axisK

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by axisK 3y ago
2 silly small ones: * Small util on an ESP32 to turn my garage lights on when I open the side door. * An app to track players I've played against before in Dota2 and pop up before a match so I can skip matches with players who I'v
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by axisK 4y ago
I was just thinking of Logo today and how it got me super interested in programming. I ended up doing simple rectangles with my 5 year old. He loved the turtle!
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by axisK 6y ago
I worked at a ~smallish startup. While we had around 20 devs employed we shared oncall between 3 people. We invested a lot into availability - especially DBs. Most of our issues were internal DNS related which we at one point automated into
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by axisK 8y ago
In my case you're 100% spot on with the unhealthy relationship part. I lost around 45kg in slightly less than a year and gained most of it back in the 2 years after. For the most part, it's due to really bad habits built up over y
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by axisK 9y ago
I don't think life is that simple. Being a skilled developer/engineer has very little to do with the ability to save money.
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by axisK 9y ago
The first thing I thought of when seeing this was giving a card to each team member which allows for small purchases at specific partnered businesses - e.g. expensing lunch outings without most of the paperwork.
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Chaos Monkey Your Team(medium.com)
2 points by axisK 11y ago|0 comments
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by axisK 11y ago
In the short term you'll probably end up feeling guilty about it but it's much better to work somewhere where you don't hate the environment. Before I started my current job, I already had an accepted offer from another compa
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by axisK 12y ago
Thanks! Some of these were the only programming books that our local library had (in the mid 90s). I remember the Adventure Programs book quite fondly.
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by axisK 12y ago
They could fail for hundreds of different reasons, not all necessarily related to being open or closed.
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Hacking and internet connectivity
2 points by axisK 12y ago|0 comments
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by axisK 12y ago
When I was in high school our local mobile networks brought out a feature called "Please call me" in which you used USSD to send an unbilled notification for another number to call you - you only got around 20 per day but that was
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by axisK 12y ago
On my first run today I saw some passwords going to the admin section on our staging servers so it really depends on what you're targeting.
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by axisK 12y ago
As long as it's valid hex it should be fine, there seems to be a lower bound at which point servers don't respond but I didn't play around for too long with that part. Most articles also mention 64kb which the script can do w
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by axisK 13y ago
Ansible is pretty decent but new release seem to break backwards compatibility quite a lot so be prepared for playbooks not working on newer versions should you need to reuse them at a later stage. Of course virtualenv gets around this quit
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by axisK 13y ago
I liked ColdFusion as a whole but really disliked using it in a professional context - most other developers just seemed to have a bad understanding of how ColdFusion specific variable scoping worked.
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by axisK 13y ago
Oh, as a side note. The company I ended up working for also used a timed "mini-project" to filter out some candidates, it wasn't much more than 2 days worth of work. After that I also went through a telephonic which was more of a introducti
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by axisK 13y ago
When managed properly outsourcing doesn't have to be a problem. Bad hires do tend to take a bit longer to show themselves and could end up leaving a bad taste to everything outsourcing related. A few years ago I did some work via oDesk and
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by axisK 14y ago
I love squirrel, if anyone is trying it out though just be aware of the default 100 or 1000 row limit. It's great for select statements but don't forget to disable it when running updates on a dataset.
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by axisK 14y ago
Maybe I misread the article but I didn't get the sense that the $2.3M was in the last year. If the company has been operating for just over a dozen years that could be total revenue which given the type of software really isn't all that ala
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by axisK 14y ago
I'm not sure that specifying how things won't work is done to appear superior rather than giving feedback. There probably isn't enough time in a day to try everything and if you can save some time by pointing out why something won't work of
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by axisK 14y ago
Have had a lot of fun with this so far even though I'm only at level 4, kind of went off on a tangent on level 3 and after getting a partial solution I realised that there was a much easier way of approaching it
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by axisK 14y ago
Registration this year is open till the end of the qualification round.
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by axisK 14y ago
Nice article, the write lock has really been making me think about whether it's really the way to go in our own stack.
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by axisK 15y ago
Have been using this for a while now as a quick way to get data a bit readable. Works pretty well.