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by giorgioz 3y ago
Yes I've read Snow Crash, Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, Termination Shock and I'm currently reading Reamde
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Node.js 20.x runtime now available in AWS Lambda(aws.amazon.com)
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eheh luckily I knew the gender ambiguity of Italian names ending in A/E (Andrea/Luca/Daniele/Michele) compounded by the fact that in French male and female names can end in e. In Italy most female names end in A and most
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by giorgioz 3y ago
It does not seem to work very well for Italian-French names. I'm Italian and my partner is French and we searched for names that would be identical for Italian and French. We did it manually and the trick is for each partner to look at
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by giorgioz 3y ago
You can make a Google map with pins of all the locations where events interesting to you usually happen to understand better where you can be. meetup.com has a lot of events to look at.
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We use Lambda monolith usually with a Lambda containing an entire REST JSON API node.js server. It works very well. I feel one of the reason why Lambda did not gain fast market traction is because all the initial tutorials focused on having
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by giorgioz 3y ago
I like the Google News that appear on Android when I swipe left from the main screen. It shows you articles related to what you searched recently. Sometimes it came up with things "I didn't know that I wanted to know". I goog
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by giorgioz 3y ago
For programming languages I use some curated weekly newsletters: Javascript https://javascriptweekly.com/ React https://react.statuscode.com/ There are curated weekly newsletters on many languages/big
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by giorgioz 3y ago
I've been a digital nomad software engineer for a decade. Here are some tips that might help you: 1) Wellfound (previously Angelist) can sort job ads by location Remote. 2) Once you get a remote position the employer won't care wh
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by giorgioz 3y ago
For landing pages you can just buy a pre-made theme on http://themeforest.com The Refactoring UI book is very good and explains in engineering terms a lot of designer best practises. 1) You can learn good design one strategy&#x2
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Yes I suspect most of our intelligence and know-how is actually accumulated in culture, media and tools. I read somewhere that natural selection and evolution happens very slowly over million of years so essentially current day Homo Sapiens
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Thank you Dan! Your redux video tutorials on egghead.io convinced me to switch from Angular 1 to React 6 years ago. Thank you!
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Research paper source: https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111... Cognitive functioning was stable before retirement (Estimate = 0.05, p = 0.322), followed by a significant decline after retir
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Post-Retirement Cognitive Decline Varies by Race and Education(neurosciencenews.com)
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The solution is to create "native apps" which contain only a WebView that shows a webapp. Then you can implement the few native calls you need natively and cross-communicate with the Javascript of the webapp in the WebView.
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Human brains are very advanced and are in fact the most advanced processing unit known to men. Every human brain has it's own agency and it's separated from other human brains. Few insects like bees and ants have hierarchal societ
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by giorgioz 3y ago
I believe you are doing some low-level harmful backliking to your blog using Hacker News as a directory. I saw your account has only 3 comments on astrology and metal-health BS. Please stop.
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I recommend the book ParaNORMALITY by Richard Wiseman which explains how astrology tricks you into seeing simplifying the world to patterns that are actually not true at all: https://www.amazon.com/Paranormality-Why-what-isn
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by giorgioz 3y ago
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" We just did not know any better (yet). 49.72% of human beings are women. Among those my mother and two sisters which are medical doctors. Stop blaming men
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Physical Properties of Soil: https://www.soils4teachers.org/physical-properties/#:~:text=... .
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https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-launches-20-fun...
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Regex generation: example "Generate a regex that matches <pre><code class="language-jsx"> where jsx is a group"
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by giorgioz 4y ago
37signals is based in Chicago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/37signals
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by giorgioz 4y ago
Nice try ChatGPT commenting on itself!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RESTRICT_Act The Act applies to ICTS entities that are held in whole or in part by, or otherwise fall under the jurisdiction of a country or government that is designated under the Act as
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by giorgioz 4y ago
I'm quite upset with the way that Stripe is constantly increasing and shifiting fees. A couple of years ago they stopped refunding the 2.9% fee when we would refund a payment to a customer too. Sometimes they justify theirselves by say
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by giorgioz 4y ago
on macOS I like https://pdfexpert.com/ a lot to edit .pdf files.
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An yet China detained and robbed Jack Ma of Alibaba and it is an authoritarian country. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/04/business/china-jack-ma-ru...
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Yes it is possible and many do. If you would know about them it would mean they were doing a bad job. I call it the principle of NO ADVERTISING TO WALK. You see a lot of ads for cars because someone actively earns from selling cars. You do
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by giorgioz 4y ago
Take care cause AWS Lambda with node 18 is also changing to aws-sdk v3. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-javascript/v3/developer-... I found at least another breaking change not documented in that guide though.

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