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vanrysss··on Elastic lays off 7% of employees
I have a cousin in Belgium who was laid off following some restructuring and her severance was 52 weeks. Not out of the goodness of the company's hearts, but mandated by law since they gave no notice and she had accrued seniority. US labor laws are a joke in comparison.
vanrysss··on Ask HN: MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit
PM me her resume and contact info. We're hiring across software teams in SF and I'd be happy to get the referral bonus.
vanrysss··on Ask HN: How do you feel now about your Tesla purchase?
The handle by which you've chosen to go on this site says a lot about you.
vanrysss··on OpenAI is Lehman Brothers: A crash is coming
People said the same thing about Uber, but they're still running
vanrysss··on The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust
I'd invite you to visit Mississippi and then any of the top five EU countries and let me know which one you'd rather live in.
vanrysss··on Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI
So the first AGI is going to be used to kill other AGIs in the cradle ?
vanrysss··on Building an economy simulator from scratch
See LA lifeguards making $300k/yr https://lamag.com/news/the-highest-paid-lifeguard-in-l-a-mak...
vanrysss··on Former intel officer says 'non-human biologics’ found at alleged UFO crash sites
Or, they do exist but might as well not for practical purposes due to the universal speed limit.
vanrysss··on Regent – Electric coastal travel
Passenger load. They do use prop planes on routes with less passengers.
vanrysss··on Regent – Electric coastal travel
I recently flew between Oahu and Molokai. My return flight was delayed seven hours. I literally could have paddled a canoe home faster. Mokulele deserves all the negative press it gets.
vanrysss··on Ask HN: Which videogames are worth playing in 2023?
Steam dorf is so accessible. It's really breathing new life into the game.
vanrysss··on I have no idea what to do with my life
Find a fun way to waste it.
vanrysss··on Ask HN: What's the most outrageous over-engineering you've seen in the wild?
Kubernetes
vanrysss··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2021)
Location: Oahu, US

Remote: Yes, preferred

Willing to relocate: Not really

Technologies: Go, Java, Terraform, AWS techs(lambda,ecs,dynamodb,aurora,etc), Postgres, Redis

Résumé/CV: available

Email: samvanryssegem@gmail.com

vanrysss··on Deplatforming Is Wrong
Nazis don't deserve to be heard.
vanrysss··on Ask HN: How can software engineers help nonprofits fighting for equal justice?
You can march with them
vanrysss··on Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?
1.) In the US regulators will step in and for someone to be considered a software engineer something like the FE and PE exams will have to be taken.

2.) The above will drive a larger wedge between high and low earning software workers.

3.) A heatwave in the subcontinent will kill over a million people, sparking the first mass migration.

4.) Western politics will trend to more conservatism and isolationism.

5.) Grab or Gojek will be worth as much as Facebook is today.

6.) A $100 Billion tech company will get it's start in Africa.

vanrysss··on Serverless: slower and more expensive
Lambda is the kiddie-pool of cloud computing.
vanrysss··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2019)
Location: Portland, OR

Remote: Yes, preferable

Willing to Relocate: Maybe

Technologies: AWS, Docker, Go, Java, Postgres, NoSQL

Resume: On request

Email: sam.vanryssegem at gmail

vanrysss··on Ask HN: If your job was remote, which city would you choose to live in?
Consider Corvallis as well. Bit better food and bar scene than Eugene despite being smaller.
vanrysss··on Ask HN: What's Your Hobby?
Surfing and fly fishing. I'm lucky to live in a place where I can do both.
vanrysss··on The California coast is disappearing under the rising sea
They'll be destroyed by rising sea levels eventually anyway.
vanrysss··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2019)
Location: Portland, Oregon

Remote: Yes, strongly preferred

Willing to relocate: perhaps

Technologies: Java, Go, Postgres, Docker, AWS(various)

Resume: on request

Email: samvanryssegem @ gmail.com

Competent backend generalist with ~5 years experience.

vanrysss··on AWS API Performance Comparison: Serverless vs. Containers
It's a (relatively) fixed-cost model vs pay-as-you-go. At a certain level of traffic something built on top of ALB/Fargate will be cheaper to run than serverless solutions.
vanrysss··on AWS API Performance Comparison: Serverless vs. Containers
Having run a service on Fargate in prod before I can almost guarantee that the errors he was seeing were 504s which are caused by the server code and the ALB not having their request-timeouts set to to the same value.
vanrysss··on Ask HN: How do you normally choose your database?
It's a pretty simple process, I just choose Postgres.
vanrysss··on Ask HN: What's your ideal tech stack for 2019?
It depends, if it's just you and you want to get to market quickly building your web app and backend in Rails backed by postgres and redis is still a solid choice. Put your code in docker and have AWS' ECS Fargate manage it, do the same for your DB(Aurora) and cache(Elasticache). I can't speak for mobile devs, but it sounds like a lot of the hype around react native and whatnot has died down.

A bigger org I'd probably just change the backend code to Go and start taking advantages of other AWS products to manage ETL/monitoring/logging/etc. The change to Go is mostly just to prevent your more 'clever' engineers from producing code that no one but them can understand. Languages like Clojure and Scala while cool can start causing real problems in an org where the experience level isn't uniform.

A note on tech that bears repeating, if it isn't going to be your differentiator then choose boring building blocks.

vanrysss··on Show HN: Analysis of 2018 Hacker News “Who Is Hiring” Job Posts
Check your map, it looks like you may be matching "Remote, or XXX" with the town of Remote, Or (Oregon).
vanrysss··on The Army May Have Found Its Next Rifle in a Colorado Garage
overheating
vanrysss··on ‘Legacy system’ exposed Black Hat 2018 attendees’ contact information
ironic
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