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by csmattryder 5y ago
It's part of the Discourse forum software, it can show you how many people have clicked on a link.
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by csmattryder 5y ago
I'll be the guy to recommend/shill Lenovo's Thinkpad range, I've been using my T480s for three years now, struggle with a reason to change to anything else. The trackpad isn't as good, goes without saying as Apple
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by csmattryder 5y ago
Here's the status page incident for this. https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj
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by csmattryder 5y ago
I'm one of those, last day at the end of this month. I'm looking forward to shaking off the old routine that I felt I had for the last few years. I got too complacent IMO, far too comfortable doing the same-old-same-old.
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by csmattryder 5y ago
Oh, of course, management. For the sorry saps caught in the cubicle-based nightmare, it's a likely hell. But to be one of the suited-and-booted dream sellers, I bet that's a bundle of fun.
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by csmattryder 5y ago
The story of how they took $32 million from Hertz for a website that never saw the light of day is a good read. > Despite having missed the deadline by five months, with no completed elements and weighed down by buggy code, Accenture tol
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by csmattryder 5y ago
Some CV tips from a bit of time hiring: Make sure that page one is a clear table of skills, your CV will be fed into a CRM/ATS that recruiters use to search from - "C# AND Jira AND Javascript", for instance. Core skills, Web,
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by csmattryder 6y ago
Spare a thought for the junior/mid-level devs who don't understand clever patterns, and the seniors who haven't read the same blog posts as the implementor of the switch(true). Completely agree, it's like writing readabl
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by csmattryder 6y ago
Please just let me pay for it. I pay 12EUR/yr for email, it's ad-free and works. Happy to do the same arrangement for a IM service.
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by csmattryder 6y ago
> Or that we cannot cook ourselves with fresh ingredients, ideally grown and sourced locally. Anecdotally, over the last four years I went from eating pre-packaged ready meals every day to knowing my local butcher and cooking properly, a
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by csmattryder 6y ago
So one of the key differences was that when I loaded Telegram, I had a list of contacts ready to go, people who already had Telegram. I sent a message to a few people via iMessage using the "Invite Friends" menu item. When I tried
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by csmattryder 6y ago
Make it easier to switch, is the answer. That was my thought process evaluating alternatives this morning. Signal is apparently lauded by the privacy crowd, but I took one look at it and said "no way is Mum going to use this". I w
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by csmattryder 6y ago
> And if all your discussions tend to span weeks or months before someone even signs-up you probably need to do one of these three things: > You should increase your price, by a lot I've seen this point written a few times by a h
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by csmattryder 6y ago
I've seen something similar actually for our client-embedded web plugin, a web crawler hits a client's site and I see 6x traffic hit AWS WAF periodically - fortunately the brunt is rate-limited. I'd be almost certain that AWS
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by csmattryder 6y ago
In the early days, you could spot one by the lack of blinking because the model was trained on open-eyed images. Not sure if that's still the case, I'd be surprised if it was. Any time I see a "this is peak technology" c
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by csmattryder 6y ago
I've seen this called "pointing and calling" [1], Japan's train drivers use the technique to force themselves to perform actions and take notice of the current environment. I personally took it to heart, it's a good
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by csmattryder 6y ago
The Megabar is such a surprisingly trivial hill for Mozilla to die on. I made a few posts on the subreddit about it, I saw numerous others with the same complaint - the motion is unnecessary and distracting. It's a common enough opinio
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by csmattryder 6y ago
If you track the user ID along a route of IoT IDs (which they're totally not doing), factoring in the path taken and time between stops, you could probably find out which stores the user had been (window) shopping at. For a massive e-c
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by csmattryder 6y ago
Ah no! While a standard thing to do for the web, WinForms let you do the strangest stuff like mimicking OS X for a piece of Windows-only software. My excuse is I was seventeen at the time... Back then, I was afraid of both hard graft and hu
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by csmattryder 6y ago
> Microsoft is starting from a negative perception amongst a lot of engineers, and unless they can provide some sort of killer reason to use .NET technologies Yeah, as stated above, I used to build on .NET back when WinForms was king.
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by csmattryder 6y ago
An article from 2014? You should know things have changed since then, with .NET Core and the open-sourcing of most .NET tech (Roselyn, OmniSharp and the .NET Core tooling). No more lock-in with Windows Server, no more SQL Server. Bring your
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by csmattryder 6y ago
As retail stores started to die, some smart cookie said: "Hey, remember those people who follow you around the store and intruded as you were just browsing? Those sucked! Let's bring that to the web". And lo, chatbots were bo
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by csmattryder 6y ago
It's cool to conciously see the death of an industry and watch as marketing firms fail to migrate away from traditional ads. You can whinge and whine, but progress stops for nobody. It's also great to see Apple building this into
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UK virus-tracing app switches to Google-Apple model(bbc.co.uk)
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by csmattryder 6y ago
> 20 years from now they will have a gigantic monopoly over a huge range of computing. I'm not worried. Mozilla/Microsoft used to be in a similar position with Firefox/IE at one time. Now they're both playing second f
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by csmattryder 7y ago
> Sign up for or set up a centralized logging service. It doesn’t matter which. Pipe all your logs to it. Is there one recommended by HN for multi-platform use? I'm in the process of preparing for ISO27001 certification and as the t
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by csmattryder 7y ago
In a classic case of "Simpsons did it"... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_XXVIII#Cor...
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by csmattryder 7y ago
Yep, I saw this and immediately felt vindicated for the move to BitWarden. My only fault with it is that it's missing the "icon" in the inputs to click-and-fill as LastPass has, but I believe that's on the BitWarden back
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by csmattryder 7y ago
I have a few access keys in my LastPass account that contain quotation marks as part of the secret. Their web interface won't present the textarea field for me to copy the key for use. I'd have to resort to the export options to g
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by csmattryder 7y ago
I wish more people would take this advice. When you leave the site after deleting your account, and happen to revisit it (via clicking the OP), you realise that everyone is incredibly furious about so much - brexit, sexism, someone clumsi

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