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So 16 year olds are wise enough to vote, but not fully leave education, buy alcohol, drive a car, join the army and get married without your parents consent, the lists goes on.

Dumb question, but how can a 32 bit number be converted to 2 bits and still be useful? It seems like magic.

At last, an examination of the true nature of 'edge' computing is presented. Despite the appealing promises made by posts from Fly.io and others that depict 'edge' computing as a simple success, the reality can be more complex.

I have recently spent a fair bit of time experimenting with this on Fly for my application (https://www.ssrfproxy.com). It's hard to beat the straightforwardness of deploying in a single region, with the database in close proximity. This approach probably to meets the needs of what 99% of developers require. Aka Heroku.

Thanks for mentioning FireSync, we haven't even offically launched yet! After 10+ years of building real time collabrative apps based on Operational Transformation (ShareLaTeX -> Overleaf.com) we have become quietly very excited about CRDT's and Yjs. Now we are focused on building a scalable Yjs compliant backend ontop of PG with FireSync.

If anyone has thoughts about this space, feature requests, would like a preview of what we are building, or anything else, please do reach out direcly to me at henry@firesync.live, I'm talking to as many people as possible at the moment.

Location: London UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: node.js, react, typescript, terraform, redis, k8, elixir, mongo, Postgres, docker. GCP/AWS, hashicorp stack, Linux, Nginx, haproxy, bash etc

Résumé/CV: Former founder of ShareLaTaX, successful exit from bootstrapping it. Now on First job hunt in 10+ years. Lots of experience in ops/dev ops, fast real time collaboration with big scale. Full stack developer at heart, with lots ops experience in recent years managing large scale cloud migrations and infrastructure. 12+ year’s experience.

Email: henry.oswald@gmail.com

Just - https://just.systems/man/en/

Simple, readable task runner. It has replaced make and rake in a lot of use cases.

replacement for dialyzer?

It's also possible your email address is guessable

Thanks for creating this. I have found it pretty impenetrable though, i've spent a good few minutes trying to get some of the bots to harvest, but they never seem to move.

It feels like it could do with a bit of over the shoulder user testing.

After a while the game does get canceled which may be the root cause of the issue?

I have found it easy to overload SQLite with too many write operations (20+ Concurrently), is this typical behaviour referred to in the post, or a write heavy workload?

Some of the franchises did make decent profits, westcost/virgin etc. This generally happens at the end of the franchise once most of the up front investment happened. A lot of other franchises make a loss so it isn't quite so black and white.

With the previous model a lot of the risk was on the private company, if times were good profits were there, in bad times they made losses. Now with the new model the risk has gone over to the UK government, for better or worse.

The new setup should guarantee a low level of profitability for private companies, with a theoretical lower max, what will be interesting is to see how many companies actually bid.

The private companies actually own very little when running a franchise, most things are leased, such as rolling stock which is largely owned by German funds if memory serves. Investments into stations/parking/ticketing etc is left in place for the next person to take the keys.

I completely agree, Northern trains are a disgrace.

I don't think it was a failure of private companies though, rather Network Rail failing to deliver. The government has speced electrification for decades like you say. The cost of eletricifcation has gone through the roof, mainly due to health and safety (good thing). We have also lost a lot of expertise in electrification, much like how we lost the skill to tunnel.

Most will sympathise with public run railways (rightly or wrongly) so it is worth highlighting some positives from private companies running of the railways.

The private companies have pushed for a very large increase in the number of operating trains, with around a 50% increase in the past couple of decades, they are trying to squeeze every drop possible out if the tracks.

The train companies are also often making a loss on these routes, commonly subsidised by foreign Europeans governments looking to expand their rail business, Dutch or Italian tax payers should be annoyed at how their taxes are being wasted.

Profits are also capped so these are not potential cash cows people suspect. British tickets are expensive because the government doesn't subsidise the ticket price, which is a separate debate.

The Public Vs private debate will continue until the end of time, the truth is there are benefits to both systems.

Disclaimer, my wife is senior in a rail franchise, as well as being left leaning, fwiw.

When it comes to replication & automatic failover in PG what is the 2021 gold standard setup?

As a bit of a self taught sysadmin who only touches Ubuntu/Debian based systems due there ubiquity, could someone explain the benefits of using RHEL?

This isn't life optimisation, it's putting cost optimisation over happiness.

Having a yard/garden with kids is wounderful, open the back door and shove them outside without shoes to play for accessible easy outdoor time.

Half the fun of Friends staying over in the guest room is when you can have a few drinks and everyone relaxes knowing no one is traveling. The next morning you can all have breakfast together.

Car shares are great for going to the shops on Tuesday, getting a car for Christmas when you want to see family is a different ballgame.

I would love to see pret move out a bit further where people live and WFH, or even have a delivery truck which works the local area.

My partner and myself both WFH in Peckham, we would love to buy a couple of sandwiches and coffees from pret via an app. We get the occasional falafel wrap on just eat but there are not enough quick delivery options for healthyish lunches.

Is the market salary based off other startups who have closed large rounds, or a FAANG company? It is common to be paid a bit less at a startup compared to a very large company. However if you feel you are being shortchanged it will likely result in friction with the company sooner or later.

Ask for more, worst case they come back with no, then you have to decide if you want to stay at that rate. Odds are your stock isn't going to be worth a lot, but I am a pessimist when it comes to equity.

For those with young children going to SF for several months made YC near impossible, I hope they keep a remote option in the future.

Thanks for the great work, I am a big Elixir and Phoenix fan. Although I don't think it will ever hit the heights of ruby or node in terms of popularity, I believe elixir and phoneix are very good long term bets.

The improved Compiler checks are a great step in the right direction. I know elixir language isn't going to change much (if at all?) now, so putting more time into things like safety and developer productivity will be warmly welcomed.

Motherboard did a nice writeup of what Sleepyhead is and an overview of the Sleep Apnea echo system

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwjd4w/im-possibl...

The article references cloud providers, "especially in Asia", frustrating MongoDb, does anyone know which companies these are or specifically what they have done which other did not?

Overleaf (www.overleaf.com) | REMOTE | Ops Engineer & Growth Hacker At overleaf we help academics collaborate more effectively and make LaTeX easier to work with. We recently acquired ShareLaTeX.com and are merging the two platforms into Overleaf v2. 1. Ops Engineer: We want to migrate our infrastructure to Google Cloud/AWS/Docker from our current setup based around Chef-server running on Linode. The technologies we currently use and will still need to support before any migration include Ubuntu, Redis, MongoDB, Haproxy, Nginx, Node.js, Jenkins and Docker. The Ops job will involve responsibilities like:

- Modifying our Node.js services to work with different architectures as they evolve

- Improving auto-scaling for our LaTeX compiling backend

- Management & maintenance of our infrastructure

- Improving our CI and deployment process

- Testing and improving our backup & backup verification process, and emergency procedures

- Keeping our emergency monitoring services tested and up to date

- Improving and automating the Docker build process of our open source and onsite package

- Being on call to deal with out of hours emergencies

Send us an email with a CV and cover letter: jobs@overleaf.com

I am getting lost with all the ways to run containers on AWS. Is this the equivalent of google compute engines beta option to boot from a docker container?

Overleaf (www.overleaf.com) | UK | REMOTE | Ops

We're looking for someone for a Ops role at Overleaf to modernise our operations setup. Overleaf is online LaTeX editor with over 2 million registered users that helps academics collaborate more effectively and makes LaTeX easier to work with.

We want to migrate our infastructure to Google Cloud/AWS/Docker from our current setup which based around Chef-server running on Linode. The technologies we currently use and will still need support before any migration include Ubuntu, Redis, MongoDB, Haproxy, Nginx, Node.js, Jenkins and Docker.

The job will involve responsibilities like:

* Modifying our Node.js services to work with different architectures as they evolve.

* Improving our auto-scaling solutions for our LaTeX compiling backend

* Management & maintenance of our infrastructure, including designing redundant architecture, and upgrades & security patches of services.

* Improving our CI and deployment process

* Testing and improving our backup & backup verification process, and emergency procedures.

* Keeping our emergency monitoring services tested and up to date

* Improving and automating the Docker build process of our open source and onsite package

* Being on call to deal with out of hours emergencies

Some reasons you'd enjoy working for us:

* Around 80% of our codebase is open-source and we’re big fans of Free Software.

* We’re agile (with a lower case a). We test everything (unit and acceptance), we have a CI build process, a full staging environment to play with, and we automate as much as possible.

* Working hours can be flexible to your needs.

* Remote is a first class citizen, all founders and employees work remotely. We get everyone together in London every few months for valuable face to face time.

Send us an email: jobs@overleaf.com

Overleaf (www.overleaf.com) | REMOTE | Full Stack Dev & Business Facing Dev

We're looking for two new developers at Overleaf, which is an online LaTeX editor with over 2 million registered users. We help academics collaborate more effectively and make LaTeX easier to work with.

We work mainly with Node.js and Rails, CoffeeScript, ES6, Docker and a plethora of other interesting tech.

We recently acquired ShareLaTeX.com and are merging the 2 platforms into Overleaf v2, there are a lot of interesting projects coming up such as building a WYSIWYG editor for LaTeX, improving the compile times for LaTeX as well as a host of collaboration features we have planned.

We are also interested in hearing from any developers who would like to work closely with the business team, this can include things such as running experiments, optimising how our blog, templates, documentation are managed and modified, talking to the technical clients and potentially going out on sales meetings.

* Around 75% of our code base is open source and we’re big fans of free software

* We’re agile (with a lower case a). We test everything (unit and acceptance), we have a CI build process, a full staging environment to play with, and we automate as much as possible.

* Working hours can be flexible to your needs. Applicants in or near GMT preferred.

* Remote is a first class citizen, all founders and employees work remotely with a London base. Every few months we get the entire dev team together in London.

Send us an email: jobs@overleaf.com

ShareLaTeX founder here.

Just to confirm, the goal here is to say that the open source will not be left to rot in the corner, its going to remain at the centre of the company. You will see updates and improvements coming in the future.

Thanks, you would be surprised what a big difference it makes when we hear nice things about ShareLaTeX. (I am a ShareLaTeX person)

Serious question, how do you backup a casandra database of that size. Do you even back it up or just rely on the sharing to prevent dataloss?

Although async and await do look great, I am not very keen on using try/catch for everything. Is this not going to end up with more verbose code? I appreciate it will be impossible to ignore errors though.