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by bpyne 6y ago
No doubt. Even if we increased the pay or found another way to attract people as deliverers, grocery stores need to solve inventory and order picking. They won't keep delivery customers when they can't fulfill 40% of items that a
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by bpyne 6y ago
I had the same thought about delivery-only stores. Honestly, I'm in support of it. I hate driving. But grocery stores are not up to the task right now with order and delivery systems.
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by bpyne 6y ago
We had grocery delivery for 5 years pre-pandemic. When the pandemic started we tried to continue grocery delivery. However, we found several key issues. 1. A large number of people decided to move to home delivery. We couldn't get a de
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by bpyne 6y ago
Interesting. I wonder who thought to add this test into the contract. It's a simple but brilliant strategy.
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by bpyne 6y ago
I'd love to know their children's ages. My experience is that people with kids under 12 have a very hard time working with the kids around. The kids just need more help. My daughter is 14. She goes into the room we setup for her e
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by bpyne 6y ago
People with younger kids are probably having a hard time balancing work with kids' needs. My 14yo is absolutely independent with distance learning. In the 6 weeks or so that she started it, she needed help less than 10 times. You can&#
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by bpyne 6y ago
Our organization has been working remotely for nearly 2 months. Last week I received an organization-wide email that we'll start to transition back to the office in mid-June. Chances are that my team will be one of the last brought bac
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by bpyne 6y ago
The best I've eaten was from a stand at a Dominican Republic heritage festival in Providence, RI sometime between 1989-1991. A little, old, Dominican woman cooked the chicken. It was loaded with flavor including some spice. Recently I
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by bpyne 6y ago
Yes! Some code reflects what the requirements demand, including error handling, and no more. The design is elegant in that it abstracts properly, is very readable and extensible. Periodically, when I'm feeling down about my abilities,
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by bpyne 6y ago
My employer is a mid-sized university. Cost is the main issue. Our environment is a mixture of in-house developed apps and COTS. Until recently, our major COTS vendors didn't have cloud solutions. Now they have cloud solutions but they
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by bpyne 6y ago
Unfortunately, it's not as common to have meeting scribes as it once was. If a project manager exists for the project, then (s)he takes them. Absent a project manager, people take notes individually, which is not ideal.
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by bpyne 6y ago
Thanks for the reply. I tested with my wife's phone. It fit pretty well so I went for the iPhone 11. It came yesterday and I love it, not the least because I can type easier.
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The takeaway is about trade-offs. They made a rational decision to improve fault isolation by dividing the app into smaller building blocks managed separately. After working with it for a while, they realized the higher operational overhead
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by bpyne 6y ago
Currently I have an iPhone 6. I considered going to an iPhone 11 in the next few months until the iPhone SE was announced. I like that the SE can fit in my pocket as easily as my current phone. The price is also attractive, although I tend
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by bpyne 6y ago
I think you're onto something with the observation about what type of developers take to SQL. We have a spectrum in which people think more like how the processor operates to people who think more in classes of problems and their solut
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by bpyne 6y ago
You have a higher need for social stimulation than some people. My productivity has gone up measurably. In normal times, I get plenty of social stimulation outside work so I don't need any from work. While I think many organizations wi
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by bpyne 7y ago
Yes, it's possible. You'll reach diminishing returns in the language value much quicker without some background in types and semantics. But that point might come long after you achieved your goal. So, have at it and enjoy explorin
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by bpyne 7y ago
I don't find that to be the case. I'm usually looking for bigger things like: 1. making multiple trips to a relational database when a single statement joining tables can make it one trip; 2. not handling exceptions that can cause
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by bpyne 7y ago
So many good lessons for newer developers and good reminders for more experienced ones. It was due to the Bike Shedding Effect that I came to not appreciate code reviews. Every review seemed to break down into discussions of variable and me
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by bpyne 7y ago
"I also wonder how software "artists" should be different from other artists. For example, in music, there are great teams of artists, like Lennon/McCartney" Yes, in music, composers do work together although I woul
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by bpyne 7y ago
His credentials put him in high demand. Due to this, he has the luxury of changing jobs in order to find his fit. Jumping can dampen the demand at some point, but it hasn't for now. I wouldn't read anything else into it.
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by bpyne 7y ago
I feel burnt out regularly. Earlier in my career I loved reading about software development, both research and practice. But my job isn't particularly stressful. At some points, I feel stress at work, often due to a lack of control ove
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by bpyne 7y ago
Don't forget registration and inspection every 2 years (could be more or less depending on the place you live).
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by bpyne 7y ago
Do you park for free on the street? When we visit Brooklyn we usually get free street parking.
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by bpyne 7y ago
I'm not sure he meant "no longer drive" literally or if he meant that the number of drivers has curtailed enough that the problems autonomous vehicles were created to solve are no longer problems. As you described, clearly th
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by bpyne 7y ago
Also depends on the availability of sidewalks. Some suburbs are designed without them.
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And why is that?
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by bpyne 7y ago
"Live in the city and want to go hiking 20 miles away?" Yes, you want to use a car in this case. But, in the life I imagine, I would rent a car. I dislike driving intensely, but I can see use-cases in which cars are necessary. How
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by bpyne 7y ago
Having little to no responsibility for long periods of time would result in a driver filling the time with other activities, like phone conversations. A frightening number of cabbies blabber on the phone already. It's doubtful their re
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by bpyne 7y ago
I think we need to get past the point of believing in some FP revolution in which enlightenment happens and people suddenly switch to Haskell, OCaml, Clojure, etc. FP is happening in a more evolutionary way with newer languages like Kotlin,

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