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by dasmoth 8y ago
How have we ended up with “engineer” as the only acceptable job title for people who build software? What happened to programmer? Developer? Or even (glances at title bar...) Hacker?
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by dasmoth 8y ago
I’m not convinced it requires empathy to recognise that the occasional stumble from someone with a solid track record doesn’t mean they’re not going to perform well again tomorrow.
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by dasmoth 8y ago
If I'm calling the shots, up until recently it's been: Backend: Clojure + Postgres. Keep it as simple as possible. Frontend: Simple server-side templating in Clojure if that's sufficient. React (from either JS or ClojureScr
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by dasmoth 8y ago
nobody is forced Pretty certain Google Apps administrators can disable IMAP and POP for their organizations.
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by dasmoth 8y ago
That’s something that I remember people in my circle joking about at the time, but in retrospect maybe the joke was on us. User input should always be absolute top priority, and if that means something else has to stop then so be it. (Alth
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Our IT department was running regular WMI scans of our computers This seems like a big part of the problem. While I recognise that IT departments at Google-sized companies do have some extra worries, I do feel that we’re gradually losing
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by dasmoth 8y ago
It’s kind-of surprising to see “computer technical support” on the list of high-risk businesses.
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by dasmoth 8y ago
For me, I think it's substantially because it's an opportunity to get something done on my own in a world where nearly everything "serious" is assumed to need a team.
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by dasmoth 8y ago
I guess this is there as an “avoid showing unstyled content at any cost” thing. But really, WTF?
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by dasmoth 8y ago
I'm not the biggest mobile gamer, but I'm not sure I've ever played a game on my phone while it was plugged into a charger. The "debugging apps" case doesn't entirely convince me, either. Unless you're
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by dasmoth 8y ago
It'll be interesting to see how clear-cut this is. Do the rules actually require the socket, or do they say that if the socket is present it needs to be a certain type. (Even in the former case, there'd be a much stronger &quot
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by dasmoth 8y ago
The standard iPhone charger has a USB-A socket. You plug a USB -> Lightning cable into that. So it's only the cable that's non-standard. Perhaps not ideal, but rather different from mandating a complete new charger.
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by dasmoth 8y ago
At this point, I strongly suspect Apple are hoping to keep Lightning going until they're ready to make phones wireless-charge-only. That's probably still a few years away, but I'm sure they're thinking in that direction
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The Robot Paradox(stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com)
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Either that, or personal data has to stored in a central server so it can be accessed on demand by web apps - which would eliminate a lot of web forms, but would have uncomfortable political and social implications. That doesn't nece
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by dasmoth 8y ago
I don’t know for sure, but I certainly hope we’ll see some fresh thinking about user interface design and construction. The past couple of decades seem to have been substantially about recapitualating what came before in the web browser,
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Except perhaps (haven't checked the APIs recently) the "time read" feature, I'm pretty sure most of it can be done today with Slack apps. Certainly, "Standup" apps which replicate the "log what you did
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by dasmoth 8y ago
On top of this original feature, the company has added a wide range of functions that include automatic expense claims, a clock-in system to monitor the whereabouts of employees, as well as a "daily report" function that requires
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by dasmoth 8y ago
2. As company grows, it may well be that a piece of software being used by by less than 5 people at the company, but require an own developer team to continue actively support it. I recognize the scenario you’re warning against here — but
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by dasmoth 8y ago
As others have said, things like CSRF can easily be an issue with cookies as well. The deciding issue has always been UX for me. If browsers had done a bit more on this in the early days (in particular, a logout button ), HTTP Auth could
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Lucky! That doesn’t work everywhere... (Over-ear headphones are a little more reliable than earbuds, but have comfort issues for some people)
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by dasmoth 8y ago
I can absolutely see how this is true for some people. Conversely: I have a family, and find that a day of open-plan leaves me consistently too frazzled to hand much in the way of meaningful interaction with my partner and child. I don’t re
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Sadly, don’t get to spend all my working hours in that environment. It’s where I get a disproportionate amount of the actual work done, though!
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Home office. Plenty of space, some nice bookshelves, view across open fields when I want to test my eyes, and quiet . (Also a nice big monitor, and a “standing desk” built out of scrap but nice and solid). This makes far more difference t
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Depends on the jurisdiction. California is reputed to be relatively side-project friendly in this regard. Other US states less so. Likewise UK (which is a factor in why I’m on the way out of my current gig in a couple of weeks...)
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by dasmoth 8y ago
10 (“do you have testers?”) still seems pretty appealing to me. I still see a lot of value in manual and black-box testing, especially for interactive tools.
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Ah yes, I was mostly out of it before short-reads-only genomes were a common thing. “Draft” meant a slightly different thing in the Sanger sequencing days.
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by dasmoth 8y ago
I’ve been out of the genome-sequencing space for quite a few years now, but that seems a pretty strong assertion and I’m curious about your rationale. Is it that the analysis will need to be re-done in future? Or do you think the space is
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by dasmoth 8y ago
I don’t have any PowerPC machines going any more. But for those who do, it seems that a modern web browser might still be an option: http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/
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by dasmoth 8y ago
That’s something I’d probably put on the “good servant but bad master” category. Agree with what you’ve said, but have also seen it start to get oppressive. (One pain point is when it is used to hide build/deployment complexity to the

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