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daheza

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Senior Engineering Manager - Working with a great team to move a monolith into aws. As you do.
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daheza··on Almost 90 percent of NYC bars and restaurants couldn’t pay August rent
I feel like this might ignore that a good portion of restaurant sales are from the bar. Chilis, Applebees, to an extent BJs Restaurant. I feel only a few companies have adopted to the fact that you can deliver alcohol. There's no reason that those bar sales, can't be from the restaurant over postmates or uber eats.
daheza··on California bans private prisons
I'm pretty happy about the laws california has been enacting recently, this plus the uber / lyft law both align with my views. I'm glad that politicians are actually doing what we vote them in todo.
daheza··on Interviews with developers who became managers
I'm just starting to transition my career into a more managerial role, and I agree with everything you are saying above. I would like to know though how you are doing:

"I look at my team, and the entire office is happier than I've seen it in 5 years. I'm watching people train, and actively grow under my management. It is incredibly rewarding, and much, much better than before I moved to my current position."

I am having a problem having my team be happy and also growing/learning. Do you have any tips to share in this regard?

daheza··on [dead]
I wonder when zoos will pick up on the twitch train. This account: https://www.twitch.tv/dashducks has set up a device to feed ducks whenever people tip.
daheza··on Interesting Tech Markets for 2019
Used to work here, and yea they definitely know they are a monopoly. Acquiring apartments.com with all their commercial real estate data was really smart. Their tech department was too corporate for me though.
daheza··on A map of London as it was during the era of the Tudor monarchs
My gf loves this kind of work and actually wants to do something very similar herself. She has been working on mapping the locations of Emma Smith during her life in the 1800s. It would be super neat if something like this existed for the united states during that time.
daheza··on Dungeons Tome – Tool for generating dungeons for RPGs
Wow this is something I never realized I wanted until now. Seems like it could be a cool hackathon project, plus getting to learn more details about how google maps / bing maps / openstreetmap do their zooming.
daheza··on Python Development Kit on Humble Bundle
I was thinking of picking this up just for the EggHead.io 6month subscription for $20. Does anyone know if the other books are referenced in python communities?
daheza··on Snap lays off two dozen employees
Doesn't seem that large a number. According to Wikipedia they employ 1,859.
daheza··on Amazon Hub
Same deal at my current apartment. This fills up super quick then they just leave packages the packages on the ground outside.
daheza··on Companies Should Pay for Their Employees to Attend Conferences
I'm not familiar with that term. What is a "corridor session"?
daheza··on Performance Improvements in .NET Core
I liked the original modern.ie site. It was so much easier to navigate than modern microsoft sites.
daheza··on Russian FOSS activist arrested in Russia for his Tor exit-node
But how do you get the bitcoins without giving someone a credit card / debit account? It's a part of the chain that seems like it could all be traced back to one person. Person A buys bitcoins using their credit card. The bitcoins are then used to pay for the VPS. Are there any only bitcoin marketplaces that accept gift cards?
daheza··on Scientologists ‘infiltrate Munich art gallery’
I see their recruiting efforts at least once a week in downtown la. They always have a few people sitting down with them.
daheza··on Ask HN: What sort of side-projects are useful for getting jobs?
I wonder if this is programmer specific and not as relevant to designers.
daheza··on Browser auto-fill phishing
I found this https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132135 which was created when someone noticed the issue happening to their honeypot input box. Looks like it was closed a while ago.

I saw this example doing the rounds on twitter. Hopefully the chrome devs notice the noise and move up the priority on fixing / addressing it.

daheza··on Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
Thinking about doing the same myself. I've realized I am just not happy in this job with my current company.

Was it difficult to work on the side products without a set schedule like a full time job provides?

daheza··on Time for a Rigorous National Debate About Surveillance
Maybe this is just false security, but I at least feel comfortable knowing apple and I are on the same side in this fight.
daheza··on Millions of Men Are Missing from the Job Market
When I went to physical therapy it consisted of them just teaching me stretches, all of which I could just find online. Is this the normal experience?
daheza··on Visual Studio 2015 Extensions You Might Find Useful
As someone who uses visual studio at work everyday I often find it incredibly slow and thats even without any extensions. I am curious if you use VS do you use it on windows severs or are you running windows 10? Also as far as the slowness often how large are you projects? Do you run your TFS work space local or server?
daheza··on Tips from the Pragmatic Programmer (2000)
Aren't at this point you doing the job of two people? I have a coworker who would say this when the requirements are well defined. He would say its our job to build the requirements that are given to us. Our job is not to create / define a product. He would often follow this up by saying our company is worth X Billions of dollars, they can afford to hire a Business Analyst/ Better Product Manager.

Personally I don't agree with this. It goes against my core beliefs to make something that I don't believe is good for the end user. I have a hard time however coming up with arguments on why we should as a developer spend our time creating basically a product plan.

daheza··on How 'Pokémon GO' Can Lure More Customers to Your Local Business
If they wanted to capitalize on this some more they should add an option to turn a location into a pokestop. Currently you can only use the lure trick if your shop was one of the lucky few that is on the map. They could do the same thing but with gyms for a larger price. Pokemon Company needs to get some of the B2B going on.
daheza··on Freely available programming books
Probably an easy way to do it, would be to run the book title through hacker news comments and programming language subreddits. Count up the number of references. That at least would give you an idea of how often a book is mentioned.
daheza··on The Perks Are Great, Just Don’t Ask What We Do
My friend works at Spokeo. If you don't know about them they are basically a people search engine. He keeps asking me to work there, but I just cant get over the moral implications of scrapping peoples lives and putting it up for viewing for a price. Something about the product just scratches me wrong so I haven't applied. It is really too bad as their tech seems solid and the offices are amazing.
daheza··on GPG signature verification
I sometimes wish my company had more competition so that we could improve the product.
daheza··on VPN Comparison Chart
I have always wondered when I see charts like this that add a column for bitcoin accepted. I would much rather pay with a prepaid gift card / visa which can be purchased with cash. If I even wanted to pay with bitcoin I have no idea how I could get a balance and remain anonymous.
daheza··on PlayStation VR Will Arrive in October for $399
This is related to an issue I am trying to solve.

I want to know if its possible to make an application that will make some task more efficient for people in VR rather than on a 2d screen.

I am having difficulty finding ideas that are more involved than just using the space in vr as an infinite 2d screen. Even with an infinite 2d screen though we have issues in vr because text is not very legible.

I am at GDC right now seeing if I can get ideas based off the games people are making.

daheza··on Google Seeks to Pacify Consumers with Faster Mobile Pages
All CSS must be inline and size-bound

Does this mean that only inline styling is supported? <div style="..."> Or just that styling should be included on the page in a <style> tag.

daheza··on Zynga to Put Headquarters Building in San Francisco on the Market
It doesn't appear to be actively listed yet http://www.loopnet.com/locations/zynga-inc_/properties
daheza··on Bitbucket secrets
How do you add votes to an issue?
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