Technologies: Web (Typescript, CSS, Svelte, React, etc, have worked with more or less every popular web framework on enterprise grade web applications) , C++, Rust, Go, Python, 3D Programming (GLSL, HLSL, Vulkan).
Résumé/CV: On Request
Email: h4chikuku [at] gmail.com
12+ years of experience building on the web from the days of backbonejs to building performant webapps using Svelte, React and working on a diverse set of platforms spanning far and wide (Native applications using WinUI, Kotlin on Android, performant servers/systems in Go/C++).
Proficient in both front-end and back-end technologies, I have a proven track record of delivering high-performance solutions that enhance user experience and drive business success. I pride myself in adapting to an organization's needs and goals quickly in order to deliver solutions that minimize delays. I shine best in scenarios where organizations require a "fixer" or someone to streamline a team, lay down the best standards in architecture and build a solid foundation for uninterrupted future success due to tech debt, a recurring and pervasive problem in enterprises.
I've worked with a multitude of early level startups to build solid foundations and fixing issues that come from rapid growth.
My philosophy is building products that are minimal, maintainable yet highly performant and accessible to every strata of user.
Please drop a message if interested, would love to hear from you!
Everytime I see the United States crying about marginalized communities and "bridging the gap" between communities I remember how starkly different it is in India, where there's a standardized curriculum(CBSE) that's a hundred times more complicated than anything that the US ever had and it's a constant accross communities that are much poorer and marginalized than the lowest communities in the states.
I still remember first time meeting a kid from the US due to an exchange program and while I could do integrals in my head at 15 they could barely multiply/divide in their head. While doing integrals as mental math may not be very useful in the "real world" as I was told by them back then, it sets a precedent for learning and exercising your brain so you can tackle more complex problems that come later.
I'm not saying that it's perfect here either btw, I'm very aware of the engineering/medicine rat race since I've lived that for 4 years, but I'm amazed how nerfed education in the US is for people who are much more financially in a better position than most Indians.
There is a huge difference between middle class and marginalized communities..in the USA and India. You don’t compare the low end of the USA to the high end of India, of course. We could also compare to China, where education isn’t even compulsory after the 9th grade (not sure about India), so you have very different populations of high schoolers. And then there is the over emphasis of Euclidean geometry because of the gaokao.
Still, I’m disappointed I didn’t learn integrals until the 11th grade (and there were only a few seniors and juniors in that class which was well rated for the Seattle area), I could have learned them in middle school and maybe I’d get more out of my secondary education. I didn’t even get to linear algebra until my second year of college.
Sending a private corporation your DNA is a bad idea the second you hear about it no matter what the "benefits" are. Why would people, especially those who frequent HN and are aware of the data privacy debacles throughout history even trust them with something like this?
I think that depends on when you used their service. In the last 5 years, then yes, probably very naive. 23andMe was founded at a different point in time, where things looked more optimistic, funding was a different game and we worried less about companies misusing our personal information.
It might not be a huge disaster, but to me the issue is that the company can't make any real promises about how they might profit from the DNA of it's customers in the future. It's not a problem unique to 23andMe, I will never sign up to another social network, because of Facebooks behavior. I'll never sign up to another service such as Gmail, Outlook, YouTube or Reddit, because I've seen what those companies did and how they behaved I can no longer trust any online service. The trust that existed in the early 2000s is gone, the idea that if we didn't like something we could just leave and delete everything is gone. I don't envy someone trying to bootstrap a new service, the previous generation of companies have poisoned the well.
In my opinion this type of stuff won't become a big problem for another couple decades. When DNA is used for more and more stuff.
Just keep in mind the Golden State Killer lost his DNA in the 70s, and was prosecuted in the 2010s. Using DNA from a third cousin who used an online DNA service.
Maybe don't kill anyone and you're fine, maybe not. Time will tell.
Any sufficiently large corporation possesses the resources to gain trust by portraying itself as the 'nice guys,' unlike the others, which is often convincing enough to fool many.
The conviction that every corporation is inherently evil or can turn evil at any point in the future never seems to fail, but many people just aren't that skeptical.
Very happy with Windows native window management. WinKey + arrow keys is such an intuitive and easy way to manage windows I don't even want to go back to using i3 on my Linux install.
Plus I can drag windows to the top and see multiple layout options and arrange them however I want, even with 10+ windows open don't feel the need to complicate things further.
I know this will piss off i3/keyboard purists, but oh well.
Edit: I know i3 is super customizable and all the malarkey but I want to get shit done and not spend all day fiddling with my config. ( this is coming from a serial distro/WM hopper )
You may like Windows PowerToys FancyZones as added power to the Win+arrow options, allowing for more diverse layouts than even Windows 11's expanded set in the Maximize button hover/drag to the top overlay bar.
Unfortunately the two WMs still don't entirely talk to each other (Windows 11's layouts don't count as FancyZones, FancyZones don't count as Windows 11 layouts), but FancyZones does have some nice tools that make it worth trying, and has that sort of deeper integration on its roadmap, even if you do go back to the in-box experience for now.
Yes. Blurb increased their prices a while back. The book is large, the colour print quality is incredible, and it uses a lay-flat binding so that the illustrations have no crease. Of the $200, about $15 goes to the 24 artists and the rest goes to Blurb. The eBook is $11, which also goes to the artists.
But here they are physically printing the book in high quality, that's clearly something that's expensive to do. How much does it actually cost Steam per game they sell? It can't be more than a cent. But here it is actually costing Blurb money to print the book to the quality required. It's not just profit.
Providing hosting of game assets for decades and bandwidth for updating it and tools for running it on Linux and hosting for multiplayer must cost a bit more than 1 cent.
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Web (Typescript, CSS, Svelte, React, etc, have worked with more or less every popular web framework on enterprise grade web applications) , C++, Rust, Go, Python, 3D Programming (GLSL, HLSL, Vulkan).
Résumé/CV: On Request
Email: h4chikuku [at] gmail.com
12+ years of experience building on the web from the days of backbonejs to building performant webapps using Svelte, React and working on a diverse set of platforms spanning far and wide (Native applications using WinUI, Kotlin on Android, performant servers/systems in Go/C++).
Proficient in both front-end and back-end technologies, I have a proven track record of delivering high-performance solutions that enhance user experience and drive business success. I pride myself in adapting to an organization's needs and goals quickly in order to deliver solutions that minimize delays. I shine best in scenarios where organizations require a "fixer" or someone to streamline a team, lay down the best standards in architecture and build a solid foundation for uninterrupted future success due to tech debt, a recurring and pervasive problem in enterprises.
I've worked with a multitude of early level startups to build solid foundations and fixing issues that come from rapid growth.
My philosophy is building products that are minimal, maintainable yet highly performant and accessible to every strata of user.
Please drop a message if interested, would love to hear from you!