icedchai

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   by icedchai 4y ago

   It is foreign to me, for sure. I have been experimenting with FPGA-based retro systems for years (started with a MIST.) I still consider them "emulators."
2. 2972.▲
   by icedchai 4y ago

   Rust is too painful for hobby projects, IMO. Over the years, I've worked in C, C++, Go, Perl, Python, PHP, Java, Scala, JS, Tcl, ... others I've forgotten, most professionally and well as for personal projects.
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   by icedchai 4y ago

   There are VPS providers out there (like Vultr) that offer BGP. You can either use the IPs on their cloud instances, or tunnel IPs back to your home network, etc.
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   by icedchai 4y ago

   That stuff is just to scare you. In 25+ years, I've never NOT moonlighted. I did get a "talking to" by a VP once, earlier in my career, about having too many "outside business activities." His concerns were promptly
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   by icedchai 4y ago

   Well, Twitter has 7500 employees and Coinbase seems to have a more complex product.
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   by icedchai 4y ago

   They're charging him for a product he's not using, so all I'm saying is if they won't take care of it, complain to the credit card company. I don't care what plan he picked... he's not using it.
7. 2977.▲
   by icedchai 4y ago

   This is easy to fix. Call your credit card company and tell them you canceled, and the company refuses to refund you. Don't mention anything about the "terms of service", just say you were ripped off.
8. 2978.▲
   by icedchai 4y ago

   Scala has the opposite problem: too much complexity. I was on a Scala project in early 2011. I'm sure it's improved now.
9. 2979.▲
   by icedchai 4y ago

   Coincidentally, I was also evaluating various go web frameworks, and also decided on Echo.
10. 2980.▲
    by icedchai 4y ago

    In my experience, good local development environments are relatively rare. We had them at a couple of small <10 person B2B, SaaS startups I was involved with. In larger companies, there were just too many pieces to run everything locally
11. 2981.▲
    by icedchai 4y ago

    For every company that has this problem, another several never made it far enough for it to matter.
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    by icedchai 4y ago

    You could. I remember doing it (on my Apple IIc, right around 1988-89!)
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    by icedchai 4y ago

    I was a big BBS user (and sysop) from roughly 1988 to 1997 or so. zmodem was much, much faster.
14. 2984.▲
    by icedchai 4y ago

    Same. I think my skills may have regressed because they were working with legacy tech. I did get to go to a ton of zoom meetings, though.
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    by icedchai 4y ago

    This brings back memories of my ISP days. I haven't worked with T1s in almost 25 years. Point-to-point T1's, frame relay, 56K dedicated lines, even ISDN. That was all fun stuff.
16. 2986.▲
    by icedchai 4y ago

    In this area, business cable uses the exact same infrastructure as residential. I pay about $150/month for 300/30. Hoping to move to fiber soon.
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    by icedchai 4y ago

    This is impossible to guarantee. The company may need to raise more money, likely through equity, not debt. To issue more equity, they will need to issue more shares. That is just how it works.
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    by icedchai 4y ago

    It’s very common in poorly engineered SPAs. “Built in” browser functionality often has to be reimplemented.
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    by icedchai 4y ago

    Yep. I own both UBER and LYFT stock. They have been some of my worst investments.
20. 2990.▲
    by icedchai 4y ago

    Legality also depends on the jurisdiction. However, to pretend that Uber is now not a taxi company is difficult to comprehend. The original name was UberCab. The intent is clear.
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    by icedchai 4y ago

    XSLT was a fad for a couple years in the late 90's through early 2000's. I briefly worked at a company that used XSLT as part of a content management system. It wasn't good then, and I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot
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    by icedchai 4y ago

    Maven is widely used with Java projects. It was never a general purpose make alternative.
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    by icedchai 4y ago

    If your estimates are too crazy, you are forced to break them down into smaller tasks. This means lots of meetings. I think most engineers would rather have a bad estimate and "face the consequences" (generally not much), rather t
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    by icedchai 4y ago

    Hah! I wish someone like you had been on my last team. I was always thinking this exact thing. Unfortunately, the last manager was a true agile professional, and would keep the Zoom call running until we all contributed something to the
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    by icedchai 4y ago

    As for #1, estimates are usually wrong, because people are often extremely optimistic. And requirements are often incredibly vague. To expect to meet 100% of your "sprint goals" is unreasonable. It's not cynicism, it's
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    by icedchai 4y ago

    I worked at a place where the managers did everything they could to close out all the points by end of sprint, no matter what. A co-worker is taking longer than expected, says there is no way he'll be done in couple of days... so we c
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    by icedchai 4y ago

    I've been in software development for just over 25 years. "Scrum" didn't start becoming a major thing until 2010-ish. Since that time, I could count the number of useful "retros" on one hand. It is almost alwa
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    by icedchai 4y ago

    Same. It was also obviously not working for at least 18 to 24 months before the failure. In the most recent case, the founder was stubborn, wouldn't pivot, kept trying to put lipstick on a pig. The technology worked, the business model
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    by icedchai 4y ago

    You are right, but there's always folks pushing for a "better" framework, even if the same old boring stuff works. If one of them is fairly vocal and a little bit persuasive, a new project will start using it... on and on it
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    by icedchai 4y ago

    I think all companies are having problems recruiting in the current environment. FB for a myriad of reasons.