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Hi there, I‘m Evgeny!

I‘m an experienced JavaScript developer focusing on fast-growing startups.

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript, NodeJS, React, NextJS, Redux, AWS (I'm a Certified Cloud Practitioner), etc.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ycagwyw

Personal: https://esamsonov.com

Email: iam@esamsonov.com
Old supercomputers - those built before the days of rows of racks - had such character, though! I worked at PNNL in the late 90s, and while they did have newer supercomputers that had a more traditional rack design, they also had a number of older ones that were obviously designed to be seen as well as used.
Thanks, will have a look at this.
Deeply uninspiring.

5Ghz gets blocked by the thinnest brick walls. We all live in castles in Europe so 5Ghz practically only works line-of-sight. Makes it pretty expensive and cable-intensive to deploy [well] in a large building.

It's also disheartening when a new standard comes out and device manufacturers flock to replace all their old single-radio, single-antenna devices with shiny new... single-radio, single-antenna devices. Wave2/MU-MIMO should be a base requirement.

Is there any progress on improving longer band wifi? Ie sub-2.4GHz, or 2.4GHz coordination between masts so devices can actually roam well?
Google records everything in voice search on iPhone, Android, desktop
This would also be excellent for many arcade games (and many faithful arcade ports) that were originally designed for arcade cabinets using a portrait orientation.

My first thought is playing some classic Ikaruga, but there’s heaps more games (not just shootem ups) out there that are better in their original portrait mode.

Edit: in case anyone is curious why this would be better than a normal screen on a stand that can rotate. It’s because the majority of screens are not designed with significant vertical viewing angles, so when rotated they become visually less appealing for people to gather round and enjoy like the classic crt screens of old arcade machines.
So it is actually the other way around. The core Kubernetes objects will become CRDs, and the Kubernetes code will move to operators.
Paper cited suggests 164K km^2 (about 40 million acres) of total turfgrass.

USDA estimate for corn crop in the US is almost 92 million acres.

Note that the paper claims that turfgrass is 3x larger than the largest irrigated crop, not that it's larger than all crops. Only about 20% of US corn is irrigated (~80% is rain watered only).

[1] - https://www.isprs.org/proceedings/XXXVI/8-W27/milesi.pdf

[2] - https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2019/07/29/corn-americas-lar...
Been using Visual Studio Code recently for an embedded ARM project.

It's the only electron application I've seen that's not dog-slow.

Guessing most other developers don't put in the needed effort to make their Electron apps decent?
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Hi there, I‘m Evgeny!
I‘m an experienced JavaScript developer focusing on fast-growing startups.

Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript, NodeJS, React, NextJS, Redux, AWS (I'm a Certified Cloud Practitioner), etc.

UpWork: https://www.upwork.com/fl/esamsonov

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ycagwyw

Personal: https://esamsonov.com

Email: iam@esamsonov.com
Biometric Keystroke Based Authentication (2015)
How FedEx and UPS’s battle against Amazon is changing online retail
> one where the polish of photography or video is no longer any clue at all about the provenance of what we’re encountering.

At least with software I’ve pretty much always felt uneasy when there was lots of polish. When I was a kid and I saw the web pages auto generated from texinfo I’d get this reflexive “oh this is written by a programmer and not some PR person” feeling even though I had no idea what texinfo or GNU was.
I spent the last two or three years learning all of the core fiddly bits of AWS. In 2020, my goals are more about “sharpening the saw” by going deeper in C#/.Net Core and the related frameworks, Typescript and Python.

Also focusing on documentation, architectural diagramming and communicating more clearly with non technical people - “the business”.

I’m hedging bets between preparing for a “right now” job or contract as an engineer if things go sideways and the “right job” when the time comes as overpriced consultant working for a consulting company.

Most of my time studying outside of work is done by watching videos on my AppleTV in my home gym while working out. Luckily, now part of my job is what they call unofficially “special operations” - to do proof of concepts using a technology and coming up with documentation and deployment strategies.
AWS seems to use a variation of calendar versioning for some of their APIs. In practice, it seems perfectly fine.
Human eyes are amazing. By the second or third visit to any website, they start skipping over the unwanted parts like ad boxes.
Or a factory method returning a singleton as a null object
One big thing: Pharma hikes prices for hundreds of drugs
Pharmaceutical companies began 2020 the same way they begin every year: with price hikes on hundreds of drugs.

Between the lines: The price increases are salt in the wound following Congress' failure to pass meaningful drug price legislation in 2019, and are already being used to make the political case for action this year.

By the numbers: As of Friday, drug companies had increased the prices of 445 products by a median of 5%, according to an analysis by 3 Axis Advisors. More hikes are expected throughout January.

Read full article -- https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-vitals-64c5533a-d162-404a-bc4c-baa2afe2561a.html?chunk=0#story0

And A good Read Quora: [Is Donald Trump a bad president or does the media exaggerate his faults? (212 answers)](https://www.quora.com/Is-Donald-Trump-a-bad-president-or-does-the-media-exaggerate-his-faults?ch=99&share=5d44b8ca&srid=uQDqk)
Pretty much every medium to big government entity and private corporation or bank runs some sort of Oracle DB or software with foggy ROI. Their customers are on the business of not losing what they already have, so a couple million here and there is not a big deal.
This protects you against licences you don't expect, but not against malicious or subverted dependencies.

Since a dependency can generally do anything your application has privileges for, widely depended-on libraries are an attractive target. A cattle approach means more dependencies, and it being easier for new ones to sneak in.
I've only read Hemingway, and no doubt to my taste that Steinbeck is a much better writer (despite Hemingway's reputation).

One thing I love about Steinbeck is that he is a true artist in the level of detail and research he puts into his writing. There is so much grounded substance in there, so much depth, hard work, and yet he doesn't show off, doesn't throw it in your face. A huge amount of wisdom can be found in East of Eden, more than any other book I've read.
Who Is Titian? Exploring the Life and Art of the Renaissance Master of Color
I have the same problem - I'm trying out these apps - Blinkist and getAbstract that basically summarise books into 10 min reads. My experience with them so far is that the material has been condensed a bit too much.
I wrote a library for ffi (nifs) in elixir using zig, and a long term goal is for it to be easier to use zig as an intermediary for c library ffi than it is to use c.

Already importing blas into elixir with it is crazy easy.
> From what the media sources I follow has told me about the Iranian people, they are all fairly educated and the country has an established scholarly system that enables most citizens to achieve greater education. As I saw further down in the thread that you are actually an Iranian yourself, please correct me if I am wrong.

Iran is a big country with very big divisions. Younger people and middle class are educated and relatively secular but the older generations and specially rural areas can be very backwards.

> In my view, destabilizing the regime provides some path to democracy, while keeping it in place provides no path to democracy.

It could potentially lead to democracy. But it could lead to far far worse outcomes as well. In Iran's case, the worse outcomes are more likely because:

1. Geographically, it's literally in-between Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan and therefore ISIS, Taliban and Al-Qaeda.

2. Thanks to Islamic Republic, it has big enemies, including but not limited to USA, Saudi Arabia and Israel.

3. It has vast natural resources (Oil, Gas) and attracts foreign interests.

4. Revolutions are _rarely_ constructive. Read George Orwell's Animal Farm. When I first I read, I though, how could this man write the book of Islamic Republic so many decades earlier? But it turns out almost all revolutions have a similar trajectory: They go to shit.

> As I said before, I don't believe there is any "responsible" way to perform regime change.

> As an Iranian yourself, do you really think it was ever possible that the hardliners would voluntarily step down themselves? I agree that JCPOA should have been upheld, but I frankly don't know enough to say if it would have set Iran on a path to democracy.

Of course no hardliner is ever going to step down. However, by allowing reformers and moderate forces to make progress, we give them more power.

It won't be quick at all. Takes decades and generations. But to me it seems the only real and viable path.

> I have not yet made enough money to pay federal taxes, so my hands are clean for at least the next few months. I do understand your point though.

Don't beat yourself to it. Even if you were a taxpayer I wouldn't ever think your hands are not clean. I'm an American taxpayer myself. I live in the states. I don't think anyone who paid tax to the U.S. has blood on their hands or whatever.

All I'm saying is, when talking about war, or supporting it, let's make sure we have a really good understanding of the subject matter. Otherwise we could be supporting an unjust war.

Sorry again about the personal attack. Harsh times.
> are familiar with his most famous phrase

In some cases, possibly, via Asterix: https://www.everythingasterix.com/latin-jokes-content/2015/4...
As another poster said, yes : you can find good word vectors for most languages.

Furthermore, given a copy of the text from wikipedia, it only takes 2 days of computation on a laptop with a modern GPU to regenerate them from scratch for any language having a wikipedia (I did that using two R packages a few years ago, I expect that it would be even simpler nowadays).
If you want more syntax weirdness: tab characters are illegal.
It’s Not Just Software: New Safety Risks Under Scrutiny on Boeing’s 737 Max
Guessing the mutation rate in the seeds from the radioactive ones will be higher than normal?
Not using TS means leaving a lot of useful tools on the floor.

The ECMAScript standardization is process is invaluable, after all TS builds upon it. But TS provides a saner subset (and adds a very productive type system), without that I wouldn't touch "modern" JS even with a stick.
> Dependencies are cattle, not pets.

It depends on your context. Sometimes, dependencies are not pets, but weights on your airplane.
“Please download and distribute” Stephanie Hofeller's gerymandering dad's backup
> There's nothing wrong with having zillions of them...

There's nothing wrong until something goes wrong an now you're royally screwed. With zillion dependencies you are at a mercy of zillion maintainers, and none of them has any obligation to you. They can break backwards compatibility in patch releases, introduce subtle behavior changes, steer the project in an unexpected direction or abandon it altogether.
"professional slacker who knows all these psychological tricks"

You are my spiritual brother!

Same here...

I was really motivated in my 1st and 2nd job after leaving uni. Then the gravity kicks in, realized that noone wants me to work extra hard as that only makes other people look bad.
"Deceased GOP Strategist's Daughter Makes Files Public That Republicans Wanted Sealed":

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/05/785672201/deceased-gop-strate...
What about Ionic then?
Your competition gave an estimate of 2 points, did the work, got paid and moved on. Now you are supporting the feature...
No strong opinion here, but I see calver as a good fit for a new / rapidly changing project (with yyyymmdd being a both version and snapshot date), or for a software where you don't need semver guarantees about api change - so not for a library or for some important tool that is often scripted.

Or, as described in the project, calver might be good as a release date for a "umbrella projects" - like Ubuntu, or even Windows 10 builds.
Interesting. I wonder how threatened Oracle's business is by the big cloud providers, Amazon and Microsoft specifically? I guess not enough to reflect it on the stock price.
The Springs Ran Dry. Then This Australian Town Burned
Thoughts on CoRecursive? It's a conversational interview podcast that I like about topics that are relevant.
OpenBOR
Quantum mechanics as stochastic optimization on spacetimes (2019)
It uses "comptime" which, loosely, is a compile time version of the language. I would say it's a huge improvement over C in that quite frankly string interpolation for a preprocessor is terrible. I can't compare to rust since my brain can't parse rust syntax; too many bells and whistles.
I don’t get the part on custom alias for free?

Only a con for Zoho email is IMAP is no longer a free option, but we do lots of subscription for clients which is quite smooth so far.
Great work! I'm just behind you working on my own alternate language x86 kernel in Ada: https://github.com/ajxs/cxos

Admittedly I don't know much about Zig, but it's good to see people investigating languages other than C. I'm still not convinced of Rust's merits in this area, we'll see how this develops with time.
Startups Chase $55B Boom Fueled by California Privacy Law
Only <script> blocks by default, <link rel="stylesheet"> doesn't.
> Loneliness is an involuntary reaction that arises from a lack of meaningful social connections.

If you have these meaningful social connections and you can talk with them about stuff that really matters to you, that's great. However if you cannot do any fun activities together, that can also provoke a sense of loneliness. Ideally the full package is available, including a satisfying job and all that but maybe that's just unrealistic ;)
Website Performance Booster
It's linted out iirc. Is it really strange to mandate that code look explicit and have no ambiguous whitespace?
> or you can work hard in your 20s and 30s and then spend your only time on this earth doing things that interest you, with your spouse

What if your spouse wanna spend her 20s and 30s with you, in a place that has a normal cost of living, doing a job that doesn't require you to be on 60hours a week?

What if she doesn't wanna wait for you to retire or she doesn't want to retire early (or can't)?

What if you spend your 20s and 30s to do the things you like and interest you and then spend the rest of your life working a steady job enjoying your family?

It is possible to work hard in your 20s and still have a lot of time to do what you like.

It is not possible to do what you like in your 60s with the same energy you had in your 20s.

It's not binary, you either work or stay with the people you love doing interesting stuff, you can do both if you realise that retiring at 38 is not that important as a goal.
Twitterati outraged over Accenture, Zoho top executives plan to attend RSS event
Why is this being downvoted?

It is a interesting contribution and gives valuable insight into the article that has been posted.
For changes that are a pure file rename 'git mv' tracks those pretty cleanly. Anything beyond that... I don't know of any good tooling either.
Airtame (https://airtame.com) | Copenhagen, Denmark/ Budapest, Hungary | Full-time, Onsite/Remote

Airtame is a young Danish company that develops a wireless streaming product for businesses and education. We are based in windy Copenhagen but have offices in New York and Budapest.

We're currently hiring:

Full-Stack Engineer - Budapest or Remote (Europe) (https://boards.greenhouse.io/airtamejobs/jobs/4307730002)

Senior Software Engineer - Budapest or Remote (Europe)(https://boards.greenhouse.io/airtamejobs/jobs/4321086002)

Product Manager - Copenhagen (https://boards.greenhouse.io/airtamejobs/jobs/4542959002)

Technical Support Manager - Copenhagen (https://boards.greenhouse.io/airtamejobs/jobs/4541555002)

Meet Airtame's engineering team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jUqPWEvMlg&list=PLnZhp4hHHk...
The WebAssembly Hub to Share Wasm Extensions for Envoy Proxy
In an ever-connected world, it's entirely plausible for you to die alone and for no one to have seemingly cared.[0]

[0] - https://www.oddee.com/item_98735.aspx
A $1B Solar Plant Was Obsolete Before It Ever Went Online
JavaScript TV – Tech Talks on React, CSS and Anything JavaScript
Well, I encourage you to stop supporting the animal-killing industries! As more and more people are doing. Butchers and ads for eating lambs will start to appear remarkably macabre. I did almost 30 years ago, haven't missed "meat" at all, not once. Even the production of cow's milk nowadays is very ugly–keeping cows pregnant and killing their babies to keep their milk flowing–so I went vegan. No trouble at all. It quickly becomes a habit, like anything else, and I never think about it, except once every couple of years writing a comment like this!
I’m not arguing either way. But that’s still not where the money or growth is. Cloud computing only makes up 5% of enterprise (big Fortune 500 companies) computer spend.

MS recognized moving enterprises with boring workloads to Azure was where the money was along with hybrid computing. That’s how it was able to succeed so quickly.

Besides,Microsoft has always been focused on the dark matter developers doing boring stuff. Their tooling is far better than Google’s and their IDEs that developers are already using integrate with their cloud offerings.
Lookup groups on Meetup.com, when I first moved to a new city, did not know anyone, started going to meetup.com, then I started my own meetup group. Lot of work, but have built a good list of good friends. Making and maintaining friends is work, you need to put time into it. No one comes out of the blue and want to be your friend (well unless you are rich or hot)...but I know many hot/rich people who are lonely too.
Serious question - is there any reason why naming things with consecutive simple numbers isn't the best approach?

WiFi 1, WiFi 2

...

MacBook Air 1, MacBook Air 2

...

MacOS 10, MacOS 11

I know some of these are already named this way, they're just examples.

Using the year would also be a good (or even better) approach, as it gives you two pieces of information.

I understand that it may not be the best marketing approach, but it would make life so much easier for consumers - if I need a new anything I want to know exactly which is the latest, if I look at second hand items I want to know how far behind it is quickly, without requiring extensive research.

When buying an iPad for instance it took me ages to figure out how far behind the models I was looking at in eBay were...
Collection of Machine Learning Resources
Croquet: A 30-Year Old Cosmic Dream of Augmented Reality, Collaboration, and 5G
They are at least in the sense that instead of a small group of individuals attempting to process all the information (impossible), you have a large number of individuals processing subsets of the information (possible, but can have it's own issues like missing the forest for the threes).
I am interested in programming and riding my mountainbike through the woods. While the latter is pretty dangerous and i really should find someone to do it together with - just for safety purposes - I have a hard time going somewhere where i could get to know people. And if I do, I usually keep myself from getting them to know any better than the usual 'hi, how are you?'
My two cents: Consider starting some side projects on your spare time.

Choose topics in which you have genuine interest, use tech you're not familiar with, adopt different architectural styles, make it public (ex: GitHub) and share progress with developer friends / team mates.

Before you know you will feel more confident with your tech skills, may start seeing opportunities to apply recent learnings into your daily tasks and even if you really decide to jump ship these projects may come in hand while interviewing for other positions.
Clipping nails is probably all you need from that list. You can still be unshaven (provided your stubble looks like man stubble, not pubes) be a bit of a dirtbag, earn slightly less money and get more women. No one gives a shit if you are well spoken, you can have a silver tongue without using the Queen's English, in fact it helps if you enjoy abusing grammar.

As for attracting interesting women you actually wanna marry. Yeah you should probably have interests outside of tech. If all you are interested in is tech that makes you really boring because it's one of those subjects with no spillover. If you're an artist people might not appreciate the technicalities of mixing oil paints but they will enjoy looking at your paintings. Tech is impenetrable unless you are also in it. No one gives a fuck about that graph problem you solved that just made your distributed system more scalable because they don't understand half of those words. Imagine two people speaking a language you don't speak to each other and all they want to do is talk in that language. So boring.
For several years, I fed my lawn an organic diet (corn gluten meal in the spring, which serves as a mild pre-emergent, then mixes of cracked corn, alfalfa, soybean meal, often in the form of horse and rabbit feed).

Healthy grass, cut somewhat higher than typical will outcompete most weeds. The only weed I wasn't able to control effectively enough this way were grassy weeds (poa trivialis and poa annua). Triv patches had to be mechanically removed and annua needed late summer chemical pre-emergent (CGM isn't effective enough there). Once those were dramatically reduced (from the "yard" I inherited when we bought the place), the organic system was effective in keeping a >95th percentile lawn. That lawn was more resilient and beautiful than any of the chemically fertilized lawns (whether high or low input) I've maintained. In addition, we had more wild rabbits than I've ever seen, providing additional entertainment for the kids.

The big issue with the organic lawn feeding is that it's quite bulky. No more 15 pound bag of sulfur coated urea that would do two fertilizer applications on my small city lawn. Instead, it was 30-50# bags of organic material that had to bought at Agway or Tractor Supply (necessitating a car trip) and couldn't reasonably be stored for a long time due to bulk and being organic (subject to rotting and rodent infestation). It's also more expensive than the chemical feeding, but still not prohibitive.
> Why is this being downvoted?

So was the other comment by the same user. They're being downvoted because they're critical of a Democratic presidential candidate.
In the UK, someone on £80k ($105k) will pay £25k ($33k) in tax. That includes healthcare

In the US, someone on that amount in Denver will pay $29k in tax.

That's not an extraordinary difference, even before you factor in health care costs.
How much innate knowledge can the genome encode?
AI for Planogram Data
Agreed. I found this project helpful for automating dependency checks:
https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder

I actually played around with turning it into a GitHub action for further usability improvement, although it needs more work:
https://github.com/ralexander-phi/license_approval
Sensing light is distinguished from seeing in the first sentence of the abstract:

>>Almost all animals can sense light, but only those with
spatial vision can ‘‘see.’’
The True Cause of the Opioid Epidemic