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Liftango | Graduate Software Engineer | AUD 70-80k | Remote (Australia) We’re wanting to train up a graduate to help build our route optimisation software for our On-Demand transpo…

I was reading your comments as a classic overly negative hn comment but then went straight to that website and wow, yep that's bad. I can't tell if they're trying to sell me ground…

What made the process work so well? What about the culture made it so there was that back and forth? I'm wanting to build this into my teams and keen to hear what's worked for othe…

He's quite a humble guy and would think it's too much, I imagine. Separately he talks about his work being a craft and specifically not an art form

I'm a long-ish time fan of Dave's. I've been following his work on and off for the past ~decade or so. I've bought a number of his prints and have visited his shop in Asakusa. I've…

Thanks for the reply! Sounds like your response to the parent — database connectors in other regions — will help resolve this. So we're happy to stick it out for now

In the exact same boat. Love retool and using it a lot for interfaces we want to whip up quickly, but the performance is terrible. We're just copping it at the moment since we don'…

Yeah it's their own language on top of c++ to help them with testing distributed systems with deterministic simulation. Their talk from a while ago about it was something that real…

I agree with the sentiment you're getting at about nostalgia for the past sometimes ignores the homogeneity of the people using those systems and how that reduced complexity. I do …

Agreed. I finished watching them at the start of this year and it's significantly helped me in using and making choices about databases. I've also since started implementing my own…

It's a bit of a weird comment but I've had similar thoughts about what the Oxide Computer Company is doing could be a good use-case for Parler. They're doing some awesome stuff aro…

Liftango | Newcastle, AU | Onsite or Remote (AU, NZ, UK) | Full Time Liftango is an Australian based company that was founded on the core belief that shared mobility will play a vi…

Yes I remember one of the most interesting examples I saw of this was with how actin and myosin gain motion in cells, there's enough stuff bashing around everywhere that the right …

I've personally found that my self control is significantly influenced by the amount of sleep I get. The less sleep, or lower quality sleep I get, the worse self control I have. I …