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by zirkonit 12y ago
Well-written. Monolithic and opinionated, in software libraries and frameworks, will always contrast with lite an modular. Some monoliths end up long-lasting (Rails?), some perish – as always, fitting the needs of your target audience is ke
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Show HN: Tiny Clojure library for formatting dates based on examples(github.com)
6 points by zirkonit 12y ago|0 comments
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by zirkonit 12y ago
Oh god. Time is a flat circle, 90s are having a comeback, now this, tomorrow under construction gifs and faux 3D buttons in framesets. The cringiest part is I do believe their usecase (huge annoying CLICK cursors over “buy now” buttons) jus
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by zirkonit 12y ago
This can certainly be boiled to “when engineering a product, be thoughtful of how it can be (ab)used – if it can be, it will be”. Which is obviously a great advice from any perspective.
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by zirkonit 12y ago
I can agree, and I can disagree. I definitely wouldn't compare software engineering to medicine; rather, I see a more apt analogy in, actually, _engineering_ – whereas designing a firearm is just as noble and ethical Software is eating
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by zirkonit 12y ago
Obviously more of an art project than anything else, but a brilliant direction to focus our thinking on. Insect protein really is a good direction to grow our meat consumption in, and if at first “toy” projects like this mostly provoke disg
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by zirkonit 12y ago
Half software development / half data science. Clojure, Ruby + beginner Golang for softdev, R, Weka, Mathematica, Ruby and a bit of Python for data science. On the web side, I'm almost purely backend developer.
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by zirkonit 12y ago
And the slogan of solidarity to the victims of the tragedy, for the unaware.
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by zirkonit 12y ago
Misleading headline. This is a complete -solution- for a limited poker version. Really strong, but stochastic, Hold'em algorithms have existed for a long time.
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by zirkonit 12y ago
Je suis Charlie.
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by zirkonit 12y ago
Immensely useful thread, thanks a lot.
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Thanks for the experience. I thought about that but wasn't sure it is a productive effort. A successful anecdote is extremely helpful.
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by zirkonit 12y ago
I do have savings, I'm not in a burning position. I did get a job, but it's not in softdev; I'd prefer working in engineering. I don't exactly _have_ to avoid my old network, but I wouldn't to explain them what kind
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Ask HN: Restarting my career. In a tough spot. Need your advice
9 points by zirkonit 12y ago|15 comments
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by zirkonit 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote Available for Clojure or Ruby-based software and web development. Proficient in data science, data analysis (using R + Weka + Mathematica + Go + Ruby). Currently changing locations in Asia; only available for remote wo
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by zirkonit 12y ago
In the end, management is just like engineering – getting the outcome you need despite all the constraints. Negative personality traits of the team is a constraint just like anything else – a smart leader will be able to foster thinkers int
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by zirkonit 12y ago
Makes sense, thanks for the perspective.
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by zirkonit 12y ago
Curious to know, thanks.
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by zirkonit 12y ago
Nothing particularly special, every travel startup has some internal DB/toolset to (re)create proper geoschema. Front-end tooling is pretty nice, though; I believe content editors' productivity using AT-AT is much higher than usin
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by zirkonit 12y ago
A trip down memory lane. Some of the “hot” technologies took off (CPU architectures, genome computations, ray tracing); some lingered on in the same early 2000s state (genetic algorithms, etc). I, for one, am slightly puzzled why genetic al
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by zirkonit 12y ago
I love OpenBSD and this is in no way a bash, but… ugh Who were the most productive developers? Top three in terms of lines added: I understand this is just a funny page with some metrics, but seriously calling people who added most L
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by zirkonit 12y ago
A solid project with very little visibility – I, for one, heard about it only with this post! Good luck to Luca and the Lotus team in 2015!
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by zirkonit 12y ago
=) Nice link, didn't know about it!
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by zirkonit 12y ago
Good point!
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by zirkonit 12y ago
What's funny is that MS-DOS is only 4 years older than Windows, initial MS-DOS release being 33 years old whereas Windows is 29 years old. I'm pretty sure that in 2018, there won't be a “Windows Showcase” giving such a rush o