Hacker News: elsbree

New comment by elsbree in "Whitewater Rafting on the Selway River in Idaho"

elsbree — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 16:44:57 +0000

Rafting on HN, never thought I'd see the day! For anyone looking for more on the subject of multi-day wilderness rafting trips, my parents wrote a blog post on a similar trip we did in Alaska (more remote and logistically complicated, less significant whitewater-wise): https://www.roguewanderers.com/blog/chilikadrotna-river-floa...

New comment by elsbree in "Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe"

elsbree — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 01:51:28 +0000

Had the opposite experience recently as an EM. Spent a few months trying to find a staff-level engineer. Found a great candidate who worked for a FAANG, worked to get our budget up to his expectations, sold him on the team, and he accepted our offer with a start date 6 weeks in the future so he could have time to wrap up his work. Fine, I'm just happy to have filled the role after an arduous search. A few weeks go by, and he hasn't responded to my "we're excited to have you join the team, etc" email or any HR emails about filling out his paperwork. I call and email, the recruiter calls and emails, nothing. We never hear from him again..

He's been active on social media so we know he's alive, and assume he parlayed our offer into a raise somewhere else. Ok, that happens, but to accept an offer and totally ghost? Jeez. I could have used those intervening weeks to interview more candidates had he just sent me a quick note, now I've got to backfill his position while also trying to fill the new ones that just opened... I guess hiring is a shitshow from both sides sometimes.

New comment by elsbree in "Show HN: I built a database of tech conferences to know what to attend to next"

elsbree — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 21:44:35 +0000

Looks like they hit the daily request limit on the Google Maps API (you'll see the error message if you hit Cmd-Option-J in Chrome).

New comment by elsbree in "Building Plugins for React Apps – Techniques for modular JavaScript applications"

elsbree — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 23:56:29 +0000

If you're familiar with node.js' "require" syntax, Browserify is a good place to start: https://github.com/substack/node-browserify#usage.

An up-and-coming alternative is Webpack: http://webpack.github.io/docs/tutorials/getting-started/

New comment by elsbree in "Clef Offers Two-Factor Authentication Without All the Codes"

elsbree — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 07:43:24 +0000

I was impressed by how easy it was to integrate Clef into my existing auth system- by far the best two-factor authentication system I've used.

New comment by elsbree in "[dead]"

elsbree — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 20:40:22 +0000

From http://news.softpedia.com/news/Spotlight-Odd-Looking-Scuba-M..., "Designer Jeabyun Yeon's odd-looking and quite innovative concept scuba mask works by turning people into fish".

No indication that this is an actual product. I could create a "concept" perpetual motion machine, but that doesn't make it feasible.

New comment by elsbree in "Show HN: A Customizable SoundCloud Player Built on the Web Audio API and d3"

elsbree — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 04:34:41 +0000

browser compatibility is hard :). in all seriousness though, we're working to support every browser we can. hopefully we'll have some fixes for Linux users in the next couple of days

New comment by elsbree in "Show HN: A Customizable SoundCloud Player Built on the Web Audio API and d3"

elsbree — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 01:02:27 +0000

We should mention this on the site, but the visualizer currently only works in Chrome due to some idiosyncrasies with the way other browsers handle (or don't handle) getting waveform data from audio tags. We're working on it though!

Show HN: A Customizable SoundCloud Player Built on the Web Audio API and d3

elsbree — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 00:12:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.toneden.io/player

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7589643

Points: 93

# Comments: 62

New comment by elsbree in "Testing at Airbnb"

elsbree — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 00:56:46 +0000

Yes, we're using Express.js. QUnit looks interesting, I think I'll start with it. Is it pretty standard to just have an HTML file that runs all your client-side tests?

New comment by elsbree in "Testing at Airbnb"

elsbree — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 22:03:42 +0000

This looks awesome, thanks! Definitely what I was looking for.

New comment by elsbree in "Testing at Airbnb"

elsbree — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 21:28:13 +0000

Wow, looks really helpful. I'm definitely going to try out their trial. Thanks!

New comment by elsbree in "Testing at Airbnb"

elsbree — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:54:10 +0000

Thanks! Our backend is built on Node, but I'll see if I can glean some general concepts from this.

New comment by elsbree in "Testing at Airbnb"

elsbree — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:09:28 +0000

Does anybody have recommendations for where/how to start learning best practices for TDD?

As (nominally) top nerd at a tiny startup (2 engineers), I feel like I should set a precedent sooner rather than later for testing. This is currently not possible since I don't know anything about it, so any resources would be appreciated :)

Edit: Primarily looking for resources involving Node.js and client-side testing of a jQuery-based website.

New comment by elsbree in "Microbe computers"

elsbree — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 04:57:17 +0000

Agreed, the current state of software tools for biology is sad- the tools are written by scientists, for scientists, and tend to have messy source code and incomplete/difficult to read documentation.

I don't mean to insult the people who work on the tools currently- they're great! But we need more software people writing tools for the industry.

Fortunately, people are starting to do just that. TeselaGen and Genome Compiler are both good examples. (Disclaimer- I'm a TeselaGen engineer)