desmondmonster

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by desmondmonster 5mo ago
I build Tiki Tube Amps - hifi stereos inside carved tiki heads. The tikis are carved from solid logs and hollowed out before I wire up all the circuitry inside. It's all analog vacuum-tube-driven circuits soldered point-to-point. The
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by desmondmonster 1y ago
What editor did they use to write this code? I think this predated vi, and folks were probably using older tools they were familiar with. ed? How much of the source code could they see at once? Was there such thing as a "full scree
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by desmondmonster 5y ago
> A cybertuck is a car for programmers who make too much money and want to feel like Robocop. And Rivian trucks are for folks who want to feel like Bomberman.
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by desmondmonster 5y ago
Payitoff | Fullstack/Backend Engineers, Devops/Sysadmin | USA | FULLY REMOTE - US Timezones only hi! We're Payitoff, and we're making a dent in Student Loans that affect 46,000,000 Americans. Our main products are an AP
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by desmondmonster 5y ago
Payitoff | Frontend & Backend Engineers, Devops/Sysadmin, Product Manager | USA | FULLY REMOTE hi! We're Payitoff, and we help borrowers pay off their student loans. Not through refinancing (though that's one option) but
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by desmondmonster 6y ago
Ironically, Europe has a higher concentration of Elixirists given Erlang was invented there. My hiring attitude is that paying for senior developers is cheaper in the long run given their ability to make better decisions. > I wonder if
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by desmondmonster 6y ago
It sounds like you're recruiting from a pool of junior developers and convincing them to use Elixir instead of attracting folks who are already interested in the language. Not only is that community sizable, but it's experienced-
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by desmondmonster 6y ago
Payitoff | New York, Los Angeles | Software Engineer | Full-time, Remote/Onsite, USA | https://payitoff.io Payitoff is a Student Loan API that crunches government regulations to save borrowers tens of thousands of dollars o
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by desmondmonster 7y ago
I've been using Elixir professionally for the last ~5 years on over a dozen projects. I was originally drawn to it because of its superior support for websockets. It can trivially handle shitzillions* of simultaneous connections and t
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by desmondmonster 7y ago
SEEKING WORK | Product, Software, and Culture Location: Los Angeles, California I'm an experienced consultant who brings product ideas to life, trains up teams on engineering processes and skills, and builds cultures of fun, respect, a
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Show HN: KLEO – Where does your time go?(kleo.crevalle.io)
1 points by desmondmonster 9y ago|0 comments
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by desmondmonster 9y ago
Yeah exactly. I've sat in so many engineering rooms with graphs that, while colorful, end up obscuring the human users behind them. Pulse isn't trying to replace New Relic, Datadog, etc but complement them.
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by desmondmonster 9y ago
I'm not sure what you mean - which page?
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by desmondmonster 9y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I agree that plain images aren't that compelling. I'll work on a more dynamic demonstration.
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Show HN: Pulse – Empathize with your users via real-time heartbeats(pulse.crevalle.io)
25 points by desmondmonster 9y ago|10 comments
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Announcing EmpEx Halloween Talks in NYC on Oct 27. CFP Now Open(empex.co)
1 points by desmondmonster 10y ago|0 comments
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EmpEx, the Empire City Elixir Conference, Is Coming to New York on May 21(empex.co)
15 points by desmondmonster 11y ago|0 comments
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Decent Advice serves up fresh insights that you can easily share(decentadvice.com)
2 points by desmondmonster 12y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Postfactor – Collaborative code refactoring(postfactor.crevalle.io)
16 points by desmondmonster 12y ago|0 comments
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by desmondmonster 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - NYC, local or remote Hi. I'm Desmond, a former accountant and erstwhile jazz musician who's been composing on computers for the last five years. I specialize in web and mobile development and have worked at compan
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Show HN: Chitta – a mood-tracking microjournal that comes to you
2 points by desmondmonster 12y ago|0 comments
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by desmondmonster 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - NYC or remote Former accountant turned web developer- 5 years as a professional programmer grown from the soil of solving business problems. I've worked on big apps, small apps, consumer apps, internal apps, and enterpr
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by desmondmonster 12y ago
SEEKING WORK, New York City, remote or onsite I've been a full-stack web developer for the last four years. Before that I worked as an accountant, a bass player, and even built point-to-point tube amplifiers. These days my main tools
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by desmondmonster 12y ago
The article doesn't mention that when this game is played with American children (using pieces of candy instead of money) they usually offer the least amount of candy and accept whatever's offered, say, a 9-1 split. This is seen
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by desmondmonster 13y ago
I work out of Projective Space on the Lower East Side and it's wonderful. Light and open, unlike wework, and tons of coffee shops, galleries, bars, and restaurants in the neighborhood.
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by desmondmonster 14y ago
"If left without a meaningful competitor in tablets, we believe Apple's dominant share of tablets will act as an anchor that pulls its smartphone share ... steadily upward over time" Hm, that's not how anchors typically work.