ottumm | 1 year ago | on: California bans sell-by dates
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ottumm | 1 year ago | on: Inbox Ten
If I was working with someone who had been working in the organization for 18 years and was also the CTO, and they replied promptly with a better communication channel to use, I would personally really appreciate that.
ottumm | 2 years ago | on: Is Gmail killing independent email?
Is Jerry killing independent George? And does he even care?
ottumm | 3 years ago | on: A cab ride I'll never forget (1999)
The devil has enough advocates, Keanu.
ottumm | 3 years ago | on: FTX held less than $1B in liquid assets against $9B in liabilities
Matt Levine has an excellent overview of the liquidity / solvency question: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-11-10/ftx-is...
ottumm | 4 years ago | on: IBM and Samsung Unveil Semiconductor Breakthrough
Yeup.
ottumm | 6 years ago | on: Living Without Atomic Clocks (2016)
I think you might find this seminal paper interesting and relevant: https://amturing.acm.org/p558-lamport.pdf
From the abstract:
> The concept of one event happening before another in a distributed system is examined, and is shown to define a partial ordering of the events. A distributed algorithm is given for synchronizing a system of logical clocks which can be used to totally order the events. The use of the total ordering is illustrated with a method for solving synchronization problems. The algorithm is then specializedfor synchronizing physical clocks, and a bound is derived on how far out of synchrony the clocks can become.
ottumm | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)
Hi, I'm an engineer at Thorn. You're right, it is unusual. It's also a big part of our strategy to attract, and keep, top talent. And that goes for talent across the organization: our fundraising, our marketing, our product managers, and our engineers. We're lucky to have such an amazing team, and a fundraising strategy that attracts brilliant investors and donors alike to fund the technology that we need to move the needle on this issue.
ottumm | 8 years ago | on: Stanford CS007: Personal Finance For Engineers
And they say romance is dead.
ottumm | 8 years ago | on: An empirical study on the correctness of formally verified distributed systems
Very true. It's also an almost unbelievably basic design error to make in a distributed system.
ottumm | 8 years ago | on: An empirical study on the correctness of formally verified distributed systems
Did anyone else find this disturbing: "Chapar used UDP, but did not handle packet drops because it assumed the network layer was reliable."?
This is a serious case of missing the forest for the trees.
ottumm | 9 years ago | on: Thorn – Drive Tech Innovation to Fight Child Sexual Exploitation
I’m a software engineer at Thorn. I don’t work directly on the research or data science side of things, but I work closely with those who do and they take it very seriously. Here’s some more detail from our website: https://www.wearethorn.org/child-sexual-exploitation-and-tec...
ottumm | 9 years ago | on: Thorn – Drive Tech Innovation to Fight Child Sexual Exploitation
If you're interested in getting involved you can fill out a survey here: https://www.wearethorn.org/digital-defender-survey/
I'm a software engineer at Thorn, and I can assure you this is not just PR. We are committed to helping children in both the short and long term.
ottumm | 9 years ago | on: Remove built-in apps from the Home screen on your iOS device with iOS 10 beta
I wonder if the fact that you can restore a removed app (via the App Store) means that Apple will be able to update built-in apps independent of iOS updates.
ottumm | 10 years ago | on: Cleartext: A text editor that only allows the 1,000 most common words in English
You should read more Hemingway.
ottumm | 11 years ago | on: Slack raises $120M Led by Google Ventures and KPCB at $1.12B Valuation
I believe you can use IRC clients to connect to both HipChat and Slack.
ottumm | 11 years ago | on: Google Inbox
Are changes that you make in Inbox reflected in Gmail? For instance, if you archive (sweep?) something in Inbox is it also archived in Gmail? Are clusters related to tags?
ottumm | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2012)
IBM -- Emeryville, CA
BigFix is a highly-scalable systems management solution that was recently acquired by IBM. Located in Emeryville, CA, the BigFix engineering team is responsible for building a distributed framework to discover problems and enact changes across diverse computing environments, as well as using this framework to develop products that compete in a wide variety of markets. We are focused on developing elegant solutions to complex problems, including:
* Language and API design
* Interface design and implementation
* Efficiently managing large amounts of data
* Performance and scalability optimization
Apply here: https://jobs3.netmedia1.com/cp/job_summary.jsp?job_id=SWG-04...
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> To adhere with the requisite language outlined, any food products with a date label — with the exception of infant formula, eggs, beer, and malt beverages — must state “Best if Used By” to indicate peak quality, and “Use By” to designate food safety.