throwaway8291

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by throwaway8291 7y ago
Topcoder, leetcode, SPOJ, Projecteuler, ...
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
I do not any degree, but I do have things on my CV that lead to interviews and offers: * community contributions - I do not find it special any more, but I learned that it is not the default: I have basically millions of people using text a
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
As a thought experiment: Imagine all that data was open and everybody could query and use it. Because my gut tells me, it will be in a decade or two.
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
> Text only. I have a good experience reading news and blogs via links. Example: links -dump " https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/13/science/hermit-crabs-weal... | less
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
I'm lucky to be European. I can sleep well, since almost everybody got their basic health care need covered by our system. About 15% of my income goes into healthcare provider - once I am registered, I can use almost any facility avail
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
We use IRC at work and it's just as useful and fun as ever, there are IRC clients that consume a few megabytes (hello Slack). SET autolog ON, then keep all your chat history grep-able in your home folder (again, only consuming megabyte
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
Archived: http://archive.is/p3ZK7
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
It's interesting that open source lives off transparency and equality (e.g. with git, anyone can at least start to put a patch together), whereas many other vital parts of society like finance, business, politics only work, when you ex
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
I'm in the camp of moving my stuff out of GitHub (thankfully so many nice options, like GitLab, gitea/gogs, and of course sourcehut) because the only reason I do not hate Microsoft is that I was able to avoid any of their tech suc
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
These metrics are signals. Interestingly, we already have an extreme information asymmetry between platforms and users. The softened version of these moves is to make the experiences more authentic, the less soft version is to increase the
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
It's funny to imagine the year 2024. There are millions of small fake worlds consisting of streams of events, videos, and conversations - a beautiful algorithmic balancer will keep each of these quasi-communities humming, guiding their
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
If I ask to convert my EUR into USD, the US bank will hold more EUR, less USD. Less USD decreases my liquidity, which is what's on one end of the table in the repo market, no?
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
A shot in the dark: It's European capital buying US dollar denominated securities en masse, as Europe is couple of basis points less attractive than the US at the moment. Strong dollar as side effect, which started at around Spring 201
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
Germany had boom times and 1/3 of a few regions already voted for a right wing, borderline fascist party. Imagine what will happen (in a few years) if economy tanks and people seek to punish previous governments even more.
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
There's a company in my town, hiring devs for a fully robotic kitchen setup. Ingredients are deposited, machines cook meals. A single person can take care of the joint. You can replace a $100k/month bill on personel for a mid-size
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
It seems very clear to the man on the street, the fights are getting more fierce. Assets prices increase and the bottom 80% are getting squeezed out of many things, slowly but surely: education, housing and with that also out of participati
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
TL;DR: 80% of software companies which IPO do not make profit (higher than in 1999), too much cheap capital has distorted the market.
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The Tech Bubble of 2019(youtube.com)
8 points by throwaway8291 7y ago|3 comments
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
> There's too much fragmentation in this space and it'll be hard to have the self-sustaining critical mass. You do not need to have a single platform, though. All you would need is a single, in the best case open, index of meet
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
Technology gets better, alright. And there so many things, I can do today, I could not do just a decade ago. Hardware is fantastic, it's fast, almost never fails, it's lightweight and just works. The software side has been a great
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
I have no advice, just a anecdata: Me and people I know got into consulting, because we were interested in certain technologies; really interested, researched all stuff, tried to answer all questions on those matters, engage with people onl
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
Language is a sensible thing, and draws all kinds of demarcations. A single word can shift the perception of a person. A circle might identify an outlier by just a slip of tongue. If you are from another socioeconomic stratum (or somewhere
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
Throwaway account. Although I studied CS and did most of the coursework, I do not have a formal degree. I do have public profiles, top ranked on a popular programming site, dozen open source projects and I wrote a book. In short: I had all