jcadam

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by jcadam 6y ago
I only ever use sequence diagrams, mostly to put on presentation slides :) Class diagrams are a waste of time and they go stale quickly. Nobody updates them once the development tempo starts picking up.
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by jcadam 6y ago
I remember spending way too much time generating UML class diagrams in Rational ROSE for an Ada project which was definitely not built using OOD/OOP (It was an older code base we were porting from SPARC/Solaris to RHEL/x64).
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by jcadam 6y ago
wouldn't that break the spoon?
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by jcadam 6y ago
After the XServe, I wouldn't touch Apple servers with a 10 foot pole.
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by jcadam 6y ago
The first is the big one for me: Work on things you care about. If I'm engaged with a project because it's intellectually stimulating and/or just plain "cool", I'm going to be 10x more productive working remote
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by jcadam 6y ago
My one experience programming for a Z80 based SBC was an industrial controller we used as the onboard computer for a high altitude balloon. A mix of C and asm. Wrote the code on a PC connected to the board through the RS-232 port. Was one
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by jcadam 6y ago
Put down a deposit for service up in Alaska near Kenai. They're estimating early 2022 at the moment. Might be stuck on one of the GEO sat providers until then.
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by jcadam 6y ago
Glad I already got my 2021 F-150. There are lots in MI full of completed trucks awaiting chips. And looks like they're already planning temporary layoffs[1]: 1. https://www.yahoo.com/news/ford-extends-shutdown-st
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by jcadam 6y ago
This is one of those instances where it is fortunate I have a common name. The top results if you google my name is some 18th century scottish architect. Hell, there's even another software engineer with the same name in the UK who a
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by jcadam 6y ago
If my layman's reading of the affero license is accurate (ha!), I think it only affects you if you run minio with (your) custom modifications, in which case you would have to make the source of your custom minio fork available. It sho
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by jcadam 6y ago
The rationale for doing this escapes me. Is minio concerned about one or more cloud providers forking minio and then going closed source with their modifications? I generally only run minio from the official docker image, so I don't r
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by jcadam 6y ago
I think part of your issue is there's a lot of interest in QC (given the hype) on the part of "ordinary" computer scientists (I include myself here) who don't have the background in physics to really understand how it wo
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by jcadam 6y ago
I suppose there's always a (very) small chance that we're making a civilization-ending mistake with this new vaccine :) On the flip-side, while COVID can cause serious illness (and death), with a survival rate north of 99%, there&
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by jcadam 6y ago
There are people (not so much on HN, but definitely other places on the net) openly advocating for forced vaccinations and/or completely shunning the unvaccinated from society (to include employment). Oh, I'm with you on this, but
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by jcadam 6y ago
Just sold a house in FL I bought in 2019. Realized I made a mistake in buying it - luckily the absolutely insane housing market right now in FL allowed me to get out without losing my shirt.
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by jcadam 6y ago
Still? Good to know :) Last time I went through Frankfurt was back in '06.
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by jcadam 6y ago
Nice. Wish I'd known about this months ago :)
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by jcadam 6y ago
It's Google. They'll probably come up with a completely new programming language which they'll force on the community in some ham fisted way, then suddenly drop it in a few years when they can't figure out a way to mass
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by jcadam 6y ago
We're using Kotlin with Spring at the moment and everyone on the team prefers it over Java. I suggested Kotlin when they laughed at my suggestion of using Clojure. Ah well.
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by jcadam 6y ago
I think Kotlin is pretty much what a modernized Java should be. Between it and Clojure I don't spend very much time with Java anymore.
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by jcadam 6y ago
I held a work-study job while doing my BS working on a NASA Space Grant funded project. I got to program the flight computer for a high altitude research balloon and even participated in flying it (it flew several experiments - those were
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by jcadam 6y ago
Yes, especially when you know its time to abandon a project because it's not getting any traction - after you've been telling everyone about it for months. Should keep in mind nobody else is going to think much about your failed
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by jcadam 6y ago
Compensation is purely driven by supply and demand. I suppose you're right and that there are plenty of programming jobs that don't require a degree in Computer Science, but there are still jobs where you definitely do want cand
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by jcadam 6y ago
Thoughts: 1. Again, there's no shortage of tech talent in the US. This is about keeping a lid on salaries. 2. Biden owes SV big time, so this makes sense. 3. With the widespread move to remote work (particularly for tech workers), wil
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by jcadam 6y ago
Yea. I only have an edgerouter 4 as far as Ubiquiti equipment goes. It works great for its intended purpose (I needed a dual WAN router and consumer level gear generally doesn't do that). I was eyeing their WAPs, but I believe I&#x2
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by jcadam 6y ago
Used to work for an employer that was obsessed with its glassdoor rating. Negative reviews of the company were drowned out with tons of identical-sounding glowing reviews that I'm pretty sure were written by interns. We were actually
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by jcadam 6y ago
Back in the good 'ol days of the 1990s, if you left your computer unlocked you were liable to return to your desk and find somebody replaced your desktop wallpaper with something... pornographic and/or you sent an email to your bo
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by jcadam 6y ago
I don't normally read the Washington Post, but this old article [1] has one memorable quote from Ben Rhodes (whom I also don't like overly much, but that doesn't matter in this case), and I can fully believe what he is saying
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by jcadam 6y ago
I used Ada (first Ada95, later Ada2005) while working on the GPS program, before leaving aerospace and taking on work using Java. I found the Java type system to be horrendous in comparison. Much better employment potential, though...
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by jcadam 6y ago
A Linux phone will absolutely need something compatible with Apple CarPlay and/or Android auto. I assume most people are like me and prefer to use their phone's navigation apps rather than their car's built in navigation (wh

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