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by arwhatever 8mo ago
I’m trying to pivot my career from web/business app dev entirely into embedded, despite the steep learning curve, many new frameworks and tool chains, because I now have a full-time infinitely patient tutor, and I dare say it’s off to
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by arwhatever 8mo ago
But he started it …
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by arwhatever 8mo ago
Do your teams use the teams feature in Teams?
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by arwhatever 8mo ago
I could watch it once a year, indefinitely.
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by arwhatever 9mo ago
Do you (or does anyone) see possible value in a CI tool that just launches your script directly? It seems like if you > 2. Don't have logic in your workflows. Workflows should be dumb and simple (KISS) and they should call your scri
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by arwhatever 9mo ago
Steve Martin said that after 60 years of playing, he considered himself to be a pretty good banjo player. But then he saw Eric Clapton play guitar and thought “This guy’s not funny at all!”
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by arwhatever 9mo ago
I’m beyond peeved by the inability to get any sort of price guarantee from these places more than 3 months in advance. I’ve even offered to pay for several years in advance at their “current” rate, and they won’t accept it.
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by arwhatever 9mo ago
"How about YOU justify my existence BEFORE making the decision to hire me in the first place?" - I've never quite said but have come close. (Sorry, you struck a nerve with your BigCo depiction. :-)
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by arwhatever 9mo ago
Yeah I've worked at enough places that could generate vastly more software feature ideas than they could ever implement, to find the "justify your own existence"-type places utterly insufferable. And I absolutely refuse to s
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by arwhatever 9mo ago
Hoo boy some of these (anti) patterns really resonate. I want to name names - I could cross-reference some of these with specific company names that you've heard of, but I shan't. I'll definitely keep this website in my hip p
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by arwhatever 9mo ago
I’ve had this same thought, although less well-articulated: AI is supposedly going to obviate the need for white collar workers, and the best all the CEOs can come up with is the exact current status quo minus the white collar workers?
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by arwhatever 9mo ago
Embedded software development. After 18 years of business and web application development, I want to intentionally seek out work that is constrained by physical reality.
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by arwhatever 10mo ago
Me: “Why are we switching from NoNameCMS to Salesforce?” Savvy Manager: “NoNameCMS often won’t take our support calls, but if Salesforce goes down it’s in the WSJ the next day.”
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by arwhatever 10mo ago
I like to think of “warning” as something to alert on statistically, e.g. incorrect password attempt rate jumps from 0.4% of login attempts to 99%.
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by arwhatever 10mo ago
LLMann amnesia?
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by arwhatever 11mo ago
“Americas doesn’t correct problems - we over-correct.” Bill Maher
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by arwhatever 11mo ago
Being forced to compromise your domain model. Yes the product has improved this greatly in recent years but it’s still inadequate IMO. Fluent syntax can at first seem like the product has achieved persistence ignorance nirvana but then you
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by arwhatever 11mo ago
The difference between the ratio of people returning their carts at Wal-mart vs at the Natural Foods store where I live is substantial.
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by arwhatever 11mo ago
Grass might hold the cart in place, but most abandoned carts get dropped off in places where the wind can catch them and blow them into cars.
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by arwhatever 11mo ago
EF hits you in the face right at the start with the massive convenience that it provides. And then the paper cuts start adding up, and adding up, and adding up. Although the EF team has made huge progress towards keeping your entities pers
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by arwhatever 11mo ago
“SITUATION: There are 15 competing standards.”
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by arwhatever 11mo ago
Juuuussssst give me dumb pass-through display and audio mirroring from my phone.
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by arwhatever 11mo ago
I don’t see how that link could support your contention any less.
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by arwhatever 11mo ago
If you can’t change your company, change your company.
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by arwhatever 11mo ago
Yo dawg, I heard you like xml … so I made you an xml-based language to turn xml into other xml!
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by arwhatever 11mo ago
Is the friction of hiring and firing responsible for all of Europe’s economic stagnation? Only some of it? If only some, how are you quantifying the proportion?
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by arwhatever 11mo ago
Perennial “What Armenians should know about life in America (2014)” from days of HN past https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22777745 And which today must be read via internet archive https://web.archive.org&#x2
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by arwhatever 1y ago
Look at the tenures of some of their senior architects and I.T. Leadership, and you might find that it coincides with the outdated-ness of their infrastructure and practices.
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by arwhatever 1y ago
how would you acquire the robot
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by arwhatever 1y ago
Draw.io’s development philosophy is just too cool: “doesn’t use artificial scarcity to produce a bloated sales-centric company with matching revenues.” https://www.drawio.com/about

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