alanh

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   by alanh 7y ago

   See my rebuttal to that other comment. And please elevate your discussion from the realm of feelings about people. Let’s say he is thin-skinned. So? That doesn’t change how helpful and eye-opening his delightful books are.
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   by alanh 7y ago

   1. Tufte-style is fairly meaningless as a term. His books cover a vast array of graphics. 2. Almost every chart and graph I see would be better if its creator understood and applied Tufte’s principles. 3. His books are truly delightful to r
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   by alanh 7y ago

   Oops. That’s what I meant
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   by alanh 7y ago

   I wish people would stop treating “coronavirus” and COVID-19 (or SARS-CoV-19) as synonyms. They are not. There are many more coronaviruses.
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   by alanh 7y ago

   CoC means many things. What do you use it to mean here?
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   by alanh 7y ago

   misleading title :(
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   by alanh 7y ago

   Yep, there’s always the job available of "customer wants a new form" and "make this wordpress site match some designer's PSD" out there
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   by alanh 7y ago

   I just want to say that, as is usually the case for any label or collection of people, you have to end up judging bootcamp grads on an individual basis. At my company, we have interviewed and hired quite a few bootcamp grads, most of whom
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   by alanh 7y ago

   https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1212284566431576069.html
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    by alanh 7y ago

    Tangentially, for pages like this that don’t have any sort of max-width set, you may want to use a bookmarklet like "Force Narrow Page" available here https://alanhogan.com/bookmarklets — or of course one of the r
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    by alanh 7y ago

    awful logic. they know full well that customer loyalty is their bread and butter. not doing a great job solving one cause of unhappiness does not prove they do not attempt to solve any or all causes of unhappiness! your logic is equivalent
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    by alanh 7y ago

    Hi, author here. I have no doubt you’re right. My only lines of defense are that (1) I didn’t use MySQL directly and I didn’t open myself up to injection attacks, and (2) I stopped being a PHP dev years before 2013. This is custom, legacy c
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    Offline and back again: Surviving the PHP 7 upgrade by adding one letter(alanhogan.com)

    11 points by alanh 7y ago|9 comments
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    by alanh 7y ago

    Whether or not this is smart, I’m just here to highlight the obvious BS of this statement: Nike claims to be removing its product from amazon so as to "elevate consumer experiences." ugh. Fluffy Subjective Possibly wrong I don’t
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    by alanh 7y ago

    Rolling my eyes here, bud. You’re missing the forest for the non-PC tree. I met someone who could have been described as a “non-English-speaking roofer.” (Not Latino, fwiw.) He says he was essentially enslaved by the guy running the contrac
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    by alanh 7y ago

    Go on...
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    by alanh 7y ago

    we're in the weeds now, but: sort of. the pirate bay doesn’t distribute anything — it just indexes it — but actually getting content via the pirate bay involves torrenting the content. and torrent is a tech that makes every downloader
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    by alanh 7y ago

    I think you mean to say they can't, but… they can https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/hookworm/gen_info/faqs.html
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    by alanh 7y ago

    not ridiculous — it leads to higher chances of throat cancer, tragically, thanks to certain viruses being picked up in this manner. (I know, viruses and bacteria are not the same, but they share transmission vectors)
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    by alanh 7y ago

    It’s an innocent typo, but nevertheless I am amused by imagining Chic-Fil-A as a super upscale, urban, on-trend, exclusive version of Chick-Fil-A where models instragram themselves pretending to eat
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    by alanh 7y ago

    neuro-linguistic programming, for one
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    by alanh 7y ago

    I was under the impression that any time an app allows you to play media and send it to audio devices (including Bluetooth and AirPlay), iOS 13 gives a scary prompt like this. I've been using the public beta and for this reason I have
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    by alanh 7y ago

    As far as I know, 1Password has never suffered any hacks or critical vulnerabilities the way that LassPass has. I have used both in the past; I would never, ever recommend LastPass to anyone. 1Password, however? A nearly perfect product (wi
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    by alanh 7y ago

    :D
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    by alanh 7y ago

    It is so annoying when people tell me their genius idea, putting solar panels on a Tesla. Why doesn’t Tesla already do this, they wonder? Because the amount of energy captured by such a minuscule surface area would barely recoup the ineffic
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    by alanh 7y ago

    If this were a different kind of forum, I’d have replied with a big image of Dr. Evil captioned “One Billions Dollars”
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    by alanh 7y ago

    what is 'state of charge swing'?
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    by alanh 7y ago

    I'd been hoping for an actively maintained spiritual successor to Inman’s Mint. https://haveamint.com
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    by alanh 7y ago

    My family was never one to spend a dollar if we could spend a nickel, so our encyclopedia was significantly out of date, as was our globe. But if you knew that the USSR didn’t really exist anymore, everything else was pretty much the same.
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    by alanh 7y ago

    I love the article illustration. It's really stellar work. Good job, Scott Gelber! [Explaining more is difficult, and vague praise can seem insincere. I am serious, not sarcastic]