jksmith

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by jksmith 5y ago
OT: Allegro CL is still hanging in there as a commercial chain. Anybody use it?
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by jksmith 5y ago
>>"But the notions of sending a "message" to a "method" just was way way too handwavy for me." This. I've felt like I haven't been able to keep up with commodity programming because I can't
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by jksmith 5y ago
Feel free to comply if you like. If you don't like, there are more optimal places to live than the US. Just have to deal with that nasty US tax issue. Becoming an Eritrean citizen won't help.
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by jksmith 5y ago
This is a pretty narrow scope for what logging provides. Or maybe the definitions of logging and telemetry should be kept separate. Whatever the case, some type of data collection system should be in place to examine the deltas between iter
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by jksmith 5y ago
This is where properly done scrum shines, provided the nature of the work lends itself to greenfield work (cycle time of one iteration). Good scrum is a dysfunction surfacing machine, so if you have a good system of risk management in place
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by jksmith 5y ago
A companion question is the economic view. Is this research that won't be applied? Otherwise, the choice is not too good for anything if it takes too long to be delivered.
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by jksmith 5y ago
I have to say I love sqlite Fossil. Put it behind nginx and it works beautifully.
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by jksmith 5y ago
Freepascal/Lazarus
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by jksmith 5y ago
Agree, just got a TM, and the journey was full of grey areas and few to zero xor solutions. For all the lawyer haters, the game is already rigged, so don't hate the player.
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by jksmith 5y ago
Discovered Linux when I bought an old Dell i5 laptop from ebay. Loved it - it just doesn't get in my way and gave me some time back. Almost like I'm retiring from the world of working bullshit. Then bought a another old desktop wi
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by jksmith 5y ago
In addition, "No Mean Soldier" by Peter McAleese. The autobio account of an SAS soldier turned mercenary.
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by jksmith 5y ago
Your opening statement impresses me as a rather gross generalization. Kind of pro-union, anti-big business. Nothing wrong with making an effort to lean out an organization, which is simply meant to make it more efficient and more competitiv
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by jksmith 5y ago
It's unfortunate that few here will have used M2 in a commercial setting. Well crafted M2 code led to feelings of deep satisfaction. It was like codification of quality.
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by jksmith 5y ago
I get it, but to me this is the equivalent of being nostalgic for swallowing rocks to help me digest my food. Surely there's a better way to manage the remote working lifestyle. Additionally, if you need time to do a reset or shift to
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by jksmith 5y ago
Well there's nothing wrong with considering a store of value to keep you from being under the thumb of fiat. So there's works of art, maybe some other metals, some really unusual one-off earth property. So what you have left is cr
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by jksmith 6y ago
From the dbadmin POV and understandable. From the dev side, if you want to take a stab at your own failover, shards, concurrents and snaps, there may be no better platform to learn on. Writing a custom backend to do tricks with sqlite dlls
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by jksmith 6y ago
So arbitrage it for money. This is the future that threatens need for centralized power. Get a smart washing maching to run Linux. Buy cycles (pun) when it's idle.
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by jksmith 6y ago
Well I think if he made that statement, it's probably fair regardless of what's in his book.
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by jksmith 6y ago
This. Great video documentary. Another, more hippy fun: Yukon Passage - a NatGeo production.
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by jksmith 6y ago
Yep. Simply mimics the human instinctive way to reach minimum survivable solution in the least amount of time.
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by jksmith 6y ago
In the analog perception of time it takes for me to complain about kids getting on my lawn, a measurable percentage of the pics taken in the 20th century were just now taken digitally.
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by jksmith 6y ago
Hah, and throw in this dimension: Don't need F35's patrolling the Persian Gulf, because the need for oil is disappearing. Can't fuel those planes with petrodollars, just burning paper. This is not good.
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by jksmith 6y ago
Yeah, but that's a pots and kettles issue. We are commenting from our mountain about a business that has dropped into the gutter. None of the parties will change.
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by jksmith 6y ago
Well your single customer is your paycheck and your deal with the devil. If you triple the price of what you really think it will take because the gov will be inflating dollar supply by double digits every year and you're working a 10
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by jksmith 6y ago
Expat from the grid. This is an opportunity to arbitrage energy - that is until the monopoly bans that activity. They're already banning solar panel arbitrage activities.
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by jksmith 6y ago
Meh, you do have to watch your scope using "with," but it's worth the brevity provided if you write pascal code crafted to be sensitive to unit/class/record dependencies. If I was putting together a team, it might b
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by jksmith 6y ago
Kudos. I loved M2. I haven't replicated the sublime satisfaction I enjoyed from writing M2 since, in any other language. I felt like I could produce most any business solution with it, one module at a time.
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by jksmith 6y ago
Yeah I have to say if TSM2 had been maintained I'd still be using it. It was badass. Remember that green thread car traffic demo? That was cute. It's unfortunate the tyranny of C never let M2 break through. Opinion is that the sof
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by jksmith 6y ago
FPC/Lazarus gets my vote for a great FOSS project. Going strong for three decades now.
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by jksmith 6y ago
Oh, the tricks I pulled off with TP back in the late 80's-early 90's. Paged memory managers, HP inkjet and pcl libraries, text window managers, parsers, compressors, sorts and searches, my youngest son as a toddler thinking the 3.

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