Hacker News: djvv

New comment by djvv in "Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model"

djvv — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:11:52 +0000

If you mean an autocomplete for the terminal, there is https://www.warp.dev/.

New comment by djvv in "Software engineers expected to make sacrifices to work for this company"

djvv — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 19:58:43 +0000

Great perspective. I've never went so far as to think of companies as scammers but it makes sense in some cases.

Software engineers expected to make sacrifices to work for this company

djvv — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 03:30:18 +0000

Found this anonymous post on pastebin. It reflects Silicon Valley's attitude towards software engineers very well. --------------- I'm using Hired to get a pulse on the the market for Software Engineers, my target compensation is 10% more than I'm getting paid in my current position. So far, Hired has delivered quite well by connecting me with companies that value my desire to rationally allocate myself in the market. It's all about return on investment: your salary and other compensation in exchange for your time interviewing and developing software at a company.

Then I see this in a company's pitch:

""" PS: Please note that I'm looking for kickass engineers who want to build the backbone of an industry. But Hired encourages a bidding war. We don’t play along with that. Everyone here at _____ makes sacrifices to be here, because that's what it takes to be a startup, to build a successful company. You should be interested in _____ because of what we do, what you can learn here. We can figure out the salary / equity package once we both agree this is the best next opportunity for you. However, if the minimum salary is what matters to you, _____ is not for you and we’d just be wasting each others time. Please keep that in mind. Thanks! """

Software Engineers: please remember that everyday that you go to work is a market transaction and that transaction is something worth optimizing.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8214902

Points: 23

# Comments: 6

Easy Haskell Profiling

djvv — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 15:21:05 +0000

Article URL: http://danielvelkov.blogspot.com/2014/08/easy-haskell-profiling.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8163617

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by djvv in "LinkedIn to pay nearly $6M in unpaid overtime wages and damages to 359 employees"

djvv — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 20:38:22 +0000

I wonder how did the Linkedin employees organized in order to file the lawsuit? I imagine that, if the wrong person heard about the plan, the organizers would be fired right away.

New comment by djvv in "Hate Your ISP? Maybe You Need Community Fiber"

djvv — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 19:13:52 +0000

I ran a similar but smaller network back in high school. I was in Bulgaria but the setup was exactly the same. Me and several other kids wanted to play Starcraft and dial-up was bad. We bought a lot of cable and connected 3 apartment buildings.

Soon our neighbors learned about the network and started asking if they can join. At the peak we had wired about 20 families, this was all supported by me and a friend. The incentive for me was free internet and some side income.

In retrospect I find it amazing that such DIY approach brought us in the top of the internet speed rankings surrounded by the most developed countries in the world.

Global Distribution of Startup Funding 1999-2014

djvv — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 06:46:17 +0000

Article URL: http://danielvelkov.blogspot.com/2014/07/global-distribution-of-startup-funding_9.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8118639

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by djvv in "Show HN: NomadList – The best cities to live and work remotely in"

djvv — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 22:02:10 +0000

Can you give us your top 5 list?

New comment by djvv in "Finding the World's Economic Center of Gravity"

djvv — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 04:45:06 +0000

That's the method from the original article. It distorts the ratio between the economies in the North vs. South hemispheres.

New comment by djvv in "Finding the World's Economic Center of Gravity"

djvv — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 04:21:06 +0000

Interesting, do you have any ideas how to apply this to finding the average of multiple points on a sphere?

New comment by djvv in "Finding the World's Economic Center of Gravity"

djvv — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 04:06:15 +0000

Author here. I agree with your point but the map is still useful for seeing the directional trend. I took this projection because it is the usual way of plotting the world on a 2d map.

Public beta for datascience.stackexchange.com

djvv — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 02:02:46 +0000

Article URL: http://datascience.stackexchange.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7871549

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by djvv in "Our Newfound Fear of Risk"

djvv — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 21:03:04 +0000

I completely agree, as someone who grew up in East Europe and is now in the US. The contrast between my childhood and what I see here is huge. And before someone counters that I come from an uncivilized place let me say what I saw 4 years ago while living in Amsterdam. Kids who were in 3rd or 4th grade would bike to school alone, crossing streets with traffic and so on.

New comment by djvv in "English has been my pain for 15 years"

djvv — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 18:21:36 +0000

Does anyone know of software that does speech to IPA (or any phonetic representation)?

If such a thing exist then it should be possible to write a program which compares the users pronunciation to the official one and gives tips and exercises on getting closer to the proper way of speaking. I can see some difficulties with differences depending on the speakers native language and the target language.

What do you think?

New comment by djvv in "Global Government Requests Report"

djvv — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 18:03:02 +0000

Where is China?

New comment by djvv in "frak: Transform collections of strings into regular expressions"

djvv — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 04:22:49 +0000

Here's the paper that shows how to do the direct construction of the minimal DFA in linear time: http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/J/J00/J00-1002.pdf

New comment by djvv in "New online master's degree to train the data scientists of tomorrow"

djvv — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 18:13:13 +0000

You would be surprised how many people in the field have never heard of Kaggle.

New comment by djvv in "Interface Design with a Homeless person "

djvv — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 01:13:43 +0000

This reminds me of last year when I had a chat with a homeless professor in mountain view. He knew way more geography than the average person.