jcadam

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by jcadam 7y ago
Hey, the purpose of a computer is to consume electricity while running IA-mandated corporate policy enforcement and virus scanning software. That we provide users with monitors and input devices so that they can use any remaining spare CPU
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by jcadam 7y ago
Oh, I've fallen into this trap - not the technical debt so much as the getting so focused on building something cool that I ignore the business side of things (small things, such as, does anyone want this thing?). So in the end I wind
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by jcadam 7y ago
It's pretty demotivating to have "leaders" who ignore every technical expert in their organization jumping up and down, waving their arms, shouting "Don't buy that!" Happens all the time, though.
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by jcadam 7y ago
Yea, I went back to sessions (with Redis) as well. So much simpler, since all of the major web frameworks/libraries have much better support for traditional sessions than JWT... One place I still might use JWT is in service-to-service
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by jcadam 7y ago
There are few technologies I despise more than Spring. Well, maybe OSGi. Also, hibernate and JPA. I've lost so many hours of my life fighting those things. I try to stick to Clojure for most of my JVM-ing these days. Right now I&#x
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by jcadam 7y ago
How about be willing to hire experienced engineers who don't have remote experience? Every time I've applied for a remote job, this seems to have been the sticking point. I'd just like employers to start with the assumption
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by jcadam 7y ago
It's also sending a message to prospective employees to not take a job with Apple.
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by jcadam 7y ago
I sort of agree. GraphQL just seems like a solution for a small set of niche problems that's being promoted as a general REST replacement for any and all web APIs. Seems like we (as in, our industry) went through this before with ever
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by jcadam 7y ago
My 2018 Honda Clarity makes a really cheesy synthetic new-age sounding "hum" noise at low speed. I wish Honda would put out a software update to make the noise user-selectable. The intro to "The Final Countdown" in a co
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by jcadam 7y ago
I was at Clojure/conj this year and this was one of my favorite sessions of the conference. I really hope libraries like these catch on, because I hate dealing with Python.
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by jcadam 7y ago
The Powermac G3 and G4 towers were awesome. Just pull a lever and the side drops down. Everything is nice, neat, and accessible. The G5 towers were similarly functional and very nice as well, and the early Mac Pro towers were obviously b
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by jcadam 7y ago
As far as I know, the US Army still teaches land navigation using a paper map, protractor, pencil, and compass. At least they did when I was in (early 2000s). Getting caught with a GPS-capable device on the land nav course was considered c
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by jcadam 7y ago
We recently moved to a large-ish (but not huge) city and since I would be working downtown we looked at becoming urbanites (easy commute, can get rid of one of our cars, proximity to restaurants, shopping, things to do, etc.). Then we disco
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by jcadam 7y ago
I got a refurb XPS 13 9370 that still seems to be doing fine after a year (I run Fedora on it). I'd previously owned a latitude and while I thought it was a good machine, I wanted something lighter - the quad-core U-series CPUs finall
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by jcadam 7y ago
How would you define middle-age? 39 is roughly half of the current US life expectancy for a human male (~78). Barring a cure for aging coming along within the next few decades, I'm right about in the middle of my lifepsan.
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by jcadam 7y ago
When I started as a software engineer in the Aerospace industry, I was the "kid", one of the few young guys working amongst a large group of middle age (and up) engineers. Interestingly, there wasn't much in the way of mento
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by jcadam 7y ago
I agree. And I have an MBA. I work as a Software Engineer.
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by jcadam 7y ago
I like Cursive (and IntelliJ), but I switched to emacs/CIDER (with lsp for java development) mostly because of the licensing. I don't mind buying stuff for myself, but getting employers in my industry to cough up for development
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by jcadam 7y ago
These days, I wouldn't open source anything other than a small hobby project or utility library/app.
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by jcadam 7y ago
Huh, floppies have been gone that long? Back when I was doing my BSCS (1998-2002), we turned in our assignments in a folder containing a printed code listing and a 3.5" floppy disk - there were better ways to move small amounts of sou
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by jcadam 7y ago
When I was a kid, they did a family day at the facility where my mom worked... saw a Cray-2 actually in-use (it's a very distinctive machine, hard to forget). So, I'm pushing 40 and just old enough to have seen some of these thin
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by jcadam 7y ago
> Cursive looks something i'd pay for if i was really interested into Clojure and was using macOS. um... it runs on Linux and Windows as well.
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by jcadam 7y ago
As a Clojure (and Java) dev, I started with Cursive and eventually moved to emacs w/CIDER as I became more comfortable with it. Cursive is great for people new to the language who may not know emacs - learning a new language is challe
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by jcadam 7y ago
It's sad. Most companies these days (to include HP) are hire and fire shops. All of them deny it. Want to know why my resume is full of 1-2 year stints? Because when a project is winding down I've learned to start looking for a
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by jcadam 7y ago
When your VPS becomes inoperable and you get sad, there will be no hugs.
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by jcadam 7y ago
yes
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by jcadam 7y ago
Cool. I got started programming in BASIC on the Apple ][ as a kid like a lot of coders my age. Sometimes I think about buying an old machine just for the nostalgia factor.
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by jcadam 7y ago
I don't use fingerprint readers because they don't freaking work for me.
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by jcadam 7y ago
What? Who uses twitter anymore? I mean, besides politicians and celebrities.
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by jcadam 7y ago
Yea, I don't like all-in-one Router/Switch/WAP/Gateway devices anymore either. All of those functions are separate devices at my house. Now the only one of those things that's a PITA to replace is the Router.

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