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bevacqua

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author JavaScript Application Design (2015): https://amzn.to/2tWp9PA

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bevacqua··on Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work (2021)
Count me as anecdotal evidence in the 35+ bucket of those who went from full remote to hybrid and highly prefers hybrid (after a decade of full remote).

Having a thriving office has been a breath of fresh air for when I want to see people. The key is it being optional and up to employees to decide what's best for them.

bevacqua··on Cows are suffering on even the most “humane” dairy farms
https://archive.is/J6mDZ
bevacqua··on Man Allegedly Raped in Jail After AI Wrongly IDs Him as Suspect Despite Alibi
"A computer can never be held accountable, so has increasingly been used to make management decisions." — IBM slide from 1979.

AI didn't wrongly convict anyone. People leveraging AI did.

bevacqua··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2023)
velocity
bevacqua··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2023)
Sure thing: by not putting you through the rest of the interviewing process that takes 5 more hours :)
bevacqua··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2023)
plenty of us are married with kids, weird extrapolation. you spent more time debating this on hn than you could've spent on our challenge. i'll chalk it up as bad prioritization :)
bevacqua··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2023)
we get a lot of volume and this helps us quickly identify people that are a) strongly motivated and b) strong candidates
bevacqua··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2023)
updated. we're currently primarily looking at US, Canada, and Argentina and always exploring other options
bevacqua··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2023)
Ramp | Full-Time | Front-End Engineer (All Levels) | Remote US, Canada (NYC offices) | $250k+ TC

Ramp is looking for talented front-end folks who live and breathe UX. Our front-end stack is React (hooks), TypeScript, vite, and a shiny component library.

See the job posting and apply directly at [senior-frontend-job].

Email any questions nico+hackernews@ramp.com.

We're also hiring for other roles, see all openings at [all-jobs].

———

Ramp is building the world's first finance automation platform designed to save businesses time and money. Ramp offers 5-in-1 software that consolidates corporate cards, expense management, bill payments, accounting, and reporting into one simple and free solution. We're a young hypergrowth startup building top tier product in the B2B fintech space (3y old, $8.1B valuation, Series C, ~500 employees, ~100 engineers)

Cool breakdown of our business: [breakdown]

More recent articles on the economy: [july-2022-update] [mar-2023-news]

[senior-frontend-job]: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ramp/4f9dd90d-f32e-46d5-b0c0-c69272...

[all-jobs]: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ramp?utm_source=Pk8jzEeRLO

[breakdown]: https://www.notboring.co/p/ramping-up

[july-2022-update]: https://ramp.com/blog/ramp-july-2022-update

[mar-2023-news]: https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/29/ramp-reports-4x-revenue-gr...

bevacqua··on Ask HN: How to deal with 0.1X programmer colleagues?
Leave. Email me nico@ramp.com
bevacqua··on Can you just move into an abandoned house?
happens abundantly in Argentina
bevacqua··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)
we're open to remote for all roles
bevacqua··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)
europe depends on yoe for us
bevacqua··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)
yes
bevacqua··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)
not that literal
bevacqua··on Secret ChatGPT plugins can be revealed by removing a parameter from an API call
wouldn't count figuring out they do client-side filtering as hacking
bevacqua··on Lex Fridman's Reading Plan in Numbers
he talked about starting mondays and ending fridays, but the analysis is counting weekends. strip those away and the numbers are way off. he also talked about doing a weekly review for each book, not something you can keep up if reading one of the books takes you over a month (21d per op, over weekdays)
bevacqua··on Ask HN: Examples of Top C# Code?
I learned C# with notepad and RunUO as a teenager. Extremely good codebase https://github.com/runuo/runuo
bevacqua··on We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online
I learned C# and landed my first coding job thanks to it too
bevacqua··on We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online
As someone who got involved in an open-source version of the Ultima Online server, this is a fun read

Instead of `areaserv` like the article talks about, RunUO had the concept of sectors within a region[1]. Sidenote: To this day RunUO is one of the easiest codebases to understand i've ever come across

We too had a pretty bad item duping bug, around how banks allowed you to create checks with money, and an overflow bug leading to people being trivially able to print money — this led to runway inflation in some servers.

UO economies themselves being matter of study, for a Really interesting article, see [2]

[1]: https://github.com/runuo/runuo/blob/master/Server/Region.cs

[2]: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bf1bc95506fbe3baadb7...

bevacqua··on Woodpeckers don't have built-in shock absorbers to protect their brain
Turns out Leonardo was wrong after all

What a coincidence, just finished reading Walter Isaacson's biography of Da Vinci yesterday

bevacqua··on Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leetcode’
Interview at startups like Ramp — we don't care about leetcoding at all. There's many others.

https://ramp.com/careers or hit me up nico@ramp.com

bevacqua··on We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA
Any tips on hiring world-class iOS engineers?
bevacqua··on Unusual login activity was due to bug
so glad i switched to 1password a few months back
bevacqua··on Learn RegEx step by step, from zero to advanced
highly recommend Mastering Regular Expressions
bevacqua··on Hooks are the best thing to happen to React
it optimizes for not thinking about loading states, and the way it's normally used (hook fetches data, suspends) results in you having to go out of your way to add a loading state near the component that suspended, as you have to create an intermediate component and a loading component, splitting what should be a single concern into several, and it results in a lot of duplication that previously could be addressed by just having an `isLoading` prop

not thinking about loading states hurts ux and perceived performance

edit to clarify: i like hooks (though people abuse them) and believe react has generally always been best-in-class at thoughtful interface design. suspense breaks with that imo

bevacqua··on Hooks are the best thing to happen to React
And suspense is the worst thing to happen to React
bevacqua··on Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today?
It's just people flocking to HN for reliable news on the insane outage affecting global Facebook services, and refreshing far more than they usually would. Data point of one
bevacqua··on Ask HN: Book Recommendations
https://github.com/bevacqua/reads
bevacqua··on Sublime Text 4
Awesome. Sublime is my favorite editor by far. Performance, multiple cursors, and syntax highlighting is all I need

Couple questions:

1. I already have JSX and TypeScript plugins installed. Should I remove those?

2. When will there be a `~/Library/Sublime Text 4/` directory now?

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