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New comment by nyamada in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"

nyamada — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:45:02 +0000

Location: France

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Scala, Golang, Postgres, Delta tables, Iceberg, Trino, AWS, Airflow, DBT

CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TVbmqXuqYktRw5viMSq3hIbI9os...

Email: nyamada@pobox.com

Lots of experience building streaming data pipelines at scale. See my CV.

New comment by nyamada in "The ER charged him $6,589.77 for 6 stitches, cost that led his wife to avoid ER"

nyamada — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 11:55:25 +0000

My daughter here in France had a bike accident two months ago which requires 14 stitches in her foot.

We received 3 follow-up visits from nurses to clean and redress her wounds --

We pay about 100€ a month for supplemental private insurance on top of the public health insurance here --

Total cost for us? about 40€. We would have had to pay about 100€ more for the nurses' visits, but the mutuelle covered it.

These are some of the reasons why my wife and I moved from the US to France -- she's French, I'm American; but I can't imagine returning to the nightmare complexity of billings and profiteering that the US system has become...

New comment by nyamada in "Boeing’s Homicides Will Give Way to Safety Reforms if Flyers Organize"

nyamada — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 16:17:01 +0000

I'm hoping you're just being sarcastic. I have my problems with Ralph Nader (the 2000 presidential election) but I hope you know because of Nader that automobiles kill far, far fewer people than they did at the time of "Unsafe at Any Speed" (1965).

New comment by nyamada in "Plainbudget: Minimalist Plain Text Budgeting"

nyamada — Mon, 28 May 2018 11:16:49 +0000

are you familiar with this project?

https://www.ledger-cli.org/

New comment by nyamada in "Ask HN: How do you work efficiently on remote servers?"

nyamada — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 13:45:22 +0000

emacs + tramp + mosh + tmux