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skeleton What If the Team Hates My Functional Code?

I'll never understand the fear some developers have of the for loop.

skeleton Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2022)

Location: EU

Remote: YES

Willing to relocate: for the right location and the right position.

Technologies: Typescript, Node, C#/ASP.NET, T-SQL, PLPGSQL, C, Windows, RHEL, MacOSX, Docker/podman, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ...

Résumé/CV: on request.

Email: alex@ixai.net

  Senior Full Stack developer and Software Architect with 20 years of experience. Originaly from France, lived 10 years in the UK and now based in Spain.

Open source

  SKSQL a database engine in Typescript https://github.com/alexraffy/sksql
  
  Skelet a low-code platform https://github.com/alexraffy/skeletui

skeleton Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2022)

  Location: EU
  Remote: YES
  Willing to relocate: for the right location and the right position.
  Technologies: Typescript, Node, C#/ASP.NET, T-SQL, PLPGSQL, C, Windows, RHEL, MacOSX, Docker/podman, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ...
  Résumé/CV: on request.
  Email: alex [at] ixai.net
  Contract @100€/h or full-time for the right position.
  
  Senior Full Stack developer and Software Architect with 20 years of experience. Originaly from France, lived 10 years in the UK and now based in Spain.
  
  Currently writing a SQL engine in Typescript for fun: https://github.com/alexraffy/sksql

skeleton Citroën introduces a two-seat EV that costs €2,644 and then €19.99 a month

Better link in French

https://www.citroen.fr/ami/duree-1-an-et-plus.html

skeleton Happy Public Domain Day: Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” Is Copyright Free

Wow, that video is impressive. I played clarinet when I was in an orchestra decades ago and I was always jealous of the 1st Clarinet who got to play the Rhapsody in Blue intro. There are so many fun little things in there. I didn't think it was possible to simulate some of the techniques in MIDI.

skeleton Duolingo becomes first VC-funded $1B Pittsburgh tech startup

Duolingo is super frustrating if you're learning Spain-Spanish, there are lots of complaints of them not adding Spanish variants of words and Duolingo hasn't moved on it at all in 5+ years.

The premium version is not worth it at all.

skeleton Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?

How to cut vegetables.

There's a lot of people with a fear of cooking, but it really is not a magic skill.

There are just a few techniques that need to be learned to get started and those don't need hours and hours to be understood.

skeleton Ask HN: Who's Looking for a Co-Founder?

Hi, I'm working on something similar but targeting Web frameworks for the moment. https://skelet.app

skeleton The One Man MMO Project

Not a game dev but I guess you could go quite far with just an IRC server. Crosshatch your world in chat rooms, with a bot in each one.

A player sends a command to his current chat room; the bot validates the player position and current action.

Other players listen to bot responses in all nine chatrooms around them.

skeleton NASA and ESA are going to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid to deflect it

Great to see NASA and ESA working together in this selfish era. The world needs more collaboration between people.

skeleton E.U.’S New Digital Czar: ‘Most Powerful Regulator of Big Tech’

she's an elected member of the Denmark parliament.

skeleton E.U.’S New Digital Czar: ‘Most Powerful Regulator of Big Tech’

Do you get to elect your defense or sports minister in your country?

skeleton Ask HN: Recommendations for full-blown polyglot web IDEs

Very happy with WebStorm https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/

skeleton IBM Fired as Many as 100k in Recent Years, Lawsuit Shows

Fujitsu and Sun/Oracle

skeleton Drama – Draw user interfaces and create interactive prototypes

will do. thanks

skeleton Drama – Draw user interfaces and create interactive prototypes

I'm not sure if its frowned upon or not, but I have a questionnaire for designers/developers using such tools.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2CVHGL2

skeleton The Matrix 20 years on: how a sci-fi film tackled big philosophical questions

Nirvana with Christophe Lambert came a year before. it's less showy than The Matrix but really worth a watch.