troebr

Joined 14 years ago

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Jun 27
From France. Interested in internet things, and water sports things. I live in San Diego.
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Comment · 6 months ago
I'm making a surf forecasting site a la surfline.com, I started mostly to have an API to use for my tidbyt, but I figured I might as well make it a full thing and built my own features! It's on quickswell.com but it's only Socal at this time (fewer spots to compute)
Comment · 9 months ago
Even when using google docs, I dropped the paper format, and at that point it's better to edit/read in a richer editor like Confluence which has better support for interactive widgets, expand zones, code blocks, etc. It's also been better at navigating a tree of documents.

Google docs is still great when you need to make something you mean to print, it just tends to not be that often anymore.

I even use markdown shortcuts to format in google docs nowadays.

Comment · 11 months ago
Electric.ai | Senior Frontend Engineer | Remote (South&Latin America) | Full-time | $60,000 - $85,000

We're a company based in the US focusing on helping small and medium businesses be on top of their IT with the help of software and automation, even if they have limited IT & security knowledge.

We're looking for a senior frontend engineer, we're react shop with a standard stack. We're a mix of US and South America based engineers on the team.

email: cmVtaS5jYXJ0b25AZWxlY3RyaWMuYWk=

Comment · 1 year ago
None of these debugging tips involve the use of a debugger, arguably one of the most efficient ways to debug.
Comment · 1 year ago
If we're going to give anecdotal data, when I lived in NYC I was hired as an H1B, and every single other H1B I knew was paid way more than the median wage. But these were companies not trying to abuse the system. I do not doubt that there are bad actors.

I do agree that there should be minima to prevent abuse. I do not agree that every H1B hire was to abuse the system.

In the early 2010s there were hiring shortages, the startup that hired me would have probably preferred saving on the attorney fees and the 6+ months it took between the offer and the start date. For a new H1B you have to prepare the paperwork in March at the latest, apply the first week of April, for a start date of October 1st. And not only that, but with the quotas and the lottery you're absolutely not guaranteed that your hire is going to make it. All things being equal without a shortage or the ability to underpay, it is not an attractive solution.

H1Bs do push salaries down, because there is more "supply" of workers, so it should probably only be used for hiring for areas with shortages, but even then you can have downturn like what we're having in tech, and some companies may keep their H1Bs over FTE because they are less of a flight risk and can't negotiate their salaries as well. Even with a shortage, this means that employees with that specific skill will be paid less, now it's more of a matter of which one is better for the economy/society.

Comment · 1 year ago
I like the idea, but also it wouldn't feel fair for some services that I use like Twitch, or some cooking websites. I get that they sometimes really abuse all that stuff, but also I feel like they deserve some kind of compensation.
Comment · 1 year ago
How does this type of hackathon work?
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Maybe they're cranking out AI SaaS products to see what sticks. I was going to say low effort, but it's not zero effort and does offer some kind of service. I could have used some AI help for my kitchen design, I hated the process.
Comment · 2 years ago
On osx you can use `say "long command is done"` or whatever is descriptive.
Comment · 2 years ago
It's cool conceptually, but I think for family I haven't known, for family I have known and is aging/deceased that would make me pretty sad so I probably wouldn't use it.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
That's a robot's take. You can have days where you slept poorly or need a nap to get back on track or just lack motivation.

Personally I try to take on tasks that don't require as much brainpower. If I'm really too tired I'll just take a nap, because it's better to take a 20 minute nap and do work for the rest of the afternoon than feeling terrible and doing hardly anything for a whole afternoon.

Comment · 2 years ago
I think it's interesting to read people voicing concerns and limitations of the projects in the comments (that's why I came to read them), but I was hoping more people would be excited about the idea. Even if it doesn't work out, I root for people who try out ideas like this.

Every once in a while some crazy idea like breaking down atoms to generate electricity works out and we're all better off thanks to it.

Comment · 2 years ago
Must love dogs is an interesting requirement for a remote position

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