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Current: fossa.com Past: Founder, Leanpub and Ruboss Twitter: @scott_patten blog: http://scottpatten.ca

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www.theverge.com 1y ago

Yahoo Is Selling TechCrunch

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www.vikramoberoi.com 2y ago

Roaring Bitmaps: What they are and how they work (2022)

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blog.cloudflare.com 4y ago

Cloudflare’s view of the Rogers Communications outage in Canada

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fossa.com 4y ago

Three Pillars of Reproducible Builds

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longform.asmartbear.com 4y ago

Exponential Growth

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tuple.app 5y ago

Code Quality Challenge

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astroblogger.blogspot.com 6y ago

Betelguese Fades More

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www.theguardian.com 6y ago

Fifth Google worker-activist fired says company is targeting the vulnerable

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www.smithsonianmag.com 6y ago

Why Did Greenland’s Vikings Vanish? (2017)

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heavymelon.blog 6y ago

Basecamp’s chat sucks, and I like it

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www.bloomberg.com 6y ago

The Sudafed Solution to America's Vaping Problem

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www.theguardian.com 6y ago

Blood pressure drugs work far better if taken at night

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www.ben-evans.com 6y ago

Machine Learning Deployment

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www.ben-evans.com 7y ago

Cameras that understand: portrait mode and Google Lens

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www.smithsonianmag.com 7y ago

Why Did Greenland’s Vikings Vanish? (2017)

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blog.licensezero.com 7y ago

Parity License 5.0.0

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vihart.com 7y ago

Fifty Fizzbuzzes

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www.eod.com 7y ago

App update rejected for mentioning iPhone XR in release notes

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blog.conceptnet.io 7y ago

Making a racist AI without really trying (2017)

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law.duke.edu 7y ago

Theft: A History of Music

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www.chronicle.com 7y ago

What would happen if the earth turned into blueberries?

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www.theatlantic.com 8y ago

How Trust Shapes Nations' Safety Rules

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www.jsonline.com 8y ago

TripAdvisor removed warnings about rapes and injuries at Mexico resorts

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www.scientificamerican.com 8y ago

Squashed in Space: Study Identifies Changes in Astronauts’ Brains

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law.duke.edu 9y ago

Theft: A History of Music

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www.themacro.com 9y ago

Q&A with Hayley Barna

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continuations.com 10y ago

DAO: The Path to Learning Requires Failing

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www.arneswinnen.net 10y ago

How I Could Compromise 4% of Locked Instagram Accounts

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airplanemo.de 10y ago

Soundcloud Go not paying all artists

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ben-evans.com 10y ago

Living in Different Worlds

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I ran into that too. Turns out that you need to add in the path you want to search when invoking the command. If it's your current working directory, use `.`

There are many people still living who were teachers and administrators at these schools.

If we believe that this was genocide (and I think it's pretty obvious that it was), then they should be held accountable for their crimes.

The fact that they haven't been speaks volumes.

Location: Vancouver, Canada

Remote: Yes -- I've been working remotely for > 5 years.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Javascript (Node, React, jQuery, Backbone, Meteor, and a wide range of other Javascript frameworks), Serverless, Erlang, LaTeX, AWS, Ansible.

Resume: https://linkedin.com/in/scott-patten/

Email: scott@scottpatten.ca

I'm one of the founders of Leanpub (https://leanpub.com), and I'm looking for something new (don't worry, Leanpub is just fine). Leanpub is a well-loved, profitable company that has paid over $8 million in royalties to authors, and I was one of the people who built it from scratch.

At Leanpub I was responsible for the book generation engine, our Markdown parser, devops and infrastructure and the main Rails app. I jumped in on the React side of things when needed. I figured out requirements, talked to customers, did support and wrote documentation.

I have more than a decade of experience in software development with a wide variety of technologies. I'm interested in finding a position where I can have an impact on the company, learn constantly and be a part of a great team. I'm looking for a remote-first or extremely remote-friendly company.

Another, more human, take on this from Barista Hustle:

https://baristahustle.com/blog/the-death-of-the-death-of-the...

TL;DR (I watched this a couple of months ago, so this is an attempt a remembering the thesis. I also don't know if I agree or not that this is a good future, but it is the future presented in the video) -- the robots are coming, which is going to give us push-button coffee. There will still be people there to give you a human experience, and they'll get to focus on that experience instead of being split between making coffee and talking to you.

Async and Await 10 years ago

I agree, it looks great. Funnily enough I didn't even notice until you mentioned it.

However, I have to pedantically point out that the Markdown is not 100% visible. The author made the correct choice and just showed links as links instead of the raw Markdown syntax.

For what it's worth, it used to be pretty standard to put the ToC at the back of the book when making epub and mobi files.

We did it at Leanpub, and I'm pretty sure we were just following what the Prags and (if I remember correctly) O'Reilly were doing.

The reason was that opening an epub and flipping through a long ToC before you get to the book is really annoying. There is a way to set the "starting page" in epubs, but many ebook readers ignored this at the time and just opened at the title-page, so putting the ToC at the end was just a better reader experience.

Now that most e-readers use the start-page setting properly, ToCs are mostly at the beginning of ebooks.

I agree with everyone else about the physical hobbies, but I find you need something else to fill the evenings when you don't necessarily want to go outside, or when you just want to spend half an hour doing something that's not coding and not reading.

Music does that for me. If you're at all interested, check out justinguitar.com (no affiliation, just love what the guy does) and try it out. There's something about the meditative aspects of playing music that really works for me.

I used org-mode for about a year, but then switched to Vim and none of the vim org-mode plugins looked great.

So I thought about what I used it for, and realized it was mostly cycling items between TODO and DONE with a keystroke and text folding.

So I forked vim-markdown and added syntax highlighting for TODO and DONE on header lines, and a mapping to cycle between TODO and DONE. Been using it for a couple of months now and I'm reasonably happy.

If you want to give it a shot, code is here: https://github.com/spatten/vim-markdown

If you both review, then the reviews show up immediately. If only one of you reviews, then the review shows up after a waiting period (I think it's ~2 weeks). So presumably the negative review will show up soon.

...it has been downloaded more than 500 million times and used to identify some 30 million songs ...

That doesn't sound right. On average one identification for every 16 downloads? I'm guessing that second million should be a billion.

Maybe I'm just rationalizing it because I want to think of myself as a calm, non-ragey person, but to me it feels like something else.

I agree with others that it feels rude when someone else takes up the whole sidewalk.

But it's also that I walk a lot, and use it as a form of transportation. I go twice as fast as a lot of people on the sidewalk, and it seems like if people just sped up a bit they'd find walking more useful, which would make them drive less, which is a good thing, and it drives me crazy that this isn't obvious to them.

Like I said, I'm probably just rationalizing :)