Smeevy

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by Smeevy 3y ago
If you have the means, I recommend placing her into memory care. I did that for my father and I have no regrets about the experience. In terms of day-to-day interactions, the best pieces of advice I received was to: * redirect the conversat
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by Smeevy 3y ago
Yes, we all sat down and unanimously agreed that we should perform JNDI lookups to execute arbitrary code stored in an LDAP directory. No regrets.
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by Smeevy 4y ago
Twins!
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by Smeevy 4y ago
As soon as you're saying something that isn't true. The guidance to "present yourself as bigger than you are" isn't bad, but it's not going to take any adult long to figure out that the same guy who responds to
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by Smeevy 4y ago
Doesn't that fundamentally undercut the incremental value delivery and CI/CD progression that SAFe promises?
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by Smeevy 4y ago
As someone with similar leanings, I used to wonder the same thing. I've been running my own company since 2001 and I've had a few engagements where I've been called in to resolve thorny problems for clients. In my experience,
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by Smeevy 4y ago
America doesn't have a far left now and hasn't since the 60s. We have center right and authoritarian right. If there was a meaningful far left presence, then people wouldn't have to worry about medical bankruptcy.
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by Smeevy 4y ago
They were already hemorrhaging users. Does he think turning Twitter in Parler is going to make anything better?
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by Smeevy 4y ago
Because the people that do that the most need tend to need something urgently that will make me stop what I'm doing and handle their problem anyway. I'd rather just be interrupted all at once than in dribs and drabs.
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by Smeevy 4y ago
I hate that so very much. There's no problem starting with a salutation, but just hit alt-enter or else I have to wait 5 minutes for you to finish typing out the entirety of "Moby Dick" in chat.
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by Smeevy 4y ago
I've been driving a Prius in one model or another since 2004. It's just a car and has no discernible opinions other than the mileage readout telling me that I'm hitting the gas pedal too much.
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by Smeevy 4y ago
That is a neat idea. I was sort of thinking of that, but was concerned about invalid and unused database objects. You'd avoid name collisions pretty handily, though. I'm guessing that you would just need some policy to drop all of
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by Smeevy 4y ago
Ah. I see my misunderstanding. This is my fault for trying to think at 4am. That is a bit trickier. You will absolutely not be able to do that without computing stored procedure names using a version number, which seems awful and not worth
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by Smeevy 4y ago
> I remember spending several hours on a bug that was caused by an altered stored procedure. One SQL function was not as it should have been. I don't know if someone had patched it live, or if there had been an unnoticed failure in
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by Smeevy 4y ago
It's just scaffolding. You write scripts to deploy your stored procedures, DDL, and functions and you store them in version control. You run those scripts from a remote connection with the appropriate database client installed using DB
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by Smeevy 5y ago
Thanks for the tip about the Disable Tooltips extension. I'm using Visual Studio for a couple of projects and you've just removed one minor annoyance from my life and I appreciate it very much. We use MyEclipse for a lot of our Ja
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by Smeevy 5y ago
Maybe I'm just pining for the old days, but Visual Studio 6 is still my favorite IDE of all time. Intellisense was fairly new and it only activated if you pressed Ctrl-Space. I didn't have little pop-ups and type-aheads trying to
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by Smeevy 5y ago
My first programming job was working with Asymetrix Toolbook, which was basically Hypercard with the ability save generated code in the final project. I still think it was kind of cool that I could write something like this in 1992 (syntax
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by Smeevy 5y ago
The problem with these tools is that they invariably have solutions to their own design problems that conflict with the system you need to build. One of my old customers went with Tibco as a replacement for an internally developed system an
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by Smeevy 5y ago
That's exactly the problem with what Agile has become. The only way to get the ear of a bad management is to talk about how you can be EVEN FASTER .
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by Smeevy 5y ago
Minor item on your alpha notification: It's spelled "hiccup", not "hickup".
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by Smeevy 5y ago
I had a new hire last year that did this. He interviewed pretty well and we brought him on as contract-to-hire through a placement company. We're a small company, so it was pretty easy to have everything set up for him on day one to be
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by Smeevy 5y ago
I've being running a contract development shop for about 20 years and I think that this is very out of line. That said, our usual approach to dealing with customer-required installs like VPN clients is to just spin up a VM using VMWare
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by Smeevy 5y ago
I agree with the author, but saying "best practice" in a group discussion is frequently used to make someone's position sound more official. "Industry standard" gets used the same way. Some people think that saying
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by Smeevy 5y ago
I absolutely agree with that approach. Maybe it's just me, but "no" isn't as much of an option as it seems from the outside looking in. I've had much better results by refining and redirecting outside requests than
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by Smeevy 5y ago
I personally would rather see disciplinary action akin to what's done in the military. Not that that isn't without its issues, but the machinery that makes it work is larger and more independent from the people being disciplined t
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by Smeevy 6y ago
My company uses it all the time. It's an absolutely rock-solid database and I've never had any issues with it. They just released their new containerized version a few months back and have recently simplified their licensing rathe
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by Smeevy 8y ago
The Star Realms expansions can be really fun. We don't use them all of the time, but the hero and event cards add some neat new gameplay mechanics.
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by Smeevy 8y ago
I really hope so. Venturing Crews and Sea Scouts, both of which are part of BSA, have been co-ed for a long time. My initial research was not particularly fruitful, but I think that they've been that way since their respective inceptio
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by Smeevy 9y ago
Couldn't they just check to see if tomorrow is the first of the month?

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