benjaminRRR

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@benjaminRRR founder https://futureneutral.com former CTO @ https://www.jetabroad.com.au

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Comment · 1 month ago

I was exploring latent space and connections, these were all smaller models and I kept getting externalToEVA as a zero co-ordinate vector. Which sent me down the rabbit hole of glitch tokens. The whole latent space exploration is fascinating.

Comment · 4 years ago

It's interesting, as I have this conversation with my kids - ie actually let them know, there's actually no good reason for this, it's just a societal rule. However, I then try to explain that it is often advantageous to follow these rules even if it doesn't seem to make any sense, because of the advantages you can get by being cohesive in society. It's a good exercise, and also helps me think, there really are some dumb rules, and the calculus is weighing up when to disregard them.

Comment · 6 years ago

Hi Max_Mustermann, it's all in a mix of google docs and jsfiddle snippets. Once it's in a distributable format I will be sure to show HN. If you're keen to help flick me a message on twitter (even to just help structure things :) )

Comment · 6 years ago

Is there somewhere we can discuss? I'm helping out with a curriculum to help slum kids to (web) program in Thailand in English, but in a way that they can learn English as well. I'd welcome more help (project is going slow as I'm low on spare time), and this could also help the kids in Kolkata as well.

Comment · 6 years ago

If there's one thing we do a reasonable job on it's multicity. Link in bio.

Comment · 7 years ago

I bought this guy for the office - works well https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00TH3OW4Q

Comment · 9 years ago

This is a very good point. Unlike other sports - when you push you can be hurt badly, but ultimately learn from your mistake, proximity wingsuit is one-mistake-one-kill.

Comment · 10 years ago

There are both upstream problems (hiring the wrong people) and downstream problems (having process to catch garbage before it gets into mainline). You need both as you will inevitably make a bad hire somewhere along the way. For downstream prevention you need good processes to catch poor quality code. We've found that automated (static analysis [we like sonarqube]) plus consistent human code reviews goes a long way to ensuring a high quality code base.

Firefox and Tor release urgent update for 0-day that’s under active attack arstechnica.com

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Comment · 10 years ago

SkyScanner is not an agency, they use other players to provide the content and fulfil the product so they'd have no use for ITA.

Comment · 10 years ago

Good resource, I just posted for an opening with our team in Bangkok.

Comment · 10 years ago

I went back to sublime as I had too many stability issues with Atom. You can throw megs of data at Sublime (if needed) and it absorbs it, Atom grinds to a painful death.

Why it's scary that Uber is ferrying cans of Coke around London and businessinsider.com.au

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Comment · 10 years ago

Jetabroad (Thailand) | Software Engineers (multiple) | Bangkok, Thailand | Onsite | Full-Time | Visa / Work-Permit / Relocation |

Airfares are hard, we tackle the hardest part, multi-city up to 10 legs long. Think exponential search space, fuzzy constraints, and constantly changing variables.

We're looking for both front-end and back-end developers to work on our user-experience and search platform respectively.

Bangkok offers a great place to live with a great standard of living at low cost. Our offices are in the heart of the city overlooking the green of the Netherlands embassy on Wireless Road.

Check out details at https://bkkthailand.jetabroad.com/jobs/index.html We are predominantly built with .NET, but language proficiency is not how we hire - fundamentals always win the day.

Interview - First we Skype, then maybe Skype again and possibly a demo-style programming task, then we get you on a plane to say hello and to check out Bangkok, spend time with the team, if it all gels we make an offer. Apply https://bkkthailand.jetabroad.com/misc/jobapplicationform.ht...

Please note for expatriate candidates you unfortunately need a completed tertiary degree (>= Bachelors) to pass the Thai Labour Ministry's requirements for a work-permit.

Comment · 10 years ago

My guess is that, given it has not been disclosed, the investors got as much of their money back as they could through liquidation preferences and there's not much to get excited about after that.