ritchiea

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by ritchiea 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | Berlin, Germany or remote (originally from NYC, can make trips to US east coast) Full stack Ruby and Javascript/Typescript developer with experience as a lead dev, as well as a teacher/mentor. I believe in writing c
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by ritchiea 3y ago
I'm already a freelancer and posted in the most recent monthly freelance thread.
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Ask HN: Are there any companies friendly to developers seeking part time work?
11 points by ritchiea 3y ago|19 comments
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by ritchiea 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | Berlin, Germany or remote (originally from NYC, can make trips to US east coast) Full stack Ruby and Javascript developer with experience as a lead dev, as well as a teacher/mentor. I believe in writing clear, readable,
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by ritchiea 4y ago
Sort of agree though I would argue "joining an exercise group" is a healthy way to create shallow connections with the aim that one or more of them becomes deeper. Finding deep connections is difficult and requires significant eff
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by ritchiea 4y ago
The post I was replying to asked if he could play against 1800's and gain rating. Players in the 2500s are much more capable of forcing a draw. It'd be unlikely he'd gain much rating playing against them because wins wouldn&#
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by ritchiea 4y ago
Technically he could, I believe FIDE has a minimum rating increase of 1 point for the winner of a game with > 400 ELO advantage on their opponent. But if he broke 2900 by playing in minor tournaments against low rated amateur opponents n
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by ritchiea 4y ago
Secret Hitler is a board game the writer is referring to. They're not actually talking about Hitler.
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by ritchiea 5y ago
Actually right now in Europe most (maybe all?) flights can be rescheduled for free in response to the pandemic. Is that not the case elsewhere?
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by ritchiea 5y ago
"World champion" is also a bit of a title.
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by ritchiea 5y ago
Tangential but it’s always amusing to me to see Kasparov mentioned as a “chess grandmaster” when there are over 1000 grandmasters while Kasparov was the longest reigning world champion & widely considered the best ever. It’s like having
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by ritchiea 5y ago
The CIA backed American abstract expressionists, which is a different, more visually complex style of abstract painting that is distinct from minimalist abstract painting.
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by ritchiea 5y ago
It's perfectly reasonable to appreciate a piece of art, recognize its importance and subjectively dislike it. I believe it's going in the wrong direction to try to completely disconnect your subjective like or dislike of art in an
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by ritchiea 5y ago
It's really not that anyone prefers an abstract dot on a white canvas over the Sistine Chapel. It helps to think of art as a historical dialogue with other art, as well as an exploration of how our senses experience the world. Minimali
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by ritchiea 5y ago
I think it’s subjective. I learned Haskell early on in university and I’ve learned Lisps and it still feels like extra work to reason about programs or model domains in functional languages. I believe functional programming advocates when y
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by ritchiea 5y ago
He's lived a different life than nearly anyone else. Certainly so caught up in his responsibilities to Facebook that he's been unable to grow and change and branch out and fail, and be rejected and forced to reinvent or repurpose
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by ritchiea 5y ago
He’s certainly determined whatever his true self is, it’s not good for business.
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by ritchiea 5y ago
Why does the reader need to read this blog post? We don’t but we think we might learn something or be entertained. Withholding a piece of information that lots of readers are naturally curious about is odd. I like the post & Dan Luu’s w
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by ritchiea 5y ago
You estimate it’s rated 3400-ish and it loses games????
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by ritchiea 5y ago
Agree it’s not a great or neutral look for all audiences. Why not set it to private?
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by ritchiea 5y ago
Real estate and flat purchase prices have been rising faster in Berlin than anywhere else in the world over the last five or so years. The rental market is also rising, there's a growing startup sector and lots of international immigra
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by ritchiea 5y ago
One of the tough lessons of my years as a developer is many developers love to adopt Google scale solutions and Google practices because they’re from Google and they come with prestige and a feeling of proximity to the most visible technolo
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by ritchiea 5y ago
I agree and having a missing word in your text often leads to confusion :) Honestly you could drop the "bits" which is a bit redundant and use the phrase "Uses CSS selectors to extract content from HTML files."
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by ritchiea 5y ago
It's more than fair to say in technical documentation you intend others to use having a grammatical error or missing word is confusing and a problem. It's the writing equivalent of having a bug in your code. And it's definite
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by ritchiea 5y ago
As web developer for over a decade "bits content" doesn't mean anything to me. But I understand what the tool does from the rest of the description. Try running a google search for "bits content," [0] it's not
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by ritchiea 5y ago
I believe the author would agree with you, his last bullet point is write for humans not for machines. When he says write less code, I believe he means favoring simpler architectures, saying no to features & tools until you absolutely n
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by ritchiea 5y ago
It's originally from 1998 and has been updated since then.
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by ritchiea 5y ago
I suspect it's because so many people use SO for work. When I'm at work I'm not thinking about being a good SO user and upvoting a good question or answer, I'm focused on getting my answer and getting back into the flow
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by ritchiea 5y ago
I agree with this in principle but in practice code I write that’s quick & easy and not very readable is usually not understandable by me in a few months either. So if it’s a personal project I hope to last I still want to keep it simpl
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by ritchiea 5y ago
Wow I think in 10+ years, I've only had 1 or 2 cases of brew failing to install something. It's a piece of software I've been consistently impressed with over the years. I wonder why our experiences differ so much.

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