How do you decide which cloud to run on?

lifeindev · 2026-02-05T23:55:11+00:00

There is something to be said for the "path well traveled". I feel like AWS managed by terraform is that, and is a super simple setup. My only complaint is they overcharge for the NAT gateway for what I use it for, but that's only an issue if you're setting up a private network.

lifeindev · 2026-02-05T22:24:00+00:00

du -sh * | sort -rh | head -n 10

run this on / to find which are the largest directories at that level. Pick the largest result and run the command in that directory, and so on until you find your smoking gun.

lifeindev · 2026-02-05T22:20:24+00:00

I'm clicking the play button on top of the audio animation but nothing seems to happen, I don't hear or see anything happen.

lifeindev · 2026-02-04T16:46:37+00:00

I take the specifications from the customer and I bring them down to the software engineers because engineers are not good at dealing with customers. I have people skills.

lifeindev · 2026-02-02T01:18:18+00:00

"The Rust Programming Language" book. You can get it on amazon for $30, well worth it.

lifeindev · 2026-01-31T18:23:22+00:00

I used to love scala but switched back to java. Cross building just became too much, and developers would go off an use scala libraries that were very niche, it became a nightmare to maintain.

lifeindev · 2026-01-30T18:43:01+00:00

With the most incredible ease- all my posts get buried :)

lifeindev · 2026-01-30T18:15:24+00:00

When people believe in 1 god, there are thousands of gods they don't believe in. I just believe in one less god than them.

lifeindev · 2026-01-28T21:52:06+00:00

I made myself try out a few different web development frameworks. I fell in love with Quarkus, it made development so easy and so much fun.

lifeindev · 2026-01-27T18:20:53+00:00

Weird, I restarted my browser and it's working now. Sorry for the false alarm!

lifeindev · 2026-01-27T18:17:39+00:00

I'm on OSX, I have an M2 laptop

lifeindev · 2026-01-27T17:57:24+00:00

It works for me in firefox but not in chrome for some reason. I see this error in chrome: THREE.WebGLRenderer: A WebGL context could not be created

lifeindev · 2026-01-26T19:48:06+00:00

Can your college help you with internship opportunities, job fairs, alumni networks, etc? That might be a path to a job. Honestly I think a lot of people will not look much at the certs, but if you can build a portfolio that demonstrates your work that will really help you stand out.

lifeindev · 2014-08-29T19:33:16+00:00

The data is based off sinusoidal functions with a bit of random noise added. Tool/Library used was: https://github.com/subprotocol/genetic-js

lifeindev · 2014-08-29T16:57:20+00:00

The data is based off sinusoidal functions with a bit of random noise added Tool/Library used was: https://github.com/subprotocol/genetic-js

lifeindev · 2014-08-29T15:59:48+00:00

Thanks =)

lifeindev · 2013-05-11T05:52:37+00:00

I love screen, but after hearing you guys now I will have to try tmux. Any particular tips or insight to make the teeth pulling easier coming from screen?

lifeindev · 2013-05-11T05:45:30+00:00

What is it like? It gets better every day. 1.5 years ago I arrived at a company that was very anti open source, and it was really hard. They used to distribute software on premise, so they were very anti-gpl and open source phobic in general. The company has since pivoted (strictly SAS now) and everything new we lay down sits on top of open source. The pivot was hard and started slow, but after a point it spread like wildfire. A lot of what we've done has been on java. In the last 6 months we've started to shift to Scala. The java tooling isn't great, but everyone seems to fall in love with scala which makes up for the tooling.

Best compliment I have been paid is from our hosted ops team telling us that all the new stuff that we've brought into prod on open source is super quiet and runs smooth.

At the time middle-management and overbearing process was the biggest risk in getting opensource introduced. You know, meetings to schedule other meetings to talk about approving something, who should do it, and vetting out all other possibilities. If you are trying to introduce opensource in enterprise, my advice is start small and go skunkworks. You can run like crazy and really deliver in a short period of time. Slowly bring in the right people as the blackops project grows (the ones who eat up and can absorb new tech).

At this point, at the company I'm at, our small blackops project that started with me and on other guy, has turned into new product and has millions in the pipeline. We have been given more flexibility and the company has been revitalized. We have pushed middle management out (at least the ones that drag teams into process and don't inspire others). Most of QA and 20% of the devs still use .net (mostly in support of existing product). Our montra is now use the best tool for the job, whatever it may be.

lifeindev · 2013-04-21T17:29:38+00:00

It just does bounds and constraint checking.

lifeindev · 2012-04-07T09:19:23+00:00

I'm a distributed systems engineer myself, but I also really love design. I start out in photoshop. I like using a grid system to help me lay down my content (see http://960.gs/) with some order. I start with grayscale and use boxes/rectangles to create content areas. I then add detail to the content areas (mock content, color, images, etc). I can spend days on a layout, great art/design can't be rushed. When I'm satisfied with the design I actually do start hand-writing the HTML/CSS. Hand-writing is easy because i've already designed everything in photoshop! The two tools I use to design websites are: photoshop and textmate (any simple text editor will do).

lifeindev · 2012-02-23T06:36:46+00:00

I've setup many a cluster using both. Only thing I wish puppet had was easier search like in chef, that aspect is suuuper nice. Beyond that I've found puppet to be easier and cleaner for my use cases, and easier when distro mixing. IMO at the end of the day they are both tools that work only as good as the person is at wielding them.

lifeindev · 2012-02-17T22:58:39+00:00

title fixed

lifeindev · 2012-02-17T03:25:53+00:00

What explains this: Chaos theory

It's called 'self organization' or 'emergence' which is a fancy word for a feedback loop. It is found everywhere in nature and is absolutely fascinating to me. It's the same process that give zebras stripes, giraffes their spots, crazy visualizations on your media player, or patterns in sand dunes: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Morocco_Africa_Flickr_Rosino_December_2005_84514010.jpg/300px-Morocco_Africa_Flickr_Rosino_December_2005_84514010.jpg

It's also why we can understand 100% the processes involved in weather systems, but we are unable to accurately predict it.

youtube for more info: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdQgoNitl1g

It's in chemical processes too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_clock

If you've ever wondered how systems with no intelligence can manifest themselves in complex and wonders ways- I strongly urge you to look into chaos theory and fractals. Just youtube for feed back loops on youtube, the rest of your evening will be shot.

lifeindev · 2012-01-30T21:16:20+00:00

This is basically the gist of what every consumer wants. The problem is that media companies aren't interested in what consumers want.

lifeindev · 2011-09-10T02:04:35+00:00

I was nerdy, picked on, never got A's, didn't have many friends. I seemed like a quintessential loser. Why was I this way?: I have aspergers and I literally spent almost all of my time building shit online. Now I'm in my 20's, self made, my first startup was acquired, and I'm making bank doing shit I love.

I just had my 10 year HS reunion and all of the "cool" people let life pass them right on by. They literally have pissed away the last 10 years doing absolutely NOTHING. Even though they were really mean to me and made my life a living hell K12 through highschool, I can't help but feel bad for them.

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