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541.
by bartread 2y ago
Sadly does not seem to be available in iOS App Store in the UK or I would love to.
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by bartread 2y ago
The thing is, I encountered something very similar with a product that had maybe 20 customers… in 2017. All of them had slightly different versions of the codebase. Version control was used, but haphazardly. You’d think this sort of thing w
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by bartread 2y ago
I need to get some data out of a table in a regularly published PDF file. The thing is the table looks like a table when the PDF is rendered, but there's nothing within the PDF itself to semantically mark it out as a table: it's j
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by bartread 2y ago
Yeah, but I don't think we all need to define our engineering practices by what should be considered the norm for a company deploying software that operates in kernal mode to millions of devices globally. Most of us aren't doing t
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by bartread 2y ago
Well now that site is a crock of gold from the Old Web, isn’t it? Just the kind of thing I enjoy exploring in my idle minutes, and far better for my state of mind than doomscrolling Reddit, Facebook, instagram, TikTok, and the rest. Thank y
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by bartread 2y ago
Annual plans aren’t for the most part aimed at individuals though: they’re aimed at corporations. Corporations regularly sign annual and even multi-year contracts for all manner of services. There are many reasons this can be desirable, but
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by bartread 2y ago
In my last position we spent our time trying to shorten and cut down the selection process as much as possible. One half hour phone call, one face to face interview for most roles. Last October I decided to leave and hired my replacement as
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by bartread 2y ago
A distributed query is something you execute over multiple instances of your DBMS. I actually would disagree with you that this specific issue was an instance of (1). There wasn't anything wrong with the query per se but rather the iss
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by bartread 2y ago
Don't forget the impact of network. I managed to get a several hundred times performance improvement on one occasion because I found a distributed query that was pulling back roughly 1M rows over the network and then doing a join that
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by bartread 2y ago
In some parts of the world they have been extinct. They'd been extinct in the UK for a very long time until recently re-introduced.
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by bartread 2y ago
I mean, litigation is fine and all, but what you can do will vary by jurisdiction. In the past 14 months I've had to deal with two misbehaving insurance companies, one misbehaving utility provider (overcharging), and a few other things
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by bartread 2y ago
Mmmmmmm... you have a valid point about entitlement and OSS but I'm going to also agree with GP here. Not particularly poking at this project, and the work that's gone into it, but too many projects don't have a short paragra
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by bartread 2y ago
The way the booster comes down is nuts. 90km to 1km in 100 seconds, it reaches maximum velocity under gravity at a bit over 20km, then air resistance acts as a brake, and they only fire the engines to slow it down the rest of the way at 1km
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by bartread 2y ago
> An extra hundred milliseconds of lag in the UI gets attributed to the slowness of the connection. This is looking at the problem wrong. I notice your shittily optimised application not just because it’s slow, but because it’s draining
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by bartread 2y ago
This actually is a very valid point at the most obvious level: Office 365. Nowadays I work on a Mac (finally![0]) and, yes, Office 365 is available for macOS, but it’s not at parity with Office 365 on Windows. Mostly this doesn’t matter and
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by bartread 2y ago
And, of course, the first response twitter shows me is from some absolute dingbat claiming that PG’s statement still means Sam was fired from YC. It’s frustrating but at least some people are going to believe whatever conspiracy theory they
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by bartread 2y ago
> It has just provided the CEO leverage. Exactly. And you could say this about a lot of other roles as well. AI certainly has its flaws, but at this stage it does rather frustrate me when people actively resist using that leverage in the
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by bartread 2y ago
On one hand, yes, there's a certain amount of schadenfreude here, because I have on multiple occasions been more or less annoyed by Ticketmaster. On the other hand, because I've used them quite a lot (because for many events, what
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by bartread 2y ago
Are you vision impaired?
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by bartread 2y ago
I can see why OP might not like this. I can also see that, at least on this site, everyone has been saying, "Stop using Google for anything," for a variety of different reasons - many of which boil down to you are the product and
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by bartread 2y ago
How is it a bold move? If it works in Firefox it’s much more likely to work in other browsers, whereas if it works in Chrome it might or might not work elsewhere. I switched to Firefox as my default for development years ago because I got f
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by bartread 2y ago
Before I go any further, broadly speaking, I'm not in favour of take home tests, but not for the reasons you mention. I did a stint of hiring for a software company over a decade ago where they did use a take home test. Now we did ge
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by bartread 2y ago
That depends a lot on the implementation. Global scope certainly wasn’t the only scope for all of them: dialects such as AMOS on the Amiga had procedure level scope as well. BBC BASIC definitely had DEF PROC but I can’t remember whether it
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by bartread 2y ago
There were definitely puzzles, quizzes, and jokes. You could reveal the answers by pressing the "Reveal" button on your TV remote. I don't remember games per se.
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by bartread 2y ago
I remember my mate's dad bought a 233MHz Pentium II system with 32MB of RAM some time in 1997, and our minds were all absolutely blown by the incomprehensible power of this system. I want to say before that, back in 94, he'd had s
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by bartread 2y ago
Thanks, I stand corrected. The export from Word 2000 was anything but basic. And it did, as far as possible, seem to try to serialize most aspects of the document. Which, of course, is not really what you want from a 1999/2000 web page
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by bartread 2y ago
> Netscape Composer to launch on my 80386 PC back in the mid nineties. It had an 85MB WD HDD and 4MB of ram, running Windows 3.1. Bleedin' Nora: that's certainly an optimistic system configuration for that application. I'm
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by bartread 3y ago
What SBF has done is not a victimless crime though: lots of fairly ordinary people lost money because of what he did, some of them lost everything. Yes, I know some of the people who lost money are rich, and much is being made of that by pe
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by bartread 3y ago
I think both of those are flawed views. Not necessarily mistaken, but incomplete. One of the key reasons we imprison people is to prevent them from doing further harm to society: i.e., we put them in prison for our benefit, not theirs. It&#
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by bartread 3y ago
I know Daniel Kahneman only through reading him. Like you, I found Thinking Fast & Slow incredibly useful, first reading it perhaps 10 years ago. Definitely 2014, and I can't believe that's 10 years ago. I must admit this head

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