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by potta_coffee 3y ago
I'm passionate about my guitar playing again and I've been teaching guitar to a couple of people, which is very rewarding. Also I do Jiu Jitsu and I'm halfway to my purple belt, and I've had some opportunities to help co
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
I went to a violent high school. There were shootings and stabbings. Socialization is overrated.
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
At a small company, I found a bug in the sales system that was giving away $10k per month by miscalculating customer's tax. CEO of the company essentially pretended that he couldn't hear anything when he was told.
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
Purely anecdotal based on my own experience, typing information does very little for me but hand-written notes vastly improve my ability to retain information.
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
I've worked for a couple of companies that get a discount on AWS services if a certain percentage of their employees have AWS certifications.
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
The world is not a right place. It never has been and never will be. We won't "science" or vote our way out of human nature. There are cycles of bad times and somewhat better times.
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
I have an NA, it's great, I love it. My dream car is still the twin turbo FD.
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
They can do it. The ND Miata was actually lighter than the NA Miata, which is quite a feat.
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
Productivity increased exponentially for many years in line with technological advances. We were supposed to have flying cars and personal robots by now. The least they can do is allow us to reap our meager earnings from our own hovels.
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
Don't pretend those people are getting work done in the office. The fact is a few of us do the lion's share of the work while most employees, wfh or in the office, are dragging ass.
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
Enterprise leadership seems to constantly be chasing buzzwords and silver bullet solutions that don't pan out. I've seen it time and again.
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
Until recently I loved my Epson Eco Tank. I discovered that the Epson printers all have an internal page counter that bricks the printer once it reaches a limit, requiring service by Epson. There's a "waste ink pad" that is s
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
I just traded the distractions of the office for the distractions of home. I prefer garbage trucks to the distress of morbidly obese co-worker without a gallbladder who insists on eating an entire greasy pizza at the workstation next to me
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
Concurrency in Go is just so easy and powerful.
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
Golang, Python, Terraform.
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
If I need concurrency these days, I just write it in Golang. My primary use for Python was one off scripts for cloud management / automation tasks. Today I write maybe 70% Golang and 30% Python.
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
I'm in the same boat as you, thanks for asking the question in this manner because I don't even know how to describe the pickle I'm in. I know I have a lot to offer but I rarely fit a typical job description and my skills are
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
I'll never implant anything in my body...ok, maybe a pacemaker or other medical device but a smartphone equivalent? I'll die first.
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
A search for "GZDoom" on Steam will show some different indie games that are using the engine, there are a few interesting ones. A cursory youtube search brought up this random video with a wide variety of examples: https:/&
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
I'd never heard of this engine, it looks really cool. I'm going to try it out. Thanks!
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
GZDoom. I know that Doom is an old game, but the GZDoom sourceport has enabled all kinds of cool and crazy mods. Doom is no longer a game but a platform. Because of the mostly 2D nature of the engine, creating maps is so easy that anyone ca
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
Buzz Osbourne of the Melvins. Dave Mustaine.
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
I don't agree because current graduates aren't necessarily well-versed in theory and practice. In fact I've worked with CS graduates that don't understand theory at all and follow the worst conceivable practice. Of cours
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
I have years-old Go code that just keeps running. PHP is very stable. I've found Python to be a PITA sometimes. Javascript rots faster than anything else I've encountered.
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
The sad and ironic part is that additional gatekeeping won't produce better results anyway.
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
I've worked with plenty of educated developers who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag. One of our local universities has a shockingly bad program that's reproducing their own unique little brand of terrible bullshit.
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
Wrong, there are some excellent books that can teach drawing skills very well. I'm a trained studio artist and I've found great value from books. I recommend Bridgman's "Constructive Anatomy". Go through the book an
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
What do you like about Nim? I've started playing with it and it's quite comfy but I don't know much about it's capabilities yet.
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
I'm certain they're aware of the second modality; I just think that Go is narrowly focused in design and it's not really for that other kind of user.
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by potta_coffee 3y ago
Discoverability for the kind of content I want to see is completely broken. I can barely find anything on the web anymore. Google gives me Reddit, Facebook and a million crappy review sites.

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