UglyToad

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by UglyToad 4y ago
I have two DigitalOcean sites on the same VPS just serving from kestrel behind an nginx reverse proxy and then one site on a Hetzner VPS where I was playing around with k3s. For digitalocean I followed this post which is probably way out of
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by UglyToad 4y ago
My admittedly biased view from the other side of the fence is that it may be a lot (little) quicker initially but you run up against code quality/maintainability and performance struggles far sooner. Granted in a startup worrying about
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by UglyToad 4y ago
Alternatively; a backend developer writes about their exploration of a relatively new/emerging frontend approach which provides an interesting read on one of many alternative options for frontend from pure HTML to canvas for everything
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by UglyToad 4y ago
Sure they're going to make more money from me (as a generic user) than value I will derive from them (on average over the population of users). Otherwise they go out of business and we use other available alternatives. But you know wha
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by UglyToad 4y ago
Where does this end? You write a license that your GPL code can only be re-hosted on non-GitHub hosts? git still exists, if I'm unhappy with GitHub I can just add a new origin (sourcehut, gitea, gitlab, self-hosting, etc) and push ther
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by UglyToad 4y ago
No one has yelled at you yet so let me be the first to represent for the can't type contingent. Why would I want to type? It's entirely the wrong model for interacting with code. I think a lot of languages are held back by this id
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by UglyToad 4y ago
Strong same, I've been working on a 14" laptop for the past 2 years with no external monitor or keyboard. A second monitor makes me twice as productive at procrastinating. Given I can only reasonably have a single application open
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by UglyToad 4y ago
I'm definitely becoming one of the tin foil hat lot but since the redesign I've gone from perhaps 40 hours listening per week to almost zero but am too lazy to cancel the subscription. By that metric I think the redesign has succe
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by UglyToad 4y ago
Fairly certain it wasn't but was it this Google study instead? https://rework.withgoogle.com/print/guides/5721312655835136/
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by UglyToad 4y ago
I did a little development on Ubuntu back before Rider existed and switched back to Windows because I prefer it but now with Rider I think for any .NET Core shop the development platform is more or less irrelevant. Almost everyone in our te
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by UglyToad 4y ago
GQL is great, if only because it stops endless bikeshedding about "what is RESTful". It's not going to be right in every use-case and I find it useful to have GQL and normal API endpoints on the same API so I can use the righ
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Hacker News Trends(hn-trends.eliot-jones.com)
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by UglyToad 4y ago
I think this is about 98% of the value I get from code review, just looking at the diff in the GitHub view generally results in me spotting all the bugs and stylistic issues that would be raised in review. This makes waiting days for the ac
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by UglyToad 4y ago
Very un-HN take but maybe you're not meant to be 100% efficient all the time, maybe having some time to be passive and relax is good actually. Maybe we work far too much already and expecting to be additionally productive outside those
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by UglyToad 4y ago
I've only done them at one place over 1 year but they're easily among the worst things to come out of the Silicon Valley cargo-cult school of management. The root problem is that what works for the front-page of the internet who h
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by UglyToad 4y ago
To give a slight clarification (though I ask the exact same question every Who's hiring thread time of the month) I think "not more popular in the startup bubble" is more accurate. As far as I'm aware Java and C# are sti
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by UglyToad 4y ago
While it could maybe be phrased better I think this is the crux of the matter. I'm typing this on a US$200 (roughly) phone. I don't particularly care about, or have any affinity to, the OS. I don't even remember the manufactu
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by UglyToad 4y ago
Yeah this is an overlooked factor, people may not be driving actual tanks as sibling comment mentions but they are driving death machines almost perfectly designed to cause maximum injury to children [0]. I think a combination of increased
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by UglyToad 4y ago
Agree with you. I'm highly skeptical of an argument from a (X?)googler about why remote is bad. Like sure it might be nice to go to Google's office instead of work from the kitchen table but that's not what's on the tabl
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by UglyToad 4y ago
Flat Earth News is a good book that digs into why news outlets pushing PR statements verbatim (alongside other problems) became a thing. Basically fewer journalists with more column inches to fill using syndicated pieces and barely editing
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by UglyToad 5y ago
There's more discussion of Hobbes in the book than can reasonably be quoted since it links in to themes developed across chapters, but for a taste: "I want to draw particular attention to the underlying notion of "self-intere
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by UglyToad 5y ago
To give a +1 here, I think Against the Grain makes a nice companion to Debt from what I assume are separate ends of the left-right spectrum within libertarianism, or at least I guess so from Against the Grain having a positive review from t
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by UglyToad 5y ago
I initially said "with credit to Graeber" but as he acknowledges in the book it's from someone else, I guess here. I just find the Kindle UI too hostile to actually bother and pull out the full attribution so settled to &quot
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by UglyToad 5y ago
As appears in Debt by David Graeber [0]: Missionary: Look at you! You’re just wasting your life away, lying around like that. Samoan: Why? What do you think I should be doing? Missionary: Well, there are plenty of coconuts all around here.
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by UglyToad 5y ago
You're right but how the hell is this patentable!? The patent system is patently nonsense if "make there be as few clicks as possible" is worthy of a couple of decades of protection. Probably more context in the patent doc wh
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by UglyToad 5y ago
Not reading the article because I think I'll find it too upsetting but I think you're right that the issues described aren't necessarily remote based. A friend of mine died of suicide back in college and it wasn't clearl
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by UglyToad 5y ago
A term I've seen floating around for the latter is a product engineer/developer. This makes the distinction between people who view their jobs as coding to meet requirements vs. solving business problems just happening to use code
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by UglyToad 5y ago
One that's repeatedly tripping me up while I'm living on in the Caribbean is "all addresses have ZIP codes". They've started adding postal codes here but not many places have them. It's easy enough to enter 000
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by UglyToad 5y ago
Yeah this was my gut reaction, maybe a name conflict with a terrorist or AML watchlist or something. Or just plain bad luck but interesting coincidences.
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by UglyToad 5y ago
The problem, as a vegetarian of something like 4 years, is that meat is really bloody tasty. Simply put, it's extremely nice to eat. So rather than a future where we all eat flies or tofu or lentils or seitan or something if we can mak

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