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by bcoughlan 6y ago
The Hustle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U
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by bcoughlan 6y ago
That's an option that requires some tech savviness. The choice architecture of Android heavily favours Play Store, so it's deflecting the issue to say it's not a form of censorship because there's a workaround.
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by bcoughlan 7y ago
How does the terminal work in Unix? Well, in 1869... https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/
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by bcoughlan 7y ago
And from the engineer's perspective the frustration is: We're so busy lifting blocks on top of blocks, that we don't have time to come up with better tools to do it faster. Also some of the blocks are triangles and this pyram
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by bcoughlan 7y ago
With jOOQ you still don't write SQL, you write the DSL and still spend a lot of time looking up docs for how to write the query in the DSL, when all you really want is to write the SQL query without the ugliness of JDBC. To this end I
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by bcoughlan 7y ago
I spent quite a while grappling with Jenkins pipelines, and while it definitely has its warts, once you get over the hump and get one pipeline the way you want it, it's quite easy to use it as a starter for other projects. Personally I
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by bcoughlan 8y ago
Treat a database as any other service. SQL is its API. Don't break the API contract of a view or procedure, create a new one and deprecate the old one. Not rocket science.
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by bcoughlan 8y ago
> Not only that, their marketing/outreach efforts were also aimed at younger developers. I do remember a lot of MongoDB t-shirts, cups and pens around every office I was in around 2011-2013. When I would ask they would tell me that
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by bcoughlan 8y ago
I suffered from chronic pain in all of my major joints - hips, lower back, knees, ankles and shoulders. I went to doctors who fobbed me off as not suffering enough to be worthy of examination. Egoscue's book was the only thing that des
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by bcoughlan 8y ago
Maybe I'm oldschool but I'd be quite wary about mixing anything in production, qa and dev environments.
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by bcoughlan 8y ago
I know a mid-sized company who have a team of 3 people dedicated to managing their Kubernetes clusters. For a small company that can't afford the overhead of that, it's an extra layer of risk and complexity. Amazon EKS launched la
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by bcoughlan 8y ago
It's not a good move, but I don't understand the vitriol expressed on Github, calling the developers jerks etc. Our company has never paid Docker for anything, but we've benefited greatly from having Docker images be the outp
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by bcoughlan 8y ago
They got bumped out as part of a deliberate strategy by Google to promote the results of trusted brands like newspaper and magazine websites, which have become low quality content farms. Eric Schmidt said in 2008 "Brands are the soluti
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by bcoughlan 8y ago
We rely on science as presented by the media to inform us about everything from what we should eat to how our surroundings influence our behaviour. It is a pervasive cargo cult - no article is considered credible without vague cherry picked
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by bcoughlan 8y ago
Well said. People mostly want to avoid hurting others feelings, but that opens us up to an attack vector where a person or group demands that others change their behaviour so as to respect their feelings, but in bad faith a means of subjuga
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by bcoughlan 8y ago
I was just thinking the same thing recently with all of the Facebook shenanigans. Anonymity was common sense on the net 20 years ago. Many who grew up in that time will recognise the sentence "We exist without skin color, without natio
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by bcoughlan 8y ago
I got downvoted to oblivion the first few times I asked questions on Stack Overflow. It made me review the FAQ and rules and do my utmost to make it easy for the people donating their time and expertise to help me. You know what I do when s
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by bcoughlan 9y ago
Cynicism is rife in every industry and walk of life. But I think most people tell themselves "once I get the PhD... once I have a permanent position... once I have tenure..." and by that stage they're institutionalized.
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by bcoughlan 9y ago
I used to work as a software developer for a research institute. I wanted to open source our research code and tools, and the department head was in favour of it because it would raise the profile of the research unit. There were two forces
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by bcoughlan 9y ago
Can anyone explain to me what part of the Cambridge Analytica / Facebook thing is news? We've known for years that tech companies have made their money off collecting data, profiling users and selling access to the users and their
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by bcoughlan 9y ago
I think there is a case for both. For many small or hobbyist projects it is not feasible to implement and test multiple UIs. If you have the resources and want a polished smooth experience then implement the UI layer natively. That said we&
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by bcoughlan 9y ago
Link to an example of that?
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by bcoughlan 9y ago
The foliage is a nice reminder of what offices are: zoos for humans.
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by bcoughlan 9y ago
Performance advantage is pushing messages from the server instead of having the client poll. The tradeoff is dealing with half-open TCP connections (need an in-process ping to ensure the connection is still alive) and designing the app for
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by bcoughlan 9y ago
After working for startups, "work hard, play hard" is a red flag phrase. Employees are employees instead of entrepreneurs because they don't want the headaches of running a business. They want to do the work that they enjoy d
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by bcoughlan 9y ago
What does "collect" mean? Ask me to supply links? Force me to provide my phone? Force me to export all of my personal data from the platform? Or just ask Facebook to do it for them? I'd love to visit the US again but everythi
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by bcoughlan 9y ago
I simplify can't imagine bearing the emotional burden of having to call someone to "deep clean" my bathroom. These are the woe-is-me thoughts of the top tier of society. Anyways this is a classic example of expecting someone
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by bcoughlan 9y ago
The US needs to control everyone to maintain the empire's dominance, but in this case it's probably less about NK and more about the China Containment Policy. China support NK to avoid an enemy on their border
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by bcoughlan 9y ago
Here's a quote from a "day in the life" sheet I was sent after a phone interview with Susquehanna. I didn't continue with the job interview for this very reason: "SIG partners with external caterers to provide a buf
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by bcoughlan 9y ago
"Alexa, play me that song I like. And while you're at it, order me a case of my favorite beer. Thanks." Wow, now I'll never have to leave my chair!

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