters with Ruby and Node will burn away.
- colordrops 10y agoI hope you are being sarcastic.
- brianwawok 10y agoNot really. Node and Ruby both increase global warming
- TeMPOraL 10y agoHe's not. Inefficient code multiplied by millions of users = quite a lot of coal being wasted.
- brianwawok 10y agoFor example AirBNB talks about 2000 web servers with Rails. I bet they could be 200 web servers with Java. So because of Ruby, we have 1800 servers burning coal in a datacenter somewhere.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoIndeed. And to be clear - I'm not saying everyone needs to do everything bare metal. But more often than not, inefficiency comes out of people's laziness. But that very laziness gets dangerous when multiplied millionfold, which is what happens when a service gets popular. Therefore I think making things efficient deserves at least a passing thought.
- adrianN 10y agoNode and Ruby: The beef and pork of technology.
- curiousgal 10y agoSorry for killing the vibe of the joke, but what does that expression mean? (Non-native English speaker)
- adrianN 10y agoEating beef and pork is tasty but really bad for the environment.
- curiousgal 10y agoOh I see. Thank you!
- pc86 10y ago"really" is sort of relative here
- adrianN 10y agoYeah, of course you don't stop global warming by going vegetarian, but having some more lentils and less meat wouldn't hurt either: http://static.skepticalscience.com/pics/EWGGHGLCA.jpg http://static.skepticalscience.com/pics/EWGGHGLCA.jpg
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- raphman 10y agoif you haven't already seen it: Bret Victor offering some thoughts on "How do you think the tech community (startup community, or any community) can contribute to tech and/or policy solutions on a global scale?" - http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/ http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/
- beatpanda 10y agoWe started using this as a recruitment tool at a company I work for (p.s. we're hiring: http://genability.com http://genability.com)
- ubernostrum 10y agoFind a way to hack Bitcoin and make it worthless.
- afarrell 10y agoMake public transportation more efficient and a better experience: https://angel.co/massachusetts-bay-transportation-authority-mbta/jobs/117785-software-engineer https://angel.co/massachusetts-bay-transportation-authority-...
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- mturmon 10y agohttps://rcmes.jpl.nasa.gov/content/rcmes-and-apache-open-climate-workbench https://rcmes.jpl.nasa.gov/content/rcmes-and-apache-open-cli...