Mux is how developers build online video.
With Mux Video, developers gain access to a powerful API for video streaming think Stripe for Video. You don t have to have strong feelings about ffmpeg settings, you just go. And with Mux Data, developers realize incredible insights into how their videos perform from platform to platform, place to place, and user to user.
I m Ed, and I m an engineer on the DevEx team here - you might have seen me around HN here and there. ;) This is, and I have to stress that I m not kidding because everybody says this sort of thing, for real my favorite job that I ve ever had. The team here is mind-blowingly smart, there is a real and concerted focus on not just competence but on the human side of things; one of the company s core values is be human and I thought it was marketing stuff til I joined and learned to my surprise that it is emphatically not. Also? Legit, the best onboarding experience I ve ever had. During a pandemic, no less.
Reforge offers selective growth-focused programs for experienced professionals in marketing, product, data, and engineering. Founded by Brian Balfour in 2016, Reforge is backed by investors that include Andreessen Horowitz and is headquartered in San Francisco.
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The rate of technological change over the last decade has been astounding. We’ve not only seen new companies and industries established, but also entirely new jobs and skills. Yet there are parts of the economy particularly in technology and adjacent fields where new forms of work constantly emerge, spread quickly, and just as quickly fade away. It is a flurry of change. This dynamism reflects the rise and fall of new computing platforms, communication tools, and technologies whether that’s “Head of Influencer Marketing” or “Growth Data Scientist” or “VR/AR Developer.” Even jobs with the same title as a few decades ago, like “product manager,” are radically different today. Mastery of new programming languages, cloud computing infrastructure, and mobile platforms make them the same job in name only.
Cosmic Justice vs. Traditional Justice
Sowell explains that there are two ruling concepts of justice in America: traditional justice and social or, as he calls it, cosmic justice. Cosmic justice is what someone would choose if they were creating the universe from scratch. For example, if I were to create my own cosmos, I probably would not choose to include racism or poverty. I could eradicate human suffering and pain. Maybe I would ensure total equality of opportunity and outcome. Each of these things have to do with end results; they have nothing to do with the means which would have to bring about these results.