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jgale··on 10-acre underground home and gardens in Fresno (2023) [video]
Fwiw, there is an established community of people experimenting with underground homes in the western United states. These are places where folks actually live and the curious can rent for a short term. https://earthship.com/
jgale··on Ultorg: A user interface for relational databases [video]
Sigma is a BI system with a visual manipulation interface for query construction (Workbook) that has similarities with Ultorg.

https://www.sigmacomputing.com/

jgale··on The Mike Speiser Incubation Playbook
The Sutter Hill website[1] is mysterious. Like they are in stealth mode.

[1]: https://shv.com/

jgale··on The Eve programming language project is winding down
I really admire the way that Chris and his team were open about their ideas and their journey. They inspired me and I'm sure many others through this. Thank you Eve.
jgale··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)
Sigma Computing | Software Engineer, Front-end | San Francisco | ONSITE | https://sigmacomputing.com/careers

Sigma Computing is an early stage startup building a new interactive analytics and visualization system. We are a small team of veteran programmers attacking hard problems in human-computer interaction. We're making databases and data warehouses usable by non-programmers.

We're looking for strong computer science fundumentals, a track record of building and maintaining complex JavaScript front-ends and a desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work.

jobs@sigmacomputing.com

jgale··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)
Thanks for the interest. Emails seem to be flowing, but you can also contact rwoollen@sigmacomputing.com directly.
jgale··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)
Sigma Computing | Software Engineer, Front-end | San Francisco | ONSITE

https://sigmacomputing.com/careers

Sigma Computing is an early stage startup building a new interactive analytics and visualization system. We are a small team of veteran programmers attacking hard problems in human-computer interaction. Sigma is making databases and data warehouses usable by non-programmers.

We're looking for strong computer science fundumentals, a track record of building and maintaining complex JavaScript front-ends and a desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work.

jobs@sigmacomputing.com

jgale··on How Nigeria Stopped Ebola
This is the country that still can't find over 200 abducted school children. I'm surprised to hear good news.
jgale··on The Sad State of Mobile XMPP in 2014
Layer (http://layer.com) is building a successor to XMPP that's optimized for mobile and solves device coordination problems. The inventor of XMPP, Jeremy Miller, works there.
jgale··on The Lost Art of C Structure Packing
The pahole(1) utility, mentioned above.
jgale··on Parallel Roguelike Lev-Gen Benchmarks: Rust, Go, D, Scala and Nimrod
Haskell was excluded from this benchmark because I can't figure it out.
jgale··on Lifetimes of cryptographic hash functions
I guess 2004 was a crazy year for cryptography.