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by donatj 2y ago
In around the year 2000, for career day I went to work with my uncle. He worked in IT for General Mills. Their office was very much a stereotypical poorly lit IT cave in the basement. All their computers were a constant barrage of custom po
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by donatj 2y ago
I 100% believe it. I had a Windows 2000 smb/file server run for over 3 years uninterrupted until there was a power outage.
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by donatj 2y ago
It's all data you chose to share publicly. I wouldn't have put myself on the map if I hadn't been comfortable doing so.
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by donatj 2y ago
That is a misinterpretation of what was said. I did not say all complexity is needless nor did I claim to have the one panacea. I presented my story of how we've actively kept our architecture simple, and noted we've had very few
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by donatj 2y ago
No. YAGNI In my time at my current job we've scaled PHP MySQL and Redis from a couple hundred active users to several hundred-thousand concurrent users. EC2+ELB, RDS (Aurora, Elasticache). Shell script to build a release tarball. Shell
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by donatj 2y ago
They're having a little bit of an identity crisis and chasing VSCode users in a dumb way, by imitating it right down to its UI. If I wanted to use VSCode, I would. It's free. I pay for JetBrains tools because they're better t
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by donatj 2y ago
I had posted this as well before realizing you had beaten me to it! For the uninitiated, this is a seminal and oft cited Go talk "Concurrency is not Parallelism" by Rob Pike - well worth your time for anyone, even outside the Go c
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by donatj 2y ago
> If they're smart they'll either nationalize the company to remove the profit inefficiency So... remove the need to actually produce planes, or anything at all for that matter, subsidize their continued failures?
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by donatj 2y ago
For what it's worth, I don't think not having a masters degree would be an impediment to job progression, but it sounds like you might want one and are just looking for a reason.
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by donatj 2y ago
Every time I see a soldering iron use a 3.5mm headphone jack for the tips, some dark dumb part of my brain wants to plug a pair of headphones into it to see what happens.
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by donatj 2y ago
I've lived here my whole life and still don't understand. I'll need to reread the article a few times for that I suspect.
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by donatj 2y ago
Are people still using Balsamiq?! I haven't heard that name in literally forever. I used to use it and love it like fifteen years ago when I fancied myself a designer and not just a backend dev.
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by donatj 2y ago
Something like half of of reported JavaScript vulnerabilities are "prototype pollution" because It's very common practice to write to object keys blindly, using objects as a dictionary, without considering the implications. I
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by donatj 2y ago
I have written PHP for a living for the last 20 years and that eval just pains me to no end eval($var . '="' . str_replace('"', '\\\\"', $itm) . '";'); Why? Dear god why.
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by donatj 2y ago
We did. I built a parser for the header weights and what not. It was a fun project and I thought the results were really slick. It was also easily overridden by a very large language picker in our footer. This override choice is remembered
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by donatj 2y ago
I've been a pretty happy Otto[1] user for a number of years now. The article makes no comparisons seemingly? I don't think there's even a never. I find that pretty odd. I'm curious if there'd be any reason to switch
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by donatj 2y ago
Let me ask you this in all seriousness and with minimal snark - do you confiscate employees paper notebooks when they leave the company?
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by donatj 2y ago
Yeah, almost certainly. We had looked into enabling branch detection several years ago, but it had slowed our suite down to the point where we were not sure it was worth it. Maybe worth looking into again. I do generally like that technique
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by donatj 2y ago
You can get as many eyes as you want on all changes. I don't think it will help much. This sort of thing usually happens because of a change in something completely benign, rather than "security-critical changes". We recently
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by donatj 2y ago
What good is a high paying job in a high cost area? You'd have the same or better outcome with a lower paying job in a lower cost area.
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by donatj 2y ago
Overlooking complaints of lack of backlighting, the Panic Playdate's screen IMHO is its stand out feature. It's a "Sharp Memory LCD" which has the appearance of e-ink and shares it's ability to continue to display a
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by donatj 2y ago
Why live in the Bay Area?
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by donatj 2y ago
I really wish you could see this in the context of the prior decade when the economy was relatively stable.
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by donatj 2y ago
We basically have tunnel just to get our work done. We host a number of services in China, serving the Chinese market, and our corporate firewall blocks our own access to them despite numerous requests to IT to resolve the issue. We just us
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by donatj 2y ago
I've been writing SQL for something like 25 years and always thought the columns being SELECTed should have come last, not first. Naming your sources before what you're trying to get from them to me at least makes much more logica
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by donatj 2y ago
Is the correct interpretation, reading between the lines that the original Mono project is being retired, and basically put on life support?
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by donatj 2y ago
> A former marketing employee at Nvidia told Bloomberg News that she would often attend up to 10 meetings per day I'd hardly call sitting in meetings all day "work" in the classic sense
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by donatj 2y ago
Our current and our previous major insurance companies both have covered therapists listed along side other types of doctors on their website. Made it super easy for us to find one. My wife saw one literally in walking distance from our hou
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by donatj 2y ago
Never really been much of a problem. I will say that OpenDyslexic is one of the hardest to read I have ever tried though.
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by donatj 2y ago
I had a heck of a time reading as a kid. I was taught just to sound every single word out and reading a chapter book took me literally forever. Beyond the time factor, my comprehension was terrible because in taking the time to sound every

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