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by fredwu 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | Melbourne, Australia | Remote Preferred - Technologies: Elixir, Ruby, React, JavaScript - CV: https://fredwu.me/cv.pdf - Email: ifredwu at gmail dot com My name’s Fred Wu, I’m an experienced Elixir and Ruby
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by fredwu 4y ago
I have found my last few freelancing gigs by posting my availability in Slack groups. As an Elixir dev I posted in an Elixir-specific Slack group. I also post in the HN monthly threads but I haven't gotten many leads from those. It als
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by fredwu 5y ago
https://fredwu.me/ I've gone through a few "redesigns" over the past decade or so. For the latest design I've tried to keep it relatively simple, but also with a bit of design flair so it doesn't lo
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by fredwu 5y ago
I use Firefox as my main browser, and Brave as my secondary. Safari might be blazingly fast but unfortunately I rely on a lot of extensions that don't exist on Safari. And I rely on Firefox's containers too. :)
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by fredwu 5y ago
No it hasn't. If you read the latest relies (including mine) in the thread, you'll notice that CMD/SHIFT + tap is still broken, at least on the 14". I'm on the latest 12.3 beta too.
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by fredwu 5y ago
Interesting. I had the opposite experience. I had a 16GB M1, and once the RAM is exhausted it grinds to a halt - everything lags, including simple tasks like switching browser tabs, every now and then the spinning beach ball of death would
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by fredwu 5y ago
Thanks for the info, that's very interesting. > The fact you don't know about it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I take your point. Interestingly, growing up in the late 80s, we were briefly taught Zhuyin ( https:&#x2F
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by fredwu 5y ago
My assumption is that Apple _is_ referring to the colloquialisms. The confusing part for me as a Shanghainese speaker though is that we don't have a way to write Shanghainese, this "spelling" concept AFAIK simply doesn't
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by fredwu 5y ago
As a native Shanghainese speaker I am extremely confused (and curious!). Cantonese at least has a written form, but Shanghainese AFAIK has no written form, so what does "Shanghainese dialectal spelling" even mean? :\
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by fredwu 5y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote / Australia Location: Melbourne, Australia Technologies: Elixir, Ruby, React, JavaScript/TypeScript, AWS Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wufred/ Email: ifredwu at gmail
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by fredwu 5y ago
Location: Melbourne, Australia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Elixir, Ruby, React, JavaScript/TypeScript, AWS Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wufred/ Email: ifredwu at gmail dot
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Tips for Job Interviews as a Junior Software Developer(fredwu.me)
2 points by fredwu 6y ago|0 comments
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by fredwu 6y ago
I wrote two blog posts before on Elixir: The first piece is longer, on my journey learning Elixir and building machine learning libraries. https://fredwu.me/blog/2016-07-24-i-accidentally-some-machin... The second piec
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Tips for Writing a Good CV / Résumé
1 points by fredwu 6y ago|1 comments
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by fredwu 6y ago
I've been contributing to open source projects for a decade or so, mostly in bursts - when I was still 100% hands-on, I'd work on projects that either interest me, or are used at work (e.g. Rails). Over the past few years I'v
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by fredwu 6y ago
Over the past few years I've been on the hunt for a good tool to help me manage my projects. Trello, Jira, I've tried a bunch and yet still couldn't pin point why none of the tools worked well. The quarantine forces me to thi
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Tips for Becoming a Better Software Developer(fredwu.me)
1 points by fredwu 6y ago|0 comments
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Tips for Becoming a Better Software Developer(fredwu.me)
7 points by fredwu 6y ago|0 comments
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by fredwu 7y ago
https://fredwu.me/ No particular reason, but I started building websites in the late 90s and am now heading up the engineering department in our scale-up (60+ people w/ 25+ engineers).
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by fredwu 7y ago
Author here. In this Leadership Master Class session, I'll be talking about the adaptability of an organisation and an individual, and how things could affect an organisation as well as one's career. I'll cover concepts that
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[Talk] Adaptable Human – Taking the Company and Your Career to the Next Level(youtube.com)
1 points by fredwu 7y ago|1 comments
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New Blog with New Design and Gatsby.js – Loving JavaScript Again(fredwu.me)
3 points by fredwu 8y ago|0 comments
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Announcing Crawler v1.0.0 – easy web crawling / scraping powered by Elixir(github.com)
4 points by fredwu 9y ago|0 comments
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Coding and Learning Should Never Stop, Open Sourcing Is Caring(fredwu.me)
1 points by fredwu 9y ago|0 comments
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OPQ – A simple, in-memory queue with worker pooling and rate limiting in Elixir(github.com)
2 points by fredwu 9y ago|0 comments
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Elixir and Doctest – Help Writing Better Programs, One Method at a Time(fredwu.me)
4 points by fredwu 9y ago|0 comments
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by fredwu 10y ago
Author here. When I was benchmarking my library against a ruby one, I did actually try the ruby one on 2.4. Interesting findings are: - Switching from =~ to Regex.match? did not yield significant speed improvement - Without any changes thou
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I Accidentally Some Machine Learning – My Story of a Month of Learning Elixir(fredwu.me)
102 points by fredwu 10y ago|44 comments
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A Simple Bayes (a.k.a. Naive Bayes) Implementation in Elixir(github.com)
5 points by fredwu 10y ago|0 comments
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Stemmer – An English (Porter2) Stemming Implementation in Elixir(github.com)
54 points by fredwu 10y ago|9 comments

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