jeff
@jeff@programming.dev
Software Architect turned Engineering Manager
- Comment on Chat, what do you see? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying. 1 month ago:
+1 for Halls of Torment
It’s a really solid entry in the rogue-lite vampire-survivors-like genre that Diablo enjoyers could pick up really easily
- Comment on Stardew Valley 1.6 is Coming November 4th. 1 month ago:
He did at one point. I think he’s said that he likes being in full control of the project, so he took back over the porting process.
It’s really impressive that a single developer does as much as he does.
- Comment on I know Mormons can't have alcohol, but couldn't they just dip their tongue in a glass of beer and not move it? 3 months ago:
The Word of Wisdom, which outlines the health guidelines of not drinking alcohol and using tobacco, as well as eating less meat, eating more grains; was originally just as the name suggests, words of wisdom.
Joseph Smith drank wine, used tobacco, and drank coffee up to his death.
It wasn’t until the early 20th century when it started to be treated as a commandment. This is around the time when they started codifying a lot of doctrine, stopped practicing polygamy, and started to function more like a mainstream religion and less like a cult.
Source: raised Mormon, went on mission, took religion classes at BYU-Provo on church history.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 4 months ago:
Wow, I didn’t expect an expert to chime in.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 4 months ago:
The plural of moose is meese.
spoiler
/s for non-native English speakers
- Comment on Are there any games like Diablo but not Diablo because Diablo? 9 months ago:
Haha, yeah, free. I totally haven’t spent hundreds of dollars on the game. It’s over a decade with thousands of hours though. I haven’t really played the last couple years though, but that’s mostly because I have small children and a career
- Comment on Tips on how to get clients as a freelancer? 1 year ago:
Getting started is always the hardest part. Once you’ve done some good work you can start relying more on word of mouth and charge more.
I would recommend doing some small jobs on Fiverr or Upwork. Contracting isn’t for everyone, nor is running a small business. Fiverr and Upwork will be pretty disconnected from your local contacts so if you mess up or decide it’s not for you then it’s easier to leave.
Ultimately it’s networking, instead of rolling your eyes when an acquaintance has an app idea you can offer to help.
- Comment on They Need To Stop Doing This 1 year ago:
Right. There is no solution to the halting problem, that’s been proven. But you just showed you can very easily create a way of practically solving it. Just waiting for 10 seconds does it. That will catch every infinite loop while also having some false positives. And that will be fine in most applications.
My point is that even if a solution to the halting problem is impossible, there is often a very possible solution that will get you close enough for a real world scenario. And there are definitely more sophisticated methods of catching non-halting programs with fewer false positives.
- Comment on They Need To Stop Doing This 1 year ago:
A full solution to the halting problem can’t exist. But you can definitely write a program that will “reliably” detect them to a certain percentage.
And many applications do exactly that. Firefox asked me today if I wanted to stop a tab because it was processing for too long.
- Comment on Who came first, the programmer or the code? 1 year ago:
flat white wall
Hey guys, look at this light mode user! My wall is dark mode. 😎
In a serious note, a developer should be aware of how licenses work. Just copy pasting from Stack Overflow likely breaks the defaults license. You could open up yourself or your company to serious legal trouble. And it really isn’t ethical. I wouldn’t want code I shared in a certain context be stolen by a large corporation and make them money
- Comment on Who came first, the programmer or the code? 1 year ago:
Just don’t tell your Legal department.
