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by paulvs 1y ago
A couple of reasons why Paraguay is a great place for remote workers: * Friendly people * Great food (soups like Vori Vori, delicious BBQ) * Decent internet * Cheap rent * Low taxes (no taxes on foreign income) * Timezone alignment with the
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by paulvs 1y ago
I’ve worked on the Day One & WordPress iOS mobile apps for the last five years. I just shipped a new iPad experience on the Day One app: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBSv1sHOZX4&t=412s Location: US-timezones
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by paulvs 3y ago
It's not available on the Paraguayan App Store yet. The same thing happened with ChatGPT itself, it wasn't available in Paraguay for a couple of months and no explanation as to why. I get that it's a free research preview an
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by paulvs 5y ago
Does this affect contractors, or just employees? This year, I noticed Amazon hires international contractors for engineering roles and I don't think I saw that before. I wonder if Amazon is opening up more roles internationally (via c
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by paulvs 5y ago
This is eerily similar to videos forwarded on WhatsApp about "things you'd only understand if you were born in the <insert decade here>" :) I did relate to it though. It would be apt for a video about things you'd
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by paulvs 6y ago
> Moreover, I feel like it's going to be a big problem that the architecture you're deploying your code to is different than the one you are developing on. iOS apps—which run on ARM chips inside iPhones—have all been developed
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by paulvs 6y ago
I think that the test cases included with packages might have the advantage of being able to obfuscate URLs or other strings as benign test dummy data. This would be especially easy by using the technique called string sampling that the aut
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by paulvs 7y ago
Inverse: "A schrödinbug or schroedinbug . . . is a bug that manifests itself in running software after a programmer notices that the code should never have worked in the first place." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik
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by paulvs 7y ago
Nice to see Paraguay present here on HN, I live here in Asunción. I also heard of some people near Luque without power Sunday and Monday, but I'd guess it was an unrelated ANDE incident.
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Super-Kamiokande Neutrino Observatory(mobile.abc.net.au)
1 points by paulvs 7y ago|1 comments
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by paulvs 7y ago
According to Paraguayan news [1] (Spanish), the failure was on the Argentina side of the Yacyretá hydroelectric (which is shared by Argentina and Paraguay), not at the plant itself. Only a few Paraguayan towns close to the hydroelectric its
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by paulvs 7y ago
Slightly confusing how although the article's opening paragraph currently says "...an explicit order" from the state education department, it goes on to quote it later where it can be seen to be just a recommendation.
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by paulvs 7y ago
I found Susan Fowler's story quite interesting, as told on her blog: https://www.susanjfowler.com
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by paulvs 8y ago
A shoutout to Rober Dam who built Xaddress, "Give 7 billion people an instant physical address": http://xaddress.org/
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by paulvs 8y ago
A couple more from around the world (esp. Paraguay): 1. To drop a passenger off where there is no street parking, just turn on your hazard lights and stop in the middle of the road. 2. In the seconds before a red light turns green, the cars
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by paulvs 9y ago
Location: Paraguay Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Not for the time being Technologies: 5 years of iOS (Objective-C, Swift) and Hybrid Mobile (React Native, Cordova, custom hybrid app solutions) Email: paulvonschrottky@gmail.com Résumé&#x2
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Coincheck: World's biggest ever digital currency 'theft'(bbc.com)
2 points by paulvs 9y ago|0 comments
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by paulvs 9y ago
You worked on this actual data? It's amazing how Hacker News brings together people from such diverse backgrounds.
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by paulvs 9y ago
It's standard for banking apps to go through all sorts of testing including penetration testing before going into production (here in Paraguay that's how we do it). That this went unnoticed suggests that: - the API architect (assu
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by paulvs 9y ago
If the Unabomber had been smart enough he would have realized that these fears are actually contemplated by others and regarded as known risks.
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by paulvs 9y ago
I love it when I find an article about something that has crossed the edge of my mind, but which I've never given proper thought to.
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by paulvs 9y ago
Switching jobs would incur a slight penalty of 1) removing chip, b) re-programming chip, c) leaving chip. I think this is something a lot of people would like to avoid.
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by paulvs 10y ago
I like how the number 42 is weaved into this. At 177 light minutes into the journey, there is the following message: Emptiness is actually everywhere. It’s something like 99.9999999999999999999958% of the known universe. leaving 4.2E-21 o
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by paulvs 10y ago
Nice, as an Australian I concur. I live in Paraguay, could anyone shed light on what stereotypical views/biases I would experience in a job interview as an Aussie living in Paraguay?
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by paulvs 10y ago
For a corporate credit analyst working at a bank, what are some good introduction material for getting into forecasting using tools like these? I see this being applicable to analysts when deciding on on a company's credit worthiness.
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by paulvs 10y ago
Susan Fowler Physicist and Software Engineer Great blog at https://www.susanjfowler.com
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Ask HN: Most extraordinary people of 2016
4 points by paulvs 10y ago|1 comments
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by paulvs 10y ago
Location: GMT/UTC-3:00 Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: iOS, Objective-C, Swift, shipping iPhone and iPad apps from start to finish, Core Data, Touch ID, JavaScript, C, embedded systems, web development, git, Atlassia
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by paulvs 10y ago
> New York (with its longitudinal companions) will be the place where people breakfast at noon, where the sun reaches its zenith around 4 p.m., and where people start dinner close to midnight. He must mean latitudinal companions..
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by paulvs 10y ago
Location: GMT/UTC-3:00 (South America) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: iOS, Objective-C, Swift, Managing Apple Developer Accounts, JavaScript, C, embedded systems, web development, git, Atlassian tools, scripts. Résu

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