AtticusTheGreat

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by AtticusTheGreat 4mo ago
Currently fleshing out my boggle-like empire. serpentinegame.com. I've got ELO rated rooms, a daily room, and a new infinite room. I've been doing this since 2008 but recently rewrote everything from scratch and seeing how far I c
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by AtticusTheGreat 5mo ago
I built on online multiplayer boggle game back in 2008 that somehow drew a lot of users, many of whom still play every day after 17 years. About a year ago I started a rewrite from scratch in more modern technologies but stalled out after g
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by AtticusTheGreat 2y ago
https://SerpentineGame.com brings in close to that with advertisements and premium subscriptions. It is a clone of a game called Tangleword that is itself a clone of Boggle. I originally wrote it in 2008 and am currently re-wr
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by AtticusTheGreat 7y ago
Whenever this kind of disagreement happens with my team, we put it to a vote and then the winning convention is enforced across the codebase from then on. There are tons of things in programming that come down to opinion but the important
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by AtticusTheGreat 7y ago
In the old days the user would submit the form, the validation would happen on the server, then return a result. If the result was a failure, you would render the errors on a new page load. If the result was a success, you could redirect
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by AtticusTheGreat 9y ago
I did try Firefox 57 on my Android phone and found the scrolling to be unpleasant with lots of artifacts and stuttering. It's still a much better experience with the mobile version of Chrome.
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by AtticusTheGreat 9y ago
It would be interesting to try to cobble together a Linux distribution with a rust userland, using coreutils ( https://github.com/uutils/coreutils ) and over time building more and more of the userland/interface in
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by AtticusTheGreat 9y ago
I only skimmed the article but I agree with the conclusion. I evaluated both HAProxy and Nginx for a high-volume/low-latency load balancer cluster (500k requests/s) and HAProxy simply beat the pants off of Nginx. It has an exten
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by AtticusTheGreat 9y ago
I've got two NUCs, which I use as HTPCs running Fedora. They're fantastic machines. Really tiny, quiet, and plenty powerful enough for HD movies and light gaming/emulation.
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by AtticusTheGreat 9y ago
The thing is, all of these details are implemented in the git command line tool, not in a library. So it is pretty difficult to write a tool that works exactly the same way the command line tool does, or if you do manage to do it, it'
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by AtticusTheGreat 9y ago
This is exactly my stance on the matter. Don't litter the code with unnecessary comments that will never get acted upon. Instead, make a story in your bug tracker and act upon it.
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by AtticusTheGreat 9y ago
Getting 60TB of usable space in the cloud is pretty expensive. Honestly I have no idea why he needs so much space, but if he does need it all, he probably didn't make out too badly. One of the main benefits of the cloud, though, is t
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by AtticusTheGreat 9y ago
Such as?
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by AtticusTheGreat 9y ago
As someone who applauds this pivot, I never saw much value in the whole convergence idea. Why would I want my laptop and phone to be the same device? This seems to follow the misguided idea in software that if two ideas are similar, just
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by AtticusTheGreat 10y ago
I know you probably meant "gold standard" but I was amused thinking about what a golf standard might mean ;)
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by AtticusTheGreat 10y ago
I don't have much ideology behind going with microservices vs. monolith, but what we've done on some recent projects is organize our code into modules that only communicate with each other through a narrow and well defined boundar
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by AtticusTheGreat 10y ago
Yeah absolutely. I'd love a free online solution from the government as it would make my life easier. So far, I haven't been willing to pay out to Intuit or HRBlock for a slight time/convenience savings.
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by AtticusTheGreat 10y ago
I file my taxes for free, easily, by printing out the forms at home and doing them by hand on paper. The only cost to me is for the envelopes and postage. I've done some pretty complex filings over the years, and have built up the kn
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by AtticusTheGreat 10y ago
The person responsible for this makes his money on craigslist, probably buying and selling old appliances. So he probably has a lot to gain by getting people to buy old "better" appliances off of craigslist than the "terribl
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by AtticusTheGreat 10y ago
I was going to mention this as well. It is worth making it clear that the article is written by a SF staffing company (which the article does do).
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by AtticusTheGreat 10y ago
I just put up a list here: https://statusbeacon.io/service-list
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by AtticusTheGreat 10y ago
Hey, currently no I don't have that list in a public place. So far I have 43 services integrated, and most of those are fairly big ones like Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, etc. I was thinking about making the list available on the landing
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by AtticusTheGreat 10y ago
I just recently launched a statuspage aggregator at https://statusbeacon.io which has been pretty cool to work on. I've also got an online multiplayer boggle game that has made me low 3 digits per month since about 2008, h
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by AtticusTheGreat 10y ago
Hey all, just to give some context, this is a side project I've been working on for about a month and a half. I've gotten it to a pretty good place, it's past MVP stage but definitely still needs polishing. With over 40 sta
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Show HN: StatusBeacon – A status page aggregator with notifications(statusbeacon.io)
6 points by AtticusTheGreat 10y ago|1 comments
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by AtticusTheGreat 10y ago
Hmm this blog post says it is available but there seems to be no way to get to it and it is not showing up in the console.
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by AtticusTheGreat 10y ago
As someone who has had to shop around and try out a bunch of continuous integration services (Travis, CircleCI, Snap, Solano, to name a few), this looks pretty interesting! We've stayed away from managing our own CI infrastructure but
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by AtticusTheGreat 10y ago
I've been using Vue.js for a new project and it is a breath of fresh air after using React. It has all the benefits of Knockoutjs (which was my gateway into these types of frameworks), but much nicer in-code organization (I'm loo
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by AtticusTheGreat 10y ago
There is definitely a lot to like about Homebrew (it's better than macports), but like others have said, when stuff goes wrong you can end up spending an entire day googling, only to end up going down a rabbit hole of archaic and often
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by AtticusTheGreat 10y ago
As someone who works with a fairly large EC2 infrastructure, I find the move towards EBS-only instance types somewhat alarming. For me, the main draw of EBS is to ensure data is retained in the case of instance failure, but it comes with s

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