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cshgon Show HN: Carefulwords.com, a more inspiring thesaurus

uhhh.. I'm amazed!!

what's "gewgaw" doing under "curiosity" though?

No matter the many critical comments this is actually a pretty concise summary of the technology / concepts behind blockchain including recent developments such as scalability / rollups and interoperability, which are hard to find good explanations for.

Recommended read for anyone interested in the space from my perspective! Despite potential imperfections.

cshgon The Drunk Men I Drive Around Every Night (2020)

Interesting to see this so far up the ranks on Hacker News. Despite the content not being technical, cutting edge or intellectual as most stuff here (as also noted in the comments regarding the challenge to find clear takeaways).

Maybe this indicates that a lot of people here can relate to the author's emotions regarding encountering people with alcohol problems, also in the tech scene?

cshgon Et Tu, Signal?

Signal's by default e2e encrypted chats can be used across platforms, e.g. synced across desktop and mobile. Telegram's secret chats are only available on the device where you initiated them. That's a major disadvantage.

cshgon Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube and More

Why does it look so much like Slack? :D

cshgon Scaling from 2k to 25k engineers on GitHub at Microsoft

The title makes it sound like the number of employees at Github scaled to 25k. The actual meaning though is that the number of Github contributers / participants at Microsoft increased to 25k.

Quote: "At Microsoft today we have almost 25,000 engineers participating in our official GitHub organizations for open source, a great number of them contributing to open source communities throughout GitHub."

Quite misleading IMO.

cshgon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)

flowkey | Berlin, Germany | ONSITE, FULL-TIME

flowkey is a profitable education tech startup helping millions of users worldwide to learn piano. Flexible working times, constant learning, a cutting edge tech stack (React Native, GraphQL) and an experienced team are waiting for you.

Working culture close to Open Source, pick issues yourself, no sprints/deadlines, work on the topics you are most passionate about. Full trust for end to end feature ownership, no product managers telling you what to do.

Senior Full Stack Engineer (JavaScript, Web Focus): https://flowkey.breezy.hr/p/d90cda1664f601-senior-full-stack...

cshgon Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting outcomes

Specific examples of what classifies as a “hard” or “easy” interview question would be very helpful to have reference points and assess one’s own interview process.

cshgon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)

flowkey | https://www.flowkey.com | Full stack Web & Data Science | Berlin, Germany | FULLTIME, ONSITE

flowkey is a profitable education tech startup helping millions of users worldwide to learn piano.

Join us as a Data Scientist or Full-stack JavaScript Engineer. Flexible working times, constant learning, a cutting edge tech stack (React Native, GraphQL) and an experienced team are waiting for you.

Data Scientist: https://flowkey.breezy.hr/p/7d43f5ecf7be01-data-scientist-fu...

Full-stack JavaScript Engineer: https://flowkey.breezy.hr/p/d90cda1664f601-full-stack-javasc...

For any questions email me at chris@flowkey.com

cshgon Launch HN: FloydHub (YC W17) – Heroku for Deep Learning

The landing-page responsiveness on mobile breaks the layout at several points. Otherwise good content on there so far!