Falkon1313

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by Falkon1313 6y ago
So do we, but generally a quick glance at the kanban board would show that for everyone. Well, it would if we had one unified board. Instead we have stuff scattered across multiple boards. Still it would only take 1-2 minutes to open the
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by Falkon1313 6y ago
I see this a lot "onboarding is difficult remotely", but I don't know why. It hasn't been difficult at my last few jobs including the current one where many/most of us have been remote for years. You get added to t
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by Falkon1313 6y ago
Next thing we know, the kids these days will invent some mindblowing new concept like "HappyText Makestuff Language" aka HTML that actually allows you to link to other documents!
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by Falkon1313 6y ago
As someone who started in the late 80s with Apple II, Commodore 64, and then Tandy 1000, I have decades of perspective on this, and I think that both this article and most of the comments are looking the wrong way. Hardware fails and change
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by Falkon1313 6y ago
Or at least seamless. The industry lost the distinction between updates and upgrades some years ago. If after an update, everything still worked properly, people wouldn't have an aversion to it. But in an era where even a minor vers
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by Falkon1313 6y ago
Doesn't happen to me either. I can get 120 days of uptime without a problem. Could probably go longer, but I do updates at least quarterly. I also don't have those tiles or ads turned on in my start menu, or any of the other st
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by Falkon1313 6y ago
>The problem with windows for personal use is that it gets in the way too often with pop ups, notifications and crap ads inside start menu. I turned those off within a day after I installed it and haven't had those problems in years
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by Falkon1313 6y ago
Similar for me. Although I do use LibreOffice instead of MS, I also have 25+ years of software, some quite niche, all of which still works fine on Windows. I don't want to waste time and effort trying to figure out how to make Linux
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by Falkon1313 6y ago
Sure, that would be revealing at least. 2 days to get ramped up, update tooling, dependencies, database snapshots, docker containers, etc. Do all requirements gathering, investigation, and design work. 2 days for code review, testing, hand
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by Falkon1313 6y ago
Me too, but I learned in Turbo Pascal and early Java which had some real limitations to their type systems. Imagine - strings of different lengths being incompatible types, arrays of different lengths being incompatible types, no generics,
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by Falkon1313 6y ago
I've tried a variety over time, some of which seemed cool at the time, a couple of which I like. - Unison was a command line tool, like a better rsync, designed for backups. But it feels quite kludgy doing backups/restores from t
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by Falkon1313 6y ago
I did not know that you were supposed to do that. Like anything else from the freezer, I just let it sit out for awhile to thaw. I had never used freezers much except for things like ice cream or ice cubes, we always had fresh and/or
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by Falkon1313 6y ago
They are an alternative to chicken nuggets that could fill another day on the school lunch menu and also for parents whose kids would only eat bland brown things or who didn't want to cook. Almost no one really intentionally eats them
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by Falkon1313 6y ago
My sister froze bread, but it always came out soggy and gross from condensation. Maybe it was the type of freezers we have in the U.S., but whenever you thaw things there's going to be condensation and that doesn't work well with
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by Falkon1313 6y ago
It was already known to be a very recently-developed mutation, so that's not that surprising. It might pin it down a bit more, and it is interesting that it indicates that it spread so quickly in the first couple of thousand years. Be
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by Falkon1313 6y ago
"Ultimately, many CEOs and analysts I spoke with said it’s up to company leaders to create a healthy culture and make sure it’s lived out." That's the key takeaway from that article. It has nothing to do with Slack or any ot
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by Falkon1313 6y ago
They don't need to police anyone. It would be you deciding who/what you choose to mute. They give you the ability to mute channels, but not to mute bots. It should be something they could add. My company's approach is just
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by Falkon1313 6y ago
That's when everyone started assuming always-connected high-bandwidth internet. Before that, given the relevant files on a disk, you could rebuild the software. And even on later systems, given a sandboxed VM or emulator, you could ru
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by Falkon1313 6y ago
More than just your dependencies. I've unfortunately seen multiple systems where you basically would need a snapshot of the system it was last successfully built on to build it again. Ideally, that would be less common these days (pe
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by Falkon1313 6y ago
The only really hard things from then to run are things that did tricky hardware-specific memory management or otherwise used hardware that is no longer available. The only one I can think of offhand is Harpoon II Admiral's Edition, wh
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by Falkon1313 6y ago
A lot of desktop software has in recent years moved to assume always-on high-bandwidth internet connection and/or moved to a subscription model.
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by Falkon1313 6y ago
You typed the compile/build command and it compiled/built. Then you had an executable you could test and/or deploy. Or you got errors, which you resolved until it did compile.
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by Falkon1313 6y ago
I agree with both sides to a degree. The tendency to use monster truck wheels on a shopping cart or vice-versa (because reinventing the wheel is considered evil) makes software a mess, but so does throwing out years of debugging subtle&#x2
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by Falkon1313 6y ago
Data in older programs was in legacy formats that often could only be read by that program (and sometimes only specific versions of it). One might assume that since we're using a lot more plaintext formats, our formats and encodings t
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by Falkon1313 6y ago
The downside is that that one middleman often has incorrect menus, and if there are any issues it then becomes a he-said she-said they-said juggling act with the service, the restaurant, and the driver blaming each other for any problems.
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by Falkon1313 6y ago
Maybe if you're only doing it for fame and fortune and PR and success. But trying to do that without actually having anything interesting to get famous and successful about was always just a con-man's game. Real blogging is about
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by Falkon1313 6y ago
Cafeteria style means you pick what you want as you go down the line, and at the end of the line you pay for what you picked.
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by Falkon1313 6y ago
It may be more demand than supply. Plenty of people would love to be CEOs, and have some ability to run a business and delegate, but you can only have one per company. On the other hand, you can have many engineers. If you could only hav
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by Falkon1313 7y ago
The local beer store here is doing daily deliveries now, including kegs. They don't say whether they pick up the empty kegs, but if they're bringing a new one they might. Of course it's geared toward craft brew snobs, so not
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by Falkon1313 7y ago
In an effort to be more efficient, I've begun sneering at it as I write it.

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