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nimblegorilla

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About nimblegorilla

Email: nate@nimblegorilla.com

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    Comment #42657753

    > My point is that I rarely don't regret (for my careers sake) jumping in and delivering (obvious to me heh heh) value right away because I see the code I see where it ought to be …

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    Comment #42261029

    It's not really a framework, but I've been having a lot of fun live coding music in Sonic Pi: https://sonic-pi.net/ It has built-in functions for chords and scales and is pretty ea…

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    Comment #42206902

    > Just because someone is confident about their own weird interpretation of something on the Internet does not make it true. You seem confident about your interpretation... Does th…

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    Comment #42205182

    I don't know the original comment's intent, but adding "..." at the end of your message is now considered by some as rude: https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/149145/is-t…

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    Comment #42016256

    From my perspective simple boolean means a single known value stored in one variable. I suspect the underlying code performs a number of calculations for each one of the flow chart…

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    Comment #39527707

    I pay for an email address connected to a domain that I own. It's fairly inexpensive and I could switch email providers relatively easily.

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    Comment #39513385

    If AI makes junior developers "better" than senior developers then what stops senior developers from adopting the tools and becoming once again better than the juniors?

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    Comment #39410967

    > Coverage as a whole I think is useful only if you have an engineering organization that doesn't see the point in tests - which is going to be its own uphill battle. I think cover…

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    Comment #39195461

    I think it's a more important feature than just a cosmetic color. Imagine if you bought a truck to haul cargo, but were then told it can only transport one type of cargo at a time.…

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    Comment #38433533

    > it's connected to wifi (and it just happily connects even if it's been off for a month or two), and all devices can just connect to it and print. Never need to reconnect or do an…

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    Comment #36056974

    > My two cents on this is that he is saying "working from home is morally wrong" - for his companies... but he left out the for his companies part. If you watch his interview you s…

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    Comment #33247659

    I sort of agree. Jobs usually have aspects that seem unrewarding. But if you spend most of your time cleaning break rooms then it doesn't let you grow the type of skills needed to …

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    Comment #31935658

    I agree Steam games are a difficult market to break into, but there are other ways to make money. Unity is also a nice platform if you want to produce interactive content for corpo…

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    Comment #25125765

    > Abstract concepts map very well to objects. The problem of mapping a business domain to computing structures isn't unique to OOP. Yes, I agree in theory. What I meant to say is t…

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    Comment #25118769

    I think OOP is great, but one weakness is that a lot of abstract concepts don't really map to objects. And then people have flamewars about where to put those concepts. In the real…

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    Comment #24720879

    Thanks for sharing that. It's mind-blowing that Google runs everything from a single repo. Most places that I work with create several repos for just one project.

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    Comment #24701426

    Seems like a form of thought policing which didn't apply to yourself. Hyperbole that I trashed his career and "not a good look" also appears like an off topic attack.

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    Comment #24693987

    Point is that `squash` is a useful tool used by many other successful professionals. I'm allowed to disagree with the author's opinion of the root cause of his bug and the factors …

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    Comment #24687999

    Seems like the real bug was in his handling of JwtSecurityTokenHandler. He claims to be an expert on dependency injection with two decades of automated testing experience. I wonder…

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    Comment #24662486

    > If you're regular Joe (and, yes, that most likely includes YOU reading this) you can't afford to shut down most opportunities or you'll never get anywhere. Anyone with software d…

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    Comment #24408649

    Even more important that LISTENING to someone is actually COMPREHENDING what the other person is saying. Directly from the article: "In short, try to keep your mind open. You might…

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    Comment #23643908

    I agree that titles don't describe the exact contents of books, but if I want to learn Python then I'd probably skip a book titled "Intermediate Javascript". If you read the full a…