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by danjac 5y ago
I'm happy to jump through 2FA hoops for my banking app. I'm not so enthusiastic to do the same for every news or social media site.
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by danjac 5y ago
That's a good point I don't see mentioned much about choice of tech stack and impact on career. It's not so much about the technical merits of the stack itself as about what kinds of companies and projects use that stack, and
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by danjac 5y ago
Peter Cushing on the other hand...
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by danjac 5y ago
Private key was uploaded to cloud storage that Feds had access to with a search warrant.
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by danjac 5y ago
To be fair though, you could have your cat just randomly jump all over your keyboard and Kitty would get herself published in Forbes. They're not known for their high bar.
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by danjac 5y ago
Re: Theranos - to give Henry Kissinger and the other very old rich guys the benefit of the doubt, perhaps Elizabeth Holmes is just a Bene Gesserit using the Voice to get them to hand over their money?
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by danjac 5y ago
Another problem is that developers will start pushing for solutions in their current job not because it makes sense but because they know they're going to need those skills in their resume in a year or two. The company is left with a R
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by danjac 5y ago
The successful SME owners I've known have worked in an industry for some time, and have found (often by accident) a profitable niche or pain point. If they needed to build something they've done it themselves with a "For Dumm
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by danjac 5y ago
They all seem to be variations on Grimm's "Frog Prince" rewritten by a bot.
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by danjac 5y ago
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/introduction-...
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by danjac 5y ago
$100 of pizza? Isn't that a whole AWS service's worth?
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by danjac 5y ago
That's Linkedin level quality.
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by danjac 5y ago
Lots of suggestions here, my personal favorite for small apps is Dokku running on a Digital Ocean droplet. I've also heard good things about Caprover and DO apps but not tried them.
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by danjac 5y ago
Honestly if you have limited resources wouldn't a web app/PWA be a better option to give you faster turnaround on bug fixes and features, and a wider platform reach? Personally I'm quite conservative about installing apps due
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by danjac 5y ago
I suspect Wordpress developers make bank from the Everest-sized amount of bikeshedding from non-developers that goes the average bog-standard corporate website.
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by danjac 5y ago
The problem is that for much of the current generation of politicians in power, particularly in Germany, all thought about nuclear power has been frozen in time since 1985. Furthermore you have bought-and-paid-for members of the establishme
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by danjac 5y ago
Agreed - but Kubernetes won't result in you losing half a million of your assets in an instant. I mean unless you decide to use Amazon EKS for a side project of course...
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by danjac 5y ago
Sure, but celebrities and grifters aren't pushing the general public to adopt Kubernetes or bet their life savings on their understanding of it.
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by danjac 5y ago
When I saw the phrase "code is law" I immediately thought of all the code I've written in my life, and I'm not even the very worst coder out there...
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by danjac 5y ago
And yet, modern academics are expected to have fluency in English even if it's a second language - academia has always required a lingua franca for obvious reasons, and English simply replaced Latin for that purpose (I think at one p
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by danjac 5y ago
Rails was a full-stack framework that took care of everything from database models down to frontend AJAX integration, so you literally could build a very basic blog that actually saved stuff to a database within 20 minutes. Remix is yet ano
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by danjac 5y ago
Looks like the YouTube algorithm is actually the resurrected ghost of a Victorian clergyman.
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by danjac 5y ago
B2C - you have to design an app that appeals to people who will buy and use it. B2B - you have to design an app that appeals to people who will buy it and force other people to use it.
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by danjac 5y ago
> As I see it, Scots and Standard English are two dialects of the same language. It doesn't matter how you personally see it. Linguists and other scholars are divided on the issue. It's recognized as a regional language by UNES
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by danjac 5y ago
It's the same with Scots (as opposed to Scottish Gaelic). Is it a dialect or a separate (although closely related) language to English? If Scotland becomes independent, Scots would very likely gain full language status for as much poli
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by danjac 5y ago
Saw a developer position recently which stated remote, but with expectation to come into the office twice a week. This would include workers from quite far away who would likely spend the day travelling, or have to spend two nights a week a
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by danjac 5y ago
> Unfortunately, a lot of people are not useful enough to society to contribute and live in some places That would include such socially useless people like school teachers and nurses, I guess.
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by danjac 5y ago
If someone pays the same taxes and contributions into society as others, then surely they are entitled to something in return? I get there's no easy answer here but gig workers are also "consultants" who may not be earning en
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by danjac 5y ago
Social security systems in European countries tend to be based around people earning a regular salary losing their jobs, rather than consultants having occasional dry spells between projects. This is a problem with the gig economy in genera
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by danjac 5y ago
I often wonder about the dumpster fire that is the web version of Reddit. Normally I assume incompetence over malice, but - they had a perfectly decent working link aggregator site over a decade ago, and more than sufficent resources and bu

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