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I used your repo as a foundation for my setup. it was a big help getting started. Many thanks!

The unofficial infrastructure policy has explicitly been "if we don't build it, they won't come" since at least the 70s.

I think you're confusing the wrong Boyer. Robert Boyer is the namesake for Boyer-Moore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_S._Boyer

Another option is to listen to music that's in a different language. I have a playlist that I affectionately call "French Bistro".

You are allowed to use your personal license at work. https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240855-Can-...

I still consider Asheville home although I've been in Austin for 15 years now. I would move back in a heartbeat (provided I could convince my wife). Luckily, family is still there,…

Distributed team of 3 engineers with over 40 years of combined experience that have worked together for 6 years. Our current contract is winding down. Open to Contract or maybe FT.…

There are some more friendly options than Google Authenticator if it's a hassle to keep setting up over and over. I keep my 2FA in 1Password, and it works pretty well. I can access…

It sounded like they verified her speculation: SMITH: Ashley tried to get another job in banking, but she found that she never made it very far past the initial interviews. She sus…

Take a good look at Ratpack. I've been very impressed. Built on Netty.

Have to agree here. The article's use of Optional is well intentioned, but shows use of the construct in a way that it was not intended. It should be used minimally, and only as a …

Really anything involving graphics and interactivity. It's why I still remember moving the Logo turtle around.

Apache Tapestry has a library called Plastic that serves the same purpose and is also built on top of ASM. Plastic helps Tapestry handle a lot of the boilerplate and ceremony with …

This is part of their powerpack add-on, so not everyone may have it right out the box.

I was using those animations as a refresher just this past week. Really excellent work to whoever put that together.

As a corollary, for what should I avoid using Redis? I've heard wonderful things, but I've also heard that you can easily abuse Redis for things that aren't appropriate.

I'm interested in what and how quick the development/testing cycle is. How quickly can you spin up, populate, and destroy a test instance for integration testing? How do you iterat…

Any best practices or gotchas about query authoring in comparison to a typical relational database? What part of the traditional relational db mentality needs to be changed or thro…

Yeah ... I was caught too. "Why on Earth would .... ohhhh".

It does work on gmail, but is definitely not gmail specific. Used to do that trick on my college email account.

Congratulations as well! I've been using Vagrant mainly as a testing platform for authoring Puppet modules, and it's been wonderful.