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Hi, I am looking for any advice on how to manage this codebase. It originally started out as a demo which then got turned into production code (before my time) and then a few varia…

Tech lead for WEMC here - see https://tealtool.earth Straightforward charts of climate related data for different countries and regions around the globe For temperature and a few o…

There is no way to DM on HN, as far as I am aware. I would be interested in talking - I have some Ml/NLP based ideas and some free time... See my profile info for my website/email

Interesting idea.... I have been idly working on an web crawler / indexing / organizing system that uses NLP etc to sort of solve the OP's problem(s) - if you don't mind, could you…

I have been collecting bookmarks for some time now as well - all unsorted... Doing it manually would be a nightmare so I have been thinking about making a SaaS - webcrawler + AI (N…

Given you already have a few years of experience which is a bit more important than just a degree (IMO), I would not worry so much. "Computing" is not "IT support" (no one gets a d…

Between this and FTX, I am really starting to think the death penalty ought to be applicable for financial crimes beyond a certain magnitude. The intangible cost to society / peopl…

Be very explicit, from the beginning, that you do not do fixed price contracts (which is essentially really what clients always want) unless the job is obviously trivial enough to …

Why hasn't anyone mentioned IR35????? I am in the UK - it seems the company you are working for is in violation of the IR35 regulations (but I'm not entirely sure of what nuances t…

An upvote for you (if I could). I'm American but have lived in the UK for near 20 years. My great-whatever grandfather signed the Declaration of Independence so I'm hardly a royali…

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No, in the UK, the loser will pay for court costs, in general. I had a bit of legal trouble a few years ago - the other side was trying to play "solicitor" to use the law as a way …

I might have such a thing, though it has been over a decade since I did any webdev; not sure I still have the code. I was doing the backend for a project while the frontend work wa…

Pattern recognition

I print the webpage to a PDF and store it that way, then fix up the metadata as I see fit. And that is a good feature - make a request on the Github repo and see if the lead develo…

No one has mentioned iLibrarian yet. No idea how its feature set compares to Zotero or Mendeley (I haven't used them much as I found them annoying in some ways) but there is a free…

I forget why I didn't like Zotero - I am using iLibrarian [0]. It is positioned as a SaaS, but the source is available and you can host it yourself. But I can't speak to how it com…

I have used Neo4j and Tigergraph. Neo4j's community version being a toy is something I agree with - haven't used the enterprise version, though. But its memory requirements do seem…

My immediate reaction was "why not Parallel?" but realized I'm not immediately sure how to deal with multiple servers... Off the top of my head.... have Parallel manage threads tha…

But what if it wasn't clearly labeled? I did my MSc thesis on fake reviews and discussed the phenomena known as "covert marketing" a bit. e.g. a guy you're talking to in a bar at s…

What are you going to do in retirement? I read an article recently about how people tend not to really change their life or behaviors once they 'retire', i.e. those plans to comple…

My suggestions (I have just decided to officially retire, so money things are on my mind): 1. Read Rich Dad, Poor Dad. I have not personally read it, but it is supposed to be prett…

For what I was doing, and how I was doing it, working with graph structures directly with Cypher would have been easier. Perhaps "logical" is the wrong word; my intent was to relay…

I investigated using Neo4j back in 2010 for storing the schedules/routes of ocean shipping freight companies, forwarders, etc. The first cut of the system stored the schedule data …

"Drug Warriors and Their Prey" takes a look at the WoSD from another angle [0] Basically, the WoSD 'was' (still is?) a mechanism by which authoritarians could impose control on soc…