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by abraae 8y ago
Looks a bit like New Zealand's critically endangered Kakapo ( http://nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/kakapo ).
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by abraae 8y ago
Our use case is replacing placeholders inside documents with generated values, removing or adding entire sections, and exporting to pdf. Looks like that is all possible.
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by abraae 8y ago
We spent a lot of time and money building a document generation add-on to our platform. It seems that money might have been better used elsewhere!
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by abraae 8y ago
I don't know how to interpret your second sentence. Are you planning to get divorced to make sure she/he's right for you?
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by abraae 8y ago
Yep, so true. Any decent config file that will be seen/edited by a human needs comment support. And any file that will not be seen by a human could be json (or whatever).
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by abraae 8y ago
Yeah, and he makes a great point - if he can't fight back against this sort of thing, then who the heck ever could?
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by abraae 8y ago
Sounds like a great opportunity for someone to sell some old-fashioned on premise software.
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by abraae 8y ago
Sure thing, will do.
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by abraae 8y ago
Its funny, I'm just setting up Docusign right now, and it bears many of the signs of SPA-done-poorly, even in the most basic, constantly used parts of the UI. For example: 1) Sign in and open the page showing templates, and my existing
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by abraae 8y ago
Yep, I was braced for more failed-but-really-succeeded porn. This is a great read, and clearly from the heart.
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by abraae 8y ago
You start out strongly, but then this: > Somebody appropriates for himself a valuable piece of land with oil deposits. He prevents others from utilizing that land. Let him pay for having that exclusive rights of use, since clearly the go
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by abraae 8y ago
Thanks! Somehow I've never come across a featherboard.
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by abraae 8y ago
I inherited a very grunty table saw from my father in law. The lights dim when its started, and it takes two men to move it. It frankly terrifies me somewhat. I have always been very respectful of it, and had had no incidents in a couple of
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by abraae 8y ago
At my previous place I saw this in reverse. Over the previous years we had invested in building up our own email infrastructure. Because so much had been invested (sunk cost fallacy), no-one could really get their heads around a shift to SE
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by abraae 8y ago
Classic weasel words: > Some or all of your information may be shared with other companies ... to provide you better service and improve user experience. Its easy to argue that if FamilyTreeDNA was to make wayyy more money by exploiting
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by abraae 8y ago
> We would be very happy to redo insulation and building beams if it was possible to co-finance it which public/city money. Hey, I'd be happy to accept public money to fix my own house as well. But frankly, I bought it cheaper
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by abraae 8y ago
Maybe he took his lead from the success of "Ajax" as opposed to "XMLHttpRequest Objects".
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by abraae 8y ago
Man it's great to read good news articles about climate change.
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by abraae 8y ago
Or flying to Oakland and ending up in Auckland. http://articles.latimes.com/1985-04-02/news/mn-19265_1_custo...
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by abraae 8y ago
I agree with your points entirely, but my point is, what does the word "guarantee" actually mean? If you enter into a legally binding document with the company that says you'll be paid no matter what, that still means nothing
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by abraae 8y ago
Define "guaranteed". Because unless they actually pay you that money in advance, its most likely not guaranteed in the event the company goes belly up.
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by abraae 8y ago
An earlier commenter noted that one of the features of Firestore is user-level security, i.e. clients can only access their own data. This makes sense for many apps in a document-based/NoSQL model, and may let you avoid any need for yo
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by abraae 8y ago
Spoken from the point of view of the company. From the point of view of an individual, I wish GDPR-type principles - that my personal data is mine, and that I have the right to see, to challenge and delete the personal data that you, the co
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by abraae 8y ago
Would have been nice to know this was borderline astroturfing for CodeBlog before investing time.
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by abraae 8y ago
Perhaps a bit like Baghdad Bob's job as Saddam Hussein's Information Minister: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Saeed_al-Sahhaf
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by abraae 8y ago
Agree. It's worth mastering this common error for your written communications for the rest of your life. To quote Ian Fleming: “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”
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by abraae 8y ago
Shifts in the database world happen at a glacial pace. They've been a part of that world for a long time yes, but they're steadily becoming more and more legit and acceptable as an alternative to Oracle, SQL server.
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by abraae 8y ago
Pretty funny since a few years ago we bought a .eu domain for our company not based in Europe, UK or anywhere near.
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by abraae 8y ago
That's a bit of a knee point though. If your machine doesn't have quite enough RAM, it will swap and likely be unusable. Once you have just enough it will fly, and adding more RAM will make little difference. I can't imagine
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by abraae 8y ago
I used to work at IBM as a CSR (maybe we were CEs back then?) fixing 1403s and other mainframe boxes. Man it would have been so useful to have your fantastic animation back then. I came on the scene too late to ever get any formal training

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