Viewing profile — Jacqued

What are some good resources to learn how AI is built into products? How it impacts the development cycle, evals, etc. Looking for books, blogs, any type of resource really!

You’re right about how it works today but it seems to me this is an odd choice to make. Why not enforce object types? Could they add a strictness flag that lets objects actually be…

In my experience, this is mostly wrong. You don’t get 500-600k Silicon Valley offers in Europe just for being a solid engineer. You do get a total comp that is 2-3x local market if…

Yes you do pay down the principal. Non-amortized mortgage loans might exist but if they do they're definitely marginal.

Here in France people only ever do fixed rate, generally for 20 or 25 year mortgages. I have never heard of someone buying a home with a variable rate loan, not sure if it's even l…

Unemployment is the one benefit you can't get as a contractor (in France, I don't know about OP's country), but it doesn't work that great for higher income professionals anyway. W…

I think in Europe there's a bunch of local markets with a lot of companies that do not want to compete for developers, not within the EU and definitely not with the US. They'd rath…

I'm not an ops guy, but I know it was a constant source of trouble in our team and a large challenge to keep it running smoothly. For us it took 2-3 experienced engineers something…

Hey! I'm one of the maintainers of Richie. That's exactly right, it's meant to be a web portal in front of one or more LMS.

I work on a team where we build around and run Open edX. It's incredibly complicated to run because it's not built as an open source product. It's just that edX open sources their …

I mean the guy lost "a major honor" in his field, not his job. A lot of people deserve honors for their good work, and don't write trash articles comparing enrolling a few more Bla…

It's not five years to citizenship. After five years you get to apply. Then it takes about 4 years of administrative hell (with some traps that can get you back to square one) to g…

In my anecdotal experience 60k is typical for developers with 5 years of experience in larger cities, but often you do need to get into management to reach 80k. I think it’s also g…

In most places the cost of living is pretty low compared to the US, so even the admittedly lower engineer salaries in Europe can give you a very comfortable lifestyle. Eg. in Franc…

I just wish they offered higher density displays. I'd love to try them out but I'm never going back to a 1080p display.

It's amazing that you can see them so far south in the US. I live at +48° latitude too and around here it's completely unheard of to see anything of the Northern lights (even when …

Hey Diego! Nice idea and examples! Let me know if I'm wrong, but the main difference between `createContainer` and a `React.createContext` call is that you memoize inputs, correct?…

Which can be ok. There's no ethical duty to make websites for literally everyone. Accessibility is a different issue of course, but to illustrate my point: I have never translated …

>> That's not a "view of the world", that's _objective reality_. That's just, like, your opinion, man. Setting aside arguments as to the mere existence of "objective reality". You'…

That means you can't be discriminated against on the basis of your religion, not that you can discriminate against other people because of your religion though, right? Just like eg…

The way it makes sense is that "right-wing nutjob" is not a protected characteristic, whereas race & sexual orientation are protected.

I must say I have not been jealous of the US in this regard. In my opinion the state should be able to silence fascists and neo-nazis and jail them for hate speech. Unlike the US, …

It's on the low end, depending on what you work on. In my experience (on the recruiting end) beginner developers in Paris can get ~40k€ pretty easily by getting several offers. Mor…

In my experience, €50k is pretty much middle-of-the road for software developers. That's what I had after ~2 years experience. Beginners get 40k out of college. Freelancing is also…

To be fair that’s pretty much the doj enforcement strategy too. Except you don’t even have to serve American customers to be targeted there.