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vmsp

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Software engineer. Built healthcare and recruitment software. Interested in finance, economics and policy.

https://0x1.pt

vmsousapereira@gmail.com

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vmsp··on Overtone is live programmable music and visualization
On this theme, there's also Opusmodus which is written in Common-Lisp.

https://opusmodus.com/

vmsp··on The State of JavaScript: 2021
Ember's "Satisfaction" has been dropping every year. I wonder why.
vmsp··on The Semiconductor Ecosystem Explained
You're absolutely right, I just sort of assumed it would be easily available.

Nothing specific, I wanted an overview of the whole thing. I guess the question I'm asking myself is "What would I need to know if I wanted to setup a fab from the ground up?" Which materials are used and where they come from, the different types of companies that would need to be involved and why (e.g. ASML) and so on.

But honestly, I don't really know much. So an intro to semiconductor manufacturing that could be read by a plain old software engineer would also be great.

vmsp··on The Semiconductor Ecosystem Explained
Can anyone recommend a good manual on the semiconductor industry? Sort of like this but long form.
vmsp··on SBCL: New in Version 2.2.1
Is there anyone here using CL in production? If so, why -- compared to more mainstream solutions -- and how's your experience been?
vmsp··on Ask HN: Which tech stack is the most fun?
I think you mean https://juce.com

Pretty expensive for indie devs, though.

vmsp··on Stephen Wolfram – re:Clojure Keynote [video]
I had never heard of Mathematica before.

I'm pretty sure I'd never use it for anything but one thing that caught my eye is how easy it is to generate mock data. E.g. WordList

vmsp··on Workers in Portugal could see healthier work-life balance under new labour laws
Taxes are extremely high and that, in and of itself, is a huge issue but things are actually much worse.

Want to use a road? You pay. Want to get some financial documents you actually need for work? You pay. Want a doctor to see you at a hospital? You pay.

You pay for everything twice.

vmsp··on Workers in Portugal could see healthier work-life balance under new labour laws
Mind explaining how to find this initiative of yours if you're living paycheck to paycheck?
vmsp··on Show HN: Simple CRM and Sales Automation
How does this differ from the other CRMs?
vmsp··on Building Container Images with Nix
I wish he'd open-source runix.

https://gist.github.com/burke/72ca46c80e57a25907a75611ee5eb6...

vmsp··on Althttpd: Simple webserver in a single C file
Blocks some referers by default:

    static const char *azDisallow[] = {
      "skidrowcrack.com",
      "hoshiyuugi.tistory.com",
      "skidrowgames.net",
    };
Anyone know why?
vmsp··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2021)
Thanks for letting me know. Unfortunately -- as least for AquaQ Analytics -- there seem to be no remote positions available at the moment.
vmsp··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2021)
Location: Portugal

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C, C++, C#, Java, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Lua, Erlang/OTP, Swift, Go, Emacs Lisp, iOS, Android, Django, Flask, Rails, Sinatra, Node, TensorFlow, PyTorch, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Linux, OpenBSD, Plan 9, Excel. (Would be interested in working with KDB+, Shakti, and Lisp.)

Résumé/CV: https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/0xRIgHyXkWdx3-4cACmS5Z-sw...

Email: vmsousapereira (at) gmail.com

I'm currently building a platform to improve turnaround time in labs doing COVID-19 RT-PCR analysis. I've sent patches to Google's Tulsi, Homebrew-Cask, GitHub's Catalyst, CPython -- I helped put the helicopter on Mars! -- and a couple of other Python libraries.

I'm looking for any interesting opportunities. Especially in the finance industry.

vmsp··on Django 3.2
That's something I think most developers would agree with, I certainly do.

Still, I don't think what I mentioned is unreasonable or goes against the framework's philosophy. The templating system already has plenty of logical statements, might as well make it work like expected.

See also Jinja2's take on that https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/2.11.x/faq/#isn-t-it-a-...

vmsp··on Django 3.2
It's a shame that Django's templates are still so bad.

You can't just import and call some arbitrary python function. You most likely need to write a template filter or tag [0]. Maybe there's a good reason for this but it just feels like I'm working around a weird issue in the framework.

Also, I can't use parentheses inside if statements in a template. It's a strange restriction.

I know that Jinja2 -- which is good -- is supported. But it's a second choice, requires some setup and it's not the usual way of doing things.

Don't get me wrong. I like Django and it's still far, far ahead of most other web frameworks. But, because of these issues and also because the frontend story in Django is not that great I find myself reaching for Rails, these days.

[0] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/howto/custom-template-...

vmsp··on Live previews with Rails and Stimulus 2
I wouldn't say "much slower"

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

vmsp··on ConsoleMe: A Central Control Plane for AWS Permissions and Access
They're using Tornado!

Anyone from Netflix would like to chime in on why it was chosen?

vmsp··on DuckDuckGo – two non-JavaScript versions of search results
While duckduckgo.com is using the standard HTML5 doctype, html.duckduckgo.com is using

  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
and lite.duckduckgo.com is using

  <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
Is this on purpose? To make the website work on older browsers?
vmsp··on Google’s next big Chrome update will rewrite the rules of the web
Gmail, no? G Suite brings revenue.
vmsp··on Databricks is an RDBMS
I know Excel runs the world but are there really that many people using Access?
vmsp··on Robinhood is still severely limiting trading
Wouldn't that, basically, guarantee the short squeeze, though? If people can't access their broker, they can't sell.

Or can Robinhood start liquidating their customer's positions without authorization?

vmsp··on Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?
Seems to be maintained by Google

https://gwt.googlesource.com/gwt/

vmsp··on Stimulus.js 2.0
See also GitHub Catalyst

https://github.github.io/catalyst/

vmsp··on Legal Concepts for Founders
I haven't read it yet but I'm guessing these are only useful for American companies?
vmsp··on Show HN: Yarr – Yet Another RSS Reader
Haven't tried it but it looks nice. Reminds me of https://bazqux.com/
vmsp··on Luckysheet, an open-source spreadsheet
I've always been curious about what data structures are used to store spreadsheet data. Are there any online spreadsheets just creating, dropping and altering SQL tables as needed?
vmsp··on Elements C++ GUI Library
Have you tried the latest version of JUCE? I think it supports cmake now.
vmsp··on FreeBSD 11.4
It's a shame the popular VPS providers, like Linode and DigitalOcean, don't support easy installations of FreeBSD (and other BSDs). Does anyone know of trustworthy hosting solutions that make things easy?
vmsp··on Overview of Python dependency management tools
pip-tools is almost never mentioned because it's boring but great. I always default to it.

https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools

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