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by Merad 6y ago
One I like to go back to is the micro-kernel scheduler written in assembly I did for a grad school project: https://github.com/mbcrawfo/avr-kernel/blob/master/kernel/co... It seems so much more inte
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by Merad 6y ago
Yep, I’m fair skinned (Scots-Irish heritage) and live in the US south (North Carolina). If I’m very careful to build up my sun exposure all spring I can tolerate moderate amounts of sun without burning... but if I went out tomorrow for even
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by Merad 6y ago
Yeah, it’s not exactly a common problem. I’ve only seen it come up in that scenario when two people with different casing habits try to share a branch.
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by Merad 6y ago
I make a branch named 'feature/ABC-123', do some work, and push to the server. You want to take over my branch so you do a fetch then run the command 'git checkout feature/abc-123'. You will check out my bra
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by Merad 6y ago
You don't need an extension for this, you can go into about:config and flip dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to false.
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by Merad 6y ago
> And they are not reliable in practice. I'm curious what you mean by this. I agree that when a revolver experiences a mechanical malfunction it's usually serious and the gun is probably done until a gunsmith takes it apart.
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by Merad 7y ago
A predicate is really just a test that accepts an input and produces true or false. The expression only becomes necessary when you want to translate the predicate somehow (e.g. to SQL).
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by Merad 7y ago
IMO the only question now is how long it takes the rest of the country to follow suite. Here in NC our governor announced the closing of all public schools on Friday, but I've heard from several friends that in my city (Raleigh) the do
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by Merad 7y ago
We have a 4 million LOC ~15 year old monolith made by about 10 people that would like to have a word with you.
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by Merad 7y ago
In the early 2010s I worked for Fiserv, who at the time provided "online bill pay" services to about 80% of US banks (I don't recall if they're in Canada or not). The overwhelming majority of the bank customers using th
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by Merad 7y ago
Nullable reference types also feel pretty half baked with EF at the moment. If you have a non-nullable column that you want to represent with a non-nullable property in your EF model, pretty much the only option (the last time I looked) was
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by Merad 7y ago
At work our team just finished implementing a filtering library for our web services that's loosely based on OData. The query string value is parsed into an expression tree, then all of the operations on the expression tree are implem
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by Merad 7y ago
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by Merad 7y ago
The main problem with your approach is that you have full control over your dependencies but no control over their dependencies, unless you're inspecting every single package in your dependency graph to make sure that every one of th
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by Merad 7y ago
EV's definitely have an advantage in terms of maintenance, but I suspect it's a bit overstated. Most of the things you listed get checked during normal maintenance and might require replacement or adjustment once or twice during
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by Merad 7y ago
If you read the article (what a novel idea!) the author explains that his company was running into heap size limits. The company was preparing to tackle this problem with a combination of extensive refactoring, server upgrades, licensing ex
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by Merad 7y ago
They use Core today, but SO was using .Net long before Core existed.
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by Merad 7y ago
I'm totally in favor of using TS, but I agree that lazy devs can set up an absolute mess when they try to use TS without really learning it. I think probably the fundamental weakness of TS is that you really need a good understand of
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by Merad 7y ago
What exactly would you be hoping to see the candidate do in such an interview? I’m moderately experienced on the front end (mostly jQuery and React, a bit of AngularJS) but if the task is making a SPA in vanilla JS I’d barely know where to
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by Merad 7y ago
Ive worked on several apps that tried this approach and each of them was a mess. I’ve seen two fundamental problems with building your app on top of stored procs: * Tooling around sql is generally inferior to what’s available for <pick
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by Merad 7y ago
Have you tried thunks using async/await? IMO its all the benefits of being easy to read and understand without having to learn a totally new concept (generators).
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by Merad 7y ago
Thanks for taking the time to respond! Re squash commits: as a MR author what I want is the ability to set the commit message in advance (even if it's just a check box to say "use the MR title and description". Using a commi
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by Merad 7y ago
Our devops team loves Gitlab pipelines and pushed the decision through. If you're looking for a "killer feature" on Gitlab, pipelines is probably it. As a developer I don't think there's a huge difference, especial
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by Merad 7y ago
> Epstein was clearly a pedophile. Even at the time in question, it was already quite clear that he was a pedophile. He wasn't a pedophile, at least from what I've read. Pedophilia specifically refers to an attraction to prepu
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by Merad 7y ago
> It's also frustrating that every time a user leaves an organization, my entire chat history with them is deleted as well. That may be a setting in the organization or something that your Slack admins are doing? I'm able to l
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by Merad 7y ago
I'm doubtful that recursion would ever be more performant than iteration. Iteration with a stack gives you all the capability of recursion without the function call overhead. As others have said, the main advantage of recursion is ea
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by Merad 7y ago
I have no idea what the context for this article is, but my main takeaway is that I'm very glad that I never got into Twitter.
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by Merad 7y ago
I don’t know about modern astronauts, but bear in mind that at the point when the Skylab missions happened there were only about 50 astronauts total in the US. Only about half of those had actually flown in space. I have a feeling that be
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by Merad 7y ago
A helicopter's rotor has a complex control system that has you changing the pitch of the rotor blades and the angle of the rotor disk, with the rotor behaving similarly to the wing of an airplane. Quadcopters usually rely purely on thr
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by Merad 7y ago
> I asked her why we had to play an hour long cat-and-mouse game to get this done. She had no explanation. Because she's quite literally given a set of rules that says, "if the customer says X, you're allowed to take actio

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