jqcoffey

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by jqcoffey 2y ago
Hey, thanks Matt for providing a well lit path to getting things done on the Internet before anyone knew what they were doing.
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by jqcoffey 2y ago
For vintage Apple gear to buy, sell or inquire about checkout 68kmla.org. I had success selling a maxed out Power Mac 6100 there that went nowhere on EBay.
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by jqcoffey 2y ago
I can't plus this enough. I hired a unicorn business minded, brilliant, can solve any software engineering or UI/UX problem engineer who happened to have a predilection for functional programming. I found out that unicorns are un
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by jqcoffey 3y ago
Yes you’re right. I guess I was mostly trying to underscore the point you’re making here by being a smidge provocative. +1.
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by jqcoffey 3y ago
> Work with honest, intelligent people This is good advice that’s well intentioned, but (sorry), it can be interpreted as elitist, and in a way that’s detrimental to the reader. I am no way suggesting that this is the intention or belief
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by jqcoffey 3y ago
Scientific American is still in print. I guess I don’t know for how long, but I love it.
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Might and Magic (2021)(filfre.net)
3 points by jqcoffey 3y ago|0 comments
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by jqcoffey 3y ago
And here I thought burn out was the inability to do something. Learn something new every day!
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by jqcoffey 3y ago
I had no idea Haynes was doing this. Hysterical and wonderful. Thank you!
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Solar sprawl is tearing up the Mojave Desert. Is there a better way?(latimes.com)
16 points by jqcoffey 3y ago|25 comments
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by jqcoffey 3y ago
I suppose I’m a grey beard (in industry is 96ish) and I mean, it’s fine as a backend language in so far as dynamically (or even loosely) typed languages go. It’s just as easy (or hard) to write modular well tested code as in any number of
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by jqcoffey 3y ago
> I don't have any particular answers to why string templating has been enduringly popular so far (although I can come up with theories, including that string templating is naturally reusable to other contexts, such as plain text) M
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by jqcoffey 3y ago
My tactic is to meditate on the fact that there is always someone better than me at some thing that I’m doing at some point in time. Learned this lesson mostly from sports, fwiw.
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by jqcoffey 4y ago
does this count as an example of the Two (AI) Generals' Problem?
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by jqcoffey 4y ago
I appear the only one here who tells someone else (relevant) about my “brilliant” ideas from walks and showers. It’s often my wife about a thing related to our lives, but can be something work related that I share that morning with a truste
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by jqcoffey 4y ago
I think the author is describing analysis paralysis. They’re right in the sense that the most complicated work (in my XP) is often demystified with a bit of engineering over white boarding and whatifing.
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by jqcoffey 4y ago
A long time ago I was in a fairly desperate technical situation, that to my and my lead’s minds required a stop the world, must fix or all’s lost approach. Product wasn’t having it, and I couldn’t negotiate my way through. In the end we ig
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by jqcoffey 4y ago
I started doing impactful things by listening to friends express a need for something (like a shopping cart for their auto parts catalog circa 1998) and just doing it (they of course offered to pay me). I had no real clue what I was doing
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How the game design legend behind ‘King’s Quest’ was lured out of retirement(latimes.com)
4 points by jqcoffey 4y ago|0 comments
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A new search tool to help control your online presence(blog.google)
2 points by jqcoffey 4y ago|0 comments
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How a cable modem works (c. 2002)(support.usr.com)
84 points by jqcoffey 4y ago|23 comments
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by jqcoffey 4y ago
oh my, yes, thank you!
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by jqcoffey 4y ago
The value of benevolence of shopkeepers to their younger patrons cannot be understated. As a young kid I learned how PCs were put together from the local clone shop on San Pablo Ave in El Cerrito. I bought a 286 with 512k ram and two flop
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Bringing a database query planner inside a workflow management system(medium.com)
1 points by jqcoffey 4y ago|0 comments
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LG 28-inch 16:18 DualUp Monitor(lg.com)
326 points by jqcoffey 4y ago|303 comments
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by jqcoffey 4y ago
The author appears to be an EM at Booking.com. It seems unlikely that anyone at Booking would be working on SSD firmware or drivers, but a CDN seems like a reasonable assumption and also a useful place to plumb the depths of SSD implementa
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by jqcoffey 4y ago
I’m surprised that folks are still considering metrics like LoC and commit frequency to measure developer productivity, even more so due to the (anecdotal, from my XP of 25 years in industry) fact that as developers gain in seniority they a
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by jqcoffey 4y ago
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.
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by jqcoffey 4y ago
Principally the thing it did right, having lived through the era, is bring a real video game home with Super Mario Bros. At the time I had a C64 and an Atari 2600, but would spend every quarter I could dig up at the arcade at the bowling
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by jqcoffey 5y ago
I for one, as a mid-life gen-x-er, can't wait to welcome our new gen-z design overlords if it means that we bring some visual variety back to computing.

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