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northisup··on uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results
love the player hate the name
northisup··on We got Linux on the iPhone, iPad and other idevices
so _this_ is the year of the linux desktop?
northisup··on Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of landfill waste
what are the biproducts?
northisup··on Stop Validating Email Addresses with Regex (2012)
It isn’t pointless. It is fast feedback for typos and form validation
northisup··on Stop Validating Email Addresses with Regex (2012)
Why are rfc compliant regexes not a part of the stdlib of most languages?
northisup··on Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia
dig <wiki url>
northisup··on My 70 year old mother has been using Linux on the desktop for the past 21 years
i'm confused, which of those years is the year of the linux desktop?
northisup··on No code reviews by default
congratulations on finding engineers without egos that know when to ask for it, i've worked with a ton of great, if not over confident, people that 100% needed code review to be policy to not take the whole system down.

why i like code review:

1) code review is a great place for mentorship 2) people mess up, its ok, major issues have been caught in code review

northisup··on Will Citroen manage to re-invent the wheel?
Finally, the tank police future is here!
northisup··on Do you ever avoid submitting something on HN so devs won't ruin it?
wow, super happy I don't work with people like this.
northisup··on A submarine's weakness: its software?
advent of code is actively working on this...
northisup··on Why Retaining Walls Collapse
I believe these are just referred to as "walls" as they failed the "retaining" portion of the exam.
northisup··on DNS doesn't “propagate”
You need to wait for caches to expire, such that your new entry can propagate. But you are still technically correct, which we all know is the best kind of correct.
northisup··on SugarCoat: Private browsing without breaking the web
if not ads, what type of monetization do you prefer?
northisup··on Tell HN: Dont upload these images to iCloud as Apple will assume its Child Porn
So will everyone. The whole industry uses the same algorithm to calculate hashes.

Then the list gets more accurate and we move on.

northisup··on Tell HN: Dont upload these images to iCloud as Apple will assume its Child Porn
So will everyone. The whole industry uses the same algorithm to calculate hashes.
northisup··on Python Default Dict
You may also be interested in `dict.setdefault`. It has the same behavior as above but also sets the value for the key if it was previously missing.

    dict.setdefault(val, default_val)
[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#dict.setdefa...
northisup··on Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says
how many dimensions does my linear equation need before it is AI?
northisup··on Prop. 22 faces first legal challenge as SEIU, ride-hail drivers file suit
as far as votes go, anything over a 1-2% margin is usually considered "overwhelming"
northisup··on Apple’s self-driving electric car is at least half a decade away
it seems like you coughed there, did you say it's five years away?
northisup··on Big Ass Fan’s Clean Air System
With all the technology we are making and retro-fitting into offices I'm curious what the long-term effects will be for health and productivity. Will mortality from flu be substantially lower next year?
northisup··on Facebook says Apple’s new iPhone update will disrupt online advertising
Good. There is no product-market fit with 99% of online ads.
northisup··on Facebook says Apple’s iOS 14 changes could hurt its ad targeting
good!
northisup··on I won’t buy ebooks anymore
How is the zlibrary not just piracy?
northisup··on First, it was Craigslist, next it's Zapier
Zapier benefits from the interconnected was of its apps where craigslist did not.
northisup··on Convert Curl Syntax to Python Requests
I made a similar library! https://github.com/northisup/curlit (sorry for the poor documentation!)
northisup··on Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?
Yes! Last time I was interviewing I got multiple offers from my post. I did get some recruiter spam but it was mostly founders or early engineers that did the reaching out.
northisup··on Sorting Algorithm Cheat Sheet
Who is still asking candidates to talk about sorting algorithms?

It is just trivia and has little to no bearing on if the candidate can actually do the job (unless the job relates to the runtime of sorting algorithms, of course).

northisup··on The ‘secretary problem’ is so unrealistic it can't inform our decisions
This algorithm is useful for picking parking spaces at shopping centers.
northisup··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2019)
Location: San Francisco

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Django, SQL, Redis, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes

Résumé/CV: http://bit.ly/2TpBex0

Email: adam+jobs@northisup.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamhitchcock/

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10+ years of Python, backend systems, and solving problems at a generally large scale.

Now I'm looking for new and challenging projects. I'd like to find work that lets me grow, especially in the area of ML.

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