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by clowen 4y ago
Just so everyone in HN knows. I recently passed two months as a dev rel. Congratulatory post accomplished!
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by clowen 4y ago
4. Needing what is essentially the same tech multiple times to do the same thing.
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by clowen 4y ago
1. We can see the corners that were cut and have either been forced to do the same or know how it could have been done better. 2. Having to use some piece of tech because of some external requirement. Especially when there's a preferre
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by clowen 4y ago
The story as I know it: Three soldiers wander into a town and watch as the townspeople shutter themselves into their homes. The first two soldiers, out of rations, start to knock on doors and asking if anyone has any food, but no one answer
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by clowen 4y ago
Probably not, first thought I had was Lucerne dairy products.
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by clowen 4y ago
It felt like a natural metaphor.
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by clowen 4y ago
This should also be a good time to review all of your meetings. One of the biggest delineations between engineering levels is the amount of autonomy afforded. With no juniors, there should be less time needed for team meetings.
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by clowen 4y ago
https://github.com/features/copilot
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by clowen 4y ago
Take a look at GitHub's Copilot. I used the technical preview and if you're already paying for gh it may be included. It actually helped keep me more focused on the solving aspects then the, what is the correct spelling, format, e
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by clowen 4y ago
Are you considering using the esp-idf? https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf I'm developing a product based on the esp32. Once I got my mind around the IDF, it handles a lot of the productization element. Specifica
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by clowen 4y ago
First thought was going blind charging my smart glasses, but: "in the form of safe infrared light"
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by clowen 4y ago
There have been some good events from this group. https://www.meetup.com/DevOpsDC
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by clowen 4y ago
I worked with Francisco at Harrison Clarke finding my latest position: https://www.linkedin.com/in/franciscomadrigal1 Harrison Clarke specializes in SRE/DevOps I'm in Rockville MD, just outside DC. But they a
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by clowen 4y ago
I am planning to use it in a project to make the new Congressional API data more approachable for people. https://api.congress.gov/#/ Hopefully make it easy to find all the bills that your specific congress person was
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by clowen 4y ago
My focus is usually from a game dev standpoint. I might see how quickly I can put together an A* algorithm on a 2d array. Or Conway's game of life as a similar, how easily can I process these things. Should note I often work on 2d tile
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by clowen 4y ago
Happy to see things like CDK acknowledged as a next step, and being adopted. Though I've been fighting for that in my SRE teams. Something that is forgotten with CDK is that you can do anything else with your code. Importantly that mig
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by clowen 4y ago
If you don't upvote it, it will for you.
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by clowen 4y ago
As a hiring manager, the certs are ok, but the experience is what matters. I always ask engineers this "What do you think about the AWS documentation?" If you've had to actually parse through it yourself to learn how to get s
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FeatureBase: Open-Source, Real-Time Database Built on Roaring Bitmaps(github.com)
37 points by clowen 4y ago|12 comments
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by clowen 4y ago
You'd be surprised how much efficiency an engineering team can squeeze out of their games with time and motivation. A lot of bloat happens just to get the game out the door and is then good enough. While I didn't work on the port
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by clowen 4y ago
For some background on why not. Nintendo didn't make any money from the PC sales, so it needs to have revenue from this launch. And for Factorio itself, the effort of porting to the Switch, and then the effort of going through validati