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by bartread 4y ago
1998 was still very thoroughly the era when sysadmins were naming servers after characters and regions in Middle Earth. It was also the last time I read LOTR and The Hobbit (obviously read both multiple times - starting in 1988). LOTR has a
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by bartread 4y ago
Indeed but, honest question, was it mainstream when they created those albums? (I'm too unfamiliar with Blind Guardian's back catalogue to know.)
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by bartread 4y ago
Come and live in my house. I had two pairs of them nesting in my roof, plus chicks, until they fledged recently. They learned to tolerate me working in the loft, reinforcing ceiling joists. I left them alone and, eventually, they all flew t
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by bartread 4y ago
The worst part is that after you've added a property and clicked the big button you're forced to sign up or sign in. I can't even see whether or not the service is useful without creating an account and, with it, yet another
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by bartread 4y ago
> This is one of the hardest messages I’ve ever had to send. Layoffs are something of a fact of life but, seriously, executives need to stop saying things like this when they announce them. Nobody gives a damn how company leaders feel in
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by bartread 4y ago
Many years ago I worked at a company where I just didn't feel particularly useful or valued. I was working on a peripheral client-side Java app that was basically just used as a visual configuration for the meat of the system that was
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by bartread 4y ago
> To be clear, dev roles can be difficult, demanding jobs. I’m not diminishing that, just reigning it back into the realm of reality. The industry treats hiring like people are going to die if we make mistakes, and unless that is actuall
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by bartread 4y ago
> I think it can make sense in only one instance: for entry-level positions, if the person is trying to break into the software industry and they don't have a relevant degree. I'm not even sure I think it's necessary here.
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by bartread 4y ago
> most dev jobs aren’t really all that hard, and we should stop pretending they are. I agree with you about GP's commentary, but I don't know that I agree with this statement. Getting something working is often relatively easy.
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by bartread 4y ago
> Russia is also obviously deeply unhappy about this So what? They only have themselves, or rather Putin, to blame. He's forfeited the right for them to have any meaningful input into the decision.
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by bartread 4y ago
No, they aren't. They're literally saying you should be a good parent to your children. Your children - their physical wellbeing, emotional and mental health, behaviour - have a profound impact on you that, for good or for ill, wi
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by bartread 4y ago
I think this is where I have to point out that 50% of people who CSS are worse than average at CSS, depending upon exactly how you define "average". You're absolutely right: pages should use the feature correctly, but some
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by bartread 4y ago
> This is not a very constructive comment. I think there's some substance. I've personally experienced examples where teams have looked at Google or other FAANGs, cargo-culted in practices - or at least their understanding of
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by bartread 4y ago
> At some point I became a software engineer, had more disposable income, and had discovered the concept of modular synthesisers. Obviously this is a terrible combination. Good grief but this made me laugh. I partially fell down that dam
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by bartread 4y ago
Well, it's possible to also return a 403 (forbidden) to any request based off the user agent. Of course, this can be relatively easily circumvented, but then it's also possible to block IP ranges and suchlike. You can return a 403
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by bartread 4y ago
Haha - yeah, I'm (obviously) getting a pasting for it because this is after all HN, but I spotted it and it was a slight WTH moment, and I thought worthy of comment (somewhat justified given it's sparked a bit of discussion). I do
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by bartread 4y ago
> You also need to let users upload their contact list otherwise you won’t be able to build your social graph. In the context of legislation like GDPR and CCPA is this even legal in some jurisdictions any more? Genuinely not sure so any
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by bartread 5y ago
Yes, I think we know this: how else do they think it's possible for Teams (or other videoconferencing app) to warn you that you're muted when you start talking whilst muted without the mic being switched on? I'm not saying th
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by bartread 5y ago
Sure, but think about this: that little side project now has about 100x the traffic it did when my bill jumped. That still isn't much traffic (at all) in the grand scheme of things, and Cloudflare's lowest paid tier deals with a
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by bartread 5y ago
> Accidentally deleting data that needs to be undeleted is usually rare so I don't think people should optimize for it. That's very use case dependent. We've made it easy for people to undelete data they've accidental
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by bartread 5y ago
Yeah, but it was only for a side-project, so I only had a single VM to migrate. I went from AWS (cost ~£25/mo) to Microsoft Azure DE because I didn't want any user data to be subject to search by US law enforcement/national s
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by bartread 5y ago
> bear their own problems Sure, but these problems were anticipated in the design of, certainly later, HTML specs. One example: the ALT text tag for images, which has been part of the spec since at least HTML4, originally published as a
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by bartread 5y ago
> We all agreed on the rules as a society Actually we didn't. None of us chose to be here. None of us has a choice over when or where we're born. We all arrive and grow up in societies structured and governed in ways that we&#x
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by bartread 5y ago
I get your frustration: this piece is a bit "corporate gonzo", to say the least, and I got pretty bored because I prefer hard information and a higher density of it as well. Moreover, if I want gonzo, there are people who do it a
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by bartread 5y ago
I agree. I have no critique of Mozilla for charging, but it's pretty infuriating that big tech calls the shots, contributes so little, and thus puts the rest of us in a position where we have to pay for the privilege of access to docum
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by bartread 5y ago
Same. I run a hobby site, and like being able to look back over all time and see the (in my case slow and gradual) buildup of traffic. The lack of migration route for historical data is frustrating, but I also don't particularly apprec
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by bartread 5y ago
And, amazingly after this post, it's still up.
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by bartread 5y ago
Yeah, but in winter I get up when it's dark and it's dark again by the time I leave work. It's extremely depressing. At least with perma-DST (or BST as it would be here) I'd have some chance of a bit of daylight at the e
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by bartread 5y ago
Same: I really struggle in winter and the biggest factor, by far, is that it gets dark so early.
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by bartread 5y ago
I don't think ranking based on upvotes, downvotes, or other forms of engagement is necessarily terrible, but it's certainly nothing to do with "market value", and misleading to suggest that it is. If you want to create

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