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winton··on Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024)
For a project set up by a qualified engineer, there would be little difference to the end user in practice. The LLM would work out a solution with a negligible difference in speed. Maybe debugging would also be faster for the LLM without the abstraction layers and low level access?
winton··on Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024)
"Except if you quit or go on vacation, who will maintain this custom pile of shell scripts?" LLMs can reason about and fix them quite well.
winton··on Miscellanea: The War in Iran
Crazy how impatient people are while millions of people suffer, thousands die, and prices go up around the planet.
winton··on Benchmarking OpenTelemetry: Can AI trace your failed login?
So if I try to do it with Opus three or four times, I'll get it done? And probably in about 10 minutes? Awesome
winton··on Ask HN: Are We in a Bubble?
https://inflationchart.com/spx-in-m3/?time=10%20years
winton··on Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
The platform is being actively used to plan attacks on our government... at a certain point this becomes a liability to any party that enabled it. As it should.
winton··on Wiki.js
Though its more of a building block, Editor.js supports this: https://editorjs.io
winton··on Amazon Pulls Books That Promote Unscientific Autism ‘Cures’
Ignoring the the moral bankruptcy of the argument to begin with, he's someone who most people would consider a societal "loss" despite his views around alternative medicine.
winton··on In My Culture
It seems from the comments that this article rubs people the wrong way. This article might be getting grouped into a speech police category that is undeserved.

I think the intention of "in my culture" is to allay a fear in the listener. The speaker is worried that there is a strong expectation of change in the listener by stating something as an axiom. The speaker's hope is that the listener will see a possibility instead of a demand.

Some people think it should be obvious that what a person states should never be seen as a demand to conform. Some believe this is a necessary life skill, especially in business.

Some people are interested in finding ways of speaking in a more sensitive way in an era that seems to be embracing sensitivity.

Its interesting to me that both sides can see each other's ways of communicating as an affront, when it is likely not the intent on either side.

winton··on I Don’t Believe in Full-Stack Engineering
If you can build a web site with React + Firebase + Google Cloud Function + CDN, you are a full-stack engineer.
winton··on Redux – Not Dead Yet
Heh, very new project, thanks for the heads up. Its public now.
winton··on Redux – Not Dead Yet
After using Redux for a while, I realized that I was creating a lot of boilerplate to essentially (1) update an immutable store and (2) pass that store's state to (a)sync callbacks that execute in serial before and after the store was updated.

This lead me to the creation of DotStore (https://github.com/invrs/dot-store#readme), along with extensions to use it with React [1] and the filesystem [2].

"Dot prop" strings have proved to be an elegant solution to detect which props changed on the store. Usually this means doing a regex match in `shouldComponentUpdate`. We almost never use React's state anymore.

[1]: https://github.com/invrs/dot-store/tree/master/packages/dot-...

[2]: https://github.com/invrs/dot-store/tree/master/packages/dot-...

winton··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)
Bleacher Report, San Francisco - http://bleacherreport.com

We are a sports media site that is revolutionizing journalism. We are the 2nd largest sports site (right behind ESPN) and a top 30 web site, reaching 80 million unique users per month. We love technology, we love to learn, and we love to have fun.

We are primarily a Ruby shop, but as we implement a service oriented architecture, we use increasingly diverse technologies. These technologies include Rails, Node.js, Redis, PostgreSQL, Backbone, Marionette, Docker, DynamoDB, Elastic MapReduce, Redshift, and more.

See our listings at http://eng.bleacherreport.com/jobs

winton··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2014)
Bleacher Report - San Francisco, CA (Financial District). Full time.

We are the 3rd largest sports news site in the United States, just behind ESPN, Fox Sports, and Yahoo.

Work on a site that reaches 70 million people per month while getting exposure to a variety of technologies (we routinely play with Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, and Go). We encourage our employees to contribute to open source as apart of their work at Bleacher Report, and most importantly, always be learning.

Email wwelsh@bleacherreport.com or visit http://bleacherreport.com/careers/engineering

winton··on Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?
You spelled Stasis wrong :)

http://stasis.me

winton··on Static Sites on Heroku
I am the creator of Stasis. Compare the sheer length of docs for nanoc (http://nanoc.stoneship.org/docs) to those of Stasis (http://stasis.me), and keep in mind that Stasis can do anything that Nanoc does.
winton··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (February 2012)
Bleacher Report - San Francisco, CA (Financial District). Full time.

We are the 4th largest sports web site in the United States, just behind ESPN, Fox Sports, and Yahoo.

Work on a site that reaches 20 million people per month while getting exposure to a variety of technologies (we routinely play with Rails, Node.js, Redis, eventmachine, and Sinatra). We encourage our employees to contribute to open source as apart of their work at Bleacher Report.

http://bleacherreport.com/careers/engineering

winton··on Show HN: Framous - Your Photos. Your Personality.
Created my frame, left the site, came back, and placed an order.

Did not realize framous had not saved my picture orientation properly. Emailed to cancel order so I could place a new one. No response.

Now I will not be placing a new order at all.

winton··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (December 2011)
Bleacher Report - San Francisco, CA (Financial District). Full time.

We are the 4th largest sports web site in the United States, just behind ESPN, Fox Sports, and Yahoo.

Work on a site that reaches 20 million people per month while getting exposure to a variety of technologies (we routinely play with Rails, Node.js, Redis, eventmachine, and Sinatra). We encourage our employees to contribute to open source as apart of their work at Bleacher Report.

http://bleacherreport.com/careers/engineering

winton··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011)
Bleacher Report - San Francisco, CA (Financial District). Full time.

We are the 4th largest sports web site in the United States, just behind ESPN, Fox Sports, and Yahoo.

If you are a Rubyist who is looking to play with a wide variety of technologies, make big decisions on a relatively small team, and work on a site that reaches 20 million people per month, this is your place.

http://bleacherreport.com/careers/engineering

winton··on Using Jekyll and GitHub Pages for Our Site
You are right. I would appreciate a fork to fix this very minor issue, but if not I will be getting to it very soon.

It can do everything nanoc does, but the execution is much simpler and much more natural. This is not just my opinion, but what I have heard from lots of people.

My apologies for the self-promotion, just trying to get the word out.

winton··on Using Jekyll and GitHub Pages for Our Site
You can do all of this via controllers. You can execute any Ruby code you want before each template renders.

There is distinction between filters for content and layouts, simply use the layout filename in a before block.

You can execute any Ruby you want. You can use ActiveRecord, Redis, whatever. Load YAML for metadata. None of this stuff needs to be baked in, Ruby already does it.

winton··on Using Jekyll and GitHub Pages for Our Site
And even more simple and powerful than nanoc:

http://stasis.me

winton··on Introducing Stasis: A new way to build static sites with Ruby
Hosted on GitHub pages, so blame them :)
winton··on Introducing Stasis: A new way to build static sites with Ruby
Jekyll is made for blogs. Specifically, blogs using HTML, Markdown, or Textile. Anything past that starts to become a hack.

There are inherent constraints to the framework because it must be "safe" enough for GitHub's environment. For example, an issue close to my heart:

https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/issues/225

winton··on Introducing Stasis: A new way to build static sites with Ruby
I created Stasis because jekyll wasn't versatile enough and nanoc seems a bit overly complex for what it is doing. I am trying to strike a good balance with Stasis.
winton··on The 50 Best Websites of 2011
Bleacher Report (#11 on the list) is looking for Ruby people in San Francisco. Great opportunity to work for a high traffic site and a fun company:

http://bleacherreport.com/careers/engineering

winton··on [dead]
It makes me happy. Hopefully Mozilla is the first of many.
winton··on Stomp.io for social adventures (launch conference)
I too have been waiting for a site like this. Great work. I can see this having great virality through the brag factor on social networks (Facebook).
winton··on How Bvckup got its name
My first impulse is to say "backup but replace the a with a v". If you tell someone bee-vee-cup they still don't know how to spell the domain name.