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by donatj 1y ago
We got bought out a number of years ago. We'd been pretty liberal with our code up until this point as I'm sure many tiny companies are, but our new owners were very insistent on locking down "Intellectual Property" to e
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by donatj 1y ago
We're a paid SaaS so I don't think it's as much of an annoyance to be asked once per browser. It's just a separate page you hit after signing in if we don't have your preference. You click on the language you want a
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by donatj 1y ago
We literally just have a box that pops up with "<language> (<region>)" in each of the native languages. It gets saved to a long lived cookie rather than the user's account for some business reasons.
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by donatj 1y ago
I have told the story here before, but I built a neat little system to parse Accept-Language weighing the users priorities and using the closest thing we have on offer to the users preferences. As an example, we have a Brazilian Portuguese
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by donatj 1y ago
> IMHO math in general is overrated for general purpose programming. I had plenty of math in college in the early nineties. I rarely need or use any of it. And when I do, I need to look up a lot of stuff The value isn't in knowing
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by donatj 1y ago
The search is absolutely infuriating! You search for something you 100% know exists to show someone and it just gives up after a couple videos and starts showing recommendations. Just the other day I was out at my parents house and I wanted
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by donatj 1y ago
Oh man that brings back memories of Windows 3.1 and makes me feel oh so old.
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by donatj 1y ago
I kind of miss figuring things out by myself. I am unwilling to use anything it generates that I don't completely understand so often I spend just as much time figuring out why the code it created works as I would have just writing it
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by donatj 1y ago
About ten years ago I became fascinated with the Venusian landings. I've read a fair number of books about the US space program, including the great "Failure Is Not an Option", and I was kind of surprised to not find many Eng
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by donatj 1y ago
I am usually an exceedingly rational person yet for some silly reason I had this creeping feeling for the last couple weeks I've known about the probes return that it was going to crash into my house and kill me. Very unlike me to thin
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by donatj 1y ago
My company just did a round of layoffs, large portion of the company. Part of their stated solution to the loss of man power is that we lean more heavily into AI. I don't like this ride and want off.
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by donatj 1y ago
It's second system syndrome combined with the fact that Objective C and the NeXT underpinnings were put together by a team of truly the greatest minds of a generation. Swift was put together by some great minds, and some minds, Apple s
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by donatj 1y ago
Hey! I too just filed my first Chromium bug[1]! They changed a behavior that broke opening new windows with tabs, and thus broke my advanced tab search extension Tabasco[2]. I was frankly impressed by the experience. They had me create a mi
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by donatj 1y ago
Oh, I don't disagree. Some languages clearly got better treatment by the Unicode committee than others.
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by donatj 1y ago
I feel like Turkish should have been given a different entirely separate lowercase "i" character so the pairs could be consistent, like the Greek lookalikes. Considering how historically capital letters came before lowercase it se
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by donatj 1y ago
> It was only after Ellie was offered a "last resort" analysis called metagenomics, that she was diagnosed with a rare bacterial infection which was cured with antibiotics. After five years they'd never tried a broad-spect
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by donatj 1y ago
Literally the day after I started working on moving to Valkey... That's how it goes.
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by donatj 1y ago
Many real world distractions exist. Drugs and alcohol exist, and will be part of many of these children's lives. Just because something exists in the real world doesn't mean it belongs in schools. Frankly, smartphones should be di
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by donatj 1y ago
> Thanks for taking my experience and comment seriously and challenging your preconception I'm honestly curious what you're experience level is? I've never known a developer with more than a couple years of experience valu
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by donatj 1y ago
I am always kind of a stickler about code reviews. I once had a manager tell me that I should leave more to QA with an offhand comment along the lines of "what is the worst that could happen" to which I replied without missing a b
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by donatj 1y ago
My dad got a job laying out circuit boards for Control Data in the 1980s on a Friday, knowing nothing about it. Spent the weekend in the library and started Monday morning.
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by donatj 1y ago
I would imagine most. In my experience, laws intended to catch specific bad actors usually end up being enforced mostly against the easiest-to-catch mild offenders. For example: one of my neighbors speeds like an idiot through our neighborh
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by donatj 1y ago
Many places in the United States use speed traps as revenue streams, and in many of the same places in the US it's nigh impossible to get around without a vehicle. Taking someone's license away for getting caught doing 5 over a fe
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by donatj 2y ago
We briefly had a WAF forced upon us and it caused so many problems like this we were able to turn it off, for now. I'm sure it'll be back.
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by donatj 2y ago
Is there a good alternative these days for someone that only really wants network attached storage , e.g. some drives in a box, easy RAID setup and local network access via SMB? I use my server for everything you'd use NAS Apps for. I
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by donatj 2y ago
Yep, CAS right in the BASIC on the 89 and up is a truly magical experience
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by donatj 2y ago
TI-BASIC is like this with its store operator →. I always liked it. 10→A A+10→C
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by donatj 2y ago
Could file a DMCA takedown over the license violation, or you know, just file a pull request correcting the license to include your name and explain the situation. They're technically violating the MIT license as-is.
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by donatj 2y ago
Before its fall, I had over 700 followers on Twitter. I could post any random thought and within minutes be having an interesting conversation with some rando about it. For example I pondered why phone manufacturers didn't use a p2p pr
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by donatj 2y ago
Oh hey! This is exactly what I was looking for just a couple weeks ago! I've had parts to prototype something roughly equivalent to this sitting in my cart on Amazon for a couple weeks now, but I've been very uncertain on my choic

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