jeremyjbowers

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Engineering director at The Washington Post.

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Comment · 3 years ago

Hi! Jeremy from The Post here. We’re still evaluating what it would mean for us to run an instance. But we’re definitely adding rel=me to our author profile pages ASAP.

Comment · 8 years ago

I did! We had a brainstorming. It was initially (during development) called "Shazongress" but we couldn't get that one out of committee.

Comment · 8 years ago

Hi! I'm Jeremy, one of the developers.

We'll probably work on something like this for the next version. One reason it's harder than you think: We would have to buy / own rights to the photographs before we could use them to train -- most of those photos are owned by Getty or the AP. And our own photographs are perfectly lit and square, which made them awful for training face recognition.

The other hangup (which I didn't get to in the article) is having to add / remove people. New members are constantly being added and that's a maintenance burden for us. Amazon usually has the new member within a day or two. (Our team is very small and we have a lot of other responsibilities!)

But good points, definitely.

Comment · 8 years ago

The House allows iPads on the floor, and reporters are allowed to bring laptops into the gallery. It's how we get our live votes transcribed! https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/insider/how-we-beat-the-h...

Comment · 8 years ago

Even worse (weirder), the Senate bans electronic devices on the floor. If a Senator wants info, they have to sprint out one of the doors to the lobby where they have an aide waiting with an iPad (usually).

Comment · 8 years ago

Oh, that is interesting. Also, hi Jon!

Comment · 8 years ago

Yup! That's what we do! (Hi, I'm Jeremy, the developer who worked on this software)

Comment · 9 years ago

We're looking for a seasoned front-end developer to make our web-based interactive projects performant and more reflective of native mobile device behavior.

Interactive News is the special digital projects team embedded within The Times' newsroom. We draw on technical expertise to imagine new editorial forms and collaborate with reporters, editors, photographers, videographers and graphics editors to tell stories in interesting ways.

You don't need previous journalism experience but you should be a critical thinker who can help us bring thoughtful experiences to our readers.

Apply here: https://nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Tech/job/New-Yor...

Comment · 9 years ago

The New York Times' Interactive News team is hiring a developer to work on our backend services, infrastructure and tooling.

Interactive News a special digital projects team embedded within The Times' newsroom. We work with editors, reporters, photographers, designers and other developers to create newsroom-facing tools and reader-facing projects that expand the horizons of our digital news report.

Our stack is Node / Rails / Go / Django and MongoDB / MySQL / Postgres / ElasticSearch on Docker via Kubernetes and Google Cloud services. And we need your help keeping all the moving parts moving.

Apply here: https://nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Tech/job/New-Yor...

Comment · 9 years ago

This is absolutely correct.

Comment · 9 years ago

Thank you. We worked hard on our last two or three job advertisements. This represents the culmination of probably 8 months of conversation and experimentation.

Comment · 9 years ago

We open-source an awful lot of our code, including our entire 2016 general election codebase. https://github.com/newsdev/

Comment · 9 years ago

I'm Jeremy Bowers, and I'm hiring for this job. If you have questions, I'll be monitoring this thread or you can email me: [email protected].

Comment · 9 years ago

You know the saw about software development; if the features are fixed, flex the deadline. We're the opposite: We can't move a general election or we might have to respond to breaking news. We value your ability to make decisions about how to get a piece of software working quickly but without making it impossible to maintain. It requires creativity, and we think of it more of an art than a science.

Comment · 9 years ago

Hi! We're a mix of Python, Ruby, Node and the occasional bit of Go. We decided not to add that to the job description because we don't make our hiring decisions based on command of a particular language. If you have concerns, send me an email: [email protected].