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Location: India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate/locate: Yes

Technologies: Webflow, FIGMA, Web design, Web development.

Resume/CV: https://abhay.webflow.io

Email: arawat.abhay@gmail.com

Looking to develop a website or design/redesign one?

Hi,

I am Abhay, a Webflow developer and Web designer from Bangalore, India. I am highly proficient in everything related to Webflow, integrations, CMS, animations/interactions.

Here's a look at some of my recent projects:

1. https://www.foglia-doro.com/

2. https://www.theabsolutejourney.com/

3. https://www.neue.world/

4. https://www.ministryof.design/

I currently work at an agency as the lead Webflow developer and junior UI designer. I am highly committed to delivering quality and timely work. If you have a need for a website you want to bring to life, do reach out.

Regards,

Abhay
Fascinating site - and the linked article especially as it cites the tv show QI as a reference. QI is a true gem…
It just means that it doesn’t support a metric. It’s just there because I wanted to build something fun. I agree that it’s a bad experience, but I wasn’t exposed to it in so long that I forgot it was there.
This is super common amongst tons of fakers. I am sure the Indian niche is just one subsection. I have run into a ton of fake white Americans doing just this to pump up their cred count.
I recently had to install a copy of Windows 10 Home onto one of my spare laptops, and there are at two things that hit the "stupidly intrusive and annoying" buttons.

One: moving the mouse around on the task bar will suddenly pop up this ludicrously over-sized "Start" menu, generally featuring some "critical" piece of "news". These will often include pictures of political leaders, and such is the state of the world that these images produce a reaction like a mild form of Post Traumatic Truss Disorder. I imagine that with some poking around I could get rid of these, but a civilized OS would let me ask for them if I wanted, not simply shove them in my face.

Two: I try to avoid using this lap top except when I absolutely have to, but when I am forecd to turn the wretched thing on, I am invariably greeted with a big blue screen inviting me to "Complete my Windows set up." This apparently includes setting up OneDrive (don't need; not going to do) buying an Office365 subscription (definitely not going to do. LibreOffice is more than enough for what I want to do on that machine. Certainly not going to throw 10 pounds a month at Microsoft for no material benefit). And various other things which I also do not need and do not care about. And the options at the bottom of this screen are (I paraphrase) "Do Now" and "Remind Me In Three Days". Where, exactly, is the "I'm happy as I am; just leave things alone" button?

I am never more appreciative of my Linux desktop or the applications installed there, than after spending an hour using Windows. Linux does me the courtesy of assuming that I am adult who knows what he wants and can work out how to do stuff when I need it. Windows treats me like a sub-moronic five year old who has to be constantly distracted with toys and sugary treats.
Not really. You've mentioned you associate the pinched fingers with vaffanculo but it's a "mistranslation" spread by Sopranos, because they're not actually first generation Italians.

The meaning of the pinched fingers is surprised interrogative, like "what?!" Or "wtf?!". Like "what are you doing here?" or "what do you mean?" It is very informal but doesn't imply profanity at all.

Sadly, all foreigners that have seen Sopranos tend to imitate the gesture and saying "vaffanculo!" which is just plain wrong.
Is decoding performance typically a problem for web UIs? The lackluster performance of binary protobuf decoding in browsers (and unmarshaling BigInts from JSON) seems much less problematic than (1) using a 200 for unary error responses, (2) choosing a wire format that's _always_ opaque to the network inspector tab, and (3) having really poor generated code.

> It didn't seem like the gRPC folks understood the needs of web developers very well.

Agreed. Being fair to the team that designed the protocol, though, it seems like browsers weren't in scope at the time.
Obviously, the comical bit is 'the civilised part'.
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This don't seem fair on people who dont have much of a choice, like if you live in the country (no public transport) and frequently have to make trips longer than an EV would typically allow. All a carbon tax there would do is make life more expensive.
> Sounds like No True Scotsman to me.

When someone claims to be a Scotsman despite having never set foot in Scotland, having nothing so much as even acquaintances (let alone ancestors) who've ever set foot in Scotland, and having open disdain for anything pertaining to Scotland, it's worth questioning whether that someone is indeed a Scotsman.

> Can we name a single time they've taken power and not created an even more oppressive, centralized, and corrupt authoritarian regime than the one they wanted to replace?

Rojava and the EZLN come to mind as contemporary examples. Not to mention, you know, the very existence of credit unions, cooperatives, labor unions, and other forms of economic democracy (i.e. literally the definition of socialism, right here in capitalist economies).
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> I had to unminify it, but I was used to dealing with obfuscated code from Minecraft.

The ancient ritual persists.
> median is better as you point out

As the grandparent post correctly stated, median GDP cannot be computed. In cannot even be defined!
My wife was recently diagnosed with metabolic myopathy and they ( NHS in the UK) are currently trying to identify what actual problem is; so far it's something to do with ATP and Phosphates affecting how the muscles convert fuel into energy I believe.

My chemistry and biology knowledge are fairly limited, but I di like to understand things and so started looking into this and found [1]. For my level of knowledge I feel it gave a great balance between what I could understand whilst also showing how incredibly complex human chemistry is.

There is currently a related discussion here in "A physical wiring diagram for the human immune system" / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32381790 but the link to biochemical-pathways.com is way over my head.

I found that BBC link useful and thought others may do as it's related but simple.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z2vbb9q/revision/1
Give it a reload. Google App Engine is giving random problems and an immediate reload will almost always solve the issue.

If anyone has any advice on this issue I'd love to hear it.
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> they're not complaining about packages just violating SemVer so I don't think your interpretation makes sense.

Packages regularly violate semver, to the degree it becomes a cargo cult.

It is funny that at the one hand side, people say that keeping backward compatibility is too difficult for normal package authors and contributors, and on the other hand side suggesting that using semver would improve this.

In order to actually use semver, one needs to know what backward compatibility is, what kind of changes break it, and how to make sure that this breakage does not happen. It is not that difficult. But also, semver require stability against an API, so one absolutely needs to have a clearly documented API of some sort, because otherwise, if there is absolutely nothing specific you promise, how could one expect you to keep it?

And further more, major packages should actually respect semver if they claim to use it, and not do breaking changes with minor version numbers, like for example boost does. Actually, I think if somebody uses a three-element version number and does not strictly adhere to semver, it should come in a popup box in front of every download link, because these three-part version numbers somehow imply that the package uses semver, and this in some cases (like boost) is a false promise.

And before somebody throws in that it is not *his* package that is breaking semver, but some dependency that his package happens to use: No. If you use dependencies, you are responsible for their behavior, because otherwise, one could always shift the blame somewhere else. If a dependent package breaks backward compatibility and your package is a library package, including it is a breaking change, because backwards (in)compatibility of dependencies which have visible effects (as is the case in all Python library modules, as has been discussed) is a transitive property which travels up the dependency graph. If you include visible breaking changes, then your package introduces a breaking change, and cannot honour semver without bumping the major version number.
What the article didn’t mention is that it already offers to discover all the Bluetooth (and Wifi) devices in your house w/location, something that might reveal even more details. That said, I immediately assumed they wanted iRobot for the robot expertise.
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Of course not.

'Kiev is mother of all Russian cities' and all that stuff, but nothing about separating Slavic cultures into 'civilized' and 'uncivilized'.
No problem :) I'd just forgotten about the MUD as I never got into it, but played Noir multiple times, and was even the first game I played together with my now-wife so I have fond memories.
No, 13A is the limit for a UK plug. You can buy a 3kW portable heater.

Something wired in might be 32A or more, like a car charger or electric shower (7.5kW).
Seems they just recreated the git repo to clear out ~1gb of history. https://github.com/trealla-prolog/trealla/issues/1
See also the Nostradamus Distributor https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2593095
> Trealla is not WAM-based. It uses tree-walking, structure-sharing and deep-binding. Source is compiled to an AST that is interpreted at runtime

Can somebody familiar with prolog implementation techniques motivate this choice? It seems to me--given knowledge implementing very different sorts of languages--that tree-walk interpretation is generally slow compared with other methods, which seems strange given this implementation touts its efficiency, but perhaps there are reasons why that doesn't matter here?
That's true of CORBA, for sure. I'm not familiar with ONC-RPC or Java RMI.

It's not true of gRPC. It's not "RPC" in any traditional sense - it's just a particular HTTP convention, and the clients reflect that. They're asynchronous, make deadlines and transport errors first-class concepts, and make it easy to work with HTTP headers (and trailers, as the article explains). Calling a gRPC API with a generated client often doesn't feel too different from using a client library for a REST API.

It's definitely a verb-oriented style, as opposed to REST's noun orientation. That's sometimes a plus, and sometimes a minus; it's the same "Kingdom of Nouns" debate [0] that's been going on about Java-style OOP for years.

0: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...
Talk about your goals and not your work.

What does this even mean? Standup are a report to make sure things are going to be done by the end of sprint. They’re a place to bring up roadblocks and any revisions to estimates. They work really well for what they are.
I keep hoping I'll find a Space Cadet keyboard this way, though I'm probably on the wrong side of the US for that to ever happen.
Doubtful it even made that much considering the author said most of the steam players were friends or family. That said, I don't think you should go into indie development trying to go viral and make a ton of money.

I love this blog post because it highlights how difficult, yet fun and challenging it can be to create a game from scratch. I've messed around with GameMaker Studio 2 several times and this post has inspired me to do so again. Compared to the competition it's a relatively simple game engine, but it can be fun just to mess around and see what you're able to create.
The availability of tables that go beyond the minimum doesn't mean much to those who can't afford them.

I would imagine that at least kids furniture does have some fairly heavy regulations, and all furniture probably has some fire resistance laws or something.

Availability of tables with sharp corners becomes an issue when it starts affecting economies of scale. If some safety thing costs a few cents but for whatever reason is not available on the cheapest version, the market might or might not solve that, and the safer versions could be expensive for years to come.

Regulations aren't there to protect middle class people doing their research. They're to protect the weakest and most vulnerable who don't have time to research or money to buy anything better.

They're also to protect people who didn't choose furniture, like guests. It's about making an overall safer world.

Some level of balance is needed, but there are some things that most people are probably better off if they just don't exist, like a lamp that catches fire or baby formula that is made without strict controls, or cars without whatever the current modern safety assistance standard is based on the best evidence available.

A quick google shows that childrens products are in fact regulated by CSPC and can't have sharp stuff, among other requirements.
The C6 looks to me like a great design template for an electric Citroën. They always looked like coming from the future - a future that could be now.
I did not say that hobbyist packages which are used by few people and are unstable experiments should be kept stable at all costs.

But you see the linked discussion about stability in Nix is about packages like opencv, pillow, boost, pytorch, tensorflow, kubernetes, and I would expect them to behave professional.

And as said, as long too few people actually respect semver, it is pointless to suggest to use it, especially if the authors of a package do not know what a breaking change is, do not know how to avoid them to happen, and do not have a documented and specified API in some way. If you don't have an API, you can't use semver.
The holes look to be in the middle of some kind of track, or drag mark. Which would indicate that they are made from the surface, I guess.
I got stuck several times, usually you just need to go and talk to every single person one more time and you'll find something you missed! I also found a good hint website which would give you options of increasingly explicit tips for each part of the game which you could click to uncover if you wanted more detail. Good for just getting a pointer to the the part of town you should be looking at.
Only if you assume everyone is sitting around doing nothing waiting for window repair work to arrive. More likely is that the effort and resources required to fix the windows will displace other economic activity which would have contributed positively to GDP numbers.
> can make the author of it feel smart for a second

Since this behavior is so common, apparently it works, evolutionary:

It makes others think your are smart, for a long while

And not much effort required, on your part. So, a great opportunity?

And the more popular the project you start bashing is, the smarter you'll seem? Corollary: If one builds something great, one will get dissed by some.
It is of interest to economists, and if you don't already know of the Gini coefficient, I am sure you will find it interesting too :)
Could you please explain what do you mean by type information? I thought you never have type information in JavaScript... - except the base types (bool, number, string, object, array, function), but you always have this information...
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Wisdom is such a loaded term. I think the article conflates wisdom with productivity - "To become more productive, do less!" could have equally been an apt title.

On wisdom, I am reminded of the Serenity Prayer- "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer)
You can't calculate the median GDP. The author advocates to look at median income instead of mean gdp.
For the last 5-6 years, sending this automated message, once a day, in hipchat/slack/Microsoft teams is what worked well wherever I worked - both semi remote and fully remote places:

Good morning! Don’t forget to post your update in thread.

Be sure to include:

1. What you worked on yesterday.

2. What you plan on working on today.

3. Any blockers or risks you have identified.

People usually reply there whenever they start working, and everyone knows what everyone else is working on. In case of blockers, people who can help get a nice reminder of an upcoming meeting, so they can plan their day accordingly. Honestly, the blockers bit was the only useful thing for most of us there, but it is nice to know what others are working on.

Then we have a 30-45 minute video call stand up/review/meeting once every week/sprint, to summarise things and to accommodate for the much needed rambling.
I was about to recommend CuriousMarc. I don't know where I found out about him, perhaps on HN, but watching someone knowledgeable geek out in depth about ancient computing (beyond the Apollo stuff) really does scratch an itch.
This is one of the many questions that are answered long time ago: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#many.
This isn't true in my experience. I have ridden through areas like this often, because for some reason my city put one of the main bicycle routes through a busy pedestrian tourist area, full of families and inebriated diners.

If you dismount and push a bike, people get struck by pedals and handlebars. The rider has to allow much more space to prevent people walking right into them.

Riding at walking speed, some pedestrians may give a bit of space, but most of them don't alter their movement in any appreciable way. A capable rider has better control of a bicycle when they are actually riding it, and can keep pedals away from shins even in close proximity.
Tree-walking is a bit of a misnomer here, it actually uses a compiled-to-bytecode representation of the AST. Part of the motivation is to avoid copying and structure building, which WAM's do, a lot.
Wall Street legend: “Pessimists sound smart – optimists make money”
> The difference is that it's not full time employment compensation, because you're not working your normal work expectations.

No, you're right that it's not your normal work expectations.

It's working Overtime. Because it's availability ON TOP of your normal working expectations.
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I know this sounds almost conspiracy theory-ish: just looking at the picture, my first guess is man-made. But I'm almost always wrong.

It just looks really perfectly spaced and each one is the same, in a very mechanical way. With all the talk of snooping on undersea data cables, undersea drones, and the continuance of submarine warfare, it seems possible that this is some kind of undisclosed military drone on either side looking for cables?
The back story of the researcher here, Carina Block, is pretty inspiring.
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It's the same on Windows and it's what people use now, they're not gonna stay on office 2007 forever (although to be fair I have yet to work for/with someone who uses Office instead of Google docs or libreoffice, the only people I know who use "traditional" office are old people who got it with their computer)
They aren't. National security is like catnip for recruiters.
The point is that perhaps it shouldn’t be necessary to submit to a cavity search just to get a loan like that. Maybe it should even be made illegal to require something like that.
Bought a Xantia a few years back mainly to try out the hydropneumatics. Not only did it tame the noticeable bumps, it smoothed regular roads mile after mile. I remember often thinking “Did they resurface that road since last time?”, and feeling like trips seemed shorter. Cool Giugiaro body too. Great car. Rust in peace, mon ami.
Well, they are still sandtrout, living in the water!
How did they manage to get STM32s?

My friend's small business had to close, because key MCU is not available anywhere and Chinese sell it for the price of the end product. Makes business no longer viable.
He spent over a month designing board for another MCU that was available at the time, but as soon as he was ready to produce more the alternative was gone too.
It's like chasing own tail.

Big corporations can post huge back-orders, but small business can't tie up that kind of sums of money for unknown period of time. He placed orders for that MCU over a year ago and distributors still tell the production is delayed.
Meanwhile Chinese don't seem to be short of supply and are milking the desperate market.

Seems like a state intervention would be welcome here.
I'd recommend taking a look at VictoriaMetrics: open source monitoring solution. It doesn't support logs collection, but for metrics is just great.
Disclaimer: I work for VictoriaMetrics.
Almost completely unrelated but I have long wanted an in-browser/real-time/javascript/FOSS 'synthwave screensaver' in the style that you sometimes see on YouTube [0].

Maybe I'll use your code as a baseline for it if I get the motivation.

In terms of actual feedback, the game itself has a lot going for it. I would, at the very least, add some 'juice' to it, which would probably add a lot. There are many videos on it but the most enlightening one I found was from Nijman of Vlambeer [1].

You might need to take care with literal screenshake as it's 3d but there are many other suggestions that are relevant (kick back from firing, enemy blood/armor splatter, detritus persistence, small variations in bullet direction, etc.).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgsJohwr9EQ

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJdEqssNZ-U
i developed an obsession with Rocky Mountains mountain-bike; although mine is cheap one, the bike is well-designed and can attain speeds of 35 km/h within 10-seconds...I can bike at that speed for up to 40 km before I can describe it as a modest workout.

The bike is my friend. It seems to think...and have its own opinions. No, I am no schizo....I sometimes talk to it. I ask it: how you baby?

EDIT: why the downvotes?
Yes, now you're getting it.

Companies need to stop squeezing by on free or under-compensated labour from their workers and instead hire sufficient numbers of people to cover the work they want to be done.

What a shocking concept.
I wonder if he took any inspiration from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat? which was a contemporaneous idea. Extending the question to "What was it like to be an ancient human?" forces us to consider the too-neglected question "What is it like to be this human?"

While reading Jaynes' book and traveling to LinuxTag many years ago, I found that the voices of others began to echo strongly in my mind, just as the book described. Alone again on my way home it was most vivid.

I'll add my voice to the sentiment that it's a work of genius and that its truth is irrelevant: there is great benefit in considering the ideas!
But that's where the "virus" metaphor comes from...