Foober223

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by Foober223 6y ago
I found the little schemer a good book to go through with a pencil, and no computer. It was meant to be read and worked through by hand. One of the most underrated books in programming. I'd say it has value even if you are not interest
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by Foober223 6y ago
Interesting that you prefer both extremes of UI design. Jetbrains UI that shows available options or pops them in real time. And command line UI; requires reading the docs to learn options, but can be powerful and chained with other command
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by Foober223 6y ago
Dashboards with tons of charts are all about pre-computing. In the RDBMS world you abandon normal relational tables and use a non-relational star schema. Star schemas are basically just tables that store pre-computed data. Sometimes it&#x27
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by Foober223 6y ago
Have/had a mild Bronchitis-like feeling in my lungs. But have/had no difficulty breathing despite that. No shortness of breath. The feeling sometimes goes away, but them later resurfaces. To the best of my knowledge I have not los
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by Foober223 6y ago
Yes, that's true, but corona's are considered to be colds regardless. Covid-19 will certainly become "common" once most of the world has been exposed. Just FYI, "common cold" is not meant to downplay the deadl
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by Foober223 6y ago
To the question in the title. I don't know how I caught it. Before the lock down I was touching doors used by thousands of people daily. Touching gas pumps, etc. I have a habit of touching my face. Luckily I had a mild reaction, but I
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by Foober223 6y ago
I don't think any official statistics exist. And any stats could even be misleading. People who take precautions very seriously (ie nurses) may actually have higher rates of infection. The average Joe Blow who never wears a mask or was
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by Foober223 6y ago
1. not sure. 2. not sure 3. not sure. 4. not sure. In some cases it's not really a choice between life vs death. The choice is a speedy death or a slow torturous death where they let you die of dehydration. Generally I think it's
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by Foober223 6y ago
If it's a well understood domain, up front design is nice. A simple drawing that fits on a sheet of paper. If it's new territory, up front design is worthless. You've never attempted to create a facial recognition program bef
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by Foober223 6y ago
Yes. I think the driving force behind the open office is to save money. If a company allows a high % of workers to work from home, it can more easily afford less-efficient layouts. With private walled offices. It's easier to give 20 on
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by Foober223 6y ago
There's a saying: No good deed goes unpunished. What's right for your personal morals may conflict with the law. I'm sure most developers would appreciate the report. But some people misunderstand things. Are unreasonable. Or
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by Foober223 6y ago
The "threat" is to not play in their sandbox after they change the rules. People can of course vote to take more of your earnings. But it's fair to leave when the rules change, it's a broken contract.
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by Foober223 6y ago
Target the market of the geographic region you plan to work in. You might get a feel for what's in demand by looking at job websites. To reliably get a job in my local area, I'd jump on the Microsoft stack. C#, ASP MVC, Sql Server
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by Foober223 6y ago
The UI itself would have to make it clear what is happening. So clear that it can be used without training. Is this even possible to achieve? maybe yes. I've seen visual representations of branch and re-base that make it clear what is
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by Foober223 6y ago
Sounds like work sucks, but do things by the book. Get a new job lined up before you quit.
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by Foober223 6y ago
You may not realize it, but you have happy problems. Many of your peers are starting adulthood with $0. They are about to take on massive debt for a useless degree. All to become an modern day indentured servant to interest payments. For th
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by Foober223 6y ago
Double kettle bell complex: cleans, military press, front-squats. A free standing pull up bar. Randomly do 2-3 pull ups through out the day. Pushups. kettle bell swings. Loaded carries through the house. Waiter walks, farmers carry, racked
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by Foober223 6y ago
I see a lot of comments about sunshine exposure. Just want to make a counter-point. My neighbor died of skin cancer after a lifetime of sun exposure. He was in his 60's, not a spring chicken, but not elderly yet either. Now I have a ne
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by Foober223 7y ago
Back end in portable C or C++. Front end using the native OS GUI features. Compile separately for each platform. Many developers may not be a fan of this, but it's the best kind of cross platform for the users. If you need something of
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by Foober223 7y ago
> No computer will ever be able to make the leap into creating But aren't humans proof an inanimate set of atoms can be creative? Electric charge is pushing pressure through a psychical structure for both human brains and man-made
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by Foober223 7y ago
I very likely had it with mild symptoms. Testing is not available to people with mild symptoms in my area. I could feel, and still do feel a mild Bronchitis-like feeling in my lungs. But have/had no difficulty breathing despite that. N
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by Foober223 7y ago
Covid 19 is very mild compared to the first colds unleashed on humanity that wiped out civilizations. It just seems worse now since we are experiencing it. 2-5 years, the whole world will become infected and gain resistance. Minor changes
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by Foober223 7y ago
Waiting is the technique (technology) that will solve the problem effectively. Gadgets are to monitor people are neat, but I think they are an ineffective technique (technology) against the virus. Wait a a few years and the virus will have
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by Foober223 7y ago
I wouldn't try to micro analyze the reasons for your layoff. The "speak up in meetings" critique is a standard go-to for performance reviews. It basically means you are doing pretty good and they just need some filler for the
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by Foober223 7y ago
Declaring vars at the top of a function makes it easier to see at a glance how much stack memory will be used. But beyond that I don't see any advantage.
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by Foober223 7y ago
Depends on the area. In Afghanistan there was a much stronger need for range. Old hunting rifles, not AK's were the most powerful small weapon used by the locals. The US had to bring back the old .308 rifles to compete. And even broug
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by Foober223 7y ago
Supposedly your smart phone and smart TV are not passively listening to your offline conversations. That's only done on a targeted basis to people who are being monitored. Your location history however is being passively tracked. Not d
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by Foober223 7y ago
You can use git locally to get some of the benefits for yourself. No one even has to know. Distributed git FTW.
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by Foober223 7y ago
Are they spending $$$ on marketing? Do they have connections to someone with a problem the software will solve? These things are worth money, and might be worth partnering. But if this is just something that will be thrown into an app store
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by Foober223 7y ago
For standard CUA editors: Control + Shift + Arrow-key to highlight words. But I use Emacs so everything I do is a shortcut. Maybe my favorite Emacs shortcut is actually a short-cut framework called Hydra. You enter a temporary state w

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