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by dfcowell 7y ago
Only if the reader is discerning enough to notice when they’re looking at a bad implementation. Otherwise there’s a risk of learning bad practices.
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by dfcowell 7y ago
Unfortunately the repo has some truly awful antipatterns. The catalog service is a masterclass in how not to write Node.
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by dfcowell 7y ago
Holland America are PR geniuses. They’ve taken one hell of a lemon and made some very sweet marketing lemonade out of it.
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by dfcowell 7y ago
> Safari stops rendering entirely on iOS every now and then Oh great, other people are having this too. Assumed it was only me.
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by dfcowell 7y ago
The backup is not necessarily against a man-made catastrophe. A stray asteroid in the right place at the wrong time is perfectly capable of fucking up Earth without our assistance.
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by dfcowell 7y ago
30 days seems too short an observation period. I have 1-2 incidents of sickness per year and I don’t live a particularly healthy lifestyle.
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by dfcowell 7y ago
I agree with most of these examples except for the side of the road one, which is truly arbitrary - at least in island nations. I’ve driven in both left and right driving nations, the experience is fundamentally identical.
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by dfcowell 7y ago
Wow, you’re right. I never noticed (even while studying the basics myself) that syllables are space-separated. I always saw the words (e.g. “thanh pho” = city - don’t have the keyboard on my phone) as independent units. Didn’t even recogniz
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by dfcowell 7y ago
Traditional Vietnamese (before French colonialism) used Chinese characters.
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by dfcowell 7y ago
Thanks for the fact check. Not sure your comment on Vietnamese is accurate though. I work in a company with ~35% native Vietnamese speakers and I’ve seen plenty of multi-syllable words. Are you talking about traditional Vietnamese (when it
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by dfcowell 7y ago
There are no spaces between words in Chinese or Japanese. Pressing space confirms the current selection in the Japanese IME, which is expected behavior. Where some Linux implementations get it wrong is they also insert a space after the w
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by dfcowell 7y ago
The $5b is coming from SoftBank Group. The earlier $11b came from the Vision Fund, which is a subsidiary with an entirely different operating environment.
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by dfcowell 7y ago
In finance at least, there are often regulators that get in the way. For example, in my current company, we’d love to support our anemic Ops team, however a developer having any kind of influence on the deployment process is strictly forbid
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by dfcowell 7y ago
It would be reasonably trivial to build a phone system that lets the agent generate a OTP of sorts. "Hey, we need to talk about your account. Call our general enquiries number on our website, press 9 and enter 'XXXXXX' to be
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by dfcowell 7y ago
I’ve lived in Vietnam for the past 5 years and experienced these issues first hand. I’m also part of the team responsible for maintaining a relatively aggressive set of Cloudflare WAF rules at my current employer. In these developing countr
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by dfcowell 7y ago
You might be surprised. There are many municipal regulations around the location and size of excavations, even on privately-owned land. Primarily to avoid damaging any pre-existing underground infrastructure.
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by dfcowell 7y ago
The guy works for Stripe. I’d say as a company they’re pretty savvy about banking regulations in general, and transaction disputes specifically.
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by dfcowell 7y ago
I got a few paragraphs in before I had to stop. My Mum fought tooth and nail against my Dad for me to get my first proper computer after I spent over 2 years cobbling together an ancient machine out of scraps and garbage. I had the carcasse
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by dfcowell 8y ago
The transfer of ownership request is the key here. That doesn’t scale, considering that the current owner needs to authenticate the request. Sure, you could pull the gig once , but your authentic work immediately depreciates in value by 10
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by dfcowell 8y ago
I see you also listen to No Such Thing as a Fish. Anyone who enjoys finding out about this kind of obscure technology, or interesting facts of any kind should give it a listen. It’s up there with 99 Percent Invisible (but far less focused a
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by dfcowell 8y ago
That’s not true. The only setup required is installing vscode and the live share extension. The host shares their TTY and ports, all the clients see everything that happens in the host’s TTY (read-only) and ports (r/w on localhost.) Co
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by dfcowell 8y ago
> The fact that everyone shares the same compute infrastructure means they all see the same errors and the same output — this is crucial for collaboration and something that we've found to be lacking from existing IDE's that su
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by dfcowell 8y ago
It’s easy to crap all over the publisher, but it sounds like there were a lot of opportunities to mitigate these issues throughout the process before they became a problem. Sold half a million copies of the last book and didn’t bat an eye w
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by dfcowell 8y ago
Amazon’s entire model is flawed in this respect. Products on the platform are “deduped” by merging listings from multiple sellers of the same product under a single master listing, where the price for the item is the lowest price available
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by dfcowell 8y ago
This is certainly making me rethink the workflows we are using in my team, particularly those around PRs and code review.
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by dfcowell 8y ago
PR comments are also failing with HTTP 405 error code. Great way to start the week.
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by dfcowell 8y ago
Well, that was finally evil enough for me to switch from Chrome to Vivaldi. This is starting to look like early-00s Internet Explorer all over again, just with a different BigCorp behind the wheel. Still need to buy a few things to make sel
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by dfcowell 8y ago
Welcome to the developing world, where the average monthly salary in major cities is lower than $1,500/mo and in minor cities is often sub-$400/mo and a $100 phone is an incredible luxury out of reach of many.
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by dfcowell 8y ago
Good problem to have. :)
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by dfcowell 8y ago
Sites and tools like this simply encourage lounge operators, vendors and airports to add captive portals or SMS verification and make getting access to wifi harder.

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