dfraser992

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Ask HN: How to manage an Angular project with several variations
2 points by dfraser992 2y ago|1 comments
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by dfraser992 2y ago
Tech lead for WEMC here - see https://tealtool.earth Straightforward charts of climate related data for different countries and regions around the globe For temperature and a few other variables, it shows historical data from
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by dfraser992 4y ago
There is no way to DM on HN, as far as I am aware. I would be interested in talking - I have some Ml/NLP based ideas and some free time... See my profile info for my website/email
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by dfraser992 4y ago
Interesting idea.... I have been idly working on an web crawler / indexing / organizing system that uses NLP etc to sort of solve the OP's problem(s) - if you don't mind, could you send me an email about your needs? See
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by dfraser992 4y ago
I have been collecting bookmarks for some time now as well - all unsorted... Doing it manually would be a nightmare so I have been thinking about making a SaaS - webcrawler + AI (NLP + clustering) It would at least accomplish a preliminary
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by dfraser992 4y ago
Given you already have a few years of experience which is a bit more important than just a degree (IMO), I would not worry so much. "Computing" is not "IT support" (no one gets a degree in that) and those are good unis y
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by dfraser992 4y ago
Between this and FTX, I am really starting to think the death penalty ought to be applicable for financial crimes beyond a certain magnitude. The intangible cost to society / peoples' lives is incalculable, but given the fundament
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by dfraser992 4y ago
Be very explicit, from the beginning, that you do not do fixed price contracts (which is essentially really what clients always want) unless the job is obviously trivial enough to estimate properly - and even then, there is always a chance
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by dfraser992 4y ago
Why hasn't anyone mentioned IR35????? I am in the UK - it seems the company you are working for is in violation of the IR35 regulations (but I'm not entirely sure of what nuances there are given you are in another country). i.e. y
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by dfraser992 4y ago
An upvote for you (if I could). I'm American but have lived in the UK for near 20 years. My great-whatever grandfather signed the Declaration of Independence so I'm hardly a royalist... So WTF am I doing living in the UK??? (the
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by dfraser992 4y ago
No, in the UK, the loser will pay for court costs, in general. I had a bit of legal trouble a few years ago - the other side was trying to play "solicitor" to use the law as a way of extorting me (aka threatening to make criminal
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by dfraser992 4y ago
I might have such a thing, though it has been over a decade since I did any webdev; not sure I still have the code. I was doing the backend for a project while the frontend work was being done by a guy in SF (I was in London). So remote wor
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by dfraser992 4y ago
Pattern recognition
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by dfraser992 5y ago
I print the webpage to a PDF and store it that way, then fix up the metadata as I see fit. And that is a good feature - make a request on the Github repo and see if the lead developer responds.
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by dfraser992 5y ago
No one has mentioned iLibrarian yet. No idea how its feature set compares to Zotero or Mendeley (I haven't used them much as I found them annoying in some ways) but there is a free self hostable version as well as the SaaS product. It
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by dfraser992 5y ago
I forget why I didn't like Zotero - I am using iLibrarian [0]. It is positioned as a SaaS, but the source is available and you can host it yourself. But I can't speak to how it compares to other software as I am not continually us
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by dfraser992 5y ago
I have used Neo4j and Tigergraph. Neo4j's community version being a toy is something I agree with - haven't used the enterprise version, though. But its memory requirements do seem to be ridiculous. Tigergraph, OTOH, their free v
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by dfraser992 5y ago
My immediate reaction was "why not Parallel?" but realized I'm not immediately sure how to deal with multiple servers... Off the top of my head.... have Parallel manage threads that execute remote scripts (using SSH)? SCP to
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by dfraser992 5y ago
But what if it wasn't clearly labeled? I did my MSc thesis on fake reviews and discussed the phenomena known as "covert marketing" a bit. e.g. a guy you're talking to in a bar at some point steers the conversation to the
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by dfraser992 5y ago
What are you going to do in retirement? I read an article recently about how people tend not to really change their life or behaviors once they 'retire', i.e. those plans to completely reinvent yourself are not entirely realized.
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by dfraser992 5y ago
My suggestions (I have just decided to officially retire, so money things are on my mind): 1. Read Rich Dad, Poor Dad. I have not personally read it, but it is supposed to be pretty good at explaining the basics. I also vaguely remember so
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by dfraser992 5y ago
For what I was doing, and how I was doing it, working with graph structures directly with Cypher would have been easier. Perhaps "logical" is the wrong word; my intent was to relay my specific experience, not express a general &qu
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by dfraser992 5y ago
I investigated using Neo4j back in 2010 for storing the schedules/routes of ocean shipping freight companies, forwarders, etc. The first cut of the system stored the schedule data in a graph like way in MySQL, but to do recursive SQL
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by dfraser992 5y ago
"Drug Warriors and Their Prey" takes a look at the WoSD from another angle [0] Basically, the WoSD 'was' (still is?) a mechanism by which authoritarians could impose control on society by oppressing society's undesi
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by dfraser992 5y ago
You're right, I got a bit strident there at the end... unresolved emotions I guess. Perhaps she isn't playing games, I suppose I am reading into the situation, but she just is overwhelmed and can't get the software or system
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by dfraser992 5y ago
"appeasement"? You can't - it is obvious (based on my experience with people like this) she is deliberately stalling because it isn't finished, the demo was a canned one, etc. One guy we hired (let's call him Bob) (
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by dfraser992 5y ago
I have pretty much retired (i.e. suck at interviews and can't deal with the nonsense in industry anymore and am not one for management) and am thinking of going to get a PhD just because these days, I like doing research for the hell o
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by dfraser992 5y ago
Or something deep in her psychology, e.g. she was raised by a pedophile and surely there were some dysfunctional family dynamics... That will color your entire life.
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by dfraser992 5y ago
Oh dear... I assume you're being sincere, so no shade or anything like that. I just realized exactly how old I am relative to you and the other person who posted the same sentiment. ;) Both. She was a big big name of my parent's g
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by dfraser992 5y ago
It's the same defense that got Tucker Carlson and FOX News off, so it logically should work.

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