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by daltont 4y ago
The 10x developer experience is to me a temporary one. It can exist if the problem being addressed is in my technical "wheelhouse" and their is no impedance caused by the development methodology.
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by daltont 4y ago
Right before seeing this, I was using a JavaFX application that I wrote to extract highlights from videos that I shot this past weekend for my daughter's volleyball team. I wanted tool where I can zoom in using the mouse wheel and have
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by daltont 5y ago
Born in December '66. The fear of nuclear holocaust was prevalent (The Day After, Threads, etc), but every thing else was pretty good and optimistic. The Ukraine invasion and instability of Russian leadership has brought the nuclear fe
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by daltont 5y ago
I'm 55 and that is my current retirement plan in ten years. I can't imagine going from working full-time to not working at all. Just got to get kids through college first.
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by daltont 5y ago
Modern refrigerators and washing appliance can be really flaky from software bugs. I've talk to others who have $3000 fancy stainless steel refrigerators and they seem vulnerable to weird and hard to diagnose problems.
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by daltont 5y ago
Funny, when the Wordle word was KNOLL, I guessed GNOLL first. Would have been a good for this.
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by daltont 5y ago
I have a Pi Zero W with an external SSD hooked up to my TV for playing back video files using Raspicast for Android.
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by daltont 5y ago
Stumbled upon this site recently, https://funwhileitlasted.net/ . It made me nostalgic for the days where there were sites dedicated to one fairly narrow subject. I this case it was defunct sports leagues and teams.
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by daltont 5y ago
I was really into Scala ten years ago, but felt that a "Scala--" might be more accessible to most devs and hurt Scala adoption. Lo and behold, we got Kotlin.
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by daltont 5y ago
I read "12 Seconds of Silence: How a Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon" recently. Never knew about the advantage it gave the Allies. James Van Allen as in the "Van Allen Belt" was part
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by daltont 5y ago
Similar concept: If one was tasked to move a 10-ton block, 1000 yards in 10 days. You can use brute force move it 100 yards a day for 10 days or spend 5 days inventing a way to move it 1000 yards in day and get it done in 6 days.
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by daltont 5y ago
The plutonium rock band "Disaster Area" for Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: "Their songs are on the whole very simple and mostly follow the familiar theme of boy-being meets girl-being beneath silvery moon, which then explod
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by daltont 5y ago
Having recently watched this video on Bonhoeffer‘s Theory of Stupidity, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww47bR86wSc , it seems that "stupidity" is a result of intellectual laziness. However, we only have so much m
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by daltont 5y ago
Fascinating side bit about the Mattel Football game is Mark Lesser's role in it and that he went to develop NHL '94 for the Sega Genesis.
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by daltont 5y ago
My interpretation of "impending doom" is being stuck specializing in niche and/or proprietary technologies that fall out of favor. Early in the 2000's I worked on Tandem Non-Stop systems. That was a "tar pit" I
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by daltont 5y ago
University of Missouri sports teams are in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Part of me wanted them in the Big-10 since I identify more as being from the northern mid-west. Got to follow the $$$.
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by daltont 5y ago
Not something on a scale of a project, but "bowling score" exercises are a lot more elegant in functional languages than more procedural ones due to things like pattern matching.
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by daltont 5y ago
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaters_of_the_Dead or the movie adaptation, "The 13th Warrior" ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120657/ )
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by daltont 5y ago
I'm an introvert and WFH all the time has made me borderline crazy, but it is sure nice not to have to drive to an office 30-minutes away when most days I could just starting working.