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sebilasseon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)

Bluecode | Remote | Full-time | Head of Engineering, Elixir Dev

Bluecode (https://bluecode.com) is building a European payment scheme, mobile-first, fully anonymous. Home markets are Austria and Germany. We recently raised a $20M round to continue our mission. Tech stack is Elixir/Postgres/AWS/K18.

- Head of Engineering (Remote, within EU timezone) https://apply.workable.com/bluecode/j/0C50839757/

- Senior Elixir Developer (Fully remote) https://apply.workable.com/bluecode/j/0664DF1081/

sebilasseon What to Expect from a Developer “Bootcamp” Program

Google Cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-6M0xy...

sebilasseon Today Rails turns 10 years old

i felt even older when I realized I've been coding Javascript for almost 20 years.

sebilasseon Show HN: CloudXLS – Painless Excel reports and exports

Happy to answer any questions. The idea originated from a client project where we replaced a legacy rails app with a 20mbyte Excel report that was updated with a script every x hours. Since then I can't get enough of Excel.

sebilasseon Low-income countries might get drone deliveries before the U.S.

Are thieves an issue here? The parts might valuable in these low-income countries. When drones land to drop down goods, they are quite "vulnerable" for a thieve to catch them. Getting them from the air shouldn't be a problem too. There's even a sport for that too (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdIHOV6VGNU#t=196).

sebilasseon Messaging App Line Now Brings in Nearly $100M a Quarter

I asked a bunch of Thais why they switched to Line 1-2 years ago. Number one reason: cute stickers. Sending stickers, is quicker and more fun.

sebilasseon Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult

2'500 CHF is about the budget for a student life-style in Zurich. I expect a lot of young Swiss going on long holidays to cheaper places like south-east asia or eastern europe.

sebilasseon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2013)

SEEKING WORK - Remote / onsite negotiable

Fullstack: Ruby, Rails, AngularJS, JavaScript, Haml&Sass, RubyMotion, Ansible, TorqueBox/JRuby and Java

Community: Commits to Rails, Haml, jQuery, speaker at conferences, incl. RubyKaigi, jsconf.asia

More info: http://hasclass.com

sebilasseon A Japanese Social App Contacts New Shores

It's super popular all over south-east asia. One of the reasons are the cute and fun "stickers" that can convey 80% of your daily emotions and situations. Stuck in overcrowded subway? there's a sticker for that.

sebilasseon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2013)

SEEKING WORK - Remote, onsite negotiable

Full stack: Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, RubyMotion, Torquebox

- Web developer since 15 years, startups since 2007, as founder and employee

- Expert-level Ruby and JavaScript

- Created RubyJS, a port of ruby core classes to JavaScript. http://rubyjs.org

- Speaker at Ruby and JS conferences around the world

- Commits to Rails, HAML, jQuery

- 7 years Ruby/Rails

- Writing performant code in Ruby and JS

- Remote consulting/freelance since 3 years, currently in Asia/Pacific (UTC +07:00)

- Excellent at kickstarting projects and getting your MVP out.

- Open for onsite visits

Profile page and contact info here: http://hasclass.com

sebilasseon Sovereign – Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own personal cloud

For Switzerland hosted V or dedicated server: http://nine.ch/

sebilasseon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2013)

SEEKING WORK - Remote/Asia-Pacific and Europe

Ruby, Rails, RubyMotion and JavaScript

I created RubyJS, a port of all Ruby methods to JavaScript, that gave me a fairly well understanding of both languages. Speaker at various Ruby/JS conferences around the world. 6 years Ruby, Ruby on Rails (before Java, PHP). Fluent in the whole stack.

More info and email here: http://hasclass.com

sebilasseon JavaScript Loop Performance

Generally agree with you (benchmarking isn't what it used to be ;-).

However the following examples all do nothing (except increasing i) and get different results.

http://jsperf.com/codethatdoesnothing/2 http://jsperf.com/functionwithwhilethatdoesnothing

sebilasseon JavaScript Loop Performance

'while' is actually faster than 'for'. But in this example the while loop does extra work (mutating the array). while loops are always faster than forEach, as they simply do less work.

sebilasseon JavaScript Loop Performance

The for loop uses array access "items[j]", and the while loop uses "items.shift". At the end of the for loop 'items' is still the same, at the end of the while loop 'items' is empty.

sebilasseon JavaScript Loop Performance

He probably just wanted to test the difference between 'while ' and 'do while' and takes the fastest possible solution (for) as a reference. It's however good to know that 'do while' is that much slower compared to while.

sebilasseon Ask HN: What are some cool Open Source projects that could use a hand?

RubyJS has currently some beginner to advanced level things to get done. If you're interested in Ruby, JS this project gives you an excellent understanding of both.

sebilasseon Two years of life as an expat coder in middle-of-no-where Japan

maybe work at hubba co-working space, couple of coders there. can contact me if you want, contact info: hasclass.com also have sign up at hackerhut.org

sebilasseon Two years of life as an expat coder in middle-of-no-where Japan

Thailand has a decent developer community. Especially Bangkok and Chiang Mai.

sebilasseon Thai character ก็็็็็ (ก) gets rendered in a strange way

i have learned the thai alphabet and that "mega-combo character" comment just made my day. Reading thai pretty much feels like reading regexps. Anditdoesntmakeitanyeasierthattheydontusespaces

sebilasseon Sublime Text 3 Beta

i pay 30$ every month for SAAS apps that provide even less value.

sebilasseon Sublime Text 3 Beta

it went from 59$ to 70$

sebilasseon In Asia's trend-setting cities, iPhone fatigue sets in

Pirating iPhone apps in SE Asia is rampant as well, at least in Thailand. Most people don't pay for apps.

sebilasseon RubyJS: A JavaScript standard library based on the Ruby core-lib

Yes. Primitives are boxed. However method arguments are only boxed when needed, which makes it as fast as normal. In the methods internally are all using JS primitives (there are some left-overs where that's not the case yet). Wrapper objects are similarly fast as extending native JS types.

sebilasseon RubyJS: A JavaScript standard library based on the Ruby core-lib

RubyJS creator here. I was just missing so many (native) methods in javascript. i liked the standard library of javascript and there is an extensive public ruby testsuite that i could use to test my implementation against. Plus i liked the idea of taking something that already works elsewhere and translate it JS, instead of coming up with my own API. IMO it's the same as using underscore/lodash, stringjs, etc, just all in the same library with the same coding standards and interoperability between classes.

sebilasseon RubyJS: A JavaScript standard library based on the Ruby core-lib

underscorejs didn't provide me String methods, Time (with timezones), some number methods, and a few iterator methods i was used to from ruby land. Also i missed the chainability across types and iterators.

sebilasseon RubyJS: A JavaScript standard library based on the Ruby core-lib

RubyJS creator here.

Here's the launch presentation at jscamp.asia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T0PJbJaMwA

sebilasseon DUNS - the fraudulent secret startup cost of iOS development

Annoying that the Apple DUNS lookup is not working currently:

    "We're sorry, this service is currently unavailable. 
    Please try again later."

sebilasseon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2013)

SEEKING WORK - Remote with onsite visits (based in asia/pacific)

Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, RubyMotion

- Web developer since 15 years, startups since 2007, as founder and employee

- Expert-level Ruby and JavaScript

- Created of RubyJS, an open source project that Matz the creator of Ruby endorsed. http://rubyjs.org

- Speaker at Ruby and JS conferences around the world

- Commits to Rails/HAML, jQuery

- 6 years Ruby/Rails, 2012 focus on JS and CoffeeScript

- Writing highly performant code in Ruby and JS

- Remote consulting/freelance since 2 years, currently in Asia/Pacific (UTC +07:00)

- Excellent at kickstarting projects and getting your MVP out.

- Open for onsite visits

More information and contact info on: http://hasclass.com