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thelab (https://www.thelab.co) | Senior Backend Engineer | ONSITE (NYC) or REMOTE (US) | Full-Time

We are looking for two experienced back-end engineers: (1) one to lead work with our client’s e-commerce business; (2) a second to be part of a small team working on a greenfield project involving ML and NLP driven workflow automation tools. The ideal candidate would have experience working with large Python and Typescript codebases. We are looking for someone who is self-motivated and is able to work with a team early on in a project, plan and identify requirements, see a project through to completion, and mentor junior members of the team along the way.

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About thelab

We’re an agency of makers with deep expertise in solving creative and technology challenges. Our focus is on making better work to help brands work better. From branding & design, to software builds, large-scale ecommerce or anything in between, thelab mixes inspiration and hard work to produce results that mean business. Oh, and we host a mean barbecue too.

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To apply, please go to:

Ecommerce Engineer: https://thelabnyc.bamboohr.com/careers/228?source=aWQ9Mjk%3D

AI Workflow Automation Engineer: https://thelabnyc.bamboohr.com/careers/189?source=aWQ9Mjk%3D

Implementation details aside (React??), that sounds exactly like “just a TUI”…

Same here. Even the small motors were expensive at the time. One winter my dad and I figured out how to make our own—rolled the casing out of packing tape, poured the end plug from (I think) Durham‘s rock-hard water putty, then filled with fuel made from a mixture of black powder, sugar, and salt peter. The next summer, getting to use up all the engines we’d stockpiled, was glorious.

I’ve tried. For it to be at all viable on my property, I’d need to cut down a bunch of trees. I’d rather keep the trees and pay someone else with solar panels.

That’s true, but still doesn’t always make heat pumps the most cost effective choice to operate. For example, last winter I paid an average of $0.24/kWh for electricity vs $0.05/kWh for natural gas. Even if a heat pump had a perfect 4.0 COP all winter, gas would be ~15% cheaper. Electricity prices really need to come down before it will be viable for everyone.

One point of annecdata to backup your figures: I traded my 2018 Accord (7.5 years old, 97k miles) this past weekend, was offered $11k and negotiated them up to $15k. So, trade ins are definitely worth more than nothing.

Python type hints are hugely valuable both as a means of correctness checking, but also just as a means of documentation. It strikes me as incredibly shortsighted to say you can forget about types just because it’s a dynamic language. The types are absolutely still there and need thought about. They just aren’t defined or used in terms of allocation and management of memory.

I’ve definitely had exactly that sort of looping work with Zed, as long as I tell it how to run the tests. Are you perhaps not using one of the “thinking” models?

All this is going to do is drive AI companies to mask their user agent to appear as a standard browser, resulting in a worse end state than we’re in now. It’s an exercise in futility.

Honestly the same is true for human devs. As frustrating as strict linting can be for newer devs, it’s way less frustrating than having all the same issues pointed out in code review. That’s interesting because I’ve been finding that all sorts of stuff that’s good for AI is actually good for humans too, linting, fast easy to run tests, standardized code layouts, etc. Humans just have more ability to adapt to oddities at the moment, which leads to slack.

thelab (https://www.thelab.co) | Senior Backend Engineer | ONSITE (NYC) or REMOTE (US or Türkiye) | Full-Time

We are looking for two experienced back-end engineers: (1) one to lead work with our client’s e-commerce business; (2) a second to lead a greenfield project involving ML and NLP driven workflow automation tools. The ideal candidate would have experience working with large Python and Typescript codebases. We are looking for someone who is self-motivated and is able to work with a team early on in a project, plan and identify requirements, see a project through to completion, and mentor junior members of the team along the way.

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About thelab

We’re an agency of makers with deep expertise in solving creative and technology challenges. Our focus is on making better work to help brands work better. From branding & design, to software builds, large-scale ecommerce or anything in between, thelab mixes inspiration and hard work to produce results that mean business. Oh, and we host a mean barbecue too.

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To apply, please email [email protected].

Luxury. My washer and dryer both display numbers the appear to be minutes remaining, but do not tick down with any discernible relation to time. They start around 55, then over the course of 90 minutes decrement down to 10 in random steps. Then it hangs at 10 for another 10-20 mins, then eventually goes to 0 and shuts off. Are these supposed to be minutes? Is there any reason for their disconnection from the passage of time? Who knows? The manual certainly doesn’t say.

A lot of that market is going to iPads, nowadays, too

Of all the services AWS has, RDS is one of the best values and lowest risks. The peace of mind and reliability it gives you on something as important as a DB is well worth the cost.

I’d always hoped this is what HTML’s time tag would become. Unfortunately it does almost nothing.

If you’re trusting a party for identity verification of a party you’re communicating with, isn’t that implying trust with the correspondence itself? After all, they could just “verify” themselves as the other party of your correspondence.

It’s the same principle as user permission management—if someone has the ability to grant permissions then they are a superuser, because they can grant any additional permission to themselves.

That sounds like a fire hazard. Human safety is still more important than preventing theft.

Even if we had a backup probe to launch right now, it would take 46 years for it to get to where voyager 1 is now. How is the cost of repairing voyager 1 greater than 46 years of lost data?

Neat, but this is basically a ripoff of this post from a few years ago (even to the point of not including the runtime implementation):

https://www.hacklewayne.com/a-truly-strongly-typed-printf-in...

To a point, tests absolutely do shield you from issues. They build confidence in changes which can actually increase velocity, not decrease it.

Yes, I get that. My point is that you won’t accomplish that by holding the business hostage.

That’s a great way to convince the business to just ignore everything the security team says.

You save money on cooling for sure, but heating not so much. Each body in the office is a 6,000 btu furnace fueled mostly by individual salaries. :)

As a kid, my dad (a mechanical engineer) explained this to me in a really memorable way. He was planning a model bridge building contest for my friends and me, and I complained that he was making too many rules. Allowed building materials, maximum qty of various things, etc. He pointed out that without these rules, it’d be perfectly acceptable to just fill the simulated valley with concrete—there’s no way that would lose the load bearing test. But it’s also not fun and defeats the purpose of the contest. _The constraints were important._ It’s the constraints that make it engineering. So you could use a beautiful piece of solid wood on the back of your dresser. But most likely that breaks the constraint of cost. Knowing where to save money on material without it getting noticed is where the engineering is.

This was a one off first-gen product that was sold almost 9 years ago. How long do you expect them to keep maintaining it? At least no one is attempting to build infrastructure on top of an Apple Watch—that can’t be said about google’s services.

In a vacuum, maybe. But in any atmosphere, removing the thrust means negative acceleration due to drag. Thus the propellant could start to drift up/forward.

Wouldn’t building something from the lumber achieve the same result?

I don’t think that’s true for devtools. I use FF devtools ever day, and it frequently crashes. Even the view source page has horrible performance issues when using cmd+f.