A software engineer working from home. Homeschooling father of 5. Objectivism.

Joined April 2010
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John Mercier retweeted
2 Jul 2024
Seriously, I wish this was a troll. Can we not write software anymore without ravaging about being pro-this and anti-that? Christ. I applaud the maintainer for keeping their calm and just closing it as spam. I'd have probably said something not so nice impulsively.
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John Mercier retweeted
NixOS commits "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder
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6 Apr 2024
Test Driven Development should be done after a Design stage.
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11 Mar 2024
I had a dream someone hacked neuralink and is forcing friends to fight to the death while others are forced to record it.
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23 Mar 2023
Ok @ApacheGroovy. The product I started working on is moving away from groovy template because of this article and it makes me sad. springhow.com/spring-boot-te…

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10 Oct 2023
Freemarker went into production for 10% of requests. It is 10x slower than groovy.
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11 Jul 2023
I thought you were doing so good until now. Social media companies are also a victim of censorship. Why should they be liable for something the government made them do?
YouTube claims to be a social media platform, but it's not. It deplatforms disfavored views. That makes it a normal media company, not subject to Section 230 liability protections. Enough is enough. Congress &/or the courts should strip YouTube of its Section 230 status.
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15 Jun 2023
Just a reminder, Lobok Value classes do not need to be replaced by java records. There is an obvious advantage with lombok. Stop complaining and learn lombok.
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20 Apr 2023
Involuntary tax is a political agenda
This is a disturbing pattern of behavior. I hope IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel addresses this directly. The public needs to trust that the IRS is not being weaponized to advance a political agenda.
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20 Apr 2023
Why does maven still require test classes end in Test?
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23 Mar 2023
It is weird to use the intellij to run a test but, instead of using the debug and breakpoint buttons, you write print statements everywhere in the code. It is ok to write print statements everywhere but remember to remove them. Doing extra work to not learn the debugger.
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23 Mar 2023
AWS CodeComit is slow
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23 Feb 2023
I'm seeing a trend in our code where if a class had one method it is always a functional interface and referenced as such. There is this extra layer of abstraction that is less descriptive and harder to trace. It is not a win for functional programming at all.
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23 Feb 2023
Just use the logger
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17 Feb 2023
Don't confuse teaching skills with the freedom to choose what is best for your children. Parents need options, not an argument against highly skilled teachers.
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17 Feb 2023
Then there are the many online apps we use developed by specialists. Prodigy, brains, typing.com, tynker, code combat.

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17 Feb 2023
Parents should evaluate what their kids need and their ability to meet that need. They should have the freedom to choose specialists. Education should be a marketplace for parents to pick from.
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