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tbcj

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A human being living on the coast of Alabama.

Formerly at The Planet/Softlayer, member of the AL state bar, FormAssembly, MongoHQ/Compose/IBM, Second Measure, now Bloomberg.

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tbcj··on A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal
OCaml is visible in a lot of technology used daily by many engineers at Bloomberg.
tbcj··on US allows Anthropic to release Mythos to 'trusted partners'
Fable wasn’t available for a full week. It was released on June 9 and made unavailable June 12.
tbcj··on Parallel coding agents with tmux and Markdown specs
Agreed here’s a blog I read where I found out about Claude’s support https://jamesanglin.com/blog/claude-code-worktrees
tbcj··on Anthropic: You can't change your Claude account email address
Same here - though I used my personal email domain with claude as the local/username. They autobanned that one and then banned my actual personal email. The only one that worked was a Google login. My appeal had a boilerplate response.
tbcj··on 650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark
No, Presto (https://github.com/prestodb/presto) remains alive and well, just Trino gets more attention.
tbcj··on Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes
Agreed. Salt is captivating and I’m grateful for the undergrad professor who assigned it in a class.
tbcj··on Reflections on OpenAI
Anthropic has banned my own accounts before I used them for violating ToS. Appeals do nothing. Only when I started using a Google login did they stop banning them. This isn’t an OpenAI-only problem.
tbcj··on Claude Code feels like magic because it is iterative
I had two accounts banned - one for Claude and one for the API. I tried to appeal both asking for more information. The response from Anthropic was non-specific and only that it violates usage. One account had only been minimally used. One never used. The accounts used email addresses using a domain I control - e.g., anthropic-claude@domain.xyz for example. I think that might have something to do with it.

I have a new account now using a Google account and it hasn’t been banned.

tbcj··on Tesla delays new 'affordable EV/stripped down Model Y' in the US
My model Y has trouble with sunny weather today, so even that isn’t quite solved. Driving east into the morning sun constantly gives warnings that the camera needs to be cleaned.
tbcj··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)
Bloomberg | Software Engineer - Infrastructure | ONSITE in New York, Princeton, London | Full-time

Bloomberg is hiring experienced software engineers to build high-performance infrastructure that powers real-time financial data for global markets. We process massive datasets from regulatory agencies, exchanges, central banks, and financial institutions—fueling Bloomberg products and AI-driven insights. Our work directly impacts traders, analysts, and decision-makers worldwide. We tackle hard distributed systems problems at scale, from low-latency data processing to cloud/hybrid computing, leveraging cutting-edge open-source & proprietary technologies.

I joined Bloomberg in 2020 via its acquisition of Second Measure (YC S15) and stayed because of the challenging problems and the freedom to solve them. Bloomberg values deep technical expertise and gives engineers real ownership over impactful projects.

We're hiring for roles in these locations with 3-days in office most weeks:

Princeton/New York: https://bloomberg.avature.net/careers/JobDetail/Senior-Softw...

London: https://bloomberg.avature.net/su/b0756f8c9356c198

tbcj··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)
Bloomberg | Software Engineer - Infrastructure | ONSITE in New York, Princeton, London | Full-time

Bloomberg is hiring experienced software engineers to build high-performance infrastructure that powers real-time financial data for global markets. We process massive datasets from regulatory agencies, exchanges, central banks, and financial institutions—fueling Bloomberg products and AI-driven insights. Our work directly impacts traders, analysts, and decision-makers worldwide.

We tackle hard distributed systems problems at scale, from low-latency data processing to cloud/hybrid computing, leveraging cutting-edge open-source & proprietary technologies.

I joined Bloomberg in 2020 via its acquisition of Second Measure (YC S15) and stayed because of the challenging problems and the freedom to solve them. Bloomberg values deep technical expertise and gives engineers real ownership over impactful projects.

We're hiring for roles in these locations with 3-days in office most weeks:

Princeton/New York: https://bloomberg.avature.net/careers/JobDetail/Senior-Softw...

London: https://bloomberg.avature.net/su/b0756f8c9356c198

tbcj··on The essays of Michel de Montaigne online
Agreed - how it contextualizes the time and place for Montaigne when writing the essays is invaluable to understanding the essays and how he changes over time.
tbcj··on Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now?
If you’re already in the Kubernetes system, Argo Workflows has either capabilities designed around what you are describing or can be built using the templates supported (container, script, resource). If you’re not on Kubernetes, then Argo Workflows is not worth it on its own because it does demand expertise there to wield it effectively.

Someone suggested Temporal below and that’s a good suggestion too if you’re fine with a managed service.

tbcj··on Not an iPad Pro Review: Why iPadOS Still Doesn't Get the Basics Right
I have two kids and have not once wanted this. What am I missing? Why should I want this?
tbcj··on Evidence of price-fixing in the oil industry?
It is in the article how the cost is not necessarily just from a family’s use of oil but the additional cost added to other things (like food, goods) because it costs more to transport those because of higher gas prices. Those costs are passed on to families so your grocery bill is higher because of it too.
tbcj··on Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
That’s not really what Notarization does. It’s not a review process, more like a signing process.
tbcj··on NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances
I don’t think the original point being made was that NYT wasn’t justified in bringing the action. The point that was being made was the suit would be ultimately meaningless in the long term even if it was successful in the short term. There is a potentially more significant risk in the future that this suit will not protect against because of the reasons enumerated by the author. While the author is speculating, the law struggles with technology and adapting to change, which makes their prediction useful because it does highlight the problems that are coming that can’t be readily mitigated through legal precedent.
tbcj··on Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
That tracks. IBM acquiring Hashicorp was a persistent rumor I heard during my last year at IBM (timing was not long after the Red Hat acquisition).
tbcj··on Infants understand language via rhythm and tone rather than individual sounds
My experience as well. My two are so different it’s hard to even parent at times as they need different kinds of attention. You can’t really give yourself in different ways at the same time. We recognize that one - being born in the lockdown environment - is likely different in meaningful ways than our first. Our first is helpful in she almost recognizes a difference.
tbcj··on California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment
In September, the rides I took in Cruise required walking farther than multiple bus stops.
tbcj··on Bloomberg Is Throwing $500M at Efforts to Shut Down All U.S. Coal Plants
Technically, he’s not the CEO of Bloomberg LP
tbcj··on English as the new programming language for Apache spark
What about Zeppelin?
tbcj··on Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative
yes it does, to some extent e.g., retries https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/guid...
tbcj··on Refurb weekend: Cobalt RaQ 2
I both love these and hated them. At The Planet (before the Softlayer founders left) we had a wall of these that were so neat to look at. My 16 year old self thought they must be the best.

These things taught me that a web based control panel is hard to do right. We had so many that I often needed to do something and used the web UI at first. That didn’t last.

The Planet was generous and let me rack one for myself but I ditched it for an old 2u running Solaris not long after.

tbcj··on Recommendations for Japan Travel
It’s not gatekeeping to be nostalgic about a moment in time when fewer people were preoccupied with performing for others. To perform in these public spaces necessarily restricts others own freedom in that space (like movement). Everyone is entitled to these public spaces, but there are those who will be bad actors and encroach on others to achieve their performance. There are way more now than ever in history because it is so easy to do (i.e, cameras used to be more cumbersome and expensive and harder to use).

It is gatekeeping to say these people (influencers, youtubers) don’t deserve to be there too because they are doing that in this space. I don’t think that is what was happening though.

tbcj··on JetBrains Ring UI
JetBrains has web applications which is where these are used - YouTrack, Space, TeamCity.
tbcj··on U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate online speech
Can’t wait for my melon bar and the music dance experience.
tbcj··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)
Bloomberg Alternative Data (Second Measure) | SWE, Data Scientist | New York, San Francisco, Princeton, NJ | On-Site (Hybrid) | Full-Time

Bloomberg is hiring engineers and data scientists to transform how our clients use alternative data. The acquisition of Second Measure (YC S15) in December 2020 was the starting point for this transformation and we've recently released a new and exclusive transaction dataset. We are adding more datasets and doing more analytics to produce valuable insights into company performance and consumer behavior.

Here are the current open roles:

Data Platform Engineer - https://careers.bloomberg.com/job/detail/108170 (I'm team lead for this one)

Data Scientist, Core Data - https://careers.bloomberg.com/job/detail/94906

If you have questions or you're data scientist or engineer and are interested but don't quite fit those roles, feel free to email me at tcorley3 at bloomberg.net. We have ambitious hiring goals this year.

tbcj··on Robert Scoble: “I apologize.”
> in practice police, prosecutors, and judges all too often don't treat it (or even actual rape) seriously.

You might have more experience with police, prosecutors, and judges than I do, but in my experience this isn't the case. I've known many to be dismissive of drug crimes and even property crimes, but sexual assaults and rape are both addressed earnestly.

That's not to say that sexual assaults and rapes are not nolle pros'd and often. As recent events demonstrate, unless people feel comfortable coming forward, then it is impossible to prove the case. The Confrontation Clause is an obstacle that is difficult to overcome in these cases without a profusely willing victim.

This is to say saying that law enforcement is the problem is an oversimplification.

> With regard to judges, the Stanford rape case is the banner example recently; but earlier in the chain the fact thatany departments collect but then do not process rape kits is a huge problem.

In a lot of states, crime labs are independent of police departments. There are severe backlogs because they are understaffed. If you want more processing, you need to ensure your state representatives properly fund these bodies.

Consequently, it's not up to the police in many cases when and if a rape kit is tested. Thankfully, there are organizations like SAKI[1] that are pursuing rape kit testing reform in many places where there are impediments to testing these kits.

[1]: https://www.sakitta.org/

tbcj··on Docker vs. Kubernetes vs. Mesos
There doesn't appear to be anything at #2 - https://github.com/huawei-cloudfederation/redis-operator.
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