jbarham

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by jbarham 6y ago
Location: Melbourne, Australia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Django, Go Résumé/CV: https://www.wombatsoftware.com/john-barham-resume.html GitHub: https://github.com/jbarham&#
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by jbarham 6y ago
For anyone interested in Japanese house architecture, the book Jutaku , published by Phaidon, is fantastic: https://au.phaidon.com/store/architecture/jutaku-japanese-ho...
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by jbarham 7y ago
https://www.abc.net.au/4corners/degrees-of-deception-promo/6...
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by jbarham 7y ago
Right now only Australian citizens and permanent residents are allowed to enter Australia. As soon as they land they are driven to a local hotel where they are forced into quarantine for two weeks. The government is not messing around becau
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by jbarham 7y ago
A couple of years ago I was working out of a local co-working space where one of the other tenants was an agency running a racket where they got international students to pay $1000 for the privilege of doing an unpaid internship [1]. It was
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by jbarham 7y ago
There's a flood of student & ex-Airbnb apartments for rent in central Melbourne, currently ~6300: https://www.realestate.com.au/rent/in-melbourne,+vic+3000/li... I can't see international travel rest
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by jbarham 7y ago
Short answer: No. Long answer: I did COBOL development on mainframes for the Canadian government and Xerox from 1996 - 1998, my first "real jobs" after university. COBOL in isolation isn't that bad a language. With a bit of d
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Django Docker Heroku Tutorial(github.com)
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by jbarham 7y ago
> mainframes and COBOL Exactly. My first job out of university in 1996 was with the Canadian government. One of my first tasks was to update a COBOL program that had originally been written in 1972. I left that job in 1997, but I doubt t
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by jbarham 7y ago
Sure, I rent a large, new, 3 bedroom house 20 minutes by train from the Melbourne CBD for $2250/month. It's great. I certainly couldn't do that in Toronto or Vancouver. Granted if you want to buy a house, Australia (especia
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by jbarham 7y ago
I've also lived in Toronto and Vancouver. Did the obligatory move to work as a software dev in California and now live in Australia. The fact is that tech salaries in Canada are still much lower than the US while the cost of living, es
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by jbarham 7y ago
Headline from this past weekend in Toronto: "Three dead, two injured in shooting at Airbnb rental in downtown Toronto" ( https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/01/31/four-injured-pos... )
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by jbarham 7y ago
But you have to put up with cold winters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal#Climate
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by jbarham 7y ago
I've personally witnessed scammers using people's trust in calculators being correct to cheat them. It was at the Zambia-Zimbabwe border at Victoria Falls in 1999. We needed to change USD into Zimbabwe dollars and were approached
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by jbarham 7y ago
Both https://12factor.net/ and the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-Factor_App_methodology credit Heroku developers for formalizing the 12 factor methodology.
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by jbarham 7y ago
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_bang , which are ubiquitous and cheap
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by jbarham 7y ago
I agree that there used to be a noticeable markup for e.g. electronics sold in Australia when the AUD was worth more than the USD. However, now that the AUD is worth ~USD 0.67, prices are close to the exchange rate plus 10% GST. For example
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by jbarham 7y ago
ISTM that "tiny homes" are just mobile homes rebranded for hipsters without the stigma of living in a trailer park.
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by jbarham 7y ago
> This sounds a bit like the general situation in Australia. As a Canadian living in Australia since 2011, I have to disagree. Politically Canada is much more of a protectionist nanny state than Australia. For mobile service in particula
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by jbarham 7y ago
DevOps Borat: "To make error is human. To propagate error to all server in automatic way is #devops." https://twitter.com/DEVOPS_BORAT/status/41587168870797312
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by jbarham 7y ago
At one point the Go FAQ said that Go got its name because “Ogle” would be a good name for a Go debugger [1]. This was removed from the FAQ as a "non-answer" in 2015 [2]. I suspect the real reason is that it was a slightly risque
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by jbarham 7y ago
I'm surprised how expensive this is. In Australia I pay A$25/month (around US$17) for unlimited talk & SMS and 18 GB of fast 4G data: https://www.aldimobile.com.au/plans/value-packs/ .
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by jbarham 7y ago
And the Korean DMZ: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/apr/13/wildlife...
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by jbarham 7y ago
> It comes off as the old "Jews control Hollywood and use it to spread their ideological propaganda" conspiracy theory. Thoroughly debunked here: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-19-oe-stein
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by jbarham 7y ago
> people are either (1) forced to use something inferior, or (2) don't know any better Here's another fallacy for you: false dilemma.
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by jbarham 7y ago
Imagine what Ken Thompson could have accomplished if he hadn't made all those poor design decisions! And yet hundreds of thousands of working programmers around the world are productively using Go while still continuing to ignore the s
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by jbarham 7y ago
> Right, you need to specifically throw money and people at the problem of making LLVM faster I repeat, Apple is the major sponsor of LLVM and is sitting on ~$250 billion in cash. If LLVM could be made significantly faster by simply thro
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by jbarham 7y ago
Given that Apple are the major sponsor of LLVM and they're not exactly cash poor, I think it's reasonable to conclude that being able to throw money and people at LLVM development doesn't explain why it's still much slow
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by jbarham 7y ago
> or in this case, Toronto Yeah, roaming around Toronto on a bicycle in summer is fun. In winter? Not so much. (I've done it, when I was younger, poorer and single.) Riding a bicycle (or scooter/motorcycle) when there's ic
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by jbarham 7y ago
> Same goes for majoring in oil painting after the arrival of Photoshop (or for that matter, after the arrival of photography) Based on the books my kids read, illustration/painting is alive long after photography was invented. (Gra

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