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thekemkid

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About thekemkid

30-something year old Software developer based out of Waterford, Ireland.

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    Comment #42964108

    In Node, you would commonly reach for the builtin core "node:crypto" module to run cryptographic functionality like this. I wondered why that wasn't used here, but bcryptjs was. Af…

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    Comment #40775464

    In my final semester of uni, we did an "AI" module, which involved using prolog. I didn't really grok it until the night before the final exam. Felt like I had a bit of a beautiful…

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    Comment #22822831

    Do you, or anyone else in the team or community, have a good resource you would recommend to people complaining about "too much boilerplate" in redux code? It is likely the most co…

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    Comment #22822766

    hooks and the context api are great for small projects. Check out the hooks comparison section in the linked article to understand how it might fit your app. It references other go…

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    Comment #15295199

    Seems like a hijacking: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/10/io_hijacking_in_tra...

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    Comment #13082787

    Is "black box" tracing available, and feasible for production systems without a large perf impact?

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    Comment #13055692

    This attitude is why silicon valley is well on its way to becoming the villain in the narrative of our progress. It is a place dedicated to redefining the world we live in. Valley …

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    Comment #11944617

    So what can be learned from this tidbit? Don't get decapitated.

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    Comment #11918082

    The good news is, for the average user, unikernels are pretty much guaranteed to be mainstream and streamlined at some stage in the future, thanks to Docker acquiring Unikernel Sys…

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    Comment #9783970

    The 'a' glyph annoys me, the rest of the glyphs are rounded.

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    Comment #9646752

    OMG, I need to add this to my .vimrc. Thanks :D

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    Comment #9587596

    I did some work with 'old' famo.us, and boy was it slow going. Then again, at the time I was relatively new to javascipt, so understanding scope, callbacks and such was hard at the…

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    Comment #9333515

    That is so cool. There's a great demo of orbitals and the like that can be picked up from this. I would have loved if a physics teacher showed me something like this when I was in …

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    Comment #9306544

    Thank you very much.

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    Comment #9306161

    Could someone explain this to me like I'm a 5 year old? I feel like it went over my head. How does maths relate to altruism?

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    Comment #9303197

    Psst, he's talking about waterboarding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding Its actually a very smart topic :D

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    Comment #9302837

    Micromonitor reaping huge rewards as nearForm moves all developers to four inch screens! Announcement: http://www.nearform.com/nodecrunch/micromonitor-reaping-huge...

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    Comment #8242701

    Mostly just scammers, though.