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Cloudburst Technologies | NY, NY | Remote | Full-Time | https://burst.cloud/ Cloudburst is a seed-funded New York-based remote-first company helping customers with detection, preve…

If you view the source of the agent onboarding page, you can read what appears to be an arbitration clause that is written for Uber. I am guessing they just copypasted the whole th…

Charity Majors talks about the Manager-IC pendulum. You should rotate between the two every couple of years.

Sorry about that! We're just about to start our summer intern process in the next week or two. If it's helpful, you can reach out to me at ben(at)flashpoint-intel(dot)com.

Flashpoint | Software Engineer | New York, REMOTE | Full-Time, Interns | Python Flashpoint provides meaningful intelligence that enables large enterprises and the public sector to …

Given so much discussion on this topic, the first thing I looked for was whether there was a reference to whether a company does timed code pair interviews and white boarding, or u…

DC's metro system is in another league of dysfunction from the other systems which suffer from the typical, chronic burden of heavy use. The article lumps it all together; "hey, we…

To complement this, I found this video interesting in demonstrating some of the technical achievements and flourishes in Uncharted 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts2am8WRBXQ

I (along with many others, I would assume) would be interested in seeing data on what the usage trends are for different devops tools.

I felt this article was interesting regarding why and how they did it: https://medium.com/@mrdavenport/swarm-branding-and-visual-de...

Uh oh, Wordpress problems. Cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2Z0Puiw...

You're kidding right? Kids coming out of Courant are in decent demand, especially in NYC tech departments.

Also see NYU's Interactive Telecommunication Programs course, NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression): http://itp.nyu.edu/nime/

DERELICTE! It is a fashion, a way of life inspired by the very homeless, the vagrants, the crack whores that make this wonderful city so unique.

The overall system performance improvement of an SSD is worth it alone for an upgrade (or replacing it in your current laptop if you can). It turned my old plastic MacBook into a n…

Exactly; I'd also like to see how my notion of what being a "hard worker" is by comparing my definition with someone else's. Have been tinkering with something similar: https://gal…

The visualization looks like Conway's game of life.

Ah hah, I'd known about ranviermud but hadn't noticed it had a telnet lib! Will give it a look-see, thank you!!

Somewhat related, but I've been looking for a node.js-based module for providing a telnet/MUD CLI but either it's implemented through a web page with an input box, or has only the …

Yeah, I've been googling for tutorials/configs/info on various deployment setups and digitalocean's come up more and more with solid guides. Thanks for sharing the secrets of the s…

Consider WaPo's chief readership: people interested in domestic/foreign policy probably living in the DMV area and associated with the federal government. Among those types, what S…

I was hoping to see these comments more prevalent in the hackernews thread. The story struck me at first as being interesting but then it seems like there's more murkiness involved…

"Mr. Joe Trader" might need some definition. For instance, I felt that HFT didn't change the game for "Mr. Joe Trader" as much as the rules limiting daytrading ($25k minimum for ma…

People have been writing stuff like this for like 20 years now, ever since the internet became viable for a future of streaming video. But cable TV has continued on strong. If anyt…