jjevanoorschot

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"Good engineering management" is a fad(lethain.com)
2 points by jjevanoorschot 11mo ago|0 comments
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The iOS 26's keyboard is broken [video](youtube.com)
3 points by jjevanoorschot 1y ago|1 comments
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by jjevanoorschot 1y ago
I love this idea! I'll give it a shot.
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by jjevanoorschot 1y ago
I'm sorry to hear about your illness, I hope you're doing better now. Personally I have found the market to be quite good recently, at least based on my LinkedIn inbound. Something that might help is to condense your resume to 1-2
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by jjevanoorschot 1y ago
I’m not saying that everyone in the Netherlands agrees with me. I’m just illustrating that it’s perfectly possible to live in a city like Paris or Amsterdam with a family and without a car.
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by jjevanoorschot 1y ago
What you’re describing is perfectly possible without a car. I live in Amsterdam and have a young family. We own an electric cargo bike that we use for groceries and to cart around our daughter. You can use it with an infant car seat and for
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by jjevanoorschot 1y ago
Luckily we have the sovereignty to regulate our own market.
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by jjevanoorschot 1y ago
Can't believe they shut down https://skiff.com/mail for a Gmail client :( I was a happy user of Skiff before Notion bought them.
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by jjevanoorschot 2y ago
An important distinction is that US and EU interests aligned on many important areas up until recently. So it was less of a subservient relationship, and more of a mutually beneficial one. Now that the US wants to turn it into a subservient
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by jjevanoorschot 2y ago
Many tools that increase your productivity as a developer take a while to master. For example, it takes a while to become proficient with a debugger, but I'd still wager that it's worth it to learn to use a debugger over just rely
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by jjevanoorschot 3y ago
As the car is sold outside of North America (with a promise of FSD) , you don't think it's fair to expect it to recognise the speed limit signs in the country that the car is sold?
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by jjevanoorschot 3y ago
The assumption that neobanks always use a sponsor bank is false. Most European neobanks have a full banking license.
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by jjevanoorschot 3y ago
I'm on board with assuming that the intent of Google / the engineers who built the classifier is not racist. However the outcome — labelling a black person as a gorilla — certainly is racist. What makes you think otherwise?
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by jjevanoorschot 3y ago
The title makes it sound like Prime Video abandoned microservices all-together, but in reality they only did so for a single service.
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by jjevanoorschot 3y ago
The title is editorialised to be clickbait. The original title is "Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90%". They changed a single service, the Prime Video audio/video monitori
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by jjevanoorschot 4y ago
It’s not necessarily recklessness. Cars in the US have gotten much larger and heavier in recent years. A Ford F150 might be safe to drive, but it’s not safer for pedestrians and other road users than the smaller cars we used to have.
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by jjevanoorschot 4y ago
I've been working on a geospatial application, and one of the use cases was finding intersections between large sets of polygons. For some use cases you might not need a separate data store like this. I used an in-memory RTree in Golan
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by jjevanoorschot 4y ago
I was quite surprised that the 75 percentile salary is highest in Amsterdam. Anecdotally it seems that the top end of salaries is much higher in London than in Amsterdam, but maybe that doesn't show until the 90-95th percentile.
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by jjevanoorschot 4y ago
> I don't like EU attitude to want to rule over foreign companies arbitrarily The EU wants to regulate its own internal market. Companies can choose to be active in that market.
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by jjevanoorschot 4y ago
Calling £90K/year in London 'working poor' is extremely out of touch.
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by jjevanoorschot 4y ago
This isn't the case in London (which is what the parent comment is referring to). In London you can probably half that base.
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by jjevanoorschot 4y ago
I mentioned £200k because it's near the top end for a senior engineer in London (although not the very top). FAANG, some Unicorns, trading firms will pay this to a senior engineer. Bear in mind this is total compensation, so part of th
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by jjevanoorschot 4y ago
Unless you already have top of market compensation, I'd focus on interviewing for a higher paying job rather than do more work on the side. Going by the ££ signs I'm assuming you can get a job in London, where you can make >£20
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Processing Payments Safely at Scale(monzo.com)
2 points by jjevanoorschot 5y ago|0 comments
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by jjevanoorschot 5y ago
This brings back memories. My university offered this laptop to students at a reduced price. I carried it everywhere with me even though it was thick and heavy as a brick. I was jealous of students with a fancy MacBook, but it ran Matlab li
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by jjevanoorschot 5y ago
> Don't get cocky. In Europe you literally can't get a job paying 200.000€ per year as an individual contributor, except for US companies You can find these jobs in London. And there are plenty of examples of this in Amsterdam
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by jjevanoorschot 6y ago
I don't think any reply to this comment mentioned Stripe's actual moat: vertical integration between their products. HN loves Stripe's Payments API, but in my experience from having worked on payments at a large ecommerce uni
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by jjevanoorschot 6y ago
Heart Rate Variability is already measured throughout the day if you wear an Apple Watch. You can find the data in the Health app.
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by jjevanoorschot 6y ago
> This also supports Silicon Valley level wages, which are almost non existent in Europe. As a software engineer in Europe, I'd say that this is a good thing. Income inequality is much lower in most European countries than it is in
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by jjevanoorschot 6y ago
For everyone that doesn't see the point, take a look at the example of parsing a long string [0]. The verbal expression is _much_ easier to read than the regular expression. [0] https://github.com/VerbalExpressions&#x2F

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