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by beobab 9y ago
This is a key point. It's easy to branch data, but painful to merge it.
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by beobab 9y ago
Hmmm... I read this, got distracted, followed links, and bought a game in a Steam sale (Avadon 2 - £2.99). I think I'm doing it wrong.
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by beobab 9y ago
I love the transcripts that Pluralsight provides to go with the videos. I use them after I have watched the video to find the section I'm interested in. I only actually noticed them when another staff member pointed them out to me, but
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by beobab 9y ago
So that was why they were amused. One of the elements of humour is unexpectedness. :)
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by beobab 9y ago
Or gloves with magnets in the fingertips?
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by beobab 9y ago
"it turns out people aren't that scary" This is wonderful to hear. People are just people. Normally they have weird quirks, and some of them sound odd to your ears and look different to the people you normally hang around wit
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by beobab 9y ago
"it shouldn't take a manual of byzantine scripts and dependencies to do it" - I agree, and these hoops that early adopters are jumping through to make it work are things that will have to be addressed before it becomes access
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by beobab 9y ago
I was wondering about rage, frustration, annoyance, et al recently. I came to the conclusion that I experience all these things to varying degrees when the world does not conform to my mental model of how I want/expect it to be.
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by beobab 9y ago
You can do that here: https://www.blender.org/foundation/donation-payment/
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by beobab 9y ago
Oook!
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by beobab 9y ago
If I was building an unruly scraper (which, in case our new overlords are listening, I would never do), I would read robots.txt so that I had a clue where the secret information that the company did not want me to read was located. I'm
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by beobab 9y ago
Although that would be a cool job description.
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by beobab 9y ago
And you got an enormous amount of enjoyment from it, which is what a game is for. :) I remember doing a similar thing with save files and the old Ragnarok game.
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by beobab 9y ago
bitL suggested that you are better off not knowing. Are you sure you want to go down the avenue bitL explicitly suggests will disgust you all day long?
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by beobab 9y ago
My fellow humans: Free speech is dying in America. You are free to speak as long as it matches the illusory "public opinion", doesn't offend the "wrong people", and doesn't make law enforcement or the internet
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by beobab 9y ago
Agreed. My dad (70) says he's too old to be "young at heart" any more. He says he's going to try "immature at heart" for a bit.
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by beobab 9y ago
Just looked up FTFY. I am pleased it doesn't mean what I thought it did.
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by beobab 9y ago
You are right to find it disturbing. It is disturbing. Once it becomes dangerous to express your ideas, then people with contrary ideas will either be crushed or rebellious. There is a stupendously thin line between a sane person and an i
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by beobab 9y ago
"Retention isn't part of HR's role" Really? I've always seen HR as a sort of "union for un-unionised employees". They help you get stuff out of the business, and help the business get the most out of you.
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by beobab 9y ago
Careful of this mindset. So the thought process is: "I want this" "I am not allowed this" "I should be allowed this" "I will take it anyway" This is seductive, easy, and the wrong way to go for mos
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by beobab 9y ago
If newer developers are steered elsewhere, then you have an aging population problem, which historically leads to decline.
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by beobab 9y ago
It is a very important lesson. Caching is your friend.
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by beobab 9y ago
"An unlocked car is too tempting for some people to just walk past and not take it." I am saddened by this.
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by beobab 9y ago
Except block your IP address, or your user agent, or the pattern your software makes when it connects. Yes, that will cause potential issues for other people, which is why they tend not to do that, but if you trivially create a thousand mor
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by beobab 9y ago
If your security is " http://example.com/1234/secret_data/" , but 1234 is your customer number, and changing the customer number gives you someone else's data, then the analogy is more like: "the
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by beobab 9y ago
That's good to know, actually. I have grown up with an "it's broken - chuck it and buy a new one" mentality, and the fact that it often costs a comparable amount: £30 for a repair guy to come out and "see if he can
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by beobab 9y ago
I still have trouble with "I need help". I can work out what I need to do, but I have trouble doling out work in a way which means that it gets done to the specification I have got in my head, so I am not sure how to accept the of
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by beobab 9y ago
There are quite a few individuals who have this same problem.
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by beobab 9y ago
The little light that helps you decide what delicious snacks you can munch on at midnight. :) And on a less frivolous note: the rubber around the doors can perish/tear.
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by beobab 9y ago
I'd recommend giving a five minute warning, then a two minute warning, then one, and finally a countdown. Then it's not a surprise, and the loss has time to be adjusted to. This worked on my youngest.

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