david422

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   by david422 6y ago

   I did this until I switched phones. On my old phone the hotspot worked fine. My new phone- exact same plan, nothing changed there- prompts me to buy the hotspot plan addition. No thanks...
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   by david422 6y ago

   It's good when dealing with humans, it's bad when dealing with machines. Allow humans a fudge factor for ease of use, but not at the cost of integrity. For instance, allow phone numbers with separators, or spacing, or shortened ve
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   by david422 6y ago

   I once worked on a system with small modular pieces of hardware. But the hardware was expensive, so there was a plan that you could buy less hardware but pay more for software that would cover for the hardware. So we literally wrote more so
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   by david422 6y ago

   This I think is probably the most impactful, feasible changes that an individual can make. And I'll add in electric transportation to my wishlist.
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   by david422 6y ago

   It often depends on what software you are writing. Writing a web service? Sure, you can kill the process. You only affect that 1 request and the user can retry and other users are unaffected. Writing a server that maintains state for multip
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   by david422 6y ago

   I worked on a farm for a summer when I was younger. It was so physically demanding that I remember just dropping dead asleep at nights.
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   by david422 6y ago

   This is one of the many events that show that you literally cannot trust the media. And another reason that mob justice is not justice.
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   by david422 6y ago

   Yea, this is why companies destroy perfectly good hardware- so this doesn't happen :(
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   by david422 6y ago

   > it fell on to me to maintain this code after he moved on to something else This has happened to be before. I disagreed with a technical direction, it was implemented anyways, and then I'm left to maintain it. Very frustrating.
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    by david422 6y ago

    Think of how much advertising Coke does. It's so they can remain on top.
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    by david422 6y ago

    I believe Freakonomics ascribed this to abortion- an unwanted generation of people that never were, and subsequently a drop in crime.
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    by david422 6y ago

    I read The Killing Fields. It makes me really appreciate my little bubble of safety in the world. It was totally surreal.
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    by david422 6y ago

    When I found the jetbrains Ides I really started to enjoy programming again. I could think about what I was trying to accomplish instead of getting bogged down in programming overhead. Also paid for the toolbox, worth every penny.
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    by david422 6y ago

    Both written March 20th.
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    by david422 6y ago

    Ice cream containers always go down in size. Then they go up again advertising 30% more.
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    by david422 6y ago

    Same for paying for luggage. I'd rather pay for bags because it means when I travel light that I'm not subsidizing other people's bags.
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    by david422 7y ago

    Yo- put them on your calendar repeating yearly! That way you never have to remember and you also never forget.
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    by david422 7y ago

    Or this one http://www.whichfaceisreal.com/fakeimages/image-2019-02-18_2...
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    by david422 7y ago

    I have a small website. The spammers found it quickly. I added a simple form field eg "name" that was hidden with css. If filled in, the request was rejected, but with a 200 response. Spam disappeared instantly. I did find out lat