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JCzynski

153 karma · joined July 31, 2016

A Python and Go programmer or AI safety academic, depending on which way the wind's blowing today.
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JCzynski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)
I am confused. Roles say ' fully remote role open to people living in either Denver, CO or Boulder, CO'. In what sense is this 'fully remote'?
JCzynski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)
Ah, the abuse therapy. Excellent choice. /s
JCzynski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)
There are a lot of 'crawshaw's in the world. What email?

EDIT: can be found at the bottom of his personal website, which is linked in his HN profile. Presumably hidden because the URL is the company name and it's unannounced.

JCzynski··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2024)
Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Remote: Okay, Hybrid preferred

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Go, Python

Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VQgn5eGzsIHFwuMUexYgtjAD...

Email: ja.kopczynski@gmail.com

Mid-Senior developer, 6+ years experience, mostly focused on the backend/API side. Ranged from Google to a small blockchain startup (Luther Systems).

JCzynski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)
AIUI, case law has generally concluded that requesting videos is unnecessary and prejudicial, and therefore forbidden, whereas in-person hiring has a much stronger case for being useful for other reasons. If a company literally only ever hired people through in-person career fairs, that would probably get examined with scrutiny as well, but that's rare. I am nothing like a lawyer, though, and could be entirely wrong.
JCzynski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)
Piss off with that bullshit. He's right. Not to mention it's illegal under discrimination law.
JCzynski··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2024)
Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Remote: Okay, Hybrid preferred

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Go, Python

Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VQgn5eGzsIHFwuMUexYgtjAD...

Email: ja.kopczynski@gmail.com

Mid-Senior developer, 6+ years experience, mostly focused on the backend/API side. Ranged from Google to a small blockchain startup (Luther Systems).

JCzynski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)
Bet it's just the standard reason: people collaborate better in person and advance their skills worse over time when WFH.
JCzynski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)
Nah. That dilutes signal from more important things like detail and scumminess of the poster.
JCzynski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)
How do you intend to weigh parent's rights against children's rights?
JCzynski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)
> PredictionHealth is currently not hiring in the following states: CA, DC, MT, HI, or NY

This really ought to be included in the comment, since it excludes a large portion of potential applicants.

JCzynski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)
Your LinkedIn pages say 'No longer accepting applications.' Where should we contact you, if not there?
JCzynski··on Rebooting (something like) early Triplebyte
Glad to see you back. Signed up, and unlike when I was using TB in the early days, my resume should hopefully be the kind of thing companies are looking for.
JCzynski··on Rebooting (something like) early Triplebyte
As the previous blog post[1] was all about, they're not really expecting to scale, right? Or not that far.

[1] https://www.otherbranch.com/blog/why-triplebyte-failed

JCzynski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)
Skill growth while working remotely slows and plateaus. There's plenty of evidence for this at this point, and I attribute most of the catastrophe in junior engineers at the big companies to it.

I'd rather work hybrid, getting working time at home is great, but I'm not foolish enough to cripple myself long-term by insisting on favoring short-term comfort.

JCzynski··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024)
Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Remote: Okay, Hybrid preferred

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Go, Python

Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VQgn5eGzsIHFwuMUexYgtjAD...

Email: ja.kopczynski@gmail.com

Mid-Senior developer, 7+ years experience, mostly focused on the backend/API side. Ranged from Google to a small blockchain startup (Luther Systems).

JCzynski··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2024)
Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Remote: OK, Hybrid preferred

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Go

Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GDTvxlePQFiB9VV68bqvEhn_...

Email: ja.kopczynski@gmail.com

Mid-Senior developer, 7+ years experience, mostly focused on the backend/API side. Ranged from Google to a small blockchain startup (Luther Systems).

JCzynski··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2024)
Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Remote: OK, Hybrid preferred

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Go

Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GDTvxlePQFiB9VV68bqvEhn_...

Email: ja.kopczynski@gmail.com

JCzynski··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2024)
Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Remote: OK, Hybrid preferred

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Go

Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GDTvxlePQFiB9VV68bqvEhn_...

Email: ja.kopczynski@gmail.com

JCzynski··on Praise the Machine Spirit
Sure seems that way sometimes
JCzynski··on Groups of Homeless People
*her statement
JCzynski··on I know why rejection emails suck – I write them
If you can't concisely communicate complicated concepts, you're creating technical debt every time you hand off a project.
JCzynski··on Google Memory Loss
An image containing the back of the sign doesn't contain a sign. A sign is the front. The back is just a flat surface, not a sign.
JCzynski··on Bob Lutz: Kiss the good times goodbye
Can we trust a state more?

Most likely they will be city-/county-owned, in urban areas, with private companies handling long-distance and rural areas.

JCzynski··on Standalone Signal Desktop
And they had one already. Which no one liked.
JCzynski··on Hard Coding Concepts Explained with Simple Real-Life Analogies
Their new monetization scheme.
JCzynski··on Early Facebook Employees Regret the Monster They Created
Wisconsin would not have been sufficient. Neither would Wisconsin + Michigan.

Also, her victory was so overdetermined that about five things had to go wrong for her to lose. (Email investigation, flawed campaign, the last-minute Comey letter, probably Bernie making trouble for months after he was statistically eliminated but that's hard to tell, Russia intervention, bad electoral college distribution, probably some others I'm forgetting right now)

JCzynski··on Google Pixelbook – A High Performance Chromebook
>I can't see why Google would want people to do computing on their own machines though.

https://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/unable-to-set-defaul...

JCzynski··on I used to think gun control was the answer. My research told me otherwise
Worked at 538, past tense. Moved on a few months ago, though well after the gun investigation she took the data from. I think she's at [Wave](https://www.wave.com/), now.
JCzynski··on I used to think gun control was the answer. My research told me otherwise
I know her personally, and she's a better statistician than you.

Also, I've independently done a lot of the same research, going to primary sources. It's correct.

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