albrewer

16 ms·

181.
by albrewer 4y ago
As a pretty experienced python dev who has never worked professionally with Django / Flask or Numpy, I have a hard time finding job postings without those seemingly hard requirements.
182.
by albrewer 4y ago
Oh wow, I was put off from getting one because of the ad update a few years ago. If this works well enough I'll probably actually get one now
183.
by albrewer 4y ago
> The people taking care of children at daycare make pennies; most of the revenue goes to a landlord. I listened to the podcast recently (the one mentioned in the article) that went over the operating costs of preschools and daycares. So
184.
by albrewer 4y ago
If I load a demo app on my device, test the demo, and then turn the device off, I expect the everything to work exactly like it did the next time I turn on my device.
185.
by albrewer 4y ago
I don't think it's fair to compare the pricing of 1990 with that of today. To get started developing my own stuff on Windows or Android, the tools and SDKs are free today. I can do whatever I want locally and don't have to pa
186.
by albrewer 4y ago
In my professional life, I have used Webex, Slack, Discord, Skype, and Teams. I would only pick Teams over Webex and Skype.
187.
by albrewer 4y ago
At 20k feet, that's solidly in the middle of everyday commercial air traffic.
188.
by albrewer 4y ago
It's a pretty common pattern to make a platform with scripting to fill in all the use cases not covered, then add the most commonly scripted behaviors and patterns to the platform.
189.
by albrewer 4y ago
What's stopping you from getting someone to buy it, open and re-pack it, then ship it to you as "lol whoops you forgot your Steam Deck at my house, this totally isn't a commercial sale that you have to pay VAT on haha"
190.
by albrewer 4y ago
For one reason or another, those other languages didn't take off and Rust did. Language adoption isn't just about technical merits (although those have to be there). The ecosystem, tooling, core team, learning resources, and overa
191.
by albrewer 4y ago
Sublime Text was my go-to for a long time, and still is when I'm not working on a formal project.
192.
by albrewer 4y ago
> getting frustrated at your bugged technology because the parent company decides it can save some money It doesn't even save money - the cost is just shifted from subscription expenses to lower dev team productivity. Management can
193.
by albrewer 4y ago
As a teenager circa 2007, I would troll in World of Warcraft's Trade chat with a variant of this joke.
194.
by albrewer 4y ago
> I spend a lot of time defending the fart noises rather than firing the missiles My experience with it is that there is learning cliff to scale, rather than a gradual on-ramp like Python. The people complaining about the fart noises are
195.
There Are Only Four Billion Floats–So Test Them All (2014)(randomascii.wordpress.com)
252 points by albrewer 4y ago|65 comments
196.
by albrewer 4y ago
> Maybe it works for all of your test cases, but This reminded me of an article I read awhile ago, probably here on HN: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/theres-only-fou...
197.
by albrewer 4y ago
> you probably don't use that for things like excel I'm not sure when I read it, but long ago I read some kind of AMA from a MS engineer working on Excel saying that his greatest achievement was working on the team that made th
198.
by albrewer 4y ago
I disagree with this take when it comes to safety-critical applications, especially when you are directly responsible for the safety of thousands of lives at any given moment in the day. At the end of the day, I don't see potentially s
199.
by albrewer 4y ago
> Nothing any OS vendor or browser vendor has done in the last decade has been a user-focused positive experience. I mean, we got Rust out of the deal.
200.
by albrewer 4y ago
I haven't tried it, but maybe spotify-tui[0] would solve your problem? [0] https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui
201.
by albrewer 4y ago
The investigation was about the document, not the person. If, after they had met with the guy, they started interviewing family, friends, and digging into his life - THAT would constitute an affirmative answer to the question.
202.
by albrewer 4y ago
The option exists in C# / WPF, too, so not handling it and just blocking the main thread is bad programming.
203.
by albrewer 4y ago
The JustWatch app can sort-of do this. It aggregates the library index of all the streaming services so you can see what movies are where.
204.
by albrewer 4y ago
Related anecdote: My father-in-law died in Louisiana state police custody, in a pretty brutal and depressing way, after breaking no laws but "acting suspiciously" in a casino parking lot. No lawyer would touch the case because he
205.
by albrewer 4y ago
Imagine you submit your ID and a data breach happens, or Louisiana subpoenas the information and makes it public. Now imagine you live in Louisiana (a pretty conservative state) and suddenly everyone knows you like to watch every type of po
206.
by albrewer 4y ago
I was thinking more along the lines of "this company just went on sale"
207.
by albrewer 4y ago
And have core cmdlet features available in all supported versions. For example, `Invoke-WebRequest` generates an error when you get a response by default with a 5xx status code, even if there's data in the response body. The switch to
208.
by albrewer 4y ago
Thanks for the info. I'm in a similar situation as OP and I think I can get this going without an issue.
209.
by albrewer 4y ago
The way I handled this in SolidWorks was to have an assembly configuration with all the detail suppressed and only use that in my model.
210.
by albrewer 4y ago
For some people (like me), re-teaching muscle memory is a huge battle that takes years. Switching to an editor where you can't use the mouse as a crutch until you learn it is a non-starter.

More ›