eric4smith

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by eric4smith 4y ago
Yes. A big part of being a business owner is that you fall on the spectrum of being an asshole. A little bit or a lot. It takes being an asshole to do large things. And people end up hating you for it. The bigger things you do, the bigger o
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Now, a lot of people might be saying… “Hire remote”. Here’s why most companies won’t do it. 1. An employee is a big investment to non-FAANG companies. 2. Does the candidate demonstrate that they are capable of remote work? (Sorry, more than
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Immigration related to work is generally shitty in almost any country worth working in. Even in countries not worth working in. In many countries, Once your employer fires you, then you have 7 days to leave the country. Period. The US/
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Linux is just “almost” there. I could probably use it for my daily programming environment - Elixir, PostgreSQL, Vim, Firefox. But then my job takes a turn… creative. Document manipulation, convert multiple Images into a PDF, easy screensho
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Use it as one of those BitTorrent storage servers.
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Functional programming without a doubt. And everything that elixir and Erlang drags along with it. Nothing comes close as yet in terms of what one can do this this.
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Why do so many people never consider the cost of things these days? Would make for a good essay or video.
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by eric4smith 4y ago
After traveling around the world I definitely see the cheaper hotel better wifi paradox. Expensive chains require a terms of service to cover the liability of illegal goings on with use of wifi. Cheap hotels don’t really pay too much attent
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Ouch
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by eric4smith 4y ago
What about relevancy? There’s not much mention of that. I’m always on the lookout for something lightweight that improves on PostgreSQL full text.
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by eric4smith 4y ago
I'll change the title. "The Illustrated History of How Sugar Destroyed the World"
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Even if this was true... It makes perfect sense. It costs money to host these small free projects. To store them requires disk space. Someone has to pay for them.
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Very good question. I’ve been programming for just about 30 years in one shape or another and the 2 skills I wish I had learned from an early age are sales and copywriting. What I can say (as an amateur of both disciplines now) is that yes,
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by eric4smith 4y ago
I’ve worked deeply with about 9 programming languages. Not hobby level, but client work level. They did not really help me to become a better software engineer. What did? Being able to understand the business of the customer and create soft
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by eric4smith 4y ago
We have been looking at pg trigram to help improve relevancy. It does take some migration but we are looking at that as an add-on.
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Pretty much all these engines (and PG) are fast enough. Gist/Gin indexes are great and do a fine job to make millions of records searchable in very few milliseconds. The problem is accuracy. I’ve tried a few of these and accuracy is wi
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by eric4smith 4y ago
A different take on this. Somehow, the world changed so that we all feel entitled to our jobs and yes, businesses. In any human endeavor in 2022, we have to assume that nothing is going to last forever. The employee is not entitled to their
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by eric4smith 4y ago
You can actually “switch off” the website by using alternate sources. Vote with your dollars and attention. I’m sick of people trying to cancel the things that they do not like and does not affect their lives.
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Brah… What’s the problem? Wikipedia will always be free to use. Some people will always support it, others won’t. Life will go on. This is exactly like trying to cancel someone on YouTube. Just don’t watch the channel.
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Most e-mail templates can be easily coded by hand these days. E-mail clients by and large show html properly too. A few rules: 1. Inline css of course 2. Use pixels as units 3. Don’t get too fancy. I tuned out as soon as I read the word. “R
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by eric4smith 4y ago
PostgreSQL by itself is hard to put on the internet. The pg_hba file goes out or it’s way to make it difficult to even connect locally easily. Nevertheless you would do it so that your db server can be reached by the other machines. Sigh. I
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Haha that's how I felt the first time I was in the provinces and could find the Krung Thep bus. I'm living here.
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by eric4smith 4y ago
I guess. After all, your imaginary friends never argue or dissent. They never bully you. And they always agree with your opinion. You’ll be really nice. On the other hand you’ll fold the moment real life nudges you. Just a lifting weights h
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by eric4smith 4y ago
I never got into the eMacs cult. Been always a vim/vi guy. To me, using eMacs is like people in the cult of lisp: “Why isn’t lisp running the world?” (While the code in Java 8 every day) I get it, a few friends of mine actually use eMa
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by eric4smith 4y ago
“Rust is safe” is generally the same thing as saying “I like strongly typed languages”. None of that is going to save us from bad code. Some of the biggest systems that run the world are not written with either safe code nor strongly typed
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Currently learning to write Thai. For something really weird check out Burmese characters. I just can’t begin to wrap my head around it. But was Same with Thai in the beginning. Learning to read Thai was like being blind and then having the
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Well, assume you are using PHP. It’s great to work with someone who knows the ins and outs of the version they are using. What’s new and what’s deprecated. That comes from reading about the tools. Domain experience is a given. You need that
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Sure that’s why I said “not all”. But in general, for the most part, it’s a “thing”. Let me repeat, it’s not a negative at all since it’s mostly cultural. The negative only happens when you don’t understand and observe it.
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by eric4smith 4y ago
It’s just understand the cultural part of it. Once you do, you don’t see it as a negative and you can kind of observe the signs. Example, I will follow up on the developer and a task a few hours in. This will let me know if they are on poin
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by eric4smith 4y ago
#1 sign of a developer who does not work out? They do not ask enough questions. Or do not admit to not understanding something. In some cases its a cultural issue. For example working with some (not all) developers in Asia, its culturally n

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