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Seems early to start the thru hike. How many people are on the trail?

For asymptomatic and mild cases as well?

I have a 2016 F-150 that I only use for getting around and recreation (software eng that works from home that likes to fish/hunt/camp/hike/paddle/snowshoe). It has the 36 gallon tank and has a range of around 650 miles (+- 40 based on weather and type of driving). I use it in the north woods of New England and the Adirondacks. It's not uncommon for me to wake up at 5am, drive 200 miles, top off at the last gas station before entering the woods, and then drive 50+ miles on logging roads to wherever I'm going for a couple of days.

Having that number on the dash saying 600 miles left as I enter into remote-ish areas is so comforting. So much so that I've already ruled out upgrading to the Lightning and instead am targeting the Powerboost, which keeps my range, increases my fuel efficiency (though not by a ton) and has a world of possibilities for utilizing the battery for heating a camper or a toy hauler -- I don't have one of those but if I had a Powerboost I might consider one for snowmobile camping or ATV camping.

Yeah, duh, that's why we hire devs with any talent -- like I said. I'm not sure what you are pushing back against?

The contributions of a senior ruby engineer in a large, complex rails codebase will be immediate and will have a long tail over someone that has no experience in rails or ruby. This seems self-evident to me. It's just that there aren't enough of them.

Right, which would indicate that they have more or less given up on appealing to ruby devs specifically. I work at a ruby only shop and we are the same way. I would say only about 30% of the candidates I interview have any ruby experience and of those, maybe 50% have recent experience.

We would prefer to hire talented ruby devs, but they just aren't there.

It just isn't the language that people learn as their first language (via college or bootcamps). Plus it's not a gaming, data or machine learning language so it's not the kind of language that people come to from some other motivation. So I would say it hasn't had great organic growth for 5-7 years. That's practically a generation of programmers at this point.

I think all the big shops have most senior ruby devs locked up. If one has any meaningful rails and ruby experience under their belt they can stick their thumb out and land a job immediately.

How/why did you land on Java for all new services?

Speculating but aside from the enterprise ecosystem advantages it's hard as hell to hire senior ruby devs.

The linked regexp doesn't require the TLD: https://rubular.com/r/Y9G4HR2Ox8gzqd

This regexp and the whatwg one it is based off (correctly) do not validate the presence of a TLD since it's not technically required (foo@bar is considered valid). But if you are building consumer products it's best to test that there is at least a presence of something TLD-like after validating against this regexp.

Are y'all sunsetting Ruby completely as you break apart the monolith?

I interviewed for an engineer role at Flickr right after they were acquired by Yahoo. It was a full day grueling interview in one of the San Jose towers with all the originals, Cal, Allspaw, Kellan, etc.

The last interview was with Stewart. He walked in with his laptop and pulled up my resume and saw that I was from Texas. He asked if I'd ever been to Marfa. He then asked if I'd ever been to El Paso. He then asked if I'd ever heard the song El Paso by Marty Robbins. We then sat there and listened to El Paso for the entire song. Then we made some more chit-chat and that was the end of my interview.

I didn't get the gig but I did find out my flight back to DFW was first class so that was nice.