LeonB

43 ms·

511.
by LeonB 5y ago
As a cautionary tale to others, in case they don’t want to be blocked by him, it might make them pause and consider before putting into writing any extremely mild criticism, on Twitter.
512.
by LeonB 5y ago
I wasn’t following him and don’t mind about that. I think people have every right to block people without that person reaching out on other ways — I’ve seen people demanding explanations etc and in those cases as in this case, you know wh
513.
by LeonB 5y ago
Not something I’m going to dig into, sorry. People have every right to block others, without giving any explanation and I support that side of it completely. It stood out from my pov because there’s very very few times I’ve noticed I’m bloc
514.
by LeonB 5y ago
He’d burnt the bridges himself long ago. I was already aware, from things he’d said about me, that he was not a person I would ever do business with.
515.
by LeonB 5y ago
Can’t read what he says as I was blocked years ago. I had expressed the mildest degree of cynicism one can possibly express in response to a straight up lie.
516.
by LeonB 5y ago
Nice ideas and good work. I’ve put down various ideas and links about constructing and testing knowledge graphs here https://wiki.secretgeek.net/dependency-graph-for-knowledge Good luck with what you’re doing.
517.
by LeonB 5y ago
I generally list this as my favorite book. Have read it god knows how many times. Recently found an audio version read by Vonnegut himself - originally released on vinyl. It was great to hear him tell it, though it is quite abridged. A diff
518.
by LeonB 5y ago
It shares its name with the cassowary plum - a poisonous fruit that cassowary bird can happily eat, having adapted alongside it.
519.
by LeonB 5y ago
> In 1395, Philip the Bold outlawed cultivation of the Gamay grape in favour of Pinot Noir in an early example of agricultural regulation related to wine quality
520.
by LeonB 5y ago
Only if their regular services run at a loss and their business model relies on people making mistakes. But Azure’s regular prices are definitely high enough that they’re not a loss leader.
521.
by LeonB 5y ago
Several comments take issue with that same quote but fail to grasp the context: it was his naive dream-self who had this thought. > But in the dream, I was staring at this equation as a mathematical beginner, completely befuddled by the
522.
by LeonB 5y ago
In dos on dope, .bat files are handlers for http GET and .cmd files are handlers for http POST.
523.
by LeonB 5y ago
Author here. In dos on dope, .bat files are used for actions that handle http GET, and .cmd files are used for actions that handle http POST. Btw I did live through that transition. (?)
524.
by LeonB 5y ago
Cheers I haven’t seen or heard of “bash on balls” before. From what I can tell Dos on Dope (Sept 2010) predates Bash on Balls (Jan 2011).
525.
by LeonB 5y ago
Valid point. If I just changed any mention of "Controllers" to "CONTRO~1" (both in the tutorial and in the code) -- it would work just fine. Maybe after 10+ years it's time for a patch. But not today.
526.
by LeonB 5y ago
Thank you! fixed in the blog post and the github repo's index.md.
527.
by LeonB 5y ago
I don't know if it was ever "edgy" but I wrote it in 2010. And it wasn't so much a parody of MVC, but very specifically of Ruby on Rails.
528.
by LeonB 5y ago
I found that (even back in 2010!) “edlin” wasn’t available on my laptop. And since I was coding this on the bus (without internet) I couldn’t download/find some legacy way of running edlin. I opted to gave an example of “copy con” and
529.
by LeonB 5y ago
"cmd.exe on coke" didn't test well with our target demographic. (author here)
530.
by LeonB 5y ago
What is “commands-on-selection“ ? I googled it - but that only led back here!
531.
by LeonB 5y ago
And similar to the n word - some Greeks and Italians have taken the word and used it themselves with pride. I’m conflicted about this but happy for my friends who can do it. I certainly don’t think anyone else should use the term.
532.
by LeonB 5y ago
Yes - those things are closely related to some of the diagnostic criteria used by some of the tests for depression. The remission of those symptoms is a quite a good signal all by itself. See for example https://www.medscape.com&
533.
by LeonB 5y ago
Good site, but something of a so-called “taxation on stupidity”.
534.
by LeonB 5y ago
The responses to this are a fantastic example of Cunningham’s Law at work. Thank you!
535.
by LeonB 5y ago
I’m using clowncar: https://github.com/secretGeek/clowncar …to turn markdown files into my “today I learned” site, here: https://til.secretgeek.net/
536.
by LeonB 5y ago
It’s good to gather things now and record metrics that are meaningful. SLOs will come later. Or, if you create SLOs now expect you’ll have to create whole new SLOs when things begin. But in the meantime you can get slick ci/cd, unit, i
537.
by LeonB 5y ago
The SLO should be tied to customer satisfaction as much as possible. I think you need to collect a bunch of metrics (potential SLIs) for a period of time and then say — in which windows were things bad enough that they caused real issues? A
538.
by LeonB 5y ago
Stephen Wolfram’s personal analytics (also described here - https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-prod... ) - have been the inspiration for the “dogsheep” project from @simonw. (Wolf… ram… … dog…
539.
by LeonB 5y ago
I re-read it and I think you’re right.
540.
by LeonB 5y ago
Not the original commenter, but I’ve heard, and somewhat observed, that Dutch people are generally more fluent in English than other Europeans; and I’ve heard this attributed to Dutch television, where English shows are generally presented

More ›