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by skytreader 3y ago
Location: EU Remote: Yes, EU timezones preferred Willing to relocate: Depends on the location (but with a strong bias for EU-Schengen/US locations) Technologies: Java, Python (and variants thereof like Groovy, Pypy) Node/TS | AWS&
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by skytreader 3y ago
Location: EU Remote: Yes, EU timezones preferred Willing to relocate: Depends on the location (but with a strong bias for EU-Schengen/US locations) Technologies: Java, Node/TS, Python (and variants thereof like Groovy, Pypy) | AWS
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by skytreader 3y ago
Location: EU Remote: Yes, EU timezones preferred Willing to relocate: Depends on the location (but with a strong bias for EU-Schengen/US locations) Technologies: Java, Node/TS, Python (and variants thereof like Groovy, Pypy) | AWS
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by skytreader 4y ago
You cherry-picked my comment to ignore my efforts at less-anecdotal proof. It was very much the zeitgeist to advocate for teaching computer programming back in the era I specified to encourage children to be in tech: 2014: https:/&#x2
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by skytreader 4y ago
> the author’s perception has shifted, and as such their perception of humanity has shifted with it I think your comment is largely anecdotal and is actually guilty of the very thing you are accusing the author of. For instance... > I
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by skytreader 4y ago
In the agricultural corner of the world I consider my motherland, there are banks that cater specifically for farmers and fishermen. Actually, my first bank ever belong in this category, probably the biggest fish in this pond. It's hon
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by skytreader 4y ago
Location: EU Remote: Yes, EU timezones preferred Willing to relocate: Depends on the location (but with a strong bias for EU-Schengen/US locations) Technologies: Java, Node/TS, Python (and variants thereof like Groovy, Pypy) | AWS
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by skytreader 4y ago
I've been in this industry for just over a decade now, been interested in tech/computers just a few years more than that. I'm a few decades more away from being a graybeard but I can say with some confidence that all this hyp
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by skytreader 4y ago
In the context of LLM AIs vs. traditional search engines, I tried this one. The results were...hilarious to say the least. > what is fc barcelona's latest result > FC Barcelona's latest result is a 2-1 win against Real Betis
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by skytreader 4y ago
Dare I say, you don't know the definition of "cringe" based solely on how you justify the cringeworthiness of these items you are calling out. Cringe is closer to second-hand embarrassment while your commentary is just being
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by skytreader 4y ago
Thing is, short of mathematical definitions, everything is subject to some bias, any sufficiently-complex statement is just an interpretation of various signals. Moreover, the threshold for "sufficiently-complex" isn't real
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by skytreader 4y ago
A lot of answers already boil down to, basically, superior developer experience. But there's an aspect of this that I want to highlight: resource efficiency. Around the latter half of the 00s, I had a Windows XP machine with 256MB of R
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by skytreader 4y ago
Hey! Fellow TKD practitioner here. I'm just curious if you found ways to "cheat the rules" so to speak. Mind sharing them? I know that with the direction the sport has taken in the last decade or so, there are probably a hel
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by skytreader 4y ago
Unfortunate :( I moved to Germany (and Europe) in 2019. I was planning to attend conferences/tech gatherings like this that were previously prohibitive for me once I got settled in but then 2020 had other plans for the world. It was a
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by skytreader 4y ago
Location: EU Remote: Yes, EU timezones preferred. Willing to relocate: Depends on the location. Technologies: Java, Node/TS, Python (and variants thereof like Groovy, Pypy) | AWS/Lambda Serverless, GCE/Kubernetes | Redis, MyS
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by skytreader 4y ago
Hamburger here but if this becomes a regular thing, I could ICE to there. :)
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by skytreader 4y ago
> you can always acquire them later when you actually want to read them That doesn't track with my experience at all for a number of reasons: - Smaller bookstores who may or may not be an official part of the publishing supply chain
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by skytreader 4y ago
> a monorepo is just the SCM mechanism ... it doesn't prescribe anything other than the code storage location and how branching, committing, etc. works That's not really the case in practice. When people decide to choose mono
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by skytreader 4y ago
> You can store code for different purposes in the same source tree. You can deploy something that is built from just one part of the source tree. At the risk of sounding memetic, the question is not so much "Can you?" but &quo
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by skytreader 5y ago
Man, this obnoxious HN arrogance again. And on Christmas Eve too. I specifically added that Not to be mean part because it's simply not fair that people judge your competence based on an unflattering anecdote. But of course, here we
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by skytreader 5y ago
When I saw that sticker, I immediately wanted to give it to this SEO consultant I worked with several years ago. We had a Python + Angular stack so among our first conversations went like: Him: Okay your biggest problem right now is that yo
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by skytreader 5y ago
I feel like IMDB is also to blame here. Why would it remove spoiler-laden reviews instead of just hiding them behind a UI toggle but keeping their rating part of the computed score?
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by skytreader 5y ago
This is the first explainer in this thread that makes me see the issue. All this time I'm thinking along the lines of "Okay you're, projecting video in a wedding. Now there's an orange dot on the screen. Boohoo." So
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by skytreader 5y ago
I have two definitions of "fun" but the common denominator is that I find the ecosystem "reasonable" (in quotes because I have no objective definition). Also, an important factor I feel I should disclose is that my idea
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by skytreader 5y ago
Quicker explanation of how Youtube is doing it is at the source code of pytube: https://github.com/tfdahlin/pytube/blob/bb890af3b271a616bbe1... This is linked from the description of PR 30184 of youtube-dl bu
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by skytreader 5y ago
My goodness was defragging really that mechanically loud or is this exaggerated for effect? For such a long time (as in, well into the tail end of Windows XP) I was stuck with an old Pentium computer that could handle Windows 98SE at most.
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by skytreader 5y ago
I don't care much for this "Web4" proposal (yet) but can we get our terminologies unified? AFAIK Web 2.0 is the era of user-generated content[1] and, IMO, was the most vibrant era of the internet. That's my "good ol
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by skytreader 5y ago
> Better awareness of the code you're shipping. Then somewhere down the line... > One of our dependencies that we check in is TypeScript, and every time we update that, the git diff is huge and frankly not worth looking at (beyon
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by skytreader 5y ago
I'm not sure I understand the question so I'll break down the quote from the article: > It’s figuring out what it sees and dismisses that might still be useful. The dream of any computer-savvy chess player is to discover a stri
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by skytreader 5y ago
While we're in the topic of examples, does Usain Bolt count here? I just can't believe the coincidence that the fastest man on the planet would carry that surname. The thing with Bolt is that, not only did he choose that field, he

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