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Iron Gremlin
  • Member for 4 years, 6 months
  • Last seen more than a month ago
  • Seattle Washington
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About

Software developer and lifelong tech nerd with a broad skillset.

Passionate about:

  • Software Quality
  • Troubleshooting and Diagnosis
  • Learning new skills, frameworks and languages
  • Fitting the proper tool to the proper problem
  • Software that improves the world or empowers the user

Hobbies and interests:

  • Learning new software languages
  • Dead or abandoned tech, and what it can teach us
  • System design and architecture
  • Game design (software and analog)

Not interested in:

  • Cryptocurrency

  • Tech with predatory business models (Gambling, short term high interest loans, etc.)

  • Spyware

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Does it ever make sense to use more concurrent processes than processor cores?
Sep 1, 2020
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Fear of web-app not being "future-proof"
Nov 6, 2018
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How to treat unhandled exceptions? (Terminate the application vs. Keep it alive)
Oct 8, 2019
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Is technical debt management problem more of a culture issue or insight issue
Feb 26, 2020
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If two individual branches pass unit tests, once they're merged, is the result also guaranteed to pass unit tests?
Oct 7, 2020
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How should I store "unknown" and "missing" values in a variable, while still retaining the difference between "unknown" and "missing"?
Aug 14, 2018
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Is it ok copying code from one application to another, both belonging to the same repository, to keep them independent?
Oct 7, 2020
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How to store a password so that it can be passed to another site/service which is expecting a plaintext input
Oct 26, 2021
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How can I effectively communicate to recruiters that a phone call is not possible?
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Does a Druid with the Archdruid feature need spell components when under effects like Shapechange?
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Build an impregnable fortress in the middle ages with modern technology
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Did Nancy Pelosi say "We'll have to pass the bill to find out what's in it"?
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Preventing an exodus of other employees while mass firing others? One developer holds a lot of sway?

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