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by ballard 13y ago
Site reliability engineering could be an option: fixing other people's code to work and run cheaper at scale. For devs, it's important to have a github or similar because that's your real tech resume. Btw I use Perl 7 (Ruby)
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by ballard 13y ago
ZURB and IDEO too http://zurb.com/article/11/the-t-in-team
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by ballard 13y ago
Investor interest and hiring manager interest has this in common: inbound to the candidate is far better than shaking bushes. Even YC alum mentioned how outbound is basically desperate and futile. Not that it can't be done, it'
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by ballard 13y ago
Cover letter is the TL;DR as how the resume applies to the req with 2-3 top selling points. The resume is like a marketing specifications sheet to sell a phone chat. Etc.
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by ballard 13y ago
0. Ageism is rampant. A research dept I worked at briefly fired an admin for being "old." 1. Lack of persistence (hustle) on the candidate's part. 2. May or may not have personality or skills issues.
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by ballard 13y ago
The tangential thought, despite the British humor, is that by embueing devices with AI, users will have to be respectful of devices. You wouldn't want your garage opener mad at you after all.
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by ballard 13y ago
I was going to say "over my dead body" but then they'll detect when a user dies eventually and somehow monetize and leverage that.
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by ballard 13y ago
Equivalent of click fraud would be paying people in Africa etc $.0005 / track to listen to your Spotify silent tracks.
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by ballard 13y ago
I'd like to see something like Arch, Parabola or similar with packages that are source only, signed, minimal dependencies and just works. Oh and push fixes upstream. (Glibc makes me sad.)
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by ballard 13y ago
Yup. Package management is basically a container manager containing files and hook scripts. Docker? Container manager. Virtualization? Container managers.
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by ballard 13y ago
We used to use hipchat (campfire clone) but it was hard to follow lengthy conversations and favorite details for later. Flowdock for our uses is a zillion times better and can integrate with basically anything. Asana is also amazing I woul
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by ballard 13y ago
It's clear after you spend 3 seconds on their site. There should be a demo or UI mockups without hitting play on a video (which shows no UI) so folks can see if it will work for them. It comes off that it is actual vaporware right no
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by ballard 13y ago
Launching an app on HN? TL;DR <5 words
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by ballard 13y ago
We need more apolitical city managers getting things done and fewer Henry VIII's playing figurehead and having mercurial power to chop heads on a whim (ie JSOC).
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by ballard 13y ago
Military adventurism, no matter the banner or origin, creates pernicious deferred blow-back. When the rebels bring flying robotic IEDS to whomever they decide to target today, the shit is gonna be instantly way more complicated.
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by ballard 13y ago
Btw if anyone needs complex (and which isn't) representation, Rajat Kuver is a super cool dude with offices in Palo Alto and Cupertino. Also a law prof. (Super cool, like it says on the tin.) http://www.advancedimmigratio
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by ballard 13y ago
Totally. Perhaps we have so many choices, (claim to) understand so much we are in tune with the banal futility of most of it. It's paradox of choice, extreme existential edition. Make the best of it and find something most interesti
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by ballard 13y ago
Existential fulfillment, finding some meaning in work or contribution is a need. There's plenty of big hairy social problems that need help: teaching homeless skills, volunteering or getting involved in local stuff. Tons of meaning a
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by ballard 13y ago
There are at least a quintillion ways to fail at different levels of strategic mistakes, with a few paths out by getting the big things right and making the best of change and uncertainty.
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Rubix cube-solving robot holds Guinness World Record(twitter.com)
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by ballard 13y ago
Intelligence seems orthogonal to the separate Big 5 factor of neuroticism, ie, prototypical security-industry hacker may not trust most people a priori (it seems it's usually very trusting || very untrusting). Perhaps they are a minor
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by ballard 13y ago
Remember vintage Fortran. So I made once had the displeasure of doubling the performance of a fission reactor safety simulator by disabling win32's swap... 30 years and 2e7 LoC codebase. >.<. The working set was nowhere near smar
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by ballard 13y ago
py, rb... js probably. C++ is almost equivalent of Latin today, which is kind of good and kind of sad. It takes arcane experience at scale to know which obscure traps not to fall into, making it inaccessible to casual hacking. Which is th
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by ballard 13y ago
I've worked on embedded C++ network stacks that restrict use of *alloc and new for various sized buffers and classes that have to be preallocated. That's one approach. Just wondering why tcmalloc or boheme GC weren't discuss
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by ballard 13y ago
The psychological precept of projection on an institutional level effectively inspiring terrorist behavior, to further continue what the institution was doing. It's as diffuse and pointless as Vietnam.
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by ballard 13y ago
This might be a completely crazy thought: Given technological enablement, why cant govt be more run as a StackOverflow tempered by the elder wisdom of the Supreme Court? Rip the executive branch out and make the president more of a city ma
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by ballard 13y ago
JSOC running around killing almost maybe "bad guys" based on whom knows what evidence and also their own citizens now and then without a trial is disgusting. In retrospect, history may well judge Obama administration on par with
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by ballard 13y ago
Blue team, red team, green team... It's mostly the same crap. It boils down to working relationships. CIA was founded as the intelligence directorate beholden primarily to the executive branch.
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by ballard 13y ago
Transparency of approach, rationale needs to be made public. Otherwise it's too easy for hobgoblins in the press to make up stories and people to write books on where is Hoffa buried.
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by ballard 13y ago
The patterns of drone strikes and raids points to JSOC as processing an ever-growing kill list directed by the POTUS. Feel free to peruse Dirty Wars docu.

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