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rxsel··on Show HN: EveryoneDraw – An infinite collaborative drawing canvas
RIP everyonedraw.com

Was a good 12hrs

rxsel··on Ask HN: LinkedIn Down?
Fingers crossed it is
rxsel··on Ask HN: What is the best technical book you've read in 2021?
Web Scalability for Startup Engineers was a very good high level one I read as a pre-read to DDEA
rxsel··on WordPress 18
I personally think it’s cool you got to see all that in real time OG :)
rxsel··on Stripe for X
Respectfully, why wouldn't I study and strive to emulate the success of Stripe in my own industry? I think X for Y is just a quick and easy to get the point of your business across no?
rxsel··on The digital divide is giving American churches hell
This is such a shallow argument/opinion. It sounds like something said by someone so painfully unaware and insulated from the life being commented on. So instead, I’d be curious to know what your background and upbringing was like. I don’t think the child being mentioned would consider CPS a good option like you argued for in another comment.
rxsel··on DeepMind achieves SOTA image recognition with 8.7x faster training
Is there any video work being done in the realm of image processing? I mean a video is just essentially an array/string of images/frames no?
rxsel··on Ask HN: What's the Most Efficient Method of Learning Linear Algebra?
Thank you for these!
rxsel··on Ask HN: What's the Most Efficient Method of Learning Linear Algebra?
What do you think about a MOOC approach?
rxsel··on Ask HN: What technology did you recently use, but wouldn't like to use again?
Covid-19 Rapid Test
rxsel··on Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL
Reminded me of the potential in proximity chat online outside the realm of video games where it’s most prevalent today.
rxsel··on Happy New Year, HN!
If 2021 is like 2020 was personally, I know I won’t make it to 2022.
rxsel··on GPT-3 Has Learned to Code, Blog and Argue
Does anyone know if the code GPT-3 writes is Web Scale?
rxsel··on Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack
How so?
rxsel··on Ask HN: As a person, what can I do to improve a city?
Don't litter
rxsel··on Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews
Please share the questions. I always find it amusing that tech types seem to believe their idea of “basic X knowledge” translates across the board. I think it’s this attitude of “oh you don’t know what I think you should know” that proliferates the industry that is a major part of the problem. How do you handle folks that don’t have even the most basic form of formal “CS knowledge” but can still ship product? Do you just dismiss them completely over being able to have a water cooler talk about O(...) and some algorithm someone would never have to implement in that specific context? Seems like a premature optimization to me.
rxsel··on Ask HN: How to get a job without degree?
Sorry for the late response, getting used to submitting on here, but thank you, and I agree, higher education in the US requires grit to get through especially if you’re not the “school type” yet it’s the baseline most people use to gauge someone’s “potential economic value” an ROI and I frankly just don’t agree with that. Some of the smartest, proactive, and most creative people I’ve ever met have been “structured education” adverse.

Im a huge huge huge believer of there being a massive opportunity in disrupting education, and I mean beyond the “shoehorn tech into everything” approach.

Education in the general term is the literal liberating factor within an individual. The more you understand the world around you the more confident you become in that world.

That’s why I push all my people and anyone who is willing to listen towards tech and other industries that are more “merit based” on the spectrum. As well as gravitating towards well paying trades that can fund their future intellectual endeavors.

I can go on about education forever but I’ll just stop before I get carried away :)

Thank you for the kind words @jbhouse

rxsel··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2020)
Location: Remote, USA

Remote: Yes - Remote Only

Willing to Relocate: Yes but only to where I want

Tech: React, Vue, NodeJS, Any Deployment Platform, can learn anything in like 24-48 hours.

Resume/CV: Currently Sr Eng @ Disney (sounds cooler than reality)

email: roselpadilla@gmail.com

rxsel··on Laws of UX
The law says “make all applications and programs accessible, aesthetic, intuitive, and user friendly” but I think I see alotta engineers out here.
rxsel··on Ask HN: How to get a job without degree?
For context: No degree, Very comfortable (salary over 150, savings, family, etc) and in my mid 20s with 5 years of experience.

Here’s how I went from being generationally poor to that:

1) Taught myself the skill. Really put my head down and learned.

2) Demonstrate you know what your doing and have a passion for it (fake it if you don’t and just want to get paid) through projects, contributions, volunteering, having your own site with mentioned projects writing etc. You’re building an image here.

3) Literally get your foot in the door anywhere, doesn’t matter how bad. Mine was at a local web dev shop locally as an “intern” in a tiny office w/ 4 people.

4) Start racking up XP and use that XP as leverage going forward. I mean really sell it. And always talk up your previous experience.

People tend to care more about experience, ability to get shit done, and personality over education in this field.

But yeah that was my experience having been in the same boat.

rxsel··on Ask HN: My GCP Account Has been Hacked What do I do?
I’m just here for the support. There is definitely someone here lurking that could definitely help :)

Also, I’ve seen a trend of terrible google support. Is this the norm?

rxsel··on Ask HN: What are some skills you have that are worth learning?
Still trying to "master" this skill, but "learning" how to observe, learn, shift through the noise, and apply that knowledge in a reasonable turnaround time.
rxsel··on Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?
Science solved this problem way before the shake weight.

Understanding some basic concepts in nutrition/wellness, such as macros and micros, calories, how Energy Expenditure (keeping you alive, walks, lifting weights, etc) and Energy Storage (Fat, Muscle, etc) all ties in with your unique genetics, body composition and lifestyle goes a long way.

Quick and dirty trick: be at a low Body Fat Percentage and have abdominal muscles (which we all do ha).

rxsel··on Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?
Has this (Peacefully purchasing/acquiring land to establish a new state) ever been done in the past?

The capital to do it is certainly there.

rxsel··on Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?
I think you just found yourself a business opportunity :)
rxsel··on How to grow my hosting company?
Hosting and the tech behind it, networks, etc. Is something I’m interested learning more about. Recommend any resources? Also, do people still care about college? This is a college dropout asking.
rxsel··on Ask HN: Can someone help me find this inventor?
Is this your life goal? Just curious.
rxsel··on Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?
What’s your experience, location, etc?
rxsel··on Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities was met with skepticism
Same power game/struggle, different time.
rxsel··on How Did Vim Become So Popular?
What's the ROI on learning Vim? Anyone?
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