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Comment · 3 years ago
Edgio | Software Engineer | Remote
Edgio was recently formed via the acquisition of Yahoo Edgecast by Limelight Networks. I am the hiring manager for a pair of roles working on the company's video streaming platform, called Uplynk. This platform has been used by many of the world's largest content producers and broadcasters to simplify their streaming workflows.
I'm looking to grow the team responsible for dynamic HLS and DASH manifest generation with a few folks with 5+ years of development experience. Experience with the following would make you stand out as a candidate:
* Python * HLS & DASH * Fairplay, Widevine, & Playready * Distributed, AWS-based services
Job description & application link: https://ehnx.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperienc...
Comment · 5 years ago
I was so enamored of the Twitter responses to the HBO intern's test email, that I decided to build a site that could collect and curate these kinds of "I also made a professional mistake, it's OK" stories. Mine is the first user-submitted one on the site, I would love to hear more. Please share your own stories with the rest of the world and normalize learning from mistakes.
Thanks!
Comment · 9 years ago
Eh, iono. There are plenty of places with tech work outside of the bay area. And having a proven "works well remotely" on the resume seems likely to help find _other_ remote gigs down the road.
Comment · 10 years ago
The issue I've read about (I'm not a security practitioner, more like a hobbyist) is that the sheer mass of bogus bounty submissions take valuable time to evaluate. If you start up a bug bounty program, you're essentially signing up to read hordes of submissions that you'll be obligated to check out, the overwhelming majority of which pan out to be nothing. And many (most?) of those, will contain petulant and arrogant demands that the bounty be paid even though the "finding" presented is no actual vulnerability at all.
Comment · 10 years ago
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle
Comment · 10 years ago
I assume that someone who's configuring their router will also be configuring their children's devices in such a way that the children won't have permissions to make those changes.
Comment · 10 years ago
OpenDNS is handy. You
1/ Sign up for an account 2/ Configure your home's router to use their DNS servers 3/ Install an agent on a machine in your home's network, authenticate it with your account credentials. When your router's IP address changes, this agent makes sure to update your account. 4/ Configure the sites or types of site you want to block.
Once you're up and running, If a DNS request from your network matches something that'd be blocked, you'll get re-directed to a "Blocked Content" page.
Comment · 10 years ago
In case anyone in the thread above didn't know, there is a different set of stockfighter challenges to play that involves writing code that accesses a REST API that be more aligned with Susie's interests in that case.
Comment · 10 years ago
I am under the impression (mistaken? please correct me if I'm wrong) that patio11 and tptacek met here, and have since founded starfighters.io
Comment · 10 years ago
My feeling, (like Colin's, I think) is that even if the announcement could have been clearer on this point, it implies that votes & comments wouldn't be the only deciding factors.
Comment · 10 years ago
His actual response when a YC partner sincerely offered to work with Pinboard:
> I feel like after seven years, I have a pretty good sense of what bookmarking/archiving needs people have, but am at the limits of what I can personally build. If the votes swing my way, I'd be happy to have a good-faith conversation with you.[0]
Comment · 10 years ago
So I googled A/B testing vs Multi-Armed Bandit, and ran into an article that's a useful and informative response to the OP: https://vwo.com/blog/multi-armed-bandit-algorithm/
edit: Ah, 'ReadingInBed beat me to it. tl;dr: Bandit approaches might not _always_ be the best, and they tend to take longer to reach a statistically significant result.
Comment · 10 years ago
This is a good idea, if you remember to always tell the same lie. Being required to remember which website I told which lie to can only lead to trouble.