dcminter

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by dcminter 1y ago
This seems well intentioned, but ... have you actually put this in front of a non-programmer and got them to try to create documentation using it? I suspect it's got more speedbumps left in it than you think.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Even without that particular misunderstanding I found it very hard to initially parse what this was actually about; I'm skeptical that a naïve non-technical person will be able to work out what it's banging on about. Maybe they&#x
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by dcminter 1y ago
The good stuff, if you're lucky, is that you figure out what you want and care a lot less about what other people think (except at 2am when one likes to ponder embarrassing incidents across the decades). The bad stuff, unless you'
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by dcminter 1y ago
Do you like working with those people? That's part of it.
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by dcminter 1y ago
You're right, but this assumes that the execs have the insight to see that maintenance tasks save money. If preventing next year's incident isn't understood as being as valuable as doing the hero work to untangle this year&#x
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by dcminter 1y ago
Absolutely true, and absolutely one of the reasons that working in large tech companies can be soul destroying.
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by dcminter 1y ago
If we were suddenly taken with the urge to do this now I wonder how good a job we could do? Maybe a high gamma sterilization to kill off any bacteria in or around the body, then cast it in resin; presumably there would still be mere chemica
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by dcminter 1y ago
Thanks, but I'm not very interested in philosophy.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Ubuntu's default is Wayland, so I'm surprised that doesn't sway things more - I thought Ubuntu had about ⅓ of the market for Linux desktops.
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by dcminter 1y ago
It's definitely not a dumb question - it's something that just wasn't taught at all when I was at University. My answer, of course, is a bit broad-sweeps. The nitty gritty will depend on the project etc. In your case, if it w
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by dcminter 1y ago
I'm pointing out that human activities come with costs and benefits and if you only focus on the costs everything sounds bad. In reality there is nuance.
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by dcminter 1y ago
One iterative approach; step zero, though, is to be sure you understand what the bug is : • What happens? • What did you expect to happen? If they're the same then NOT A BUG, and WONTFIX :D Assuming it's a bug, the next important
553.
by dcminter 1y ago
Well, it depends. Is the alternative the same people starving to death?
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by dcminter 1y ago
On-topic and made me chuckle, thanks. Could have been worse I suppose; at least they didn't try to argue the case.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Without feedback you don't know that the bug was fixed in reaction to your bug report. It might have been - but unless they explicitly invited bug reports in return for something then it's at worst bad manners not to acknowledge i
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by dcminter 1y ago
> the names were unpronounceable Each to their own, but this seems an odd criticism; do you have an example of a name that struck you as such in it?
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by dcminter 1y ago
As is so often the case, the late great Douglas Adams had a relevant quote: "And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex — just to show her. And into one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake,
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by dcminter 1y ago
I enjoyed this review and thought the point about "whiplash" with Tehanu was well observed. I read Tehanu roughly when it came out, so I'd have been about 18, having read the others much earlier. I was annoyed and disliked it
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by dcminter 1y ago
I think this is my favourite: https://www.economist.com/obituary/2009/08/13/benson https://archive.ph/9tM1P
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by dcminter 2y ago
Statutory notice period would still apply in the UK. You'll get at least a week's notice unless you've been there less than a month.
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by dcminter 2y ago
Personally I want to filter out all the "recommended" posts, but if you look at the raw html you'll see that they aggresively obfuscate the structure to make this sort of thing difficult.
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by dcminter 2y ago
I went off pubs after the smoking ban in Britain; suddenly it was much more obvious that they all smelled of sweat and stale beer.
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by dcminter 2y ago
> SSDs. In my opinion, the biggest computer upgrade in my lifetime Good one. I more-or-less stopped caring about disk latency once I gotnmy first SSD - it was truly a marvel.
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by dcminter 2y ago
With the exception of cellphones, almost everything that needed a battery in the 90s used disposable dry cell batteries. Left unattended they often leaked destroying the device. Now almost everything that needs a battery has a rechargeable
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by dcminter 2y ago
OO yes, but not Java particularly. I was using Rational tools with C++ projects well before Java was getting any visibility.
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by dcminter 2y ago
On a similar note I've had various annoyances with wanting to round trip diagrams from Mermaid or PlantUML into Miro and vice versa. There doesn't seem to be much out there to facilitate this, which is strange, because it feels li
567.
by dcminter 2y ago
I'm kind of hazy about where the boundaries between bona fide UML and PlantUML are, but PlantUML is in pretty common use in my world - more for sequence diagrams and state diagrams than class diagrams though. Of course PlantUML has com
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by dcminter 2y ago
Ha! I did that a few times with 3½" disks - address and stamp on the label and slap a bit of tape over the shutter to prevent dust ingress. No issues. I don't think I'd have risked it with 5¼" floppies though, they were
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by dcminter 2y ago
> "Genuinely curious" is the internet equivalent of a "don't shoot, I'm coming out with my hands up". Ha, that's a great thought and I will doubtless quote (steal) it in the future.
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by dcminter 2y ago
Uh... I use "I'm confused" a lot. Because often I am confused! Someone said something that didn't make sense given what I know. It divides fairly evenly (I think, being generous to myself here) between: Yep, something

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