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mkumm

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About mkumm

Software Developer, mostly Elixir.

Recent public activity

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    Show HN: Self-contained Kafka demo for developers coming from RabbitMQ

    I'm an Elixir developer with a RabbitMQ background, currently learning C# and Kafka. To make the concepts stick, I built this self-contained demo — it gets you up and running in ab…

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    Show HN: AnyOneWillDo – instantly choose someone from a list

    A random selector and small groups formation tool. Includes quick demo links on top. No ads, no account needed. Looking for feedback.

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    Comment #20584221

    Looking for any software projects that have successfully adopted this approach for extensibility.

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    Comment #20583883

    Has anyone successfully implemented this? Fascinating approach, but outside of the "manual" I can't seem to find much information about it.

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    Comment #15484578

    Using a notebook. Just writing down observations (code, health, whatever) was incredibly powerful in making and evaluating changes.

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    Comment #12247503

    Love the site, but $348 a year feels really steep. Glad I purchased most of the library before the pricing model change.

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    Comment #7282995

    Finding 5 people to buy your product/service does not validate your idea; but if you can't find 5, then you can save yourself some time and money.

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    Comment #7121553

    Anyone else find it strange that the "blog" only has one post?

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    Comment #6465015

    I have never seen someone successfully guess at how long tasks will take and use that as a method of planning. At some point you are dropping tasks off, or adding them to your day …

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    Comment #5776829

    Nice and clean but I am not sure what problem it is really trying to solve.

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    Comment #5735133

    I wonder how much of the $2k decrease could be contributed to geography? I think we are seeing more opportunities for technical jobs throughout the US, lowering the percentage of d…

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    Comment #5013820

    I have been through both, K&R and Shaw. K&R is the resource I point new developers to who want to learn C.

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    Comment #4653821

    Will give this a go next week with a limited number of our admins

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    Comment #4651524

    This looks pretty interesting, I will give it a go

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    Comment #4651521

    I am sincerely encouraged. My biggest block has been that writing is hard and I have been way too critical of my own work. Looking for the perfect method, etc has stopped me from p…

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    Comment #4651508

    I don't see this solving a problem that doesn't already have a (few) solutions. It is early and I will add this to my radar

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    Comment #4185246

    Detroit is hiring! Software Engineers (PHP, Ruby, Python, .Net) You can do some quick looks at: - Quicken Loans ( http://quickenloanscareers.com/ ) - Detroit Venture Partner ( http…

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    Comment #125127

    I actually agree. I have been programming for the web for about 8 years now and looking back, I wish that the web server had not been such a mystery - it would have been helpful.