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by cakes 9y ago
Not that it is implied but it isn't just the "summer intern" that needs some coding convention guidance sometimes. It can be as useful as coming onto a project and at least you have some chance at (mentally) parsing the code&
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by cakes 9y ago
I was recently trying to do something similar and looked/tried go as a solution but I ran into some initial issues around my own confidence that the shared lib would work and that I wouldn't eventually really mess up the deallocat
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by cakes 9y ago
Yeah the VBA in Excel isn't .NET at all. Which makes it even harder to take something that was VBA in excel and trying to utilize it somewhere else (e.g. a .NET add-in to Excel or using any of the Excel interops via something like C#&#
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by cakes 9y ago
I usually am explicit in saying something along the lines of "Can it be assumed that I know how to do argument null checking, if possible, and not pollute the whiteboard?" and I've gotten a "Yes" and then after writ
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by cakes 9y ago
Agreed - something I've personally seen drive such a thing in some people are plans/checklists/etc (nothing wrong with having these) where the recognition of severity is overriden with checking as many boxes as possible in an
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by cakes 9y ago
I would generally agree more along there lines. I've had a manager (not lead but enough to say this) where favorites were played (friends for like 20+ years) and it is frustrating in many ways (e.g. lobbying for your friends to get dif
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by cakes 9y ago
This mirrors the experience I have as well. I (currently) don't know what will cause Hibernate to flush but I certainly do know that I had to know this exactly and had to do some really painful debugging at points. The worst one I was
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by cakes 10y ago
I feel like I'm missing a partial context but "You can change all of your passwords in 30 minutes tops" is not true. I have a minimal amount of accounts (I close accounts I don't use) and I can't imagine it taking m
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by cakes 10y ago
Generally agreed. I know that my priorities for what should be done in systemd are not going to match someone else's but there are also some clearly problematic things that just seem to go unaddressed no matter the scale (e.g. rebootin
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by cakes 10y ago
I very much enjoy using D and want it to succeed but this statement along with finding "everyday uses" for things (e.g. using zeromq) are huge drawbacks to buying into it. I'll still advocate but it's not easy sometimes
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by cakes 10y ago
Agreed, fancy and clever in optimization/design is super dangerous especially since you don't know what will/won't work until you measure. Also if you do "Wrap anything weird in a view" (which is an acceptable
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by cakes 10y ago
Entirely agree. Sometimes it is a feature (and sometimes a curse). Even uptime is a good point for why you couldn't "upgrade everyone" together. At the same point if I were hosting something for a group of parties (at my own
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by cakes 10y ago
Multi-tenancy solves some problems around maintenance and upgrade paths that are hugely beneficial when you are managing multiple deployments. If you have even more than just 1 deployment of a thing and scale to 2 (or N), you now also have
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by cakes 10y ago
While I have this same feeling, I think we (jointly) suffer for everyone wanting different things. I'd like a smaller (13" ish) size laptop with a handful of ports (e.g. 2x USB-A, 1x NIC, 1x external display port of _some type_ -
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by cakes 10y ago
I've had "assigned" mentorship at places (which is understandable and I have no immediate complaints) but I feel, personally, being in a supportive environment of coworkers is as good, if not better, than pure mentorship.
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by cakes 10y ago
Something like phabricator is always a reasonable choice https://www.phacility.com/
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by cakes 10y ago
I also initially used rss2email but ended up spinning it slightly for my own needs. It's a excellent tool to get over the first barrier of rss -> email though!
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by cakes 10y ago
having a laptop currently (Latitude 7370) which has only one "classic" usb slot...I'd kill for 2...so having none would be even harder. It comes down to doing the simple things like using USB flash drives quickly without imme
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by cakes 10y ago
I had a similar experience and it seemed like they were both being developed by the same core group(s) dividing their time between both (again, my perception) which was confusing as they were very similar.
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by cakes 10y ago
I should really read more of the git doc but at least I learned about aliasing in the gitconfig from this even if, I too, was expecting actual git commands
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by cakes 10y ago
The best/closest I have is that where I once worked, we had a NetApp that allowed it to be upgraded to a version that it didn't support (it wouldn't boot) which was not how it was supposed to be... Anyway, we should've b
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by cakes 10y ago
It potentially depends on the data and volume of deletions (and maybe other factors). How hard is it for users to recreate? If you select 30 days what happens on day 31 when a user "just gets back from vacation" (or similar)? Mayb
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by cakes 10y ago
If you have to pay more than you would to normally commute, they should compensate you for the travel expenses. Personally when a company goes through the effort of organizing an interview (especially with travel) and I get there and some a
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by cakes 10y ago
Which you'll be reminded of again when DST rolls around.
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by cakes 10y ago
Especially since in C# as soon as you are doing this it involves a lot of inconvenience, odd syntax, and is going to not be popular internally.
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by cakes 10y ago
Same thought but adding that if it's causing you stress/impacting your life - factor that in.
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by cakes 10y ago
As reference there are/were tools in something like MSSQL for dealing with XML.
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by cakes 10y ago
In relation - I've always liked the "Chaos" value from msdn for their IsolationLevel enum https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.transactions...
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by cakes 10y ago
Similarly this is why, in some places, people report having "that old XP machine running <software> in the closet" because <software> is really important to them and they have no path forward (it doesn't support &

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