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bakkerthehacker

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bakkerthehacker··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2024)

  Location: Toronto
  Remote: Preferred
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Node, Postgres, Svelte, React, Python, Redis, AWS, Github
  Résumé/CV: https://bakker.pw/pdfs/Resume.pdf
  Email: grant@bakker.pw
bakkerthehacker··on Air Canada is responsible for chatbot's mistake: B.C. tribunal
Samsung

I've also had to deal with their lack of Canadian RMA for 2 SSDs. Had to go back and forth with them and trying to convince Amazon and the Amazon seller to replace the defective drives.

Not buying any more Samsung memory products due to their essential non existent warranty in Canada

bakkerthehacker··on Labella.js – placing labels on a timeline without overlap
neat http://i.imgur.com/0LIwCOO.png
bakkerthehacker··on AMQP and Node.js
I didn't reimplement because of promises. Neither amqp.node nor node-amqp provided the direct access that I wanted.

The promise vs callback is a minor point as they are both equivalent with promises having a slightly higher overhead. But yes, I do hate promises.

bakkerthehacker··on If the moon were only 1 pixel: a scale model of the solar system
This would be cool if I could actually scroll down to move sideways. My mouse's side scrolling is terrible and dragging the scroll bar skips a lot. :(