{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Hacker News: lindner threads","description":"Hacker News RSS","home_page_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=lindner","items":[{"id":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42652807","title":"New comment by lindner in \"Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2025)\"","content_html":"\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  Location: Burbank, California USA (Los Angeles Metro)\n  Remote: Open to hybrid, in-office, remote\n  Willing to relocate: High bar\n  Technologies: See https://www.linkedin.com/in/plindner/details/skills/ for full list.  Golang, Typescript, Node,  Java, Python, Pandas, Cloud, Databases, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Technical Leadership, Strategy, System Dynamics, Software Development Lifecycle, Agile/SCRUM/XP, Open Source, Roadmaps, Protocols, API Design, System Architecture, Decentralization, Blockchain (non crypto), Privacy Engineering, Mentoring, and much much more.\n  Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/plindner\n  Email: lindner@inuus.com\n  Github: https://github.com/lindner\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nHi! Xoogler, Internet OG and energetic leader ready to jump into my next role.  Whether it's a complex code base, team culture, or developer ecosystems I'm ready to take it on and launch with precision and speed!\u003cp\u003eSome highlights:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  - Hands-on software engineering leader with a deep understanding of systems, from high-level architecture to low-level implementation. \n  - Proven ability to design and deliver elegant solutions to complex problems.\n  - Skilled in building and shipping high-volume services, pipelines, mobile apps, and ML models. \n  - Collaborative leader with experience in mentoring engineers and fostering strong teams. \n  - Dedicated and passionate about cultivating thriving developer communities and open-source projects.\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42652807","external_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42652807","date_published":"2025-01-10T05:25:51Z","author":{"name":"lindner","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lindner"}},{"id":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42148519","title":"New comment by lindner in \"The Internet Gopher from Minnesota\"","content_html":"\n\u003cp\u003eConfirmed! I was a big metalhead \\m/ and was responsible for all the Unix-y things and spent a lot of time maintaining the community.\u003cp\u003eOther hostnames we had from  bands and SciFi\u003cp\u003ehuskerdu / nirvana / supernova / arcwelder\u003cp\u003ehafnhaf (big bonus points if you can figure this one out, lol!)\u003cp\u003eashpool / tessier / joeboy / countzero\u003c/p\u003e\n","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42148519","external_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42148519","date_published":"2024-11-15T16:43:32Z","author":{"name":"lindner","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lindner"}},{"id":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39595400","title":"New comment by lindner in \"The women who coined the expression 'surfing the internet' (2019)\"","content_html":"\n\u003cp\u003eIt's interesting that this article didn't mention Gopher, which was developed at the University of Minnesota.  Jean Amour Polly would have definitely known about it, as back then the Gopher Team was all about creating Digital Libraries.\u003cp\u003eAnd Mark McCahill was a ardent Windsurfer, which resulted in this shirt, designed by his partner Wendy Jedeckila, way back in 1991!\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102747784\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10274778...\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39595400","external_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39595400","date_published":"2024-03-04T20:13:48Z","author":{"name":"lindner","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lindner"}},{"id":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31429989","title":"New comment by lindner in \"Gophie – modern gopher client for Windows, Mac, Linux\"","content_html":"\n\u003cp\u003eAnd here I am just waiting for the revival of Hyper-G :-D\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220349551_The_Hyper-G_Network_Information_System\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/220349551_The_Hyper...\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31429989","external_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31429989","date_published":"2022-05-19T02:25:10Z","author":{"name":"lindner","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lindner"}},{"id":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30587944","title":"New comment by lindner in \"Ask HN: How does one go about bringing a hardware product to market?\"","content_html":"\n\u003cp\u003eAlso read about the saga of creating the Keyboardio 01:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keyboardio/the-model-01-an-heirloom-grade-keyboard-for-seriou/posts\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keyboardio/the-model-01...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey went through hell to get it manufactured.  Shady companies, the whole nine yards!\u003c/p\u003e\n","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30587944","external_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30587944","date_published":"2022-03-07T14:08:02Z","author":{"name":"lindner","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lindner"}},{"id":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26088969","title":"New comment by lindner in \"OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities\"","content_html":"\n\u003cp\u003eWrong answer..  This effort does not scale.  You want to make it such that facts added by anyone can be easily imported with a simple opt-in.\u003cp\u003eGDPR data portability could be expanded to include defined formats for export so that import can be done in an automated fashion.\u003c/p\u003e\n","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26088969","external_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26088969","date_published":"2021-02-10T13:50:21Z","author":{"name":"lindner","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lindner"}},{"id":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26083984","title":"New comment by lindner in \"OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities\"","content_html":"\n\u003cp\u003eOne thing that someone might consider is working with Data Portability laws to allow for export of user contributed data to corporate map platforms.\u003cp\u003eI'd like to add my Google Maps contributions to OSM\u003cp\u003eI'm a Level 7 local guide there and was an active user of MapMaker back in the day..\u003c/p\u003e\n","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26083984","external_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26083984","date_published":"2021-02-09T23:33:41Z","author":{"name":"lindner","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lindner"}},{"id":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25751835","title":"New comment by lindner in \"OpenSocial Specification\"","content_html":"\n\u003cp\u003ehi5 (RIP) was originally a dating site and Pivoted to a Social Network.\u003cp\u003eMost profiles fake? I can say for sure that's not true.  I maintained Postgres/Memcache/Graph DBs and the write load was real.\u003cp\u003eThat said hi5 did engage in address book scraping and other dark patterns that you'd rather not see these days.\u003cp\u003eFun fact: hi5 had a featured photos/profiles section based on popularity.  Folks that ended up there deleted their account by 5x or more due to the unwanted attention their 'popular' photos garnered....\u003c/p\u003e\n","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25751835","external_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25751835","date_published":"2021-01-12T19:10:33Z","author":{"name":"lindner","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lindner"}},{"id":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25736876","title":"New comment by lindner in \"OpenSocial Specification\"","content_html":"\n\u003cp\u003eSo many thoughts about OpenSocial and the reference implementation, Shindig.  I have it thank for my time at hi5, LinkedIn and then Google.\u003cp\u003eSome little known facts about OpenSocial\u003cp\u003e- Hangouts Apps (remember those?) were based on OpenSocial containers.\u003cp\u003e- OpenSocial powered the LinkedIn Apps Platform and Labs for a number of years.  The team built Rails and Node apps and deployed on Joyent.\u003cp\u003e- Eric Schmidt gave a pep talk to the working group pre-launch and mentioned about how open always wins in the end...\u003cp\u003e- MySpace was concerned about the attack surface of 3p apps running in iframes.  They toyed with the idea of requiring a webkit browser plugin to run apps (!).  It did lead to Caja* as a project.  \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caja_project\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caja_project\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- The work on OpenSocial led in small part to the Activity Streams spec which led to ActivityPub and thus the latest Fediverse protocols.  I like to think of OpenSocial as dead, but a good organ donor.\u003cp\u003eFun times...\u003c/p\u003e\n","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25736876","external_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25736876","date_published":"2021-01-11T21:01:50Z","author":{"name":"lindner","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lindner"}},{"id":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21244481","title":"New comment by lindner in \"Solid State: Minnesota's High-Tech History\"","content_html":"\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a lot of history crammed into an hour.  Goes from the early code-breaking work and the development of Drum Memory at Engineering Research Associates.\u003cp\u003eERA merged with Sperry/Univac/Remington and then begat Control Data, Cray, Unisys and many others.\u003cp\u003eAlso tune in for some history of the Oregon Trail by Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) and how that ties into the rise of Internet Gopher.\u003cp\u003eOh and disclaimer: former Gopher Dude here.\u003c/p\u003e\n","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21244481","external_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21244481","date_published":"2019-10-14T01:08:36Z","author":{"name":"lindner","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lindner"}},{"id":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16489846","title":"New comment by lindner in \"Spotify Form F-1\"","content_html":"\n\u003cp\u003eStill early days -- only 2300 artists on 296 labels so far; but growing.  It fits somewhere between Soundcloud, Bandcamp and Spotify.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://resonate.is/in-the-details/status/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://resonate.is/in-the-details/status/\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16489846","external_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16489846","date_published":"2018-03-01T05:16:46Z","author":{"name":"lindner","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lindner"}},{"id":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16489114","title":"New comment by lindner in \"Spotify Form F-1\"","content_html":"\n\u003cp\u003eBandcamp is good if you know what you want and they do pay out really, really well.\u003cp\u003eIf you want a streaming service more like Spotify you might also check out Resonate Cooperative \u003ca href=\"https://resonate.is/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://resonate.is/\u003c/a\u003e which has a stream-to-own model.\u003cp\u003eDiscovering new music is low cost, repeated listens double  until the ninth, upon which you own the track outright.  You can then download or stream that track for free.\u003cp\u003eStill ramping up but I'm excited about their prospects.\u003c/p\u003e\n","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16489114","external_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16489114","date_published":"2018-03-01T02:05:22Z","author":{"name":"lindner","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lindner"}},{"id":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15994711","title":"New comment by lindner in \"The Californian Ideology (1995)\"","content_html":"\n\u003cp\u003eIf you want some more depth to the Californian Ideology critique consider watching the Adam Curtis documentary \"All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of_Loving_Grace_(TV_series)\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_o...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eHypernormalisation also covers some of the same ideas and is more recent.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/HyperNormalisation\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://archive.org/details/HyperNormalisation\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15994711","external_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15994711","date_published":"2017-12-23T16:10:44Z","author":{"name":"lindner","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lindner"}},{"id":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15875034","title":"New comment by lindner in \"Patreon’s new service fee spurs concern that creators will lose patrons\"","content_html":"\n\u003cp\u003eNo one has mentioned \u003ca href=\"https://liberapay.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://liberapay.com/\u003c/a\u003e ?\u003cp\u003eThey seem to deal with this problem by letting you fund a donation account and then disburse funds on a periodic basis.  This is also similar to donor advised funds so I'm not sure why Patreon is doing this when other alternatives are available.\u003c/p\u003e\n","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15875034","external_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15875034","date_published":"2017-12-07T22:37:38Z","author":{"name":"lindner","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lindner"}},{"id":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15369479","title":"New comment by lindner in \"How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block\"","content_html":"\n\u003cp\u003eFirst install ipfs\u003cp\u003ethen run:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  ipfs pin add QmZxWEBJBVkGDGaKdYPQUXX4KC5TCWbvuR4iYZrTML8XCR\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nand wait for a large amount of data to be pulled in....\u003c/p\u003e\n","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15369479","external_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15369479","date_published":"2017-09-29T21:40:25Z","author":{"name":"lindner","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lindner"}},{"id":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14986806","title":"New comment by lindner in \"The world in which IPv6 was a good design\"","content_html":"\n\u003cp\u003eI thought this was what HIP was supposed to provide?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_Identity_Protocol\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_Identity_Protocol\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnyone know what's going on with those protocols?\u003c/p\u003e\n","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14986806","external_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14986806","date_published":"2017-08-11T05:30:11Z","author":{"name":"lindner","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lindner"}},{"id":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14904565","title":"New comment by lindner in \"If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture?\"","content_html":"\n\u003cp\u003eI'm hoping that labels and musicians wise up and move to a coop model.\u003cp\u003eI'm liking what I'm seeing so far on \u003ca href=\"http://resonate.is\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://resonate.is\u003c/a\u003e and am hopeful that those lessons will finally be learned.\u003c/p\u003e\n","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14904565","external_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14904565","date_published":"2017-08-01T19:41:16Z","author":{"name":"lindner","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lindner"}},{"id":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14704139","title":"New comment by lindner in \"EU Parliament calls for longer lifetime for products\"","content_html":"\n\u003cp\u003eSpeed Queen is making a go of it.  Slogan is \"Built Better to Last Longer.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://speedqueen.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://speedqueen.com/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen my Frigidaire washer finally dies that's what I'm getting.  I already injured myself replacing the pump once.  And now that I've seen the cheap plastic parts used I don't have confidence it's going to last.\u003c/p\u003e\n","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14704139","external_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14704139","date_published":"2017-07-05T17:03:26Z","author":{"name":"lindner","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lindner"}},{"id":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14178375","title":"New comment by lindner in \"How SSH got port number 22\"","content_html":"\n\u003cp\u003eFor the record Gopher used port 150 for some time until we got a warning from Joyce that we had to change it.\u003cp\u003eRegistering MIME types was also easy:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/msword\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/msw...\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14178375","external_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14178375","date_published":"2017-04-23T14:54:55Z","author":{"name":"lindner","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lindner"}},{"id":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14089095","title":"New comment by lindner in \"Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications\"","content_html":"\n\u003cp\u003eEveryone should be using Matrix.  Not just open source developers.\u003cp\u003eIt's near feature parity with Slack and it's also one of the best IRC clients around.  I used to run ERC in a tmux session just so I could stay connected and not lose messages.  No  more.\u003c/p\u003e\n","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14089095","external_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14089095","date_published":"2017-04-11T15:45:37Z","author":{"name":"lindner","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lindner"}}]}