Viewing profile — AccordionGuy

Congrats on the launch! I’m happy to see OpenZiti in your networking stack alongside Istio. The combo of sandbox-per-agent and MCPs-in-separate-containers is exactly the kind of de…

Damn it, I was going to post the same thing!

MS;DR (Mark Steyn; didn’t read.)

Silly me; I thought they were still a thing. I did some quick searches and found out they dissolved in 2013.

When did they last update the site? The “News Flash” announcement about Joichi Ito being selected to head the MIT Media Lab hasn’t just aged, but it’s aged like milk. In his time r…

The “live” ticker box transactions are randomly generated; see the source code: http://coin-ether.net/scripts/table.js

The i5 10300H and Ryzen 5 4600H are pretty similar, according to the data on UserBenchmark: https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-10300H-v...

The specs for the laptop you’re interested in are pretty close to the ones for the Acer Nitro 5 (2020 model, Intel i5 10300H processor, NVIDIA HTX 1650 with 4 GB RAM). I wrote abou…

I tweaked the code to find the 5 integers whose cubes sum to 2017 to insure that they are distinct, and to pull out of all those loops once a soltuion has been found: https://cloud…

I've never had a problem with carry both an accordion and a knapsack containing my laptops. The accordion I travel with fits handily in just about every aircraft's overhead compart…

The position is for a developer advocate , so the best thing for me to show is my work along those lines, which is quite well-documented in the Global Nerdy blog. Whether at Tucows…

I wanted to use: - A language with a REPL so that I could check my ideas in a terminal window. - A language that would reduce the amount of typing I'd have to do - A language I tha…

I didn't sign any agreements of any sort, and the question was about as generic as "FizzBuzz" that I wasn't giving away anything. If it's a problem, I can make it right by editing …

I tend to go with more humourous bits like that on weekend posts; that's my style.

Yup, it's serious. I'm don't know for certain that I've been ruled out of a follow-up interview, but I got that vibe by the end.

I knew I wouldn't be the only person to think, "Oh my, it's Timecube all over again..."

You might want to talk to my friend, Rob Hyndman, whose law firm, Hyndman Law, specializes in legal work for tech businesses and startups, and he's based in the west end of Toronto…

I created the convenience functions "multiple_of_3" and "multiple_of_5" for a couple of reasons: 1. To make it clear to the interviewer that I "get" the problem. 2. To prevent myse…

[Article author here!] Reg is right. The purpose of the FizzBuzz test was to weed out anyone who couldn't program at all and not punish anyone who forgot a semicolon, used = when t…