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JohnKacz

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I'm an application developer that does a little front-end work as well. Currently working for a small university's Educational Technology department and doing freelance work on the side.

I mainly do Ruby on Rails work but I've also dabbled in Node.js and Google App Engine (Python). I'm currently learning Elm and Elixir.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/johnkacz; my proof: https://keybase.io/johnkacz/sigs/BNCYEmclhfJUF8P9rDINFdYpZ1u7LiiS97OojhLkfoY ]

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I just wanted to say thank you for your work. I’ve used m4b-tool and some other projects that use it as a dependency and I am glad to be reminded of tone. It was just getting started last I looked at the project.

Java 16 5 years ago

I saw someone recently post the idea that Java/Scala/F# almost functioned as LTS/Stable/Dev in reference to how these languages were sharing impact.

Gotta be careful sometimes. At least one tutorial video site I used it on (where an account was needed) I was blocked and had to open a ticket to re-enable my account by promising not to break their ToS which said something explicit about not downloading a bunch of their videos. (I was using it on whole courses and got flagged)

I would say that for an individual it might be hard to honestly determine between those two states. I'd say for myself there have certainly been times where I _thought_ I wanted to play a video game for several hours but ultimately I understood, based on how I felt afterwards, that is not really what I wanted.

Sublime Text 3.0 9 years ago

Or give the diamond supporters the ability to vote on features. That may not be something Jon and Will would want though.

(Slightly off-topic) In a graduate theological program I was introduced to the idea of "second naiveté." Simply, if the faith we inherit is a naive one and a process like a graduate education deconstructs such a faith, second naiveté looks like a choice then to return to an assembled faith held in tension with the modern criticism used in the deconstruction.

It's an intensive and disruptive process that I'm not sure many want or are able to go through, but I wish would. The key here is to walk through the entire process (one which is actually cyclical in my opinion) with the individual. Anything less seems malicious or inconsiderate at best. Said another way, to destroy someones worldview or belief system (even flawed or dangerous ones) and not help them rebuild something is not going make the world a nicer place to live in.

Sorry for the uneducated question here, but I've wondered how those who steal crypto-currency "launder?" their ill-gotten coin. More specifically, how do they not get caught since the blockchain records everything? Take it out really quickly? Move little bits around to obscure ownership in some kind of shell game? Am I just totally off-base with my understanding?