Martin Snyder

Tech meetups were pivotal to the growth of tech ecosystems throughout the country. Here, @christopherwink discusses their past, present and uncertain future with @pinnacle_21's @MartinSnyder and highlights @dctechmeetup @ThePhillyJUG & @charmcityjs buff.ly/3YOhFfq

How I Got Here: What led 5 Philly technologists to this exact moment in their careers? @sciencealice @MartinSnyder @EmployeeCycle and more share advice bit.ly/3j4DubG

Learn how staying involved in the Philly meetup scene helps @pinnacle_21 team members become better technologists: "It helps you have a finger on the pulse of what's going on even outside of your work or professional capacity" bit.ly/3gZ9KMg

It's always a pleasure to be recognized! Thanks @TechnicallyPHL

This kid is pretty good, but I don't think he's using the pedals to full effect here :(

This is an obvious consequence. I don't see how anyone could argue that the output of copilot is not a derivative work of all of its combined inputs. Impossible to navigate from a copyright perspective unless it is only trained on permissive licenses.

@SusanPotter Part of it is that the orgs using it are resistant to change and reluctant to incur training costs that would impact large numbers of users. Once they adopt the software, they generally advocate against "improvements" to existing functionality that change the business workflows

@rickasaurus Failure is a powerful educator!

My shameful secret is that my fast ramp up to being good at programming and eng management was years spent building overcomplicated things and then dealing with the results

@agsmith @mpilquist @8bitreid Was there ever a second one of those? I had a great time at the first one - that's where I gave my talk on #quill

@mpilquist @8bitreid Found this kicking around in a drawer last week!

New laptop, old stickers

@actinglikecrazy On the JVM, most people start with PDFBox because the license is more liberal, then move to iText if PDFBox can't handle their use cases.

If you want to programmatically produce a PDF, what stack/library you’d go with?

This Wednesday, Philly Lambda will be hosting a talk by @garysieling in Philly. We have a good crowd coming but there are a few spots left. This is the last call as RSVPs close tomorrow (Sept. 20) at noon. meetup.com/philly-lambda/…

@dustingetz Isn't this what Amazon Batch is for?

help, what is the current best/easiest way to spin up a long lived container on AWS or GC that serves a websocket through an API gateway with SSL termination What I actually want is long-lived JVM lambdas (cold start not a problem), but I think the max duration is 5 mins

@rtfeldman Here are my off the cuff thoughts: 1. scripting - doesn't control it's API - used to script "other things" 2. interpreted - does not build a native binary - requires an installed runtime system to execute 3. dynamic language - doesn't mean much to me, but I will go with "untyped"

Consider these three terms for describing programming languages: 1. "scripting language" 2. "interpreted language" 3. "dynamic language" What do you personally think of as the differences between them? Like what makes a language count as 1 or 2 of these but not all 3?

For the first time in ~30 months we'll be having an in-person audience for a @ThePhillyJUG meeting. I'll be hosting our speaker @SharpeDennis at @pinnacle_21 next Thursday, August 25th at 6:30pm. meetup.com/phillyjug/even…

@rtfeldman So much of that was in Perl…

Anyone out there ever do CGI programming prior to 2005? If so, I'm curious: what language did you use?

The videos of all of the #phillyETE 2022 sessions are now online, including the Typed vs. Untyped panel I was a part of! youtube.com/watch?v=o5j4ZI…

GPT-3 is pretty good at riddles

Philly Lambda is back, and in person! July 13th will be the official re-launch of Philly Lambda - the Philadelphia language-agnostic functional programming group! Come join us at @pinnacle_21 meetup.com/Philly-Lambda/…

@jrzabott Yup, that was me! Thanks for supporting @ThePhillyJUG

@MartinSnyder ?

@rtfeldman and @jakarta4jugs you guys made FP for a hard-headed man, sweet and interesting in about an hour. You both won a fan. :) Great presentation.

i have thought about this hacker news comment nearly every day since november ninth twenty seventeen