Location: Belgium
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, minor Go experience
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannes-fostie-07860380/ or I can send over a PDF via LinkedIn or email
Email: hannes.fostie@gmail.com
Interested in Senior or Lead positions, with a focus on the back-end. Interested in applying my extensive Ruby experience but open to other languages as well such as Golang, Python.
12 years of experience as a software engineer, 9 of those working remotely at companies such as Heroku (Salesforce) and Clearbit (acquired by HubSpot).
I've been using a daily dose of 5g of creatine for several months to help with climbing. Maybe I'm a non-responder, or maybe the effects are too subtle, but I haven't noticed anything. Definitely nothing in terms of brain functions or what not.
It's cheap enough to continue to do it though, so I kind of keep at it.
I tried creatine out for a while. It definitely had an effect on me; previously I tended to tire out in my strength workout prior to really pulling the muscles and I tended not to have to be too careful about that. Creatine allowed me to workout longer without realizing it, to the point that I was in some pain for the next several days on those muscle groups, rather than "maybe sorta sore the next day for a bit".
Whoops.
With a bit more work I was able to tune myself to stop that, but it didn't buy me much.
In the meantime I noticed no cognitive effects strong enough to be noticeable without full-on Gwern-style careful testing. (My policy on that is that if the power of the result isn't big enough for me to notice in "normal life", I'm not that interested.)
I can believe that dedicated athletes can use it to good effect but I don't think I recommend it for casuals such as myself. I also definitely had to be extra-sure to drink more water than I felt like I needed or I would get dehydration headaches.
Have you tried creatine loading? Take 20 to 25g per day for a week, then take 5g/day for a month. Take a few weeks off and do it again. That's what I've done in the past when I was taking creatine for a recovery enhancer.
There was a research that concluded that after a month, there is no difference in creatine amount in blood if you've been loading or just taking 5g daily.
I've only ever heard of creatine loading as a way of getting an early kickstart for workouts. I didn't think it was even supposed to help in the 1+ month window, just get you better training results for a week or two up front.
Isn't there something to be said about engineers teaching designers git, and the other way around? I understand that what you're saying is easier and more efficient, but learning to communicate should be a pretty big deal, and teaching others helps a lot.
It's easy to think that EVE is not worth playing unless you already have been playing for years, or that it's only worth doing so at the highest level. Though if you dig a bit deeper you'll see there's much more to the game than that.
Sure, there's the steep learning curve to beat. But once you get the sandbox concept and realize you can make a dent in the universe, however small, you can start to have some fun. Find likeminded players, and see what suits your playstyle. Be realistic about what you can achieve (train frigates and cruisers if you're starting out, not battleships) and just have fun. If you end up lucky (or work hard, of course) you could buy characters from other players, or just keep increasing your skills.
What attracts me is that the upkeep is minimal, and yet it does allow me to spend hours on end with people I enjoy talking to. Play more, earn more. Play less, no big deal.
I've never been a gamer in the sense that I play a lot of games. The games I've played for longer than about a month (however casual or hardcore) I can count on 2 hands, if not one. But those games, I've played for months if not years on end. (Counter-Strike for 7 years, EVE for 4ish, WoW for 2-3)
I haven't really gamed ever since graduating college a good 4 years ago, but I did stumble back into EVE after a 5+ year break. Having fun once again, and that's what counts.
I would never say that EVE doesn't reward playing at any level. I'm just wired to do things bigger - and I have a hard time playing at a lower level in most anything.
I would recommend getting into a good corp/alliance though - there's nothing that improves gameplay more than that.
Ok. I have an account with a month playtime from years ago. I want to join back up and get into a good corp. How do I find such a corp? I want to go play in fun battles and null sec.
hard to say, I'd say look through forum posts to see which corps stand out, or just go do the stuff you normally do and talk to people in local, talk to your targets (or killers), fellow miners, ... whatever it is. Join those you enjoy talking to and see where it goes.
Small corps are hard if you don't know them beforehand. It's easier to find a handful of really cool people you get along with in a bigger group.
Thank you so much for Capistrano. We use it on a daily basis (several times) and built http://capo.io to make it easier to re-use deploy scripts.
I'm going to take a closer look into the source code and try to help out with issues. It's something I've been wanting to do for a while so I hope I can at least help out a little bit here
I betatested this. Even back then it was pretty solid. As you can tell by the landing page (eat your own dog food etc) it's drop dead gorgeous. It's easy to work with and contained a lot of modules. Took me about 30 minutes to put together a landing page.
This is ideal for testing out those early ideas, or simply when you want to move ahead with a product without having to spend money or time on a landing page yet.
We never rebase like that, and instead use git merge master --no-ff
We also never SSH into a server, and instead use Capistrano to handle this for us. Capistrano works great with Rails, but even other frameworks have plugins to handle this. And if you're new to capistrano, take a look at http://capo.io (shameless plug: we built this) for readily available recipes for all kinds of tasks. We use Capo for all our projects, ranging from static sites to jekyll to sinatra, rack and rails apps.
I bet you also feel awkward when you do try to apply enough strength, but the other person has a stronger than average handshake, which makes you wonder if your two hands would implode if you apply the same or more strength as the other person does.
Hah, that's exactly it. Whenever anyone applies more pressure than needed I normally just try to tense my hand, i.e. immovable object meeting the unstoppable force. I think that might prompt them to squeeze harder, though.
I'm an avid backcountry skier myself, and currently reading a book about avalanches by one of the leading experts in the field. He had a table in the book that considered 100 day seasons, and a 95% stability of snowpack (all avalanche slopes are safe 95% of the time, all the time, roughly and on average). That means a person with no knowledge is 95% safe, someone with perfect knowledge is 99.99% safe (I think that was the number he used).
The survivability rate ranged from 2 years (or was it even 2 months?) for those without knowledge, to 100 years.
Avalanches are scary. The mountains are scary. And yet there's no place I feel more at home. I wish I could do this more often, but right now I can't. In any case, I respect nature and want to learn as much about it as I can.
The book is called Surviving in Avalanche Terrain by Bruce Tremper, he's involved with an avalanche safety center in Utah (I believe he's the director there, but don't know for sure - book not at hand). It's an absolute must-read if you want to get your feet back on the ground and learn about the mountains. I'm learning a ton and enjoying the process.
12 years of experience as a software engineer, 9 of those working remotely at companies such as Heroku (Salesforce) and Clearbit (acquired by HubSpot).