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siriniok

113 karma · joined March 31, 2016

entrepreneur, software product engineer, generalist, transhumanist, helping developers grow at mtdv.io, #ruby #lisp #AI #science
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siriniok··on Show HN: Places to watch ducks if you're sick of everything
Thank you so much!
siriniok··on Show HN: Places to watch ducks if you're sick of everything
Ahah, thank you! Cabal is a great word.
siriniok··on Show HN: Places to watch ducks if you're sick of everything
Status UPD:

I'm sorry for this experience, but we just can't add all locations right now :(

We were adding the locations to the map manually. After the app went viral, we got over 600 new places over 24 hours, so we can't handle it this way anymore. We are working on automating this process, and as soon as we'll figure it out, we are going to add all the locations, including yours, to the map.

Thank you for your contribution! It means a lot to us. Please, don't worry, we will add your submissions as soon as we can.

siriniok··on Show HN: Places to watch ducks if you're sick of everything
I'm sorry for this, we just can't add all locations right now :(

We were adding the locations to the map manually. After the app went viral, we got over 600 new places over 24 hours, so we can't handle it this way anymore. We are working on automating this process, and as soon as we will figure it out, we are going to add all the locations, including yours, to the map.

Thank you for your contribution! It means a lot to us. Please, don't worry, we will add your submission as soon as we can.

siriniok··on Show HN: Places to watch ducks if you're sick of everything
Sorry, it's not open sourced (at least yet), but I was using React and Mapbox to implement it.

You can see an example in pure javascript here:

https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/example/cluster/

And how to build a similar app here:

https://levels.io/hoodmaps/

siriniok··on Show HN: Places to watch ducks if you're sick of everything
Thank you! We are working on that!
siriniok··on Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?
There is an organisation 80000hours.org devoted to discovering careers related to future high-impact areas, it has a list of perspective career paths and reviews on them, including the obvious ones, like Machine Learning PhD, and not so obvious, like China specialist.

https://80000hours.org/career-reviews/

siriniok··on Ask HN: How do I minimize money to China?
You can spend more on local services instead
siriniok··on Ask HN: How do you stop the “employee mindset” when pursuing entrepreneurship?
It's ok to feel like that, totally. And it's not easy to become your own boss, you have to learn how to manage yourself and that will take time. You also need to change your expectations for rewards: you are no longer working for salary, you are working for profit now, which means that you have a different feedback loop now. As soon as you get used to this new feedback loop, you will be more comfortable with you new role.
siriniok··on Ask HN: How much Ruby do I need to learn before moving into Rails?
I'd recommend to get some confidence with Ruby before moving to Rails. It's better to spend 2-3 months learning Ruby and then focus on learning Rails, than struggle with both right from the start.

When people say that you can learn only basics of Ruby in few days and then move to Rails, they are right, you can, but this way you will learn two things in parallel, and it's pretty exhausting. So this doubtfully will save you any time.

siriniok··on One Simple Model to Help You Measure Your Growth
I'm doing an assessment using this model every half a year, helps me to realize how better or worse off I'm comparing to the past.
siriniok··on Ask HN: How can we destroy AMP?
"Let's build sites that don't require AMP."

  *gets thrown out of the window*
siriniok··on How to Improve Your Thinking in One Step
Transforming implicit mental models into explicit is the most important step in learning for me. And it's only possible to understand whether I had done it right when I try to apply them in practice.
siriniok··on Ask HN: How does one overcome solo founder loneliness?
No, when I work I need silence :)
siriniok··on Ask HN: Which programming language do you enjoy writing the most?
Lisp, Ruby and functional JS
siriniok··on Ask HN: How does one overcome solo founder loneliness?
I'm just talking to my entrepreneur friends about my projects.
siriniok··on A Hidden Side of Procrastination
My favorite limiting belief is that about our limited willpower. While it's kinda true, studies show that people who believe that willpower is unlimited perform better, than those people who believe in limited willpower. IMO, it's a perfect demonstration of how the limiting beliefs work.
siriniok··on Ask HN: Where do you go for career advice?
I totally understand your frustration. I was happy to met a wonderful mentor in the early days of my career. I was expecting to hear mainly technical stuff, but instead he was talking about soft skills, empathy, lifestyle, communications and so on. Only few months later I've realized how actually important was all that stuff for my career.

So that's what I would recommend to you: find a good mentor who looks beyond hard skills. It's hard, but look for a fellow who is happy about their career :D.

Another thing I would highly recommend is to find an accountability partner or join a mastermind group. Those can be your peers who are interested in meeting from time to time and talk about career-related topics. You can discuss your goals and progress, work-related problems, and keep each other accountable. That helps a lot in actually making progress more than anything else.

Hope this is helpful. If you want to talk more about all these things, I'm always open to chat.

siriniok··on Ask HN: What are programmers favorite sites?
Yes, it feels imperfect, but I get used to it.
siriniok··on Ask HN: Suggest me a new programming language with small user community to learn
I'd try Racket (Scheme family) or ReasonML.
siriniok··on Ask HN: What are programmers favorite sites?
https://dev.to has a very interesting culture. It's far less toxic than HN or Reddit for discussions, and more suitable for blogging on tech topics than medium.
siriniok··on Ask HN: Why is programming editing text?
Yes, such tools exist, and they are really hard to use usually. It's hard to copy, hard to refactor, hard to compose, etc., and clicking by mouse is really slow.

I don't say that a good UX couldn't exist for such thing, but we already have that good UX in a form of text. Really. Think of it.

siriniok··on Microsoft says its Teams app is bigger than Slack and growing faster
Is it popular only among Windows / .Net developers?
siriniok··on Mathematical Maturity
Interesting concept. We could probably talk about "engineering maturity" with a pretty similar list of characteristic when applied to programming.
siriniok··on Twitter was down
I was afraid that they are rolling out their redesign, thanks God.
siriniok··on A Machine May Not Take Your Job, but One Could Become Your Boss
Most of software engineers would be fine with that, I guess. Or not?
siriniok··on What's new in Ubuntu 19.04
I'm using it on 18.04, works perfectly.
siriniok··on What's new in Ubuntu 19.04
Agree. The last versions were pretty and (still) very stable.
siriniok··on Metadevelopment: A digest on career and life in tech
Hi fellows!

I curate a small online community about career for people in tech. Every month we collect and produce a lot of useful materials on career, engineering, learning, lifestyle, business, and everything else related to building a successful career in tech. And as I said, the community is small, but I believe that such materials are worth sharing with a wider audience. So I decided to manually compile a free newsletter every two weeks and feature the most useful findings.

Hope you'll enjoy it! I will appreciate your feedback: what do you want to see on the digest, how often, and how to make it more helpful for you?

siriniok··on What's new in Ubuntu 19.04
Does anyone still use good old Unity? :)
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