calvin

Joined 18 years ago

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Apr 12
I am a principal front-end engineer working remote from Idaho. Amazon veteran, startup aficionado.

  https://calvinf.com/
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Comment · 11 months ago
17 years here (wow). I don’t post much but I get a lot out of this site and it’s one of my few daily reads. Grateful for the site, its mods, and the contributors.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Comment · 1 year ago
If it’s something involving property damage or another issue requiring reimbursement, I’d recommend seeking legal advice and the lawyers can send whatever correspondence is needful.
Comment · 2 years ago
ELI40YO Engineer
Comment · 3 years ago
Great way to trigger more bank runs. I don’t think this will help.
Comment · 4 years ago
You should still be able to use alt="" to indicate that it is "decorative" and not meaningful imagery for a visually-impaired user.
Comment · 4 years ago
Look up Techless or The Light Phone, those may be more aligned with your desires
Comment · 4 years ago
It’s a feature that Deno has and that works on the web (ESM imports from URLs). People have use cases for it and they want it. That’s not to say it’s secure by default of course but the demand is there.
Comment · 5 years ago
The constitution protects all American people and businesses. People should absolutely study it, understand it, and use it as part of their reasoning when it comes to responses to government or other legal requests.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
The CTO and security teams and devs will care. The language decision has a broad impact on how to secure the application, engineering community (who can you hire), etc. It’s a big decision.
Comment · 6 years ago
From Apple’s perspective, this is a good time to have a more affordable phone available for people who need to upgrade (broken, damaged, or lost phone) or are getting their first phone (kids).
Comment · 6 years ago
pre-launch price tracker startup | Software Engineer (Contract) | Part-Time | Remote (US and EU preferred)

We are looking for a contract Software Engineer for full-stack web app development in the cloud. We need an engineer with 2+ years of software engineering experience (code, system design, and cloud architecture). We prefer an engineer with Firebase and Google Cloud Platform experience, but if you’re curious, willing to learn, and able to solve problems, reach out. Please email me (address is on my profile) your resume, an example from your portfolio (description of work; screenshots if available), a link to github if you have any open source contributions, and tell me something that you would improve on your favorite shopping website.

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