Jormundir

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by Jormundir 1y ago
Location: Portland, OR Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: AWS, Go, Typescript, React, Node, SQL, NoSQL Résumé/CV: Available on request Email: jormundir@gmail.com Software Engineer Leader with 13+ years
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by Jormundir 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_recovery_ventilation This already exists and is starting to gain popularity for new builds. It’s also not that expensive to retrofit, but is most effective when a home is sealed wel
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by Jormundir 6y ago
It's raining on the launch pad right now. We'll be lucky if the launch happens, but likely postponed to tomorrow's launch window.
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Tell HN: Read through your old comments
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by Jormundir 7y ago
I went down this road towards the beginning of my career. I tried split keyboards, ergo mice, keyboard tray, new chair, etc. There are a couple things that matter in ergonomics, mainly that your chair is at a height where you can set your f
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by Jormundir 8y ago
This statement is not even close to true. At a particular point in time, different CDNs can have very different performance even for the same ISP in the same region.
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by Jormundir 8y ago
That has got to be one of the most poorly designed websites I've ever seen. I'm on a wired desktop and it's barely loading. Why are there like 5-10 physical inch gaps between sections? Why is there a full page picture at the
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by Jormundir 8y ago
I'm genuinely curious why they bothered publishing this in its current state. They don't make tax calculations, so they assume you're paying rent with untaxed income, which makes the comparison all but meaningless.
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by Jormundir 8y ago
Are you trying to bury your head in the sand? My situation is probably drastically determined by some stranger 200 years ago who decided hopping in a pile of potatoes on barge headed for the US was a good idea. Thank you distant relative, t
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by Jormundir 8y ago
The problem with pinning responsibility on that parent is, the original decision that led to this situation may predate the parent. Maybe they were raised by a single mom with many siblings and not enough resources too. Maybe they live some
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by Jormundir 9y ago
People tend to forget information that is not useful to them. The age old problem with school curriculum is so much of it doesn't apply to day to day or even professional know-how. Getting students to retain more information is pointle
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by Jormundir 10y ago
In real estate, you are correct. A buyer's market in real estate means a good time to buy a house. A seller's market is a good time to sell a house. A renter's market is a good time to rent. I've heard different terms fo
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by Jormundir 10y ago
I wish there was a technical name for this cycle! The pattern seems to happen in every industry over time. 1. Someone sets out to change the world and make a lot of money by building a business around a new technology. 2. In order to grow t
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by Jormundir 10y ago
I was an early user of Coursera. I really enjoyed and completed three classes and thought it was the future of education. Since then, they've tried to monetize and in the process thrown quality out the window and ignored their users. I
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by Jormundir 10y ago
And your argument degenerated to stupidity. Do you think there's no difference in effort it takes to do well for your employees when you have to argue with an employee unfriendly person on your board, rather than having employee neutra
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by Jormundir 10y ago
These results aren't very surprising because this is about interviewing performance. The goal of bootcamps is "teach you enough to get a job"; they're basically gaming the interview process by teaching to the test. Unive
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by Jormundir 10y ago
I recently interviewed with Asana, and unfortunately would review their process as the opposite of what they're going for. The first sentence is not far off from what their process is. My interviews with them were composed of one helpf
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by Jormundir 11y ago
I agree with how you want to conduct the PR or RFC process, where it's annoying if people are being negative without providing an alternative. I do however agree with the parent where there are plenty of times when a simple yes/no
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by Jormundir 11y ago
I think your analysis is spot on. Improving is a slightly more complex cycle. Improvement looks something like this: Do -> analyze strengths and weaknesses -> try to do better. That middle part is way more successful with the help of
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by Jormundir 11y ago
Beautiful arguments. What's the solution put forward? Being critical is easy, but what's something better we can build with the internet?
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by Jormundir 11y ago
They're using a legal loophole, charging the property with being complicit in a crime, not the person. So the piles of money they seize aren't protected by the constitution. This is obviously absurd, corrupt, ridiculous, etc. We h
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by Jormundir 11y ago
Why? Your "shoulds" sound like arbitrary rules to make some people comfortable at other peoples' expense.
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by Jormundir 11y ago
Their contract with Starbucks is ending soon. Going forward their reader fees will be profitable to the company.
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by Jormundir 11y ago
This is an interesting topic to brew on. There would certainly be a lot of problems that would be tough to address using apprenticeship, but it's not like our current education system is lacking in problems. I wonder, though, how appre
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by Jormundir 11y ago
Apprenticeships aren't a good answer either, though. They create too much of a caste system, and are very restricting. What if at 18 I don't actually know what I want to do? If I join an apprenticeship I'm learning one thing.
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by Jormundir 11y ago
You're right about the outcomes, but ignoring the laws would disproportionately hurt small businesses and the open sourcers and hackers you talk about. Laws are tools paid for and created by large entities to cement their positions. Ig
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by Jormundir 12y ago
How would you do it? Bringing those dependencies in under one roof doesn't eliminate their risk. Though it does increase the chance that an error in one of these small dependencies brings down the whole system. With microservices if on
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by Jormundir 12y ago
Isn't it unilateral in the direction that hurts the employee? If your startup signs a no poaching agreement with Google. Now Google can't give you a higher salary offer. I don't think I see how this would not hurt the employe

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