Long weekend project phase 1's a go! Dumpster ordered. 10 yards of gravel ordered. 5 pallets of wall blocks. ordered. Bobcat ordered.
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Jeff McAffer
@jeffmcaffer
Long time open source type, now at GitHub doing open source stuff. Father, husband, race car builder/driver, sailor, and apparently, traveller.
Joined November 2009
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Was really interesting presenting at #DOES20 London. Pre-recorded in my garage in Seattle, up at 0530 to answer questions live on slack from folks in, well, wherever they were.
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Proof: necessity is the mother of invention.
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I'm keeping an open mind and am only a couple weeks in so who knows where I'll end up. Need to see more of the system come together... What's your experience been like?
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And I don't quite buy the perf argument. Of course, I agree that map[<your_type>]struct{}{} is faster than map[interface{}]bool but we're talking nanoseconds here. Important in some cases but in the face of doing network calls that take 100s of ms, not so much.
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Like Sets. There are set modules but word is, the idiomatic way is to write your own using map[<your_type>]struct{}{}. Coming from Java/JavaScript/TypeScript where quite literally "there's a module for that", it's a bit jarring. Pretty sure there's a better use of my time.
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That's all fine in certain contexts (e.g. systems level) but I'm finding it disruptive to the code flow (both the code itself and the flow of code out of my head) when working on business logic. I'd love to be wrong but am having trouble loving the language/ecosystem.
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I've been messing about with recently. Lots of great stuff but the term "rocks and sticks" keeps coming to mind. Could totally be me but, lots of basic things appear to be missing. I keep hearing "the idiomatic way is to <explanation boiling down to write it yourself>"
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FYI: the is launching its annual corporate open source programs (OSPO) survey, please fill it out so we can learn more about the state of corporate open source programs across the industry! linuxfoundation.org/blog/2020/05/t
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Nice!
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Do you work on Open Source and have you lost money due to COVID-19? We are here to help! Yes, this means you, not other people. :)
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So I'm sitting here working on something new for and I literally muttered to myself "holy crap, this is insanely powerful". Will be a little while but I can't wait to share this.
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As expected, the opposite happened when raising the right side. The effect was less because the tire had slowed -- a bit hard to see.
Now I'm wondering what else we can simulate...
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So we mounted a hub on a 1/2" rod and then a wheel to the hub, suspended that with a pulley on one side and away we go. Notice that with the tire spinning "towards me", lowering the right side straight down causes the wheel to want to turn towards that side.
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What to do when you can't race for real?! Simulate track physics in the garage one bit at a time...
Car wheels are too heavy to do the classic bike wheel and turntable gyroscopic forces experiment...
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I've done the troubleshooting myself and with your support folks. Modem replaced. Still very choppy. Paying for 600Mb/s. Getting 2Mb/s. Three people working/schooling at home.
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Sigh. , I know y'all are working hard and have reduced staff. My internet, while "connected", is not fast enough to have even a voice-only conversation on zoom/teams/... Doesn't "feel" connected. Can you please come fix?
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Achievement unlocked!
In case you can't read the small print, that's a 1.9 liters (half gallon) bottle... #Canadian
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TIL an important WFH lesson. When eating lunch outside in the glorious Seattle sunshine, do not leave your food unattended, even for a moment to get a drink etc. Crows will descend, steal your food, and then mock you from on high while eating said lunch.
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A "nice" thing about the current work from home situation... Had a great call with a customer service rep at a bank! No call center background noise, different acoustics, very personal.
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Do yourself a favor. Binge watch "Malcolm in the middle". en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_i Pure distraction.
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Great to be while again. Just got our daughter back to Seattle from university in Waterloo. A few flight issues but it all worked out in the end. One bonus of COVID is more time with her...
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Thinking of the elderly around us. Do they have everything they need? Need to talk? Reaching out however we can.
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Please. For the love of <thing/person/place> you hold dear, make your animated gifs in blogs/emails/... stop animating after 1-3 cycles. Flashy, blinky stuff on the web was cool in the 90s. Not so much any more.
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Nature is just too wild...
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The family Phylliidae includes the walking leaves, the most remarkably camouflaged leaf mimics in the animal kingdom bit.ly/2tgMGtQ
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ClearlyDefined, an #opensource OSI project, helps ensure #FOSS is used appropriately by making sure #OSS licenses are easily discoverable.
OSI Sponsor is looking for someone to help lead 's efforts.
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👋🏼 We are hiring a senior product designer 🐙🙀!!
Please, check out boards.greenhouse.io/github/jobs/19 and DM me if you have any questions
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This is an awesome opportunity for someone passionate about making open source easier for all. ClearlyDefined (clearlydefined.io) already has big impact and has even bigger potential. Get your Node, React, and big data on!
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Do you love open source? Do you love making life easier for those who want to use open source correctly? Want to help figure out how to create an OSS service? We are looking for a technical architect/community manager to help grow ClearlyDefined! Remote ok
careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/8007
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I just donated to a film effort for my favorite hobby: PRO3 E30: BMW's Ultimate Racing Machine Docu Film
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I'm pleased to be serving as a co-chair of the FOSS Award committee for Mining Software Repositories (MSR) 2020 (2020.msrconf.org/track/msr-2020). Looking forward to some great FOSS-impacting papers. Got ideas? There are still opportunities to send a submission.
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I very much enjoyed debating Bradley and Max. Especially as they were completely wrong😉. is an awesome debate partner.
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So far very much enjoying the debate format at #FOSDEM2020: impressed by, and appreciative of, those who take on opinions and voices counter to what they actually believe on the issues.
+1 to the new format, it's a lot of fun.
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Should be a great time. Drop by and check it out
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Are you already planning to be at FOSDEM? Join us at the end of Day 1 for a @GitHub hosted mixer celebrating open source! In addition to great conversations with me, we’ll also have experts to chat workflow automation and securing open source. github.co/os-social-bru
No , you cannot have my contacts and if you continue to hold posts hostage, I'll just stop using your platform.
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Now they won't even put me on hold. and . I'm feeling duped. I've been on hold many hours today. PM'd you on Twitter. All just to pay you some money. Literally. Either answer the phone or better, put a "pay now" button on your website.
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Ok so I tried it again. 2 hours and 13 minutes on hold and they hung up again. Sigh. I still need to pay for the ticket or they'll cancel the booking.
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Sigh. After >2 hours on hold with a recording came on saying they would not be able to take my call. Please try again! What?! I'm already in the queue. Stop taking people if you're full. Don't punt those who've already been waiting.
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