Screw Elon Musk and the horse he rode in on. There is
no way I'm going to give that character my content or
collaborate in anything he owns or has a stake in.
Still looking for an alternative.
Founder of modularcompany.com , we do Technical Due Diligence for investors (early stage, VC, PE), vendors and acquirers in Europe and the Near East.
Partner at Tablomonto.com. If you have an interesting early stage startup in The Netherlands I would like to hear from you.
Founder of camarades.com / ww.com, creator of the first 'streaming webcam software'.
Small time angel investor, > 20 investments to date, > 20K < 100K
Happy to report that now three of those have exited with nice returns.
My email is jacques@modularcompany.com, phone + 31 6 30 366 241, Netherlands
Feel free to contact me anytime, except for large money transfers from African countries or such.
And please don't even think of approaching me to get your stuff posted or upvoted, if you want something posted do it yourself, if you want stuff to be upvoted post interesting stuff!
If you comment and I'm not responding to you it may well be that you are filtered out from my view.
I maintain a website with translations of pg's essays to polish language, http://esejepg.pl/.
I do software nowadays, but I'm constantly looking for opportunities to do something actually useful for humanity. If you know of some, please let me know - especially if they involve biotech, cleantech or NewSpace industry.
(see also: http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2018-01-06-going-far-going-small.html)
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Aw, what the hell, I want that extra badge:
https://hnbadges.netlify.app/?user=TeMPOraL
(see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28389773)
Having said thus much by way of introduction, I commit the following to the candour of the Publick.
Helu! I'm Thomas.
@tqbf@infosec.exchange
thomas@sockpuppet.org
thomas@fly.io
(Don't apologize for contacting me! I'm happy to meet you.)
Daily follow list: 'jcranmer, 'pvg, 'DannyBee, 'JumpCrisscross, 'kasey_junk, 'tzs, 'dctoedt, 'idlewords,
'carbocation (many others who don't post often enough to call out like this).
Hi! You can read more about me at http://williampietri.com/. To contact me email my first name at my domain or try https://sfba.social/@williampietri. But a capsule bio is that I'm a software developer, writer, and occasional founder who has worked at or consulted for both for-profits (Bank of America, Capital One, Twitter) and otherwise (Code for America, ADL, Mozilla, NYU).
Per Penny Arcade [1], anonymous accounts being jerks get less leeway from me than people being respectful and/or standing behind their words.
All comments here are my own. I do not speak for my employer.
Seasoned software developer, proficient in Python, Java. Less proficient in Ruby and Lisp. A bit rusty in C and C++. Learning Erlang very slowly. Also a computer collector and restorer, lover of 8-bit computers, mainframes and interesting Unix workstations.
email: username at that google mail thing
http://about.me/rbanffy
https://linkedin.com/in/ricardobanffy
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/rbanffy; my proof: https://keybase.io/rbanffy/sigs/HtF1uAf_RNpwIkNP1-YGWP_-3doWV6S5Cc1KywXeLYo ]
Experience mainly with Swift, ObjC, and Java; usual smattering of experience in other languages (IDL, REALbasic [back when it was still called that], Python, PHP, JavaScript, etc.)
Human language knowledge:
- English: native
- German: self taught with apps and podcasts including Duolingo, Clozemaster, Babbel (both their apps and podcasts), EasyGerman, Coffee Break German etc., non-certified CEFR level B1 from three online placement tests where I've scored B1/B1/B2.1 (which matches my self-estimate because I can do normal daily things without having to reach for a translator, but surprises still confound me).
- Esperanto/Greek/Dutch/Spanish: also self-taught, but probably A1 or less, so while I can type e?a ts? ?a? e?a sa?d??? pa?a?a??? without reaching for Google Translate, if I use GT to check my work I find I spelled "tea" and "please" wrong, and when I asked for that in Athens the person behind the counter just corrected me in English.
- Arabic: an attempt was made, to help pass time during the pandemic. I recommend you don't waste time trying to use Duolingo for learning this language.
- Have recently stopped working though Brilliant.org courses, not because I've done all of them, but because I've Peter-Principled myself on it: I've done harder and harder courses until I exceeded my competence, which was a lot of stuff, but not advanced calculus or group theory: https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2024/03/11-12.00.16.html
- Still trying to finish editing a SciFi novel: got stuck at 90%, the final 10% is in a rewrite loop where I'm never happy with what I produce
- Working as a full-time iPhone app developer in Berlin
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https://kitsunesoftware.com has all the links to my other stuff
