kaidon

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by kaidon 2mo ago
Hard disagree. The amen break, the music it is a part of, the technology and evolution in sound that it heavily influenced; is a welcome discussion focus on a weekend for many on HN.
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by kaidon 8mo ago
This sounds like something out of the Warhammer universe.
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by kaidon 9mo ago
Getting some Disco Elysium vibes here.
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by kaidon 1y ago
An embedded Mac where I can play cosmic osmo in the browser with something that looks like a real screen... I knew it was possible, but wow. Super cool.
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by kaidon 2y ago
Had pretty much the same thing... but only one overclocked Celeron to 433. Was amazing upgrade from my pentium 133 with a Matrox Millenium; which I somehow used to complete Half Life in low FPS agony.
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by kaidon 2y ago
Just lost my father to pancreatic cancer as well a couple weeks ago. They caught it very early with a CT scan, performed a significant surgery followed by radiation and chemo. The chemo nearly killed him. Had a couple ok months after chemo,
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by kaidon 2y ago
> practically nothing more injurious to good technique and nothing more likely to induce tension than this. Oh my goodness yes. I started playing on January and followed the Hanon instructions with the sheets. I have been trying to relea
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by kaidon 2y ago
About 35 years ago. Found a commodore PET in the trash along the roadside. It came with a tape drive and a book of games written in BASIC. I took it home, tidied it up and then started learning from the book.
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by kaidon 3y ago
A wiki
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by kaidon 3y ago
The TIE Fighter animated intro sequence is forever etched into my memory. I watched the whole thing at least 50% of the times I fired up the game before playing. What an absolute beast of a game. Plus the dynamic music (iMuse) was just so d
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by kaidon 3y ago
Daredevil was released in 2015... yikes
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by kaidon 3y ago
I have felt very much like this in the past, but no so much any more. .. my thinking is: Some things are just part of the responsibility of being a grown up. Home maintenance, driver for children, doing taxes, etc. These are your baseline p
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by kaidon 3y ago
Reddit IS the front page!
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by kaidon 3y ago
What an interesting concept! The Generalist and Backend roles sound interesting to me. I have 20+ yrs experience as a polygot developing products from IDE integration, cybersecurity, economics, project planning, market analysis and more. I
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by kaidon 3y ago
Keycloak is fairly easy to maintain. I run a deploy in AWS/ECS, and nearly never needs to be touched... except when an upgrade is required. Every upgrade has been challenging, starting with change to Quarkus, followed by removing depen
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by kaidon 3y ago
Are you me? I agree and have experienced every single thing here. > I believe that it is a mistake to believe that merely working harder will earn that respect. <bingo> You must be a principal level developer -- it is a role driven
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by kaidon 3y ago
Thank you!!!
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by kaidon 3y ago
Is there any way to view the thread without a tiwxter account?
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by kaidon 4y ago
The metric system is everywhere but the kitchen :)
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by kaidon 4y ago
And don't even go past '1' unless you have product market fit.
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by kaidon 4y ago
bingo - exactly the way to do it in java
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by kaidon 4y ago
This is why I never upgrade my Mac. The lost productivity risk is just not worth it.
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by kaidon 4y ago
> deteriorate productivity in ways that will be difficult to understand Exactly! This can be very difficult to quantify; as this kind of debt is undetectable by standard gates (linter, static analysis, etc.). Instead, it is more nefariou
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by kaidon 4y ago
Absolutely. On a small team, we had 2 underperforming devs. One was doing absolutely nothing at all for months on end. One was doing negative work - every line of code made things worse, every document was unintelligible, and they would app
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by kaidon 4y ago
Don't forget https://theitcrowd.fandom.com/wiki/Maurice_Moss
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by kaidon 4y ago
No. It is important to understand the foundation from which all these decisions originate.
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by kaidon 4y ago
How about a discount on Cash or Interac purchases in kind then?
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by kaidon 4y ago
> "they person that can't let the smallest mistake go un-punished" Did you mean 'the' instead of 'they'? Did you do this on porpoise?
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by kaidon 4y ago
jsonapi solves some problems, and introduces so many more. As a standard intended to reduce bike shedding, I have never had as many bike-shedding discussions as I have with jsonapi. Include syntax, plural vs single resource naming. sorting
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by kaidon 4y ago
> laying off anyone Laying off 23% of staff is _literally_ how he will make the stock go up enough to get a good % of his compensation, if not 100%.

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