pjungwir

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   by pjungwir 10y ago

   So I'm only a Rust amateur (I mean I don't get paid to use it), but I'm on my third round trying to build something with it, and I feel like I'm finally starting to get it. A couple warts I've encountered: - No supp
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   by pjungwir 10y ago

   I have 10+ years of experience---17 actually, or more depending on how you count. I am sitting out the hiring market: instead I'm doing consulting, freelancing, and my own projects. The problem isn't a shortage of 10+ year develop
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   by pjungwir 10y ago

   SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR or Remote I'm a polyglot, full-stack developer with 16 years experience. My specialties are Rails, Postgres, Chef, and Angular/Ember, although I'm comfortable on a variety of platforms. I am reliab
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   by pjungwir 10y ago

   This looks like a lot of fun! Using a RaspPi is really attractive to me because you can make everything interoperate, and nothing depends on some company's servers. I've done two Pi projects now that I keep meaning to blog about.
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   by pjungwir 10y ago

   One of my in-laws is a geologist who works for the oil companies, and he tells me in that industry almost all the big executives are engineers. Since he's been in the news, take Rex Tillerson. His degree is in engineering. Or take any
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   by pjungwir 10y ago

   This is how I think of FileMaker Pro. It seems like a great "next step" past Excel for businesses that don't have budget/time for custom programming. Also, what about SharePoint? I haven't used it, but my impression
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   by pjungwir 10y ago

   I agree that Russell's book is good, although Will Durant's Story of Philosophy is even better. :-) Of course there's no reason you can't read both. If you want to read some ancient philosophy directly, Plato's S
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   by pjungwir 10y ago

   SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR or Remote I'm a polyglot, full-stack developer with 16 years experience. My specialties are Rails, Postgres, Chef, and Angular/Ember, although I'm comfortable on a variety of platforms. I am reliab
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   by pjungwir 10y ago

   I answered a StackOverflow question a while ago about why date ranges in Postgres are [x, y), or in other words include all t where x <= t < y: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37953786/why-does-postgre...
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    Wow, the clipboard is really a thought-provoking comparison. I'm not sure if many people are quite aware of what you said, unless they've done desktop programming: when an application puts something on the clipboard, it can put mu
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    I agree about it being huge. But from an employer perspective, even if it's not huge, what counts is the margin, and if it gives you a few more good candidates than everyone else trying to hire, that is a big advantage. All the things
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    Certainly. Especially right now, you need to attract candidates who are "passively looking": people who have a job, but would move given a good offer. I do freelance development and consulting, and I'm basically happy with th
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    Angle of Repose is amazing. Crossing to Safety is really good too, although not about the West. I still haven't gotten to Big Rock Candy Mountain , although I think he might be best known for it.
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    Just the other week I finished reading Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs by Wallace Stegner (whose novels are wonderful by the way), and in several of the essays collected there he writes about how the defining characterist
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    I would like to see a SPA persistence framework that is based on the Command pattern, so that it can give you an automatically-generated backend, Operational Transformation-based collaboration, offline functionality, and undo/redo.
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    I wanted to say "Postgres with bitemporal tables"---practically the same thing. :-)
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    I discovered Thoreau in 9th grade and responded much as the author describes. I loved the clarity, the independence, the disdain for the crowd, the longing for nature, and the commitment to a moral, self-examined life. I think his message o
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR or Remote I'm a polyglot, full-stack developer with 16 years experience. My specialties are Rails, Postgres, Chef, and Angular/Ember, although I'm comfortable on a variety of platforms. I am reliab
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    We already have a taste of these rules and regulations, for example HIPAA, PCI, and FIPS-140. I'm not saying I disagree with you, but keep in mind that those are all considered quite burdensome, and it's hard to see how that could
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    I agree with this in principle, and I feel the same way about Rails (also heavily convention-over-configuration). But do you also dasherize the JSON keys in your server back-and-forth, as recommended by JSONAPI? That strikes me as such a st
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    That is definitely an even better example. :-) I do like that you can see it even with Ctrl+F though. And I think that he uses Galba very skillfully as a foil to his own command.
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    It is interesting to read that so little has changed since the days of Caesar. Reading his Gallic War you'd think the war was won by digging ditches and building walls. For instance, search for "fortification" on this page:
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    I could do this. I'm not from Atlanta, but two other developers and myself have a small company, Columbia Ops, that has done a lot of HL7 work. Usually we use Mirth, but we could do it in Camel instead if you prefer something lighter.
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    > per-customer VLANs I am looking forward to that! Linode is my go-to hosting service, but it's a little troubling that anyone in the datacenter can hit your private IPs [1]. On the other hand, maybe it shouldn't matter, and yo
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR or Remote I'm a polyglot, full-stack developer with 16 years experience. My specialties are Rails, Postgres, Chef, and Angular/Ember, although I'm comfortable on a variety of platforms. I am reliab
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    Can anyone compare Vue with Knockout? In the early days of Angular etc I saw a lot of people saying they chose Knockout, and were much happier than with one of the heavier frameworks. I found its simplicity very appealing too, but it seems
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    I worked on a politics startup about 6 years ago (to help you find like-minded candidates), and people kept asking if we had a mobile app. I couldn't think of a good reason to add, say, location tracking, but I loved telling people I w
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    I was interviewed once by someone who would cut me off after just a sentence or two. He asked a fairly open question like, "Tell me about hash tables." I knew I should have just said, "Lookups are constant-time," but I s
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    So this prompted me to Google for it (Googling for one-letter vim commands works better than I thought!), and this looks like the issue: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2158516/delay-before-o-op...
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    I never got into the habit of using { and }. I just use H M L (high/medium/low) to get approximately in the right part of the screen, then go line-by-line. You can also do 5H or 10L to get "5 lines from the top" or &quot