amuresan

34 karmaJoined November 13, 200944 submissions

Hello, my name's Adrian. More about me here: https://adimuresan.com/

Recent submissions

Ask HN: What are your thoughts on investing in tech?

The growth of tech in the past 6 months seems too high given the uncertainty of recent times (not having a working covid vaccine, the potential of a second wave, medium / long term consequences that are still propagating, etc).

1amuresan5y ago0

Ask HN: Pros and cons of working as a freelancer?

Let's do some freelancer mithbusting! Which of the following are true in your experience?

1. Exposure to a diverse set of work environments;

2. Exposure to a diverse set of technologies and domains;

3. Finding work when starting out is difficult;

4. Finding work becomes progressively easier;

5. You don't have time to get bored;

6. You have the freedom to work on other projects, including your own;

7. You can increase your hourly pay with every contract;

8. You learn how to negociate;

9. You mostly do menial / grunt work;

10. You will suffer / have suffered a penalty if you decide to stop freelancing and move into management / higher levels;

11. You need to constantly work on personal brand;

12. Companies don't hire contractors unless they have to;

13. Is it easier to find remote work?

2amuresan7y ago2

Ask HN: Software engineers earning = 200k€ in Europe, how did you get there?

Share your story. In more detail:

How did you get there? What is your field? How long have you been in it? What are you working on now? Where are you located?

4amuresan7y ago2

Chaos game (1988) (opens in new tab)

(mathworld.wolfram.com)

1amuresan7y ago0

Ask HN: Suggestions for low cost homebrew “HPC” beast?

Over the past few years I've been playing around with the idea of building large number crunching applications for fun and personal research. While the applications I had in mind aren't trivially parallel, they should map well to a parallel architecture.

There are generally two options for running a big parallel application: 1. going to a commercial provider, which is prohibitively expensive; 2. affiliation to a research lab, which is not the case for me and usually requires a research project for you to get compute time, no playing around with toy application.

I was wondering if anyone has experience with building a small homebrew number crunching machine on a budget. The best idea that I have so far is getting a few used server machines with decent GPUs.

11amuresan7y ago10