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by astockwell 4y ago
This is an outstanding suggestion. Rife for abuse, but no more abuse than anything else.
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by astockwell 4y ago
Having used APIs from SOAP to REST to GraphQL and back, I would agree. It got to the point in a recent project (written in Go) where just slapping another endpoint on, even with fairly particular nesting depth, was a 5 minute ordeal. That c
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by astockwell 4y ago
I know not everyone has (or supports) instagram, but this account is nothing but hands tying knots in different ways, and I love it: https://www.instagram.com/knotsandcues/
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by astockwell 4y ago
Most people I know would like to see their children grow up.
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by astockwell 4y ago
Shoot me an email (in my profile) if you’d like the key. The Dev company is defunct (otherwise we’d surely all still be playing Stars! Supernova), so I don’t think they’ll mind. Fun trick I stumbled on w/ the shareware version: you can
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by astockwell 4y ago
Stars!! Finally another living human who has heard of it. I remember finding the limited demo on one of those "101 games!" $1.99 CD-ROMs, and then tracked down a full version at some remote Circuit City. Still have the installer a
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by astockwell 4y ago
It's because designers work with placeholder data. I worked full-time as a dev and saw this over and over and over again. The good designers would adapt, but some never learned. As soon as you put real data into a website, especially i
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by astockwell 5y ago
If you press and hold both the lock button + the volume up button long enough to open the power-off screen, it will disable faceID (on iPhone) until you enter your passcode again. Handy to know and easy enough to do discreetly in a pinch.
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by astockwell 5y ago
Agreed. Many of my in-laws (with significant overlap of those who share click-bait articles after only reading the headlines) do not know how to: - Reset their Facebook password - Use more than 1 password for all of their accounts, social m
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by astockwell 5y ago
Blogpost or it didn't happen! (Seriously though, I would love to read a post detailing this process start-to-finish for the uninitiated)
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by astockwell 5y ago
American here, let me spoil it for you: If a cop tries to scan your face, you LET THEM. You do not move, you do not pout, you do not cover your face, you do not duck down into the car, you do not roll up your window. You LET THEM SCAN YOUR
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by astockwell 5y ago
To all the questions about including costs, the only blog I've ever come across that was transparent and honest about costs of building a custom home was Mike Davidson in http://ahousebythepark.com/journal/ Grante
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by astockwell 5y ago
I don't think the two are mutually exclusive. A lot of folks work continuously to 'find the middle ground' of doing their job in a thoughtful, efficient, effective manner, whilst still defending their boundaries of work vs li
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by astockwell 5y ago
Atomic Habits - If you’ve ever had trouble making a good habit/routine stick, or making a bad habit stop, this book frames habits and their cause-effect relationships in a way I haven’t seen elsewhere, and in ways that I think about al
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by astockwell 5y ago
Office Space, anyone?
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by astockwell 5y ago
As we all know, a decision tree without room for "Unknown Behavior" or error/failure modes (a.k.a. UFOs) is bound to result in a 2am page for a production outage very soon.
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by astockwell 5y ago
Oof. Well that's not good.
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by astockwell 5y ago
Their FAQ [1] clarifies this somewhat: > Every time a query retrieves a row from the database, it is counted as a row read. Every time a row is written to the database, it is counted as a row written. [1] https://planetscale.c
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by astockwell 5y ago
My historical perception of Twitter is that they were incredibly developer-hostile, to the point of almost being predatory (copy-ing 3rd party apps/integrations, then shutting said 3rd party apps out of the API...). This strikes me as
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by astockwell 5y ago
This. “Senators blast” everyone under the sun. Do something.
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by astockwell 5y ago
This is a solid list, and it is true. (Kindness/Responsibility) If I’m well paid, but someone is a full-on jerk to me/my team (particularly if they are at a very high level — in fact the higher the level the smaller the slight nee
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by astockwell 5y ago
I believe this is just if it's sleeping with the lid open. If you go to Apple > Shut down... and let it complete, it will not turn back on unless you press the power button.
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by astockwell 5y ago
LOL "Employees are underutilizing resources for upskilling" that is some serious spin. How about Employees are given enough work for 3 people while also expected to 'figure out some training to do'.
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by astockwell 5y ago
Maybe… maybe we _don’t_ deliberately try to create super-mutant-covid right now guys?
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by astockwell 5y ago
I don’t really have any constructive critiques beyond just saying that I support what you’re doing. I think the long game that local politicians miss (or are financially motivated to not see) is that broadband is becoming as important to co
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by astockwell 5y ago
This _should_ be true, but isn't always, if you're at a company (or just have a manager) who will let the mess/blame fall onto your shoulders. That being said, if you're at said company/have said manager, you should
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by astockwell 5y ago
While that is true in the theoretical, it ignores human psychology. For example the Debt Snowball method has been so widely successful for ignoring precisely this black&white pragmatism.
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by astockwell 5y ago
The #1 question I wish I could get answered for any prospective company (as an interviewee): "Do you have your shit together?" Seriously. This could avoid so much heartache.
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by astockwell 5y ago
More promises tied --not to something in hand-- but to some amazing future thing. Intel has not learned one bit.
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by astockwell 5y ago
More articles like this please! Very well sourced, clearly stating the major nuances of the issue, and offering numerous actionable suggestions for fixes at multiple levels of individual and societal capacity. And (possibly most importantly

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