celticmusic

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by celticmusic 7y ago
> and encouraging people to be discontent with multi-minute long build-test-debug (BTD) loop. The ole eyebrow started twitching when I read this. I once had a 6 month contract with a RoR shop where they had such bad performance issues t
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by celticmusic 7y ago
> Stories like these confirm my experience that academia is in a sorry state and ripe for disruption. Can we maybe find our way to looking at something from a different perspective than this? "My marriage is in a sorry state and rip
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by celticmusic 7y ago
I'll often just forget my phone in my home office, sometimes for an entire weekend. I've had people ask me if I was unhappy with them because they called and I didn't get back with them immediately. I know it makes me an old
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by celticmusic 7y ago
> The article assumes that programmers are free to arrange their schedule. But that's only true if you're an independent contractor who's not deeply embedded in a team. Then you take what you can do and leave the rest.
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by celticmusic 7y ago
The points were good, especially the one about writing a lot of code then wasting time trying to find the bug. I've actually seen people work like that and it drives me nuts. I think you're right that the author is young, but tha
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by celticmusic 7y ago
it's known as a "bare metal hypervisor" and is the most commonly used hypervisor. If you look into things like vmware ESXi you'll see it in action. https://www.vmware.com/products/esxi-and-esx.html
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by celticmusic 7y ago
The filesystem in general is known to be much slower on Windows due to it's extreme flexibility, but Linux design decisions assumed a much more performant filesystem. Hence why running linux on windows slammed into the performance pro
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by celticmusic 7y ago
what if the author is writing about a trans person, which preference takes precedence? Did the author imply trans students don't exist when choosing to use a gender-specific pronoun to describe the student body?
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by celticmusic 7y ago
hmmm, I wonder if a trans person would agree...
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by celticmusic 7y ago
I don't understand why you would use the pronoun she in a context where the pronoun them and they would be wholly appropriate.
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by celticmusic 7y ago
Their COO would literally walk up to an employee and flick their balls, smack their ass, HUMP on them, and fart in their face (not all at once, although does that matter?) Maybe you consider that normal in game dev companies, but I have to
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by celticmusic 7y ago
Or I'm surprised at the notion that types in an OO language is the minimum bar for "turning into Java"? That seems like a nonsensical litmus test.
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by celticmusic 7y ago
There were several of the bullet points that I thought fell under this. Nice soundbite, but doesn't really jive with reality. This one is probably the most egregious though, in that great software is created BECAUSE people aren't
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by celticmusic 7y ago
I've seen a lot of people say this but I don't understand the sentiment, could you explain it?
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by celticmusic 7y ago
It was more about certain communities highly valuing "prettiness", such as RoR.
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by celticmusic 7y ago
> Indeed, that was their initial message to the public for this virus. You're going to have to source that because I have a friend who lives in China and he was telling me from the start that China was surprisingly open about all of
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by celticmusic 7y ago
I have a friend in China right now who wants to leave but can't due to not having a reasonable way to make it to the airport. Apparently they're not allowing anyone to leave the city atm.
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by celticmusic 7y ago
I still remember the day I got lectured by someone on how I didn't really understand the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion. Maybe not, but it spoke to me in a way no other anime ever did and it's easily the #1 for me. I obviously und
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by celticmusic 7y ago
The Wire felt like real people, in a way that 99.9% of media doesn't. I've read that some/most of the actors were actual police force at some point. I may be getting the details wrong, but I think that's why it felt so
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by celticmusic 7y ago
I've never seen this movie, nor am I a movie buff of any sort, but this was the experience I had watching Mr Hollands Opus. The entire movie you're left wondering what the hell the plot is. What is the point of this movie. And t
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by celticmusic 7y ago
calling ignorance a willingness seems a bit much to me.
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by celticmusic 7y ago
that's assuming the complexity never crosses boundaries, which is why the whole mess analogy falls down.
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by celticmusic 7y ago
what I specifically said (with emphasis) > Companies like these are probably better off throwing money at the problem and putting it in the cloud. __THE SKILL LEVEL REQUIRED__ to successfully run something in the cloud __AND NOT COMPLETE
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by celticmusic 7y ago
I think the real answer is that you don't have to trust an employee's expertise. I can give you a real life example. Years ago I did work for this company that built flight simulators for the government. Millions of dollars rolli
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by celticmusic 7y ago
hitler is evil, they're just criminals.
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by celticmusic 7y ago
I don't know the specific comments you're talking about, but it should be pointed out that truthful observations such as most of these scammers being indian isn't racist. Nor are warnings that if someone with an indian accen
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by celticmusic 7y ago
how is this allowed to be a thing? The telco's themselves should be held legally responsible for the fraud in these cases. If I hang up a phone, I expect that to be the end of it, period. Yes, that includes landlines.
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by celticmusic 7y ago
https://stripe.com/docs/api/events/list > List events, going back up to 30 days. If you're able to go further than that you may be paying extra for it. Now, if you have the event id then you'll b
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by celticmusic 7y ago
I seriously hope you're able to succeed.
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by celticmusic 7y ago
Stripe only allows access to the last 30 days of events, it sounds like this 3rd party is offering a service of collecting that for longer (probably among other things).

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