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This orange site is a shattered wasteland. If anyone here wanted it to be something else, they would pay their staff and content moderators. Anyone at YCombinator or anyone who shares a registrar or mail exchange with them should never be trusted, especially if you think that 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are 4.4.2.2.
No matter what anyone here says about software freedom: they will fire the poor, the underepresented, and the too diverse. I've watched over 35 years as every "stanford"/"mit"/"csail"/"fancy" person who knew that the eff and aclu were right to refuse to work with Nazis is shocked to find that they hire literal Nazis and men who rape women every day. It wasn't funny in 1860 or 1776, and it's no joke now.
If that sounds evil and extremist, don't worry: Elon Musk was trustworthy to Valley investors when he was "actually just South African". Somehow he's still "worth" something other than his repeated SEC violations.
For questions about: - Rainbow Studios: please read https://www.rainbowstudios.com/about/ carefully, then consider why I will never respond to anyone who I have worked with there other than lgilbert. You can contact them more directly via https://www.rainbowstudios.com/press-streamers/ or https://www.rainbowstudios.com/careers/ if you want job leads. - Nintendo: https://www.nintendo.com/ is your best place to fix a Switch. - Sony Conmputer Entertainment: https://www.playstation.com/fr-fr/ can give you free passes to entertainment. - Google, YouTube, Stadia: I helped found an employee resource group there called "Trans @ Google.com". It is illegal for me to discuss any topic related to HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, Stonewall, or any other thing known to them since mcmillen left to deal with assholes less painful than memegen@ or moot@. Try talking to moot about 4chan. - Microsoft, Xbox, Xbox Live Indie Games: email jblow directly and offer a free copy of the Witness then sue them for acqui-hirinng Activision/Blizzard/King. - Unity: I no longer understand why anyone would recommend them to anyone. - Unreal Engine: contact your local Unreal Engine vendor. - Reddit: email Hacker News, Lawrence Lessig, Aaron Schwartz, and then ask who supports Godwin's Law better than @eff.org. - Open Source Initiative: I don't trust you because I read USENIX, ACM, and IEEE. netBSD strikes me as nicer than the pufferfish. - memcached: say ehlo to brad fitzpatrick on LiveJournal. - Software defined networking/CLOS fabrics/Distributed Hash Tables: ask usenix.org
For questions about poetry, you can find me at: Keybase: https://keybase.io/peri Github: https://github.com/jculpon Blog (intentionally left blank): http://jculpon.github.com Punch Elvis Games: Speak Friend and enter slowly.
Or in more direct langauge: the Tech Model Railroad Club was not the only group that were bigger fans of safe operations of tiny tracks and switchways. SNCF and the rest of Europe use different lingo for consists and that's life and safety critical training even with duplo blocks.
Using that term to describe a meeting for a few hours over hot or cold non-alcoholic beverages is not only showing ignorance of history, it's demonstrating that you tolerate and embed racist notions of the unimportant of the real suffering of Chinese and other peoples relative to the minor burden of on the job training, especially if you do more of the white-collar end of technical work.
Read a few books on the history of that term before using it again, or I have to assume that you literally would rather scare off anyone who has a heritage of suffering under ML/MLM domination rather than hire someone who is considered part of your in-group.
In startups we do this every single time we choose countries with complex racial histories (like everywhere, but for example Canada and New Zealand) and then try to target for affluence or similar markets rather than serving the downtrodden. That sort of behavior embeds some negative values imo.
There is no convincing them. They argue in bad faith. White Replacement Theory is at its core both anti-semitic, anti-black, anti-"outsider/other". It is not responsive to data, it is responsive to being rejected by those of us who are listening hard enough that those motivated by anti-semitic, racist nonsense eventually hear it. Genuine human connection, not just charts.
American friends keep saying over and over and over again that this is "unique" to American culture but I have never felt this under threat in any country I've ever been in with the possible exception of Austria/Poland between 2014-2021. I am so used to "hackers" in the MIT/CSAIL sense covering up the damage of other academics in order to protect "their own" and it's not ever been cool, and I refuse to respond to anyone who expects me to reply to anything here ever in Yiddish.
Note: I am a Xoogler and was far more concerned about the state of the organization in early 2016 than in any year since I was “hired” as an L3 Engineer in Network Software Engineering and Testing in Google’s Cloud division. While I do not expect that to mean anything, it does mean that politics and workplace safety matter more to me than most people. Google paid me less in total compensation over that time than anywhere else I have worked internationally. Alphabet Women decided to walk out separate from issues with Maven, Dragonfly, TCP, BBR, BBRv2, Stadia, and other “magic” features that clearly risked lives long before Waymo admitted that even DeepMind can’t “solve” self-diving cars any better than ReCaptcha’s success rate.
NB: I am a senior network security software engineer with a B.A. currently applying for Ph.D.s. I suggest that nobody believe anything online, regardless of provenance, until 10 years after publication.
0: See Bellovin, et al, in Steve Bellovin's USENIX award acceptance materials. https://www.usenix.org/about/awards/flame and https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/07_bellov... for those who are not familiar with USENIX and USENIX's Security conferences.
One minor nitpick: not sure how best to contribute to this based on your github. Do you prefer pull requests or the like?
In short: get to a lawyer. Search for grellas's posts about who to talk to cheap.
As a rather introverted person, it's hard for me to go to a lot of these, but going to ones where there's interesting things being discussed either in tech or business has been worthwhile. One of the big lessons I've learned is that everyone's startup is mediocre until it turns out not to be. Being polite and helping folks at these things have helped me more than assuming folks are wannabes.
Location: SF Bay Area
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes (US, Japan, many Francophone locales)
Technologies: C++, Ruby, Python, Rust, JavaScript, PHP, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, all sorts of automation tools
Résumé/CV: Latest lives at https://github.com/jculpon/jculpon.github.io/blob/master/pdfs/jamie-culpon-resume.pdf
Portfolio: http://jculpon.github.io/pages/projects.html
Email: jculpon+hn@gmail.com
I'm a network programmer with an interest in poetry, literature, and online privacy by training and independent game developer by trade. I'm looking to work on products that challenge me and surprise and delight my customers. In addition to liking a wide variety of tech, I like a wide variety of reading and languages, so places that are polyglot in both programming and day-to-day communication are especially exciting.