jcadam

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by jcadam 6y ago
Yea, I'm a big fan of mithril.js, but I've moved over to React as my preferred framework primarily for this reason. The fact that the Clojurescript community has embraced it via reagent is a big factor as well.
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by jcadam 6y ago
Yep, I've seen more than a few job postings over the years stating some version of "Must hold a degree from a Top 10 school." Who would want to work with a bunch of elitist jerks, anyway?
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by jcadam 6y ago
GPU switching (NVIDIA Optimus and the like) seems to be a major headache to get working on Linux. My current laptop (XPS 13) only has an integrated GPU, so I ssh into a desktop for running CUDA stuff. But no, haven't tried WSL2, I&#x2
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by jcadam 6y ago
I switched from MacOS to Linux years ago. For a developer workstation these days I'd probably either go with Ubuntu LTS or Fedora (my personal choice). Either runs fine on my XPS 13. Note: I really wanted to like WSL, but it just did
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by jcadam 6y ago
I'm a Clojure fan but I'm not sure a modeling and simulation problem such as this is the best use case for it. Sure, you can do it, but it probably wouldn't be my first choice. Last I checked, Aerospace software is still do
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by jcadam 6y ago
Back when I worked on spacecraft simulation we used Ada, and we liked it (no, we didn't).
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by jcadam 6y ago
I agree. Not to mention tweeting seems to carry the highest risk of destroying your career and/or social life of pretty much any other online medium. It probably has something to do with the whole "casual communication" foc
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by jcadam 6y ago
As a "full-stack" developer who started out on the backend and took on front-end work later in my career, I used to build back-to-front. You generally end up with a cleaner, more scalable, and stable solution. That nobody wants.
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by jcadam 6y ago
Lol, no.
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by jcadam 6y ago
> I just hope COVID-19 spells the end of open offices Open offices are cheap. Re-configuring office space isn't cheap. So, no. Some places are probably still hot-desking.
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by jcadam 6y ago
I'd been looking for a remote job for a long time before this. Never could get one, I was frequently turned down because I lacked remote work experience. Now that I have remote work experience, everyone else does as well. So... no c
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by jcadam 6y ago
> and perhaps hivemind motor control) by a Central Overmind. I volunteer to be the Lead DevOps engineer who looks after the Central Overmind.
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by jcadam 6y ago
Xpra is kinda cool, gives you a more "persistent" experience with X forwarding.
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by jcadam 6y ago
Yea, X Forwarding works fine for home LAN usage, but when I'm away from the house I probably ought to find something better (more performant). Was thinking of setting up VNC, but will have to check out parsec (hadn't heard of it)
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by jcadam 6y ago
The XPS 13 I've found is pretty easy on the battery. However, I did opt for the 1080p screen. My understanding is that the 4k screen (which would be unreadable to my 40 year old eyes in any case) uses significantly more power.
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by jcadam 6y ago
Just built myself a home dev server based around a R9 3900X. Paired it with 64G of RAM, a 1TB NVMe and an RTX 2060, running CentOS 8. Whole build cost me a little under $1400. It sits, headless, in the corner of my office crunching away.
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by jcadam 6y ago
In some cases, depending on the library, writing a small Java class makes the interfacing easier.
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by jcadam 6y ago
Specifically for geospatial queries we found Oracle Spatial to be inferior to PostGIS (which is much more widely used). Regular relational queries seemed to be no worse (admittedly, our needs in a database were somewhat modest in that rega
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by jcadam 6y ago
I've been on a project where we were forced to migrate the opposite direction: From PostgreSQL to Oracle, because the client was already paying for Oracle licenses and really, really , wanted us to use Oracle to justify the expense. I
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by jcadam 6y ago
This is one of the few freely available online books I liked so much I actually purchased a print copy, even though I mostly used the online version while reading through it :)
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by jcadam 7y ago
The video appears that it was put together by the folks at The Daily Show. You really think they went looking for clips from the "other side?"
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by jcadam 7y ago
Politicians have survived worse.
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by jcadam 7y ago
Right. What I'm really hoping is that those of us who were going into an office to do a job that everyone involved fully well knew could be done from home (e.g., software dev) won't be forced back into close-quarters again just b
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by jcadam 7y ago
My industry (Defense contracting) is fairly immune to at least the immediate fallout from all this. If this turns into a longer general economic downturn, however... who knows? But my company is hiring right now (though, most of the jobs r
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by jcadam 7y ago
I have GERD (Gastroesophageal reflux disease) along with mild asthma, and NSAIDs are a big no-no for me. When I was in the Army, the docs handed out bottles of 800mg Ibuprofen tablets like candy for virtually any complaint - I took them be
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by jcadam 7y ago
...rag on a stick. I'm all stocked up on TP. And also boxed wine. So I'm good to go.
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by jcadam 7y ago
Also in the case of 4a it's hard to define "it works." Because it's hard to know to what degree any actions taken mitigated the severity of the pandemic.
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by jcadam 7y ago
Anyone who says there's a shortage of great software engineers is lying.
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by jcadam 7y ago
> not many US companies are encouraging or requiring their employees to work from home My company does not do WFH at all. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't want to be 100% WFH (when there isn't a deadly plague going around,
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by jcadam 7y ago
When I started learning/using Clojure, I didn't use the REPL much and kept on working in the traditional way: Write code, compile, test. Repeat until it works. It took some time to break my old habits and start using the REPL. It

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