Nate75Sanders

Possibly LSM compaction.

Completely understand the work/life/hobby fusion.

And I think that you and GitHub went through the stages of life together. They probably weren't exactly parallel, but I bet you measure and remember your life through GitHub's life to some degree, along with the projects you had there.

There's no question that with your drive and acumen that you could build the GitHub that you both had and want. It might be your next chapter.

Guy made it for the C64, even with good music!

https://ko-ko74.itch.io/balatro-for-the-commodore-64-c64

Possibly from the 1970 Stephen Stills song "Love the One You're With"

Flink. It has more momentum than Spark right now.

OK, here's something:

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/ace-of-aces/

Jim Rothwell (see the gallery image and enlarge it) was supposed to release something called Ace of Aces for the Ultimax, it seems, IIUC.

I didn't know about the Ultimax until 5 minutes ago.

EDIT: Here's the image link:

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/wp-content/uploads/gtw64/a/a...

I had considered that, but noticed the price and as classichasclass points out in a reply to me (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43949843), $595 was the intro price. They're also comparing against the Atari 800 instead of the 800XL, so that's another piece of evidence. The 800XL was released in 1983.

It's a 1982 brochure, but they show Ace of Aces in the games section.

The Accolade Ace of Aces (WW2 combat flight sim) wasn't released until 1986.

It seems that this may have been a different Ace of Aces -- perhaps a version of the Nova tabletop game that never got released.

Anybody know anything about this?

Drivel. Not surprising because this guy is a kid -- graduated in 2016. Talking about life experience when he has none:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-foo-b72a5b157/

“”” I remember clearly the day when the accountant showed me that we could effectively double our monthly sales and still not have enough to meet our eventual payroll obligations and that's about when you just finally sink into it: You're done. “””

If you need your accountant to tell you this, you were doomed from the beginning.

What you keep calling "read repair" is actually just "repair" or the longer phrase "anti-entropy repair". "Read repair" is something different.

Hasn't been my experience. I have recent 11-month and 7-month gaps and it hasn't been a problem. Additionally, I've switched companies a LOT during my career and I don't get asked about that very often. When I do, I just say "I kept getting offered better opportunities and more money" (100% true statement).

That usually ends that part of the conversation and we get onto something more relevant.

This is my guess, too. Apple recently bought TupleJump and I think they're in acquisition mode wrt database technologies and talent.

I didn't walk away with anywhere near the analysis you did, so I added an edit to my original post.

You can't simply hear Thiel's speech and directly get what he wants, because saying it would cause too much backlash.

He wants to use the government's massive resources to carry out projects that he's aligned with -- perhaps even that he has control over.

A related article that does a good job of explaining why Thiel supports Trump:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/21/peter-thi...

EDIT: (to explain why)

No other analysis I've seen anywhere of Thiel at the RNC takes into account this very, very important attempt at explaining Thiel's reasons:

""" Now, in 2016, Thiel has finally found a politician capable of seizing that opportunity: a disruptor-in-chief who will destroy a dying system and build a better one in its place. Trump isn’t just a flamethrower for torching a rotten establishment, however – he’s the fulfillment of Thiel’s desire to build a successful political movement for less democracy. """

Thiel doesn't want less government, but he does want less democracy, because he can achieve his aims more easily if this is the case (or so he believes).

Lest anyone read the above and somehow believe I'm a Trump or Thiel supporter/advocate/etc, I'm solidly NOT.

Hey, I'm in the process of moving to Sacramento (mostly live here now), at least for a while, I think.

If you click my profile, you can email me and I hope you do. I wouldn't mind discussing the tech scene here, the city, etc, although I may end up working remotely.

It was cut that way on purpose.

"Are beer sales affected by weather?" is an example of a question that is solved by Variety, which is the the last concept he was talking about.

The code in spreadsheets is always a 2nd-class or 3rd-class citizen. It makes it ridiculously hard to both test and review and there are essentially no good checks on what output you're getting from the input.

I've worked in orgs where C-level execs without a technical background were writing crazy complicated spreadsheets and nobody had any idea how they worked or if they were correct. When you bury the code, you bury the necessary processes around the code.

This is dangerous.

Obviously you shouldn't be storing sensitive information in your codebase (I hope everybody knows that), but the problem here is that you might have been way back when you were prototyping and then moved them out of the codebase. It's really common to start a codebase just by hacking something together with hardcoded secrets.

If you have the proper secret segregation now, but you're deploying by doing a git pull, now you run the risk of not really having segregated secrets all over again.

I'm curious as to how you're placing these. 21 jobs in downtown Seattle, but 2 specifically in Ballard (neighborhood), but I didn't see mention of Ballard in their job posts.

Awesome post.

I like the assumption that he didn't care that his "rlci" lisp interpreter didn't garbage collect at all because it was just a way to get to the next step and he knew it was going to have enough RAM to do so.

There is, but the problem is that not every amenity listed is something that all customers would want, thus they won't knock a host for it being incorrect.

For example, I stayed at a place in Germany that said they had a washer and dryer. Indeed there was a washer and I thought it might be one of those all-in-one units (washer and dryer), but it was just a washer. I asked the host about the dryer and she said she didn't have one. I pointed out that she listed one on the AirBnB site under amenities.

The problem here? Language barrier. She thought "dryer" meant hair dryer, which she had. It sorta screwed up my trip because I did a multi-city stay and that was the place I decided to do laundry and forewent laundry facilities and the previous and next places when I planned everything out beforehand.

And as grandparent here alludes to: people have wildly different ideas about what a particular amenity is. "Wifi, but only when you're sitting on the couch" isn't up to snuff for me. It may be that most people who stayed at that place were not in the apartment much and only checked email occasionally. It may be that I need to use the internet for a couple of hours each day to deal with work or some other commitment.

What I've found is that you need to find out which amenities are REALLY important to you for each place you stay and send messages to the people ahead of time to make sure the really important stuff is what you'd expect and not "just true enough that I can probably check this box for the amenity".

Actually this will enable her to get more opportunities.

I have a mid-2010 13" MBP (wrong year, wrong size) that's doing stuff that sounds like their listed symptoms. Not sure if it's just randomly going bad or if they haven't determined for certain that other models are affected as well.

OpenGrok has been very useful when I want to understand a new codebase. The distributed / REST aspect is going to make it harder to use code tools, though.

I'm in Seattle and I'd like to know more about what you're doing.

If you can turn that paid holiday into a vacation day and take a sick day instead, that's awesome. It basically works like this:

"We planned for you to have some time to recharge by giving you holidays and vacation days. You got sick? Can't recharge while you're sick, so that's a sick day. Take a REAL vacation day later when you're well."

Unfortunately, they won't identify themselves when they're in riot gear.

I believe http://www.extrahop.com/ is a commercial service/product in this space.

This looks very cool, though, and I want to play with it.