brian_c

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Aquaphor's the best thing I've found so far. Just takes a tiny bit, so whatever's left over on my fingertip gets rubbed into my knuckles which are probably also chapped.

Comment · 4 years ago

Netflix's _How to Change Your Mind_ (based on a book with same name, I believe) has been a nice digestible look at psychedelics' uses in various therapies, now and in the past, if you're interested in that kinda thing.

(And, off-topic, but the scrollbar on the left here is interesting. Looks like it's a LTR block overflowing a RTL block. I don't think I like it, but, interesting!)

Comment · 4 years ago

Ah, in that case: Still seems kinda risky? Like, what if someone else submits a solution for the ticket I'm in the middle of? What if my solution is valid, but not accepted? What if it's incorrect, but in some subtle way that won't be discovered until next week?

Production work on an unfamiliar project warrants some discussion. I think in general I wouldn't make any significant contributions to a project before talking with the people running it and making sure we're on the same page.

And apologies for the initial curt reply—asking people who are looking for a job to work for free sets me off a bit. Algora looks like a really nice platform!

Comment · 4 years ago

Free labor in exchange for the possibility of an interview? I think the fuck not.

Comment · 5 years ago

ISeeChange | Back-end developer (with some devops) | Fully remote | Full-time contractor | https://www.iseechange.org/

ISeeChange is looking for a back-end developer to own our API (Node.js and PostgreSQL) and devops (AWS and Kubernetes) work. Upcoming features will involve machine learning, GIS, and setting up more robust access to our data for clients.

We're a small but growing company; the dev team is myself on the front end, a data scientist working on machine learning and analysis, and some part-time support from the devs who initially built the platform, so there's a lot of opportunity to help shape the company. Our broad mission is to connect folks with their environments, specifically with regard to climate change.

The full job description and application details can be found here: https://stories.iseechange.org/backend-engineer-at-iseechang...

Comment · 6 years ago

Disappointing that all the images are built on the same shade of white skin. You're leaving out a whole lot of folks who are already underrepresented in a whole lot of research. I think it'd be helpful to vary the skin tones shown, or stick to a medium-tone (enough to be ambiguous) grayscale.

Comment · 9 years ago

Giant thanks for making this. A suggestion, though: the "remote" switch should probably imply "or". A search for jobs in Chicago OR remote would be more more useful than Chicago AND remote. The latter currently returns Chicago-based companies that hire remotely.

Comment · 10 years ago

Nice! I worked out a little proof of concept a while back for a pan-and-zoom wrapper around any ol' HTML, if that's of any interest: https://github.com/brian-c/react-zoomable I haven't tried it with SVG, but I imagine it'd work fine.

Comment · 10 years ago

You can probably use 90% of React's functionality with like, four or five functions and four or five component lifestyle methods. What's not minimal about that?

Comment · 10 years ago

I've had one of my package names transferred away from me with no warning, presumably after some period of inactivity. Npm as a repository seems to have gone totally insane, and I don't think I'll be publishing there anymore. I'll recommend people install my modules from a tag in the repo.

Comment · 12 years ago

`curl ... | sh` installations don't really bother me. The scripts tend to be short and commented, or at least readable. Sure beats running an opaque .pkg installer, which invariably asks for your password (presumably for no reason) and installs god-knows-what all over your hard drive.

Comment · 12 years ago

So basically follow the example of pre-standards browser-specific HTML features?