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Does Mark Cuban Want You to Die In Poverty?

A friend of mine asked me for the thoughts on this article and video… What Mark Cuban Says will be the #1 Job Skill in 10 Years The TL/DR is “creative thinking” therefore pursue a liberal arts degree, in lieu of other applied fields such as, pointedly, software engineering. Which is probably suicide. I’ve never … Continue reading “Does Mark Cuban Want You to Die In Poverty?”

How Eclipse Killed GWT

I’ve had a love and hate relationship with Google Web Toolkit for a couple of years now. I built a modest size project using GWT back in 2010, which was definitely during a time of some GWT 2.x related growing pains, suffered through the uncertainty of Google abandoning GWT in favor of Dart, then watched the whole … Continue reading “How Eclipse Killed GWT”

Increasing Performance with svgwrite

I’ve been working for quite some time on a Python project that generates a large-ish number of SVG files using Manfred Moitzi’s svgwrite package, which is pretty awesome. However, I noticed that the runtime of this particular project was increasingly obnoxious, and only getting worse as the number of SVGs grew. So, out came cprofile, and sure enough, … Continue reading “Increasing Performance with svgwrite”

Sample Page

This is an example page. It’s different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most people start with an About page that introduces them to potential site visitors. It might say something like this: Hi there! I’m a bike messenger … Continue reading “Sample Page”