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HashiCorp | Engineering & Management | Remote (USA or UK) | https://www.hashicorp.com/jobs.html

We're hiring full time engineers and engineering management to work on HashiCorp tools such as Terraform, Vagrant, Packer, Vault, Consul & Nomad. Our engineering team (~30 people) is remote and has been from the start.

They don't get enough credit for their humour. The covers sometimes have me cutting them off and hanging them on the wall – a great recent example was the "Hiyatollah!" cover.

http://www.economist.com/printedition/covers/2015-07-16/ap-e...

My old roommate just emailed me about this, he and his girlfriend are both working on the project. One thing they noted:

> The project is getting kicked out of our current building in November. We are looking for a new home for a few months. Somewhere in the south bay. Light industrial facility would be great but some office space with some large open areas (former cube farm) would work too. An aircraft hanger would be awesome....but we are not holding our breath....any decent space will do. Please get in touch if you have such a space / know someone / can pull some strings :).

They are also having a 'Friends don't let friends build alone' day in Mountain View in early october. Email me (profile) and I'll forward it along if you're interested!

I think you're absolutely correct about the writers having potentially equitable quality, but I would challenge the following statement:

> The publication is less relevant as an institution and a brand

Journalism, and journalists, need to be trusted to deliver researched and verifiable content. This seems to be enforced because of reputation – i.e, the reputation of a publication.

When an organization does what BuzzFeed does to earn eyeballs, dollars and readership, it makes you question what they would do in more serious, "important" topics, such as describing world events to future voters.

I have trouble trusting BuzzFeed as an organization, as with Vice, due to this "trashiness". I think we all should.

BMO has American dollar accounts[1]. That way, you can convert only what you need. Or, when you feel is the best time due to rate fluctuations and so on.

Additionally, if you ever travel and spend money in the US, you can spend in US currency, again avoiding exchange rates.

[1]: http://www.bmo.com/home/personal/banking/bank-accounts/us-do...

Terraform saves partial state as it creates resources for these exact scenarios.

In your example, Terraform would create and save the ID of the server to state before going along to create the DNS record. If the DNS record failed to create for some external reason, the next `terraform apply` you ran would simply refresh the server and go on to create the DNS record.

The v2 API is a huge improvement, great work!

If you're in need of a Ruby client, check out barge: https://github.com/boats/barge.

Additionally, Tugboat[1] will be moving from my github account over to the 'boats' org and using the new API. If you're interested in helping with an existing project (such as Tugboat or Barge), or a new one, please let me know!

[1]: https://github.com/pearkes/tugboat

In my personal experience, and from watching others, the lock-in and absorption in your work comes with a succession of tasks and exertion, towards a meditation of sorts. You don't simply "fall in" to this state, but rather makes a concerted effort in reaching it.

> is it something you must be born with?

A motivation to reach this state, to keep trying and pursuing it, may be a fact of your nature. Or, it is an understanding of what your work will create. Fame, money, fulfillment – extrinsic motivators that drive you towards a definitive conclusion.

To meditate in your work might just require you to find your motivator.

> Hollywood started in the West Coast so they could be far enough from Edison and his patents

If you're curious, as I was, this is a good read: http://www.history.com/news/the-renegade-roots-of-hollywood-...

I was recently in Romania and was blown away at how casually people spoke English! A slightly American accent, with pacing and rhythm similar to a native speaker.

Contrasting that to German English speakers whom likely had high quality English classes throughout education speak with a specific accent and rhythm closer to that of the German language.

I don't know if their are technical reasons for this, but anecdotally Romanians had said they learned a lot of their English from watching dubbed TV and movies.

Someone else in this thread mentioned the show 24. It's fascinating that, indirectly, watching pirated copies of a typically Hollywood entertainment television show (which academic and intellectual communities may find "crude") can open up a wealth of knowledge and culture (English language only resources) for people whom, potentially, wouldn't have had the educational opportunities otherwise.

It makes my spine tingle when stories like this flip your understanding and perspective of things like the Hollywood Entertainment Machine. Things have value in unexpected and fascinating ways.

I totally agree. Just certain factions of the media make that portrayal.

Agree, see my parent comment where I mention Mittelstand.

There's a specific term for those compartively small but succesful businesses in Germany. "Mittelstand".

It's cited as being a huge source of strength for the German economy, seems to be similar to what Americans might call a "lifestyle" business. You see lifestyle businesses portrayed as "settling for less" in American media, whereas Mittelstand has a very positive connotation in Germany.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelstand

To add to cooking idea, challenge yourself to eat "simply" – i.e with cheap carbohydrate heavy ingredients such as rice, pasta, potatoes as a substantial portion of your calories.

Use meat sparingly (it's expensive!) to make things more exciting, and always put onions, garlic and [all kinds peppers[1], zucchini, fennel (the bottom parts), herbs[2]].

All of those ingredients last in the fridge and can be "revived", or cooked when they're starting to go bad. If you're new to feeding yourself all of your meals and having food in the fridge all the time, the tendency to buy fresh products that rot in the fridge is high. These ingredients let you cheat a bit.

Olive oil and salt and pepper should be liberally applied to all of this.

Finally, on the the health front, you'll probably cook more than you need – this can cause overeating. I usually portion food into a storage container before I start eating, forcing me to control portions. When you start cooking all of your food and controlling your portions, you realize more what your body needs and honestly how little it actually requires for sustenance. Rich world countries eat such an incredible amount of food.

My two cents! This is a personal thing, so your mileage may vary, but hope it's a bit helpful.

[1]: I live near a substantial hispanic population, so all sorts of interesting peppers exist that can change meals completely for very little cost and effort. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum

[2]: Depending on your market and the season, herbs can be relatively affordable or completely absurd. I only buy it if it's fairly priced, can be a real gouger.

Thanks! We look forward to integrating GitHub – there's a ton of cool stuff that can be done, as it's very common that a box maintainer has Packer templates, configuration management scripts and so forth there.

We didn't go the OAuth route primarily because we need to enable `vagrant login` locally, and for that it's useful to have a login/password combination, authentication tokens. I couldn't think of a workflow that makes this as easy for a user.

Thought I recognized the guy in the video! He loves financial services.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9Sx34swEG0

https://vimeo.com/87163777

Yea, it's definitely true in the Stripe world. I end up re-writing boiler plate for each project. (i.e, send a receipt from this webhook, etc.)

I ended up writing an independent service for it[1], but it'd be cool to let someone else deal. Also, to make receipts nice, and so on.

[1]: https://github.com/pearkes/stripe-hooks

In my opinion Google Hosted Libraries[1] are the best way to go if you're serving "big" commonly used JavaScript libraries to folks.

One of the major upsides is that it's so heavily used, that a user probably already has it cached in their browser. At least that's the idea, not sure of actual numbers.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/devguide

GitHub is your friend here.

Here is a search for Go repositories with > 100 stars.[1] Every project will look different (the really big ones might be more complex then you need) but as you get deeper into the results you can find some great stuff.

[1]: https://github.com/search?l=go&q=stars%3A%3E100&s=stars&type...

Aside from taking off your shoes, there's no practical difference between European airport security and American. Both can have long lines depending on the airport, cheeky and or angry staff.