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A couple of reasons why Paraguay is a great place for remote workers: * Friendly people * Great food (soups like Vori Vori, delicious BBQ) * Decent internet * Cheap rent * Low taxe…

I’ve worked on the Day One & WordPress iOS mobile apps for the last five years. I just shipped a new iPad experience on the Day One app: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBSv1sHOZX4…

It's not available on the Paraguayan App Store yet. The same thing happened with ChatGPT itself, it wasn't available in Paraguay for a couple of months and no explanation as to why…

Does this affect contractors, or just employees? This year, I noticed Amazon hires international contractors for engineering roles and I don't think I saw that before. I wonder if …

This is eerily similar to videos forwarded on WhatsApp about "things you'd only understand if you were born in the " :) I did relate to it though. It would be apt for a video about…

> Moreover, I feel like it's going to be a big problem that the architecture you're deploying your code to is different than the one you are developing on. iOS apps—which run on AR…

I think that the test cases included with packages might have the advantage of being able to obfuscate URLs or other strings as benign test dummy data. This would be especially eas…

Inverse: "A schrödinbug or schroedinbug . . . is a bug that manifests itself in running software after a programmer notices that the code should never have worked in the first plac…

Nice to see Paraguay present here on HN, I live here in Asunción. I also heard of some people near Luque without power Sunday and Monday, but I'd guess it was an unrelated ANDE inc…

According to Paraguayan news [1] (Spanish), the failure was on the Argentina side of the Yacyretá hydroelectric (which is shared by Argentina and Paraguay), not at the plant itself…

Slightly confusing how although the article's opening paragraph currently says "...an explicit order" from the state education department, it goes on to quote it later where it can…

I found Susan Fowler's story quite interesting, as told on her blog: https://www.susanjfowler.com

A shoutout to Rober Dam who built Xaddress, "Give 7 billion people an instant physical address": http://xaddress.org/

A couple more from around the world (esp. Paraguay): 1. To drop a passenger off where there is no street parking, just turn on your hazard lights and stop in the middle of the road…

Location: Paraguay Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Not for the time being Technologies: 5 years of iOS (Objective-C, Swift) and Hybrid Mobile (React Native, Cordova, custom hybrid…

You worked on this actual data? It's amazing how Hacker News brings together people from such diverse backgrounds.

It's standard for banking apps to go through all sorts of testing including penetration testing before going into production (here in Paraguay that's how we do it). That this went …

If the Unabomber had been smart enough he would have realized that these fears are actually contemplated by others and regarded as known risks.

I love it when I find an article about something that has crossed the edge of my mind, but which I've never given proper thought to.

Switching jobs would incur a slight penalty of 1) removing chip, b) re-programming chip, c) leaving chip. I think this is something a lot of people would like to avoid.

I like how the number 42 is weaved into this. At 177 light minutes into the journey, there is the following message: Emptiness is actually everywhere. It’s something like 99.999999…

Nice, as an Australian I concur. I live in Paraguay, could anyone shed light on what stereotypical views/biases I would experience in a job interview as an Aussie living in Paragua…

For a corporate credit analyst working at a bank, what are some good introduction material for getting into forecasting using tools like these? I see this being applicable to analy…