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I've always stuck with very local (in the same city where I reside). I'm not against looking further or even remote but I've never had to look too far. It's normally a question of …

Yes but not as an employee. I'm a freelance python developer in Brussels, Belgium with just over 10 years exp and 32 years of age. The jump from employee to freelance wasn't easy b…

A quick and dirty minimalist example of how DNS could be abused to sneak data off of a compromised machine.

Another one man-team here, I find it fascinating how our stacks have at least a 90% overlap. Also funny that we both build analytics tools :) For your front to back integration: I …

Wow, that's a flashback of my college years! Good times, thank you Kim!

Nope, I also had no idea. And now that I know.. my life will not be changed in the least. I suppose it's a generational thing ;)

Epic, I like your analogy!

I love reading these. My daughter is only 2 but I've been compiling these tips as "learning hacks" to present as soon as she's ready since before she was conceived! I was also intr…

A better way, such as? You mean like writing email / tweet requests directly to those responsible? What's this magical alternative method? FWIW, this method seems to have worked wh…

In all software I've seen dealing with these issues (ofac, aml, Dow Jones listings, etc) the flagging should result in manual verification but you're able to configure risk allowan…

I had tons of headaches trying to get toml to do what's trivial in Json (nested arrays of objects of arrays of ... etc). 1/10 would not try again. For very simple, hear "flat" conf…

It took me a solid month before graphql finally "clicked" but there's no going back now, I absolutely prefer it over rest now. 10/10 would do again and do suggest everybody give it…

Exactly. WTF is the complaining about. Alternative title: Guy wants to do the best for his kid while other parents wine about it on Twitter. If he wasn't wealthy, and sourced the f…

TIL something new, thanks!

My uni was nothing like this and I appreciate that. First year: every thing is terminal based, vim was taught, Javac was used by hand, as was nasm/ld/gcc. Only in the second year w…

Check out listings on localbitcoins for your region. It's worked well for me in the past (keeping transactions off public exchanges). In my city, it's been trivial to move $20k dol…

Exactly! Translation is tricky business.

I really don’t like the example of “monter en haut”. Certain verbs, like “monter” can have very different meanings without the noun. Monter en haut: to go up (not specifically stai…

Exactly. I stopped looking for insights as soon as I read that one.

As soon as you accept, not just “realise”, but actually and honestly accept the fact that there’s always going to be somebody more qualified to do whatever it is that you’re doing.…

When I first saw prisma I was blown away but after a couple months of trying to get a production ready system online I was just fed up with the "schema first" pattern. Wasted way t…