Jestar342

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by Jestar342 7y ago
Consider my interests piqued. I shall be giving ripcord a go from tomorrow.
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by Jestar342 7y ago
Think of this as SSR for adverts/trackers. The harvested data is still going to 3rd parties, even if your browser connection(s) aren't.
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by Jestar342 7y ago
Amazon infuriates me. I regularly buy gadget-y bits like electronic components and peripherals. Probably at least once a month. Never see adverts for similar. That ONE TIME I buy a unicorn dress for my 2 year old daughter? That's a lif
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by Jestar342 7y ago
Tbh that doesn't sound like a particularly troublesome task. Super-set the language with some new accents, symbols, and new punctuation markers and then off you go.
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by Jestar342 7y ago
Perhaps I'm being dense but I am pretty sure everything after your first sentence actually concurs with my post.
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by Jestar342 7y ago
> It does not. It makes it exponentially more difficult. is not implicit. That is very much an explicit assertion. I'm simply pointing out that in your pointing out of cargo-cult, you've done the exact same thing of drawing a c
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by Jestar342 7y ago
Amazon probably don't care about the authenticity of the items, only that _they_ are fulfilling and shipping them.
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by Jestar342 7y ago
> It does not. It makes it exponentially more difficult. You should realise you are falling victim of your own assertions here. You're cargo-culting the idea that abstracting functions makes debugging exponentially more difficult, w
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by Jestar342 7y ago
Mermaid.js[1] can be used within some markdown parsers. I use it all the time for recording sequence diagrams, logic flows, architecture charts. I use it all off-line, in vscode with various plugins, though mermaid was made for web. [1] htt
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by Jestar342 7y ago
This applies not just to developers but all the way "up the ladder". The problems will change but the effective learning and mentoring will be the same.
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by Jestar342 7y ago
http://enforcementtracker.com/ may be of interest to you.
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by Jestar342 7y ago
IANAL, but it is my understanding that those arcane menus are actually breaking the law (with respect to GDPR in the EU, at least). The default position should always be "No", and combined with that the "exit route" for
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by Jestar342 7y ago
> Juries are given specific instructions which includes something to the effect of "it is your duty to determine if the defendent violated the law, regardless of if you agree with the law". The possibility of jury nullification
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by Jestar342 7y ago
That's just interpreted as "not guilty". I still don't understand why it is so hard for people to understand this. The jury are just asked "are they guilty?" and if they don't give an answer it is, by simp
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by Jestar342 7y ago
> In the UK, Theresa May, who brought the Snooper Charter into law became Prime Minister instead of being kicked out of her political career in disgrace.* To be fair, it is one horrendously broken electoral system. FPTP combined with thi
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by Jestar342 7y ago
The UK have self-regulating press. sigh
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by Jestar342 7y ago
In my own experience, the biggest "killer" is that it just gets boring and repetitive. I've been programming for 20 years and it is a struggle for me to find something "new" that isn't a mild variation of somet
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by Jestar342 7y ago
Yes, very much so.
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by Jestar342 7y ago
Yes, it's a great book and helped me to come to terms with my new responsibilities as a lead. The most important being when/how to relinquish control and trust your colleagues/delegates to do the right thing, with your suppor
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by Jestar342 7y ago
> the opex was close to £3mil in AWS bills alone What was the opex before cloud?
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by Jestar342 7y ago
I wish I knew enough to appreciate this joke.
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by Jestar342 7y ago
Accidental commits/pushes do happen, too. Keys, connection strings, even just mildly embarrassing comments that might show your penchant for Taylor Swift lyrics. Impossible to remove those completely, as far as I understand it, from ex
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by Jestar342 7y ago
Disclaimer: Asking from a place of ignorance/naivity What does this mean for SSL termination? E.g. SSL terminates at cloudflare, internal (behind firewall) all http-sans-s?
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by Jestar342 7y ago
I think it's the trend of bringing tech to an existing market. When that stops, we'll probably stop calling it tech companies. Uber is the perfect example of a "tech company" - they brought technology (and in this contex
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by Jestar342 7y ago
I've also come to realise that technical debt is everything. Anything that is resistant to change is technical debt, which includes the code you are writing "now", whether you anticipate its need to change in the future or no