LoulouMonkey

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by LoulouMonkey 4mo ago
Some people say that things might start changing soon due to layoffs. I personally very much doubt it.
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by LoulouMonkey 4mo ago
An interviewer that doesn't show up is really bad. Not matter where you work, you'd probably end up having a chat with HR if you did that twice. Sorry about that buddy!
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by LoulouMonkey 4mo ago
My understanding of the situation is the exact same as yours. Which I find funny now, but obviously not that much back then. The interview was in person, and she only used her laptop to take down notes. I remember thinking to myself "j
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by LoulouMonkey 4mo ago
Not really, it was technical support through tickets. I don't exactly remember the specs, but French and SQL were the main requirements. Actually, more French than SQL.
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by LoulouMonkey 4mo ago
As we're all sharing some bizarre experiences we've had, I feel I have to chip in. I had 2 very weird interviews with the same FAANG company, before actually joining the company in 2021. Anyway, we're in 2011 and my career in
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by LoulouMonkey 5mo ago
The creator of ZSNES did a very interesting interview a couple of months with Zophar from Zophar's Domain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG-oqvj4Tqk
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by LoulouMonkey 8mo ago
A lot of very nice websites have been shared so far. Here's my modest contribution: https://blanchardjulien.com/ https://javascriptfordatascience.com Your feedback is more than welcome! (Oh and here's
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by LoulouMonkey 1y ago
Adding some new features to my static site generator: https://github.com/julien-blanchard/Loulou Glad I ditched Hugo a few months ago.
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by LoulouMonkey 1y ago
I really like your website, it's both very clear / easy to navigate and yet unusual. Great work!
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by LoulouMonkey 1y ago
Exactly the same journey here. I started with Hugo and ended up building my own static site generator ( https://github.com/julien-blanchard/Loulou ). It's been nothing but fun all along. And as you said, building so
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by LoulouMonkey 2y ago
I personally blog for the same reason some people play the guitar: I don't care whether what I produce is good or not, or whether people like the articles I write or not. It's just a hobby. Even my girlfriend doesn't read my
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by LoulouMonkey 2y ago
If anything, I have found my own disability to be a huge plus when looking for a new job. I'm one of these job hoppers and it's been almost 10 years since I have stayed over 3 years within the same company. Coincidentally, I was d
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by LoulouMonkey 2y ago
My workmates and I got laid off by our employer (a FAANG company) last summer and I spent 4 months looking for a job (in Ireland). I started using a simple spreadsheet to keep track of all the jobs you apply for: company name, job title, sa
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by LoulouMonkey 3y ago
Thanks for getting back to me, I'll go through the examples you shared.
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by LoulouMonkey 3y ago
Hi Simon, slightly unrelated question. I'm a big fan of your work, and as I've learnt a lot from reading your blog posts over the years, I'd be curious to know a bit more about typical use cases for wanting to work with Obser
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by LoulouMonkey 3y ago
I second to this. There's often a huge difference between the languages and tools we'd love to be using, and those that we are allowed / forced to use on the workplace. I for instance just moved to a company where the data st
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by LoulouMonkey 3y ago
Fantastic article, thanks for sharing.
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by LoulouMonkey 3y ago
Merry Christmas buddy. You'll find a ton of public datasets on GitHub [1]. Maven Analytics offers a monthly data analytics challenge [2] that you can enter for free. See their past competitions for some interesting datasets. As I'
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by LoulouMonkey 3y ago
Apologies for not responding quicker. For context, my team wrote scripts to automate catching spam at scale. Long story short, there are non spam-related reasons why one would want to have their website show different content to their users
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by LoulouMonkey 3y ago
Not sure about now, but I worked in the T&S Webspam team (in Dublin, Ireland) until 2021, and we were very much enforcing cloaking. It was, however, one of the most difficult types of spam to detect and penalise, at scale.
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by LoulouMonkey 3y ago
I quite liked the article on Metal Gear!
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by LoulouMonkey 3y ago
https://blanchardjulien.com/ Hey everyone! I started this site during the pandemic, mainly to improve my written English. It's mainly around data science (mostly NLP) / analytics. I'm trying to publish an art
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by LoulouMonkey 3y ago
As a Meta employee as well, and working in the data analytics / engineering space, I'm finding tooling to be pretty high standards actually. Though we arguably rely on a lot of Apache products, whatever we use that's internal
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by LoulouMonkey 3y ago
Some of the Triangulation podcasts feature interviews with: Bob Frankston: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BAV69CPXzA Dan Bricklin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh0KBkC_21s I'm slightly too young t
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by LoulouMonkey 3y ago
This. Switched from Ubuntu to Manjaro a year ago as Ubuntu updates kept on breaking everything: drivers, issues with Python. I also quite like the pieces of software that ship with Manjaro. Especially Kate, which I'm now using on my Wi
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by LoulouMonkey 3y ago
Thanks for the recommendations. Bleepingcomputer is a website I've been following for a while too. Great source of information.
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by LoulouMonkey 3y ago
I used to love this website, and remember using it almost 20 years ago to purchase an Olympus c-5060. Great work!
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by LoulouMonkey 4y ago
I wasn't fishing for compliments, but I will gladly take your positive feedback! Thanks dude :)
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by LoulouMonkey 4y ago
Interesting. So you mean more, the content rather than the form? I noticed you used the past tense. How did you get through that if I may ask?
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by LoulouMonkey 4y ago
Thanks very much for your positive vibes. Might be that writing for this website has helped! :)

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