danhak

The trailer for the show was absurd (bad) and widely lampooned online. The show looks horrific, they just want to avoid a high-profile flop.

By this logic, we should all leave our lights and air conditioners on while we're at work or on vacation because it will increase demand and hasten the transition to renewables.

Remote: Prefer in-office or hybrid

Technologies: Full-stack with emphasis on back-end, platform / API design, microservices, cloud architecture and ETL (scraping, crawling). Node.js / JavaScript / AWS / GCP / Playwright

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Wptf7jFf7-RGZnhuttGuP_XDgJE...

Email: [email protected]

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Hi! Danny here. I'm a full-stack engineer with 12 years experience and focus on building performant / scalable platforms, APIs and services. I am based in New York City and looking for my next opportunity. I want to get my hands dirty and am ideally seeking a role that will let me wear a variety of hats and develop my non-technical skills.

"Kayak for sneakers"

I wrote crawlers to pull product data from about 100 stores, post sales and filter on size availability.

Some important features are still missing and site could use some polish

You state that peak (commute) traffic is recovering but off-peak is still low, due to WFH?

Wouldn’t WFH be impacting peak hours, with off-peak at all-time-low due to other things like leisure travel?

I've done everything right according to Google, set up the search console, uploaded a site map, addressed all mobile usability issues. And yet only a tiny fraction of my content is being indexed.

I'm a bit at the end of my rope here as I've poured a year into this project and getting a historically normal amount of search traffic may be the difference between this project being viable or not. The most frustrating part here is having zero visibility into what's going on.

One of the more baffling choices they made was to have “today” and “yesterday” as options on the user reporting tab, even though it can take up to 48 hours to process the data and my dashboard always shows zero users for “today”. Took a while to figure out what was going on there…

Meanwhile the real-time reporting works reasonably well but is limited to a 30 minute window. Some real head-scratching choices were made here.

  But it’s fun to watch them fail to circle the wagons when it’s Theranos or FTX or Y Combinator.

I find myself easily distracted reading any long form content on a screen. The temptation to check email or social media is strong.

I also prefer to read print materials when I am alone sitting at a coffee shop or a lunch counter or riding the train.

I feel more aware of my surroundings. People tend to engage me more, ask me what I’m reading etc. than if I have my face buried in my phone. It feels less antisocial.

The experience just feels qualitatively different. When I’m reading print, some part of my mind feels—in a pleasant way—that it is in the physical not digital world.

https://github.com/mapbox/pixelmatch

The question is whether the power and influence of the U.S. will grow similarly over the next 150 years as it has over the last 150.

To invest mechanically without thinking about what’s actually happening in the world is cargo cult behavior.

You see no philosophical difference between the government mandating vaccination records for schools and public institutions like the military vs. them mandating vaccination records for private establishments such as gyms, irrespective of the wishes of the owners of those establishments?

Should the government have the right to mandate vaccination records for entry to a private home, irrespective of the wishes of the homeowner?

"Almost everyone should get vaccinated" does not mean the government should coerce everyone into making the correct medical decision by barring them from employment or access to private establishments.

Absent a very compelling reason, people should be free to go against medical advice. People have the right to do whatever they want with their bodies. People have the right to make the wrong choice.

In this case, the reason given for overriding that freedom was a highly specious argument that the unvaccinated were putting other people at significant risk. That argument did not pass the smell test from the very beginning.

We justified it with the specious argument that they were putting other people at undue risk by remaining unvaccinated. We claimed that vaccinated people would not spread the virus.

And we gave the companies producing these vaccines blanket legal immunity from any potential liability.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US

> But if I truly have the good of the world at heart, then I must not fall prey to the conceit of perfect knowledge, and must be willing to entertain new and better ways to serve my ultimate goal: creating a happier world.

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/startup-founders-are-...

The same strategy isn't panning out with reels, for whatever reason.

And those places did not emerge with a significantly better COVID outcome.

Without an answer for addressing the second-order effects of green policy, there will be no consensus.

And now looking at outcomes across different states (e.g. Florida vs. California)--and considering ALL outcomes (public health, homelessness, unemployment, substance abuse, mental health, truancy, graduation rates, violent crime)--it's indeed unclear that draconian policies in the name of public health were a net positive.

I am extremely concerned about climate change. But there seems to be little introspection from those who propose sweeping policy change about the need to consider second-order effects on those whose lives and livelihoods will be upturned. The general disdain for people in places like West Virginia gives me little hope that will change.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/188165/annual-gdp-growth...

At any rate, GDP growth is currently negative for 2022 and China's economy is still projected to overtake the U.S. in a matter of years.