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by alentred 3y ago
While we are at it, what is the most surefire way to include images into email? How do I make sure that simple images, like logos, are shown in most common email clients?
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by alentred 3y ago
Almost all of these projects bring something innovative too. My take: we are missing the "refactor" step from the loop. It probably concerns other areas more than web dev by the way, but I would like to see more projects that not
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by alentred 3y ago
As far as I understand, historically, alcoholic beverages were primarily invented and used as a water disinfectant. Rum was used in British navy to disinfect fresh water in barrels. Wine was used to dilute it in water till the 20th century.
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by alentred 3y ago
Having never developed a browser engine, my naive question is why is it so hard to develop a new one? We have decent free and/or open-source software in other areas, why is it hard to reproduce this experience with the browsers? Or, is
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by alentred 3y ago
Congrats for the bug fixed! I know how this kind of bug can be really hard. For a company. Less so for "an outsider", just like the author suggests. I can easily see this happening in literally any company. We humans are very adap
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by alentred 3y ago
> That doesn't mean that recycling has "backfired". > This problem is routinely being solved by mostly boring but useful heavy machinery. So, yes, it did. You are making the same point as in the article: as we focused t
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by alentred 3y ago
It depends on the company, or more specifically on how the company manages the budget (people working on projects, infrastructure budgets, etc.). In many companies people would rather do the other way around: inflate their estimates to make
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by alentred 3y ago
> I do wonder though if this is a good use for something like (calm down) blockchain I think you might have meant distributed and decentralized systems in general. But the answer has nothing to do with technology. We have all the decentr
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by alentred 3y ago
I think there are not many who never even signed up with any of these platforms. If not anything else then at least out of curiosity I too have signed up on all three you mention. If you change the question to "never ever used past the
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by alentred 3y ago
Agree! Also any other locations where any state that impacts the program behavior is stored: cache, temporary files, etc. Ultimately I want to be able to debug things or do a sort of a "factory reset". Or maybe I need to move to N
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by alentred 3y ago
My opinion: weekly 1:1 is a "must have". But you've got to do them right. I didn't have them when I started my career, had them much later on both sides (as a direct report, and as a manager), so I guess I can do the com
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by alentred 3y ago
In all fairness we need to note that it speaks of the most vocal followers. There are likely many others who are evangelizing it much less, but that's exactly the source of the bias: we don't "see" them. I in fact agree
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by alentred 3y ago
Why? That's security by obscurity. On the contrary, the more people look at the code, the bigger the chance to find and fix any issues earlier rather than later. Linux is widespread and nobody freaks out about it being open source. And
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Death by design patterns, or On the cognitive load of abstractions in the code(alentred.medium.com)
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by alentred 3y ago
Just yesterday there was a comment here on HN [1] about https://jsonip.com , which is essentially supported by a single person (all operational costs included) and gets abused in a somewhat similar manner. I am not even sure what
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by alentred 3y ago
I honestly don't want this comment to seem like another "all hail Apple", but it is somewhat reassuring that almost all recent iPhones are consistently in 0.95-0.99 range, emphasis on consistency.
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by alentred 3y ago
> How do you achieve infinite growth on a planet with a finite population and resources? For the sake of the argument below, consider that there are two types of growth: 1) "evolutionary" - as you correctly observe it is limite
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by alentred 3y ago
I respectfully disagree. I worked with "trunk"s before, won't do that again, sorry. I would argue that Pull Requests (or Merge Requests) are the single most efficient practice to ensure the quality of the code in a project wi
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by alentred 3y ago
This side note is written by a frustrated and growing old "utopist". As many other examples out there, this is exactly why we need to continually invest into both research and some sort of "universal basic quality of life&quo
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by alentred 3y ago
So far this group only tested this solution on E.coli. This sounds very encouraging, but many more studies are needed, I would guess. So maybe not in the store tomorrow, but overall quite promising.
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by alentred 3y ago
I truly think of science and engineering, software development included, as an artistic feat in part. And we can easily see how the opinion expressed in this interview easily applies to what we do. Yes, we all have periods where we should b
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by alentred 3y ago
I am not into competitive gaming at all, but enjoyed this tremendously. Many possible reasons of the success are mentioned, but the one that caught my attention is how the arcades are getting paid: gamers only pay for the number of games l
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by alentred 4y ago
Some 5 years ago I worked with a DBA, Oracle DBA more precisely, who told me that PostgreSQL is generally better than Oracle. At the same time, he wouldn't switch to PostgreSQL because... drumroll... he wouldn't have a job as a Po
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by alentred 4y ago
"Enjoyable" ? The article makes an impression that "gezellig" is somewhat close to French "savoir-vivre", "la vie est belle", Italian "dolce vita", and maybe even Latin "carpe diem&quot
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by alentred 4y ago
I would say it is less about being human readable directly (sorry, but CSV is NOT human readable), more about the availability of the tools to read it. Anyone can load a CSV file into a spreadsheet, and that's a big advantage! Visualiz
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by alentred 4y ago
I think it is important for the context to notice that the post is written by a renowned Italian mathematician and a computer scientist, and Italy just banned ChatGPT. I feel that the post is not about the AI (people using AI) taking the jo
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by alentred 4y ago
I think the message here is that you are in control of what happens to you next. In this regard the headline and the post are fine. Well, unless you subscribe to the other philosophy camp (determinism). The message is not on whether AI will
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by alentred 4y ago
Same experience just recently: installing Windows for both of my kids. I got insanely frustrated with it. Forget the Family Safety. I honestly don't see it working at all. I created Microsoft accounts for my kids and set their ages. Th
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by alentred 4y ago
I new that Swift isn't exclusively used for the app development exclusively, but I would not have thought you can deploy Lambdas with it. I was looking for an excuse to try Swift, and now I have one, thanks!
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by alentred 4y ago
Oh, I didn't look into Next.js indeed, and I didn't know about Vercel. Thanks for these! I actually happen to like JavsScript a lot after ES6, so I'll give these a try.

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