JoBrad

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by JoBrad 6y ago
I’ve shifted to trying to get people to use the PowerBI data import function, at least. It offers the ability to import your data without managing it.
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by JoBrad 6y ago
You’re right about the (false) equivalency. But I think that “github” is well on its way to being the “kleenex” of version control.
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by JoBrad 6y ago
I feel like jkingsbery's comment[1] is relevant here: > One of the interviewer asked me to recite the algorithm for constructing a Convex Hull. > ... > we struggled together for an hour, with him frustrated that I couldn'
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by JoBrad 6y ago
Not sure to what extent we need to rethink primary education, vs refining it. Your points 1 and 2 are true _because_ the education system has excelled at increasing the knowledge of the average person.
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by JoBrad 6y ago
The last paragraph of this speech is perhaps the best appeal to our better selves a US politician has ever made, in my opinion. The way he seamlessly shifts from acknowledging the current madness to a lofty call-to-greatness gives me chills
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by JoBrad 6y ago
Should it just return a 400 if you don’t provide a translation?
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by JoBrad 6y ago
However certain I want to be that this would never happen, this is hilarious.
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by JoBrad 6y ago
As a user, I like where flat design has taken us, generally. But I absolutely agree with you: the loss of “functionality hinting” (I’m sure there’s an actual term for this, but I don’t know what it is) is pretty bad. You can stumble around
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by JoBrad 6y ago
It looks like a baby bottle. Which might be an inside joke, since it’s sipping power?
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by JoBrad 6y ago
I've seen at least one interesting conversation that casts at least doubt on that. https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/... But even the use of the word "master" as it re
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by JoBrad 6y ago
I agree that overly-aggressive terminology is widely used, pretty much everywhere. Clickbait articles particularly: “They evicerated/destroyed/devastated them”.
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by JoBrad 6y ago
I thought it was because they started bundling adware with software without telling the creators of that software.
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by JoBrad 6y ago
This is a bit longer than I intended, but is my point of view, and not intended to dismiss what you’re saying at all. I think it’s easy to dismiss conversations like master/slave whitelist/blacklist as overly PC or childish. I cer
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by JoBrad 6y ago
I understand that. If you don't have a # readily available, but your editor allows you mark a line as Heading 1 by pressing Ctrl+1, then it does in fact address their problem.
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by JoBrad 6y ago
I have almost entirely switched to using an editor which supports real-time preview for Markdown editing. There is a plugin for my editor (VSCode - but I'm sure that something similar exists for most other editors that support plugins)
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by JoBrad 6y ago
This is one of my favorite subreddits. I don’t think I’ve ever even posted in it. It’s like real life Sherlock Holmes sometimes. Quite often people will post a piece of a car involved in a hit and run, and it will be solved in minutes. Or s
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by JoBrad 6y ago
I think the docs now include this.
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by JoBrad 6y ago
> When the final cockroach breathes her last breath, her dying act will be to scratch her date of death in a CSV file for posterity. CSV is the Keith Richards of file formats.
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by JoBrad 6y ago
FWIW, the new importer for Excel lets you easily preview and adjust this behavior before importing the entire file.
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by JoBrad 6y ago
I have a base “library” I’ve used for several years that wraps the csv module (specifically DictReader/Writer) to handle encoding issues as well as data parsing. Have run into minor issues, but think that module alone is one of Python’
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by JoBrad 6y ago
Importantly, tabs aren’t usually inserted into fields by Excel users. With Power BI, exporting TSV is a little easier for non-dev Excel power users, too.
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by JoBrad 6y ago
That’s a great idea, haha. Giphy Roulette
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by JoBrad 6y ago
PowerShell has been around since 2006, not just the past 3 or 4 years. And there was a good deal of CLI-based administration / scripting before then, too.
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by JoBrad 6y ago
And if you have family at your house, you could self-quarantine away from them for 2 weeks.
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by JoBrad 7y ago
Because they're playing Dungeons and Dragons.
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by JoBrad 7y ago
We don't need the GOP for that. Both the RNC and DNC have dramatically changed their positions over the past 30-40 years. That could happen again (and probably will) if either party suffers a life-threatening loss in elections. Or anot
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by JoBrad 7y ago
There’s a pretty significant difference in price, though.
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by JoBrad 7y ago
This is actually a huge + for any extensible chat client. We send alerts from various monitoring solutions and use emoji to quickly identify the environment and app. Makes it very easy to understand exactly what is going on.
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by JoBrad 7y ago
It took _forever_ to get a self-hosted Jabber-based chat client going at a mid-sized corporation, about 10 years ago. Someone went “rogue” and set a server up anyway. Our security staff began blocking ports, so it eventually died anyway...
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by JoBrad 7y ago
They could allow edits only within a short timeframe.

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