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by frompdx 6y ago
I self host my blog with WordPress. It's easy to use and works well enough. No real complaints other than the lack of vim bindings in the editor, although I imagine there is a plugin for that. There is a small twist to my hosting. I
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by frompdx 6y ago
> in that game you were also limited to a single bullet on the screen at a time. I think this mechanic works fine if the bullet moves faster to speed up the pace of the game. I'm also passing along some feedback when I made my own
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by frompdx 6y ago
Interesting idea. I like the minimalist approach. My feedback is the firing cool down period should be much shorter. As fast as the player can hit the space bar. The enemies should move faster as well. At the moment the game feels diff
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by frompdx 6y ago
I can relate to the author 100%. The on-boarding process just sounds absurd. I have been there. It was awful. I hated it. The worst that I experienced was a requirement that all new hires complete a training course for Splunk, the log a
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by frompdx 6y ago
Run something like PgBouncer in front of your postgres instance. https://www.pgbouncer.org/ For what it is worth, the popular postgres and mysql libraries for nodejs support connection pooling out of the box. Cloud functi
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by frompdx 6y ago
Honestly Postgres is probably my first choice for storing some dynamic JSON and I have used it for exactly that in the past. In particular, I used to to build a simple time series db for reporting on data from JSON payloads that the potent
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by frompdx 6y ago
For some reason I expected this to just interact with some form of http API. After digging into the source code I discovered the author is using etaoin. This is a really neat use of the etaoin library for selenium bindings in Clojure.
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by frompdx 6y ago
> and you got a good taste of what a college course is like. I did not take the AP chemistry exam and did not take any college level chemistry. I did take two years worth of AP English and earned college credits taking those exams. I a
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by frompdx 6y ago
I have a few: - Photography: I have been interested in photography since I was a teenager. I strictly shoot film in 35mm or medium format. I also process my own B&W film although I'm not set up for it at the moment. - Writing: I&
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by frompdx 6y ago
I think this is a neat idea and is very useful for any type of sales planning. This isn't so much growth advice as survival advice. You should read LinkedIn's terms of service very carefully to determine if your product is compl
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by frompdx 6y ago
Also happy with YNAB. I've used it for almost a year now. To be honest, I don't really budget down to the dollar like YNAB recommends. For example, a lot of stuff still ends up in the "stuff I forgot to budget for" bu
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by frompdx 6y ago
Overleaf.com uses websockets for collaborative LaTeX editing. I personally think making a nice git workflow for non-technical academic types who are stuck using LaTeX might have been better. Slack and probably any other chat app. A certain
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by frompdx 6y ago
I'm not a prolog or logic programming buff, but have you looked at something like Clojure's core.logic? https://github.com/clojure/core.logic
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by frompdx 6y ago
> * poor ecosystem of libraries - few gems, most other half-baked Specific to common lisp: I don't find the ecosystem to be poor but I notice that many are turned off by the look and feel of library landing pages which do feel dated
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by frompdx 6y ago
True, this can be awful if your org operates globally. This isn't a big deal in orgs that deal with a single region. However, I will say the worse part is that when things go wrong, you are first to get a call which can be very stres
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by frompdx 6y ago
I have always had mixed feelings about the advice in this article. I think there is some reasonable advice here, but for the most part I don't think anyone should use this as a reference for how they should conduct interviews. > ha
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by frompdx 6y ago
> It feels way more straightforward and less stressful than doing full stack work. It is when everything works! Kidding aside, one thing I like about DevOps work is that it doesn't get the same kind of scrutiny that other developmen
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by frompdx 6y ago
You could call me a serious amateur and I have done two very cheap set ups similar to what the article describes. First Setup: Windowless bathroom What I learned from this is that you need a really rock solid bench or counter to put your en
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by frompdx 6y ago
The title to this post caught my eye because I have always found it amusing that so many companies have a class of employees who have the job of dreaming up ways to squeeze more work out of employees. Or at least, that is how some people t
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by frompdx 6y ago
Thanks for sharing. This is a thought provoking article. I too have wanted to build something and would be happy if it covered something like my monthly rent. There are lot's of great side dish opportunities out there. Just look at
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by frompdx 7y ago
> who the hell could have predicted the world was going to shut down like this in 2015-2019 Market downturns tend to happen at semi-regular intervals. It's been 12 years since the last one. > People make it sound like they were
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by frompdx 7y ago
Ah it looks like you are correct. It used the NAPI. Per wikipedia: > In November 2013, citing the planned deprecation of NPAPI browser plug-ins by major browsers, Quake Live began to phase out its browser version and began migrating to
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by frompdx 7y ago
This prompted me to take a look at quakelive again. It's been years since I last played but I was hooked for a while. This might get me back into it.
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by frompdx 7y ago
This is great. Does anyone remember quakelive? Around 2010 it was playable in the browser via a browser plugin. Loved playing it on my macbook. I don't recall if the plugin was flash or a java applet but when support stopped for th
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by frompdx 7y ago
> painfully slow tooling On the topic of tooling, I found the tooling to be slow as well. However, a lot of my pain points were alleviated when I really embraced using the REPL for developing. Tools like figwheel make developing fairl
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by frompdx 7y ago
I use Common Lisp and Clojure(Script) for personal projects. Lisp can be a tough sell in a corporate setting, however, some large companies do use Lisp. To my knowledge both Walmart Labs and Cigna use ClojureScript for at least some of th
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by frompdx 7y ago
Not laid off, but in limbo. I accepted a new job at the end of February that was originally supposed to start on 3/30. Unfortunately, my start date is now up in the air due to logistical issues getting my hardware so I can start work