Peter Cox

Location: Chicago, IL, USA Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Haskell, Rails, hybridizations of the two, JS, sysadmin Hybridizations, you say?: https://push.cx/2015/railsconf Blog: https://push.cx Email: ph@ blog domain Resume: available via email

This is a great writeup on a similar process: https://push.cx/2015/hiring-apprentices

I was under the impression that JungleDisk's encryption scheme was not as secure as they claimed[1]. Have they fixed it yet? [1] http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-06-03-insecurity-in-the-jungle.ht… and its discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2616634 [2] http://push.cx/2011/retracting-my-jungledisk-recommendation

(I'm the Lobsters admin.) Comments from merged stories do have a label showing where the came from... but only before the merge; afterwards top-level comments are always attached to the primary story which is when things get especially confusing. For this and other reasons, I'm in the middle of revamping UI for the feature and the database model: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/1456 If anyone is real curious about the fine details, I've done almost all of this feature work on Lobsters office hours streams: https://push.cx/tags#story-merging I plan to continue that work in about four hours on today's stream so it's a great time to ask questions: https://push.cx/stream As a (much) smaller community, story merging has been valuable for allowing us to build the critical mass of a good discussion. We also avoid rehashing the basics/easy misunderstandings. It's a pretty similar to dang's motivation about wanting to promote novel discussions. I have joked for a couple years that I'd love to see HN copy the feature so that HN can teach everyone how the feature works.

I attended NixconfNA last year as part of SCaLE. I spent quite a while trying to understand what Nix was actually trying to accomplish and how one would actually go about using it. Granted I was trying to do it on a Chromebook, but the idea stands: I should be able to get at least the nix environment set up and the silly gnu hello world built and running, right? Turns out nah. The ergonomics are just that of a hiltless double bladed sword. I'm glad I'm not the only one, but i also was aware of pushcx trying years ago and still failing [1] and he's a smart dude unlike me. I didn't feel so dumb. [1] https://push.cx/nixos

I would really like ycombinator to be supported by the Sociable plugin - I don't think it takes too much to get it added, and the plugin is automatically updated every week on WordPress blogs. I hear it is easy to do: http://push.cx/sociable