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by david422 9mo ago
I do it naively. Maintain the backend and frontend separately. Roll out each change in a backwards compatible manner.
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by david422 9mo ago
> Rollout should be within a minute And if it's not, it breaks everything. This is an assumption you can't make.
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by david422 10mo ago
No.
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by david422 11mo ago
IIRC, the grocery chain I worked for used to have an offline mode to move customers out the door. But it meant that when the system came back online, if the customers card was denied, the customer got free groceries.
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by david422 1y ago
"That's a good question, let me do some research and I'll get back to you"
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by david422 1y ago
I don't want to organize ... I just want a filter on the channel sidebar!
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by david422 1y ago
I used python on a large code base for quite a while. Many team members did not like type hints, and a codebase that doesn't maintain type hints makes it harder to use them. However, if I had a choice, rather than use typehints in pyth
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by david422 1y ago
Yes. It's not the type system that's broken, it's the design. Fix the design, and the type system works for you, not against you.
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by david422 1y ago
When you buy a house and get a mortgage, you are going to be paying MUCH more in interest (than expected). Over the course of the mortgage, you are going to be paying MUCH more than the sticker price. Between closing costs and taxes and fee
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by david422 1y ago
That's actually the situation I was in though. When your electric mower breaks you're probably on your own. I would not want to go back, but going forward definitely has it's own issues.
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by david422 1y ago
> I have the same issue every year with a ride on lawn mower. Do I just pay someone weekly or buy one outright and do it myself? In this case I loathe mowing, I bought mine, ran great for 4 years, then ran into a bunch of trouble, which
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by david422 1y ago
> The types are absolutely still there and need thought about Yes, if they aren't in the code, it just means the programmer has figure out and carry that around mentally when reading or writing code.
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by david422 1y ago
Somewhat related - I wanted to add short urls to a project of mine. I was looking around at a bunch of url shorteners - and then realized it would be pretty simple to create my own. It's my content pointed to my own service, so I don&#
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by david422 1y ago
I created a gmail account in 2004 and then completely forgot about it. Just last week I realized that I had registered that account. I went to the forgot my password page, and it prompted for the last password I remembered using, which I to
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by david422 1y ago
I think it's a dead project. There hasn't been any updates. I signed up about the same time you did.
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by david422 1y ago
I signed up 2 years ago. I think it's a dead project :(
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by david422 1y ago
This seems like one of the perfect use cases for AI. Have the AI ingest the style guide, and then comment on your written work to point out where your work does not adhere to the style guide.
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by david422 1y ago
> Most Americans these days won't interact with their neighbors unless it's to complain or they want something transactionally. My family moved into a small cul-de-sac with 5 houses total. I wanted to introduce myself, so I wro
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by david422 1y ago
Looks great, thanks for sharing! One thing I love about software engineering is that you can apply it to so many different aspects of ordinary life. Showing your flight career like this is really cool.
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by david422 1y ago
No. Plausible, but statistically insignificant for a definitive conclusion. https://mythresults.com/episode28
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by david422 1y ago
Mythbusters did an episode on this https://www.discovery.com/shows/mythbusters/episodes/is-yawn... IIRC, it wasn't that contagious.
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by david422 1y ago
Blizzard's battle.net used to do that. They'd ban in waves. I imagine immediate bans would make it much easier for cheat authors to figure out which cheats were detectable and which weren't.
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by david422 1y ago
I don't disagree - but also realize that the other option is not to play.
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by david422 1y ago
We just had this exact problem. Tests ran great, production slowed to a crawl.
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by david422 1y ago
I'm wondering if anyone uses burner phones. I have an old phone, and a second phone number that I got from Tello for $5 a month, intending to use it for a business number, but then never did. It's currently completely detached fro
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by david422 1y ago
> He found out later (after a defrag) that the "compressor" was just hiding data in unused disk sectors and storing references to them So you could access the files until you wrote more data to disk?
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by david422 1y ago
> Nor is peace possible without true disarmament! The requirement that every people provide for its own defence must not turn into a race to rearmament. The sentiment sounds great but I think we now see in the real world with Ukraine tha
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by david422 1y ago
I wrote an app that has minimal Objective C that then just calls C++ code. You can either add .cpp files to your project, or if I recall correctly, you can just define C++ functions in your obj c files. In my app, Objective C just sets up t
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by david422 1y ago
Ugggh, credit card rewards. We all pay higher prices on goods because of the fees credit cards charge merchants, and then can get "rewarded" some of that money back. No thanks.
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by david422 2y ago
> When he goes, all the voters that voted for him will still be there, and they’ll still have all the reasons they voted for him. IMO this is a problem with the Democratic party not connecting with voters. Voters voting for Trump don&#x2

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