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Hi, I'm Winston! I'm a software developer (backend / full-stack) and a non-practicing Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

I have a background in FinTech and experience working with Fortune 25 companies from my time at EY. I most recently worked as the lead developer on the FinTech team at my employer and wrote the internal invoicing service from zero to production in six weeks, saving the company $55K/month.

I am passionate about writing software that enhances people's lives and am talented at writing maintainable code, avoiding bloat, and collaborating with others to bring out their best.

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Note: My CPA license is active as of the time of this post, but it may not be active when this post is archived in the future. Nothing in this post constitutes professional advice.
I’m not joking.

> but you have to be delusional to think that someone taping their favorite show on their own or waiting for it until it ends is nearly the same as dropping all episodes at the same time on principle for every show and only offering that as an option for a long time

What? The only reason cable didn’t release seasons all at once was to maximize profits. They get to run more ads, to force a user to stay subscribed for longer to finish their favorite show, charge studios extra for prime time spots, and more. These big productions are usually done with the whole season by the time it would release on cable. It’s not like they would stagger the release out of the goodness of their hearts to help people avoid bingeing.

What does it matter if you watch 8 hours of the same show or 8 hours of different sitcoms? I never mentioned taping a show and bingeing it all at once. I mentioned the fact that some people will watch large amounts of television regardless of what’s actually on the screen.

> I know you're trying to be smart here, and failing, but are books built to be binged?

And I guess you’re trying to be smart and failing? What’s with the backhanded comment. Why not engage with the argument being made instead of making comments like this?

That’s beside the point. The argument I was making is people for some reason find bingeing a show for 8 hours morally reprehensible. But reading a book is fine. The same thought process has been applied to gaming for long sessions. My argument is why are these different mediums deserving of different moral judgments? What makes reading, doing math, playing video games, or watching tv for long periods of time more or less reprehensible? These all serve one purpose: activities meant to entertain (maybe not math). Why does the medium the entertainment is delivered through make it any better or worse?

It isn’t. I think the thing people have a problem with, rightly so, is the lack of balance. It’s unhealthy to obsessively engage in one activity for long periods of time. But that’s a different argument altogether.

All in all, you didn’t really refute anything I said or try to show how any of these things are unique to Netflix. I agree with you by the way, but you’re framing your argument poorly in my opinion.
I feel that the issue there is that their architecture was unable to fit the macaroons correctly.
It's not recent, been like that since at least 2015, if not earlier.
Just ads, not sponsored content, but those extensions you speak of aren't a thing on the AppleTV. I can see were the popular parts of the video are, usually just going to the next spike will be the end of the sponsored segment. I haven't found it to be a big deal. The ads, that abruptly interrupt the video, and make you wait for several seconds before you can skip (if you can skip at all) are the things that bug me the most. Sponsorship are minor in comparison. Plus, the better YouTubers will work it into their content, so I may not want to skip it.
Don’t you mean 42million Gigabytes?
Yes, nobody’s arguing that EVs are light. My point was simply that because EVs are still a small percentage of the market there are more heavy ICE vehicles on the road because we’re three decades into consumers moving away from small cars. That Tesla 3 buyer was more likely to have also been considering an Escalade than a Honda Civic.
Ok, I retract.
This is true, and I had the similar issues with the virtual table API. They did add some things, but they won't do everything. There are some other problems with SQLite as well. However, there are benefits of SQLite, and I wrote some extensions, too.
I always assumed that if I moved to a different country and took a job there, I'd need to learn the language. It's part of what makes emigrating seem difficult actually.
I ran the obligatory "astronaut riding a horse in space" prompt initially, and was returned two images -- one which was well composed and another which appeared to show the model straining to portray the astronaut as a person of color, at the expense of the quality of the image as a whole. That made me curious so I ran a second prompt: `a Roman emperor addressing a large gathering of citizens at the circus`

It returned a single image, that of a black emperor. I asked why the emperor was portrayed as black and Bard informed me it wasn't at liberty to disclose its prompts, but offered to run a second generation without specifying race or ethnicity. I asked if that meant, by implication, that the initial prompt did specify race and/or ethnicity and it said that it did.

I'm all for Google emphasizing diversity in outputs, but the hamfisted manner in which they're accomplishing it makes it difficult to control and degrades results, sometimes in ahistorical ways.
I just sort by food type and 4+ stars. That usually filters list down to something where algos can't inject too much weirdness. Or at least I assume it doesn't. I think my medium density city has not enough options that a filtered list won't return almost everything, confirmed by me being familiar with my neighbourhood and what is returned. But I imagine in denser cities it would be PIA (how much results return for 4 start sushi in middle of Tokyo). All of which is to say, unlike other Google services, so far I can't tell if default Google Maps is getting better or worse over time and I use it all the time.
yeah, not sure why it didn't get upvoted
Oh read the book please, listen to an audiobook or something. It’s so good. It does such a better job of putting you inside the mind of Jack. The horror of a fundamentally broken man being absolutely devoured by the entity that is the hotel is just… it’s a gigantic story.
It’s important to know how to stick to your course in the face of bad advice.
First maybe have a 2-3 month probation period like most of the continent instead of 6?
Why did NIH abruptly halt research on the harms of cell phone radiation?
I had a similar problem as well, so I wrote a code (read: asked chatgpt to write) that takes the chatgpt export file and turns each conversation into a separate markdown file, which can easily be grepped.

https://github.com/jmstfv/chatgpt-markdown
I really liked this article. Very concise, clear, and I like the systematic thinking of “what are we really DOING here?”. If the author(s) read this: make sure to define your acronyms in the TLDR up top, since it pops up first. Tiny thing but might help engagement rates - I almost clicked away thinking MVA was some business school concept, not knowing this was part of a series.

I’ve been reading a lot of Kant recently and he has two ideas I think could be helpful to modern software engineering:

1. Using the word “architectonics” to describe the science of structures. Now it’s only used for the brain (Cytoarchitectonics) and some other small academic fields, sadly. I think that would be an awesome evolution for the slowly-outmoded agile coaches of the industry: “Architectonic consultants” or “architectonics”.

2. He thinks an important principle of Architectonics is not to just collect a bunch of components until you have a system that works, but rather to start with the top level, deduce the divisions within the structure that are necessary, and only then start filling in the details. In the practical world of engineering this isn’t always necessary, but I’ve found it really helpful, for the exact reasons discussed in this post (scoping, not getting ahead of yourself, allowing for growth without doing unnecessarily early work, etc)
Even if it's true that essentially zero people read complex commit messages, that one person who needs to read it, 2 years later, will really appreciate its existence.

To me a commit message isn't there so someone can sit around and read commit messages to tell themselves a story. It's there in the -- hopefully unlikely -- possibility that there's a problem with the change, and someone needs to come back to it later, with no context, and understand why it was made so they can figure out what needs to be done.

I've absolutely used commit messages when debugging, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson. The brilliance of John von Neumann is on full display, not least his brilliance in gathering amazingly talented people for one of the most ambitious projects ever--the creation of a stored-program computer--and creating the kind of community and sense of purpose that scarcely exists in our current world of commercialized technology.
So which points are getting “faster than fibre” latency because of this? Extra distance up and down, but make up for it on the long-haul.

Won’t beat HF radio though.
Post Mortem of Railway Outage on Jan 31st
Well, this is a GUI, so it stands to reason that they're experts in Visual Basic.
I think at high traffic times it gets slightly different parameters that make it more likely to do that. I've had the best results during what I think are off-peak hours.
I used it for a few days, and it would spin up the fans on my MacBook Pro after a few minutes. I also wasn’t pleased with the tab management. And then I forgot about it.
Assembly is a language, that can be extended. Assembly++?

But at some point doing simple C makes more sense, than adding syntactic sugar to Assembly.
I don't think radical honesty would ever work in a workplace. A very high level, yes, but not radical as it's usually meant.
I'd recommend appropriate weight taxes rather than going for a ban, you never know people's specific situations that cause them to acquire/desire a particular car.

Calculate approximately how much a marginal 100lb costs in road wear, tire pollution and loss of life and limb (use EPAs $8 million per life figure) and increase road tax by that much for heavy vehicles. Then if people really need that big vehicle for whatever reason they can pay the $10k/year extra it's costing the rest of society.
Religious people would object violently.
My question is on the line of do you think it's relevant enough so that it would deserve being added to a resume? Even if it's something you personally don't like.

Because I can't imagine why it would award that relevance. It's right there with "implemented function to reverse a list because the stdlib had a bug".
Seeking Work | Remote

Senior Software Developer with focus on building REST API based backends, web applications and data ingestion pipelines. I have worked with diversified clients ranging from startups to multi-billion dollar organizations in US and Europe.

Available for quick MVPs, sprints and long term contracts (>10 months).

Tech Stack: Python (Django / Flask), JavaScript, AWS, Databases (Firebase, MySQL, Postgresql, MongoDB)

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"hyper-aggressive", "loud"

It's a blog post, there's no audio or video.
Can confirm this.

My wife has a master's degree in engineering from a TU9(top 9 universities in Germany).And a B2 language certificate. She has not found a job so far. Been more than a year and half since she started actively applying. At times she ticks all the requirements in the job description, and still no luck.

She is planning to go to a bakery starting next week. The guy at the bakery was so surprised to see someone with master's degree in engineering ready to work at a bakery. So the perception and reality is different.

Unless you are in IT/software development, it is hard to get a job. Traditional engineering disciplines are hard to break into.
Author of nit, here. I tried to move the landscape towards semantic reasoning. It’s on github but kind of abandonware. Life and incompetency happened ;)

No shilling. I commented here because I still think my framework was decently thought out, and mostly that calling someone a nit or a git is exactly what linus was thinking. Make it easy enough for anyone to use.

Nit is something people could take as a thought experiment.
Intel vs. AMD was abut CPU's not GPUS. Intel still has > 70% market share in server CPUs where it once had almost 99% market share.
War – What is it Good For?
As you can see from the thread, and from, like, logical deduction, you can recover credentials from a shell on the Fly Machine your app runs on (because, after all, your app needs access to those secrets). But just dumping them from the API implies an API server that has access to the secrets, and that's a hard no from us (it won't be soon, though, because [see upthread]).

This is not everybody's optimal DX, and we get that. It's a whole public cloud platform, so there are lots of tradeoffs we have to make.
> The code doesn't "lie". Just read it

No thanks. Some diffs aren't obvious. I'm not a mind reader. Having extra context is useful.
In my opinion one of the most important features of a commit message is that it fits in a single line so it can be read in git log.
What if they are spending their weekends building devices to kill you? Does it now become your business?
I agree that it's kind of silly to worry about social media platforms, but microchips, drones, routers, cameras, etc are another story. It'd be a good thing for the US to try and be less dependent on China and their environmentally disastrous manufacturing and their slave labor for everything we own, especially when it comes to things that could be sensitive. If the Department of Defense wasn't looking at the companies in China we depend on and considering the impacts that could have to our security they wouldn't be doing their job.
But that's the issue. Those cars are legal in basically every jurisdiction except the US (they have equivalent classes in the EU as well).

We basically set the laws such that their niche wasn't viable despite being perfectly safe.
How many U.S. millennials live at home with parents
Is this a serious question? You think SpaceX developed the industry-leading orbital rocket, launched hundreds of times to deliver thousands of in-house developed satellites utilizing homegrown, novel argon gas ion thrusters, to develop a global satellite internet system using inter-satellite laser links, their own in-house developed, incredibly inexpensive phased array antenna system, and everything else, and they forgot to use TLS?
Location: Pakistan

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Senior Software Developer with focus on building REST API based backends, web applications and data ingestion pipelines. I have worked with diversified clients ranging from startups to multi-billion dollar organizations in US and Europe.

Available for quick MVPs, sprints and long term contracts (>10 months).

Tech Stack: Python (Django / Flask), JavaScript, AWS, Databases (Firebase, MySQL, Postgresql, MongoDB)

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Robbert, front end developer with 7+ years experience. Focus on interactive interfaces in React.

If you need someone to build a dashboard, interactive widget, or beautiful animations with great UX, look no further.

I’ve got experience designing and building complex interfaces with React, using a variety of tech stacks: Next.js, Tailwind, Framer Motion, Redux, Radix, Material UI, shadcn/ui and more.

Non-tech qualities: Clear and open communicator, reliable, and able to not just implement but also design interfaces with business needs in mind.

Looking for: Clearly defined projects (<12 months) and also open to part time or smaller short term assignment.

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Treating the Symptoms
Location: Florida, USA

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Technologies: Solidity, EVM, Blockchain, Web3, TypeScript, Hardhat, Foundry, Ethers, React, NextJS, GraphQL

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Developer with 20 years experience. Last 5+ years mostly focused on the crypto industry. Most recent role was a real-world asset startup tokenizing collectables. I Initially joined the company as a Senior Solidity developer to help finish their on-chain assets. Joined the company as a Senior Solidity developer to build their on-chain assets, which included a staking contract with rewards payouts. Promoted to Team Lead to help push their digital marketplace to launch. Also led the migration from a bespoke NFT marketplace to building on top of Seaport Protocol.

Currently seeking a lead or senior role with a team building on the blockchain, but open to other industries as well.
Deep Learning Algorithms as Information Content Providers Under Sect. 230 (2022)
Or maybe if people had more time to enjoy life with their hobbies and loved ones, they'd be more motivated to do good work, and actually more would get done with 4 days than 5 days. From the few experiments[0] done on this topic, that seems to actually be the case.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/02/21/four-day-...
Are they widely visible? Aren't these laser links from one satellite to another?
> If you change a line of code without doing git-blame on it first you're doing it wrong.

Working on a project where this is necessary sounds like a hellish experience.

The place for comments explaining why the code is needed is right next to the code! On an adjacent line!
I spent the summer in Berlin and, as an American, was a bit culture shocked by how little time people worked, and how so many people I met bragged about collecting paid time off for reasons they admitted to making up, which the government enforced all employers must allow. As an employer, I'd be afraid of hiring in countries like Germany for an international workforce if that meant I have to have a patchwork of special policies to treat those workers differently, and I would not be excited about the unambitious "antiwork" ethos
Just a heads up, the San Diego link is broken for me. Returns "That position was not found.
ApolloError: There was an issue retrieving data."
The "just do your damn job" retort presupposes that their job is to read the entire body of every git commit. That's the question - you can't just presuppose it.
Was it difficult though because you lack the credentials of an established large corporation, or because there is very low stock at this point?
Column-oriented has better performance for analysis but worse for highly transactional workloads. I think standard operating procedure is to dump the whole database every night into a column-oriented database and then do their analysis on the second database.

The terms to look up here are OLAP and OLTP.
I wonder how iridium actually handles the tracking (or if it’s just slow enough and lack of attenuation in free space just lets them blast it).

And if they have zones where they don’t go to adjacent orbits, but instead go up or down within their orbit for the handover between orbits.
“Fix miss-encoded white space” is clearer to me.

No need for a very lengthy explanation.
> So what if it's not unique to Catholicism? I was asking specifically what the misconceptions are. You've redirected.

As someone who left Catholicism for Wicca and then eventually gave up on religion in general, I think it's valid to point out that these flaws are not unique to Catholicism.

I would say that in pointing at all those things it has done wrong, you are implicitly saying that that these traits are unusual — but we're all a bunch of monkeys, it's really hard to get us to be nice to each other, and it's really easy for Machiavellian sadists to rise to power in every institution.
Flawless communication between team members is important when developing complex products. If my team was primarily comprised of people who only fluently speak German, and we are located in Germany, is it not reasonable for me to set a requirement that new candidates must speak fluent German?

Why are you entitled to have people speak your language, when you are the immigrant?
Stoked Seagull | Senior Java Developer | US Citizens Only | Remote | 30-40 hours per week

I’m hiring full stack Java and React full stack freelancers for a long term project. You are welcome to work anywhere from 30-40 hours per week, fully remote. US citizenship is required and we work EST hours. 7+ years of experience, at least some of which was in a major tech company or venture backed startup, is required.

Please contact me at kevin@stokedseagull.com if you are interested.
Map reveals all the space junk we've already littered on Mars
U.S. Corporations Are Openly Trying to Destroy Core Public Institutions
As a native speaker my experience isn't that you require near native skills, I've worked with plenty of expats/immigrants who speak 'just' good German, but I'd rather increase language learning opportunities if necessary mandatory rather than lower standards.

This is still a country, not a back office for multinationals, people who talk to a German business should be able to have a conversation in German. This can be expected from immigrants. I've lived abroad myself and made sure I was proficient enough to be able to integrate. It's culturally vital as well.
Closer to the end of the series, he basically loses his mind and is destructive to himself and others. An entire plot line was House hallucinating that he had quit and recovered from withdrawals (among other imagined or altered events) only for it to be revealed that he was using more than ever.

So, he canonically has more problems with drugs than social disapproval.
also had a pretty negative interview experience with DDG.

Interviewer mentioned also that they were a "security company" not "a search engine company", which raised an eyebrow.

Additionally mentioned; all employees are contractors but may not be part of a limited company (even the employees own), they must be sole trader (which means you are unable to do anything tax related with benefits).

Interview experience came off as quite arrogant, as if they were doing me a favour by interviewing me. Strange.
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Technologies: Python, Postgres, Go, Docker, Ansible, Linux admin / Bash scripting, AWS

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Graduating with BSCS in December '23. Before going back to school full-time, spent 5 years in product operations (bug testing/tracking, incident response, support documentation & training) at Squarespace.

Technical interests lean toward backend web development or DevOps/SRE/Cloud-flavored positions. I get a lot of satisfaction out of writing good docs, codifying/improving internal processes, and automating away the pain of others.

Looking for a place with a great mentorship culture where I can hit the ground running. Happy to relocate pretty much anywhere for the right opportunity.