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by duggan 2y ago
I suppose "flowery" is open to interpretation, but generally I mean those occasions where it looks like someone is randomly choosing from a thesaurus for every other adverb. Anyway, I don't think it's in any danger of di
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by duggan 2y ago
> And while I'm comfortable writing in English, I'm not a native speaker and it probably shows. Getting from alright to good is a lot of work and the bar is extremely high For what it's worth, at least from this comment, I
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by duggan 2y ago
Ok, you’re building a service that scrapes e.g., property rental websites to find entries that are trying to scam naive renters. The property websites are incompetent to solve the problem, or don’t care, but either way they sure don’t want
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by duggan 2y ago
Love the source available API proxy, that’s a useful component on its own! A little disappointed to see that most of the really good stuff is not available for self-hosting, but an IPaaS/Unified API is a not the kind of project one tin
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by duggan 2y ago
Agreed, there are plenty of small companies out there. Early startups, pre or early product-market-fit, etc. Mostly can't afford to pay large salaries. Need people who are interested and self-motivated. Willing to be flexible in variou
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by duggan 3y ago
Plenty of exceptions to that – broadly speaking, oligopolies, but generally anywhere with low competition like the only convenience store in a locality, rural broadband, etc. There is no perfect competition, supply doesn't perfectly me
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by duggan 3y ago
You can deal with the world either how you wish it were, or how it is. The reality is that bureaucracies are full of humans – and we all know how humans are.
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by duggan 3y ago
I've been using ssh for a long time and somehow it's never occurred to me that hostnames would autocomplete, hah. Every day is a school day.
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by duggan 3y ago
One that springs to mind is one I "started" on Friday, but other people finished on Saturday[1]. Started in quotes because my contribution was combining an existing project that was about to fail due to capacity issues with the in
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by duggan 3y ago
git is fundamentally a sort of database. If people think about it as having a not-dissimilar level of complexity, use cases, and users to Postgres, the complexity shouldn't be too surprising. Like anything used by a lot of people to so
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by duggan 3y ago
"The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself"[1]: 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI
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by duggan 3y ago
With a bit of coaxing I managed to get this running on my M2 mac with Python 3.11. Updated setup.py (mostly just bumping versions), and demo output: https://gist.github.com/duggan/63b7de9b5f6e8e74fe4b05af64dbe...
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by duggan 3y ago
These articles almost always include evidence to suggest that ageism is categorically "bad business", and every time I'm left wondering why older workers aren't taking advantage of this apparent industry blindspot to bui
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by duggan 3y ago
Just to follow up, we’re discussing advice to young teenagers here. I think it’s reasonable to inspire more than hedge. They’ll presumably already hear lots about what the least risky things to do are from many, many sources — that’s the de
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by duggan 3y ago
I don't disagree that luck is a factor, but what can you do with that information other than console yourself when it doesn't work out?
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by duggan 3y ago
I misremembered, as @wiredfool mentions, it’s Netatalk https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk
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by duggan 3y ago
Agreed on all fronts. I’m curious about their share server setup; my solution would probably be a Debian server exposing AppleTalk. I’ve used that to transfers files between a G3 iMac and an M2 MacBook :) However, this sounds like maybe one
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by duggan 3y ago
I dunno, it sounds like he's as self-made as it gets. Immigrant family, worked in Denny's, got an electrical engineering degree, founded Nvidia. I don't mind dunking on the disconnected rich who luck their way into fortune, b
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by duggan 3y ago
I’m afraid this is also a case of ochre-tinted helm — girls will bully each other even if their liege lord fully equips them.
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by duggan 3y ago
Corporations have been perfectly capable of incompetence for quite some time without any special emphasis on inclusivity.
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by duggan 3y ago
That's quite thought provoking! I don't agree with you on that code isn't valuable – it varies by product complexity, essentiality of the software as part of the business, etc. – but in of itself is the distillation of solved
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by duggan 3y ago
Do you carry this philosophy through to your professional life? As in, do you only work for companies that produce open source software? If so it's an admirable stance, and I hope you're successful. I imagine it's tricky (or
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by duggan 3y ago
"Computer says no"[1] has been a hallmark of bureaucracy for some time. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0YGZPycMEU
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by duggan 3y ago
Not likely. Large companies do not make these sorts of decisions based on fear of bugs. They make them based on revenue, strategic advantage, etc. Can you imagine any hard-charging SV CEO saying "actually it might be a bit buggy or muc
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by duggan 3y ago
Something vaguely Timecube.com[1] about the presentation style. 1: https://web.archive.org/web/20160112000701/http://www.timecu...
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by duggan 3y ago
Obviously it greatly depends on what you're doing. If you're using a relational database as a glorified key-value store for offline or batch processing of a few hundred megabytes of data, sure. Hell, just serialize and unserialize
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by duggan 3y ago
I assume their version involves another individual unaffiliated with government or private industry taking their hand, gazing meaningfully into their eyes, and tearfully proclaiming “I see you” before letting them through the border or into
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by duggan 3y ago
Never hiring anyone who isn't a good fit or will become a poor fit is a very high bar to set. Regardless, Salesforce is large enough that if they're not encountering your hypothetical rare scenario every now and then then it seems
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by duggan 3y ago
It also depend on what requirements your business has and who you have available. The skillets are different and they overlap in places, but one way or the other if your business is growing your operations requirements will grow. I am hugel
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by duggan 3y ago
Reasonable professionals can disagree – strongly – without being part of a conspiracy.

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