dleavitt
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Comment · 1 year ago
The layer with the radial gradient you're putting in front of the Turing Test card blocks interaction with it - can't click or hover on its links.
Comment · 2 years ago
Github's major closed-source Copilot extension reenables itself if you try to tone down the aggressiveness of its suggestions. Some malware / reverse-useless-machine vibes.
A lot of us are sort of waiting for the other shoe to drop with respect to Microsoft's commitment to openness, so this seem kinda foreboding.
Comment · 2 years ago
The article didn't focus too much on solutions, though a couple of things were mentioned:
1. Reducing patent protection
2. Price controls (?)
So let's assume we want these companies to reduce their profit margins (and instead lower drug prices or spend more on R&D.) What _are_ the best policy tools to incentivize this while minimizing market distortions, etc?
Comment · 2 years ago
Looks like it's "mod_speling" from an old version of apache:
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_speling.html
Comment · 3 years ago
Not to mention the innovations that voluntary regulatory standards plus enlightened self-interest have enabled in the manned submersible space.
Comment · 4 years ago
I think maybe it's only strange if you assume the SEC has unlimited money and time. Grandparent comment says it better, but they're likely focusing on cases they think are pretty clear-cut.
Comment · 4 years ago
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Comment · 4 years ago
This was/is exactly the business model of SolarCity and a lot of residential solar. The more general concept, sometimes called "Savings as a Service" or "Efficiency as a Service", is pretty ubiquitous in the energy space.
Comment · 4 years ago
HN should use this thread as a honeypot and ban anyone who commented without understand that this is parody.
Comment · 5 years ago
Allumia | Product Manager - Quality Assurance | Clean Tech | www.allumia.com | Onsite (Seattle) or Remote | FT
Allumia is seeking a product-minded, process-oriented candidate to join our software team and take lead on QA and beyond.
Allumia provides a web platform through which utility companies design, build, and meter energy efficiency upgrades for small-to-medium-sized businesses. After six years of bootstrapped growth and proven success, several of the nation’s major utilities have signed on with us. We're a mission-focused company, and we’ve built a successful business model around saving costs for customers by helping them reduce their energy consumption.
You will report to our product lead and will work closely with developers and product managers to understand users’ requirements and thoroughly test new features. You will contribute by leading testing efforts - but you won’t be siloed there. We will be looking to you for process improvements, product ideas, and anything else you can think of to make sure our offering exceeds users’ expectations.
More details: https://www.allumia.com/careers/product-manager-quality-assu...
Comment · 5 years ago
Allumia | Clean Tech | www.allumia.com | Remote, US-only :/ (Seattle-based) | FT | Senior Software Engineer
Allumia provides a platform to fund, design, install, and maintain energy efficiency upgrades for commercial and industrial buildings. After six years of bootstrapped growth and proven success, several of the nation’s major utilities have now signed on with Allumia.
We’re seeking a software engineer to join our small, growing product team and help us build out our customer-facing web platform and metering infrastructure to handle the vast volume of work our utility partners are sending our way.
For the web piece, our stack is React/Typescript, GraphQL, Rails and PostgreSQL. Our meters use C++, Python, and Node endpoints. Product thinking, decent design sense, and comfort with/interest in data is also key.
You’ll be working alongside the rest of the tech team, as well as some very sharp minds in a variety of fields, from finance to electrical engineering. We’re a mission focused company and have built a successful business model around saving energy.
If you’re interested in reducing the output of carbon into the atmosphere, working here is a pretty decent way to maximize your impact.
Full Job Desc: https://www.allumia.com/careers/senior-software-engineer [email protected]
Comment · 5 years ago
Allumia | Clean Tech | www.allumia.com | Remote, US-only :/ (Seattle-based) | FT | Senior Software Engineer
Allumia provides a platform through which utilities can fund, design, install, and maintain energy efficiency upgrades for commercial and industrial buildings. After six years of bootstrapped growth and proven success, several of the nation’s major utilities have now signed on with Allumia.
This is where you come in. We’re seeking a software engineer to join our small, growing product team and help us build out our customer-facing web platform and metering infrastructure to handle the vast volume of work our utility partners are sending our way.
For the web piece, our stack is React/Typescript, GraphQL, Rails and PostgreSQL. Our meters use C++, Python, and Node endpoints. Product thinking, decent design sense, and comfort with/interest in data is also key.
You’ll be working alongside the rest of the tech team, as well as some very sharp minds in a variety of fields, from finance to electrical engineering. We’re a mission focused company and have built a successful business model around saving energy.
If you’re interested in reducing the output of carbon into the atmosphere, working here is a pretty decent way to maximize your impact.
Full Job Desc: https://www.allumia.com/careers/senior-software-engineer [email protected]
Comment · 6 years ago
Makes sense, thanks for the clarification! Do you think it's a good idea to have a "passthru" option at all?
Comment · 6 years ago
I think the term for this is "location transparency" and it tends not to work well in practice. A local function call and a RPC call over a network have very different performance characteristics and failure modes; trying to abstract away the differences can be a bad scene.
A previous journey down this road: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Object_Request_Broker_A...