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New comment by vikin9 in "Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?"

vikin9 — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 09:03:26 +0000

Meteo from Poland is a great source for numerical weather forecast. Website is in english, but their forecast is mainly for Poland + Border regions of the neighbours. http://www.meteo.pl/index_en.php

If you know the coordinates, you can access a jpg-generated meteogram directly over the URL - example for Berlin: http://www.meteo.pl/um/metco/mgram_pict.php?ntype=0u&fdate=2...

New comment by vikin9 in "Ask HN: When coding, how to do remember what you were doing the previous day?"

vikin9 — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 16:06:20 +0000

One idea out of many (many have been mentioned by others already): I set linter to always report failure in CI when TODO or FIXME markers are found. So my PR never gets green until I fix them all. I place o lot of such markers if I know that I will not finish in a given focus block (doesn't have to be an end-of-business-day).

New comment by vikin9 in "Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles"

vikin9 — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 08:23:37 +0000

Looks very nice to get the first impression over a person. There is usually a lot of hints and information in the Internet about how to build such first-impression CV. However, EU companies (maybe elsewhere too?) often ask about second-impression CV with more technical details.

I search for a tool helping you to build your coding experience matrix. Imagine a chart looking similar to Github activity tiles or a spreadsheet, where on the x-axis you present time, and on the y-axis you place the coding languages or technologies that you have used in that time.

Such thing would help telling the interviewer, that you have 3 years of C++ experience, but your last project on this was in 2013. Anyone seen something like this?

edit: grammar & typos

New comment by vikin9 in "Show HN: Instantly search 2M recipes"

vikin9 — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 09:35:30 +0000

Inability to open selected recipes in a new tab (e.g., to read later) is really annoying

New comment by vikin9 in "Git: Deletion of merged branches taken beyond shell hacks"

vikin9 — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 13:39:40 +0000

I setup Github repos to automatically delete merged branches - in this case, the remote counterpart will be gone. There might be just the following missing to sync remove `origin/*` branches locally: `git fetch --prune`

New comment by vikin9 in "Git: Deletion of merged branches taken beyond shell hacks"

vikin9 — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 21:25:43 +0000

Not so fancy, but a one-liner

  # Remove all local branches for which there is no remote
  git branch -r | awk '{print $1}' | egrep -v -f /dev/fd/0 <(git branch -vv | grep origin) | awk '{print $1}' | xargs git branch -D

New comment by vikin9 in "Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?"

vikin9 — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 12:50:55 +0000

I skip reading articles with white background when in bed, because the screen light is too bright even at the lowest screen brightness setting. Fortunately HN client can display comments white on dark :)

New comment by vikin9 in "Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?"

vikin9 — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 10:57:09 +0000

Nice try with the: "You are currently {random} in the queue."

New comment by vikin9 in "Show HN: A LaTeX-based resume building app"

vikin9 — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 13:21:43 +0000

Please keep both versions up to date! Once you get the attention of recruiter (using your one-page Resume) then they usually ask for more information - longer CV, skills matrix, etc.

I invested some time to shorten my resume to exactly one page and now I get a bit irritated when people ask me for a longer version.

New comment by vikin9 in "Ask HN: What is one Vim trick most people don't know?"

vikin9 — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 08:47:06 +0000

:norm(al) command Allows you to do some of the vim magic also on remote systems where you don't have all your plugins.

Example:

(1) Select block with `C-v`

(2) Hit colon `:`

(3) Write norm and enter any sequence as you would be in normal mode: `norm I# ` (prepend selection with a comment sign)

(4) Admire the result.