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by dlandis 9y ago
> There have been a lot of times in other jobs where we'd have a slack in our schedule and I used the down time to make a change that was really necessary and took a minimal amount of time, mentioned it in a standup meeting, and got
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by dlandis 9y ago
Does anyone know what the license is for this software? It looks like there are NINE different license files in the repo: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc Did they just copy paste every different license the
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by dlandis 9y ago
> Business types with none to little engineering experience should never, under any circumstances, manage engineers In my experience as a developer at a bunch of different companies, the worst managers have actually been the opposite --
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by dlandis 9y ago
As a semi-outsider to the frontend and node development worlds, it continues to surprise me that a viable alternative to npm still hasn't come along. Not trying to pile more hate on npm, but there's been many years of complaints a
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by dlandis 9y ago
> Where else are you going to connect up with old friends and remote family members? Wait, are you really suggesting that Facebook is the only way to keep in touch with old friends and remote family?
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by dlandis 9y ago
It doesn't even seem close to DBeaver at this point, but who knows how it will progress. DBeaver is Java-based but still runs very fast on my Mac. Definitely the best db client I've used in years.
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by dlandis 9y ago
I'm curious how big the ramifications for Bitcoin will be if the majority of Tether tokens are proven to be fraudulent and Binfinex collapses (which doesn't seem that unlikely at this point).
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by dlandis 9y ago
> The most important thing here is that there's now a serious plan in place to move Thunderbird off of XUL and XPCOM. Well it is only a six month contract for a single developer.
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by dlandis 9y ago
As someone who randomly highlights words and lines when they read, I can't stand sites like Medium that display that annoying toolbar with the Twitter icon every time you highlight something. Terrible UX in my opinion.
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by dlandis 9y ago
I'm always so confused by the nomenclature in homebrew. Even beyond all the beer terminology, I'm still not sure what the difference between update and upgrade is. The docs simply defines upgrade in terms of itself: "Upgrade
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by dlandis 9y ago
> One of the problems with Tinder is its nebulous ethos. It's not a really a problem though because people can indicate for themselves in their profiles, either explicitly or implicitly, what type of relationship they are looking fo
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by dlandis 9y ago
How do digital nomads deal with paying income taxes (assuming they are programming or freelancing along the way)?
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by dlandis 9y ago
Just to clarify, you feel it’s “justifiable” to inflict permanent hearing loss indiscriminately on a crowd after some officers have deemed the crowd unruly?
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by dlandis 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
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by dlandis 9y ago
It kind of reminds me of what Uber decided to do in their UberEats app, which is organize restaurants by how long delivery will take and not say anything about how many miles away the restaurant is or what its address is. You can't sor
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by dlandis 9y ago
> J9 must be combined with OpenJDK to be able to run apps. No IBM has its own full JDK that you can download, but the rest of it other than the JVM is not being open sourced at this time. That's my understanding at least.
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by dlandis 9y ago
I wonder why the author split up the Python program into functions but left the Bash program as just a single blob of code.
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by dlandis 9y ago
And yet those comments are making more substantive points than yours. You are just expressing disbelief.
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by dlandis 9y ago
Yep, totally agree. It is total insanity to me that they allow many of their most interesting and popular questions to be locked by mods just because they involve a little subjectivity. Allowing the questions to remain open wouldn't ha
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by dlandis 9y ago
> A server side website has to bring down the 20K page again and again as the user navigates through your site. Caching or web server configuration makes no difference here. Browser caching, not server-side caching. The browser doesn&#x2
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by dlandis 9y ago
I believe some of the larger companies negotiate special/alternative licenses with them though.
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by dlandis 9y ago
> * Run a Patreon (Vue). Pro: you have autonomy and recurring revenue (yay!). Con: now you're a personality. This is limited to celebs who are good at marketing _themselves_ as much as their software I don't see this one as nec
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by dlandis 9y ago
Wow, that's a strangely aggressive reply from one of the contributors on that thread. And then he said: > 99% of the time these hash changes are innocent That's actually not very good at all and proves they shouldn't just
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by dlandis 9y ago
iText PDF is a popular Java library that does this: http://itextpdf.com/Pricing
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by dlandis 9y ago
If you limited yourself to a small set of HTML though and kept the structure simple, then it probably wouldn't be much less readable than a Markdown document.
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by dlandis 10y ago
> I actually don't think that's the most common thing we give a "no hire" for. Can you cite any of the more common things you give no hires for?
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by dlandis 10y ago
Personally, I haven't heard anything about renewed debates related to Spring vs. JEE in many years. And if you read the Gartner report in question[1], it's not about that at all. Hmm. Maybe I'm just cynical, but when I saw he
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by dlandis 10y ago
> You can only hurt yourself by giving a number. That's far too big of a generalization and I think it's easier to talk about specific scenarios. The parent comment alluded to a quite common counterexample: 1. salary range for
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by dlandis 10y ago
He mentions using the imperative mood for the subject line, but doesn't anyone else think it makes more sense and sounds better to use the present tense, e.g. Opens the pod bay doors Instead of Open the pod bay doors ?
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by dlandis 10y ago
Articles like this make me miss the old nyt. It was so comforting to have a publication you could trust, a paper of record. Those days are long gone. Nowadays, the constant, desperate obsession with controlling and manipulating the narrativ

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