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by imhoguy 7y ago
I bet it is yet another law to bring back knowledge and manufacturing to US.
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by imhoguy 7y ago
So they need to "see" it. They need to see business metrics of cleanup work. Show them e.g. AWS usage cost savings report/powerpoint in their language and you will gain a respect.
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by imhoguy 7y ago
...even no code. /s
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by imhoguy 7y ago
You can use Kotlin/Native [0] or just plain Kotlin over Java with GraalVM which produces compact binaries. [0] https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/native-overview.html
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by imhoguy 7y ago
Is that Soli sensor available for custom hardware? RPi?
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by imhoguy 7y ago
We need a common distributed storage protocol - kind of Bit Torrent for web pages. Dead simple in use and built into (every) browser transparently. Anytime a public page is visited/bookmarked then it is preserved in a swarm of caches u
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by imhoguy 7y ago
Probably the most prominent use of WASM at scale is cryptocoin mining. Coinhive estimated it run at 65% performance of native code. https://www.forcepoint.com/blog/x-labs/browser-mining-coinhi...
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by imhoguy 7y ago
Water filtering is a huge market with little data presented too.
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by imhoguy 7y ago
This. Buy voucher now to increase the motivation.
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by imhoguy 7y ago
Just ask if they have made a decission already and eventually what is a planed start date. You may politely explain that your availability slots are filling up for upcoming weeks/months. It is normal for projects to be deprioritized. I
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by imhoguy 7y ago
This is why you should charge at least 12x more: 10x for the complexity and 2x extra to compensate your ego.
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by imhoguy 7y ago
Is there a practical upper limit of Unicode set capacity? Kind of IPv4 limits with all reservations and local/multicast quirks.
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by imhoguy 7y ago
Do you version your code with git? You can mimic how CI/CD pipelines handle code updates and builds. Push your local code into git repo hosted in AWS. Have a git hook setup which will trigger your workflow. Then any worker should clone
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by imhoguy 7y ago
> I would personally be wary of making "ability to effectively use Amazon's servers" a pillar of my career. It is SEO for consultants to effectively catch customers/agencies with specific platform needs: AWS Architect
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by imhoguy 7y ago
Get ready for cease&desist from Slack: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17869249
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by imhoguy 7y ago
Sounds like IPFS and pinning.
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by imhoguy 7y ago
> "the earth is flat" yes, and "resting on the backs of four huge elephants which are in turn standing on the back of an enormous turtle" I'm engineer :)
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by imhoguy 7y ago
I use android phone with termux or juicessh and hacker keyboard app. Also pretty much every phone should work with tiny foldable Bluetooth keyboard. If you want a mobile kit for hotel room without carrying laptop there you can try some HDMI
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by imhoguy 7y ago
> "Performing Under Pressure"[...]: Act like you're not under pressure and you'll do your best work. This lands into my list of valuable quotes. Thanks.
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by imhoguy 7y ago
I see same too often recently. There is too much printed money on tables. Quality assurance degrades, business in scoping histeria, management micromanaging everything ad-hoc aka flat but same old structures, engineering forced to deliver o
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by imhoguy 7y ago
Because of legacy protocols and format limitations: SMTP, POP3, embedded binaries in XML, HTML (data URLs).
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by imhoguy 7y ago
> I don’t really have the work schedule that allows for 1+ month long vacations or multiple trips abroad each year. I try to buy more time now. Negotiating less work hours is hard but 3 or 4 day weekends are great. Saving is wise too but
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by imhoguy 7y ago
Should it be called the first world nation when people without charges are lawfuly inprisoned at somebody's house?
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by imhoguy 7y ago
This is also reason I abandoned freemium and open C2C for side projects in general.
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by imhoguy 7y ago
I have passed a few certs, may be useful if you want to put a foot in the door without network or land some govt/corporate contract requiring it. But in my experience professional networking brings the best results - no questions about
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by imhoguy 7y ago
"LINUX is obsolete", A.S. Tanenbaum, 1992. A bit of nowadays tech scaled out from pet projects.
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by imhoguy 7y ago
> People will pay for a product they use every day (and thus, derive value from every day). If your product is not used every day, but only once per month or so, expect way lower revenue. This is my takeaway. Thank you so much for that!
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by imhoguy 7y ago
I think some people get shocked of something which may raise from cultural difference, especially compared to highly capital-focused West. Work doesn't have to be modern financial slavery. There are places where there is no overtime or
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by imhoguy 7y ago
I don't agree with your generalization. When you keep in touch with people you used to work with then some relationships usually expand beyond companies and employment duration. In the future they can become your business partners, emp

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