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amdolan | 3 months ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)

Location: US Central

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Airflow/Temporal/DAGs, Go, Python, React/Typescript, DB schema design, Erlang/Elixir (hobby), Postgres, Redis, Lua

Résumé/CV: 15 years of experience doing Full stack web services. At my current position, delivered multiple data analytics products delivered to Fortune 100 companies. I am comfortable doing both legacy and greenfield work, and I enjoy building or refactoring maintainable systems so that I may move on to bigger and better things. I'm happy to provide more detail over email.

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amdolan | 2 years ago | on: Indoor wood burning raises women’s lung cancer risk by 43%

Properly operating a wood burning stove will release very little smoke. This is where the center stone is in the range of approx 300-600F (100-300C). The chimney will produce clear heat and there is no detectable smell when standing outside. Much different result than a fireplace.

It’s referred to as double combustion, or secondary combustion.

amdolan | 3 years ago | on: Amazon reports its first unprofitable year since 2014

Not that I could find from looking at my past orders on amazon.com and trying to go through support.

I didn't think of the Whole Foods angle, I'll look into that, thanks. At least I'll have someone to talk to about it.

amdolan | 3 years ago | on: Amazon reports its first unprofitable year since 2014

I was scammed hundreds of dollars buying counterfeit microphones on amazon[0]. Amazon did not provide any way to handle this other than a generic form. The sellers refused to send my money unless I removed my reviews, which I was not going to do at all. I followed the seller's page around, and after a few weeks they renamed themselves to "Sally's Cosmetics"[1] or something, and I posted more reviews on their page. Eventually they disappeared with one of the Amazon counterfeit seller purges. How convenient for Amazon and the seller.

Amazon is like eBay to me. I value my time and cash too much to get involved.

[0] I know, I hadn't been on amazon in a while. I forgot not to buy music equipment (or anything not disposable) from Amazon.

[1] So counterfeit sellers have sold cosmetics on Amazon, and that should be obvious from the state of the store, I guess..

amdolan | 3 years ago | on: The Problem with Go

With Typescript/coffeescript, there were core language improvements to the language that led to popularity in the JavaScript community. Things like types and arrow functions were welcome additions and gained adoption.

I think that a Go fork would be more like, for example, Go with text internationalisation fixed. It wouldn't be very interesting to a large part of the Go community who is using the language just fine.

amdolan | 5 years ago | on: Zsh Tricks to Blow Your Mind

Never use sudo with `npm install` as was done in example 6.

I know it's off topic, but it would be good if the author could change that example. In general, one should never use sudo with package managers.

amdolan | 5 years ago | on: Indoor CO2 may reach levels harmful to cognition by the end of this century

I found this on what eCO2 is:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

Re your other questions; yeah I gather there is some experimentation involved, even with out of the box commercial products.

If others have suggestions on chips or products to buy for the household, I would greatly appreciate it! The MH-Z19 looks like an option for me. Commercial products seem too unreliable for the price.

amdolan | 5 years ago | on: How we successfully handled 2.5x traffic in a week

I am loosely involved with one of the language teams. This language team, and others like it, are groups of volunteers and not Kahn Academy employees. I don't have all the details but I know that the teams are responsible for creating the content and uploading the content to youtube. Changing to an alternate host would require more coordination than you might think.

My contribution is that I am helping with automating video uploads to the team youtube channel, which is allowed to have "Kahn Academy {language}" branding.

Shameless plug: If any google or youtube employees can help me raise our API quota please get in touch!!! :)

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