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2 years

@laceynwilliams so horrible its got to be fake. i fail to imagine a father who would actually do this. maybe im too optimistic

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microservices arent for scale, they're for humans. people don't like to share their pet gardens, follow other people's conventions, work on someone else's code, use a language they don't like. microservices allow everyone to have greenfield work all the time.

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Counterpoint: Java (Scala) microservices we’re an absolute nightmare for us at Twitter as we migrated off Ruby on Rails. Much of the complexity that Elon mentioned after he bought the company was from this architecture.

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@simonsarris they're empty because there's no casual cafe or bakery in the middle of it. that's the problem: density doesn't work if you're not densely next to useful commerces

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- mom speaks to 2yo daughter strictly in Korean - dad speaks strictly in French - we speak English to each other. turns out our daughter actually understands English as well as KR/FR. my mind is blown 🤯

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@kvlly downloading the "classic" version is your way to contribute toward MSFT's tech-debt and increasing their spend on deprecation work. so if you want to inflict pain, pick that one.

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@levelsio to me this (neural networks) is really so amazing in its simplicity and beauty 1) neural networks are graph of "neurons", some off the shelf simple function representing a neuron charging up and activating. 2) graphs in general can be modeled many ways. edge-list,

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Autodesk really shot themselves in the foot by neutering hobby access to Fusion 360. taking a look at FreeCAD and damn it's good! gonna go spend my $ on sponsoring it every month instead of a Fusion 360 subscription

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10 months

@cpojer smart locks: don't need to carry keys anymore. smart outlet: turn on bathroom space heater only when overnight forecast is too cold etc. plenty of time saving, space saving, energy saving stuff.

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2 years

hi @planetscaledata , so excited to join your team!

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1 year

when i picked up Go, i read all the docs and all of the standard library. front to back. it served me incredibly well for the last 10y and it took me only a few hours

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@aarondfrancis

1 year

One of the easiest ways to gain a relative advantage in your field is to read the docs. Not just reference them, read them straight through. This gives you a massive edge because no one ever does it! Same goes for technical books, they'll give you superpowers.

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It's also my last day at @PlanetScale . It's been a privilege to contribute to this amazing product over the last year. The team there is phenomenal, and I've have a lot of fun. If you're hiring - a broad swath of roles were impacted and I'm happy to make introductions.

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@AJ4Tay @dannoyes plenty of much poorer places don't devolve into this

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@digbeebee @patriciamou_ they don't have the permit to live in the cities so they're sent back to their hometown if they're not working/in the street

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@AntoineGrondin

6 years

just realized I've merged 1000 PRs on the @digitalocean monorepo. in 4y that's about 1 for every business day 🚢 #shipit

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@AntoineGrondin

6 years

today was my last day @digitalocean and I'm looking at my account and access slowly being disabled and i feel like i'm slowly dying and disappearing from the world. my friends are surrounding me on Slack and we're waiting unsure when IT will come for me, but it's coming

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9 years

Here's part of my story: How I learned to code in Afghanistan. At last took time to write it down

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@peterrhague That's why I think fears about population collapse miss out on an easily anticipated 'revolution'. I doubt the youth will want to pay taxes to fund the elderly, particularly not the childless elderly. I bet you it won't take too long before places at the spearhead of this

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4 years

@levie I love how Donald Trump put on a hat and a coat and called Fox News pretending to be a secret witness.

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@AntoineGrondin

3 years

software testing is like govt regulations. - not enough and it's the wild west. - too many and you have a crippling bureaucracy. - the wrong ones and you've got a dystopian hell.

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2 years

@jewelbarlett @Tesla wtf

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4 months

@realEstateTrent the number one way to get career-ended is to get drunk at the mess night and hit on the general's wife. the whole point of the mess night is a challenge to not get drunk and not hit on the general's wife

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@AntoineGrondin

7 years

And as of now, I work at @digitalocean from a boat. How on point is that? AMA. #sailboat #boatlife #remotework #startup #tech #digitalocean #nomad #digitalnomad #wanderer #wanderlust

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@AntoineGrondin

2 years

today's my last day at GitHub, and it's been a blast. i'm leaving a great team working on an awesome, mind blowing new product that i can't wait to see go live! ...but another adventure awaits me!

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1 year

@IReallyCantPick @kittykushman626 @TheSOBofAIChat yes, average people that aren't interested in finance also want homes, turns out

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@AntoineGrondin

4 years

A very good friend passed away. I wish I could see her. She never got to meet my daughter. We haven't got to hangout in a while. I've never lost someone so close and I don't know how to handle it. I love you.

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@AntoineGrondin

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@bethanyjbabcock when my mom was dating a while ago, she complained of low quality men in their 50s. i told her to go do activities with a barrier to entry (e.g sailing) so she'd naturally meet folks who were prefiltered to at least not be boring slobs. it worked for her!

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@AntoineGrondin

3 years

@_tessr 👍🏻 you know how far you've come when your job change makes headlines on @FT 🤣

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@AntoineGrondin

10 months

@rohindhar nice OSB castle 😘

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@AntoineGrondin

1 year

if you didn't know, now you know

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@AntoineGrondin

6 years

Come play with this thing my team and I have been building for the last little while!

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@digitalocean

6 years

Introducing DigitalOcean Kubernetes in Limited Availability Quickly provision a @kubernetesio cluster with Droplets worker nodes to deploy and run your containerized services. Learn more:

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@AntoineGrondin

5 years

This is finally GA! I'd been working on this since its infancy and the prototype prior to that! So glad to see it's finally out there for everybody to use in production! A lot of labor went into this product!

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@digitalocean

5 years

Delighted to announce on the 1st day of #KubeCon that our Managed Kubernetes service is now production ready & Generally Available! 💙Read more:

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@ilove2pwn_ @Queen_fennec ok and what does that change? if it passes the TLS packets around, it doesn't matter if it's hacked or not. it can't see anything

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@AntoineGrondin

2 years

want to mock time in Go? you don't need a `clock` type, just make a field named `timeNow func() time.Time`

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@AntoineGrondin

6 years

sailed my sailboat from #LA to #SF w/ my brother. round Pt Concepcion and Pt Arguelo which was 😱🌪🌊🤮. passed Big Sur at night in thick fog 🙈🙉. anchored in San Simeon bay which was 👌🏻😍. got under the Golden Gate bridge w/ my own boat 🌉. pretty proud of ourselves #sailing

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@AntoineGrondin

6 years

hello @github

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@AntoineGrondin

6 months

today is my first day at CoreWeave! this should be fun!

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@AntoineGrondin

8 months

@rohindhar it just sold in June 2023 for 1.45M$ 🫣

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@AntoineGrondin

3 years

bloom filters have the inverse behavior of caches* - bloom filter: miss == definitely not present, hit == probably present - cache: miss == probably not present, hit == definitely present

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@AntoineGrondin

8 years

today @hashicorp releases terraform 0.7, with support for @digitalocean block storage! try it out

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@AntoineGrondin

2 years

sometimes i mess it up and sometimes i don't

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@AntoineGrondin

6 months

@sentientist coloring any attempt at natality policy with weaponized words like "eugenics" is a great way to kneecap any useful discourse

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@AntoineGrondin

4 years

@yongxiong2008 @_TheSeaning @NASAPersevere obviously because:

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@AntoineGrondin

7 years

"you would have to relocate because we like to have humans sitting in our chairs for no particular reason" it's 2017, tech industry, wake up

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@AntoineGrondin

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@levelsio i mean (1) recording the custom officer which pisses him off (2) turns out there's drugs in your luggages (3) not supposed to have drugs (4) make a big deal about the pilot having to convey the news (5) trash the pilot publicly. this isn't what reasonable people do.

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@airkatakana idt this will be as bad as doomsters portrait it, tbh. i think scenarios go like: - worst case: is going to be unpleasant (economic depression) but not collapse - expected case: probably just sad but not traumatic - best case: the problem will smooth out

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@AntoineGrondin

7 years

almost 3 years @digitalocean : a company that cares about my health, wellbeing and happiness & where i've made tons of cherishable friends

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@AntoineGrondin

6 years

$ doctl k8s cluster create hello-kubecon #kubecon #dok8s #cloudnativecon #digitalocean

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@AntoineGrondin

8 years

@susanthesquark it sucks a lot that women have to deal with crap like this in 2017 :( that HR gaslit you is even worse

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@AntoineGrondin

1 year

@t3dotgg always rebase, never merge

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1 year

@TheKenChilds @primetimesc2 @LasVegasLocally @zero04013437 that's a 27,500$ contract, which is not worth the requested time commitment. it should be at least 3-5x more to make any sense for someone with the qualifications

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@AntoineGrondin

8 years

That room is too small for @fatih ! @digitalocean at #gophercon

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@AntoineGrondin

6 months

@memesMoooh @peterrhague I'm not writing down my personal opinions toward the elderly. I'm writing down what I think the crowds will feel and rationalize. It's just what I see as a possible future, amongst many futures. It's possible to envision future scenarios without wishing for those scenarios.

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2 years

who doesn't like unicorns

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8 years

my talk "Structured Logging and You" @gophercon #golang

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@AntoineGrondin

1 year

HEY EVERYONE THE "RAILS DOESN'T SCALE QUESTION" WAS OLD IN 2013

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@AntoineGrondin

1 year

my coworkers @PlanetScale are a bit too talented. please be less talented it's unsettling

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@AntoineGrondin

3 years

we have a hackathon at @github this week and i think i haven't been happier in a long time. just heads down coding as fast as i can, doing something straight from my head with no overhead.

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@AntoineGrondin

3 years

if you think US politics is wild. this is S.Korea's presidential candidate from the opposition 😶‍🌫️

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@AntoineGrondin

2 years

if SSH-ing into a host and trying to poke & debug stuff was already a high barrier to entry to new engineers, guess how out of reach debugging anything in k8s is for them? and if you think we dont need to get shells anymore to debug things, either you've got magic tooling or idk

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3 years

i got a standing desk, ergo chair, large display, etc. but i get stuff done sitting on my couch, laptop on my lap.

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@AntoineGrondin

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@tobi I like the Singapore/Lee Kuan Yew approach of paying politicians competitive executive salaries, so that... it attracts competitive executive types. Helps avoid corruption as well. Unfortunately that's not what we're getting in Canada.

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@AntoineGrondin

8 years

@susanthesquark any + perception I had of @UberEng was due to your working there. I thought "surely it must be a good if she's there"... ugh

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@AntoineGrondin

2 years

@FinnleyRyan person living on volcano worries for other person who wants to live on volcano

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@AntoineGrondin

3 years

to support FreeCAD development, @yorikvanhavre is aiming at 2k$/m for full time work. now at ~1k$/m ⬇️

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@AntoineGrondin

6 months

fulfilling my dream of becoming a professional coffeeshop reviewer

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2 years

@kelseyhightower Singapore's MPs are the highest paid in the world. Singapore is also one of the least corrupt, best governed country in the world.

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@AntoineGrondin

1 year

heyyyyyyy!

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@AntoineGrondin

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@levelsio @ArminAsimovic gotta be realist, not dogmatic. it's not in the US's geopolitical interest to let this stuff go, just to fulfill some dreamy ideology

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@AntoineGrondin

2 years

@brianmcmichael @transmissions11 Samsung: container ships, oil rigs, residential rental buildings, phones, credit card, ...

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@AntoineGrondin

4 months

>10y ago, i went to a hackathon in Abu Dhabi and @mohamedmansour taught me something consequential in my career. you need to be fast. don't settle for slow. know your tools, be fast with them. type faster. iterate faster. search faster. be as fast as you can.

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@AntoineGrondin

3 years

@planetscaledata not as tidy as 12 chars, but ULIDs are also cool and sortable

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@AntoineGrondin

11 months

stuff i wanna teach my kids: - velocity matters. doing a lot, quickly, densely, matters. - solving an ambitious task at 80% correctness >> an easy one at 99% - if you can do it right now, do it right now - aim at 25% beyond your abilities - fail a lot: its part of the path - dare

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@AntoineGrondin

5 years

since Go modules were introduced, user experience with developer tooling has been overall worse, making me less productive than i used to be. i don't have any constructive thing to offer, but i just want to vent. i'm so annoyed. #golang

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@AntoineGrondin

8 years

Never quite understood how transistors & semiconductors work, until this video: @LearnEngg

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@AntoineGrondin

7 years

@bryanl not in my vector space

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@AntoineGrondin

1 year

@President_KR @kishida230 build it!

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@AntoineGrondin

6 years

In my experience, people are a lot more unhappy in tech than they were in the army, or when I was a security guard, pumping fuel at a gas station or working at McDonalds. I never understood why. Maybe unmet high expectations? #tech #job #happiness #psychology #sociology

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@AntoineGrondin

6 years

software friends. you can name your project with a funky cute punny name, but you can't name your services/types/methods this way. you have to use regular/obvious names that make sense to everyone else. #software #namingishard #programming

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@AntoineGrondin

7 years

If frontend devs have Le Framework du Jour, then backend devs have Le Distributed System du Jour. Life's great.

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6 months

@peterrhague to be clear; i don't advocate for senicide. my point is that when the times change/get tough, people, cultures and societies adapt to the situation. and what was unthinkable or taboo, becomes part of the morals, as pragmatic, relevant and justified. also we tend to think of

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2 years

@neiltyson we also keep dogs on leashes and wholly control our pets' lives. we "own" our pets. we don't "own" the homeless. the comparison doesn't make any sense.

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@AntoineGrondin

3 years

first pizza night at our new place, with our new ooni oven

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7 months

@davegordon14 @simonsarris the distances are too far IMO. the commerces should be mixed in with the residential. otherwise people need to walk 15-20min to reach anything.

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@AntoineGrondin

9 months

@levelsio pagination is going to be slow if you use offset, here's an explainer on how to do it (true for mysql and sqlite and others)

Pagination in MySQL - offset vs. cursor

📚 Learn more about PlanetScale at https://planetscale.com/youtube.——————————————————Blog post on pagination: https://planetscale.com/blog/mysql-pagination. ...

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2 years

@kelseyhightower i don't get it. what's wrong with inviting someone last minute. they can say no if they can't make it, no need to be offended about it. really puzzling & bad faith

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2 years

@jkakar Temporal is really nice and im not paid to say that

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@AntoineGrondin

10 months

@levelsio AQI is an index that blends other measurements so probably various PM levels

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5 years

hot take: if you want to use #microservices , you need to give names-that-say-what-it-does to your svcs. otherwise you're creating a fauna with hundreds of impossible to guess creatures in it. then you need a D&D beastiary to debug wtf is going on

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@AntoineGrondin

7 years

@tammybutow heck yeah, my vacations @DigitalOcean have always been ±4 weeks, never felt any pressure not to take them. shorter is fake vacay!

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@AntoineGrondin

7 years

this Google manifesto is a shame and another daily reminder that our societal problems are rooted in what many think is legitimate normalcy

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@AntoineGrondin

6 years

hello software friends. instrument your code with @opentracing and send your traces to @LightStepHQ . you'll thank me later... it's literally the gift that keeps on giving @digitalocean

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5 years

@a_sykim "You don't need Debian" "Just boot in your own kernel and userspace." "Debian is too complex"

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1 year

struct embedding, don't do it #golang

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@AntoineGrondin

11 years

wrote fatherhood, a #golang JSON decoder based on @benbjohnson megajson's scanner. have a look, looking for comments

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@AntoineGrondin

6 months

@aarondfrancis i suck at frontend and im sick of it, so im A-Z reading the docs

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@AntoineGrondin

2 years

sorry but kids are the best (unless you hate fun and cute stuff)

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@AntoineGrondin

4 years

i'm in one of these phases where i need to catch-up on a lot of tech and spend 16h/d: tracing code, reading reference docs from A to Z, meeting and asking people to walk me through everything. it's good long term, but is frustrating in inability to ship and win. mixed feelings

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@AntoineGrondin

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@neuroecology i drove by it the other day and my mind was blown. shipbuilding areas (Samsung Heavy Industries, Daewoo Shipbuilding) in Geoje also have a sci-fi vibe to them. think huge gantries spanning many street blocks, looking like they could pick up an entire neighbourhood in 1 swoop.

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