cmiles74

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by cmiles74 7y ago
"The West Wing" is the one that hurt me in my heart place. I stopped watching when the meteor was hurtling towards the planet and I was relieved I wasn't still watching the show when they started to bring in musical guests. I
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by cmiles74 7y ago
> The centralization of power in a few studios and chains is global. In 2015, the U.S.-China Security Review Commission noted that Hollywood now obeys Chinese censors pretty much for all films, even those made and distributed solely in t
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by cmiles74 7y ago
It's hard to guess at the reason that Netflix is canceling these shows, but many shows simply have too many seasons. I suspect it's because the way the networks estimate their viewership (things like Nielsen households or telephon
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by cmiles74 7y ago
My team is in the process of moving our Jenkins CI jobs to GitLab CI. We have moved most of them and our feeling is that GitLab's solution is more flexible and easier to manage than Jenkins'. For the really weird or tricky ones, w
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by cmiles74 7y ago
It's too bad that web browsers are so complicated and expensive to port. There might be room for something new and different that runs on it's own VM (like Smalltalk) and can use libraries on the host to get things that do not mak
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by cmiles74 7y ago
Windows and MacOS have their frustrating points as well, I don't think any of these systems are perfect. I suspect the vast majority of computer using people could get by with a Linux desktop with about the same amount of frustration t
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by cmiles74 7y ago
I think it's a little sad that they are going this route (wrapping a running Linux kernel) rather than working to improve Windows disk performance and continuing to improve their WSL 1.x product. It looks like they are missing out on a
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by cmiles74 7y ago
I suspect they didn't mention it because they see the lock-in to their product as a feature. Mentioning OpenID might give the impression that Apple would be interested in interoperability (to some degree).
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by cmiles74 7y ago
The current batch of laptops is too brittle, in my opinion. They should be able to function with a small amount of crumbs, liquid or other detritus.
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by cmiles74 7y ago
In my opinion, one of the important qualities of an organized company is to spread and dilute responsibility. No individual manager or executive needs to be immoral or evil, they need only be short-sighted or a little greedy or willing to k
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by cmiles74 7y ago
I would prefer that Boeing be put out of business, rather than "learning a lot from this process". I think that the word "unfortunate" is too conservative to cover this situation. A corporation is not a person and punish
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by cmiles74 7y ago
Aetna owns with CVS. https://prospect.org/article/why-aetna-and-cvs-merger-so-dan...
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by cmiles74 7y ago
I have to disagree with this assertion. While my information is anecdotal I can attest to its veracity (I am 45 years old). Over the last two months I have been arguing in a professional manner for my company to move towards .Net Core and R
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by cmiles74 7y ago
It's in my best interest to keep moving projects forward so that they continue to build and compile under modern environments and work with modern tools. I believe the cost of sticking with outmoded products or technology is to eat the
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by cmiles74 7y ago
I see the "there's nothing wrong with old technology" comment a lot, and in this case I disagree. There's a good chunk of this thread pointing out how hard it is to hire for this position because practically no one is fa
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by cmiles74 7y ago
We do something similar with HashiCorp Vault. People authenticate to Vault (backed by Active Directory) and if they have the proper permissions (based on AD group) they can ask Vault to issue an SSH certificate for a particular account on a
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by cmiles74 7y ago
No joke, my child loves Legos. We always grab 'em when they show up on freecycle or Facebook or where-ever.
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by cmiles74 7y ago
Yep, same here. But this card has broken the interest free purchases into three tiers based on their cost. That is a $25 item will be interested free for 30 days but a $250 item might be interest free for sixty days. This seems pretty compl
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by cmiles74 7y ago
The billing statements provided by these vendors, if taken at face value, clearly encourages the holding of a balance. Avoiding a balance is a reasonable goal and a smart fiscal policy, but the penalties for holding a balance, in my opinion
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by cmiles74 7y ago
I disagree. They announced it as a revelutionary computing system that would change they way all computers would be built. They then chipped away at features until there was litle interesting left... I followed these stories with real inter
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by cmiles74 7y ago
I suspect you're being sarcastic and I agree. The US has been a tough place to be a farmer since the 80s. https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/14/us/farmer-suicide-rate-sw... https://www.mothe
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by cmiles74 7y ago
I worked with a customer that was concerned about the "security" of database IDs in the URL. I though their solution was novel: they chose a random long integer whenever a new row was created. It's fast like an integer and ra
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by cmiles74 7y ago
I think every Java developer should be familiar with C# and dotNet Core. There is a lot of similarities between the languages and it will be easy for any Java developer to pick up.
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by cmiles74 7y ago
In this case we have Oracle using the JEE namespace discussion as leverage to try to force the Eclipse Foundation to distribute their VM with their products. If Oracle had succeeded, would that mean that every developer that downloaded the
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by cmiles74 7y ago
Last time I used MacOS, it prompted me to install Java and then it did the install. I was in the Terminal, I am not sure what the interaction would look like if I had double-clicked a JAR file. I believe Apple donated their customizations (
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by cmiles74 8y ago
Java his it's niche and it's good to see another language competing in the same space.
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by cmiles74 8y ago
In my opinion it presents an alternative to Java. The licensing also seems easier to explain; Oracle has really worked hard to make Java licensing confusing.
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by cmiles74 8y ago
I'm not so sure it failed. I use IntelliJ IDEA daily, people in my office use WebStorm for Javascript development. There are Swing applications out there that people use, admittedly the ones I've seen are mostly business software.
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by cmiles74 8y ago
Java didn't succeed in terms of running code in a web page but it has been wildly successful in regards to "write once, run everywhere". It is widely deployed and has been successful isolating code specific to a particular OS
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by cmiles74 8y ago
The quotes from the Web Assembly team at Mozilla and Solomon Hykes read like these people are suffering from some kind of late 1990s amnesia. Till Schneidereit is saying exactly the same thing Sun said when Java was announced. Acting like t

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