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Re: Jess Frazelle

#51

If you haven't heard of Jessie Frazelle, definitely check out her work. As others have expressed, she's a brilliant engineer, speaker, and writer. If I were in charge of hiring, I'd have recruiters pestering the hell out of her to join my team. Seriously, she's one of my favorite people that I've never met :)

I tried to hire her and failed. :-(

As someone trying to get hired in a similar space, if you don't mind me asking, why specifically were you trying to hire her?

Re: Jess Frazelle

#52

If you haven't heard of Jessie Frazelle, definitely check out her work. As others have expressed, she's a brilliant engineer, speaker, and writer. If I were in charge of hiring, I'd have recruiters pestering the hell out of her to join my team. Seriously, she's one of my favorite people that I've never met :)

why specifically were you trying to hire her?

Re: Jess Frazelle

#53
The more you try to force equality, the less equal we become. Can you imagine any of the thousands of bearded men with similarly interesting credentials being posted to the front page of HN simply by their name?

Show me what she's done. Don't just show me she's done something and has a feminine sounding name.

Re: Jess Frazelle

#54
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There are lots of potential reasons. Some things I've considered doing it for (many of which have alternative solutions, but nevertheless) Different network configurations per browser. This is useful for doing things like checking geo-targetting via VPNs etc. Better security isolation. Chrome is pretty good at this, but if you want to run a suspicious add-on this is a good way to do it. Better isolation for scriptabl…

Not the best isolation however because containers aren't sandboxes (yet). If you're really serious you need to run something like https://firejail.wordpress.com .

I think (hope?) people would realize that by now about Docker. But it is a non-trivial amount of protection against things like local file access.

Re: Jess Frazelle

#55

I attended her talk on "Containerizing Your Desktop" at LinuxCon NA 2015, and she maintains this open source repository filled with awesome Dockerfiles that can run anything from Spotify to Chrome. Truly amazing https://github.com/jessfraz/dockerfiles

By your description I thought she'd just created 5 or so examples, I wasn't expecting such a breadth of stuff! Did she talk about advantages/disadvantages to this approach? Does she use this daily?

Yes, she uses this daily. For example, chrome is a shortcut that just runs a docker container, she does video conferencing using skype, also running inside a container - video, audio & all. She's one of the few that uses a Linux only laptop while the majority in the company used Macbooks.

Re: Jess Frazelle

#56

I attended her talk on "Containerizing Your Desktop" at LinuxCon NA 2015, and she maintains this open source repository filled with awesome Dockerfiles that can run anything from Spotify to Chrome. Truly amazing https://github.com/jessfraz/dockerfiles

I think doing that is kind of insane but I love that she is doing it. Also, as an OS geek, I enjoy reading about the setups of other geeks.

Re: Jess Frazelle

#57

Hmm, is there a reason this is on HN today? Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to learn about interesting individuals, I just feel like I might be missing some context here. Did she win an award or do something particularly noticeable recently?

Probably this is why (6 year ago comment from pg on HN ranking algorithm): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013

Oh, you mean why was it submitted & upvoted? Frankly, I never know why any particular story takes off whereas others do not. E.g., First Steve Yegge blog post in 5 years didn't even make 1st page of HN! (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12979108)

Guess you'd have to ask everyone who up-voted why they did.

Re: Jess Frazelle

#58

The more you try to force equality, the less equal we become. Can you imagine any of the thousands of bearded men with similarly interesting credentials being posted to the front page of HN simply by their name? Show me what she's done. Don't just show me she's done something and has a feminine sounding name.

I see bunch of comments of ppl trying hard to hire her. I've been trying to get a job in devops space too, trying to get an idea what makes this person so appealing.

Re: Jess Frazelle

#59
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Re: Jess Frazelle

#60

The more you try to force equality, the less equal we become. Can you imagine any of the thousands of bearded men with similarly interesting credentials being posted to the front page of HN simply by their name? Show me what she's done. Don't just show me she's done something and has a feminine sounding name.

I see bunch of comments of ppl trying hard to hire her. I've been trying to get a job in devops space too, trying to get an idea what makes this person so appealing.

We all know it's the vagina. Nobody was able to answer your questions or do anything except downvote my comment. This is a really sexist site, unfortunately.
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