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by glonq 3y ago
I documented the architecture of my previous project using C4. It worked well, especially because they had templates available for draw.io which is my preferred tool for diagrams. And I agree that having way more C4 examples of real-world
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by glonq 3y ago
Ugh; that original joystick was not comfy to use. If this uses a standard connector I'd try find an old Wico or similar. Website says "joystick with serial port connector". Do they mean the original DE-9 connector, or is th
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by glonq 3y ago
I missed the boat on those paid online services because my family was not in a position to pay $X per month for such a thing. Even scrounging up for my 8-bit Atari and 300bps modem was tough. So I cut my teeth on people's little basem
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by glonq 3y ago
How's availability on these? We abandoned ST32 a year or two ago during the shortage and selected the GigaDevice GD32 instead.
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by glonq 3y ago
> Anyone complaining about STCube has never used anything worse. I would like to cast a vote for IAR Embedded Workbench being worse.
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by glonq 3y ago
I regret completely missing the boat on Delphi. I used Turbo Pascal 3 thru 6, but after college migrated towards C/C++ and never had reason to use Delphi professionally or personally.
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by glonq 3y ago
I used to develop smart parking meters, and we used thermal printers in those. You can get paper that tolerates high-temperature environments like the dashboard of a car on a hot sunny day.
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by glonq 3y ago
My disdain for agile comes from being a developer more than from being a development manager. I get how and why it sometimes works, but the whole cult of agile is a bit much.
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by glonq 3y ago
It is not particularly safe. My boss has several positive attributes, but emotional intelligence is not one of them.
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by glonq 3y ago
I can think of several facetious questions to which "Agile" is the answer /s But on a serious note, like it or not Agile is sometimes the answer.
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by glonq 3y ago
I've managed small-to-medium teams for a very long time. Agile is very often not the answer, because on a small team you don't have all of the people and roles necessary to do agile "right". I tend to just do Kanban w
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by glonq 3y ago
How timely. My boss just crucified a co-worker today in our meeting and I think something like this could help mend things. Yes, my boss never heard of " praise in public criticize in private ". Welcome to working with a hot-bl
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by glonq 3y ago
And of course the classic "you have re-invented TCP" ...which often happens when somebody creates a UDP-based protocol and then adds their own reliability and robustness on top of it ;)
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by glonq 3y ago
> A minimum security baseline for enterprise-ready products and services Sure, although minimum viable and enterprise-ready seems like an oxymoron to me. Step one: define MVP. Step two: add minimum enterprise security, minimum enter
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by glonq 3y ago
My favorite thing is stumbling upon a piece of project documentation, exclaiming "who the hell wrote this crap?" , then discovering that it was me.
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by glonq 3y ago
I block on PC, but on phone and TV I'm stuck with their damn ads.
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by glonq 3y ago
My first awareness of Debian was in a surplus electronics store in Rohnert Park California. A kid who bore a striking resemblance to Martin Short's Ed Grimley character from SCTV brought a fat stack of floppy disks to the check-out an
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by glonq 3y ago
Sorry but without Johnny Cash or Willie Nelson onboard, I still don't think cDc counts as a supergroup.
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by glonq 3y ago
Okay, starting early to fit harvest break makes sense. thx; TIL!
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by glonq 3y ago
I've lived & worked in both countries. Like in many other things, the US is a country of extremes. At its best, the US health system is better than Canada's. At its worst, it's worse. So it's pretty much down to wh
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by glonq 3y ago
Well thankfully in my case, cancer treatment in Canada has been both free and quite competent. But for lesser things, you might linger for an intolerable amount of time waiting for care. I recall getting good, quick care when I worked in t
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by glonq 3y ago
"free", but you often get what you pay for. source: am canadian.
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by glonq 3y ago
I'm happy with jogging and walking every day, especially because I can reap the mental health benefits that better physical health brings.
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by glonq 3y ago
> On a sidenote am I imagining things or do videos actually look a tiny bit better in YouTube? I'm not [ADVERTISEMENT] sure, because my YouTube viewing [ADVERTISEMENT] experience nowadays is so [ADVERTISEMENT] [ADVERTISEMENT] freque
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by glonq 3y ago
> Namco released the Class of 1981 Reunion cabinet, featuring the two 1981 hits Ms. Pac-Man and Galaga, which were both definitely created solely by Namco. I think General Computer Corporation deserves much of the credit for Ms. Pac Man,
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by glonq 3y ago
I used to work in the transit industry. I can describe the problem and the solution with enough paper and a couple hours. But to actually perform route scheduling, we used a whole bunch of iron @ AWS.
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by glonq 3y ago
I did a brief stint in the transit industry, working on very large scale bus route scheduling & optimization. It's a tough problem to solve, but manageable as long as you don't do something silly like drastically cut the num
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by glonq 3y ago
The real crime here is kids going back to school in the middle of August. I thought that school was supposed to start in September. Why so early?
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by glonq 3y ago
I love seeing that oldschool hacker groups like cDc are still active! ...but what makes them the "original supergroup"? L0pht predates them by a couple years; were they not "super" enough?
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by glonq 3y ago
Quake 2 was surprisingly playable online even with late-1990s-era ping times. I played the hell out of the LMCTF mod back in the old days. Great times.

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