Viewing profile — billman

Not a course, but a good podcast by great engineers: https://anchor.fm/happypathprogramming

I refuse to read this article.

I wish I had seen this 20 years ago. I did some horrible things in c++ that I would be embarrassed to see today. It was a fun language to explore though, and I learned much from it…

Thanks. Its refreshing to see someone giving props in the comments.

Java is pretty solid, but not percieved as cutting edge anymore, even though they are still improving it. I think Oracle has done a better job then I originally expected. I think t…

I think you can use replication to accomplish this.

I had a hard time buying the cards at first. I think this was due to the fact that creativity is hard to put a value on. I ended up buying two packs (I gave one as a gift), and I c…

Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a structure)

Best of luck Eric. I can feel the ship turning.

Facebook is going down the same road with forcing you to install messenger if you have messages.

Another thing to think about is that these responses may cross generations. i.e the anxiety someone experiences today may be due to trauma suffered by thier grandparents. The mind …

Just wondering if you are a parent.

I read this, but it seems incomplete.

The best keyboard I can think of is one that tells me to get my butt out of the chair and go for a walk every two hours.

What was the saying...embrace extend extinguish

As I look back on my career, there have been things that I learned early on that I still am able to leverage today (i.e. bash, linux, vim, java). There are a slew of other technolo…

Congrats to the team for the 1.0 release.

Thank you for sharing. I'm glad your still here to relate your story. I think speaking these things is an important part of the healing process. Pax et bonum.

Do you know if EKS will ever be supported?

Ubunutu LTS. I've been using Linux since the STS days (about 50 3.5 floppy disks). I used to compile my own kernels, enter clock timings for my video driver, but now I'm older and …

If your computational load is spikey, I would suggest looking at fargate and the spot market. Also for storage, I would suggest leveraging S3 whenever possible.

Any good idea in software can and will be abused to the point where it seems like a bad idea. It's all about context people.

Just curious, how would you manage bitcoin fractional shares.

sub foolOnce() { return raku(); } sub foolTwice() { return perl5(); }