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flipchart··on DuoBook: Generate bilingual stories to learn any language
Please split Portuguese into European and Brazilian
flipchart··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)
I assume (hope) they mean hand-poked tattoo. And yeah, if the guy's style gels with my own, then why not. Depending on the size, that free tattoo is probably worth more than the entire year's worth of perks they offer :)
flipchart··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2023)

  Location: The Netherlands (moving to Portugal soon)
  Remote: Yes (hybrid in Lisbon acceptable)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: C#, Typescript, Javascript, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, Docker, C++, Python, Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), SQL, Express, Next.Js, .net
  Résumé/CV: https://www.whiteboardresidue.com/media/resume.pdf
  Email: wesley@whiteboardresidue.com
I have 14 years experience. I'm ideally looking for a biotech software dev role, but anything with interesting challenges works. I prefer backend work, but have experience full stack.
flipchart··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2023)

  Location: The Netherlands (moving to Portugal soon)
  Remote: Yes (hybrid in Lisbon acceptable)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: C#, Typescript, Javascript, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, Docker, C++, Python, Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), SQL, Express, Next.Js, .net
  Résumé/CV: https://www.whiteboardresidue.com/media/resume.pdf
  Email: wesley@whiteboardresidue.com
I have 14 years experience. I'm ideally looking for a biotech software dev role, but anything with interesting challenges works. I prefer backend work, but have experience full stack.
flipchart··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2023)

  Location: Portugal (currently Netherlands, but moving soon)
  Remote: Yes (preferred)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: C#, C++, Node.js, Typescript, React, GraphQL, Postgres, Python
  Résumé/CV: https://www.whiteboardresidue.com/media/resume.pdf
  Email: wesley@whiteboardresidue.com
I have 14 years experience. I'm ideally looking for a biotech software dev role, but anything with interesting challenges works. I prefer backend work, but have experience full stack.
flipchart··on Overrun by influencers, historic sites are banning TikTok creators in Nepal
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1314/ :)
flipchart··on UST “Stablecoin” at $.43
https://archive.ph/KaAHJ
flipchart··on IRR is a vanity metric for VC Funds
Internal rate of return

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_rate_of_return

flipchart··on South Africa is running out of Marmite
https://archive.ph/BBklb
flipchart··on Show HN: Social network that looks and works more like a forum
Please make the links real links so I can ctrl+click/middle click to open them in a new tab
flipchart··on IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts
I've heard Canada is like that. I've had similar experience in South Africa, even in private health care, but I definitely had the impression that my doctor somewhat cared about me, especially after going to them for a few years
flipchart··on A $3B bet on finding the fountain of youth
https://archive.is/KHPVe
flipchart··on China's Ban on Bitcoin Follows a Pattern Frequently Used by Beijing
South Africa has similar exchange controls. See the recent SA article around Bitcoin https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27772513
flipchart··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2021)
Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands (but I want to relocate to Canada)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, to Vancouver, Canada (I want to move, and I need visa sponsorship)

Technologies: C#, TS/JS, React, C++, some Node.js, Python

Résumé/CV: https://www.whiteboardresidue.com

Email: wesley@whiteboardresidue.com

flipchart··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2021)
Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, to Vancouver Canada (I want to move, and I need visa sponsorship)

Technologies: C#, TS/JS, React, C++, some Node.js, Python

Résumé/CV: https://www.whiteboardresidue.com

Email: wesley@whiteboardresidue.com

flipchart··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2021)
Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands (but I want to move to Vancouver, Canada)

Remote: Yes, in Canada

Willing to relocate: Yes to Canada (I need visa sponsorship)

Technologies: C#, JavaScript, Typescript, React, MobX, GraphQL, Postgres, SQL Server, C++, (Some experience in Python, Node.js, Java)

Resume: https://www.whiteboardresidue.com/media/Resume.pdf

Email: wesley@whiteboardresidue.com

Experienced engineer (12 years) currently providing product support looking for interesting challenges

flipchart··on Ask HN: What are useful OKRs and KPIs for SWEs
Haven't read the linked study, but it seems like all of those metrics (except time to restore broken service) can be very easily gamed - thinking about the recent SO blog post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25373353
flipchart··on Show HN: I created a no-code job board for careers in indie games
The first thing I do when hitting a job board is to try to filter it to jobs which are Remote or in my location. Everything else is just noise. This would be a lot more useful if you added a location filter (city and country - I live in NL, which is small enough that the city doesn't always matter)
flipchart··on An experiment about how we view history
The results showed that colour had a large impact on people's guesses for some pictures, but for others there was very little difference. For me, colour didn't actually impact the guess much since I don't know when colour photography became mainstream, and even then, you get B&W pictures even today.

The hardest part for me was having no context of where the pictures were taken (although I should have guessed in the US). The picture of the farmers & the horse could have been taken today in many parts of Africa.

flipchart··on Show HN: Next-gen sweetener that removes willpower from healthy eating
But does he still have to use your product? Although it’s better for him to have a more varied diet I thought kids mostly grew out of this fussiness. It would be terrible if he became dependent on your product into adulthood.
flipchart··on Epic Systems workers are organizing
Your argument is based on the premise that employees in office are 100% efficient.
flipchart··on Dates and Times in JavaScript – A New API for Dates from TC39
I'm using React Widgets[0] and I prefer moment over Globalize (been through so much pain with this). Maybe it's time to either write a localizer for Luxor or find a new date time picker

[0]: https://jquense.github.io/react-widgets/localization/

flipchart··on Dates and Times in JavaScript – A New API for Dates from TC39
I've been burned by this so many times! Code that uses moment is written, tested, and then never touched to make sure you stay sane
flipchart··on Dates and Times in JavaScript – A New API for Dates from TC39
Does this mean I can get rid of moment.js now?
flipchart··on Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages
Sounds like Windows with their UWP apps. Calculator also used to take 5 secs to load. It’s down to about a second now but still baffles me to think that MS management are ok with that
flipchart··on Luxonis wants to use computer vision to protect cyclists
Not just Amsterdam, the whole of the Netherlands is like that. But more than that, there is the cultural aspect that cyclists and pedestrians are the number 1 priority on the road, then cars. None of these fancy hi-tech solutions work if the drivers don't care, and the laws don't protect cyclists.
flipchart··on Cryengine Source Code
I'm still getting up to speed on C++ (& ASM) so forgive the ignorance - are the differences you're referring to all the cleanup code that the vector does in the destructor?

As a side note, you're not calling delete[] on the array code, but I suppose it makes little difference if you take the vector cleanup into account.

flipchart··on Don't set the language of your website based on user location
South African English! :)
flipchart··on A human monoclonal 1 antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection
Being an English speaker living in The Netherlands, I rely heavily on Google Translate. Works near perfect for formal/semi-formal writing. Short form sentences & phrases (as you might find in casual emails), not so much.
flipchart··on Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its bad side
My major issue switching to FF is still the lack of a Chrome-style translate function. I live in a country where I don't speak the language, so rely heavily on translating. Copy/pasting into Google translate is too slow for general browsing, and being able to switch between translated and un-translated near instantly means that I can still navigate the site when inevitably the translation breaks the JS navigation. Switching also allows me to very slowly learn the language. I'd love to use FF, but this is still a blocker
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