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by cfeduke 4y ago
"Nerds 2.0.1" by Stephen Segaller, 1999 I picked up a copy at Borders and read it over a summer. Fantastic. I still have my copy. "Code" by Charles Petzold, 2000 There's a new edition as of 2022. I love Petzold&#x27
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by cfeduke 4y ago
My thinking is high school graduation could be as early as 16 but more likely 17 or 18, so 1966 - 18 = 1948 (or 49 or 50). 1983 would be 35, though by the author's own math he'd be 39. I think its probably safe to discount "1
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by cfeduke 4y ago
Based on the description, yes, my experience with Packt was the same. As the author you are mostly on your own and the pages per chapter during the outline phase caught me completely by surprise. (I am certain I did not stick to my estimate
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by cfeduke 4y ago
Yes, this is why I've never considered Google Cloud and have kept everything on AWS. (Even when a client says the choice is Azure or Google... I'll take that Microsoft poison.) I have zero confidence anything Google produces will
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by cfeduke 4y ago
I worked as the technical half of in a sales organization selling a big data solution so I've caught a whiff of what the blog post is talking about. A handful of organizations interested in/using our solution were doing, what I ga
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by cfeduke 4y ago
This is fine, but it's not really about tracking you , it's about tracking the habits of shoppers in aggregate, of which you are a participant. (Yes, having your real address to mail flyers is a bonus but not the end goal.) The o
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by cfeduke 4y ago
It's a good time to do it; copycat layoffs (The Board: "everyone is doing layoffs, why aren't we?") and it's a way to give a short term boost to the stock price - at least for publicly traded companies - when techno
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by cfeduke 4y ago
My county government got in bed with InvoiceCloud and prominently offers the payment option that includes a service fee when paying my property taxes. (The service fee for last half was ~$350.) It's still possible to pay via fee-less b
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by cfeduke 4y ago
In elementary school in the 80s in upstate New York we had some sort of tooth treatment provided in the classroom , and it seemed like sort of a big deal at the time. Until recently I thought it was just a national program, until my wife to
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by cfeduke 4y ago
Heh, the last time two Marine aviators drew a suitable shape often doodled throughout the Corps[1] it was not as well appreciated! Though they were certainly keeping pride of purpose alive. 1. https://metro.co.uk/2018/1
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by cfeduke 4y ago
Most of the outdoor dining doesn't even need to be covered if its situated in a pedestrian area surrounded by tall buildings. Market Street in Charlottesville Virginia is exactly this, and is an excellent place to dine outside througho
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by cfeduke 4y ago
When you see queries written like: select 1 ,field1 ,field2 ,field3 from ... you've hit peak SQL engineer comma frustration workaround.
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by cfeduke 4y ago
> equivalent of Typescript for SQL My limited experience with LINQ to SQL was very positive in these regards - but one is not writing a type safe SQL at all, instead a language that is type safe and is ultimately interpreted as SQL. Same
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by cfeduke 4y ago
You can sort of fake the joins between two tables and avoid the ceremony with `natural join` assuming you've named the columns the same. (This doesn't work if your team has followed a normal pattern of "table1.id" with a
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by cfeduke 4y ago
I had a somewhat similar experience with the polygraph portion of my clearance process - apparently its common to calibrate the machine to the subject by asking "have you ever smoked marijuana" and they expect you to lie and say &
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by cfeduke 4y ago
My wife started to have many of the symptoms of long COVID starting around September of this year. No official diagnosis from her many doctors and specialists, just a constant barrage of co-pays and test after test after test. Some of her d
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by cfeduke 4y ago
CTEs (common table expressions) are wonderful, they make SQL grokkable and maintainable. But, before some dev goes crazy refactoring all of the SQL in their codebase into maintainable CTEs: always benchmark. CTEs can cause your query planne
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by cfeduke 4y ago
Twenty years ago, if I was asked to do something like port an API from one language to another, I'd just tackle it. And it'd turn out like complete shit. But co-workers would be happy because its done, and they'd say I was a
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by cfeduke 4y ago
Though games that couldn't be patched weren't as complex but still at least as fun or more fun than today's games. Obviously my opinion. The article is getting at that you cannot just pop in a cart and play a game - there&#x2
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by cfeduke 4y ago
This is exactly how I read it at first, I figured maybe a 3% drop to use a word such as "plummet" or "plunge." Or, a 25% drop. Either of those, or any drop in value whatsoever, is fair game for any suitably catastrophic
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by cfeduke 4y ago
I did something similar when I figured out XSLT was for more than just front-end stuff. And I was working with Oracle as the database too; these enterprise code bases acquire huge amounts of often poorly written SQL and it feels like making
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by cfeduke 4y ago
The nice thing about Snowflake is that for many use cases it requires little management. Things you can learn regarding Snowflake, other than the obvious (SQL, and Snowflake specific language extensions to SQL): proper table partitioning, S
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by cfeduke 4y ago
This is really interesting. I've spent eight years in the JVM ecosystem (mostly Scala) augmented by Python for data engineering but I really dig Elixir. I had just assumed that Elixir was still too young to have spawned a data engineer
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by cfeduke 4y ago
I just enrolled in an online CS degree course. The database class is an elective. Crazy, I know.
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by cfeduke 4y ago
I have the original refrigerator the previous owners installed when we purchased the house. It's from the 1990s. It is sometimes loud, but I am afraid to replace it. I am sometimes awed by the new, sleek fridges in the home improvement
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by cfeduke 4y ago
The thing in this space that has always bothered me was the simple can opener. (For those not in the US, yes, in the US we still need can openers.) The new ones which can be purchased in the grocery store break within a month or two. I don&
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by cfeduke 4y ago
This sounds like a bunch of nonsense (PEACE & LOVE? Really?). That being said I continuously injure myself because I am very active - all sports have a risk of injury - and have never iced. I had a really bad ankle sprain a few weeks ag
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by cfeduke 4y ago
Thanks for this - I had provided my email address because I feel like I'd like the content of his mailing list regardless of the ebook offer, but the ebook never arrived via email (not even in spam).
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by cfeduke 4y ago
I worked briefly in an enterprise facing sales organization that targeted multi-cloud deployments. Azure always had capacity problems. As ridiculous as it sounds, having an enterprise's applications exist on multi-cloud isn't terr
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by cfeduke 4y ago
I played a dice baseball game that I learned from my father when I was growing up. I had little interest in baseball itself, but for whatever reason this game where I tracked all the players' stats for a league on paper, set up home an

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