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donjh

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Engineering @ Retool. Prev YC W18, some startups and agencies, and UIUC Eng

https://twitter.com/DonaldHruska

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donjh··on Nyxt 3 Pre-release 1 (a Lisp powered web browser)
Finicky is set as your system default browser and opens the appropriate browser based on the URL.
donjh··on Stripe Identity
This marketing page is really delightful. The ID scan is a nice touch.
donjh··on Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to your users
We are happy Fly customers! Amazing service and team. Congrats on the launch.
donjh··on ProtonMail Voluntarily Offers Assistance for Real-Time Surveillance?
See https://thehelm.com/
donjh··on Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets
This is great. I wonder if using this data patterns could be found showing when and where tickets are written. Would be interesting to know when and how often certain areas are checked for illegal parking, if such a pattern exists.
donjh··on CoinTracker raises $1.5M to make tracking cryptocurrency investments easy
Great product and great team. Congrats Cointracker
donjh··on Introduction to web scraping with Python
As an alternative to lxml or BeautifulSoup, I've used a library called PyQuery (https://pythonhosted.org/pyquery/) with some success. It has a very similar API to jQuery.
donjh··on Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
In my state that costs $10/bureau, plus another $10 to temporarily unfreeze or permanently unfreeze. The fact that they can leak my information and then charge me to protect myself just seems wrong.
donjh··on How I Start: Go (2014)
I mean... is using 'err' really that big of a deal?
donjh··on Introducing Create React Native App
Create React App was a great addition to the React ecosystem and definitely made the library more approachable. Excited to check this out!
donjh··on Data on the uselessness of LinkedIn endorsements
You have the ability to hide specific endorsements - for instance, if someone endorses me for a skill that they don't actually know that I know, LinkedIn provides the ability to hide that person's endorsement.
donjh··on Uber CLI
Everyone deleted the app, so we have to use the CLI now!
donjh··on Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets
And Google Ventures is an Uber investor... so Google is effectively suing one of their own portfolio companies.
donjh··on Rails 5.1.0 Beta 1
I think the JavaScript updates are great news, enough for me to finally dive into Rails.
donjh··on Interview with John O'Nolan of Ghost
I set up Ghost on a DO droplet the other day. Even opting to manually install it rather than use the Ghost on Ubuntu image, installation and setup was a breeze.
donjh··on Georgia Tech Offers Online Master of Science in Analytics Degree for Under $10K
Being almost done with the program, would you recommend it?
donjh··on Show HN: Victory – ReactJS library for building interactive data visualizations
This looks pretty slick. Awesome to see that FiveThirtyEight is using it, too (http://formidable.com/open-source/victory/about/#showcase). I've always wrestled with D3 when doing charting, so I'll have to give this a try.
donjh··on Show HN: PullToRefresh.js
Really clean - has a great feel to it. Nice work!
donjh··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)
DRIVIN | Chicago, IL | Python Engineer | ONSITE

DRIVIN is looking to expand our data team as we continue to grow our data platform. The candidate should have a strong background with Python and SQL. As a member of the data team the main responsibilities are implementing/maintaining ETL jobs, using Python to ingest external data sources into the Data Warehouse, and working closely with the Product and Data Science teams to deliver data in usable formats and to the appropriate data sources.

DRIVIN has a polyglot data model using many cutting edge data platforms. We are currently using MPP Postgres (Greenplum, Netezza, DBX) as our Data Warehouse, Elastic Search for location based searching, Postgres for transactional data, and AeroSpike for Big Data.

This candidate should be a self-starter who is interested in learning new systems/environments and building new solutions. They should also be interested in architecting simple, straight-forward solutions to reduce complex data problems. The candidate should also work closely with the Data Science team to identify interesting data points for use by the Data Science team.

DRIVIN tech stack is very cutting edge. MPP Postgres drives the Data Warehouse, ElasticSearch enables our location based searching/metrics, AeroSpike enables our Big Data storage, and Apache Spark is used to train our models. All environments are run off of AWS EC2/RDS/S3 and data processing framework is written in Python.

Shoot me an email if you're interested! dhruska@drivindealer.com

donjh··on Blazing Fast HTML: Elm vs. React vs. Angular vs. Ember
Wow - I'm a big fan of React, so I'm a little disappointed to see that it was the slowest of all.
donjh··on Apollo Global is buying Rackspace for $4.3B
I've had this experience as well. I thought it was a little funny that they would let us pay them to move us off their own service.
donjh··on A few HTML tips
I found the section on SVG sprites particularly interesting. Here's a Webpack plugin to generate SVG spritesheets from individual assets: https://github.com/mrsum/webpack-svgstore-plugin.
donjh··on Show HN: New time and daylight application
Was recently reading about the photography "Golden hour"[0], and this is very relevant. Bookmarked - thanks!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_hour_(photography)

donjh··on Introducing Webpack Dashboard
How to you run webpack-dev-server during development? You might have a script in your package.json that runs it - if so, add --quiet to the end of the script there.
donjh··on Introducing Webpack Dashboard
I definitely keep the terminal open in the side of my window to catch any errors throughout the development process. I just set up Webpack Dashboard which was pretty easy, and now I can continue to keep my terminal up but I have an even easier way to view any errors that may crop up.
donjh··on Ask HN: What keeps you from exercising?
Powerlifting is incredibly healthy. For anyone interested, pick up a copy of Starting Strength. It's an amazing read. I've also really enjoyed StrongLifts 5x5 - it has a companion app that tells you exactly what you need to do, each workout.
donjh··on Create React Apps with No Configuration
I think it's the right move for people new to React. A lot of those features in other boilerplates aren't really necessary for building out a simple app.

Furthermore, the Eject feature (https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app#conver...) allows someone to move from the default configuration to their own when they feel comfortable.

donjh··on D3 v4.0.0 released
I've used this with pretty good success. https://github.com/skellyb/react-d3-wrap
donjh··on Aldi's Barcode Strategy
You have to bring your own bags over here too - not sure if they sell them, I haven't been to an Aldi in a while.
donjh··on PhpMyAdmin Project Successfully Completes Security Audit
Countless people maintaining WordPress sites do.
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