captain_crabs (u/captain_crabs)

captain_crabs commented on We're in for 2 Months foobuzz.github.io/covid19... · Posted by u/foobuzzHN

smacktoward · 6 years ago

There is also the willingness of Chinese companies and individuals to ship PPE gear to the US. If the government there were really still in crisis mode, you would expect it to clamp down hard on that sort of thing.

captain_crabs · 6 years ago

This is a pretty good point. However, there's also the chance that they can't use the gear and that's why they're sending it: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=virus+t...

However, could be this was a one-off genuine mistake (things are hectic). I'd love to know more

captain_crabs commented on We're in for 2 Months foobuzz.github.io/covid19... · Posted by u/foobuzzHN

captain_crabs · 6 years ago

If real information about China were to leak out, my guess is it would happen through the vector of internet/social media. Chances are, some other source would need to copy + repost it before being taken down. This is what I looked for.

One such account which is purportedly doing this is https://twitter.com/truthabtchina. To summarize this, among other rumors:

    - lots more people have died that communicated (there's an estimate of ~22m due to missing cell phone contracts)
    - riots are happening between regions where lockdown occurred, and regions next to them)
    - lockdown isn't practically over in areas where resurgence of infection is happening (pending other containment approaches)

edit: I've eaten dinner with some friends from China in the past month before lockdown started, and am in frequent contact with people traveling throughout SEA. I was trying to provide and summarize a potential semi-primary source. Added some more specific #'s, info, and removed inflammatory words. Sorry - I wasn't trying to be fear-mongery. However, I am trying to accurately reflect a harsher reality

I do think it's quite reasonable to assume some areas of China are getting back to normal.

I also think it's quite unreasonable to assume info _isn't_ being censored and controlled, especially post journalist-eviction.

captain_crabs commented on Effect of economic crisis on America’s small businesses [slides] docs.google.com/presentat... · Posted by u/mrDmrTmrJ

captain_crabs · 6 years ago

Part of the benefit of living in America is the fact America will put it's citizens first, no? I fail to see how putting the rest of the world before our own countrymen could at all work. To many, that would be viewed as betraying countrymen if we didn't handle it here first. I'd even posit that an America that's contained and controlled COVID-19 is better for the world than one that's not.

I'm _not_ saying we shouldn't help the rest of the world. That's the very next thing. I'm saying, let's make sure we're not drowning before trying to help others not drown.

This is a really weird line of reasoning because I don't think it even holds in the case of a broader unity.

captain_crabs · 6 years ago

I'll drop into this more, because we might not be connecting on what layers we're talking about. I'm talking about immediate medical survival. If by "resources" you're talking about financial/economic support, then I could very much agree with an "everyone right away" approach.

I see the immediate health layer as subject to physical limitation, the economic layer subject to informational limitation. If by resources you mean money, then yes, I very much agree.

captain_crabs commented on Effect of economic crisis on America’s small businesses [slides] docs.google.com/presentat... · Posted by u/mrDmrTmrJ

unexaminedlife · 6 years ago

It's articles like this that really make me facepalm, shake my head and say "this isn't about whether America could survive this". America is the last of our concern. Almost ALL of the other countries on planet Earth have orders of magnitude LESS resources (in every sense of the word) than we do. Think about how likely those countries aren't going to fall into chaos. Their governments aren't equipped to deal with this sort of thing.

captain_crabs · 6 years ago

Part of the benefit of living in America is the fact America will put it's citizens first, no? I fail to see how putting the rest of the world before our own countrymen could at all work. To many, that would be viewed as betraying countrymen if we didn't handle it here first. I'd even posit that an America that's contained and controlled COVID-19 is better for the world than one that's not.

I'm _not_ saying we shouldn't help the rest of the world. That's the very next thing. I'm saying, let's make sure we're not drowning before trying to help others not drown.

This is a really weird line of reasoning because I don't think it even holds in the case of a broader unity.

captain_crabs commented on Why soap works so well on most viruses threadreaderapp.com/threa... · Posted by u/jxub

m_eiman · 6 years ago

They're like memes, I suppose. Cannot live on their own, but replicate like mad when the circumstances are right.

captain_crabs · 6 years ago

A kind of concerning thought: who's to say there aren't higher-level versions of this same concept playing out? Say we figure out the nature of consciousness and are able to effectively interact with it's "thinginess." Then we find: there are things in our universe that're semi-conscious, but feed and replicate on/inside/with the consciousness of others and are incapable of existing on their own.

captain_crabs commented on Fogg Behavior Model behaviormodel.org/... · Posted by u/vitabenes

com2kid · 6 years ago

One of my previous teams paid to have Fogg come in and train us on both his behavior model, and also on how to do feature planning.

The lesson on feature planning was revolutionary for my team. We went from shouting and arguing during planning meetings to everyone walking out happy with all the decisions that were made. He teaches a truly amazing process.

The behavior model itself is super useful for user journeys. My biggest take away is that when someone first downloads an application (or signs up on a website) they do so because they have a problem they want to solve, and at that moment there is a level of motivational energy that they are willing to spend. Be it adding pictures to a dating app or going through an onboarding process. If that first use is too complex, the user's motivation is exhausted and they'll drop out.

captain_crabs · 6 years ago

How's the process of getting him to present go? I'm interested in doing the same!

captain_crabs commented on Actix – Actor Framework for Rust github.com/actix/actix... · Posted by u/Bella-Xiang

habitue · 6 years ago

Highly recommend Bastion if you're looking for a Rust Actor library / runtime. It uses async/await etc, and has supervision trees and restart strategies taken straight from Erlang/OTP

https://docs.rs/bastion/0.3.4/bastion/

https://github.com/bastion-rs/bastion

captain_crabs · 6 years ago

would you even suggest this over riker?

captain_crabs commented on Product-building articles by PMs at major tech companies find.xyz/map/product-mana... · Posted by u/itsrishabh

captain_crabs · 7 years ago

General question I've been wondering tangentially related:

Engineers:

is working [edit: replacing 'under' with 'with' due to replies! good clarification, didn't mean under] with a non-technical product manager a dealbreaker for you? (Do you look to filter out places you'd work at while job searching?)

Conversely, have you ever worked under a non-technical product manager you loved? Would you mind sharing details about your situation?

captain_crabs commented on When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re selling hiringengineersbook.com/p... · Posted by u/ashitlerferad

tptacek · 7 years ago

A lot of this post seems pretty reasonable. But:

In my experience, it’s fairly easy to judge technical skill. A friendly conversation about technical interests and recent projects can often be enough.

Bullshit. Sounding credible in technical interviews is a skill, not the same skill as actually being a good programmer, and might even (statistically, in the large) be close to orthogonal to it.

We found this out the hard way. At Matasano, we started our work-sample hiring process[1] as a way of filtering out the smooth-talkers. Before work-sample tests, we'd spent loads of time on carefully designed interview questions; interview design was something close to a hobby for some of us.

Of course, it was only after we started doing work-sample challenges that we discovered that not only were a lot of excellent-seeming candidates actually not capable of delivering, but an even greater fraction of the candidates our "friendly conversations" were selecting out were in fact perfectly capable. It was a bad deal all around.

Whatever you do, don't fast-path "senior" developers. Everyone should run the same process for the same job. Not only do you risk hiring people who won't work out, but you're also depriving yourself of the most important data you need to iterate on your hiring process.

[1]: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/

captain_crabs · 7 years ago

How did you go about creating your work sample test?

captain_crabs commented on Show HN: Magic Grid – A simple JavaScript library for dynamic grid layouts github.com/e-oj/Magic-Gri... · Posted by u/e-oj

hardwaresofton · 7 years ago

For those wondering why not just use CSS Grid -- it's not build for that[0] (see @rachelandrew's comment). It's not explained on the repo README but the author goes into it on the explanation blog post.

As mentioned, Masonry[1] is the other famous library for doing this. Magic Grid also has a Vue port[2] if you're into that.

[EDIT] - PR just got merged, explanation of this stuff is on the Github README now

[0]: https://github.com/rachelandrew/cssgrid-ama/issues/19

[1]: https://github.com/desandro/masonry

[2]: https://github.com/imlinus/Vue-Magic-Grid

captain_crabs · 7 years ago

Although I've read through the "css grid isn't meant to do this details", you can get fairly close to this with pure css grid, see here: https://github.com/wesbos/css-grid/blob/master/20%20-%20CSS%...