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by mihaitodor 2y ago
You know, some people do love devouring works from Knuth and such and still can't pass those tests. Yegge just assumed that such tests work for any type of individual who is willing to study hard, which is simply not true. The frustrat
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by mihaitodor 2y ago
I refuse to do algorithmic and / or timed coding challenges during interviews and I'm glad to see such articles pop up more frequently. These days, I get a kick out of pointing out to recruiters and managers that both my LinkedIn
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Capturing carbon from the air just got easier(news.berkeley.edu)
2 points by mihaitodor 2y ago|0 comments
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by mihaitodor 2y ago
Ugh, that was disturbing to read…
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by mihaitodor 2y ago
I recall reading some details around this on https://blog.merovius.de . Maybe it was this article: https://blog.merovius.de/posts/2018-06-03-why-doesnt-go-have... . Compilation speed plays a big factor when d
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by mihaitodor 2y ago
Here's one: https://github.com/szmcdull/glinq It doesn't do function chaining though.
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by mihaitodor 2y ago
I see... Fair enough. Thanks for the background!
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by mihaitodor 2y ago
I think there was a copy of it buried somewhere in the comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29379346
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by mihaitodor 2y ago
Wish they bothered to preserve the commit history... Can't imagine anything sensitive in there that they couldn't share.
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by mihaitodor 2y ago
Spot on! Given the domain name, I was expecting to see something more serious. The ads are an instant turnoff, never mind the content.
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by mihaitodor 2y ago
I don’t get why people need Kubernetes integrations. Kind works just fine. You run it from the terminal and it starts a “cluster” as one or more containers. You can define port bindings and volume mounts via the yaml config. Job done. Also,
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Goja: A Golang JavaScript Runtime(jtarchie.com)
111 points by mihaitodor 2y ago|35 comments
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by mihaitodor 2y ago
That's me with statistics. I have 0 interest in gambling and sports, so most of the examples put me off instantly. I'll need to study this topic in the context of biology (bioinformatics), so I'll want to find a good stats le
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by mihaitodor 2y ago
At the very least, I'm guessing this performs better since it's written in Golang.
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by mihaitodor 2y ago
> In spite of this, there's no better interview type I've seen proposed given the constraints most companies are under Yeah, right. Why would companies truly care about this issue and put any effort into making their hiring pro
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by mihaitodor 2y ago
I can't say this will work for everyone given the scarcity of jobs. I can afford to miss out on certain opportunities and I'm perfectly happy to invest longer stretches of time in networking and doing whatever homeworks if the ass
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by mihaitodor 2y ago
5 years later, I still refuse to do them and I don't want to put myself through that process ever again. I got bullied, harassed, laughed at and taunted by people who use this as a one-hour game of kicking people around and I'm no
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by mihaitodor 2y ago
As a freelance engineer who's a long time Benthos contributor and who volunteered a lot of community support for this project in the past several years, I don't think it makes sense to fork it and I'm perfectly happy with the
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Redpanda Connect and the Acquisition of Benthos.dev(redpanda.com)
11 points by mihaitodor 2y ago|2 comments
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by mihaitodor 2y ago
Streaming and transforming structured documents at scale used to require some awfully complex machinery such as Apache Camel, Kafka Connect, Flink, etc. I was so happy when I bumped into Benthos https://benthos.dev which can be
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by mihaitodor 2y ago
Thank you!
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by mihaitodor 2y ago
Have you followed the https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/11880/build-a-w... thread where Tetris was implemented using their Cogol (and low level QFTASM) programming language? I'm curious if that wor
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by mihaitodor 2y ago
Just say no to it. I decided to go public and add on my LinkedIn and now on GitHub too a disclaimer (see here https://github.com/mihaitodor ) that I refuse to do Leetcode-style interviews or anything like that and I'm h
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by mihaitodor 2y ago
Really terrible news... So glad I got to meet him in person in Dublin in 2018 when he gave a talk at https://www.tcd.ie/biosciences/whatislife and hung out for a chat in the lobby. He had this wonderful Gandalf-worthy
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by mihaitodor 3y ago
This podcast interview with Brooke Harrington gave me some good insights into how people manage offshore wealth: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/05/22/237-...
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by mihaitodor 3y ago
I listened to an interesting podcast on octopus cognition recently: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/09/11/249-... Peter dives into the weeds and offers both philosophical and biological
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by mihaitodor 3y ago
You're welcome! Please feel free to join the community channels I linked above. There are blobtalk meetings on Discord every 2 weeks where we can discuss ideas in detail and, otherwise, we're always active in the chat.
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by mihaitodor 3y ago
I saw you mention Python, but if you also happen to be interested in Golang and data streaming, https://benthos.dev is a good project to contribute to. There are quite a few issues open on the GitHub project which anyone can pic
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Spacesuit integrated carbon nanotube dust ejection/removal system(sciencedirect.com)
1 points by mihaitodor 3y ago|0 comments
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Battery-Toolkit: Control the platform power state of your Apple Silicon Mac(github.com)
2 points by mihaitodor 3y ago|0 comments

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