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by blister 2mo ago
I've been using htmx for three years now, and it's completely unlocked new ways of building software for the web, especially if you use a server-side templating language. But more importantly (as this "Game Boy" option r
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by blister 3y ago
Hah, I literally just fought this for the past month. We run a large esports league that relies on player ranked data. They have the data, and as mentioned above, they send it down to the browser in beautiful JSON objects. But they're
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by blister 7y ago
Holy Moly! The author of this paper makes a very scary argument further shifting the burden of proof onto the employers. The problem with hiring is that there is a hugely disproportionate supply/demand ratio. We might have 1 position t
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by blister 8y ago
I've noticed the same thing and have been actively working over the past 5 years trying to make introductory robotics approachable. I've been a software developer for a long time, but robotics always felt like a mystery to me unti
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by blister 8y ago
Hah, I've been using Unix-based OSes in a professional capacity for over 15 years and I've never heard of apropos. :)
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by blister 8y ago
Unfortunately it seems like it's really hit or miss depending on which worker handles the order. Some days I get exactly what I ask for really quickly, when other days I'll have my shopper switching 25% of my requested items with
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by blister 9y ago
One cool approach to a solution would be to use data to save the day. Millions of people fly through the carriers each year. The airlines could analyze the statistical heights of their average airline passenger and design the seats accordin
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by blister 9y ago
Needs more Metallica midi auto-playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL9qdhRkcbk
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by blister 9y ago
Twitter has caused serious harm to myself and my family. I'm a big fan of the platform, but I've been "doxxed", harassed, and was even SWATed once by different people trying to get me to give them my username. I'd r
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by blister 9y ago
We used a shop exactly like you described: http://www.e3embedded.com/ We used them to design and build a custom board for our Sumo robots that had our V1 built from an Arduino board and a custom board that plugged into the
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by blister 9y ago
Doesn't this use case eventually screw over any future Twilio customer that selects that number? I see several inbound calls to my Twilio number from random numbers that I have to pay for, even though I'm only using Twilio in a de
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by blister 9y ago
Anecdote of one: I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Hodgkins Lymphoma two years ago. My _only_ symptom at the time was pretty severe back pain, which is unusual for lymphoma. After treatment and remission a year later, I still had the severe back
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by blister 9y ago
Dude, you absolutely should be trying to be a manager in 3 years, if you want to go down the management track. Depending on company size, you should probably be a team-lead or something by then. Junior developers that remain "solo&quot
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by blister 9y ago
I think you may be missing the brilliance of this product from a sales perspective. Even if this product isn't a massive success, the units they do move will have a huge potential impact to their retail clothing lines. Now, instead of
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by blister 10y ago
I think it's your third paragraph here. You claim not to have insulted anyone, but you literally claimed that GitLab employees are worse than Hitler. That's: A) Super inflammatory B) Extremely disrespectful C) Adds nothing of valu
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by blister 10y ago
Hrrm... what if you COULD spin up factories like an EC2 instance. What would be needed? A line? Programmable robots? Inputs and outputs? Interesting idea.
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by blister 10y ago
Don't look for jobs when you're desperate. Look for jobs while you're happy and comfortable in your current position. It's like investing. Don't buy while the market is going up. Buy after a crash. Buy when the deck
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by blister 10y ago
Either they're bluffing completely or you're extremely junior. We often spend $10k-$30k on each new hire. If you make it through that pipeline and they try to strong-arm you on the first day... they're going to have a rough t
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by blister 10y ago
I had to trick my brain into just enjoying it as a strange engineering discipline. I like to go through life imagining everything as a system to be programmed, so to me, business politics was just a different type of system in a programming
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by blister 10y ago
This is just my perspective. I've been in (increasingly) challenging engineering leadership roles over the past 5 or so years. When I first started, I felt exactly like you do. That my job was to enable and empower my engineering team
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by blister 10y ago
ISC Consulting Group | Software Test Engineer | Augusta, GA | REMOTE, SECRET CLEARANCE REQUIRED We're looking for a full-time software test engineer for a major military contract. Any type of software engineer will do, but this positio
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by blister 10y ago
Shit, I can't even find a SINGLE qualified mid-level software engineer with a clearance for a job that's already started and fully funded. Good luck bringing on 50 people in a short time frame. You might be fully staffed in a year
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by blister 10y ago
Yeah, and having already had a clearance in the past definitely helps speed up the process to "reactivate" it. The big bummer for companies like mine is that our contract says that we have to have employees with an active clearanc
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by blister 10y ago
It's not just the $20B revenue companies that provide support and services to the government. The big companies make the headlines with their billion dollar contracts, but the bulk of the support, services, and infrastructure is provid
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by blister 10y ago
Let's do some math. So, this is a $927,000,000 five year contract. Right? So let's tell the government not to pay talented companies to provide services and instead hire federal employees to build out infrastructure to do the same
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by blister 10y ago
Also, DISA not only has AWS instances, they have their own freaking installation of AWS! As in, they literally own a replicated version of AWS that only they can use and control. The government is a bloated, ugly beast, but they know what t
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by blister 10y ago
What is their option? 1.5 million Macs? 1.5 million RedHat installs? They've tried going that route in the past and then paid through the nose just to get basic desktop applications available to their workforce.
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by blister 10y ago
Oh dang. I estimated tens of thousands. I was off by an order of magnitude and I was the one trying to defend this contract to HackerNews. Lol. Yeah, DISA is freaking huge. We're doing some work for them right now and the scope is mass
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by blister 10y ago
Holding them ransom? They chose this at the highest levels. I was in DoD for the transition from Sun to MS on the desktop. You're off by orders of magnitude. My one, tiny little facility had an IT department of several hundred to suppo
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by blister 10y ago
DISA is a big group. They have mountains of RedHat instances already as well. I would bet they've probably got a billion dollars or so invested in the RedHat infrastructure. If I had to hazard a guess without seeing the SOW/PWS, I

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