Zelphyr

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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Oddfellows isn’t a Masonic organization like Shriners.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Goaccess is amazing and, in a world where seemingly every technology touts itself as "lightweight" (whether they really are or not), truly is very light weight.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I don't think the suggestion is to not hire based on skill but rather to ignore age as any kind of requirement for the position.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I’m really looking forward to the Red v1.0 release. It is a fork of Rebol that has a lot of potential. I’ve never seen a language (both Rebol and Red) that allows you to get so much done so succinctly while still being easy to read.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Untrained or poorly trained managers. The lack of solid leadership that exists in organizations of every size is stunning to me. The jobs I've had where I was my most productive was when I had quality managers leading the department.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I agree that business leaders have to answer for their actions. But that is clearly not what is happening at these inquiries. The CEO of Equifax was called to one when they had their major security breach last year. What came of that? C
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
It's kind-of Congress' own fault here. They so often have these... events, that are mostly for show and for the politicians to grandstand making them seem tough to voters but really have very little substance. I doubt any meanin
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Has anyone compiled a list of alternatives to Amazon? I’m not expecting a one-stop-shop where I can buy everything like at Amazon. But a list of online retailers who are better than Amazon at specific categories of products. Because I’m at
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
You're getting downvoted but after 20+ years of writing web applications I have to agree with you. This stuff is a mess.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Back in the mid-90's I had an HP 486 PC and printer (can't remember the model number) that both worked pretty well, all things considered. Now we have an all-in-one HP printer/fax/scanner/copier that gets me closer
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
YES! In true American form, we're solving a ten dollar problem with a million dollar solution.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
It's great that you guys are receptive to these issues but I can't help but wonder if, instead of solving this with what is clearly unpopular technology, we all would have been better off if Google had encouraged better practices?
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
In my experience, the developer time it takes to get a serverless application running (on AWS anyway) far exceeds the benefits that serverless brings. We spent over six months on a project written in serverless that we could never really g
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Acceptance Commitment Therapy Made Simple by Russ Harris (He has several good books on the subject) Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety by Kelly G. Wilson and M. Troy DuFrene
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Good for you and you should celebrate when you finally close your account. I’ll go so far as to say that anyone who willfully banks with Wells Fargo has blood on their hands. This is an immoral company. To say that you won’t switch banks be
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
That is, in fact, a facet of ACT. Do things to expose yourself to tiny amounts of fear an anxiety, then progressively increasing that exposure that until you either don't feel them or don't perceive them as bad. Put another way;
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
This is similar to my experiences with getting blood drawn. About two-weeks prior to the draw I would watch a couple of videos on YouTube of blood draws each night. By the time the day came, I was still anxious but fine. I've been to
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I would highly recommend finding a therapist who specializes in Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) which is a form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy that has been shown to be particularly successful in treating anxiety disorders. [Edit] &quo
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
There was a great Reply All podcast on this topic. Between it and this NPR article, and recent personal experience, I'm seriously questioning whether I want to continue my Prime account.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Why its ideal or not always possible? Ideal because it's faster development time. And free since I'm not paying Amazon compute time to run my code while I write it. Not always possible because I don't have AWS's service
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
While we're on the subject of Audible, and there are apparently Amazon employees listening; why can't I use Amazon gift cards to buy Audible credits?
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
That's great. I'm sure Amazon and Google will follow suit. But they're not there yet and Amazon is the big guy that most people are on. As I've said before; these are all problems that all of the cloud providers will s
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
How do I debug locally/on Docker with services like SNS and ElasticTranscoder? I know there are emulators but those have gaps in services that providers like AWS offer. Not to mention, I'm debugging with an emulator and not the
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I don't remember where I heard that. Looks like I'm wrong and the worst it may do is cause stomach cramps and bloating.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
We found that the further we got into using different services the more difficult local development became. I just assumed that, as in the old days of web development, we would be forced into not being able to do local development at all.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Very much this. Sooooo many times I hear the cry of "does it scale?" To which I reply, "Does it need to?!" At my last company we had a developer question scalability constantly despite the fact that the average customer
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
It feels like a giant step backward from a development standpoint. It's as bad or worse than the days when I had to make a change, save it, FTP that file to the server, refresh, lather-rinse-repeat. Want a debugger? Nope. Want log
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I think honey is supposed to have natural antibiotic properties. But also be careful about using too much of a ton of honey. Apparently the body will naturally purge an excess of honey ingested at once.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I've done sysadmin work as well and the context switching didn't feel as prohibitive. Generally I was using something like Perl, Python, Bash, etc... but rarely switching between more than one in any given day. With web developme
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
As someone who has slogged through it for 20 years, I wouldn't say I've earned much other than to realize that its all an even bigger mess than what it used to be. The solutions people come up with to combat it (frameworks, JSX,

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