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hoov

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About hoov

I'm a full-stack engineer and manager who has worked at Bit9, Adobe, Dropbox, InsightSquared, Evisort, and Randori.

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    There is also spyware running on them. They literally spy on what you're watching and send the info home, and the data gets sold to market to you. No thanks. Edit. They also connec…

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    I was in the same boat, but I'm taking some time off work and I'm very happy with the Lua support. New link to my dotfiles to come. In the mean time, here are my current ones, in c…

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    Comment #22511398

    I've tried a bunch of X servers, but with a 4k display, they're all too slow to be usable. I'm settling for running WSL inside Alacritty for now.

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    Comment #20509353

    Or even nothing goes wrong suddenly. Once, I had a vacation planned for six months and had to spend the long weekend cooped up in my hotel room overseeing a complicated migration.

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    Comment #20469578

    > There's an asymmetry because Amazon can "afford" to double check everything? How? Well, Amazon shows you the percent discount. I can't imagine that there are too many items over,…

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    This is so great! While at Adobe, to solve some technical issues, I wrote a microservice that sat along HAProxy, providing a REST interface to manipulate the configuration, validat…

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    It's a little more complicated than that. Even with a riving knife, you can still get kickback if your blade isn't aligned properly -- and most cheaper saws need a tune-up before b…

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    Comment #18864652

    This is really nice, especially all the integrations. I've been using slides.com for a while, and I may switch to this. But, one feature that would be amazing would be the ability …

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    Comment #15609372

    Difficult, but possible. We did this with Buzzword at Adobe. The hardest part was the UX, honestly. Most knowledge workers need some hand holding, to say nothing of teachers and st…

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    I'm not a fan of this. First of all, requirements.txt is for development requirements. Runtime ones belong in setup.py. Also, the "extras" feature is already in setup.py via extras…

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    Comment #14817756

    Unfortunately, I bet there are a bunch of regulations, both federal and per state. For example, the 7k memory limit is a state-by-state thing: "Memory sizes greater than those perm…

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    Comment #14817755

    Unfortunately, I bet there are a bunch of regulations, both federal and per state. For example, the 7k memory limit is a state-by-state thing: "Memory sizes greater than those perm…

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    Comment #14817579

    Sun sat at 4:15 PM in Boston last December 21st. I'd take 6 PM over that. Sunrise was 7:10.

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