Principal engineer at a billion-dollar e-commerce company. Now a stay-at-home dad. I'm available to take on part-time contract and consulting work while my kids are at school.
I've done full-stack web development, but I'm most comfortable on the backend, building APIs, services, message buses, database systems and the like. My use of PostgreSQL, for example, goes beyond using B-tree indexes for everything. I'm well-suited for data-intensive projects.
I've picked up a ton of technologies in the past 20 years. Most relevant today are Ruby (Rails), Elixir (Phoenix), PostgreSQL, Kafka, C, Rust, Python, ZFS, FreeBSD, and Linux.
I can't do full-time right now, but I could be a good resource for a company looking for some help from a principal level engineer without filling a full-time position. Please email me (in profile) if you're interested. Thank you.
Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: I've picked up a ton in the past 20 years. Most relevant today are Ruby (Rails), Elixir (Phoenix), PostgreSQL, Kafka, C, Rust, Python, ZFS, FreeBSD, Linux.
Resume/CV: Available on request
Email: david (dot) cuddeback (at) gmail (dot) com
Principal engineer at a billion-dollar e-commerce company. Now a stay-at-home dad. I'm available to take on part-time contract and consulting work while my kids are at school.
I've done full-stack web development, but I'm most comfortable on the backend, building APIs, services, message buses, database systems and the like. My use of PostgreSQL, for example, goes beyond using B-tree indexes for everything. I'm well-suited for data-intensive projects.
I can't do full-time right now, but I could be a good resource for a company looking for some help from a principal level engineer without filling a full-time position. Please email me if you're interested. Thank you.
> Are these books useful reading for somebody who doesn't use FreeBSD?
Yes. They'll prepare you to switch over to FreeBSD. ;P
In all seriousness, the ZFS books would be helpful if you use ZFS on Linux. The FreeBSD-specific books probably not so much. Those are the only ones I've read.
I haven't personally, but they were getting a lot of praise on the forums at cloudynights.com last time I researched binoculars (several years ago). I think the consensus was that the optics are good, and the image stabilization makes it feasible to hand hold at a higher magnification than without.
Citation? I think there might be a bit of "telephone game" happening here. The current science shows that avoiding allergens increases the risk of developing allergies. The hypothesis for how that happens is that if an infant's first exposure to an allergen is on their skin (e.g., peanut oil), then their body may classify it as invasive and develop anti-bodies to attack it. If they are first introduced to an allergen as food, then their body classifies it as food. By avoiding feeding allergens to infants, you increase the time window for their bodies to be exposed through the skin and classify it as invasive. I could certainly see this idea transmuting through word of mouth into the "first world is too clean" idea in your comment, but that's pretty far off.
> Is there enough of a scientific consensus on how to prevent food allergies to drive policy
To be honest, this may have already happened, but it would take a generation to see the effects. There was a major breakthrough on this a few years ago. I first heard about it on an episode of Science Vs [1]. That was merely weeks after my second child was born. It was interesting to see the advice from the pediatrician a few months later. The American Association of Pediatrics updated their advice accordingly [2], and my kids' pediatrician handed out informational fliers calling out "this has changed," etc. Hopefully other pediatricians are also updating their advice and doing a good job of educating families.
Check out the Science Vs episode [1] if you want details. The gist of it is that in a controlled study, they found that introducing allergens early reduced the prevalence of allergies by 86% compared to avoiding allergens. This means old advice (what I was told with my first-born) about avoiding allergens could actually increase the risk. The Science Vs episode goes into details about what led researchers to look into this and possible explanations about the mechanism involved.
Then we're in agreement that taxes are a necessity. Can we also agree that taxes should be collected fairly (even if we might disagree on what a fair balance might be)?
I'm surprised this has to be explained, but taxes aren't paid to politicians. You're not likely to get a good answer when your question is not founded in good faith.
Practically, though, politicians determine how, when, where, and why the money is spent. Just because it sits in a bank they don't directly control doesn't mean they don't determine the fate of those collected taxes.
Is that substantially different for taxes collected from billionaires vs taxes collected from ordinary people? If not, I don't see how this is relevant to discussing billionaires being undertaxed. It's shifting a conversation about the fairness of the tax system into a discussion about general problems with the tax system. If there are reasons to lower taxes, that should be applied to every equitably.
My comment that you replied to is calling out whywhywhywhy's comment as bad faith because it's conflating tax collection with corruption, but says nothing that's specific to taxing billionaires. Your comment also doesn't say anything regarding taxing billionaires specifically.
That doesn't answer where it can be purchased, nor does it imply that it will be available for purchase when all translations are complete. At 167 pages, part 1 could conceivably be it's own book for purchase. I too would love a resource like this as a book and would be willing to pay for it. I would even purchase each part individually as they become available.
Principal engineer at a billion-dollar e-commerce company. Now a stay-at-home dad. I'm available to take on part-time contract and consulting work while my kids are at school.
I've done full-stack web development, but I'm most comfortable on the backend, building APIs, services, message buses, database systems and the like. My use of PostgreSQL, for example, goes beyond using B-tree indexes for everything. I'm well-suited for data-intensive projects.
I've picked up a ton of technologies in the past 20 years. Most relevant today are Ruby (Rails), Elixir (Phoenix), PostgreSQL, Kafka, C, Rust, Python, ZFS, FreeBSD, and Linux.
I can't do full-time right now, but I could be a good resource for a company looking for some help from a principal level engineer without filling a full-time position. Please email me (in profile) if you're interested. Thank you.