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doomspork

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Engineer & Entrepreneur.

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doomspork··on Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
Another vote for Elixir. Very enjoyable community to participate in.
doomspork··on Let Twitter Be Twitter
Likely because your original comment did not add value to the discussion and you're asking about downvotes.

Both are mentioned in the Guidelines and FAQ.

doomspork··on DroneSeed – Re-planting the future with drones
This has always been something I thought would be interesting to pursue. There's quite a bit of science involved when replanting a forest. It's much more than just scattering seeds.
doomspork··on Kotlin: A New Hope in a Java 6 Wasteland
Kotlin is my favorite JVM language by far, it's like Scala-lite. It has great tools thanks to IntelliJ. It's great how easily you can substitute Kotlin for Java in most projects, doing so with Dropwizard was quite easy: https://github.com/doomspork/kotlin-dropwizard
doomspork··on Polyfills as a Service
Would be nice to have a note on the homepage indicating that this project has since been abandoned.
doomspork··on Notch: “I've never felt more isolated”
He landed where he wanted to land. There are many rich people who live everyday lives amongst us, they don't make spectacles out of their purchases.

When you act like a brat people respond to you accordingly, regardless of how much money you have.

doomspork··on Notch: “I've never felt more isolated”
I would feel differently if he was attempting to live a modest lifestyle but he isn't. He very publicly shows off and is surprised by the response. It's a very immature thing.
doomspork··on Notch: “I've never felt more isolated”
I'm sure he has less public channels to seek help on.
doomspork··on Notch: “I've never felt more isolated”
"Woe is me." — Notch.

Are we being serious? Complaining about your wealth, high roller lifestyle, and fancy destinations doesn't garner much sympathy. Is it really a surprise that he is "alone"? Notch rose to popularly by playing the indie developer card and as soon as he had the chance, he did an about face. He may have seen to it that his team was taken care of but that doesn't change the fact that he took the money and ran.

Good on him making billions more than I ever will but don't expect people to feel sorry because it's lonely when you flaunt your wealth.

doomspork··on Mail Pilot 2 for Mac
Felt the exact same pains. That's what keeps me from investing in these newer clients.
doomspork··on Startups.co to Acquire Zirtual, Service to Resume
Thanks for the reply cvgraham!
doomspork··on Startups.co to Acquire Zirtual, Service to Resume
I often wonder/worry that these sort of "bailouts" and acquisitions reward founders for poor decision making.
doomspork··on Startups.co to Acquire Zirtual, Service to Resume
Will Maren Kate remain in her role as CEO?
doomspork··on Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi 2
Next on the list of bad IoT ideas, we port Flash to the Raspberry Pi.
doomspork··on Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi 2
I can't tell if you're making a joke or not.
doomspork··on Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
The title was changed. It previously said something along the lines of "Launch a private Heroku"
doomspork··on Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
Very cool, thanks so much for your hard work!
doomspork··on Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
That's great. Is it possible to add additional servers after installation? I looked into the CLI project but I haven't found anything yet, the scale option appears to be for processes not servers.
doomspork··on Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
This is really great! I'm interested in trying this out for our products in place of OpsWork.

The documentations says "by default provisions an Elastic Load Balancer and 3 t2.small instances", is it possible to change the number/size of servers dynamically?

doomspork··on Ask HN: Has anyone here programmed in Kotlin? What do you think about it?
You're welcome!
doomspork··on Square Files Confidential IPO
After Twitter and Facebook IPOs, there were bidding wars between home buyers that resulted in some homes selling for a million over asking price.
doomspork··on Ask HN: Has anyone here programmed in Kotlin? What do you think about it?
The development team has always been very friendly and welcoming. I suspect that they didn't have time for someone who was interested in "arguing" with them.

Since Kotlin can leverage JVM libraries, why not use Google Gauva? https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/wiki/UsingAndAvoid...

doomspork··on Ask HN: Has anyone here programmed in Kotlin? What do you think about it?
I've been using Kotlin on-and-off as a Java replacement and I've really enjoyed it.

A couple of months ago I used Kotlin to setup a Dropwizard project and it was a breeze so I put together an example on GitHub to serve as a starting point for others: https://github.com/doomspork/kotlin-dropwizard

doomspork··on Elixir 1.0.5 released
I'm currently keeping a list of companies actively using Elixir in production that you mind find useful: https://github.com/doomspork/elixir-companies
doomspork··on Coding Boot Camp Enrollment Soars as Students Seek Tech Jobs
The basics and that's about it. IMHO, these schools do a very big disservice to the people they pretend to help. I think it's particularly bad for woman and under represented groups looking to springboard into technology, as it sets an unreal expectation.
doomspork··on Coding Boot Camp Enrollment Soars as Students Seek Tech Jobs
I'd like to know this too. The few places I've worked that hired from these schools quickly let folks go and never went back.

I know a few left tech altogether.

doomspork··on ElixirConfEU Keynote – Phoenix Takes Flight [video]
For me the lack of available solutions is an opportunity to contribute back, something that I find can be more difficult with established projects.
doomspork··on ElixirConfEU Keynote – Phoenix Takes Flight [video]
Not OP but I've been playing with both Elixir and Phoenix recently and I must say it's been pleasant. With experience in Ruby (and Rails) and an understanding of FP I was able to dive right in.
doomspork··on Sneak peak on the new, web-based Arduino Create
I've recently started using https://codebender.cc which seems to offer the same feature set.
doomspork··on Markdownify
I recently switched to MacDown which is influenced by Mou and open source, it's great: http://macdown.uranusjr.com/
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