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Ask HN: Where to learn about building AI products?
2 points by Jacqued 1y ago|1 comments
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by Jacqued 4y ago
You’re right about how it works today but it seems to me this is an odd choice to make. Why not enforce object types? Could they add a strictness flag that lets objects actually be type safe and enables related functions to work out of the
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by Jacqued 4y ago
In my experience, this is mostly wrong. You don’t get 500-600k Silicon Valley offers in Europe just for being a solid engineer. You do get a total comp that is 2-3x local market if you manage to get into FAANG like companies and even the ti
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by Jacqued 4y ago
Yes you do pay down the principal. Non-amortized mortgage loans might exist but if they do they're definitely marginal.
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by Jacqued 4y ago
Here in France people only ever do fixed rate, generally for 20 or 25 year mortgages. I have never heard of someone buying a home with a variable rate loan, not sure if it's even legal. It might have been a pretty good deal for the peo
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by Jacqued 5y ago
Unemployment is the one benefit you can't get as a contractor (in France, I don't know about OP's country), but it doesn't work that great for higher income professionals anyway. When it comes to health insurance or reti
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by Jacqued 5y ago
I think in Europe there's a bunch of local markets with a lot of companies that do not want to compete for developers, not within the EU and definitely not with the US. They'd rather push talented developers to leave than raise wa
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by Jacqued 5y ago
I'm not an ops guy, but I know it was a constant source of trouble in our team and a large challenge to keep it running smoothly. For us it took 2-3 experienced engineers something like 2 years to have a stable and smoothly running pro
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by Jacqued 5y ago
Hey! I'm one of the maintainers of Richie. That's exactly right, it's meant to be a web portal in front of one or more LMS.
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by Jacqued 5y ago
I work on a team where we build around and run Open edX. It's incredibly complicated to run because it's not built as an open source product. It's just that edX open sources their software after the fact, so they're not
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by Jacqued 6y ago
It's not five years to citizenship. After five years you get to apply. Then it takes about 4 years of administrative hell (with some traps that can get you back to square one) to get there. No one who is at all familiar with the French
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by Jacqued 6y ago
In my anecdotal experience 60k is typical for developers with 5 years of experience in larger cities, but often you do need to get into management to reach 80k. I think it’s also getting better as all employers need to compete on salaries w
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by Jacqued 6y ago
In most places the cost of living is pretty low compared to the US, so even the admittedly lower engineer salaries in Europe can give you a very comfortable lifestyle. Eg. in France if you make 60-80k and live anywhere other than Paris you&
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by Jacqued 6y ago
I just wish they offered higher density displays. I'd love to try them out but I'm never going back to a 1080p display.
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by Jacqued 8y ago
It's amazing that you can see them so far south in the US. I live at +48° latitude too and around here it's completely unheard of to see anything of the Northern lights (even when I used to live in the countryside at ~+50°). Thank
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by Jacqued 8y ago
Hey Diego! Nice idea and examples! Let me know if I'm wrong, but the main difference between `createContainer` and a `React.createContext` call is that you memoize inputs, correct? The way this interacts with Hooks to enable state shar
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by Jacqued 8y ago
Which can be ok. There's no ethical duty to make websites for literally everyone. Accessibility is a different issue of course, but to illustrate my point: I have never translated my websites to Chinese, making them unusable for 1&#x2F
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by Jacqued 8y ago
>> That's not a "view of the world", that's _objective reality_. That's just, like, your opinion, man. Setting aside arguments as to the mere existence of "objective reality". You're essentially
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by Jacqued 8y ago
That means you can't be discriminated against on the basis of your religion, not that you can discriminate against other people because of your religion though, right? Just like eg. being gay does not allow you to discriminate against
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by Jacqued 8y ago
The way it makes sense is that "right-wing nutjob" is not a protected characteristic, whereas race & sexual orientation are protected.
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by Jacqued 8y ago
I must say I have not been jealous of the US in this regard. In my opinion the state should be able to silence fascists and neo-nazis and jail them for hate speech. Unlike the US, people in Europe have experienced first hand what happens wh
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by Jacqued 8y ago
It's on the low end, depending on what you work on. In my experience (on the recruiting end) beginner developers in Paris can get ~40k€ pretty easily by getting several offers. More if they're good negotiators / come from a p
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by Jacqued 8y ago
In my experience, €50k is pretty much middle-of-the road for software developers. That's what I had after ~2 years experience. Beginners get 40k out of college. Freelancing is also a good option, with daily rates ~400-700€ depending on
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by Jacqued 8y ago
To be fair that’s pretty much the doj enforcement strategy too. Except you don’t even have to serve American customers to be targeted there.
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by Jacqued 8y ago
I think it's more of a general hostility to copyright rather than not wanting to pay for things.
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by Jacqued 8y ago
Slack & GitHub Issues
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by Jacqued 8y ago
Second this. I've been using YNAB for two years now and pay the yearly subscription. I'm from Europe so I can't connect it to my bank accounts, so I enter every single thing by hand, and it works fine for me so far. I've
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by Jacqued 8y ago
Most of the time you can just buy the same thing in another place. Maybe it's different in the US but here in Europe I don't find Amazon better or faster than any random e-commerce website, so it's pretty trivial to boycott t
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by Jacqued 8y ago
My guess is that they feature detect, using disabled stuff (eg localStorage error 22 on safari private mode) to find out if your browser looks like one in private mode.
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by Jacqued 8y ago
On the other hand Paris proper (where those height restrictions apply) is already one of the densest cities in the world, along with some of its suburban cities [0]. I think around these parts there are two separate problems: - foreign&#x2F

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