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AI Grading in Peer Reviews: Enhancing Coursera's Learning Experience(blog.coursera.org)
1 points by robertbalent 2y ago|0 comments
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by robertbalent 3y ago
> way more coffee breaks That’s upside.
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by robertbalent 5y ago
That’s a lot of walks! Is there an app that will generate walking routes, so you visit different streets each time? If I wanted to develop something like this, where would I start?
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Sextant(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by robertbalent 5y ago|0 comments
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by robertbalent 5y ago
For me, this sounds like a developer with a lot of potential. You realized your weaknesses and want to improve. That's a big step forward. To improve, you need to work on projects with more senior developers. Few things that work for m
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by robertbalent 6y ago
Is it really true? A lot of companies are focusing on hiring "short fat" engineers. Especially companies having "dev ops" engineering model, where engineers must be able to work on all stages of the product lifecycle - f
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by robertbalent 6y ago
Was the stock GME?
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by robertbalent 6y ago
As for a practical advice: Just use PostgreSQL. You can get really really far with just an SQL database and few indexes. It's enough for 99% of projects. This has two big advantages: 1. PostgreSQL is a reliable, high performant databas
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by robertbalent 6y ago
Why do Java programmers wear glasses? Because they don't C#.
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by robertbalent 6y ago
However, this is not enforced at all for software engineers. So in lot of companies the official title is software engineer even without any accreditation.
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A Free SSL Certificate Monitoring(blog.monitoria.ca)
2 points by robertbalent 6y ago|0 comments
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by robertbalent 6y ago
As mentioned before, work on your Leetcode skills. Be sure you can talk while solving them on whiteboard. From books I like "Elements of Programming Interviews" and also "Cracking the coding interview", even though it&#x
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by robertbalent 6y ago
Made an update and now the expiration time of all certificates in the certificate chain is checked. Thanks!
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by robertbalent 6y ago
Thank you for the feedback. You are right, checking the whole chain is important. I'm already partially supporting this but need to do few changes. The intermediate certificates returned when making the request are checked. The system
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by robertbalent 6y ago
Hi, My name is Robert and I'm the creator of Monitoria. I've submitted Show HN around 2 months ago but it didn't get any traction [1]. Since then I introduced a free plan and SSL certificate monitoring. Please check it out an
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Show HN: Monitoria – free uptime and SSL monitoring for your website(monitoria.ca)
3 points by robertbalent 6y ago|4 comments
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by robertbalent 6y ago
If you are on linux, you can try this equalizer setting by installing PulseEffects and selecting ziyad-perfecteq from the equalizer presets.
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The “Perfect” EQ Settings: Unmasking the EQ (2010)(ziyadnazem.com)
1 points by robertbalent 6y ago|1 comments
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by robertbalent 6y ago
I switched to linux about a year ago (after 4 years with Mac and 10 years with linux before). However, transition was anything but smooth. I have Thinkpad X1 Carbon 7th Gen and there was plenty of issues, especially with audio/hardware
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by robertbalent 6y ago
I believe all of these fonts can be used without ligatures. If I want to use ligatures, I have to explicitly enable it in my code editor.
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by robertbalent 6y ago
I have X1 Carbon 7th and need to use throttled to get full power. Try to run performance test with s-tui if you see a difference. On Arch the command to enable the fix is: sudo systemctl enable --now lenovo_fix.service
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Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S Now Available Worldwide(news.xbox.com)
1 points by robertbalent 6y ago|0 comments
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by robertbalent 6y ago
How many hours are you fasting? Whole day twice a week?
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by robertbalent 6y ago
What is the 'open' command? Is it alias for the 'xdg-open'? Edit: Just noticed they are using MacOS. That makes it clear.
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Releasing Monitoria – active monitoring service(blog.monitoria.ca)
2 points by robertbalent 6y ago|0 comments
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by robertbalent 6y ago
Seems like it's not working without the internet connection. I wanted to be sure that PDFs are not uploaded and disconnected network just before selecting them. The error in the console was: GET https://pdfwrench.com/_n
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by robertbalent 6y ago
Thank you very much for your comment. You are right, Uptime Robot is very similar and it's free. Currently Monitoria supports only 5-minute monitoring frequency. But it would be pretty easy to allow 1-minute intervals. You said you are
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by robertbalent 6y ago
Hi Hacker News, My name is Robert and I'm a software engineer from Vancouver BC. Few months ago I decided to quit my job and try to make something on my own. Please check it out. Monitoria is an active monitoring service for websites o
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Show HN: Monitoria – active monitoring service for your website(monitoria.ca)
1 points by robertbalent 6y ago|5 comments
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by robertbalent 6y ago
There is Immersive Reader from Microsoft which may be helpful. But you would probably need to used new Edge chromium-base browser, which is available only on Windows and MacOS. https://www.onenote.com/learningtools

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