softfalcon

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   by softfalcon 7y ago

   Ultimately, any rules you create tend to break down, as there is always an edge case personality that will dislike the way you worded something. The best advice I have seen applies to regular conversation as well as code reviews: When you s
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   by softfalcon 7y ago

   Facebook eating up Instagram and WhatsApp is one. Also Amazon as it keeps eating up industries. Wal-mart and its national take over resulting in the loss of multiple local retailers. EA, Activision, Ubisoft and their all out consumption of
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   by softfalcon 7y ago

   Constraint breeds creativity. Constraints ensure simplicity where there could have been excess. If you have less pixels to work with, it helps you edit your design to what is clear and truly necessary. It prevents bad patterns from emerging
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   by softfalcon 7y ago

   First of all, agree with your decision to use C++17. Great idea! However, in our case (like with many C++ code bases) the code was almost 20 years old. Even with the Herculean efforts made by the teams to keep the code base up to date and r
5. 425.▲
   by softfalcon 7y ago

   I agree you can avoid a lot of headaches by not using platform specific tools. Unfortunately, once you get into users wanting OS specific feature support, all that goes out the window. You now are forced to maintain multiple versions of you
6. 426.▲
   by softfalcon 7y ago

   Addressing JS, they were using aging jQuery with other vanilla JS. Nothing fancy. As for finding people like yourself, all I kept hearing was that they had trouble finding new people to fit their specific needs. I agree with you though, the
7. 427.▲
   by softfalcon 7y ago

   Recently worked at a company doing similar to this to support Windows and macOS. To add to the difficulty, they used Chromium as a UI front end much like Electron. All built in house though. They hired me as a JS/HTML/CSS dev, but
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   by softfalcon 8y ago

   Location: Calgary, AB, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Web developer with a background in 3D rendering. Node, React, Mongo, SQL, C#, JS (Typescript too), ASP.Net, OpenGL, OpenCL, HLSL, WebGL Résumé/CV: https:
9. 429.▲
   by softfalcon 8y ago

   No worries. Be as picky as you want to be. I merely recommended the only cable I can actually recommend for the average consumer. Was sure to add for my home office for some context. This cable fits the bill for running a connection between
10. 430.▲
    by softfalcon 8y ago

    I bought 2 of these at 75 feet for $16 CAD (each) and it's maintaining expected 10 Gigabit on my home network. https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00H41LYGM/
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    by softfalcon 8y ago

    I was recently recommended a couple books called "Extreme Ownership" and "The Dichotomy of Leadership". They tackle the idea of how to be a leader and what that means in the day to day. They break down the communication
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    by softfalcon 8y ago

    I feel like this is coming from a good place. They're trying to help the majority of devs choose the right platform for their project to be the most successful. As many before me have commented, the choice of platform depends on your s
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    by softfalcon 8y ago

    I never really thought about it, but I've had to redo every Apple Pay purchase with the iPhone X when using it. It always errors out the first time, then the teller resets the transaction, I scan again, and it works. I always assumed i