artmageddon

Joined 16 years ago

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Ultra-marathon runner, private pilot(small planes), dabbling skydiver, and more prominently a mid-level .Net developer with a Bachelor's of Science CS degree; just started the next phase of my professional career(albeit still a code monkey). Would love to hear from fellow HN posters.

Email: arthur dot baczyk (at) gmail dot com

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Comment · 4 years ago
I thought they were the Africanized ones? Those were the ones I read about as a kid in my school library, and the way they depicted their projected spread across the USA made it look like a pestilence worthy of Revelation. I honestly thought I wasn't going to live to become an adult because we'd all be over taken by super aggressive bees.
Comment · 6 years ago
It is, but some interviewers can be intentionally vague.
Comment · 6 years ago
> > is the list sorted

If I were the interviewer, this question would almost make me dock points off of the interviewee

Why? Knowing that can be a useful filter to reduce the search time and space, assuming whole numbers only.

Comment · 7 years ago
And how much time did you spend updating your new information with the government, your banks, your work, and other services that you interact with?
Comment · 8 years ago
As someone going through a Master's in CS to get into ML, this makes me a little sad..

(though I do understand what you're getting at)

Comment · 8 years ago
Not all of us used Android when Flash was available for it
Comment · 8 years ago
Does $72K go far in Sweden? I would assume not due to taxes...? I'm in a position of ignorance so I'm just looking to get a better idea of what it's like there :)
Comment · 8 years ago
My last job in finance(still am in finance fwiw) used much more VBA to price out billion-dollar swaps and swaptions than I was comfortable admitting to...
Comment · 8 years ago
Reading this thread, with all the Javascript talk, makes me feel like I should be scared of continuing to be a C# developer..
Comment · 8 years ago
I ran into a similar issue myself. Why would PayPal, of all companies, have a problem with this?
Comment · 8 years ago
I wish I could say I found them remotely, but alas these were literally friend-of-a-friend type deals.

More details: One of them was a bakery that was taking all its orders on paper, so I developed a simple but powerful system for them to track their orders in a database, and other was a small investment shop(read: a pair of people managing a millionaire's money) who were looking for a way to track trades and get on with the important stuff rather than waste two hours a day updating an Excel spreadsheet. My biggest problem I haven't been able to leverage these jobs into continuous passive income.

Comment · 8 years ago
I have; it can be tough especially if the client is a demanding one. For me it was more like 10-15 hrs/week, but sometimes it'd easily be 30 hours if things were broken or some new deliverable came up. Luckily my wife had her own thing going on with her Ph.D at the time so she was super supportive and understanding... it also helped that the work covered half the cost of a new car we needed part way through the project.
Comment · 8 years ago
Public health - would you willing ingest fish or other foods if you new how badly it was tainted?
Comment · 8 years ago
> While there's a lot of plastic in the ocean it's relatively thinly distributed. It's not like there's a bunch of bottles floating in one place. It's a bunch of plastic dust in the water column.

But it's distributed over a very large area, and affects sea-life. Guess what that means for people who consume fish?

Comment · 8 years ago
"Keep your army fighting fit with this one simple trick!"

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