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coffeeiscold

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About coffeeiscold

Software engineer with a games and simulations background. C++, C#, Python.

Currently learning about accessibility technology, how to maintain a popular open source project, and manage development for a charitable non-profit organization.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #33186949

    Yes, can confirm. Developers on our projects who typically respond to comments via email have been affected by this. Emails sent back in March are now showing up as comments on the…

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    Comment #25639590

    NV Access | Australia | Full Time | 100% REMOTE (Australia) | Software Engineer | OPEN SOURCE Use your Python / C++ skills to empower blind and vision-impaired people globally thro…

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    Comment #25271289

    NV Access | Brisbane, Australia | Full Time | 100% REMOTE (Australia) | Software Engineer | OPEN SOURCE Use your Python / C++ skills to empower blind and vision-impaired people glo…

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    Comment #24660301

    NV Access | Brisbane, Australia | Full Time | 100% REMOTE (Australia) | Software Engineer | OPEN SOURCE Use your Python / C++ skills to empower blind and vision-impaired people glo…

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    Comment #24458832

    Ironically unreadable with Firefox for Android. Lots of text is cut off. Possibly due to not handling text scaling (accessibility) correctly.

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    Comment #24040891

    It seems you might have missed my point. "I think that companies are extremely unlikely to forego interviewing a candidate that otherwise looks good because they had no cover lette…

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    Comment #24039115

    NV Access | Brisbane, Australia | Full Time | 100% REMOTE (Australia) | Software Engineer Use your Python / C++ skills to empower blind and vision-impaired people globally through …

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    Comment #24018522

    I guess the question is, how does this person "seem really good"? To determine this, they have to have a well written resume that highlights relevant experience. Most resumes seem …

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    Comment #22225343

    NV Access | Brisbane, Australia | Full Time | 100% REMOTE (Australia) | Dev Ops Engineer https://www.nvaccess.org/post/job-dev-ops-engineer/ NV Access is a global non-profit organi…

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    Comment #20428928

    If we are going to doubt something that looks and acts like it has qualia, then the same is true for any other human.

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    Comment #20428502

    By "actually" are you again inferring the requirement for cross over between realities? If the simulated brain was experiencing something, then that "something" is an experience in…

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    Comment #20427024

    If it was well simulated, yes it would produce simulated gravity. Why should there be any expectation that the simulated reality affect the non simulated reality? If you start down…

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    Comment #20308761

    I'm in the Netherlands (inland), also surprised by the heat. A few 30 deg days and it's getting uncomfortable. On top of the humidity and lack of a sea breeze, the days are much lo…

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    Comment #17236916

    If you are producing free software that demonstrates that you are an expert in the domain, you may then be able to leverage that reputation to gain related consulting work. This mi…

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    Comment #17160667

    It seems like the regulations help to create an environment conducive to innovation. There is now a strong incentive to solve the problem "a better way". Let's hope it happens!

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    Comment #16899144

    If you are interested in the internals of a screen reader, how they work, or what it is like to use one, check out the NVDA project ( https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda ). NVDA is a …