In earlier life, I authored this exact product (including distributed deploy) for a large investment bank and a fintech startup :)
This is immensely valuable to a lot of Python devs, especially in finance/quant community. Great work!
Edit: The reason why this is so impactful is b/c most users have no idea how to build a react app (along with the circus of build/deploy train one typically entails). They just want a quick-and-dirty UI for their Python model they developed in Jupyter or similar. If the model has legs, a separate FE dev would build a fancier front end later.
It is quite plausible that Russia would try to take down parts of Ukraine internet given everything going on.
Alternatively, could simply be someone fat-fingering things, given the insane numbers of blocks that RosKomNadzon has been putting in today (Facebook, Twitter, etc)
This reads like a machine that has DEP enabled and getting locked remotely ;)
On a more serious note, I ran macs on multiple occasions without an AppleID - it presents maybe one nag a month, usually when you accidentally open “Messages”.
Microsoft, sadly, has also been increasingly more annoying with pushing online accounts on people’s machines lately.
Who needs SWATing when you can send a CP pic (either real or with hash collision as per the thread few days ago) from a virtual overseas number/service and get FBI van to show up as well?
What about injecting code into a public website to download same pic into local browser cache without user’s knowledge?
The simplicity of the attack vectors here that would trigger the “manual” investigation is just dumbfounding and ripe for abuse/misuse.
Russia already has law in works to make possession of StarLink hardware illegal. There was some coverage in January: https://m.slashdot.org/story/380606
I took an iPhone X into a 3 foot deep swimming pool to take an underwater selfie (don’t ask, not the proudest moment) and it promptly died - apparently if you drop the phone, the water tight seal has a tendency to fail “silently”. Caveat Emptor :)
Thankfully, AppleCare was in effect and it got replaced for a small deductible.
Great to see gadgets standing up to being used as opposed to needing to be cradled and soothed all the time!
Speaking about at least NYC, the nightclub prices have gone just a little bit too nuts right before Covid - think $2k for a table for 4 with a single bottle of ($30 dollar) vodka. $25 mix drinks were a norm.
Combined with lack of innovative artists and ever-increasing homogeneity of style (do I sound like a grumpy old man yet?), clubs seemed to have been racing towards a peak. Smaller venues were suddenly cooler, cheaper, and more interesting.
Who would control the listing of a company’s shares? A startup can choose to simply not make itself available.
Similarly, most employees overlook things like right of first refusal that their parent cos have over their shares.
This is an awesome development, if it can also be used to push for more standard, employee-friendly shareholder agreement terms.
Mercedes has a good demo video about current state of this tech (EU only) - when you drive a car with it, it’s literally magical. Alternative tech uses a projector-like screen with 4K resolution, allowing for very precise light control.
The laserlights, like ones marketed by BMW, are not shining the laser outward into the world - they use them to warm up phosphor which in turn produces “regular” light.
In a sense, it’s somewhat akin to an old school incandescent bulb, but using much less energy. In US, laserlights are reduced power due to regulations
Arrangements like this are much harder in US because 1) by default there is no health insurance if you’re a contractor, and obtaining your own is incredibly expensive and 2) there are also pretty complex tax implications of being a contractor; there are many other factors as well.
It also puts a candidate at a disadvantage, because looking for a job is heavily one-sided burden.
On a personal level, as both (occasionally) a candidate and a senior hiring manager, I always wonder about white boarding - i believe it works when the interviewer is looking for your thought process, and not code specifically. For example, something as simple as saying “I don’t expect this code to compile” at beginning of interview immediately puts candidate at ease and let’s you understand their logic and not the ability to recall specific function signatures on the fly.
Resumes are much harder to enforce, so they tend to be juicier. But if someone comes in and starts spewing clearly proprietary stuff, its a huge red flag during hiring.
+1 on spelling. Having gone through thousands of resumes, I've seen some hilarious things. I'd never take away points for a couple of errors, but blatant ones are definitely a turn off.
Also, a public service announcement: if you were leading a project in the past, its "led", not "lead" :)
Hi Steve, nice to see you on here and doing well! :)
My first thought was Athena as well, but it could be Quartz (it started in 08-09 at BaML, vs Athena starting in 2006).
Both Citi and Barcap also tried (albeit to less success than JPM/BaML) to do similar things.
With that said, For those unfamiliar - at least two major banks run insanely large production python installs across thousands of developers. Core skills (nowadays) are python and react - and yes, we’re all actively hiring :)
All of the large banks also have pretty good open source initiatives - just check out github repos for JPMorgan, BaML, or GS. We have also been active participants in Pycon (key sponsors and doing sessions, like Steve’s) since at least 2009.
This is immensely valuable to a lot of Python devs, especially in finance/quant community. Great work!
Edit: The reason why this is so impactful is b/c most users have no idea how to build a react app (along with the circus of build/deploy train one typically entails). They just want a quick-and-dirty UI for their Python model they developed in Jupyter or similar. If the model has legs, a separate FE dev would build a fancier front end later.