JustARandomGuy

Thank you so much - on the flip side, my students may dislike you because they're going to get a lecture on how the web used to be!

I think you should check out the Light Table kickstarter[0] which originally had a similar premise to yours, and raised several hundred thousand dollars. I personally put in $50 to be in the beta, and that was almost 15 years ago.

I think you would get a lot of takers if you could make a convincing demo.

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table

  Location: Chicago, IL, USA
  Remote: Yes, also OK with Hybrid in a Chicago office or flying into a main office for meetings periodically
  Willing to relocate: Yes, with relocation assistance
  Technologies: Product Manager, Program Manager, Java, Python, PHP, GCP (App Engine, Cloud Run, Functions, Gemini, BigQuery, Looker, Cloud SQL), AWS (SES, lambdas, SQL/NoSQL/time series databases hosted on EC2), MS Office suite (particularly data apps such as Excel, Access, VBA, PowerBI, PowerApps, PowerAutomate, Powerfx), Spotfire, Tableau, Zapier, IFTTT, SQL
  Résumé/CV: Anonymized version located here https://drive.google.com/file/d/18Y_XkyGemXSgjSLojlu9C3Beym37fj-9/view?usp=sharing
  Email: s a n n e 3 5 (the at sign goes here) GA Tech (the period sign goes here) edu
  Website: http://www.learngoogle.com

Hi everyone, I’m Vinny. I have years of experience working at financial institutions in various regulatory/risk management departments: compliance, AML, disaster recovery, and so on. I’ve acted as the liaison to banking regulators and security organizations such as the SEC, CFPB, FINRA, DHS, Canadian OSFI where I interpreted and pulled together their requests.

Simultaneously, I’ve done program and product management: coordinating between various parts of the bank to pull together information, feeding back responses, managing concerns from vendors/clients, internally evangelizing the use of centralized services and supporting the move to a cloud-hosted strategy for our analytics. At my last employer, I assisted in moving a large amount of data analysis work to AWS, and supported data governance efforts (adhering to Privacy and Cybersecurity regulations) to secure bank data.

I spend my free time thinking about Google GCP and Amazon AWS: I was formerly a marketing consultant specializing in Google AdWords, and I started my blog at https://www.learngoogle.com where I write about my thoughts on Google, Ads, and the Google Cloud Platform. Posts vary from interesting and funny things I see on Google, screenshots from my personal Google Cloud Platform applications, and serious thoughts about enterprise uses of GCP. As you can probably guess from my email address, I’m working on my OMSCS masters degree online from Georgia Tech.

I would love to apply my product/program management skills to any job you may have - doesn’t matter the industry or sector. I can travel wherever you need me to; I have TSA PreCheck, Global Entry, and CLEAR as well as my fair share of navigating unfamiliar airports.

Thank you!

Not entirely sure what the criticism here is other than polling on average every 12 minutes seems a little excessive at best. Why does in matter it the intervals are a bit wonky? I could think of many reasons why: maybe the poll intervals are smaller during the daytime and more spread out over the night to optimize for reading conditions, etc

Going to have to rewatch it this weekend in his honor.

A solid gold insight right there. I graduated into a bad economy as well (Millennial into the 08 recession) and what got me hired was not my honors GPA or dual major or any other academic achievement. I got hired because of my side project hosting a JSON API that offered some very simple data. I was able to talk about it during an interview and pretty much my passion for it got me hired.

Another alternative is to get into an open source project and offer to do some "developer evangelism" type work. Code up examples, documentation, write up blog posts - great way to get your name out there.

And obviously there are the redpill and other gender-centric movements in the US.

Here is my fundamental question: why is society suddenly producing so many people that have ill will to the opposite gender? There have always been discussions about the differences between genders - the famous “men are from mars, women are from Venus” was published 30+ years ago - but what is making todays discussions so vile and toxic?

Fun stuff. Wonder if there is any requirements for how "bumpy" the terrain needs to be to get recognized properly by the system.

I understand that it's not Twilio's fault, but they desperately need to hire some developer evangelists to write some documentation.

You are being given the responsibility to manage all of this, without the authority to do so. So here is what I would do:

1. Ask for a title bump. Technology/Project/Services/etc Manager - frame it as other people need to know that you are the person in charge of technology, therefore you need a title to signal that you are the point person for decisions.

2. Insist on being in all high level planning, budget, etc meetings. Frame this request as saying that they are setting less-than-100%-completely-informed deadlines, therefore you need to be in planning meetings so that you can temper expectations and give technology's input.

3. Ask for a department budget so you can purchase what you need. Contractor expertise/books/courses/etc.

4. In the event that you don't get any of these - and I fully expect you won't - start interviewing. You sound like a smart individual who's outgrowing their position and need new challenges, and if they won't give them to you, you need to find another position that will.

Personally I'm waiting for the Argonne results which should be done by the end of the week.

[0] https://www.science.org/content/article/spectacular-supercon...

For laughs, I just measured the width of my home's hallways and rooms. I don't see why 15x50 feet apartment isn't doable especially for a bachelor/new couple starting out. Assume an apartment with a 3 foot wide, 50 foot length hallway, subtract another 2 feet width for walls/piping/whatever, and then you can hang 5 rooms that are 10x10 feet from the hallway. Enough for a living room/common area/kitchen/2 bedrooms. Might get a bit cramped but very usable.

I assume I'm missing something here since this doesn't seem to be too bad.

If Reddit starts losing popularity due to this incident (and that is not guaranteed by far) this is going to be the money quote which sums up the entire situation. An unaware CEO unable to understand his own product nor users.

With that said I think there is a strong chance that this will end up being a tempest in a teapot - there doesn’t seem to be any immediately obvious damage to the Reddit brand because of the blackout.

I never felt the same way, and I think a large part of that is that I grew up with the Internet; I could always AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) my friends or use ICQ. I was always connected even during an era of dialup. With the always-on functionality of modern phones, I’m sure that feeing is much more magnified. This doesn’t surprise me and I hope it drives a much more efficient future.

I’d trust a Wordpress developer off fiver to install and configure a plugin, or adjust themes, but not to code and certainly not to understand security fundamentals.

What was your average price per iPhone, if you don’t mind disclosing?

Get experience. By any way possible. Have them build an online app - a blog system specialized for doctors, an RSS reader backend, documentation for an open source project, anything. Software is an unusual sector that experience can be earned outside of paid work.

If these "handful of people" have bachelors, have them apply for masters degrees at highly rated universities, then they get access to the University career services department to help them find a job. Note: I did not say they have to finish the masters degree, just that they enroll in a masters so they have access to the University recruiting pipeline.

None of the interviewers asked anything about tech. Absolutely nothing. All of the questions were in the style of “if you were a (blank), what type of (blank) would you be?”. And each interviewer asked the same questions in the same order working off the same interview sheet. By the third 30min interview I was concerned that I was stuck in some sort of time paradox. By the fourth 30min interview I just wanted to get out of there.

They ended up offering me the position but I declined. Don’t know what happened but they felt very disorganized to me.

When you logged into the Tumblr dashboard, you were presented with several options to post - link post, image post, text post, etc. Other blogging platforms presented you with this huge text box to fill - with the implicit expectation that you should write a huge post. Tumblr was the first that really encouraged sharing this cool new thing you found, or to quickly write down a random thought.

It invited a lot of people to blog, including myself, and I personally consider tumblr as a huge part of the history and legacy of blogs.

I really appreciated this insight, that governments had (quote) an understanding that if you just leave young people to be, they will go and get married. They will have children. They will be able to have a family and there will be no problem there. You just need to let them go ahead and do that, which is a very naive way of looking at it

The next 100 years is going to be very interesting for demographics. I've heard it said that China needs to grow rich before it grows old, and that saying could apply to many Asian countries right now. Fully expect to see much more support for having a family in countries across the world.