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by algesten 10y ago
> The other reason it sucks is that it confuses bulk mail with spam. This is a very common confusion. Lots of companies send vast amounts of mail that users want to receive. Think Facebook, for example. I challenge this. In 2016 I think
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by algesten 10y ago
Exactly my thought! I was also thinking that Octo sounds way too much like a monolith. I wouldn't let retries tax the same instance. I bet they could use something like RabbitMQ to sort work distribution and retries between instances w
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by algesten 10y ago
> Above 20,000 Hz, she says, an alarm “starts sounding not really urgent, but like a squeak.” Not sure it's even right to call it a squeak. Many adults hear nothing at 20,000 Hz.
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by algesten 10y ago
my leak says I only have 2 years of experience?!?! puleaaze! how do I correct them?
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by algesten 10y ago
Yes. In my previous place in India the RCD was repeatedly tripping up. Earth here was a metal rod into the ground, and I only found out much later they fixed the RCD issue by disconnecting the rod and I started getting electric shocks from
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by algesten 10y ago
I have this problem in India. I suspected the mains was dodgy, because during the many power outages i never got the shocks when on UPS. I got a multimeter and measured. The neutral was 70V and the phase 300ish. So the difference was roughl
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by algesten 10y ago
the quality of light from your average energy bulb is typically terrible. I like warm light and whilst I know I can't see infra-red frequencies I want to see a concentration of light towards that end of the spectrum. It just makes for
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by algesten 10y ago
I took it to mean that we had to zoom to see that the holes were gone in the compressed version.
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by algesten 10y ago
"See how the compressed one does not show the holes in the speaker grills in the MacBook Pro? If you don't zoom in, you would even notice the difference. " Ehm, what?! The image on the right looks really bad and the missing h
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by algesten 10y ago
Great thanks! Got it.
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by algesten 10y ago
Why would I want this rather than say WebServices/SOAP?
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by algesten 10y ago
With the latest NVIDIA and Intel chipsets and with built-to-order options of up to 128GB on board memory, it's firmly positioned in the hi-end laptop market segment.
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by algesten 10y ago
Rather than calling it suto, the author could just use the PATH env variable in .profile I don't think the system would have much problem with that since profile is explicitly for interactive user sessions.
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by algesten 10y ago
I can see huge problems i educating people to look after their private keys. Imagine how many people would lose their keys and their entire mail archive is unreadable. Just this week I had TWO colleagues separately losing their respektive 2
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by algesten 10y ago
I'm using Verisign's VIP Access app (silly name) to generate PayPal's 2FA tokens. Good thing is it works without access to my phone. Bad thing, the app has a unique ID that PayPal only allows me to use for one of my three acc
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by algesten 10y ago
Yes. Despite writing both straight assembler (68k processors) and C back in the 90s, I also fell into the Enterprise Java-trap for a long while. GWT was my go-to front end framework, and it worked I suppose. It's a bit hard to compare
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by algesten 10y ago
I think you may be underestimating the "language barrier" for more junior devs. What I see around me is that it takes a few years of programming before you start "seeing through" the syntax and realise it's all the
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by algesten 10y ago
From personal experience developing at all levels of the stack, I think my job breaks down into something like * 40% UI (visualising states, handling user input, feedback, etc), * 55% moving data around (read an XML file, translate i
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by algesten 10y ago
voice?! what decade are you living in?
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by algesten 10y ago
uhm. lol? are you saying a study can't be criticised by anything less than a counter study?
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by algesten 10y ago
Exactly my point. Arrow functions and destructuring assignments are great, but we've put up with function() { ... } for the last 20 years, so I'm pretty certain we can wait a couple of more years and not get bogged down in these c
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by algesten 10y ago
i seriously want npm to stop warning me of outdated deps 3 levels down my hierarchy. so what if some shitty old unmaintained lib we started relying on a few years back use lodash v3.x? i'm not going to worry about it as long as it work
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by algesten 10y ago
Why does Google need to be portrayed in the light of Apple? Doesn't these merits stand to shine by themselves? Seems a bit anxious.
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by algesten 10y ago
I think part problem is also that many programmers tend to gravitate towards abstraction and reusable code before there is a clear need for it. Just today I read about this project https://github.com/primus/primus and