eric4smith

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by eric4smith 4y ago
The worst part about all these node modules is the little small silly ones that do something really inane - like to just get the current year. I said the same thing about some ruby gems years ago and thankfully that’s a little bit sane now.
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by eric4smith 4y ago
In my opinion this will negate the negotiation prowess of savvy employees. A big reason for salary disparities in the same positions is that some people simply negotiate better. It also does not account for more experienced candidates. I gu
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Mmmmm…. You’re very literal here. It’s clear I mean fail more quickly and easily. Of course everything eventually ends.
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Ostracizing sex work has always been the case for thousands of years in every successful culture and religion. In fact, cultures that allowed widespread open sex work have always failed. (No, Amsterdam’s red light district is not “widesprea
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by eric4smith 4y ago
"A dollar a pound". A few decades ago this was in the headlines on CNN if I remember correctly. But really, there is no real reason for the GBP to be worth more than the dollar in the last few decades. The UK is a bit of a **hole,
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by eric4smith 4y ago
As an employer.... I think they just want people who will show up and work diligently in the working hours. People who don't need too much supervision. People who have common sense. People who have street smarts. People who can figure
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by eric4smith 4y ago
This is true. But you should probably maybe ignore most of it. Because there is more shared between us than we want to admit. I was talking to some guy here in Bangkok recently last night. He's Jewish and I'm Jamaican. It turns ou
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by eric4smith 4y ago
20 Million dollars per year. This should be the thing that starts every conversation. Because IT WORKS for the intended purpose. Someone else said it. Put everything in source control first. And just fix things that directly impact that 20
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Best advice so far.
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by eric4smith 4y ago
We always prefer natural everything. Don’t be dramatic.
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by eric4smith 4y ago
We are put on the earth to reproduce. In general, women like taller men. Ergo… some guys with the means are gonna try to get taller. However they will be sorely disappointed as to get with the ladies one has to have a lot more going for him
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Comparison is useful. Because it shows you where are are and where you could go. Life is endless comparisons. It’s like asking me to lose weight without knowing what a skinny (or fatter) person looks like. Life is also endless competition.
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Yes, because people here love motorcycles. They're faster than bicycles and no effort needed for pedaling. Actually, I always (humorously) say that Thai people really don't like to walk. All my Thai friends just to go a hundred me
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by eric4smith 4y ago
It's all one. The big difference is that drivers respect pedestrians, motorbikes and bicycles as having the right of way here the majority of the time. So bike lanes would be nice, but not so necessary.
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Years ago wrote a language agnostic task queue in PHP. Now Elixir with Genservers that can handle proper concurrency and back pressure is trivial. One of the best is Oban, which uses PostgreSQL for the queue storage. No more celery, Redis o
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Just bought a bike in Bangkok. To be honest it sat in my living room for a week because of the fear of riding it on these most dangerous streets. (Bangkok has bad reputation for accidents worldwide). But today I took it out. I rode to work
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Html + CSS + Javascript in 2022 is mostly what you need. Unless your job is going to require a framework, it’s really not necessary. Maybe I’m the old curmudgeon who is more concerned about putting out something that works and get customers
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Unless you’re teaching don’t waste your time. To me it smells like a vanity play, unless you’re doing it so you can get another 100k per year. And yes, I can hear the people saying education is always a good thing to have. But it reminds me
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Hahahaha... everyone know what when someone says "I will look into it", it means there will be absolutely no action taken. hahahahahahahahaha
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Yes. Mainly to cascade delete though, since we were robust enough to insert proper data. This was spurred on in new projects because in a very very large older project with many many tables we had problems with orphaned records. (PostgreSQL
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Wow. People are so soft these days. I remember taking an entry exam for university back in my home country. A few hundred people in a boiler room. It was brutally hard. I probably failed. No one complained. You just got up off your butt, du
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Points for the syntax and speed. However it really needs a bit of “wow” factor to take off. We’ve used it here and there in dribs and drabs but don’t see a reason to use it in a new project when there is Elixir and/or Rust. Elixir brin
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Brah chill out. Just because the Pr0n industry overwhelmingly uses PHP does not mean People should not use PHP. Bad people use good tools too.
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Been running some Facebook Lead ads recently. The ads are designed to run on both Facebook and Instagram. (Facebook owns Instagram) The lead reports show where they are coming from. Overwhelmingly from Instagram. I think we got about 20% of
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Not too long ago I was going through applicants for a developer we were hiring and I asked him if he knew SQL. He said no. I asked "why". And he said there is no need, because the ORM is enough. (He has been coding for a few years
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by eric4smith 4y ago
This is because Articulate people relay concepts in a simple way. Even if its something that is well known by almost everyone... the person who can say it the simplest will almost all the time assist in amplifying the loudest. It's the
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Obesity. Covid literally attacks obese people. And obese people also are at huge risk. I'm overweight and I was literally frightened during covid. Now I lift weights every day and work on my diet very hard. But we are literally ignorin
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Not necessary. As I said, we are not at all a critical service. If we are down an hour, it's not a big deal (like 95% of the rest of the inter-webs). We are not banksters. If it goes down, we get a page, and we can have it switched by
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Just standard replication on 2 other nodes. We don’t have huge constant loads. Over-provisioned on massive bare metal so we can take a lot. Also daily pg_basebackup which does not eat too many resources. Standard pg_dump is impossible. Abou
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by eric4smith 4y ago
We are running pg11 for fairly big databases (almost terabyte size data directory). I was waiting to upgrade to pg12 then 13 then 14. With this change I seriously think I’ll just upgrade to 15 at the end of the year.

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