AccordionGuy

Congrats on the launch! I’m happy to see OpenZiti in your networking stack alongside Istio. The combo of sandbox-per-agent and MCPs-in-separate-containers is exactly the kind of deployment that benefits from identity-based, zero-listening-port connectivity between components.

If you're up for it, we'd love to have someone from Agyn on Ziti TV (our livestream) to talk about how you're using OpenZiti and what you're building on the agent-infra side. Drop me a line if you're interested — joey.devilla@netfoundry.io.

Disclosure: As my email address implies, I work at NetFoundry, which created and sponsors OpenZiti. I’m their Developer Advocate and it’s my job to promote OpenZiti (and especially for AI tools and platforms), but either way, I really like what you're shipping here.

Damn it, I was going to post the same thing!

MS;DR

(Mark Steyn; didn’t read.)

Silly me; I thought they were still a thing. I did some quick searches and found out they dissolved in 2013.

When did they last update the site?

The “News Flash” announcement about Joichi Ito being selected to head the MIT Media Lab hasn’t just aged, but it’s aged like milk. In his time running the Media Lab, he associated with and took investments from Jeffrey Epstein, and it all came to light in 2019.

If you’re not familiar with the story, here’s a writeup from _The New Yorker_, [How an Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein](https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-an-elite-univer...).

I’m pretty sure they’d want to remove that news flash.

The “live” ticker box transactions are randomly generated; see the source code:

http://coin-ether.net/scripts/table.js

The i5 10300H and Ryzen 5 4600H are pretty similar, according to the data on UserBenchmark:

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-10300H-v...

The specs for the laptop you’re interested in are pretty close to the ones for the Acer Nitro 5 (2020 model, Intel i5 10300H processor, NVIDIA HTX 1650 with 4 GB RAM). I wrote about it here:

https://www.globalnerdy.com/2021/07/29/buying-a-used-laptop-...

I’ve had it only a few days, but I’m enjoying it. It runs circles around my previous Windows laptop (my work-issued machine is a MacBook Pro), my trusty ThinkPad T430 with 16GB RAM, especially since I used my Amazon points to bump the RAM up to the maximum 32 GB. I’ve been using it to build Android and Flutter mobile apps, learning Unity, Spring Boot/Kotlin web applications, and some Jupyter Notebook work. It also does a lovely job of playing GTA V.

I tweaked the code to find the 5 integers whose cubes sum to 2017 to insure that they are distinct, and to pull out of all those loops once a soltuion has been found: https://cloud.sagemath.com/projects/d07701cd-2d97-4a09-96ef-...

I've never had a problem with carry both an accordion and a knapsack containing my laptops. The accordion I travel with fits handily in just about every aircraft's overhead compartment, which certain simplifies those rare moments when the flight crew gives me static about not checking or gate-checking it.

I agree with the author that getting on the plane early is important. Another good trick is to try and get seats near the rear of the plane, as many (but not all) airlines try to board the plane from the rear seats first. This gives you a better shot at getting space in one of the overhead compartments.

The position is for a developer advocate, so the best thing for me to show is my work along those lines, which is quite well-documented in the Global Nerdy blog. Whether at Tucows, Microsoft, b5media, Shopify and even the consultancy I recently left, my work is shown there.

I wanted to use:

- A language with a REPL so that I could check my ideas in a terminal window. - A language that would reduce the amount of typing I'd have to do - A language I that I was half-decent at (at lease at one point)

And Ruby fit all those criteria.

I didn't sign any agreements of any sort, and the question was about as generic as "FizzBuzz" that I wasn't giving away anything. If it's a problem, I can make it right by editing the article.

I tend to go with more humourous bits like that on weekend posts; that's my style.

Yup, it's serious. I'm don't know for certain that I've been ruled out of a follow-up interview, but I got that vibe by the end.

I knew I wouldn't be the only person to think, "Oh my, it's Timecube all over again..."

You might want to talk to my friend, Rob Hyndman, whose law firm, Hyndman Law, specializes in legal work for tech businesses and startups, and he's based in the west end of Toronto.

http://hyndmanlaw.com/

Tell him Joey deVilla sent you.

I created the convenience functions "multiple_of_3" and "multiple_of_5" for a couple of reasons:

1. To make it clear to the interviewer that I "get" the problem. 2. To prevent myself from making any dumb mistakes. I'm only a half-decent coder, so I've made it a habit of putting such "Mollyguards" (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/molly-guard) in my code as a precaution. 3. To show a little Ruby coding style. The convention in Ruby is to favour lots of concise little routines over big-ass ones. See "Eloquent Ruby" for the guideline and Shopify's ActiveMerchant library for an example of such Ruby in actual production code.

[Article author here!] Reg is right. The purpose of the FizzBuzz test was to weed out anyone who couldn't program at all and not punish anyone who forgot a semicolon, used = when they should've used == or some similar error. I was completely prepared to discuss the result if someone got close to a working solution.

To my surprise, the candidates' solutions were either bang-on or way off. The guy who asked "Do you think I should use a loop?" had to be cut off at the ten-minute mark, and his paper had only the start of a C-syntax for loop and a lot fo scratched-out lines.

Maybe it's time to turn this challenge into a proper contest.

As the author of the article to which Gruber is referring, I think I'll simply say "Well played, Mr. Gruber, well played."

SSH buddy? I don't even have a porn buddy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgnDHbeVGG4

If anyone wants, I'll write about my experiences going in the opposite direction -- from the start-up world to Microsoft.