Yeah, I have the same experience. I work on a major aws team and we have a lot of focus on work life balance. Oncall sucks for sure but otherwise it's fine. My girlfriend at Google has a much worse work life balance. It depends on what team you're on.
Hmm yes. Could be good. We are trying to build this "study group template" library. So we are putting the notes and flashcards from our university lectures up for free in the platform. Maybe asking students to do so too for their lectures and then giving them money based on how many people use it would be nice.
That is why I fell in love with programming. So many smart people willing to spend time and effort on explaining me simple things. I have tried to give back by tutoring people as much as I can. The technology community is amazing.
It is wonderful. I really want to find a way to help teach kids/teenagers about programming. It can really make you feel good about yourself to build something and see it working
I can do full stack web development, distributed computing, Cloud, IoT, Mobile Dev and a bit of data science. Email me up if you have some interesting to work on. :)
I'm tinkering with the idea of an IoT device which sits at the top of your IoT chain. It has microphone and other potential sensory input, which it processes completely offline and turns into text commands which get sent to other devices over the network.
I don't want 10 IoT devices each with their own mics and cameras. I want one device from a brand I trust, which veritably doesn't phone home other than updates, with a dirt-simple API for integration. All other devices can take commands from this one. The age of Alexa and Google Home and "smart TVs" with microphones needs to disappear.
If tenable, the idea could be extended to other sensitive domains such as payment processing with a token system.
Just a thought. Could be hackathon material if I find a good partner.
Just a thought, my old company ElectricImp could be a good fit. The company itself only provides diagrams for compatible hardware, an OS, and a cloud for deployment and a paired cloud-based VM for each deployed.
The only phoning home is OS updates, and then whatever you program the VM to do. So you could take audio in on the device, send to cloud VM, then send to some sort of homebrew speech to text (or be a total fucking badass and squeeze your own speech to text in squirrel code onto the VM itself).
This might be a noob question but can someone explain me how mailing lists are used in software projects. I keep seeing these archived emails that are posted. Could someone fill me in?
Mailing lists are still the best async method for discussing meta issues with regards to a project, when the people who work on it span the globe.
Basically you post to the list if you have a meta issue and then everyone replies. It can get pretty tough to follow if you're using email, but most of these had (still have?) mail<->news gateways, so you could use a threaded Usenet reader to keep track of all the forks in the threads.
It's sort of a lost art with the news service being mostly gone and with threaded social media.
Thank you for your response. I have a better understanding now. How is spam dealt with? Do people get banned quickly?
Also, who archives these emails. Do they automatically get archived for public viewing?
Most lists require you to subscribe before being able to post. Subscription involves the mailing-list software sending a cookie/none to your e-mail address for authentication. You can either reply directly to the message or, if the mailing-list software supports a web interface, follow an embedded link.
That simple step prevents most bulk spam. For technical lists you can also do things like limit messages to text/plain, reject binary attachments, etc. What little spam remains, if any, can be handled by simple filters. Manual moderation, where posts are queued waiting for approval, is rare but might be necessary if someone is maliciously trying to disrupt the list.
One of the oldest mailing-list archive-to-HTML processors is MHonArc (https://www.mhonarc.org/). Most mailing-list software now supports this feature natively, but the organization of such archives (by date, thread, etc) and the look & feel seem to have been heavily influenced by MHonArc.
When you send an email there, everyone on the list gets it. It's like a group chat via email. Lots of things are discussed, from technical to commit access to use questions.
It's basically a rudimentary forum system based on email communication that relies on a software most people have and that is widely available in either closed-source or open-source, an email client.
While web forums and project management platforms come and go, mailing lists just refuse to die. It's the most pervasive chat protocol/format. I guess they will still be there when facebook already went the way of myspace.
