jbothma

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by jbothma 1y ago
Any evidence of that?
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by jbothma 1y ago
I don't have a lot of answers, but to echo what you're seeing, it seems a lot harder to get a foot in the door than 15 years ago when I was getting my first freelance jobs. This is compared to people I know searching now. It feels
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Protect your art against AI/machine learning theft with customizable watermarks(rgbwatermark.net)
13 points by jbothma 3y ago|3 comments
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by jbothma 3y ago
Are they actually verifying identity when you subscribe? If not, a little vamity badge doesn't represent much as a value proposition.
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by jbothma 4y ago
freudian slip
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by jbothma 4y ago
That doesn't bear out in interviews and the remuneration stage of hiring. The main struggle is lack of sufficiently skilled applicants. The problem might be our ability to attract them! But it's a tough market.
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by jbothma 4y ago
Send me your cv and let's see if a suitable project or task comes up. jobs@openup.org.za
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by jbothma 4y ago
> But take it from me, someone who has volunteered for civic tech organizations and have participated in ground work for political campaigns. The most positive impact you could possibly make is money. I don't really agree. Perhaps w
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by jbothma 4y ago
Openup.org.za and civic tech in general. I work there. See code for all and code for america.
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by jbothma 4y ago
Indeed. I think it's important to bear in mind that it's ok for the abstractions to differ, and for the view to translate between the abstractions inside the system and the abstractions or concepts presented to the user. But it&#x
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by jbothma 4y ago
Design has gotten blurry - is UX part of design? I kinda see these parts as part of (non-dev-technical) design and designers differ in the degree to which they own these - visual design towards a design system - abstract system of "thi
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by jbothma 4y ago
It very much is. A UX consultant we used introduced me to the term and it was incredibly helpful. This training series from webflow touches on it, but perhaps not as much detail as you'd like https://university.webflow.com&#
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by jbothma 4y ago
Specifically, dokku provides - configuration management as env vars - reverse proxy routing traffic for a given hostname to the correct container, swapping to the new container upon deploy - plugin for tls cert generation using letsencrypt
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Show HN: Monitor delivery of automated emails – catch broken email alerts(notimon.com)
4 points by jbothma 4y ago|0 comments
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by jbothma 4y ago
Very handy! What might be nice is a quick way to delete stuff if you accidentally send something sensitive to a public instance.
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by jbothma 4y ago
I was literally just posting a story to that effect :)
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by jbothma 4y ago
This reminds me of when I built an amplifier around 2002. Just before this I built a crystal radio - basically a very long wire, a diode, and a crystal earphone. No amplifier.needed because the earphone is so sensitive. As I got the amplif
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by jbothma 4y ago
I don't know, I'm not sure the fridge would give a good indication of the microwave's leakiness.
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by jbothma 5y ago
They don't. I hear the same overstatement of what vpns will provide in terms of security from non-technical and sometimes technical people. Somewhere these misrepresentations are being taken as fact.
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by jbothma 5y ago
Broken fibres bounce light back. The time it takes for a pulse to return can be used to estimate the location of the break pretty accurately.
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by jbothma 5y ago
The whole article seems full of conjecture and generalisation. A big example: > Another advantage of a conventional cab design is that the truck can be more economical. Surely they usually pull heavier loads, but if there were two trucks
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by jbothma 5y ago
I recognise a lot of what you say and empathise. One of the reasons i chose comouter science was that it was an engineering discipline where I didn't have to wait for materials. I can dream something up and build it tonight. That also
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by jbothma 5y ago
But... UBI doesn't destroy what might be taken away. That money immediately goes and does work, and eventually it potentially improves the environment of those it was taken from. In the form of fewer social issues. Is the theory anyway
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by jbothma 5y ago
Not directly the answer to your question, but if I may comment on the background to your question: - There's a place for backend focused development for the web. So you don't have to be an expert in frontend. But it helps to under
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by jbothma 5y ago
This touched on a productivity hack I used when I was younger which really bites me now: > Paul advocates cultivating a sense of “discomfort” when you’re not working. I’m not going to question it’s efficacy- this is an extremely effectiv
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by jbothma 5y ago
I miss pattern matching
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by jbothma 5y ago
Ah yeah. I'm using python now for the same reason. I don't need more concurrency than a couple of servers with a few web threads and worker threads would give me. PAAS level deployment and failover is sufficient. (Edit: for my nee
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by jbothma 5y ago
Could you find the link? I'm not sure kubernetes can really replace erlang. Some of the key things that distinguishes erlang are - light "threads" and supervision of them - OTP which is largely a library other languages with
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by jbothma 5y ago
I think partially implemented standards are very useful! You can partially implement in a way that provides escape hatches for users, or you can lock them in to your assumption of the right behaviour. That said, I think there are very many
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by jbothma 5y ago
That's a reflection on a small number of Yet Another Not Invented Here clients, as opposed to the protocol and paradigm

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