ChrisMarshallNY

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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
I had an employee like that. He'd want to do something, and hit a roadblock, so he'd design his own tool (He wrote his own font, once, because he didn't like the way the built-in ones worked at teeny point sizes). Best damn e
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
This reminds me of the bug in the stealing script in Office Space . The script was supposed to steal fractions of a cent, but, instead, it was stealing dollars. In the end, it turned out OK. The joint burned down, and Milton ended up on a
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
I never even look at stars. I hardly have any on my work, and that's fine with me. My stuff is of extremely high Quality, because I use it, myself. I'd actually prefer as few others as possible, use it, because then I'm Res
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
They also Know Their Stuff; even if they have a "redtop" style.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
You are correct. My Mac is an M4, though.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
In my experience, it’s usually (d), even if they are on the team.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
That would explain the lack of difference. My Mac is a new Mini M4, though.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
I am using an iPhone 13 Mini, which will need to be pried from my cold, dead, hands. The new "intelligence" hasn't made any difference that I can note, other than a couple of buttons, and Siri seems a bit less dense. On my Ma
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
I always liked the Boots Theory of Economic Unfairness. Thanks for that! I find reading his stuff unpleasant, because of the formatting, but the content is usually worth it, so I can switch on Reader Mode. As far as the subject goes, I used
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
Not if your domain is the water. White is the best background color for details. That said, maybe the ground should have been brown or green.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
I suspect the comment (above, at the time I wrote this), where they mention that Apple only wants partners to be usable, is the Ockham's Razor answer. Probably some "magic key" ID. But this is not my area of expertise. It&#x2
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
I agree. I have used it for just that.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
The biggest issue that I’ve had with design docs, is that nobody reads them; even if required by their employer. The biggest issue that I’ve had with prototyping, is that people consider it “ship” code, and force me to use it as final code.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
Nah. The Kids Are Alright.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
Wow. It's amazing how quickly this crashed off the HN frontpage. Not a popular topic.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
Eh. I was quite willing to take risky bets on startups when I was laid off, at 55. I had experience in myriad aspects of releasing and maintaining software, managing release-level projects that were hybrid hardware/software (I original
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
Submitted for your approval. MOBA: https://museumofbadart.org Used to be in someone's basement, but I think they now set it up in various semi-public places.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
Ugh. Any reason that they couldn't add a basic text link, below the video, with "Open In YouTube" as the text?
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
I briefly saw a dropoff of spoofed calls, after STIR/SHAKEN. I have a business line, and pretty much every call to it is spam. The spoofed calls have picked up again. It looks like STIR/SHAKEN means squat.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
I should also mention that folks will be desperate to make him take a plea deal, because a public trial will definitely have scores of health insurance horror stories.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
That's part of it, but then, there's architectural integrity, code quality, testing, testing, and more testing, then there's testing, and some more testing, then, there's taking care of all the "boring" release
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
I've never had a use for Redis, but I was very happy to read this, and sincerely wish him the very best of luck. He seems to have his priorities straight. I am 62, and write more software, now, than I ever did. This time, though, it&#x
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
I happened to be in a population of folks, in the 1980s and 1990s, who had a high incidence of AIDS. They currently still have a high incidence of cancer, so I guess you could say that I have a "front-row seat" to the horror. Ther
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
You mean like the health insurers that deliberately denied coverage for AIDS patients and cancer patients, knowing that would hasten/cause their deaths? Those types of people?
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
Boy, they are gonna have a hard time, picking a jury for this kid.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
I was a "first-line" manager, for over 25 years. I managed a small, high-functioning team of experienced and mature C++ image pipeline engineers. I chose not to go higher, because I felt that I was being most productive, where I w
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
I know that I'm basically being trollbait (around here), by saying this, but I personally believe that the very existence of an "exit plan" is a problem. A business is supposed to be an ongoing, perpetual enterprise. Maybe
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
I write tests alongside the code. I also write tests before the code, and after the code. Usually, I use test harnesses[0]. These generally start before the code, and grow, alongside. I’ll frequently write unit tests, after the code is
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
Good points. Thanks for the corrections. But I also never considered Tim Cook a "quarter-miner." In fact, I think that he's known for standing up to them.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
So… five days? Maybe government work is different from private industry work, but the folks at my company worked six days a week, with Saturday being a “half day” (only 8 hours). However, Saturday wasn’t an “official” office day, so casual

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