jonthepirate

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Zodiac 340 cipher decoder (desktop web only)(jonathanblock.com)
2 points by jonthepirate 6y ago|0 comments
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by jonthepirate 6y ago
20 years startup/internet engineering here. I have "failed" roughly 50% of my interviews usually as the result of failing the coding rounds. Almost all of fails were conducted by someone with nearly half my years of experienc
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by jonthepirate 6y ago
Can you comment on the unsolved zodiac 340 cipher? I'd be willing to try to crack it with time and effort but I'm not sure where to start. Reference: http://zodiackillerciphers.com/wiki/index.php?title=File:34
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Python script that tells you with Mac say about new confirmed coronavirus cases(github.com)
1 points by jonthepirate 7y ago|0 comments
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Lyft plans restructuring, job cuts(business.financialpost.com)
2 points by jonthepirate 7y ago|0 comments
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Airbnb censors any mentions of their competitor VRBO in private messages(imgur.com)
1 points by jonthepirate 7y ago|0 comments
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by jonthepirate 7y ago
I was Taso's roommate on Ramona st in Palo Alto for 6 months back when he started his company with his founder who was familiar with running a consulting company. It's really the ultimate arbitrage - take a cut of a kagillion fore
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by jonthepirate 7y ago
I've never liked Fiverr since I heard about how they really screwed over voiceoverpete. For reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anbBwpoI9TI
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by jonthepirate 7y ago
Hi - I'm Jon, creator of "Flaptastic" ( https://www.flaptastic.com/ ) and passionate advocate for unit test health. Having coded at both Lyft and at DoorDash, I noticed both companies had the exact same unit te
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by jonthepirate 7y ago
Last time FB recruiters wrote to me on LinkedIn I told them I'm not interested in working for a scandal factory.
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by jonthepirate 7y ago
We used serverless/lambda to run our flask app for flaptastic.com. Since the site doesn't see a lot of web traffic, our web costs are roughly $0 per month whereas running any kind of long running web server platform (docker or oth
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by jonthepirate 8y ago
What I've seen in most companies is that when a test goes bad (imagine 10k unit tests, and 1 hits stripe's api sandbox which just went down) the bad test affects everybody who's busy working on their respective feature branch
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by jonthepirate 8y ago
What you really want to do is first disable a test you know is unhealthy to unblock everybody. Then, you fix it. After you've reintroduced it healthy, you can turn it back on.
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by jonthepirate 8y ago
Having been at both Lyft and DoorDash where I've been an engineer responsible for unit test health, I decided to do a side project called Flaptastic ( https://www.flaptastic.com/ ), a flaky unit test resolution system. F
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by jonthepirate 8y ago
I wrote a flaky test management system called https://www.flaptastic.com/ on AWS Lambda... my first AWS bill was $2.50. I love it. I also used serverless.com's wrapper to deploy it for free. If this gets expensive and
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Fixing flaky tests(medium.com)
1 points by jonthepirate 8y ago|0 comments
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by jonthepirate 8y ago
Every time I think of sears I think of this story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHIktR-3Ci4 where they stole someone's wrench design
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by jonthepirate 8y ago
The reason I am upvoting this is that it is written in a positive tone. Too many people - especially in the world of DevOps, trash everything. (X is the worst, don't do that, etc) and more often than not do not offer better guidance fo
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by jonthepirate 8y ago
I would love to have an alarm go off every time someone enters my mailroom wearing a hoodie with with hood drawn over their head after 10pm. Do we have that technology yet? I would be your customer.
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by jonthepirate 8y ago
Former Lyft eng here of 2.5 yrs.. Lyft is kicking major a. Don't mean to hype it. Even if they weren't IPO'ing I can tell you they are firing on all pistons. I'm pretty sure the financials are in good shape too. Haven&#x
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Show HN: Flaptastic helps make your unit tests perfect(flaptastic.com)
3 points by jonthepirate 8y ago|0 comments
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by jonthepirate 8y ago
When their recruiters ping me on LinkedIn I tell them I'm sorry but they have been caught up in too many shady situations lately.
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by jonthepirate 8y ago
Rather than putting restrictions on what private people can do with their property, I'm starting to think the city should consider bulldozing some of the GG park to put up affordable housing or renting it out for cheap to those who nee
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by jonthepirate 8y ago
I would like to wholesale get it off my phone but I find that other apps require fb login and so I have to reinstall it... I really do not want it on my phone and I also reject their recruiter inquiries every other month too. Every once in
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Ask HN: How long do your monolith tests take to run when you push to GitHub?
1 points by jonthepirate 8y ago|0 comments
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by jonthepirate 8y ago
Am I the only person who wished Hillary Clinton would have appeared in that promo video?
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by jonthepirate 8y ago
The one with better KPI's, unless your gut tells you you won't like your coworkers.
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by jonthepirate 8y ago
I once clicked on a video of Ben Shapiro speaking at a college campus. Now I see Ben Shapiro videos nearly every time I go on YouTube.
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by jonthepirate 8y ago
I worked on Jenkins at Lyft and completely set it up for DoorDash. If anybody needs help with their Jenkins setup, hit me up I give free advice and have a few blog posts on the matter. If you happen to be using AWS, GitHub, and Slack, we at
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by jonthepirate 8y ago
How can the forces exerted by weather patterns still make this viable?

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