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   by bicx 3y ago

   So far, 100% through referrals from my past connections.
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   by bicx 3y ago

   I have a similar story. I’ve been self-employed for the last 6 months after 14 years of startups. Started out as an engineer in TN, and moved to SF a couple years ago where I got into management just in time to help with rounds of layoffs.
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   by bicx 3y ago

   braguette New word for the day.
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   by bicx 3y ago

   Honestly I am more and more in support of paying a bit more for software. If it’s not worth it to you, that’s okay. However, I don’t want to push indie product devs into a low pricing tier where they feel strangulated and that further devel
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   by bicx 3y ago

   There’s a lot of dead space in Arizona. I’m sitting in the middle of the Arizona desert right now.
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   by bicx 3y ago

   Using a rock to drive in a nail technically works. However, if you want to build a house in a reasonable amount of time, using a rock to drive your nails _is_ a broken approach if it can’t keep pace.
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   by bicx 3y ago

   Companies should never use words like "forever" when talking about recurring costs. If they hadn't made that statement, we wouldn't be here talking right now because it would be just another service bumping prices.
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   by bicx 3y ago

   It’s making a statement. AI commenting on the AI bubble.
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   by bicx 3y ago

   I’ve been living in Quartzsite, AZ, for the last 3 months, and we don’t even have a Walmart. The closest one is a 45-minute drive away.
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    by bicx 3y ago

    Hah, found this for the content of armstech.txt [Jane's Fighting Ships 1990-1991 (Specifications of Warships)]: ``` From: Janes Copyright <copyright@janes.com> To: "jason@textfiles.com" <jason@textfiles.com> Sende
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    by bicx 3y ago

    I liked Slashdot’s comment rating system. More expressive than a simple upvote or downvote.
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    by bicx 3y ago

    In perusing your articulate musings on the comparison of Go to the 'new Basic,' I find myself immersed in a rich tapestry of language and analogy. Your skill in drawing parallels between Basic's pioneering simplicity and Go&#
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    by bicx 3y ago

    I’m a bigger fan of the Rotring 600 myself. Fewer moving parts.
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    by bicx 3y ago

    Over here with my Pilot Vanishing Point that I use between sips of 30-year scotch. Oh wait, this is a $20 bottle of whiskey.
15. 225.▲
    by bicx 3y ago

    Just don’t do them all at the same time, and it should be pretty fun.
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    by bicx 3y ago

    I often suspect it’s the trace amounts of remaining THC that make higher doses of CBD a good time.
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    by bicx 3y ago

    For such a small project done while learning to code, it was probably a choice between stock/AI images like these, or no images at all. I think it looks fine, and ads some visual cues for what the activity actually is.
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    by bicx 3y ago

    There is a mentality where if a service becomes ubiquitous enough, it should be treated like a public utility. It’s not a particularly valid way of thinking, but common nonetheless.
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    by bicx 3y ago

    As someone who’s written a decent amount of Go, I have seen some reasonable codebases as well as some truly horrific Gang-of-Five-inspired codebases that confused the hell out of me. I think the OP is smart for wanting to find some good exa
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    by bicx 3y ago

    I have 800W of roof-mounted solar panels, and I just got two 200W Renogy "suitcase" panels. All of these feed a 400aH 12V battery bank. Summer energy generation was pretty solid, and I went a max of about 8 days using just the 800
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    by bicx 3y ago

    Some more Renogy solar panels, because I live off-grid in an RV. And then some Lectric e-bikes, to use up all that extra electricity.
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    by bicx 3y ago

    As a former middle manager, I would expect my career to disappear if engineers themselves disappeared. Simply implementing features wasn’t the bulk of my job. The bulk was coordinating humans, career development, orchestrating resources, an
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    by bicx 3y ago

    I used to set max line length on my projects to 120. However, I now live off-grid and primarily work from my 14” MBP. At this level, 80-100 really is the sweet spot, particularly with side-by-side or just a couple levels of sidebar.
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    by bicx 3y ago

    Definitely. I’ve used it on general input validation for many endpoints over the years.
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    by bicx 3y ago

    There is a strong case to be made that BEAM/OTP is a more natural fit for handling thousands or millions of web server requests. Django and Rails are definitely powerful frameworks, but there have been repeated and justified criticisms
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    by bicx 3y ago

    Should it?
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    by bicx 3y ago

    This post scares me because I see so much of myself in it. I can get really wrapped up in the building of a great product, deeply absorbed in the identity of being a craftsman, and grossed out by the “soulless” approach of quick-and-dirty M
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    by bicx 3y ago

    If you could ask God, then maybe there is an answer though. Play the game, Werner!
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    by bicx 3y ago

    Speaking as an American who grew up in the South, moved to San Francisco for a few years, left SF to travel with my wife and work remotely in an RV, and changed from Christian to athiest/agnostic later in life: I think a core problem i
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    by bicx 3y ago

    Yes, and it’s honestly more comfortable to share screens over Zoom than it is to try squeezing next to them at their desk in an office.