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Location: Melbourne, Australia (UTC+10)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies:
- Backend: Python (Django), Java, Go
- DB: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server
- Pega Systems
Résumé/CV:

Systems and Computing Engineer who has serious professional, academic, and personal aspirations. I have an experience focused mainly on Software development with a recognized background as requirement analyst, developer, QA, and support analyst.

Recently, I worked with Pega Systems in a massive bank project in America where I got a CSA certification. I have strong experience with Pega Systems in many of its modules such as SLAs, Application, Case, and Decision design, Data Model, UI and Reporting as well. Besides, I have worked in many agile environments and used Jira and Github as
repositories and issue tracking tools. I'm working right now in a startup building the backend for a new online bank in Australia, but due to the COVID-19, there were some budget cuts and I have to look for another opportunity.

I have performed efficiently my work demonstrating precise attention to details, deep analysis, a doubtless responsibility and leadership.

Email: julian.nunezm@gmail.com
The author says: "If they have — and you’re a resident of California or a citizen of the EU — the company is legally obligated to give you your profile, too."

Sure, they're obligated to give you your profile per GDPR. But if you're within the GDPR's jurisdiction, they're obligated to get your consent BEFORE they collect personal information about you. If they haven't, they're liable for at least millions of euros of fines.
Mathematical Concepts: How Do Mathematicians Jump to Conclusions? (1998)
As I see it, the takeaway is that an accidental benefit of SQL is that it can never resemble any UI?
StorePreviewer – Enables You to Preview Your App on App Store Without Publishing
Hermes: A fast fault-tolerant and linearizable replication protocol
Astronomers Use Slime Mould to Map the Universe’s Largest Structures
Time Machine has one huge issue: when it doesn't work, it becomes a bigger problem.
its called a mac
I came here to make the same comment. I don't like what this company is doing, but the information is already public. People should know that anyone can read your public data and assemble it. It is not very different to living in a town. In a town everyone knows public, and no so public, information about everyone. Police, or a private investigator, can always go and interrogate the butcher or the hairdresser and ask information about you. They can also read the local gazette. The difference now, and it is not minor, is that the town is global.

Privacy starts from us not revealing our private information. That's why we have curtains at home. It is us who put the curtains on windows.
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I'd say Kraken is the most trustworthy exchange, and it's available in the US as well.
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> the world has always been anonymous because of the lack of capability to track large amounts of data - until recently.

The first data privacy law ("loi informatique et liberté") were introduced in France around 1980, after a controversial government project to create a massive database of people generated a huge scandal.

So it's been possible for quite a while, it's just that it was reserved to state actors.
> Typically governments are not expected to build things efficiently and with quality

I suspect a large source of that sentiment is just marketing, companies need to go out and sell their accomplishments, whereas a civil servant can stop once the job is done. The politicians on the other hand seems to spend most of their time selling promises about the future, rather than things they have actually done.
Could watching over VPN to other territories be an issue? or would that just be noise in the metrics? I'm primarily thinking of something like watching disney+ from countries outside their current distribution
In QML/QtQuick, the Positioner does exactly this[1]

[1]: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-column.html#spacing-prop
I imagine the ToS were written as such in order to make sure some features can be monetized (like offline or screen-off playback). But this just means they would not offer any feature for free that undermines this decision. A "0px" video would effectively turn it into an audio-only stream and be an "official" way for others to bypass some of those restrictions. It would make streaming to all devices that now require a Premium/Music membership, or stream ripping (something they don't actually sue for but insist it's illegal) fair game.
Someone flag this propaganda conspiracy crap.
MVP.css – Minimalist stylesheet for HTML elements
> I personally use obs-virtual-cam on windows but most of my company and most of the tech world lives on mac for work.

I was wondering about that some days ago that how many "high profile" CEOs are outliers in their company using Windows or Linux
In Praise of the iPadOS 13.4 Cursor
I remember the Snow Crash MOO! I spent a while there around 1996-1997: it was (despite the name) sort of William Gibson themed - I vaguely remember it being distributed across multiple hosts, and being impressed at the time that it was running on an SGI box. I think the language was standard MOO.
Surprised not see any talk about slab allocations.

Typical malloc implementations today use slabs:

A variety of allocation-classes is defined; for example, 1B, 2B, 4B, 8B, ...

Each allocation-class is essentially its own independent heap.

Slabs are really good:

Allocation is fast: a few cycles to determine the slab, then pick the first available cell, done.

Compaction is easy: all cells have the same size!

And I repeat, all cells within an allocation-class have the same size! This means things like pin cards, etc...

Compared to the pointer-chasing inherent to a splay-tree... I do wonder.
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Exactly. Otherwise, this is just a vector for any person to exploit the process and freely play cop by uploading a photo of someone they're trying to track.
Arithmetic, Population and Exponential Growth by Al Bartlett [video]
Send them a GDPR/CCPA deletion request now: https://yourdigitalrights.org/?company=clearview.ai
It is also worth noting that the fatality rate of cases that get artificial ventilation is about 50 % even in ideal conditions. While it can save a lot of lifes, keeping the total number of cases low is still absolutely crucial.
It is useful yes, but so is massive surveillance. That doesn't make it a good thing.
> During the waitlist suspension, users will be able to borrow books from the National Emergency Library without joining a waitlist

Normally, digital libraries have a limited number of "copies" (I suppose that's what they mean by "waitlist"). In this case, it seems like they suspended the limitation.
Your reasoning for learning C is biased (perhaps you don't know it well as you suggested the others to know the basics)! At the end, hardware understands only values. C is a minimal, efficient and readable language which survived for decades although there are hundreds of other programming languages. It remains an active programming language as long as there is a good compiler support.
They have YouTube premium for that feature.
Because some of us agree that not everything is free beer and people that provide information also have bills to pay.
Wonder when something similar appears named JohnTitor.
Do we need the steam bags to pack the n95 respirators? Or is it okay to just put inside the oven.
> community driven project

Check out the contributors page for this project. [1] This is not a community driven project. It's a one man show.

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[1] https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/graphs/contributors
I never imagined the big G would have to worry about scalability
Tools for Debugging and Profiling Qt 3D Applications
I think this is the correct take from this. It's also one of those situations where US law would be superior over poorly coded civil law (like Russia apparently has). As I understand they only evaluate that the violation occurred (i.e.: person dead, in crosswalk, done by attacker on vehicle). Absent additional information like cam footage showing them jumping out of a bush at the last moment into the crosswalk for insurance fraud, the case will result in a conviction.

It is simply the case that things happen out of a driver's control. In the US you'd be looking at a consideration for involuntary manslaughter charge (or perhaps a lesser negligence charge) if it was found that they were speeding or impaired. Absent those circumstances, it's unlikely any charge would be brought forth. There are some other ways a similar charge could be brought in an investigation, but that's generally how it goes.

A final note on the topic of getting drunk and playing in traffic. I highly recommend you get people that do stuff like this to sign up for organ donation. I have a good friend who had a congenital heart defect that benefited from a heart transplant. This was after the donor walked into traffic blitzed on holiday. So it might be that out of the tragedy of a wasted life they might be able to save someone else's.
Neutering extensions was necessary as they were a major privacy problem in itself. Most extensions would inject themselves in any page, having access to everything on such sites; for example your bank login, credit card transaction details, private FB messages, Gmail etc.
Sure but most Chinese factories operate using manufacturing equipment made in the US or Germany.
It is tangentially relevant CS-Trivia. I found it to be interesting and fun. The only think completely useless is unfortunately your comment.
Would you help and use Clearview if it was being used in your governments strategy against coronavirus?

Would you volunteer your time to tag images with your friends and acquaintances, to help slow down the virus? To do otherwise would be immoral and lead to the death of thousands, right?

To those worried about that, it's just temporary. It would just last a few months and then you don't need to worry about it any more. This is a global war and we have to make sacrifices and take important actions.
The governments are the customers of such products. We can't expect them to protect us.
How Netflix Works
Swift still doesn't have a mature standard library implementation that works across all platforms.

So you have to do OS specific imports directly, for basic stuff like calling a random number generator or handling IO.

It is even done so on the introduction pages, https://swift.org/getting-started/

Foundation outside Apple platforms is pretty much WIP.
If you can share a view details on your setup that would be great!
Shampoo bottles make little sense to make in China. The processes are highly automated, the feedstock is cheaper in the US (way more petrochemical inputs and cheaper energy) and it would be madness to ship empty shampoo bottles over long distances.
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My preschooler is probably something like INTP. Teleconference learning is not working great for her so far.
I was an organizer of Solid back in the day, and it was one of the most fun things I have been involved in. RIP....
To be honest, I used to call it gist-code then I renamed it halfway into it. I guess that was a better name after all :D
"It would just last a few months and then you don't need to worry about it any more."

I heard about this before...
Although neither the webpage nor README explains how it works, I'm guessing it misses a vital Time Machine feature, which is FSLogger.

If you have lots of files, scanning your whole directory tree every hour is too resource intensive, especially on battery power.
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Can confirm pg_comparator is a very solid piece of software.
I haven't evaluated how important is that for daily uses. :)
I saw there was a discussion in CommonMark's forum.
I think my eyes always track back when I realize something is wrong in how I have interpreted the sentence.
> no other solutions that wouldn't sink the US economy

After this pandemics is over I think we'll know better what "no other solutions that wouldn't sink the US economy" actually means. I suspect that behind the typical talk about sinking "the US economy" is not what it appears to be, especially if one talks about "capitalism" versus others.

Namely, since a some decades ago both China and Russia are technically capitalistic societies. Therefore I interpret the statements only as "will our empire continue to be the empire." The empire is kept primarily with the arms, and they aren't going away, whatever changes.
Are they actually using it, though? Or are they just a search engine presenting public links that are hosting the photos of your face? Is linking to something covered by GDPR?

Couldn't this same argument be made for Google reverse image search? Reverse image search someone's face and you're likely to get links to places that photo is located; potentially including links to different photos of their face, as well.

They're likely mirroring local copies of the photos as well when they show you the link (in case a link later 404s or changes), but so is Google reverse image search, I believe.

If your position is that both things are wrong, that's fine, but would Google then basically have to remove the entire feature? Or prevent searches for any photo containing any faces?
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Yes I will. But only if assurances are made that all this work will be destroyed after the pandemic is over. I give my consent for one task and after that task is over that data should not be used. Its the same case as people being allowed to kill in war but not after. Although weapons are kept after wars strict measures are in place to stop them from reaching unauthorized hands. These measures are not perfect but they are really good and in good faith should be continuously improved.
Facebook, Microsoft partner with WHO for coronavirus hackathon
Slight correction. Your first bullet point, and hence your proof that ℚ cannot contain π, is correct.

A number x is algebraic over ℚ if and only if it generates a finite field extension, i.e. if x, x^2, x^3, etc. have a linear dependence relation.

However, as jopolous pointed out, you can get infinite dimensional algebraic field extensions by adjoining infinitely many algebraic numbers. For example, the set of all numbers which are algebraic over ℚ is a field, and this field is an infinite degree extension of ℚ.
What would be the business implications to consider for going open-source?
What would be the business implications if a company like for example bubble.io converted their offering to an open-source project, where companies could host / run an app themselves or pay for a hosted option by bubble.io?

I'm asking because we have built something similar and we are contemplating the roadmap for us as a open-source project with a paid hosting service, vs just the paid hosting service. We also want to consider this from a technical and investor perspective.
Not exactly the same scenario, but I just wanted to share a neat little hack I discovered yesterday… I work with a team who now meet in Google Hangouts but it doesn’t work over the company’s internal network yet… so I couldn’t share my screen to do a demo of an internal app. Instead, I got another computer which was on the internal network, plugged the HDMI output into an Elgato Camlink, which made it show up as a Webcam. Beyond needing two computers, it worked much easier than I thought—more reliably actuallly than any camera I’d plugged into the Camlink until now.
Miniscule, and growing. That site that shouted at me that I'm filthy lowlife scum for running an adblocker? Pphhht. JS disabled; nastiness averted.
I find this project wonderful. Front-end has become sophisticated and the learning curve to someone like me, who does only backend projects, is too steep to have a decent knowledge.
Nevertheless, many times I need a front-end facade for my ideas and this seems to do the trick.
I had the same issue. Found it was because I had set Firefox to block all cookies for medium.com (probably to get around the article limit).
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No.

This isn’t even a hard question.
Ask HN: My hours have been cut to 15h/wk. What to do with spare time with Corona
The cut was offered by my company as a way to scale down during the pandemic without cutting jobs and I took it. No big deal, it's still enough money and that's not the topic I want to discuss in this thread.

I'm getting seriously bored, but I can't come up with anything interesting to do with the spare time.

It would normally not be an issue: I'd play the console, go for a bike ride, read a book... But for some reason none of that is appealing right now.

How to deal with the extra time without going nuts while the pandemic is going on? How do you cope if you've been laid off or just hold a regular full time job where there is only 2-4h worth of work per day?
I'm normally not an 'oh my god'-kind-of-guy, but... Oh my god!

Zig looks like a nice language for kernel development as well:
https://github.com/jzck/kernel-zig
I would add: matte, IPS screen. The latter cannot be fixed with a screen shield.

+1 for Linux support on Dell's laptops. Usually everything works straight after installation, contrary to Lenovo and HP. I do not recommend HP hardware at all BTW.
That's a very interesting idea. Something worth having a research. I've taken notes for it. Thanks.
Haha me too. I think PHP was a great rite-of-passage as a developer back then: inconsistent standard API, all the session and cookie access built in, with all the security gotchyas, evolution from major versions 4 to 5, obsession with Frameworks, growth and development of ZF and Symfony etc. Great experience.

As I left the ecosystem, I realised I approached writing code in a very defensive, overly structured way and have written less than half as many libraries ever since. The jury is out on whether that's a good thing or not.

As a sometimes-front-end dev, part of me quietly yearns to go back to the days of serving full html pages, especially since data transfer speeds are higher than they've ever been.

Edit: that's not a rejection of React et al. more an acknowledgement that everyone wants to do server-side rendering "because performance" which was... what we used to do. If we serverside render most of the page, we only need to enhance _some_ of the UI clientside? Yup. Exactly what we used to do.
> For a few million dollars, nearly anyone with a startup background could likely build their own version of Clearview in less than a year.

Am I being naive, or is this being overly generous? What about this can not be recreated with an off-the-shelf web scraper and a pretrained facial recognizer?
Net Neutrality Attacked in Portugal
Patients able to breathe thanks to hacked Decathlon's snorkeling masks
After reading through this, I find the only sentence that explains what the partnership actually does to be this:

> Your membership is paid directly to the publishers in Scroll’s network based on the content you read.

So is Firefox' tracking protection now at the "acceptable ads" stage, where specific trackers can buy themselves a free pass if they make a direct cooperation with Mozilla?
At least you need to know the settings for this. I tried attaching my laptop directly to the cable and that didn't work (I would put my own router if it did). There probably is some sort of PPPoE over a statically-configured network.
Perhaps we should coin the term "epidemiological debt" for the compounding costs of ignoring an emergent pandemic early on. The essential definition of such debt is: paying down the debt requires qualitatively greater expense and creativity (as in this case) to solve this problem later than sooner.
Ironically that is how they have been implemented since the dawn of time.

Dynamic linking was added around Slackware 2.0 timeframe.
This a thousand times. Developing a robust manufacturable product, even a simple one, is HARD. It takes multiple spins and loads of testing, not to mention a huge amount of work to make it manufacturable.

Why are we trying to reinvent the wheel. We should be finding simple, battle proven designs and throwing the manufacturing efficiency machine at them. Developing new products on this timeline is exceedingly naive.
This sounds entirely right. Because I also have a recollection of that party room in the clouds. Actually, it's further refreshing my recollection---I think the main area was called "the Sprawl" or something like that? Maybe it WAS just a mirror, and the reason I haven't ever been able to find anyone else talk about it is that I was under a teenage misimpression about the name.

EDIT: AHA. Sensemedia apparently had a virtual community consisting of MANY themed MOOs, termed "The Sprawl," of which Snow was one; ChibaMOO was I guess the famous one, and was based on Neuromancer. This is more progress than I have made on this in years, so thanks!
Absolutely. Having the power that comes from network effects should come with matching responsibility.
The US does not have a justice system, it has a legal system. Any "justice" served by the system is pure coincidence
I completely disabled Javascript. I just use another browser when I really need it, turns out that 90% of things I need javascript for, I can just not use. It’s even helped my productivity.
I can share how people in China deal with this.

During the high of the coronavirus outbreak, for individual or company, one could call the banks to postpone mortgages, loans or credit card payment for 1 to 3 months. Business may get longer extension if the situation worsen. That was possible in February, less so now as life turns normal gradually since March. Work resumed, shopping mall reopened etc. schools still closed though.

As for rent, Business tenants negotiate with landlord for rent forgiveness, something like half month or one month rent.
A port to Linux would be nice, just saying!
Kind of.

They do on XBox, Swift, iOS, Android sandboxes.
A tale of two brains: Dual operation modes
Everyone should have a dashcam.. I have had installed them in all of my cars fro the better part of a decade now. I am in the US