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rockerBOOon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)

  Location: Springfield, MA
  Remote: Yes or Hybrid
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Python, PyTorch, Rust, TypeScript
  Résumé/CV: https://resume.davelage.com/dave-lage-resume-2025-01.pdf
  Email: hello@davelage.com

Experience building startups to profitability, across social networks, web site builder, landscape design, video/audio streaming and now machine learning pipelines, architecture, training, and analysis. Looking for opportunities in the applied ML space, especially focused on computer vision and diffusion models. Deep experience building data (image/text) processing pipelines, training and analysis of diffusion models and VLM models.

rockerBOOon Ask HN: What is the worst you poured over your keyboard?

Took me a second to realize that actual screwdrivers don't cause sticky keys.

rockerBOOon Ask HN: How, bottom to top, does a modern web application work?

Apache is a web server that add parsers as modules (php). NGINX is a reverse proxy/web server that can proxy to other processes listening on other ports. (PHP-FastCGI running on port 3000).

BROWSER -> NGINX (80) -> PHP-FastCGI (3000) -> NGINX -> BROWSER

NGINX can also proxy on sockets

BROWSER -> NGINX (80) -> PHP-FastCGI (/usr/socks/php.socks) -> NGINX -> BROWSER

CGI just defines the interface, and the language would be implementing the interface.