WingNews logo WingNews GitHub [2]

Pr0ducer's comments

Pr0ducer | 5 years ago | on: CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better

I am the CEO of Uber, and I can gas-light you from the opinion section of the New York Times, because money talks. No other person is better positioned to do something about the plight of gig workers more than me, but I'm going to tell you a story about how we could all fix this together to distract you from reality. I'll throw in some blame to build up a strawman we can all tear down together, while gig workers still get the shaft and I still get my fat payday.

Pr0ducer | 5 years ago | on: What It’s Like to Report on Facebook

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23702169

Case in point, here's a HackerNews link to an article by Nick Clegg, the former British Lib-Dem party leader now FB VP of Global Affairs and Communications, using AdAge to impart some semblance of legitimacy. The article's headline is complete BS: "Facebook Does Not Benefit from Hate" my ass. They benefit from hate speech every damn day that shit's on their site, because eyeballs == $$. The article ends with the ridiculous notion that "We may never be able to prevent hate from appearing on Facebook entirely, but we are getting better at stopping it all the time." A company with the resources of Facebook can do practically anything it wants. If hate speech was look at with the same level of disgust as child porn, would the above statement still hold true? And getting better all the time? By what measure?

Pr0ducer | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you have a software consultant or outsourcing horror story?

Company I work for was recently acquired. Day 1: Everybody except the Sales team is on 90-days notice. This included the software development team. They have a whole process in place, with a catchy name: "Lift & Shift." During the next 90 days, they are doing "knowledge transfer" with their team, and I checked out individuals on github. Bangladesh, rural Russia, Vietnam, and Isreal, just to name a few of the various publicly stated locations. Does that count as Outsourcing?

Pr0ducer | 8 years ago | on: Why I don't support Net Neutrality

ISPs should be regulated under Title II, as they are common carriers, not information services. I don't pay Comcast for information, I pay them for access. It's like a phone line, but in modern times. Imagine if phone carriers could do what ISPs are planning, where certain companies can pay for better, faster phone connections, and everyone else gets the crappy maybe it works, maybe it doesn't level of service. No one thinks that's ok. The internet isn't a luxury, it's a necessity. Any limits on my ability to use it in any legal manner I see fit is wrong.

Pr0ducer | 9 years ago | on: National (JavaScript) Security Agency

About a year a ago, started from scratch writing a front-end client SPA for web-based software -- it's a custom framework built around Backbone.js and jQuery, written in CoffeeScript. The .coffee files are beautiful, and on save a shell script automatically compiles all the .coffee files down to a single JavaScript file that I would describe as good JavaScript code.

Not open source, so no demo, but it's definitely possible to create good JS.

Pr0ducer | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer?

Super Happy. Happier than I have ever been in my working life, due in large part to said job allowing me to enjoy not-working-life more than at any previous point.

I was a Journalist, the video and multimedia producer for a medium market newspaper. Pay was lower middle income level. Hours were flexible when flexibility was an option, but revolved around an inflexible daily deadline.

I just spent my 4th weekend in a row snowboarding, and yesterday was 11" of powder. As a remote employee, I still have deadlines, but they are from days to months depending on the project. Pay is upper-middle income level. My boss is great, smartest person I've ever called a boss, and extremely reasonable and personable.

Right now, life is good.

Pr0ducer | 10 years ago | on: Local Restaurant Discovery – No Ads – No Bias – Just Facts

Instead of making me click "more restaurants" can you have it load more as I scroll? Also, the loading seemed to take a long time for each press of the "more restaurants" button.

There was an error in my console, lp is not defined, some variable in your JavaScript.

Get Directions tried to open up an AppleMaps link. Is this a iPhone only website? Or do you want laptop/desktop users to install AppleMaps?

That's my 2 cents

Pr0ducer | 11 years ago | on: RoR, Django or both?

I'm a Djangonaut whose also built an (extremely simple) app with RoR. I like them both. I'm more comfortable with Python, so I'm biased, but Rails is full of stuff that makes early prototyping fast, and lots of TDD goodness. I remember the first time I used Generate and it barfed out all these files, and I barfed rainbows in amazement.

Pr0ducer | 11 years ago | on: Poll: Are you a drinker or a teetotaler?

I drink most days, maybe 2 beers, or split a bottle of wine with the SO. Some days I drink more, when out celebrating or after a really lousy day. I try not to get drunk, but it happens occasionally.

Pr0ducer | 12 years ago | on: Bad UX for e-filing taxes

A user should never have to search a pdf for an error message. Nor should they every see an error of this complexity. And yes, the IRS should be able to programatically find your error and email you directions, written in simple english, on how to fix your submission.

Pr0ducer | 12 years ago

Heroku makes it possible to scale fast. If you need more resources, just turn up the dials. But it can get expensive, so if and when you get high traffic, you should start looking at more customized solutions. Keep in mind that needing to refactor because of scale gets filed under "problems you want to have."
page 1