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ruffrey

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Integrating LLMs into insurance software at Applied Systems Inc.

Wrote code and deployed software infrastructure to support sustainable materials science at Genomatica.

Worked a contract building crypto analytics tools at DeFi Pulse.

Developed golang ETL systems at Walt Disney Studios.

Worked on end-to-end encrypted DevOps tooling (secret storage) as employee #1 at EnvKey (YC 2018).

Founding CTO/coder for 2 years at AQUAOSO (techstars 2019), building a water resilient future, open source GIS/Mapping.

Mostly golang, javascript/typescript, and python. Open source contributor where possible.

Mailsac.com founder.

Formerly: Genomatica R&D, DeFi Pulse, Disney/Marvel, envkey (YC), AQUAOSO, (techstars), Digium R&D, Clevertech, VSP Vision, freelance.

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ruffrey··on Show HN: Open-Source multi-dashboarding platform for teams and client reporting
How would this compare to PowerBI?
ruffrey··on The $150M Machine Keeping Moore’s Law Alive
It's far from the whole story, but hardware companies tend to have lower multiples.
ruffrey··on FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine
Is $19 per dose expensive? Not knowing anything about pharma costs, it seems about what it'd expect. Especially compared to the economic savings.
ruffrey··on 10 years later and unresolved – Allow custom domains for Atlassian Cloud apps
It would just be so darn useful to be able to use confluence for customer facing docs. Every year or so I come looking for this ticket, and get sad.
ruffrey··on Yarn 3.0
I hear stories like this occasionally. I've used node heavily at every day job for about 9 years. Needing to blow away node modules is so rare. Even on large teams with nested package.json files. With npm link and library development. Once npm added the lock file instead of shrinkwrap, it became a total non issue.

I am genuinely curious what are the specific issues which necessitate deleting all modules? Colleagues across operating systems with native modules? Old node versions?

ruffrey··on Tomato fruits send electrical warnings to the rest of the plant when attacked
My father grew up on a farm that was mostly for subsistence. He said to pinch off the first few green tomatoes to improve yields. I occasionally do this but have not tried to measure any yield differences.
ruffrey··on Glued to Your Phone? Here's How to Rethink Your Relationship with Social Media
> I'm a Libra which means I was born to find balance

While there may be good points in the article, this indicates a low level of scientific rigor by the writer. Couldn't continue after that.

ruffrey··on Texas Power Companies Remotely Raise Temps Amid Energy Shortage
When compared to losing power in a rolling brown out, it seems a reasonable option. I only set the AC to 78 anyways. I guess humidity may require lower norms?
ruffrey··on Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a GUI application
Is anyone aware of a similar tool for JavaScript/TS or Golang?
ruffrey··on Data isn’t oil, whatever tech commentators tell you: it’s people’s lives
Oil was peoples lives, at first. Oil barrens manipulated whole towns out of their land, stole, lied, and destroyed livelihoods. Oil still destroys peoples lives, but the damage is abstracted.
ruffrey··on Google I/O 2021
It is a very cool idea. Also seems possible to DIY in a less tech advanced way.

Eye contact seems like the hurdle for making it feel real. With a screen that large, it may feel like someone is looking below the head, which may feel off.

ruffrey··on Notion API – public beta
It doesn’t work well for a team though, with a bunch of local markdown files - does it?
ruffrey··on Waiters Reject Signing Bonuses, Hobbling an $860B Industry
Spot on. I worked 5 years in the restaurant business during college. Still have occasional nightmares of getting 4 tables sat at once.
ruffrey··on Berkshire Hathaway’s Stock Price vs. 32-Bit Integers
I wonder if anyone had a long-held limit order that was filled due to the price appearing to be low.
ruffrey··on Announcing Rome Tools, Inc.
Healthy skepticism is good. Dev tools are hard.

There are hundreds of open source companies - many making gobs of money. Not all - many fail. This team has name recognition and a few successful projects already - Babel and yarn. I can see it working out.

JavaScript is one of the most popular programming languages. Millions of developers. With solid execution, there are monstrous markets here.

ruffrey··on Announcing Rome Tools, Inc.
It’s a difficult, painful problem - meaning there’s an opportunity. Sebastian has the grit to deliver. What’s the business model?
ruffrey··on Ask HN: How is a company like Comcast able to get away with spam?
Related: Comcast injects upgrade advertisements in http pages.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15890551

ruffrey··on Show HN: Mongita is to MongoDB as SQLite is to SQL
There used to be something similar called NeDB
ruffrey··on The Wolfram Physics Project: A One-Year Update
That complicated Java file is a stream of 1s and 0s. The “kinds of things” in a processor that interprets the Java file - also very simple.

There is a huge amount of complexity represented by very few distinct types of things.

ruffrey··on Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?
Narrowband IoT data service. Very low power, low bandwidth, cheap, with increasingly great coverage. It’s like an offshoot of LTE but classified as a 5G technology for massive numbers of low power internet connected devices.
ruffrey··on YouTube Kids a “vapid wasteland” say US lawmakers
This, a hundred times. YouTube kids has content addiction to a science. My kid still asks for YouTube at age 6. It’s been banned from our house since he was 3.
ruffrey··on PostGIS – Spatial and Geographic Objects for PostgreSQL
I helped build a relatively successful SaaS offering for finance atop PostGIS with MapServer and Mapproxy+Redis. The stack ran circles around ArcGis. Not even a close comparison.
ruffrey··on Intel’s New IDM 2.0 Strategy
As an embedded hobbyist, I wondered this the other day. Why Intel wouldn’t open up old fabs to embedded developers. It could be a huge boon to that industry which is clearly growing rapidly, and much is developed overseas at larger sizes.
ruffrey··on A Cephalopod Has Passed a Cognitive Test Designed for Human Children
Perhaps. Small children are also exceptionally accident prone.

On the other hand, human children are incredibly curious and experiment with everything. It may not be stupidity that keeps them from following directions.

ruffrey··on Svgrepo: Browse SVG vectors and icons
Quite nice. Though it has adverts for Shutterstock which I initially took for native site content.
ruffrey··on Gitlab Project Hit by Spambot
Small SaaS vendor checking in. This comment rings true and it’s a constant battle.
ruffrey··on Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook
It’s certainly easier with social media, but before that people used phones and in person meetings.
ruffrey··on Ask HN: How do you vary couple life during lock-down?
Day 10: not shooted.
ruffrey··on Ask HN: How do you vary couple life during lock-down?
My wife would shoot me on site for suggesting this.

I’ll let you know how it goes.

ruffrey··on Ask HN: How do you vary couple life during lock-down?
The early years are exceptionally difficult with 2 working parents (not to mention single). The first child especially is a shock to the system.

Most parents will say it gets loads easier after those first few years. Poor sleep makes everything harder.

It gets better.

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