KyleGalvin

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by KyleGalvin 8y ago
I saw the title and thought "Hey, an old friend of mine would love this!" Then I opened it and realized it was him who had written it. Small world.
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by KyleGalvin 8y ago
A little tongue-in-cheek call out of the irony isn't necessarily an attack. Bullshit jobs are an interesting phenomenon and I enjoyed the article. I also chuckled at the parent comment. It doesn't have to be taken very seriously.
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by KyleGalvin 8y ago
That's an interesting thought. I didn't mean to suggest anyone code in WASM, but I think I see what you mean. I have experience embedding lua applications within mobile apps, and it required a fair deal of wiring in C to marshal b
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by KyleGalvin 8y ago
WASM will pave the way for other 'easier to write' languages to occupy the same space as JS. Rust is pushing heavy for native browser support and will likely be an early adopter in this space. It's only a matter of time until
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by KyleGalvin 8y ago
The quote at the end “don’t even consider microservices unless you have a system that’s too complex to manage as a monolith.” causes me to laugh. I have never fundamentally disagreed with a well-known domain expert as much as I have with Ma
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by KyleGalvin 8y ago
Not OP but I use feedly which has hackerNews as a source. Minimal digging and I found this third party HN feed provider: https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/
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by KyleGalvin 9y ago
At one point I had a makefile to build large latex documents. The use case was still essentially compilation, but it got me thinking outside the box with make which was neat.
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by KyleGalvin 9y ago
The extreme of the bottom end is couchsurfing.com which might chew into the niche you describe. There is still some room in the middle, but success isn't guaranteed in that sort of market.
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by KyleGalvin 9y ago
This is awesome. I did exactly this for a course project in 2012. While the travelling salesman problem code seems to have been refactored out, I have a C++ library for SOMs and hierarchical SOMs that are attatched to some openGL code that