akud
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My email is the letter a, the letter d, then kudlick at google's free email service.
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Comment · 5 years ago
Lead Engineer at PAX Labs, we just open-sourced some Java utilities i wrote in the early days building service oriented architecture on dropwizard: https://github.com/PaxLabs/java-utils
A few things in there:
* `HibernateQuery` - wrapper around hibernate jpa implementation, because using the jpa criteria api is verbose as hell (seriously, even for java). Coming from having written Django, I wanted the ease of using Querysets in java
* Makemigrations - this seemed to be a missing hole in the java ecosystem. Our contractors were hand-writing sql migrations and using some framework that just ran them. Liquibase exists for managing migrations, hibernate can generate the schemas. This library is a dropwizard command to generate yml to migrate the old schema to the new one.
* generic pagination bundle
Comment · 8 years ago
You want to work on something that will inspire people to inspire people to inspire people to create.
Art, new ways of thinking.
I think the _My Struggle_ series by Karl Ove Knaussgard will have changed the way people conceive of the written word over future generations.
Comment · 8 years ago
It's not a tradeoff. The reason we like quality code is it saves time in the long run by being clear, easy to change, less error-prone, etc. If you expect to be employed in 6 months, you should be refactoring and putting care into the quality of your code. It's hard at first, but I'm at a point where I'm the most productive engineer and I work the least amount of hours - because my code is there to help me, not hurt me.
Comment · 8 years ago
yea, that's been one of my goals. I would like to visualize the graph over time to see how the complexity grows.
Comment · 8 years ago
> I don't have great intuition for graphs but I'm pretty sure something like a square or larger cannot be both complete and planar.
A square can, (you put one node in the middle), but 5 and up can't be both complete and planar.
Comment · 8 years ago
I've been working on a similar project in my spare time to create tools for interactive technical blogs [1]. It's funny, in the past day I've seen two projects that I would say have the same goals as me, idyll being one of them.
What are the possibilities around contributing to idyll? Building on top of it? Is it as simple as writing my own components?
I'm specifically interested in uis to define data structures. One of the more annoying things I found working with d3 to create graphs (as in graph theory) was defining the graphs procedurally, so I built a ui to define graphs graphically.
Comment · 8 years ago
No mention of mocking out service dependencies, which seems like the obvious way to go. Does anyone do this?
Comment · 9 years ago
It sounds like what the author really needs is a chatroom.
Comment · 9 years ago
Not the op... but what would you be willing to pay for the service?
Comment · 9 years ago
My 2 year old daughter could.
Comment · 9 years ago
I'm a regular Google+ user and I find it incredibly valuable. The fact that there are fewer people on there is actually an asset - the people that do use it do so because they have some topic they're interested in that they're discussing with other interested parties. There's a lot of mathematicians, scientists, and authors. In general, the average g+ user is much more knowledgeable than on any other site.
Also, the actual features are super valuable. You can create collections with varying levels of privacy for your posts. I use some private collections to take notes, and post more well thought out content in the public versions of those collections. The collections help me organize my thoughts, and I can see different ideas emerging over time. I have a collection to talk about software engineering practices, for example.
Also, being able to create private communities is nice. My wife and I have a private community where we share things about our daughter - photos, things we want to remember, things she's learning.
Overall, g+ has enriched my life.
Comment · 9 years ago
Are you the author? This is a great idea - I've been thinking about doing this with graph theory.
Here's an example:
https://plus.google.com/+AlexKudlick/posts/MWNRWTRATgA
I've been building tools lately; for now, a graph editor.
Hit me up if you're interested in talking about tools for creating this sort of content, I'd be interested to know more about your approach.
My email is in my profile.