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by corrral 4y ago
One shock if you go back and forth between Javascript and, say, Java, is adjusting your library evaluation criteria. It's not weird for a Java project to include a library that hasn't had any updates in 4+ years. Sometimes those s
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by corrral 4y ago
This seems like a great place to ask how the ever-loving shit you get a front-end project with simple NPM-fetched libraries to bundle into either a single .js file ready to go in a <script> tag, or a block of <script> tags with
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by corrral 4y ago
3rd party JS code used to be snippets you were expected to copy-paste into your own code, or whole files you were expected to save and then load with a <script> tag before your own code. Now there are like 50 ways to import JS code, m
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by corrral 4y ago
> Best I could tell, neither of them looked, at least not more than a minute. I once interviewed a guy with a nice, short 1-pager résumé—not from lack of experience, just a solid, terse document. Not just out of school. Had three or four
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by corrral 4y ago
We've recovered air trapped in ice cores up to 2 million years old. Odds are if there had been an advanced ancient civilization of any size (and an advanced one is going to tend to be large) and for any length of time, they'd have
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by corrral 4y ago
For the people who thought what we did this time was "lockdowns" or "shutdowns" and that many folks' reactions were "hysterical", the day when we have a pandemic that hits young kids half as hard as Covid
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by corrral 4y ago
Boards of Directors exist. I bet a lot of companies already have more non-employee shareholders than they have employees. It doesn't seem to be a problem.
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by corrral 4y ago
Ha, I hit this by accident a couple times a year, then have to fix it in settings because I can never remember what the combo is.
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by corrral 4y ago
As a candidate just another question to worry about, even if it doesn't actually come up, and at best the result of it coming up is neutral, not positive for you. The more you need the job, the more stressful that sort of thing is.
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by corrral 4y ago
Yeah, my macOS set-up is simple enough it's not worth scripting or otherwise saving. Use the GUI settings panel to make CAPS LOCK an extra ctrl. Takes maybe 10 seconds. Use same to make dock auto-hide. 10 seconds if I'm slow about
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by corrral 4y ago
All bets are off if you have even minimal "fuck you" money, of course. Most people don't, though. They can't go long without a job, and having a gap on their résumé is scary (for good reason—if you need a job, anything
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by corrral 4y ago
Widespread ( widespread ) use of this distinction between sex and gender (those words in particular, and in the "West" [EDIT: the Anglosphere, rather]—yes, I'm sure a bunch of other cultures have had the distinction for mille
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by corrral 4y ago
Project manager: - Reads Jira (or whatever) and moves things around (yes, they may also add things sometimes, but I'm drawing a general distinction). - Gantt charts. - Tracks project status, communicates it upward. - May also do some c
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by corrral 4y ago
> Hmm, I feel like that’s been the case for more than a couple of years. Java has been fast for well over 10 years, I’d say. It got the reputation in part because once upon a time Java programs were noticeably slow and heavy on resourc
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by corrral 4y ago
SMTP got a toehold before the eternal Corporate Age of the Internet practically ended open protocol development, because it was far more useful on intermittent connections, and on terminals one only used a few minutes a day. Chat didn'
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by corrral 4y ago
Not great that a historical usage of the older flag would start rendering as the new one. Maybe Unicode needs to incorporate a date into each glyph /s
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by corrral 4y ago
> If your database queries are a mess, This has been the cause of basically all of the slowness in Rails projects I've worked on, at least. I've seen queries taking tens of thousands of times longer than they should. I don&#x
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by corrral 4y ago
Again: it is cheaper and easier than ever to get a "real" computer. They're at thrift stores for like $50-100, with peripherals. Raspberry Pi alone has sold over thirty million units. If a bright kid with a good idea asked fo
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by corrral 4y ago
You may be thinking of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umayyad_invasion_of_Gaul 8th Century. My distant recollection from university French courses is that the Battle of Tours, which repulsed the invasion, is among
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by corrral 4y ago
> A couple? Yeah, I'm counting phones and tablets as two categories. But I'm also being really generous on how old something can be and still be "new" (15 years is quite a while, in tech) and not counting those as jus
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by corrral 4y ago
Sometimes I make a new virtual desktop and see it for a few seconds.
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by corrral 4y ago
What's getting screwed up? It's cheaper and easier than ever to acquire a wide-open computer platform. There are also more of them than ever. There's just also a couple new categories of computing appliance—which is nowhere
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by corrral 4y ago
I have almost zero interest in haxoring my phone, and just want it to always work and not let 3rd parties steal my info, automatically. And I'm a life-long computer geek who's done professional mobile development. Most people ca
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by corrral 4y ago
> An updated version (with a better plot) would be amazing. Uh, yeah, I'm pretty sure you couldn't get away with "a plague killed most of the women so the few remaining ones are all breeding-queens of warrior bands and you
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by corrral 4y ago
Citation always felt like the most onerous part of writing papers in high school. I hated it. It seemed to take forever. Even with auto-formatters. The culprit was MLA. Chicago-style (which I was allowed to use in most college classes) or j
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by corrral 4y ago
You badly overestimate both the ability and interest of average people in learning to administrate their computers. They just want to get shit done and go do something else. Computers are a tool at best, and more often a super-annoying thin
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by corrral 4y ago
> Actually, I recall being able to haggle prices at hotels before the online booking sites became prominent. On family trips in the 90s, I'm pretty sure my dad almost never paid the asking price for our rooms. If you were coming in
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by corrral 4y ago
> The computerized "knowledge at your fingertips" is a common slogan of computer-age propaganda, but it's probably true that a greater fraction of that "knowledge" is in fact garbage and overall may just be a mar
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by corrral 4y ago
You can really tell who lived through the era of 20 stacked, all-unwanted browser "toolbars" and Bonzi Buddy and such, and who didn't. That didn't go away because people learned . And it never would have.
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by corrral 4y ago
Huh, TIL. I even had the game back in the day, and had no idea that wasn't an actual oversight.

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