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by synthc 2y ago
I think the language has indeed reached a stable point and found its niche, which is small, but there are certainly domains where Clojure is the best fit. The ideas behind Clojure (functional, immutable datastructures, homoiconic syntax, fo
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by synthc 3y ago
Elastic is much more of a pita to maintain and monitor than Mongo
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by synthc 3y ago
I prefer curl and bash for testing API's, it's less polished, but very flexible and it will never break or require an account. But for sharing requests in a team an app is nice. I had a good experience with Bruno. Bonus point for
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by synthc 3y ago
Location: NL Remote: yes, or hybrid Willing to relocate: No Technologies: deep experience in stream processing and backend development, Kotlin, Java, Kafka, SQL, Clojure, AWS, GCP, Azure. Looking to get back into AI. Resume: https:/&#
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by synthc 3y ago
note: you have to make an introduction video just to apply
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by synthc 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | NL or REMOTE | Backend / Data / Streaming Hi i'm Chris, an experienced data & backend engineer with a decade of of experience in building reliable, scalable data platforms and data processing pipelines, usi
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by synthc 3y ago
'Modern' food can be ridiculously calorie dense, it's nearly impossible to compensate overeating with exercise. A single candy bar can have as much calories as a whole meal. Count calories for a couple months and you will lea
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by synthc 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | NL or REMOTE | Optimizing data pipelines Hi i'm Chris, an experienced data/backend engineer with a decade of of experience in building data platforms and processing pipelines, using Kafka, NoSQL databases and relate
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by synthc 3y ago
actual chemtrails, the conspiracy theorists will love it!
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by synthc 3y ago
Google's search quality has been going down the drain for years. I get more and more fake wikipedia and stack overflow SEO results and I use it less and less. Can't wait until some search oriented LLM company replaces it.
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by synthc 3y ago
Interesting paper, i've thought about this topic a lot. In previous projects I defined systems in a single code base, and parts could be deployed separately by providing different configuration files. It was a very productive approach:
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by synthc 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE or Netherlands Location: Utrecht, Netherlands My expertise is building reliable backend systems: efficient, stable systems that solve a business problem and can last for years with minimal maintenance. I'm for hir
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by synthc 3y ago
That really depends on the Montessori school and how gifted the kid is. Some kids need more challenge that hanging out with older kids, not all Montessori schools are ready to offer this.
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by synthc 3y ago
There are still tons of domains were GOFAI is very useful, like planning and scheduling, and also in cases where you don't have access to lots of training data or pretrained models.
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by synthc 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | NL, Remote | Backend, AI, Optimization I am a dedicated software developer with a background in artificial intelligence and 12 years of experience. My approach is rooted in a genuine passion for problem-solving: I like to exp
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by synthc 3y ago
My guess this is just a good 'ol corporate power struggle. There is no point in speculating until someone shows what the hell Q* even is.
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by synthc 3y ago
I heard this claim a lot but don't find it true, there is plenty of abandonware with lots of open issues
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by synthc 3y ago
XTDB is a recent implementation of these ideas. In their docs they call it a bitemporal database, but it seems to match what is called a temporal database in the paper
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by synthc 3y ago
static typing is a way to manage complexity, Rich Hickey is about avoiding complexity
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by synthc 3y ago
I still use a 2013 MacBook Pro. Emacs, my favorite editor, is simultaneously outdated and light years into the future
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by synthc 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE (EU timezone) I'm available for small projects or short consulting gigs, or full-time projects starting 2024. - Backend expert with 15 years of experience, mostly building big backend systems using JVM languages (
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by synthc 3y ago
Back in college I took a class in Prolog. We had to implement a Sudoku solver and at some point I got stuck. I was trying to bring over my imperative programming mindset, I had written a solver in Java before and I tried to port over the Ja
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by synthc 3y ago
Isn't the BEAM VM on which it runs rather slow?
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by synthc 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE (EU timezone) I'm available for small projects or short consulting gigs, or full-time projects starting 2024. - Backend expert with 15 years of experience, mostly building big backend systems using JVM languages (
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by synthc 3y ago
With logstash I had cases where it was taking more resources than the application that generated the damn logs. These days i prefer fluentd, but in some cases I let my apps insert directly into ElasticSearch.
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by synthc 3y ago
Cooking and climbing. Cooking is something that grew on me, I was a horrible cook when I moved out of my parents house. I just started with simple recipes, learned basic techniques, and expanded from there. I joined the local climbing assoc
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by synthc 3y ago
Logstash is terrible, i've had so many problems with it.
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by synthc 3y ago
437, accumulated over 2 decades
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by synthc 4y ago
It was only named 'dynamic programming' because its inventor thought is was a more marketable name: "I spent the Fall quarter (of 1950) at RAND. My first task was to find a name for multistage decision processes. An interesti
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by synthc 4y ago
Another reminder that VC-funded hosting does not last forever. Self-host your mission critical dependencies folks!

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