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by exdsq 5y ago
Good luck man :) As a side note, I saw someone recently post about coming out of prison from a 7 year stint, and seemed to have been a programmer in the 90s. Looked like he managed to get some work too!
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by exdsq 5y ago
Test suites are my bread and butter! Happy to help contribute if you can point me in the right direction - it’s be a nice way to play with D a little more.
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by exdsq 5y ago
Reminds me of Haskell. Grass is always greener I guess :)
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by exdsq 5y ago
That's what she said! On a more serious note it's cool to see the languages creator quite frequently on HN - it is the reason I took a look at it a while ago :)
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by exdsq 5y ago
Is anywhere other than Jane Street using OCaml? :)
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by exdsq 5y ago
I work in blockchain; I'm getting massive Fyre Festival vibes from this crap
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by exdsq 5y ago
I don't think you understand how contracting works or what it is in the global market
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by exdsq 5y ago
When I started contracting I just applied for a contract role - they're loads in London when I first looked and now find remote pretty easily. Have you tried a job board like Indeed?
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by exdsq 5y ago
Bash is fun! And with unit testing libraries & shellcheck you can get pretty far :)
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by exdsq 5y ago
Very few of us as kids would have cared about the financial modeling world championships - I wonder at what point people start to like these frankly boring topics (this is on the front page so many of us, including me, in our free time on a
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by exdsq 5y ago
Front page on HN is a nice achievement too :)
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by exdsq 5y ago
Exactly right
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by exdsq 5y ago
> Also, could you elaborate more on how your solution is able to reconstruct the query on the backend after reducing the URL length by 50%? Seems like it’s for readability on either end so maybe a dictionary is a solution for when it’s a
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by exdsq 5y ago
It might be a good idea but it's hardly rebellious. Imagine trying to think of any definition of 'rebellion' that allows for a VC firm front-running startups ran by founders from prestigious universities signalled by their
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by exdsq 5y ago
Sure but these aren't crazy complicated beasts - a binary installation and some unix experience gets you 90% of the way there! I don't think they'll get far more complex in the next few years at least, and documentation/
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by exdsq 5y ago
I'm not by my work computer but look up any of the ISO-standardised dev environments where they need to apply formal methods
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by exdsq 5y ago
Personally I find C++ more fun to use than Rust, even though I use Rust as part of my day job. I'd genuinely love to find a full-time C++ gig and spend the rest of my career focused on that single language. There are tons of flaws with
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by exdsq 5y ago
Not being sarcastic here - can you roll your own?
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by exdsq 5y ago
I don't mean these sorts of simple host-a-node services but something where you can run custom chains for your dev and testing. For example, this week I had to build a separate Polkadot chain for a client that had reduced governance te
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by exdsq 5y ago
> Usually, you still have the “server is selectively lying” problem; unless the users are talking to each other, how do the consensus rules help with this? If you're submitting txs to a node that doesn't communicate to the main
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by exdsq 5y ago
Yes, but with a few other things! Setting up ad-hoc chains with custom genesis files would be a huge improvement for dev teams as they'd not have to make their own solution (which everyone I've worked with has ended up doing).
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by exdsq 5y ago
Mostly the cost of hiring a DevOps engineer to set it up and maintain it and taking on the additional risk of having to deal with upgrading the node etc... It's just cheaper and easier to go centralized at the moment.
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by exdsq 5y ago
Oh it’s totally doable to run your own node on your own server! And thanks to the protocols consensus rules your users can trust that for a transaction to go through your node and be accepted onto main net your node is a good actor. So one
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by exdsq 5y ago
There’s no real reason for this to be honest. The Web3 projects I’ve worked on tends to fall for centralized services like Infura because of development needs at first and then it’s just easier to use it for production. I’ve made a decent l
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by exdsq 5y ago
Interesting! I assumed ML consulting would require a long academic record (not saying the work requires that, just that there’s probably a bias towards that). How did you go from information security to ML? I’m taking some night classes at
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by exdsq 5y ago
Edit: I’d be keen to know what sort of consulting you do? :) Edit 2: removed my personal salary and share options because this account is public
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by exdsq 5y ago
Out of interest what’s your cv look like for that rate?
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by exdsq 5y ago
"All they'd have to do is come together, agree to seize all mining equipment, and do a 51% attack together" Think this through for a bit. Governments have holdings in bitcoin. Financial institutions have holdings in bitcoin.
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by exdsq 5y ago
Nothing - it just won't have reached the front page if the headline was "Bitcoin hash rate is reduced by 1%" or whatever
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by exdsq 5y ago
I can't imagine disliking a technology so much I put it as my username and spend my free time writing about how much I hate it on tech forums

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