Posts by nbering@mastodon.xyz
(DIR) Post #793509 by nbering@mastodon.xyz
2018-10-27T05:47:20Z
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@ehashman I’m not really into Clojure, but I find the Debian Ecosystem fascinating. It was cool to hear about your experiences becoming a package maintainer.I was interested in building a package contributing a patch at one point... but the maintainer’s guide was... well... a little dry. I might take a crack at it again sometime.
(DIR) Post #793736 by nbering@mastodon.xyz
2018-10-27T05:54:58Z
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@veer66 Early versions of C# didn’t have generics. Collections and lists were a nightmare. There were basically 3 options:1. Hand-craft a custom Collection that inherited from the base collection, with method overrides that returned your custom types2. Same as option 1, but with code generation templates3. Cast everything to Object, and pray you don’t end up with a list of something else when you cast it back to your custom typeGenerics are soo much nicer.
(DIR) Post #825585 by nbering@mastodon.xyz
2018-10-28T21:55:55Z
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@ehashman I use #Ansible pretty heavily. It’s sort of it’s own product, but is backed by #RedHat. I’ll reserve my final judgement until I start to see what changes happen... but I’m not very optimistic that my intellectual investment in that product ecosystem will continue to pay off long-term.
(DIR) Post #825918 by nbering@mastodon.xyz
2018-10-28T22:12:10Z
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@ehashman @isagalaev And here I was having trouble getting a USB cable long enough to put my printer on the other side of my office. 🤷♂️
(DIR) Post #1073913 by nbering@mastodon.xyz
2018-11-09T10:07:33Z
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@veer66 I’ve heard curriculum is improving, but there’s still a general lack of training around process and project management. As far as I know this is something you still learn on-the-job.
(DIR) Post #1073914 by nbering@mastodon.xyz
2018-11-09T10:09:21Z
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@veer66 I wouldn’t know first-hand, because I didn’t go to college or university, but I ask similar questions of people who went, and acquaintances who teach.
(DIR) Post #1079213 by nbering@mastodon.xyz
2018-11-09T10:12:00Z
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@veer66 There’s so much “in the stack” these days that I don’t envy educators trying to decide what to teach. Learning to program is like trying to drink from a firehose.
(DIR) Post #1090106 by nbering@mastodon.xyz
2018-11-10T02:28:05Z
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@ehashman Does it become virtuous to consume quantities of eggnog, if it’s to protect someone else? 😇 Or is it still just gluttonous? 😈 Either way, count me in! 🥛
(DIR) Post #1090750 by nbering@mastodon.xyz
2018-11-10T02:33:58Z
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@ehashman Unless there’s Christmas music! 🚫🎄🎶🚫Too soon!🙀
(DIR) Post #1091506 by nbering@mastodon.xyz
2018-11-10T03:57:27Z
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@ehashman It could just be a change of taste, but the store bought stuff doesn’t seem anywhere near as good as it was when I was younger. As a family we’d go through cartons of it over the season. These days we don’t even buy any most years.
(DIR) Post #1284215 by nbering@mastodon.xyz
2018-11-17T22:19:58Z
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@ehashman I came to development from personal projects and the line-of-business to fill needs for the family business. Working with people who have never done that was a bit of a shock.
(DIR) Post #1336086 by nbering@mastodon.xyz
2018-11-19T23:23:40Z
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@veer66 Yup. This is why the blockchain hype is so ridiculous. Yes, in some situations it is an improvement over just having a regular database. But it’s not really _that_ revolutionary. You could achieve similar guarantees on a small scale just by digitally signing an audit log entries.
(DIR) Post #1656124 by nbering@mastodon.xyz
2018-12-02T14:11:38Z
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@ehashman The best partners are like Open Source projects. They’ll share all their history with you, and accept your requests for changes (or openly tell you what they aren’t willing to change).
(DIR) Post #1818800 by nbering@mastodon.xyz
2018-12-08T00:12:39Z
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@veer66 The first time I wrote a little python I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I find though that the satisfaction doesn’t endure for larger projects, though it’s great for small glue scripts. I find I occasionally use it in place of Shell since it’s pre-installed on most machines I use.
(DIR) Post #1972633 by nbering@mastodon.xyz
2018-12-14T03:27:52Z
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@veer66 That’s a really interesting idea. Our regional government (below provincial, above municipal) has a group of staffers really advocating for Open Data and they have influence up to the provincial level. They already run a CKAN server for local datasets... if there’s some way to integrate that with ActivityPub I’d suggest it to them.
(DIR) Post #2203978 by nbering@mastodon.xyz
2018-12-23T01:03:40Z
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@ehashman That's a pretty long time, but similar trade-off to having laundry in your home vs. laundromat even without being in the big city.Takes me more than a day to do family's laundry, and that's assuming I remember to change loads. At a laundromat, could run loads in parallel and be done in an hour or two. But what a pain lugging laundry out of the house.
(DIR) Post #2279134 by nbering@mastodon.xyz
2018-12-25T15:43:21Z
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@veer66 I used to develop in .Net on Windows. C# is still one of my favourite languages ever, but I’m still waiting for some more polish on the installation process before I do anything with it cross-platform. Still feels too heavy for the user.
(DIR) Post #2376032 by nbering@mastodon.xyz
2018-12-28T19:58:40Z
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@ehashman Is that Ice? We don’t get much of that in December here in Niagara except in really cold years. Being between the lakes keeps things warmer until usually late January or February.We tried doing an outdoor skating rink for a couple years, but with only a month or two of favorable weather it wasn’t worthwhile without a chiller.
(DIR) Post #2383743 by nbering@mastodon.xyz
2018-12-28T20:02:37Z
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@ehashman I enjoy following @veer66, if you’re not already. Good Open Source and ActivityPub -related toots, with a distinctly international perspective.
(DIR) Post #2383744 by nbering@mastodon.xyz
2018-12-28T20:03:29Z
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@ehashman @veer66 Also lots of pictures of coffee. ☕️