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not OP, but my AWS buddy was told to work from home back in February if I recall correctly.

It's a highly-privileged position to be in to make vapid comments HN, but here we are.

Do you have more info about being killed by the SEC? I'm curious about this because I was looking forward to a Western Competitor to WeChat.

I can (can't?) say from some sources... it's a great day to work from home.

Location: Salt Lake City

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: No, thank you

Technologies: Python, Django, REST, Data Engineering (Kafka, Airflow)

Resume: https://farischebib.is/static/resume.pdf

Email: faris [at] theluckybead.com

I head the Salt Lake City Python meetup and have 10+ years of Python / Django experience.

And statistics don't apply to the individual. I'm a 3rd generation programmer and watched my own father get the boot by his company just because they wanted to "restructure to Chicago". 27 years at that job -- it defined where we put our roots down.

I really enjoy the people I work with, but I never take stability for granted. Ensuring I'm always updating my resume and taking a couple interviews a year is part of my professional ritual. If it were feasible, we'd move elsewhere, but we both have good social networks and roots here -- which is arguably more "expensive" to a working couple in their early thirties than gold.

This is flagrantly fake news.

Everyone? I've had once since birth, but it's foolish to think "Everyone already has a passport". As of 2018, only a ~1/3 of US citizens (137,588,631) have an active passport: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/after/p...

There's a sauté button and you just use that.

http://healthcare.ai/ is an early-alpha tool for healthcare data using Python and R.

That is shockingly out of touch.

I somewhat agree, but would like to counter by saying that the micro:bit has been an invaluable tool for me personally to teach fundamental hardware programming. The pi zero, while a great tool for more advanced programming, still requires some boilerplate knowledge of electrical engineering that surpasses what one would want to teach someone who just wants to make some lights flash.

The micro:bit has, built in: a 5×5 array of leds, an accelerometer, a digital compass, 2 push buttons, a set of piezo / touch io, and a low-power bluetooth radio — all of which have api libraries and documentation that a user doesn't need to write themselves.

While there are a multitude of awesome things that can be done with the pi zero, there's still a non-trivial amount of setup required to program basic hardware features.

> Speak at local user group meetings.

As the primary meetup organizer for SLC Python, I wholeheartedly agree. We often have people practicing their talks in front of our group before they go onto much larger forums such as PyCon and Open West. It's also a good chance to practice public speaking and presenting complicated ideas.

I wonder how such a system would handle earthquakes and the like.

Oh, looks like the OP link was updated since I posted that. The original link was to Gizmodo: https://gizmodo.com/this-upgraded-nikon-chills-the-sensor-fo...

I should have linked to the original Petapixel post on the bottom of that Gizmodo page. My bad.

I'm very close to doing the same. I haven't been able to get lightworks to work on ubuntu with my AMD card since the update to 16.04.

Direct link to the product page which has the same images and description and isn't blog spam: http://www.primalucelab.com/astronomy/d5500a-cooled-camera.h...

Point #3 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/httpblogss...

“The unfortunate truth is that until organic farming can rival the production output of conventional farming, its ecological cost due to the need for space is devastating. As bad as any of the pesticides and fertilizers polluting the world's waterways from conventional agriculture are, it's a far better ecological situation than destroying those key habitats altogether.”

Zaniac | Django / Migration Engineer | Salt Lake City, UT | Onsite | Full Time

Zaniac[0] is a SLC-based startup looking to bring STEM education to K-8 students around the country. We utilize Django to manage our various campuses around the country and are looking to improve our franchise-management software. We are presently looking for a back-end software developer with experience in database migration.

We are preferably looking for someone with experience in:

* Django ORMs (or any python ORMs)

* SOAP

* MySQL / AWS

We would prefer if you can work locally at our Salt Lake City HQ. As part of our compensation package, we offer childcare during our campus hours for students between the ages of 5-12.

If you are interested, please contact us at `careers@zaneprep.com`

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I've had a lot of success using Bees With Machine Guns

https://github.com/newsapps/beeswithmachineguns/

(Also, the name is awesome)

Zaniac | Django / Migration Engineer | Salt Lake City, UT | Onsite | Full Time

Zaniac[0] is a SLC-based startup looking to bring STEM education to K-8 students around the country. We utilize Django to manage our various campuses around the country and are looking to improve our franchise-management software.

We are presently looking for a back-end software developer with experience in database migration.

We are preferably looking for someone with experience in:

* Django ORMs (or any python ORMs) * SOAP * MySQL / AWS

We would prefer if you can work locally at our Salt Lake City HQ.

If you are interested, please contact us at `careers@zaneprep.com`

[0]: https://zaniaclearning.com/

Plus tax for a lot of places.

I don't think refreshing is working. I tried that and had to remove and re-add it to the cart to get it to work.

In 2007 I got to visit a lot of family in Syria. My cousin took me from province to province while he was making sales calls for my grandfather's welding shop in Damascus.

In 2012 my cousin was shot in the head at a roadblock and died a few months later. My grandfather has fallen into a deep depression and the rest of my family has experienced a diaspora the likes of which we haven't felt since the 50s.

I'm not a religious person, but I thank probability every day that my family has Canadian citizenship and green cards and that I have an amazing job as a programmer. Even if I can't do anything about the place of my heritage, I've been able to buy a house in the US for my grandparents and have been able to donate to the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS Foundation) on a regular basis.

I have so many photos and journal entries from that time. I really need to get them online to show what Syria was like before all the shit hit the fan. Thank you so much for these writings. I hope they shed light on a humanity that gets robbed by conflict.

Another great resource about fractals and l-systems is Jeffery Ventrella's "Brainfilling Curves", which is also available for free online to read and download: http://www.fractalcurves.com/

SEEKING FREELANCER — Zaniac — Remote or Salt Lake City, UT

We are an after-school education startup seeking to help kids get excited about math and other STEM fields. We have course programs for K-8 students ranging from Minecraft to Lego Robotics.

We need developers who came to development in order to scratch an itch. We need an artist who thinks HTML/CSS3/JS is just another medium. We need a full-stack engineer who believes that web apps can manage knowledge.

Our technologies include: Django, Linux, AWS, and Sass. Check out our website at: https://www.zaniaclearning.com/

If you feel like any of these skills match your knowledge, please feel free to drop me us a line: careers@zaneprep.com

While some of the vitriolic response to Ms. Rice's appointment to the Dropbox board stems from her political affiliations, we should take a step back to explore her resource-management and business decisions.

Personally, I know I have a lot of political mis-givings about appointing Ms. Rice, but that's not the main reason I would feel uncomfortable working under her direction in a technology company. I would probably be more concerned about her lack of fore-thought and poor decision-making. I would be concerned about my ability to trust her.

I know that I, and quite a few others in the tech community have a political bias, but even looking past that, there are many business-related reasons to feel that this is a wrong choice.

For anybody looking for another nuclear-apocalypse-based low-graphics game, DEFCON (http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/) did a really good job of expanding into an RTS.

Not really, but I used this link: http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/changeset/5073/nginx to set up this config: https://gist.github.com/octaflop/4991052 for this server: https://gist.github.com/octaflop/4991187 hosted on this site: https://legionofevil.org/

Hope that helps! (IRC is also quite handy today)

In after the 1991 Gulf War, PTSD rates spiked beyond rates ever seen in the US Army. A study commissioned to examine the effects of PTSD found that this long-term stress was actually causing the hippocampus (the short-to-med/long term memory module of the brain, amongst other things) to atrophy. This confirmed a similar effect they had found with mice a few years earlier.

The next push is to replicate the more positive result of environment enrichment, which has been shown in mice but not people. Basically, environment enrichment has been shown to help facilitate LTP (long-term potentiation — an extreme period of neurogenosis) and makes the hippocampus less prone to stress-induced atrophy.

I've personally been a few very high stress work environments, but I use this knowledge to help convince myself to relax productively.