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robertbalent

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About robertbalent

www.linkedin.com/in/balent

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    > way more coffee breaks That’s upside.

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    Comment #28704402

    That’s a lot of walks! Is there an app that will generate walking routes, so you visit different streets each time? If I wanted to develop something like this, where would I start?…

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    For me, this sounds like a developer with a lot of potential. You realized your weaknesses and want to improve. That's a big step forward. To improve, you need to work on projects …

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    Is it really true? A lot of companies are focusing on hiring "short fat" engineers. Especially companies having "dev ops" engineering model, where engineers must be able to work on…

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    Was the stock GME?

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    As for a practical advice: Just use PostgreSQL. You can get really really far with just an SQL database and few indexes. It's enough for 99% of projects. This has two big advantage…

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    Why do Java programmers wear glasses? Because they don't C#.

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    Comment #25826893

    However, this is not enforced at all for software engineers. So in lot of companies the official title is software engineer even without any accreditation.

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    As mentioned before, work on your Leetcode skills. Be sure you can talk while solving them on whiteboard. From books I like "Elements of Programming Interviews" and also "Cracking …

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    Comment #25381524

    Made an update and now the expiration time of all certificates in the certificate chain is checked. Thanks!

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    Thank you for the feedback. You are right, checking the whole chain is important. I'm already partially supporting this but need to do few changes. The intermediate certificates re…

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    Hi, My name is Robert and I'm the creator of Monitoria. I've submitted Show HN around 2 months ago but it didn't get any traction [1]. Since then I introduced a free plan and SSL c…

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    Comment #25192420

    If you are on linux, you can try this equalizer setting by installing PulseEffects and selecting ziyad-perfecteq from the equalizer presets.

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    I switched to linux about a year ago (after 4 years with Mac and 10 years with linux before). However, transition was anything but smooth. I have Thinkpad X1 Carbon 7th Gen and the…

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    I believe all of these fonts can be used without ligatures. If I want to use ligatures, I have to explicitly enable it in my code editor.

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    I have X1 Carbon 7th and need to use throttled to get full power. Try to run performance test with s-tui if you see a difference. On Arch the command to enable the fix is: sudo sys…

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    Comment #25044202

    How many hours are you fasting? Whole day twice a week?

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    Comment #24997250

    What is the 'open' command? Is it alias for the 'xdg-open'? Edit: Just noticed they are using MacOS. That makes it clear.