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by eric_b 9y ago
It's too bad this is the case. My experience with the medical professionals in my area isn't particularly positive. Many of them just look up symptoms on some kind of medical Google and regurgitate what the screen says. I had RS
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by eric_b 9y ago
Work hard and strive towards excellence in your chosen field, and you'll succeed long term. Huh, imagine that.
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by eric_b 9y ago
That consulting arm of Elastic needs something to do :) More charitably, I can understand why they felt the need to make a hard break, but difficult upgrades plus fast release cycle means a fair bit of friction. The no downtime upgrades wil
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by eric_b 9y ago
The new sequence IDs are the most interesting things in this release I think. Having an officially supported cross datacenter replication strategy would be real nice. Lots of folks will be mad, but removing multiple mapping types is a nice
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by eric_b 9y ago
The financial crisis delayed the usual process of marriage, having children, and house buying for millenials. Instead of doing it in their mid/late 20's, they held off until late 20's/early 30s. Everyone likes to be you
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by eric_b 9y ago
Minneapolis spends an obscene amount per pupil on students, with the number getting HIGHER in the bad districts: http://www.startribune.com/where-minneapolis-public-schools-... North Minneapolis has bad outcomes not because
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by eric_b 9y ago
Angular 2 will not help your team deliver valuable web experiences to customers any more quickly or reliably than Angular 1. Probably almost certainly the opposite. I'd argue most teams, if they're willing to go all-in on an SPA
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by eric_b 9y ago
I agree with the author of the article to an extent - there's lots of things about Uncle Bob's advice I don't care for. But... I agree with Uncle Bob's take that discipline is lacking in software development today. It&
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by eric_b 9y ago
Security people like to paint this as a binary choice, then inevitably siding with "disclose immediately". But it's not really is it? Why do we put locks on our doors? It's not so that career hardened cat burglars can&
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by eric_b 9y ago
I'm surprised to see adjunct's make so little. When I was in school the full-time professor's salaries were public (since it was a public university). They were all making over 100k/year, and this was some time ago. M
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by eric_b 9y ago
Yep, basic consumer staple price inflation is something I never see addressed with any satisfaction when people are talking about UBI. Housing prices and rent will assuredly rise proportionally to the basic income amount if this were to be
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by eric_b 9y ago
I dunno, I'd rather use "vanilla" React/Redux/JSX than try and get those tools to fit with custom elements, shadow DOM and the html import/template stuff. The web components specs look poorly thought out to me.
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I do not believe Web Components will stop framework churn. The big problem I have with web components is that they aren't very useful. Everyone seems to think the component is the key to victory with modern web applications. It'
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by eric_b 9y ago
Yep, exactly the same for me as well. I finally tried his "treatment" after everything else I tried failed, and was shocked to find it worked.
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by eric_b 9y ago
This article doesn't have one mention of TMS or the work that John Sarno did? That is borderline irresponsible. Read "Healing Back Pain: The Mind Body Connection" by Jon Sarno.[1] I lived with chronic knee pain for over 8 yea
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by eric_b 9y ago
I see this argument a lot but I don't think it's necessarily a good one. If a third party CDN goes down, your site is down. A few extra ms in initial download isn't so bad compared to having your site be completely inaccessi
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by eric_b 9y ago
Why do people think a 12 week course will make a non-technical person ready for a junior developer role? Most developers I know have years of deep experience with computers before becoming professional programmers. (Things like fixing driv
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by eric_b 9y ago
Sounds like you'd already made up your mind about Rod, and weren't keen to hear the other side. I, on the other hand, was curious to read his version of things so I'm glad he took the time to offer a detailed reply. After re
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by eric_b 9y ago
Was "Polemic" in your word of the day email or something? Anyways, Rod's character is being assassinated on the internet. Prospective employers could Google his name and all they'll see is one side of things, unless he
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by eric_b 9y ago
Whenever I see Ayo I think of the Chris Brown/Tyga song. Pretty sure that isn't the kind of lyrical content they would support though... but it does make me smirk a bit every time I read it. Edit: Not a lot of Chris Brown fans on
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by eric_b 9y ago
Recently I've moved away from Sublime. The irritating modal dialogs about updates and the new tabs package manager would create all the time were just too much. For most coding I've switched to VS Code, and for simple light edit
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by eric_b 9y ago
Just an FYI you can play on Sonos directly from Spotify now - that was a huge game changer for me.
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by eric_b 9y ago
We see this in the Midwestern part of the US too. I've worked at several large Midwestern companies who created a Silicon Valley presence so they could "innovate" or "disrupt", or whatever. None of those satellite
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by eric_b 9y ago
Uh what? If the request was appropriately formatted, not too large, and generally acceptable to the server from a transport perspective, why shouldn't it succeed with a 200? Error handling is an application level concern, not a tran
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by eric_b 9y ago
Hrmm, this is an interesting observation. In general I'm not a huge fan of Kent Beck or Uncle Bob as I've felt that their zealotry for "clean code" gets in the way of them actually creating valuable software. I've
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by eric_b 9y ago
The corollary to this is to never solve the problem at the wrong level. It's always a recipe for pain when you, say, have a data issue and you decide you'll solve it with some clever code. Or perhaps you have a fundamental des
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by eric_b 9y ago
It sounds like you guys made the right moves - trying promises first until that fell apart, and then carefully picking a new path forward. My comment was mainly intended as a "cautionary tale" for those folks who get really excite
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by eric_b 9y ago
The put/call/takeLatest/takeEvery effects, coupled with all the yields made things impossible to grok for the less seasoned folks. Even for me, having seen some similar things before with other libraries in other languages,
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by eric_b 9y ago
I worked on a fairly large and high traffic React app. It had some complicated async flows, so the team moved from redux-thunk to sagas. The claims that testability is improved do not ring true to me. Some of those tests were just awful t
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I've still not seen any AI that really gets me excited. Google Now does some neat things - but if the home automation products from Amazon and Google are representative of the state-of-the-art - we have an awful long way to go before

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