krinchan

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by krinchan 8y ago
And if their resume points that out they get an interview. As I said in another comment, if you show up with a junior position, no degree, and shit to show for it on Github or somewhere else...I don't have time to interview you in a p
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by krinchan 8y ago
And how many companies are only know posting blogs about their upgrades to Rails 5+ and how difficult that was? It's still relevant knowledge. Sure, degreeless self-taught programmers who know their way around this knowledge exist. I
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by krinchan 8y ago
It kinda feels like the effort is directed improperly. If graphics programming and tens of thousands of lines of C++ code is your passion, you probably would be better suited to working your way into some of the major gaming framework&#x27
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by krinchan 8y ago
Yet a lifelong computer nerd with that structured learning foundation will leave a non-passionate CS degree holder and a degreeless lifelong computer nerd in the dust. People want to scream about CS degrees being trash and yet all the passi
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by krinchan 8y ago
Let's not mention the taxes for getting married w/out children. Unless you have dependents (children) or one income (which makes one spouse the other spouse's dependent), getting married as a DINC (Dual Income, No Children)
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by krinchan 8y ago
> Texas zoning and tax on houses work. Texas zoning also paved over all the marsh land that would've kept the city from flooding.
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by krinchan 9y ago
Caps to Ctrl Ctrl to Escape Escape to Caps I mostly use Ctrl-[ for Escape. I have a lot or weird Ctrl bindings. Not an emacs level of Ctrl bindings, but enough that I use this particular rearrangement.
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by krinchan 9y ago
I still can point to the exact point in my college career that took me to a whole new level of understanding how to program in Java or Python to understanding how things like Garbage Collection, Threads, and other abstractions actually work
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by krinchan 9y ago
Well that explains the fucked up nonsense of the time format function used in Packer Templates.
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by krinchan 9y ago
Because I don't buy my laptops. My employer does.
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by krinchan 9y ago
I've long since abandoned "bare metal" Linux in favor of VirtualBox and Windows for my home machine and VirtualBox and macOS on my laptop. Monday's I merge last week's snapshot, take a new one, and run all my update
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by krinchan 9y ago
This was my thoughts exactly. More often than not, these systems are still implemented but a manual "exception" process is later tacked onto it. It sounds like they haven't hit the normal Stage 2 phase: Implement a manual ov
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by krinchan 9y ago
It'd be interesting to see the number of households that dropped from two cars to one because they didn't really need the second car often enough. It's just more cost effective for us to use Lyft as a second car when needed,
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by krinchan 9y ago
Reduced, the assertion made is: Because Proof of Stake requires less energy and is less secure than Proof of Work, all block chains are secure if and only if computing blocks requires a large investment of energy. I don't think Proof o
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by krinchan 9y ago
The idea that somehow the law of conservation of energy applies to the security of block chains, or computing in general. The fact that tweets 1-20 come from a cryptocurrency developer is terrifying, because it reads like a speculator tryi
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by krinchan 9y ago
For the first two, that's probably a better way to put it. Breadth and T-shaped skill sets are all the rage. For the last bit, I tried to hint at that in my original comment. People who achieve that breadth outside the US can normally
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by krinchan 9y ago
Overall, I've seen more full stack skills, polyglots, and a willingness to tailor design and stacks to the problem. Companies want an FTE or two that replaces an entire off shore team and we accommodate to avoid off shoring. We've
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by krinchan 9y ago
Serious engineering can be done outside, sure. But after years of competing with Indian outsourcing, US engineers have really upped their own skills. Sourcing that talent from India isn't cheaper because it's so rare those engin
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by krinchan 9y ago
On the other side though, EU wire transfers within SEPA cannot cost more than a domestic transfer and overall the domestic fees are insanely cheap, if not free. In the USA, wire transfers average $10-25 on the outbound. Inbound, domestic w
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by krinchan 9y ago
> e.g. for students for age-verification purposes What I'm hearing is our idiotic age limit on drinking makes ID forgery lucrative enough to outweigh the risks. Therefore: The drinking age in the USA is largely responsible for maki
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by krinchan 9y ago
To be fair, at least in the Southeastern US, NextDoor is more...RacistDoor. I've seen people ask the best way to report black people to the cops so they'll be kept from driving through "our safe neighborhood." It's
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by krinchan 10y ago
What is all this? As a native English speaker, I view mustn't as a contraction of must not; other examples include cannot and can't, should not and shouldn't, and do not and don't. So the usage of mustn't should be
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by krinchan 10y ago
While not universally true, there are some geographic locations in the US that make that feel true. The town I grew up in had 4 major tech employers. - A weird segment of Department of Defense contractors that developed "mission si
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by krinchan 10y ago
> am mostly through college Lack of a degree and a code camp certificate only works in tech cities where it's hard to find coders who are gullible enough to work for free...I mean get paid in equity in a startup that's really o
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by krinchan 10y ago
This article is extremely similar to almost every other "OMG! We used Cassandra and it was nothing like a SQL database!" article by Netflix, Spotify, and so many more. The fact that every single one contains the same 6 or 7 self-
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by krinchan 10y ago
> 4) We seem to run in different circles. Almost everyone I know dismisses relational databases without question. Mongo is the way to go. And I get called out as the resident old fart/luddite who insists on using postgres. Speaking
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by krinchan 10y ago
Even better, try finding a laptop that will run DisplayPort alternate mode over the USB-C port. EDIT: Or HDMI for that matter.
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by krinchan 10y ago
Actually it isn't precisely Apple's fault. It's the USB-IFs fault. USB 3.1 in general is a mess. The spec allows for Alternate Modes, where the port is hardwired on the Motherboard to be able to be switched to deliver Displa
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by krinchan 10y ago
Definitely agree with this. I grew up rural and was pretty independent by middle school with a broad network of older friends and friends parents to get me rides around the county. I have friends raising kids in inner city areas, both gent
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by krinchan 10y ago
I'm just done with Macs. Seems like I have to fight macOS more and more these days. Games are still mostly over on the Windows side due to the hardware specs. I'm just done. I want to play my online games while I'm traveli

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