Hacker News: corprew

New comment by corprew in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle"

corprew — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:56:33 +0000

Based on context on their site, this looks like it was generated in ~2019 from data gathered before that, and some stuff in it is out of date as other comments mention.

New comment by corprew in "Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything"

corprew — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:54:27 +0000

Yeah, Code39 would be really festive.

New comment by corprew in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)"

corprew — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 22:08:03 +0000

DataJoint | Senior Engineer | Remote (US), Houston/Austin, TX | https://datajoint.com

DataJoint is seeking a Senior Engineer skilled in building computational platforms in modern cloud environments. This is a unique opportunity to join our team to scale up our existing solutions and invent new capabilities to support life sciences research in biotech and drug discovery. Technologies: Python, k8s, SciPy | NumPy, Typescript.

Apply Online at: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4084617843/

New comment by corprew in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2023)"

corprew — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 20:58:11 +0000

Record360 | 3 Engineering Roles | Remote | FTE | CONUS

Record360 is an asset inspection and workflow company that works in heavy equipment and other logistics spaces. We make simple tools that just work, with people in the field using mobile devices to inspect and perform other operations on assets. The engineering team is ~10 people. We are a profitable, growing company with a good work-life balance. Our core hours are 10a - 2p to allow for overlap in CONUS. People must have existing US work authorization, cannot sponsor.

Our Platform is React / Ruby on Rails / GraphQL / Postgres / Kubernetes / Redis / AWS.

We are hiring for three positions, details including comp at the links:

* Senior Software Engineer focused on Integrations

* Mobile Engineer -- iOS

* Software Engineer -- Platform.

https://recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/jobs/All/e0f0f5b...

New comment by corprew in "Git Commands Explained with Cats (2017)"

corprew — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 16:33:23 +0000

I was really disappointed when I saw this, but not because of the content, which is great, but because I saw Cats (Year) and assumed that the link was going to be explaining git using the _movie_ Cats. Sadly, the movie was Cats (2019).

New comment by corprew in "Vitamin D insufficiency may account for almost 90% of Covid-19 deaths"

corprew — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 05:22:21 +0000

In addition to what the peer comments say, Africa has learned a lot of lessons in fighting infection disease outbreaks from fighting Ebola: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7404531/

New comment by corprew in "Scandinavian Monitoring Stations Detect Unexplained Radiation Spike over Europe"

corprew — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 16:23:00 +0000

Russia, in 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/world/europe/russia-nucle...

New comment by corprew in "Warren Buffett is spending billions to make Iowa 'the Saudi Arabia of wind'"

corprew — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 16:00:42 +0000

If you care about not killing birds, ban outdoor cats and contribute to your local feral cat spaying charity.

New comment by corprew in "Debian votes for Proposal B, “Systemd but we support exploring alternatives”"

corprew — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 16:26:24 +0000

CVE-2017-15908

New comment by corprew in "Crew: A Weeding Manual for Modern Libraries (2012) [pdf]"

corprew — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 15:47:06 +0000

> Would have been nice to have an executive summary

That's Indexing and Abstracting, not Cataloging, a different area of librarianship/information science. Sorry.

More seriously: The poster must have had some context in mind when they posted this to HN and it would be interesting to learn what that was; even if it was just "TIL libraries don't keep books forever."

New comment by corprew in "Bad JSON Parsers"

corprew — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 21:19:53 +0000

This works out well in practice -- the ruby parser that ships with the language (the 100 levels one) works for most purposes and will even go back to an all-ruby implementation if it can't load its C extension. It's a reasonable default parser for almost all cases.

However, if you need the all-singing, all-dancing, handles the most complex use cases super fast parser, which is Oj at the bottom (which handles infinite levels), then you have the option to install it and use it.

New comment by corprew in "Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?"

corprew — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 17:37:00 +0000

Personally, I'm on a tight Things.app <-> Bear.app loop; professionally, it varies. For keeping professional stuff up to speed I'm on a Things.app ingestion -> Asana loop that throws off artifacts to a google drive and various git repository markdown files, which might be writing new documents or keeping existing documents up to date.

New comment by corprew in "We may not be running out of helium after all (2015)"

corprew — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 23:23:22 +0000

it's removed from "natural gas" when they make LNG. the amount generated by nuclear reaction byproducts is trivial by comparison. See https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022311570...

New comment by corprew in "We may not be running out of helium after all (2015)"

corprew — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 23:22:24 +0000

Helium has a lower condensation temperature than Natural Gas, so when they make liquid natural gas for shipping, they can take out some percentage of the helium relatively easily and more with difficulty.

New comment by corprew in "Effect of High-Dose Vitamin D3 Supplementation on Colorectal Cancer"

corprew — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 16:29:30 +0000

Although it should be noted in that article:

"Over the follow-up period, there were 341 deaths from cancer: 154 among participants who took vitamin D (1.1%) and 187 among those who took the placebo (1.4%). Although this difference was not statistically significant, the difference in cancer deaths between the groups started to widen over time, the researchers reported.

The researchers plan to follow the participants for another 2 to 5 years, to see if a statistically significant difference in cancer deaths emerges. Laboratory studies have suggested that high blood levels of vitamin D may decrease the aggressiveness of cancer cells and the likelihood of metastasis, explained Dr. Manson. If so, longer follow-up will be needed to assess its effects on the risk of death from cancer, she added. Other studies have suggested that regular use of vitamin D supplements may reduce the risk of dying from cancer, she said."

So they're still continuing to follow that up long term to see if it has a longer term effect.

New comment by corprew in "Ask HN: What are you working on?"

corprew — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 23:28:32 +0000

I have a side project that I've been working on which is re-implementing a couple of old rails4 projects that old customers still use in Phoenix/Elixir. It's been going pretty well.

I'm also working on a generative mobile game in react-native, which is fun but is taking a while to do.

New comment by corprew in "Farewell from Waffle"

corprew — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 17:16:03 +0000

Farewell and good luck on your new adventure, loved your product and used it to our great advantage a few years ago.

New comment by corprew in "Farewell from Waffle"

corprew — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 17:14:55 +0000

waffle.io was github projects, built on top of the github api, a few years before github projects. basically a github-based kanban board. It was pretty great if you were a smallish startup.

New comment by corprew in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2019)"

corprew — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 21:36:50 +0000

  Location: Seattle, WA, US
  Remote: Yes (Experienced Remote SDM)
  Willing to relocate:  Yes (within the PNW)
  Technologies: Last several projects have been cloud-based Rails projects, I've mostly been a technical co-founder or player/coach SDM
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/corprew/
  Email: temporary-2019-03@corprew.org

New comment by corprew in "How transportation can transform a city – Seattle's double decker tunnel"

corprew — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 07:52:31 +0000

the tunnel was always sort of dumb, but seattle had a really reasonable traffic growth plan for its expected growth. the actual growth has been way higher than the plan.