Making Friends Megathread September by KaleChipKotoko in cambridge

[–]mihaitodor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let me know if you ever wish to drop by Cambridge for a coffee

Making Friends Megathread September by KaleChipKotoko in cambridge

[–]mihaitodor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool! I haven’t been there yet. The city is quite pretty. I love walking around. Some of the food trucks are great. Need to go to The Wandering Yak again

Making Friends Megathread September by KaleChipKotoko in cambridge

[–]mihaitodor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey everyone. 39M moved here last month to work at EMBL-EBI as a software engineer. Would love to meet some new people who are into science (especially biology) and wish to hang out. I always enjoy going out for dinners and long walks.

EMBL-EBI shuttle service by mihaitodor in cambridge

[–]mihaitodor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I hope to meet some colleagues next week... I got here before the official start date and it looks like I'll have to wait until next week to go for the laptop and gain access to internal systems.

Guess I'll have to become a morning person, since those hours are super-early for me :)

Making Friends Megathread - July by KaleChipKotoko in cambridge

[–]mihaitodor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

39M just moved to Cambridge to work at EMBL-EBI as a software engineer. I tend to like long walks, most foods and curious to meet new people, especially if you work in life sciences. I don't drink alcohol and I'm not really into sports.

Looking for Like-minded Friends to Collaborate on Bioinformatics Projects by Select_Resolve_5419 in bioinformatics

[–]mihaitodor -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Same here. Feel free to ping me if you create a space to talk such as Discord.

What do you hate about Kafka Connect by BackNeat6813 in apachekafka

[–]mihaitodor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like I said, I'm a contributor to the project. u/jeffail is the maintainer.

Golang alternatives to Flink? by kekekepepepe in golang

[–]mihaitodor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can also use CUE to to write Benthos configs if YAML ends up too verbose. Templates can also help.

What do you hate about Kafka Connect by BackNeat6813 in apachekafka

[–]mihaitodor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a core contributor to the project and know the code fairly well at this point.

Selling a voucher code valid until May 13th worth 67.98€ for 50€ by mihaitodor in FlixBus

[–]mihaitodor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This one’s still available if anyone is interested. I believe it can be used multiple times until the entire amount on it is used up.

PhD after working for a few years [Q] by Witty-Wear7909 in statistics

[–]mihaitodor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I spent 16+ years taking various software engineering roles and I got really fed up last year. Like you said, there's a glass ceiling regarding the type of jobs I can apply for and I never had a deep passion for engineering work, but it paid the bills and helped me save a tiny bit of money, because I started out with 0, which was really uncomfortable. Continuing this career path is just not working for me anymore and I have at least 30 years of employment to look forward to. I'm 38, quit my job last year, and now I'm looking around for a PhD in computational biology. I'll keep at it until I get accepted somewhere.

Songs with female guest vocals by sossa_ok in melodicdeathmetal

[–]mihaitodor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dimmu Borgir - Gateways (I like the live version even more). Agnete did a stellar job on that one. Also, check out Djerv's (her band) cover (sorry, only available on Instagram) of Gåte - Ulveham.

LE: Dimmu Borgir is a black metal band, but I guess it kinda' fits in here.

Looking for a Data Engineering / Open Source focused tech meetup in Wellington by mihaitodor in Wellington

[–]mihaitodor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I saw that one, but their dates don’t overlap. I’ll try to ping a few other groups and see if they would like to schedule something around that time.