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wafflesindeed

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wafflesindeed··on The Early Days of GitHub – Interview with Tom Preston-Werner
> Our licenses, of course, also stipulated the things you mentioned, but hackers will be hackers, so we had to deal with some interesting circumstances from time to time.

Could you share two of your favourite stories related to this?

wafflesindeed··on Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania

(For anyone unaware like me)

wafflesindeed··on Kubernetes Is a Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects
Why would you want to be able to access your personal projects from your phone? What context requires this over waiting and solving the problem at home?

What about work life balance? (yes, it's a personal project, but still)

wafflesindeed··on Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly?
What is it about the conversation that you find frustrating when listening to those types of podcasts?
wafflesindeed··on Zoho.com CEO says domain with 40M users suspended for abuse complaint
Thanks for your response Micheal. That's an interesting website. I'll take a look!
wafflesindeed··on Zoho.com CEO says domain with 40M users suspended for abuse complaint
Hey mate,

I've always been a bit perplexed as to how registrar's are created. How could I become a registrar?

Any advise or resources to explore this very open question would be wonderful.

Cheers J

wafflesindeed··on Why Can’t Apes Talk?
It's also equally hard to trust give it's based on Hindu scripture, and the Wikipedia article itself states that they're considered mythical creatures.
wafflesindeed··on Guess.js: Libraries for enabling Machine Learning driven experience on the web
Is this a desktop-only demo?
wafflesindeed··on A rogue Romanian economist legally gamed the lottery
As someone mentioned above, you absolutely need to sort out your CV. Here's a couple of points that differ from the other commenters:

- make it a one page CV - remove any work experience that's not relevant - write in active voice about each experience. Quantifying your contributions - remove hobbies, particularly anything related to religion. It's not relevant, and is recommended not to include such personal info in your CV. - only show your undergraduate degree. No one cares about GDE (unless applying to grad school) or your high school grades. - remove personal interests; no one cares. It's distracting from selling your work experience. - remove references and write "available on request". Background check happen after interviews. - remove languages unless relevant to the job. - remove volunteering experience; why on earth have you included CouchSurfng there? - remove your address. Too personal. - add link to your LinkedIn. - remove objective. This should come through in your experience what you're interested in. - remove those images. They offer no value to the ready and take up 20% of both pages.

You find jobs by applying. That simple. Your CV must sell your work experience as valuable to the employee and current yours does not.

Assume employers will spend 30 seconds skimming it before deciding if you will get a chance. Your current CV does not cut it.

wafflesindeed··on The mean age of high-tech founders is 43, economists say
On what basis are you quantifying this? You say you're ten years ahead ... Of what exactly? Compared to whom? Based on what?
wafflesindeed··on Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB
Its identifiable, yes, but not personal. Otherwise, all free-form text entry would have to be processed prior to a GDPR request, which is not likely.

Take Facebook as an example, when you request your personal data, they present what is linked in their database to you, which is of course not where anyone mentions your name. Who is to say that my name (Paul Smith) identifies me and not some other Paul?

wafflesindeed··on Ask HN: Who are some unsung heroes in open source that need more support?
I think you mean awesome? Or have I been wrong all along?
wafflesindeed··on Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
I'm not OP, but I suspect they meant that Python and some libraries would have solved your problem in a few days of work.

This is particularly true in the UK where there's a big push for "Open Banking" where banks must provide APIs for developers.

This would remove your dependency on IE if it was all done from the command line :)

wafflesindeed··on Ask HN: How can I become more eloquent?
Could you provide an explanation for your proposal? Why the west wing? Why repeat the episode? What is it about Sorkin's dialog that drew you in?
wafflesindeed··on Delft scientists make first “on demand” entanglement link
Can you expand on this? How can it be used to send messages back in time if both are timestamped to the micro/nano second?