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by harlanji 8y ago
Labeled and all the joys that come with being labeled. Exile from friend groups, loss of professional references, etc.; generally the ability to fuction peacefully. I go so far as to put gossip [propagating labels] in with party to manslaug
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by harlanji 8y ago
I was with you until sabotage. It’s spending energy maliciously when as you say, there are plentiful options. Non aggression principle rules.
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by harlanji 8y ago
The Sunset is Lit. No need to keep it a secret, it’s just not trendy enough yet. Right down to tech unawareness and wide open 280 commutes, it’s a different place.
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by harlanji 8y ago
> use an invitation code from another user. They don't have to use their real names, but if they do something fraudulent or awful both the inviter and the invitee get banned. Interesting. Like a regular meatspace party. Gmail used i
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by harlanji 8y ago
Let’s all just switch to RSS, social readers, and QR stickers and call it a day.
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by harlanji 8y ago
Re #8: how does black listing work? Is there a suspension or eternal ban? Is there a dispute process? I ask because those are as major a concern as payment processing, if anyone is to invest their livelihood in the system, in the cultural c
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by harlanji 8y ago
Pay them minimum wage and then give raises until the value they deliver to the business is met. Modern engineering strives to make programmers cogs via automation, doc and testing, so hire another random dev to work on your systems sometime
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by harlanji 8y ago
I live in San Francisco and work in Mountain View, CA, with the lowest sector of society. I showed up for work starving and with only 18 years of programming exp., about a momth ago (ie. No low skill, dish washing/bagging as a teen). N
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by harlanji 8y ago
I struggle to get respect in the workplace. New in the last 5 years. Have been a programmer since high school, now early-30’s. Am now homeless in Silicon Valley because coworkers at each job profile me wrong and bully me out. Recently I was
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by harlanji 8y ago
I agreed for most of my career. As a Senior Eng in SF it seems that contiguous experience and prior credentials are king, to the point where my side projects haven’t come up in interviews in years.
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by harlanji 8y ago
As a destitute person who used to be on the A-List for hiring, homework is a deal breaker. I did one assignment out of desperation recently when a hiring manager approached me via twitter DM, and despite the good unofficial coffee meeting I
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by harlanji 8y ago
Was good to work with HLF but the ops background required to run it in production was staggering: Replicated Kafka + ZK backing the consensus algorithm. I put it all in Kubernetes with StatefulSets. Even with my background running those sys
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by harlanji 8y ago
I was fired for nonsense two years ago and am homeless now, as of June. (I said something that could be construed as sexist and violent when written down with flair). I'm Tweeting the most flagrant stuff I can think of to get attention
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by harlanji 8y ago
The Library is literally the last place I can go as a homeless person to be left alone... I've been Tweeting about just this recently. The idea of Amazon taking over the library literally has tears in my eyes right now, in the middle o
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by harlanji 8y ago
If I read correctly, Alphabet can just add another letter that's a catering company with a commercial kitchen and bring all the meals in on trucks. "Startups" don't have their own food preparation operations as-is, they
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by harlanji 8y ago
I am building TinyDataCenter to host all my IT on RasPi progressively enhanced by cloud; running the same images built for RasPi/Arm and regular x86 back engineered with my big data platform/devops experience. I’ve been running a
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by harlanji 8y ago
Seconded. They probably can’t remember. It’s a powerful thing to hold over somebody. If they ever fancy a chick who’s fancying you at a party for example, with that type of person something is sure to come out to put yhem above you. I’ve ha
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by harlanji 8y ago
Cool, I’m not special validation. I like the focus on quality while present. That’s what I sell. If I forget to tell a new partner, now... we gave a great date and then she wants to start texting intensely, and feels I’m blowing her off and
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by harlanji 8y ago
VOD = video on demand, unicast is good. Live = stream, multicast is good. The 1.5 second multicast estimate for next Olympics from BBC sounds reasonable based on my experience working with signalling and now live straming systems. Good read
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by harlanji 8y ago
I've been messing with RSS again... almost a decade ago I implemented activitystrea.ms while it was still RSS based (now JSON) (still on my GitHub). I like the idea of clients subscribing to feeds, and syndicating comments with parent
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by harlanji 8y ago
Keep working on open source to court attention, avoid becoming homeless. Keep working after becoming homeless and most friends have left. Now considering crimes to get shelter via jail... felony would help employment via protected status. U
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by harlanji 8y ago
Have them turn on my youtube engineering vlog and work on something interesting. Self organize onto teams using a compatible approach. I’ve just a few months of lectures recorded, but I’d have them give me enough money to keep supplying the
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by harlanji 8y ago
Winsock is the first thing I learned that felt legit in some way. Made an IP chat app, 1998 or so. That rush led to at least a million dollars being made... it kept me from smoking pot with the losers. Programming in general was the escape,
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by harlanji 8y ago
I’ve been in those workplaces. The last one saw me mobbed out on a phony allegation the day before I went to a funeral, told my actions “T-T-Trump any explanation” by a director of Eng (Cormack at OpenTable, there’s been total refusal of di
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by harlanji 8y ago
I built a system for people in similar situations... iSpooge Live, working on first easy release, seeking flexible early adopters. Self hosted, designed for RasPi/non-cloud DCs w Docker, now running on AWS. Tools are all CLI static gen
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by harlanji 8y ago
Lots of words and we don’t even need to eat animals. We’d be better off breeding fruits to grow in a wider range of climates. Veggies are second best, but fruitarianism is lit. I’ve been 100% plant-based for 18mo and 80%+ fruit based for 6+
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by harlanji 8y ago
I had the idea of using my tongue to simulate the forces of braces. Did you know the tongue should rest against the roof of the mouth? No dentist or ortho consult ever mentioned that one but one little web page did. It’s working, my teeth f
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by harlanji 8y ago
I’d take on a project that benefits from using C over Python. Maybe port something old and valuable to a module with tests and whatnot in comfortable Python. On the Java side where I live you can also compile native modules without much fus
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by harlanji 8y ago
I would say this, and I can’t find a time period after which it becomes OK. And that’s fine. Seems you have some covert contracts. I’ve been the black sheep at several SF jobs, not in on the FB and Slack OFftopic channel fun. Invited, but n
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by harlanji 8y ago
Similar boat. I’ve been presenting passion projects to user groups / unconferences for a decade. Now, I wasn’t aware at the time but around 2013 seems like the turning point. I was getting tingles then. I never wanted to be a celebrity

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