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I would definitely prefer this. I've never wanted to see the "cache" stores for all (XDG-compliant) apps, but often want to see everything for a single app.

Is there any advantage/difference to using ProxyCommand with netcat vs just saying "ProxyJump bastion.example.com"?

As someone spending a large amount of their week doing interviews these days, I really empathize with the spirit of this article. I've expressed an annoyance very similar to this one many times before - it's astounding how many nominally senior programmers are not adept at manipulating text.

If you've been writing a lot of software, I would expect you to be good at actually putting the characters into a file and moving them around therein. I would be very suspicious of someone who claimed to be a master carpenter but couldn't drive a nail cleanly. Muscle memory is a real thing, and the mechanics of a task matter. What is the point of all our fetishization of editors and keyboards and such if not to smooth the transition between brain and paper?

This isn't even always a matter of candidates operating in an unfamiliar environment. Even on their own personal computers, in the editor they presumably use for work, I see a lot of flailing.

I don't think there's all that much overlap between people who use Rust and people who think a terminal written in javascript is a good idea.

'we have CTA that works, don't increase my tax'

I'm sorry if that's how I came across, it's definitely not my feeling. I think the CTA works in that it's a system we should be investing much more in. And taxes should probably go up. I just don't want that money going to private enterprise, especially one run by someone who by all accounts does not believe in society.

Yeah, of course there will be fares for riders. I meant tax revenue that the city could be spending on other things.

I see that they're claiming there's no risk for the city, and that is a very nice claim. It's also a naïve one.

There's probably a more jargony, urbanist term, but I would generally just say "hub and spoke".

I hate this so much.

First, nobody who's lived in Chicago for more than about thirty minutes can possibly believe that this will end up being free to the city. At some point, somehow, we're going to pay.

Second, we already have a perfectly fine train to O'Hare! This is an incredibly marginal improvement, and only benefiting a group that already has plenty of options. The existing train systems are focused entirely on an outdated model of exclusively bringing people to and from downtown. And huge swathes of the city don't even get that.

You're thinking like a human. There are plenty of organizations where $5/mo and $150/mo are essentially indistinguishable and would not affect decision making in any way.

LiveWatch Security | DevOps Engineer | Chicago, IL | ONSITE

LiveWatch is a home security and automation company that combines industry-leading technology and truly personal service to protect our customers.

We're looking for a Devops Engineer to work alongside our small engineering team (currently around 6, depending on your definitions) building robust systems and processes. We'd like someone with strong AWS chops and experience with provisioning/config management tools (we currently use Ansible and Terraform). Some other nice points to have would be experience with managing monitoring or metric aggregation systems and PCI compliance.

One notable feature to me is the transparency in the organization. The whys and hows of both the past and future are well communicated across most teams. The things we work on are clearly tied to goals, and at the end of the day, numbers. Our work doesn't exist in a vacuum and feels grounded in a service that actually helps people.

See a more detailed description and apply at https://app.jobvite.com/j?cj=o9qy6fwX&s=hn or drop me a line at nat@livewatch.com

and it says more about redis and ruby than postgres and swift :p

I use it a lot when doing exploratory SQL work or writing queries. I can tinker with my query in one pane and send it over to the `psql` repl in the other.

I do use psql's `\e` command to open the previous query in your `$EDITOR`, but that only lets me get the single previous query, and throws out any comments.

I sometimes suspect that the build tool ecosystem would be very different if only Makefiles allowed soft tabs.

Awk meshes very well with a lot of my natural inclinations about text processing. I've sadly stopped using it lately as it seems that the majority of my use cases these days run up against a (to me) glaring deficiency in the language. Specifically, capture groups in pattern regexes. It's probably one of those "you're doing it wrong" kind of things, but if awk had that one feature, I probably wouldn't ever need to use perl.

That's because pushing back against a potential employer like that is the HN version of Internet Toughguy Syndrome. You might also be surprised how few people respond to a mugging attempt with a well-placed roundhouse kick.

As usual with acquisitions, they have stripped any information about what their product actually is (was?) from their site.

A little weird to see it here, but ModularGrid is the best thing to happen to the modular synth community since transistors.

Yeah, I suppose reading a bunch of one-sentence-per-line paragraphs might be a bit sub-optimal, but I haven't found it to be a problem in practice. For longer documents, it's not much trouble to read the rendered version and do edits in the source.

Part of the beauty of Markdown is that you don't have to use soft wrapping. Consecutive lines (with no empty lines in between) are combined into paragraphs.

I put every sentence (or longer clause) on its own line. This keeps the navigation paradigm the same. And more importantly, diffs are still readable. If you're doing any kind of collaboration or revision with your Markdown documents, trying to read diffs with one change in the middle of a paragraph-long line is quite frustrating.

It's crazy that in these slides he says "I wanted a hipster language" -- most languages use [] for arrays so I used (). WHY!!!!? Just to be different? No actual real advantage? That's a terrible reason and a great way to make it hard for new people to adopt your language.

Parentheses for array and map access really bugged me until I grokked functors. They're really all doing the same thing, and the mathematical symmetry of using the same syntax for all of them is very pleasing.

We've hired a few as test engineers, and I think results have been quite positive.

We treat our QA department as kind of a software engineering farm team. In fact, I don't know the last time we hired an entry-level SE directly. So maybe our QA engineers are what other places might consider a "junior SE".

I don't think this will help as much as they hope it will. In my experience, people are generally incapable of pronouncing anything, even when it is said to their face.

My name is Nat, which is about as simple a name as you could ask for. But quite often, I will introduce myself, "Hi, I'm Nat", and the response will be "Nice to meet you, Nate". My wife experiences it too (even from her mother!), so I don't think my pronunciation is the problem here.

Is this kind of vowel sloppiness more common in the US? Or should I just take the hint and change my name?

It has been: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/2402

Still no middle finger. It's like they don't even care.

I have more of a django background, so I've never used any of the libraries that you compare this to. How does Sneakers compare to something like Celery (http://www.celeryproject.org/)? Does it let you kick off async jobs and get results back, or is it just about throwing messages over the wall and letting workers process them?

I actually laughed out loud when I scrolled past the exploded view of its innards. Best use of parallax scrolling I've ever seen.

I started out writing perl scripts to download porn. Clicking through to every page of various free galleries and manually saving things was hard work, so I figured there had to be some way to make the computer do that for me.

Still makes me proud just thinking about it.

I've gotta second this, command-t is probably my single favorite plugin. I tried using FuzzyFinder way back when, but it was just a little too quirky to be useful. This blows FuzzyFinder (and even fuzzyfinder_textmate) out of the water.

Navigating you project in this way feels a lot quicker than actually browsing the hierarchy with something like NERDTree. Don't worry about where things actually are, just type some junk and the file you want will almost always come to the top.

The line break between "Blow" and "Pop" made me think that this article was going in a totally different direction.

I had the same problem when learning Japanese. Whether teachers or friends, I didn't often speak it with other men, and definitely picked up some softer turns of phrase and pronunciations.

Once I became able to hear this in myself I started overcompensating somewhat, and had a few people comment that I sounded unusually brusque or was saying something almost cartoonishly masculine.

I don't think there was anything inherent in the language that changed my personality, but it definitely added another layer of concern and thought to how I interacted with people. A lot of it also had to do with just the more limited set of words available to me, though. Maybe I wanted to say something snarky or yell at a taxi driver or whatever, I might just not have known how.