Kontroversial Keith

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  • Rant: How Most Companies Screw Up Technical Interviews

    I often hear statistics such as how there’s this huge gap in terms of the talent pool for technology jobs in the states. The result is that companies have supposedly been forced to offshore to go for talent. Yet I question whether the actual talent pool is shallow or that the interview processes are skewed,…

  • Shaw Brothers Vengeance Kung Fu Movie Review

    As a young child, I often watched the old Black Belt theater on channel 11 out here. At the time, I didn’t know them by name, but I would watch Shaw Brothers martial arts movies on Saturday afternoons and later switch to Kung Fu theater on channel 9 later in the evening. However, the Shaw…

  • Python Flask: Message Flashing Session Issue

    I have to say it: the Flask documents are pretty bad. The code is chunked up, abbreviated, poorly explained and no comments to really go through every little detail, which often leads to bizarre errors for the inexperienced programmer. Even for an experienced programmer, there’s some things that just are really mysterious or need far…

  • Diablo 3: The Darkening of Tristram Event Review

    Since the PTR is out, I decided to give it a go and check out specifically the Darkening of Tristram event. I had seen Kripparian’s video where he posted a fairly scathing review and decided to see if it was worth his ire.

  • Weird Vagrant Error Warning: Authentication failure. Retrying…

    I had shutdown my VirtualBox/Vagrant for a while and possibly had a system upgrade or messed around with my SSH keys. Either way, upon starting up again, I found that I no longer could use my SSH key to login. Not sure what happened, but here’s what I did to resolve the issue.

  • Boom Beach: Should You Build A Weapons Lab Early On?

    Weapons Labs are one of the most expensive buildings in the game. The lower level one was reduced in price during the patch that introduced both the Grappler and Hot Pot prototype defenses. But with the high cost that rivals equally critical buildings when introduced, is it worth spending the resources?

  • Boom Beach: Are Statue Storage Useful for Lower Level Bases?

    Statue Storage buildings weren’t initially available when I started playing Boom Beach. About midway through, they made an appearance and at first they seemed like a luxury item due to the high cost. I mean why build one of these when you can work on a Machine Gun, right?

  • Boom Beach: The Mistake of Not Using Resources to Level Immediately

    Over the past few days, I managed to accumulate a fair amount of gold, which I had planned to use for upgrading my Medics to level 8. Currently, my Grenadiers are being worked on, which requires roughly 4 more days of waiting. I figured that I wouldn’t get attacked too much and not lose too…

  • Boom Beach: Finally Defeated Hammerman 40 and Gearheart 45

    It took me a while on my high level account to get to Hammerman 40 and Gearheart 45. Part of my procrastination was to get more of my troops and gunboat offenses up. Another aspect was to avoid getting the 5 VP and push myself too much. However, since this is an all troop at…

  • Boom Beach: The Brutality of Leveling Underleveled Landing Craft

    Landing Craft are some of the most important and expensive support type of buildings to upgrade, especially once you hit the upper mid game (~HQ16+). Right now, I’m getting my last landing craft (of my seven) to 15. From here on out, it becomes a lengthy grind towards 19.