honkycat

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by honkycat 3y ago
>Docker and Electron are the most hyped new technologies of the last five years. Both are not about improving things, figuring out complexity or reducing it If you can't figure out docker and how it simplifies things, you aren'
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by honkycat 3y ago
IMO the main thing is the bleed between "pixels" in retro games. I recently bought a "Metal Slug" art book, and was AGHAST that all of the assets in the art-book were obvious screen caps from an emulator. The assets look
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by honkycat 3y ago
What can you even say at this point? Absolutely shameful. Clearly decriminalization is the correct thing to do here. Adults should be able to do what they want. ( Within reason, clearly fent should not be publicly available. ) Zero connecti
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by honkycat 3y ago
I've always hated this article and the "boring programmer" shtick. I've always found the "boring programmer" thing pretentiousness trying to disguise itself as humility.
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by honkycat 3y ago
I just got laid off from somewhere else. They didn't even cover healthcare for the rest of the month. Barely any severance. Has anyone else gotten laid off? How is the market out there? I have 12 years of experience and am not a slouch
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by honkycat 3y ago
Some fruit freezes really well and is very snack-able.
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by honkycat 3y ago
What does this mean for people who are currently working for Splunk? Are acquisitions often followed by layoffs? In my head, layoffs tend to happen BEFORE acquisitions.
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by honkycat 3y ago
Same I can float my mortgage for literally years
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by honkycat 3y ago
I JUST got laid off, more than 10 years of experience, have been busy the whole time so i have good chops and a great resume. I'm kinda sick of the boom and bust and grind. Don't really know where to go next, I don't see that
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by honkycat 3y ago
it lets me create a load balancer in front of multiple database instances without having to do a bunch of application-level BS additionally with microservices, managing connection pooling can be difficult across legacy software, service ver
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by honkycat 3y ago
I'm willing to bet you're one of the people that doesn't believe we are hurdling towards a mass extinction event even while the oceans are boiling. Once the mass famines start, I will be starkly in the "the costs are gre
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by honkycat 3y ago
Pretty sure Pulumi is going to get slapped by this as well
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by honkycat 3y ago
You know that weird kid in your class? That kid would have an ASD diagnosis these days.
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by honkycat 3y ago
we grew up in a less prosperous time than our parents and grandparents so our parents didn't have any time to raise us and were constantly economically terrorized. I will also ALWAYS point out that our parents could go to bars at 18 an
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by honkycat 3y ago
I've been saying for years we are one "future technology" away from savings our asses from our world collapsing. Here is hoping this is that breakthrough.
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by honkycat 3y ago
Merit isn't enough. I went to a po-dunk school in rural Missouri. I would never be able to I compete with kids from a rich Chicago/NY school. In the same way a black kid from a poor inner city wouldn't be able to. This is par
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by honkycat 3y ago
microsoft sculpt keyboard
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by honkycat 3y ago
i killed my RSI that I had for YEARS by seriously over-hauling my workspace. I also went to occupational therapists who helped me figure out what I was doing wrong and how to fix it. I use a moonlander split keyboard so my shoulders are pro
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by honkycat 3y ago
Agreed. "I hate frameworks, so I rolled my own shittier framework" To be fair this is from 2005 so frameworks were less composition based. But yeah, HN has been full of noobs for a while. In both a technical and epistemological se
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by honkycat 3y ago
NO! ( No no no nooo noooOooo noooOooOoooo )
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by honkycat 3y ago
Now do marijuana legalization!
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by honkycat 3y ago
Because many of our laws don't make sense when you view them from the lens of "for the good of everyone." Why would legislatures pass a law that has the potential to be both unpopular AND bite the hand that feeds them? Who wa
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by honkycat 3y ago
I would love to go camping. I have some friends who are going over the 4th of July weekend. I was like: "WOW! How did you get a camp site??" "Oh, we reserved it... in December" Fucking WILD that these camp sites are sell
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by honkycat 3y ago
Nobody wants to accept liability if a fire gets out of control. If it happens naturally, it's nobody's fault. If it happens because the state is doing a controlled burn, the state foots the bill. Take a look at how many of the wil
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by honkycat 3y ago
Agreed. I was "the programmer" among my friend group who are mostly programmers. I still find it fun to work on something novel but I am not nearly as passionate as I used to be. Now I find music more fun.
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by honkycat 3y ago
Managing your attitude and stress levels is critical in the tech industry. I would argue getting invested is actively bad. Not giving a shit and getting the job done is better than caring too much and constantly battling to "improve&qu
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by honkycat 3y ago
What if instead of using a bunch of features bolted onto a shitty scripting language, we just used a real language like Python? I've read enough hacked-together bash BS to just despise the language.
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by honkycat 3y ago
I think he was trying to show empathy that the work in porting the game was not "fun game-design-y" work, which I would absolutely agree with. I doubt the dev got into game development so he could mess with console APIs and squash
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by honkycat 3y ago
In PDX there is "Portland Indie Game Squad" and they actually do this. Also in PDX: Retro Game Bar, Ground Kontrol, Quarterworld... there are others that host fighting game tournaments etc... Unfortunately, it just doesn't ma
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by honkycat 3y ago
I was one of those kids who LOVED video games, and I went to school to learn how to make them. Thankfully, I listened to my parents, and got a degree in Computer Science instead of a game focused major. I tried for a long time time do the i

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