druidgreeneyes

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   by druidgreeneyes 7y ago

   I'm early in my career, but something that I did recently that seemed to have an impact was to encourage people, both tech and non-tech, to voice what they actually want, regardless of whether that thing seemed possible, and to then wo
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   by druidgreeneyes 7y ago

   - treat steps of the process as functions that return data, instead of jobs that return at most success/fail, then provide me with ways to harness, manipulate, track, and display that data. (And a documented structure by which I can de
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   by druidgreeneyes 9y ago

   There are a couple that come to mind that satisfy that criteria; Midnight Club and its sequels, or the (admittedly not at all focussed on realism) Burnout series, both are/were fairly mainstream during their time and featured racing th
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   by druidgreeneyes 9y ago

   That happened to me: dealership mechanic offered to charge us $500 to diagnose (not fix, just diagnose) a problem, so we left and went somewhere else. But, that idea ignores a fundamental problem with expert-based markets; it's impossi
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   by druidgreeneyes 9y ago

   Can't speak for anybody else, but I know -I- hammer at my laptop keyboard because the keyboard is terrible and if I ease off it will sporadically fail to detect keypresses. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that this is the case fo
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   by druidgreeneyes 10y ago

   Hi all; first language was Common Lisp, and I've worked with Java, C#, F#, Scala, Python, and Clojure. Experience with Spark/Hadoop and AWS. Interested in new languages, (Haskell, Rust, Go?) new ideas, (Pachyderm, Docker, GPU Proc