kevinmershon

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by kevinmershon 1y ago
> This is a similar reaction to photosynthesis in plants, which produces glucose instead of rocket fuel. This is silly, but also begs the sillier question why we aren't bioengineering plants to produce rocket fuel
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by kevinmershon 1y ago
no hits for clojure. I'm incredulous
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by kevinmershon 1y ago
I've been working since November on an integration between a Quest VR app called Fluid, and MacOS and Windows hosts. The app itself is called Fluid Link, launched just after new years, and has been rolled into official Fluid offerings.
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by kevinmershon 2y ago
While all those skills are great to have, you're now competing with every unemployed junior, fresh grad, and old coder on the market. You need to update your skill set, and ideally focus on skills that are in higher demand and with hig
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by kevinmershon 2y ago
Chamber of Commerce is swimming with other hungry sharks. You'd be better off finding a coworking space (NOT a chain one like WeWork). Talk to the owner and explain your situation, ask for a month or two discount while you get your bea
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by kevinmershon 2y ago
1. Ignore the haters. 2. Sell or trade in the desktop for a laptop. Portability and space is your friend. Join a local Facebook "buy nothing" group, and ask for a trade or someone's spare old laptop. Any mobility improvement
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by kevinmershon 2y ago
It's pretty true from recent experience. I've recently started rewriting a C# based desktop/window stream tool because of how weak the support is across the board for C#. Microsoft abandoned WinRTC, Sipsorcery is one guy and
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by kevinmershon 2y ago
Your comment about how it makes editing flow like python is spot on, and I've been saying this for years. I'm a long time parinfer-rust user in spacemacs, and it makes me very happy. However it also made me very strict and opinion
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by kevinmershon 2y ago
For the most part, yes. CIDER and nREPL is better tech than IEX though. I live in both and Clojure is much more enjoyable.
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by kevinmershon 2y ago
phone self-service systems, tutoring services, contract review, recruiting. Just to name a few
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by kevinmershon 2y ago
Exactly. It seems like so many people fall into the logical trap that school is about getting you to permanently memorize facts that, in a typical adult life, end up being largely trivia. School is about teaching your brain how to retain in
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by kevinmershon 2y ago
Agreed, and not just that you can. You absolutely should.
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by kevinmershon 2y ago
So would this count as 1 instance or 100M instances of HIPAA violations? Last I checked the penalty is $50k per violation...
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by kevinmershon 2y ago
Yep. Homes can either be for shelter or for investment, but not both. We are experiencing this as a global culture. I dream of a 100% tax rate on second homes, foreign ownership, and corporations owning single family homes and condos. Or ev
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by kevinmershon 3y ago
I have worked for hours in Immersed in both the quest 2 and 3. The 3 is considerably more comfortable on the head and eyes. I constantly had to take the quest 2 off for a breather
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by kevinmershon 3y ago
virtual box can do a seamless windows mode. It in't as slick as parallels but it is passable.
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by kevinmershon 3y ago
I actually did, repeatedly. I threw away 3 or 4 chat sessions with it about this very subject. It kept hallucinating features into libraries and naming products that don't actually support this translation direction. And with Google se
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by kevinmershon 3y ago
Thank you for this post. I've been looking high and low for weeks trying to find a way to connect Looker to a GraphQL API unsuccessfully and apparently "PostgreSQL emulators" are called FDWs as I learned from this link. I had
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by kevinmershon 3y ago
This is effectively what Bumble Bizz is trying to be. It's terrible
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by kevinmershon 3y ago
I'm not saying this is the case here, but there can be both tax and labor outsourcing incentives for posting a job ad that you "just can't seem to fill".
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by kevinmershon 3y ago
Rakuten was the first and only bigger corp I've worked at (my life has been startups and boutique shops) and so I have had a hard time understanding why people don't like open office floorplans. Thank you for making me realize why
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by kevinmershon 3y ago
With all that salary, keep the job and hire a team of outsourced workers to build the business of your dreams on the side.
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by kevinmershon 3y ago
All but one of our engineers at my company use Emacs. We work in Elixir, Clojure, and Typescript. Varying configurations for sure, but mostly Doom Emacs and Spacemacs.
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by kevinmershon 3y ago
to be fair, that's what robot means etymologically
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by kevinmershon 3y ago
> When I say a simple design, I mean a design that is easy to understand, use, and operate. If a design makes sense to a team that had nothing to do with its inception, that’s a good sign. This closing line really spoke to me. Doubly so
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by kevinmershon 3y ago
Thank you for writing it. This whole post has made me really curious and I've taken the dive into Talon, already having written an app layer for Warp terminal and exposing my (normally not detected) terminal emacs to Talon. I'm no
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by kevinmershon 3y ago
I believe you w.r.t. tech-first companies. I work in a tiny software dept in a small service company and we have no infrastructure like this at all. It would be nice to know how I can go from zero-to-Grai.
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by kevinmershon 3y ago
Your intro video started with the assumption, I think, that a team already has some infra relating to this called DBT. It would be nice to have a video for onboarding from scratch assuming there's no data prior effort toward data obser
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by kevinmershon 3y ago
Agreed. So, in a word, Emacs. It's just Emacs buffers everywhere
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by kevinmershon 3y ago
That is incredibly exciting! Glad to hear it.

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