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Hey everybody!

Been working with my cofounder on a proptech play (https://gotopright.com), and we've gotten some feedback from industry experts that homeownership assistance programs could be a useful thing to expose to average borrowers.

It's pretty early but wanted to get everybody's feedback. It's live on our homepage so feel free to play around with it!


Hello everybody! I've scaled a data engineering team at my current company from just myself to 10 people over this past year. As part of that effort, I designed our internal technical interviewing loop for data engineers, and candidates who've tried it out have said it's both challenging and refreshing. I looked at interviewing solutions on the market when I looked at technical screens and didn't find anything targeting late hiring funnel that I liked, so I'm thinking there might be opportunity here for a side hustle. If you have preferences on your ideal hiring setup for data engineers, sign up and let me know!


This looks awesome, thanks for building this! I really like how it's hosted on serverless stuff and therefore we can use it for long-running personal projects and MVPs.


Thanks, one of the creators of Rowy here. We hope that Rowy helps developers build their project functionality effortless on the serverless stack by building cloud functions, connecting to your fav third party apps and more. Give it a spin and we would love for your feedback. https://discord.com/invite/B8yAD5PDX4


Are there material differences between wireless and wired Internet w.r.t. infrastructure? Is wired Internet easier to trace or something? I'm not too familiar with computer networks, but I thought that they would be the same.


It affects different user segments differently. Disconnecting wireless internet means that you're mostly disconnecting consumers/social media users/general public, while the businesses that are non-digital but rely on the internet for their daily operations keep functioning - if you disconnect all the internet then you're likely to disrupt e.g. ATMs and retail store logistics and all kinds of technical service monitoring which cause you trouble; but if you "just" disconnect all the mobile internet (except for a whitelist of phone numbers used by gov't employees) and the residental networks, then the general public is without communications but the economy can still be mostly functional.

Also, a key goal is to disrupt the communications between protesters in the streets - so that they can't coordinate any reaction between themselves or those who are at home until they themselves leave the streets; we saw similar actions a few times last year in Belarus.


Makes sense; thanks so much for the explanation!


Dan Luu has a great blog post on discontinuities and public policy: http://danluu.com/discontinuities/

I found it very interesting!


I've used HTTP/2 SSE for TinyDev (docs.tinydevcrm.com) and I've encountered the need for a reverse proxy and the unidirectional dataflow to be kinda eh, even if it is great in theory. I haven't played around too much with WebSockets though, but IMHO money + traction carries a good deal of weight.


Why do you require a reverse proxy, and are those requirements unique to SSE for some reason?

I guess I'm not seeing what the alternative setup would be, even with WebSockets.


Isn't HTTP/2 SSE being deprecated?


I sure hope not. Are you thinking of HTTP/2 server push?


I've seen nothing to suggest SSE would be (or is even capable of being) deprecated on HTTP/2.

You may be confusing it with HTTP/2 Push, where a server can inform a client of a future resource it will need, which is _de facto_ dead, with only a few real implementations beyond the bare minimum required by the HTTP/2 specification.



Thanks for sharing! You might have more experience than I do in this sector, I've mostly written tests for tools/projects I've owned for a number of years and that might be why it appears more self-documenting to me. I try to write tests that are relatively clean. By contrast I've also had to maintain Confluence wikis as documentation and I've found it much more difficult, same with versioned Markdown documents and the like. Auto-generated documentation might be a sweet spot, though I don't have experience on that front yet.

I think regexes may have a steep learning curve, but IMHO it's well-worth the effort in order to learn. Pythex is pretty great at learning regexes and once you learn them you have a pretty powerful tool at your disposal for a number of matters.


After months of really bad audio in teleconferencing calls, hearing crisp keyboard playback was a refreshing experience. Highly recommend to check out the demo!


Where is the demo please


2021: The year of the Linux desktop?

But seriously, I have installed Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS on my personal Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 2, and work Dell Precision 5550, and it works fine in both cases. Stick with it for a month and macOS becomes old news. Also I think OEMs are wising up to "Linux = free" and charging for Windows on their laptops again, so you can also save some money on OS licensing going forwards.


Congratulations to the President-elect, and to the government workers and volunteers at all levels who tirelessly worked around the clock to ensure our elections were free and fair.

I think these next few weeks is a time for reflection, so that all of us can work hard to create the future we want. Wishing everyone well and to breathe in and out regularly, it's been a stressful year.


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