Location: Toronto (EST) Relocate: Maybe (depends on job/location) Technologies: python, ts/js, elixir, SQL, react, Django, nodejs, postgres, AWS, GCP, Terraform CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-anderson-53208053/…
I heard on some podcast that there is such a thing as: "Microsoft Excel World Championship" and someone named Diarmuid Early won it last year. I would pay $2.56 to watch an Excel battle between a slop skipper and him.…
Location: Canada (EST) Remote: yes relocate: probably not Technologies: python, JS, TS, Elixir, golang, Postgres, CouchDB, Terraform, k8s, React, django (a bunch more, want to be brief) Resume: available on request…
I am not worried about personal atrophy. I am worried about young people who never learn the fundamentals and blindly believe everything the llm say.
I am a Luddite holding on. 1) solving the problem myself is the fun part of the job 2) writing emails or whatever, I want it to be my voice, not some bland average of everything slop 3) I can't sppeell big word because…
I did CS and have been writing code for 20+ years. For the past two years, helping clients adopt LLMs into their business logic. It has lots of good use cases. But, I can recognize when it makes mistakes due to my years…
Might spawn a new occupation: sniff sommelier!
I am in Toronto, Canada. I don't have the open to work flag on in LinkedIn. Two years an ago, even with the flag off, would get recruiters reaching out daily (> 20 years experience). Now it's 1 per week. I do get lots…
There is a nice book that goes into detail of his life called: "The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution"
Peter Schweizer's great book Blood Money goes into the current state of the art with TikTok (and a bunch of other stuff).
People should check out Google's JAX. Work in a high level language and run anywhere. Nvidia should just be commodity hardware if people avoid vendor lock in.
I have tried to use VSCode more, but, the original emacs keyboard movement is burned into muscle memory. VSCode has a keyboard mapping for emacs, but, its does not feel right. At the end of the day, who cares? Its just…
search for "shane macgowan teeth" for a laugh.
Famous Irish band's singer that was big in the 80-90s. If you have ever been in an Irish themed pub that plays music, you have probably heard one of their songs: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvfcW8XVa2Kj802P4l302Yw…
a lot has changed and 15 years and also python's traditional slow pace of change is less true (Guido van Rossum liked it that way and the BDFL has moved on). to just get a refresh of the basics (then search for the…
as a 20+ year developer, this is excellent. One of the bigger leaps for me (which the author mentions) was going from toy CS assignment projects where I wrote all the code and knew it inside and out to huge multi year…
I worked in it for 13 years (worked on one of the biggest non shooter games in the world). (this was ten years ago). I moved to new city to work and did so much overtime that when I go back to the same city now it feels…
Dated!? Dated!? You think that is dated looking? Ha! If you want to see dated do an image search for: "Oscar EMR Canada" and you can feast on dated UI. Socialist software forever! Kidding aside, that EMR is used by…
Agree. The beauty of lisp dev is that it’s a REPL that maintains state. You can edit the editor while editing. without restarting Write a defun and evaluate and it’s there. All the state persists. Most JS involves…
Looking forward to Michael Lewis’ book about it. Hopefully he can stay objective. Given the heavy hitters he allegedly screwed over (Sequoia VCs etc) I am surprised there is not more legal action. Maybe they would…
There is a guy on YouTube, who is a PhD physicist, called Thunderf00t (sp?). He thinks it might be a duck in the Cmd. Frasier (sp?) video. Some species of duck do crazy kamikaze dives into the water. Flapping wings…
It’s fun to combine jupyter notebooks and py scraping. If you are working 15 pages/screens deep, you can “stay at the coal face” and not have to rerun the whole script after making a change to the latest step.
I realize that trump is odious, but, what is next? Be inspired by China and filter wrongthink from the internet itself? What’s after that? Search for the wrong thing and the police kick down your door and disappear you?…
Prolog is great and kind of weird in a good way. One other benefit is that you can pick up erlang really quickly if you know prolog. Erlang was first prototyped in prolog and that prototype’s host language heavily…
I have never worked with cobol. The coolest thing about mainframes I heard was that you could pull out a broken cpu (without stopping it) and plug in a new one. No idea if it’s true. There are projects like:…
Location: Toronto (EST) Relocate: Maybe (depends on job/location) Technologies: python, ts/js, elixir, SQL, react, Django, nodejs, postgres, AWS, GCP, Terraform CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-anderson-53208053/…
I heard on some podcast that there is such a thing as: "Microsoft Excel World Championship" and someone named Diarmuid Early won it last year. I would pay $2.56 to watch an Excel battle between a slop skipper and him.…
Location: Canada (EST) Remote: yes relocate: probably not Technologies: python, JS, TS, Elixir, golang, Postgres, CouchDB, Terraform, k8s, React, django (a bunch more, want to be brief) Resume: available on request…
I am not worried about personal atrophy. I am worried about young people who never learn the fundamentals and blindly believe everything the llm say.
I am a Luddite holding on. 1) solving the problem myself is the fun part of the job 2) writing emails or whatever, I want it to be my voice, not some bland average of everything slop 3) I can't sppeell big word because…
I did CS and have been writing code for 20+ years. For the past two years, helping clients adopt LLMs into their business logic. It has lots of good use cases. But, I can recognize when it makes mistakes due to my years…
Might spawn a new occupation: sniff sommelier!
I am in Toronto, Canada. I don't have the open to work flag on in LinkedIn. Two years an ago, even with the flag off, would get recruiters reaching out daily (> 20 years experience). Now it's 1 per week. I do get lots…
There is a nice book that goes into detail of his life called: "The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution"
Peter Schweizer's great book Blood Money goes into the current state of the art with TikTok (and a bunch of other stuff).
People should check out Google's JAX. Work in a high level language and run anywhere. Nvidia should just be commodity hardware if people avoid vendor lock in.
I have tried to use VSCode more, but, the original emacs keyboard movement is burned into muscle memory. VSCode has a keyboard mapping for emacs, but, its does not feel right. At the end of the day, who cares? Its just…
search for "shane macgowan teeth" for a laugh.
Famous Irish band's singer that was big in the 80-90s. If you have ever been in an Irish themed pub that plays music, you have probably heard one of their songs: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvfcW8XVa2Kj802P4l302Yw…
a lot has changed and 15 years and also python's traditional slow pace of change is less true (Guido van Rossum liked it that way and the BDFL has moved on). to just get a refresh of the basics (then search for the…
as a 20+ year developer, this is excellent. One of the bigger leaps for me (which the author mentions) was going from toy CS assignment projects where I wrote all the code and knew it inside and out to huge multi year…
I worked in it for 13 years (worked on one of the biggest non shooter games in the world). (this was ten years ago). I moved to new city to work and did so much overtime that when I go back to the same city now it feels…
Dated!? Dated!? You think that is dated looking? Ha! If you want to see dated do an image search for: "Oscar EMR Canada" and you can feast on dated UI. Socialist software forever! Kidding aside, that EMR is used by…
Agree. The beauty of lisp dev is that it’s a REPL that maintains state. You can edit the editor while editing. without restarting Write a defun and evaluate and it’s there. All the state persists. Most JS involves…
Looking forward to Michael Lewis’ book about it. Hopefully he can stay objective. Given the heavy hitters he allegedly screwed over (Sequoia VCs etc) I am surprised there is not more legal action. Maybe they would…
There is a guy on YouTube, who is a PhD physicist, called Thunderf00t (sp?). He thinks it might be a duck in the Cmd. Frasier (sp?) video. Some species of duck do crazy kamikaze dives into the water. Flapping wings…
It’s fun to combine jupyter notebooks and py scraping. If you are working 15 pages/screens deep, you can “stay at the coal face” and not have to rerun the whole script after making a change to the latest step.
I realize that trump is odious, but, what is next? Be inspired by China and filter wrongthink from the internet itself? What’s after that? Search for the wrong thing and the police kick down your door and disappear you?…
Prolog is great and kind of weird in a good way. One other benefit is that you can pick up erlang really quickly if you know prolog. Erlang was first prototyped in prolog and that prototype’s host language heavily…
I have never worked with cobol. The coolest thing about mainframes I heard was that you could pull out a broken cpu (without stopping it) and plug in a new one. No idea if it’s true. There are projects like:…