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NVIDIA RAPIDS | http://rapids.ai | DevOps Manager | Full-time | Remote (US preferred)

We are hiring a DevOps manager to lead NVIDIA’s Data Science Engineering Operations team, supporting multiple engineering teams working on data science (and adjacent) libraries such as RAPIDS, NeMo Retriever, and NeMo Curator. You will work closely with our development and build teams to ensure high-quality releases of CUDA/C++ and Python libraries as well as containers.

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Strange--I have been using Newsblur since GReader closed, and am impressed at how fast it is. There were a couple of brief periods when it was sluggish, but he's done a good job of clearing bottlenecks as they have come up.

FWIW, I have about 400 feeds and about 1000 articles a day, so I am using it fairly hard.

Yes, but for many flights, especially international ones, the charge for those seats is not worth it.

I was looking into flights to Japan, and the Premium Economy tickets are literally double the regular economy tickets.

Many domestic flights have Premium Economy for less than double the price, but it's still expensive enough and the benefits not great enough (generally only a couple of inches of legroom--no change in seat width, no better service, etc) to generally not be worth it unless you are flying cross country.

If it makes it easier to use encrypted email, then it does a little--any emails with someone with whom you have exchanged keys would be encrypted, and thus while they do indeed still fly across insecure channels, they are (presumably) uncrackable.

Obviously, the vast majority of emails would still be unencrypted, and this does nothing for metadata. But anything that makes encryption less cumbersome to use is a good thing in my book.

The NSA keeps saying that no one is abusing this program. That's completely beside the point--the point is that this program shouldn't exist at all.

The opportunity to work on a cutting-edge technical problem at scale most would never get to touch. That's a very tempting proposal. The secrecy itself probably also appeals to some folks.

I'd also imagine that a lot of folks only work on one small part of this, that in and of itself, is not objectionable. Where it becomes scary is when you expand the scope to cover every US citizen regardless of wrongdoing.

Definitely could be. I installed on MySQL because that's what my Linode is running.

Was going to say the same. Has been steadily improving over the last month or two. Still not perfect, but the best alternative I have found yet, and I love that it's under active development by someone who is invested in its success (and paid for it!).

It is... OK. Works pretty well if you don't have a large number of feeds. If you do, can require some decent hardware to run well. Probably not a big deal for most people here, but I got tired of administering it and switched to NewsBlur.

Some of my performance issues could have been MySQL tuning issues, but I just got tired of tinkering with it.

Also a happy user here. Newsblur is by far the best replacement for high-volume RSS power-users that I have found. And the fact that it's open source so I can 1) satisfy my curiosity as to how he is doing things and 2) install myself if the site ever goes belly-up is just icing on the cake.

It's definitely not perfect, but it gets better every day. Performance has notably improved over the last month or so. Kudos to Samuel for a great product. Hopefully someday I'll be able to contribute a bugfix or something to help.

Absolutely. They are very different. The Django Book is a tutorial--very useful, and I do wish that it got more support. I will have to see what I can do with helping to update it for Django 1.5.

But TSoD is a different animal--it's not a "How to learn Django" guide, it's a "How to use Django in the real world" guide. It's not teaching you how to setup models and forms, it's the step beyond that--once you know how to use it, how do you use it well, in production environments? Things that most decent Django programmers know, but that are very hard for those just getting started to figure out except through trial, error, and hours of Googling. There's a big gap in literature here, and not just for Django. I'm happy to see someone addressing it.

I think this is a very important point. In most places outside of the big cities (basically NY, SF, and Chicago), there is very little housing stock available for rent, aside from in low-income neighborhoods and near schools. Furthermore, what you do find is mostly people who are simple looking to sell but can't and are renting in the meantime--you had better bet that they will sell it out from under you at the first opportunity they get, and moving is not cheap.

Even if you are able to find a place to rent that is stable, now you have to deal with a landlord and (possibly) other tenants. You can't do what you want to the place, when you want to. I think this weighs on people.

I completely agree that too many people that shouldn't end up buying a place, and that buying a place is a lot of work. But it's about the only choice in most of the country.

Agreed. I used to use Command T religiously, but I move machines frequently due to the nature of my work and was spending more time trying to get it and its dependencies working on the variety of machines that I use than I was actually, you know, coding.

Granted, Ctrl-P is much slower than Command-T. Won't deny it. But carefully excluding all .git, virtualenv (for python) and similar folders in my .vimrc, along with making sure I cd into a directory a little closer to my code makes it almost as quick for me. And it just works, which is invaluable in my book.

Definitely that, but also the skyrocketing costs of a college education. The days of paying your way through school by working summers and weekends are over. Either you are lucky enough to have parents pay for your school, or you are coming out of school with debt the size of some people's mortgages. There goes your ability to buy a house or car...

Then factor in that for many folks, they spent that money on that education and graduated to find out the only place that would/could hire them was the local coffee shop for 20 hours a week, and there is no amount of marketing in the world that is going to convince that person to buy a $30,000 car.

I'm fairly sure the reason 21-30 year olds aren't buying houses and cars in droves isn't because they are "quirky eco-conscious individuals" that your marketing "isn't speaking to"... I'm pretty sure its mostly because:

1: Many of them don't have jobs (or have low-paying jobs) because of the economy.

2: Many of them watched their parents drown in debt from houses and cars they bought but couldn't really afford

3: Student debt.

No amount of marketing is going to fix that.

This quote alone just makes me shake my head: “I don’t believe that young buyers don’t care about owning a car,” says John McFarland, GM’s 31-year-old manager of global strategic marketing. “We just think nobody truly understands them yet.”

Yes, that kind of rate is only for partner-level time at a Big 4/Big 3 type shop--and those guys aren't billing more than a few hours a week typically. Even then, $1k/hour is pretty high.

Now, it's not uncommon at all for the staff folks who are on the ground 40+ hours a week to be billed out at anywhere from 200-600/hour. But >$1k? Very rare.