ClayM

same -i'm an extremely heavy user, now i'm investigating what alternatives are out there

i ran into a regional bank who wanted to pay a principal engineer $115K to build their entire digital customer facing platform

i was stunned

This looks pretty slick.

Can you tell us about the technology stack behind it?

how did your co-workers respond this well meaning abuse of the emergency meeting? :)

we spent enough there that our rebate pays for the membership heh

it also gets pricey if you have a lot of secrets. $0.40/secret

We were recently moved into a temporary space where there's a dozen or so people in a 40x40 room at any one point.

A lot of them have meetings with our business partners, which requires a lot of talking on the phone.

This noise isn't background noise, it isn't random white noise, it's noise that diverts your attention constantly because you may know what they are talking about. It's not something you can tune out.

I'm currently googling for noise blocking headphones.

thank you sir

~10 years ago I wanted to be able to take advantage of watching video on this newfangled iPhone thing, but most content was not yet readily available or purchasable in a format that could be played - specifically I wanted to watch The Daily Show and Colbert Report.

I had a chain of apps and scripts which would watch for a forum torrents of those, download them, use handbrake to convert them, add them to my iTunes library, then generate new .torrent files and post the mobile friendly versions back to the forum (gotta keep that ratio up).

Things are much easier and less legally sketchy nowadays :)

I played the piano growing up, but pretty much stopped when I was 16 - i discovered sports, computers, girls

When I was 30, I decided to pick up the guitar.

Knowing how to read music was certainly a jump start, but it's certainly doable.

JustinGuitar.com is a fantastic resource, but finding a teacher is the best.

Mine is actually pretty good - it doesn't pick up when I sit down, but will occasionally turn on sleep mode while I'm lying in bed reading.

However it marks me as awake during that sleep time, so I guess it's accurate?

<Megacities> Hold my beer.

Is there a good option for encrypted cloud storage that this can access? Unless you want whoever scanning your stuff and seeing your collection of anime...

"simply" indicates you've never tried to stand up a fairly recent javascript stack :D

that being said, you're not wrong. Maybe 5% (maybe less) of the guys out there are smart enough to build libraries and frameworks. the next 45% of the guys out there are smart enough to see all the pieces and figure out how to fit them together.

the other 50% understand syntax and can write code, but aren't capable of any sort of bigger picture stuff.

and if my recent interviews are any indication, the split outside of silicon valley is more like 2/18/80.

Shoot, I'm not in that "let's build brilliant frameworks" crew. I don't think I am at least. Haven't really tried :D

figuring out why that is happening would be a good interview question!

I throw real life problems I've run into (and fixed!) at people and ask them to give me things they would do to troubleshoot, and compare it to what I did. Always nice when somebody suggests something new.

I also ask 10,000 foot questions. "Say you're wanting to build a new app that behaves like Instagram. What's your hosting platform, your technology stack, and explain why?".

I've been paid to write code for 20 years or so and can't remember any of those friggin algorithms.

Being able to understand a problem enough to successfully google an answer is the most valuable skill for a programmer.

RimWorld is wonderful, everybody should play it.

beer?

oh man, auto play on mobile apps that kill what you were listening to, requiring you to switch back the other app makes me want to throw my phone out the window.

You're right, it's more like "some developers bad, all marketers bad" :)

I've been using JetBrains DataGrip for my postgres needs. Been pretty good.

Credit to the Tesla guys for setting up the monitoring so well that it kept everybody alive.

I switched myself and my family to use 1Password Family. Been very happy with it. Syncs across all user and devices (except IE lol)

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but laziness is it's apathetic dad.

Kudos, sir. Kudos.

If I'm a one man show, doing my own DevOps, what my best option?

I'm technically proficient, but I want easy.

Would this or coreos/dex replace something like Auth0?

Does this provide universal/isomorphic rendering?

Do you have any recommendations on crawling / detecting changes on a large set of data? For example, the RSS feeds for every podcast on the planet?

i'm on the older side of the millennial generation (born in 1980) and since I was 22, I've been going to one of those nicer gyms where there's lots of old men walking around with their junk hanging out.

it bothered me for about 6 months, then i got over it.

also realized that it was an amazing place to network. putting up walls would have been bad for my career.