LAC-Tech

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by LAC-Tech 5y ago
Opposite happened for me. I find I'm more ambitious and a harder negotiator than most of the people I meet from middle class backgrounds.
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by LAC-Tech 5y ago
Ah we posted this at almost the same time :) I'm glad I didn't read that book when I was still "poor", it's so relatable and hits hard. I recommend it for anyone kind of wondering (he's not exactly kind to the
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by LAC-Tech 5y ago
"The Road to Wigan Pier" had a great bit about this, which hits the nail on the head based on my experience being working class: The basis of their diet, therefore, is white bread and margarine, corned beef, sugared tea and potat
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by LAC-Tech 5y ago
> Do others greet every single person they see in the building? Yes I always did. Would get into some long chats with one of the cleaning ladies actually. And if someone came into my office to do maintenance on the aircon unit I'd o
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by LAC-Tech 5y ago
I really like the Go "philosophy" - I really enjoy tools made with Go like Micro and Caddy, and a statically compiled binary as a deployment unit does sound convenient. I don't relish the thought of going back to loops though
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by LAC-Tech 5y ago
> I've been kicking around the idea of writing a CRDT-based editor using this model. Have you investigated OT at all? I'm not sure CRDTs are a great fit for complicated datatypes like an editor, and their strong convergence pro
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by LAC-Tech 5y ago
The work was almost nothing, just a GET request for 'hello world'. I tried 10, 100 and 1000 concurrent connections.
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by LAC-Tech 5y ago
I'm hoping ruby gets a bit of a resurgence. It's really not as slow as it used to be (ran some benchmarks recently, and ruby/roda was pretty much on par with node.js/express with multiple processes). The Actor model look
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by LAC-Tech 5y ago
I'm in a pretty small niche (agtech), which I think definitely helps me standout from other devs.
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by LAC-Tech 5y ago
I'm a remote contractor, and my policy is to essentially work my clients time zone. Right now I'm 11am-7pm (I'm in NZ, they're mostly in Sydney, Australia). For a while my team was all in Malaysia, so I did 2pm-10pm. Hel
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by LAC-Tech 6y ago
I'm somewhat in agreement. There are a lot of people in 2021 who - for whatever reason - feel like they need to program personal computers without using GC. As you point history shows that's a lot less true than people think, but
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by LAC-Tech 6y ago
Do you think there's tension in Dlang trying be both a systems language like C++ AND a high level garbage collected language in C#? Which is more important?
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by LAC-Tech 6y ago
For me this makes Dlang a very obvious choice when it comes to code that calls C libraries, where I might have previously used C++.
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by LAC-Tech 6y ago
Really enjoyed this article. Fascinating to see the resistance to testing back when he started, and how he used a bit of clever marketing to change the way people thought about it. Interesting that he's very happy with expect(expec
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by LAC-Tech 6y ago
There's a big difference between knowing the country of origin, and knowing the whole journey of the product, right from the farm.
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by LAC-Tech 6y ago
In an honest world, yes. Blockchain prevents people tampering or revising the data, ie removing unflattering stuff like the refrigeration being turned off on their container, or stuff being sent to a third port, etc. There's a lot of
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by LAC-Tech 6y ago
Remember the blockchain hype? Well it turns out it's actually incredibly practical for food traceability and provenance. Governments around the world are starting to demand transparency around this, and in the near future it will be co
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by LAC-Tech 6y ago
I've been making software for the agricultural industry for 5 years, and I'm really not sure what to make of this. The big problem agtech has isn't that we don't have enough "open-source agtech initiatives". Th