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Beware tech companies who tell you they don’t negotiate | Kevin Burke
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I build great experiences. Currently available for hire. 8592; Back to the homepage. Beware tech companies who tell you they don’t negotiate. April 9, 2015. Reddit and Duck Duck Go. Recently announced that they are eliminating salary negotiations. In part to help even the playing field for men and women, since men are more likely to negotiate salaries than women. If yes, then I'll believe a company with a stated policy that says we don't reward negotiators. Yes, Reddit and Duck Duck Go are not those comp...
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How not to ask questions at a conference | Kevin Burke
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I build great experiences. Currently available for hire. 8592; Back to the homepage. How not to ask questions at a conference. May 5, 2012. I went to Pycon. Last month (my first conference ever! The conference was totally awesome and I met a lot of cool people. But I was also pretty appalled at the question asking at the end of each talk. Here's some stuff you should keep in mind before you ask a question at a conference. Ask only one question. Ask a question, don't make a comment. Talk time is for the s...
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About Me | Kevin Burke
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I build great experiences. Currently available for hire. 8592; Back to the homepage. In January 2010 my friend asked me to design a T-Shirt website. For him, and since then I’ve spent a lot of time building reliable software. Here’s a list of stuff I’ve been working on. I currently work at Shyp. A logistics company. You can see some of the work I did for them on the “Projects” page. For the three summers before that, I worked at Twilio. And the Excel in Basketball Camp. My favorite charities are Givewell.
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Reddit’s database has two tables | Kevin Burke
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I build great experiences. Currently available for hire. 8592; Back to the homepage. Reddit’s database has two tables. September 2, 2012. Steve Huffman talks about Reddit’s approach to data storage. In a High Scalability post from 2010. I was surprised to learn that they only have two tables in their database. Lesson: Don’t worry about the schema. Update, 10:05AM PDT:. It’s worth reading the comments from a current Reddit engineer. On this post. Particularly this one. Update, 11:31PM PDT:. There isn̵...
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Profiling ZSH startup time | Kevin Burke
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I build great experiences. Currently available for hire. 8592; Back to the homepage. Profiling ZSH startup time. November 29, 2014. Recently I had a very weird problem with iTerm. Where new login shells were being created with environment variables already present. Restarting my machine made the issue go away, and I wasn't able to reproduce it again. But I got curious about how long ZSH spends in various parts of the startup process. A new. What files run when you start a ZSH login shell? Essentially thi...
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Ready Player One and a Dystopian View of Future Oil Prices | Kevin Burke
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I build great experiences. Currently available for hire. 8592; Back to the homepage. Ready Player One and a Dystopian View of Future Oil Prices. September 4, 2014. I read Ready Player One. Recently and I enjoyed it; it was a pretty fast read and I finished it in a day. It presents a view of the future where the possibilities allowed by a virtual reality world surpass those of the real world, so most people spend as much time as possible connected to a system called OASIS. People migrate for work, to brin...
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“Invalid Username or Password”: a useless security measure | Kevin Burke
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I build great experiences. Currently available for hire. 8592; Back to the homepage. 8220;Invalid Username or Password”: a useless security measure. December 1, 2014. Login attempts fail because computer users can't remember their email or didn't input the right password. Most websites on the Internet won't tell you which one is actually incorrect. Unfortunately this assumes that there's no other way for an attacker to discover whether a username/email address is registered for a service. If people don't...
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Virgin Mobile fails web security 101, leaves six million subscriber accounts wide open | Kevin Burke
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I build great experiences. Currently available for hire. 8592; Back to the homepage. Virgin Mobile fails web security 101, leaves six million subscriber accounts wide open. September 17, 2012. Update: Virgin fixed the issue Tuesday night after taking their login page down for four hours. Please see my update. At the bottom of this post. Once an attacker has your PIN, they can take the following actions on your behalf:. Read your call and SMS logs. Change the handset associated with an account. And start ...
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Hacking Roller Coaster Tycoon with Genetic Algorithms | Kevin Burke
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I build great experiences. Currently available for hire. 8592; Back to the homepage. Hacking Roller Coaster Tycoon with Genetic Algorithms. August 1, 2014. How would a computer approach the freedoms inherent in an empty park? What would we learn about the game engine from doing so? Sadly, this one wasn't generated by a computer. In case you're not familiar, Roller Coaster Tycoon. Is a amusement park simulation game most notable because the entire game was written in x86 assembler by Chris Sawyer. 4B: dep...
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Fixing Engineering’s Loyalty and Longevity Problem | Kevin Burke
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I build great experiences. Currently available for hire. 8592; Back to the homepage. Fixing Engineering’s Loyalty and Longevity Problem. May 19, 2015. It’s really that simple. If you care so much about retention, put your money where your mouth is. Liked what you read? I am available for hire. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *. Comments are heavily moderated. 2006 - 2016 Kevin Burke. Cited as one of the best personal websites on the Net.