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Git from the Inside Out (2015)(codewords.recurse.com)
195 points by dpeck 7y ago|34 comments
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by dpeck 7y ago
Much of this is due to the way that some very vocal engineers have said that they want to be treated. Look at the growth of Agile (the reality of what it is, not the manifesto, confuse those two at your peril) and the growth of the Product
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working in heat, whether from ovens/fryer, engines, or something else is so incredibly draining that its hard for people to understand unless they've done it. At the end of the day you just want a room temperature shower and a col
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by dpeck 7y ago
Exactly. Early in my career I learned that a consultant is almost never hired by an organization, a consultant is hired by a faction within an organization who already knows what they want the deliverable to be.
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Depending on how young, there’s a decent chance the answer was some variation of “chicken butt”
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The UK plug design is generally regarded as the best of the standard ones https://www.fastcompany.com/3032807/why-england-has-the-best... From my experience with some amount of traveling, I would agree that its very ni
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which in 2000 was ~ 1% of worldwide internet users.
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In any group of meaningful size you can find most any opinion you're looking for, the majority of reporting these days seems to boil down to "Person has thoughts, some others share them. Check out the ads below, to the side, and d
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by dpeck 7y ago
The number of people who have ever watched/listened to a business meeting after it occurred is vanishingly small.
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you have to put it in context, a lot of the folks reading this were the smart kids (usually ones with a chaotic bend) in their grade school. In 1995 when it was quoted in Hackers, and already 10 years old at the time, there were only about
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so much angst, but for folks around here of a certain age this brings back a lot of fond memories of a time when the internet still felt wild and limitless.
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Congratulations on the release. I like the direction that they're going and it feels like the only thing that it is missing to be able to replace the backend on a LOT of sites is being able to add some type of custom fields (simple key
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by dpeck 7y ago
“Happiest Baby on The Block” (DVD) was a blessing for having a few simple steps that generally work to calm down a newborn when none of the usual suspects like hunger, burping, poop, etc are causing it. But really the best advice you'r
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by dpeck 7y ago
It feels like this is going to end up being very similar to the melamine milk situation in China in 2008 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal
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Probably the most useful piece of software I've ever glued together was a tmuxinator script to bring up a dashboard that monitored system health using curl and displaying status of each subsystem in large red/green words using fig
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Mickey Mouse is anything but past the end of its lifetime. He and his associated characters are refreshed often. Mickey and the Roadster Racers is a relatively new show and quite popular with my own child and those of our friends, and we&#x
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Buckminster Fuller would be proud http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/chilling-domes/
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Mistakes, rewrites, late nights, firefights, and deadlines. Core dumps, memory leaks, hardware faults, and plain bad luck. Big O, data flow, always learning -- or out you go. Manager metrics, schedules hectic, methodology hegelia
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Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
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in my experience many developers want to be bricklayers (not to discount bricklaying, there's an art to it, but they're focused on the individual bricks, not the other aspects of the building). They get annoyed when they're a
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s/coffee/amphetamine/ in the case of Erdos
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| Parks exist in most urban areas and are perfect for kids to play in. Minus the used needles and other debris that litter many of them. It’s a sad state that that’s the best place people with drug problems can go, but it seems they don’t h
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by dpeck 7y ago
| I wonder how much of canned goods is new purchases versus existing purchases? I personally have gone out and bought canned goods specifically for a food drive. single data point, but I've helped unpack/sort for several different
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For one, they leveraged the speed of iolists on the BEAM very well. https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/elixir-and-io-lists-part-1...
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“that’s why they call it fishing and not catching” is a popular, if smartass, response to that.
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Hammerspoon – Powerful Automation of OS X(hammerspoon.org)
3 points by dpeck 7y ago|0 comments
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shirts can be printed on demand for less than $35 at MoQs of 1. Its not a large expense and it builds some camaraderie on a small and newly formed team. People like symbols and having artifacts from a specific time in their life. Get the ts
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They provide a curated experience in the purchasing of artifacts for the purposes of entertainment for generation alpha.
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yes. I don't play myself but have some close friends who do and for the stakes they play at (loser of the league pays for an extravagant steak/lobster dinner with high quality whiskey and wine for all players and a date) then $100
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It was talked about a lot by people who were fans of elixir/erlang but hadn't really done much work with it (these folks are increasingly common in tech, confusingly so sometimes but good). Digging deeper the line from folks using

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