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joss82

1,558 karma · joined October 21, 2008

In order, from largest to smallest projects:

https://parseur.com

https://spindoc.ai

https://www.challengelistcreator.com

https://mappacker.com

(You can email me: my nick at gmail.com)

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joss82··on Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?
I have fond memories of programming a "guess the number" game in basic as a kid.

Let's become a professional software developer!

joss82··on Ask HN: How long did it take to release your side project in 2016?
Awesome!

Could you elaborate a bit on the "minor promotion" part?

We are at the "fully functional" step and wondering how to approach the marketing part.

That'll make a great blog post, i guess we are not alone in that situation.

Many thanks.

We are http://www.parseur.com by the way.

joss82··on Do Not Eat, Touch, or Even Inhale the Air Around the Manchineel Tree
One exception to these rules.

It will pass all your tests without causing any irritation but still kills you in the end:

"There are no negative symptoms from eating this fungus until 6–24 hours after ingestion"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_verna

joss82··on Crises that humanity now faces
What if you are too sick to jump off that proverbial cliff?
joss82··on A new analysis of how the world’s wealth is distributed
It's not revenue, it's wealth.

s/make/have

joss82··on Before You Grow
Wake me up, before you grow grow.

(Sorry, could not resist)

joss82··on Pipfile for Python
But since you use one virtual env per project, you don't overwrite anything.
joss82··on Pipfile for Python
This.

Requirements.txt is very pythonic in the sense that it's as simple as possible, but no simpler.

joss82··on Pipfile for Python
What is wrong with requirements.txt seriously?

I've used it in countless projects and it just works. It's also simple to understand.

joss82··on Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
In French too: pardon/permission

Very nice indeed.

joss82··on So you think you know C?
But wait!

Why would you bit-shift the result of a logical comparison?

This code makes no sense, it's wrong, and should be rewritten.

joss82··on MacBook Pro (2016) disappointment pushes some Apple loyalists to Ubuntu Linux
This hits the nail on the head. Most complains are about how cpu performance is stalling.

Apple is not competing against bulky, gamer-style laptops. For a thin laptop, the new mbp is extremely powerful.

Even if the fully upgraded, 15 inches mbp is sold at an astonishing €4999. Well, it's company's expense, right? :)

joss82··on Sid Meier’s Civilization VI
Indeed it does!

Even though the Dragon's engines are for emergency take off or surface landing, they would not be used in space in real life, unless I'm mistaken.

Pretty sweat that they included it in the trailer, though!

joss82··on Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
It's level 1 CPU cache, the fastest (and smallest) cache.

It caches both instructions and data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_cache

joss82··on Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
I took a phone screen interview for SRE (site reliability engineer) at Google Dublin and the questions at the screen test were the same, almost to the word.

I don't know this guy but the questions he's talking about are genuine Google screen questions.

Questions in the later interviews (that is, if you pass the initial screen) are more complex, and involve actual coding or longer problem solving.

joss82··on Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
I took this exact same test for a SRE (site reliabilty engineer) position at google earlier this year.

I failed in the same way the author did but the recruiting person helped me so much that i could proceed to the next level.

Obviously she was aware that this test was broken and that candidates would occasionally pass it by sheer luck.

Other later interviews were equally broken in the same ways.

joss82··on Show HN: Ascii to SVG
Source: http://xkcd.com/221/
joss82··on Going to Mars is (relatively) easy; coming back is where it gets tricky
Relatively easy? Really?

Going as a human to mars is fucking hard and coming back is even harder.

joss82··on A Commodore 64 Is Still Being Used to Run an Auto Shop in Poland
I wish I could upvote you twice.

This is so very true, I can't think of any device that will offer them any kind of improvement over the brand new C64 scenario.

What device that is installed today will still be working 30 years from now? Maybe some appliances without moving parts? Some raspberry PIs?

joss82··on Russia’s Military Buildup in the Baltic Stokes Invasion Fears
You are right, this smells very bad.

It looks like the hate propaganda they had just before the Balkan wars.

Very bad.

joss82··on UK votes to leave EU
> Lower bureaucratic cost.

Muhahahaha. EU is the largest and by definition most inefficient bureaucracy in the history of the world

Source: living there for 30-ish years.

joss82··on Shenzhen: The Maker Movement (Part 2) is online
Just a few hours ago actually. Great. Thanks!
joss82··on Silicon Valley's housing crisis, in one sentence
Do you mean a RV? First serious question: how do you manage your social life?
joss82··on A Pointless Cancer ‘Moonshot’
We are essentially temporary cell colonies evolved to relay life to the next generation, and as long as we are human, there will always be another cancer.

That sentence made that great article awesome.

joss82··on Exercise Tied to Lower Risk for Some Types of Cancer
Doesn't that just mean that people who have cancer (and maybe don't know it) don't really feel like exercising?
joss82··on Building a 32-Thread Xeon Monster PC for Cheaper Than a Haswell-E Core I7
Niiice!

I wonder how it behaves in games. Did anyone try it yet?

Also, the Xeon E5-2670 is still priced at 1900+ euros in Europe at the moment...

joss82··on How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?
Tl;dr: 15
joss82··on Show HN: Paint a flag over your profile picture
Should work much better on mobile now :)

(tested on Safari, Chrome ubuntu and Chrome Android)

Edit: (And Safari on iOS)

joss82··on Show HN: Paint a flag over your profile picture
It's a simple canvas overlay with 50% transparency.

Then the resulting image data is put in a URL and ready to download.

There is not much into it, really ;)

joss82··on Show HN: Paint a flag over your profile picture
Sorry it's a quick hack and does not work very well on all mobile browsers.

All feedback/bug reports are welcome, though!

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