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by beaker52 6y ago
I've noticed that as I've gotten older my tab behaviour has changed. When I was younger, I used to operate an extension that'd kill tabs I hadn't accessed in the last hour. Chrome doesn't really give you the same co
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by beaker52 6y ago
This is really great. I was flapping around trying to explain this to my curious, yet-not-technical wife just the other day. This'll do nicely as a follow up, thank you!
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by beaker52 6y ago
Pre-loading is a great idea when you're dealing with optimised, cached content. Pre-loading with some third-party script as a magic fix for free milliseconds is something people should think twice about.
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by beaker52 6y ago
Throwing a random script onto a website I was responsible for, which claims to magically preload things and make things faster is not my idea of simple. Easy, perhaps. Risky, yes. Simple, no.
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Learn Go by Building a Bus Service(medium.com)
1 points by beaker52 6y ago|0 comments
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by beaker52 6y ago
Do people still design rest-ful APIs? I often find I end up needing to do RPC-like things that make the API end up as a weird hybrid. I'm on the verge of abandoning the idea of trying to be rest-ful at all, so it's less incohesive
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by beaker52 6y ago
Wow, hello quantumly-entangled developer twin. All this Gatsby, Next, React hydration, multiple roots stuff is what I'm traversing at the moment. Even down to the `<MobileScreen /><DesktopScreen />` example. I&#x2
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by beaker52 6y ago
I grew up in IRC. I almost got fired from my first job for being to direct around sensitive colleagues. My boss coached me to start my emails with "Hello :)". I'm better but I still get into trouble from time to time, especia
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by beaker52 6y ago
Are we to take this as an endorsement for psychedelics? :) Although I do observe kids having superpowers when it comes to learning stuff, especially language, I find that the primary learning barrier for me is, as ever, time and interest.
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by beaker52 6y ago
I love keyboards. And debating the need to switch to colemak. And changing my IDE to use Input Mono, finding that latest colour scheme I saw in that blog, rotating my monitor vertically, oooo look, ergonomic mice -- wait, I'll look at
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by beaker52 6y ago
Good point!
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by beaker52 6y ago
"The pit of success" is a great guiding principle when it comes to the design of codebases. Forget about "design patterns" and just focus on _how do I allow developers to focus on creating things that are adding value, r
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by beaker52 6y ago
Learning that surprisingly complex behaviours can emerge from simple rules was a bit of a lightbulb moment for me. The Game of Life is the premier but Schelling's segregation model is one of my favourites. There are a bunch of these mo
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by beaker52 6y ago
At the company I work at, we're definitely not autonomous. If as a team we have a goal, as a dev, I don't know what it is. We have roadmapped (read: itineraried) work items, basically handed to our team to produce. Devs are resour
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by beaker52 6y ago
I love things like this, but at the same time when I look at the API this library provides, it's not junior-friendly. Even though I acknowledge it solves some problems I'd like to solve, if I put code using this library infront of
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by beaker52 6y ago
There are a couple of aspects of Formula 1 that make it very compelling to watch (my opinion of course, take as you will): - Accessible aerodynamics (it's on the road in front of you, not up in the air) - Technological developments (e.
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by beaker52 6y ago
The thing I personally see that corrupts Scrum the most are external stakeholders. They're usually applying time pressures and defining work items to be worked on. The team then has no ownership and no control, resulting in an unhappy
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by beaker52 6y ago
Really interesting idea to be aware of, thank you.
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by beaker52 6y ago
Loved being greeted as 'wpareamatuers' when I signed in for the first time :')
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by beaker52 6y ago
This explains why I've seen % when the prompt has been missing for whatever reason.
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by beaker52 6y ago
> What do you mean, that Apple should sell Colemak keyboards? I agree there, but it's a bit of a chicken and egg situation. You're right, it's chicken and egg. But Apple have a history of making a bold stand around product
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by beaker52 6y ago
I hear you. I did it. But am I supposed to carry it around with me in a special case for all occasions? The short of it is that in the end, I stepped down from my horse and conceded that it was more sensible just to make peace with QWERTY a
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by beaker52 6y ago
I'm sorry, I've seen far too many smirks when explaining why my keyboard doesn't do the keys they want as I hurridly re-enable qwerty, or why I type like a 5 year old on their qwerty keyboard. And there's no way i'm
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by beaker52 6y ago
Also wouldn't recommend. I switched to Colemak back in the day. Switched all my phone keyboard and everything. I was a typing god. Started a new job where I ended up having to switch to qwerty for pairing sessions, typing like I was us
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by beaker52 6y ago
I really lament how difficult this conversation has become. I really lament it because I'm in fear of saying anything more than that, for fear of friendly-fire-by-pitchfork. It's a really, really awkward situation. I can't se
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How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think (2003)(users.speakeasy.net)
2 points by beaker52 6y ago|0 comments
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by beaker52 6y ago
Costs $500 + planetary manufacturing costs of the battery, and panel, plus their pollution cost post-use. Based on constant use, it generates $50 of electricity per year + saves plantary production costs of electricty by traditional means.
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by beaker52 6y ago
A few years ago I thought I was noble reading the news and trying to read between the lines on global affairs. I also realised I was bitter and angry about what was going on in the world, and that more people weren't prepared to learn
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by beaker52 6y ago
Is it only me who worries that UBI is a precursor to a dystopian slavery?
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by beaker52 7y ago
Less community support, due to popularity. Yes, it's nice to write it in code, but you can achieve similar with raw Terraform and there are more documented examples for that, plus if it goes wrong, you can find others facing the same i

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