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by eric_b 9y ago
I like that they are taking the deprecation of the lifecycle methods slowly. And the automated script to migrate to the 'UNSAFE' version of those methods in 17 is a nice touch. I don't know if I love the new context API, but
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by eric_b 9y ago
I'm not sure I understand this article's tone as it relates to China. They make it sound as though the evil US intelligence agencies are hurting US consumers just for funzies. I don't think it's unreasonable to assume t
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by eric_b 9y ago
I've had a dormant FB account for years. I don't like the site and I never add content. I believe that social media has become a net detractor to quality-of-life for many (most?) humans who use it. I think Mark Zuckerberg is eit
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by eric_b 9y ago
The Uber car was a Volvo XC90. They are supposed to have some of the best pedestrian avoidance safety features in existence. My understanding is that a stock Volvo would be expected to catch this situation and avoid or stop. Did Uber ove
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by eric_b 9y ago
Oh I wouldn't count on that. I'm not sure in this case, but PE usually has a way to "win" even if the company does not. https://foragerfunds.com/bristlemouth/dick-smith-is-the-grea...
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by eric_b 9y ago
Yeah, I'm not opposed to HTTPS. In fact, the reason I get frustrated is because, like you, I've dealt with it at scale for years. I agree it should be used most places, but what about static documentation sites? What about blog
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by eric_b 9y ago
But why did it make you so angry? My guess is because my viewpoint is completely unfathomable to you. You can't even believe that someone would advocate for it. In situations like that, I always try and put myself in the shoes of th
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by eric_b 9y ago
> Those devs are gonna be really surprised when they find out that unencrypted connections are routinely tampered with. Except most big orgs now employ MitM tools like BlueCoat to sniff SSL connections too. > You have not been paying
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by eric_b 9y ago
I'll happily pay money to get a cert that expires in 3 years instead of 90 days. Some of us don't feel like faffing about with cert renewal every quarter. (I know there are tools and clients that can "make it seamless"
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by eric_b 9y ago
The SSL zealotry drives me nuts. The infosec community screams constantly about "HTTPS everywhere", but they either don't know or don't care about all the effort and pain they're creating for developers who just wa
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by eric_b 9y ago
I totally agree with you, but I'd add one additional thought. While being born in a first world country is a huge leg up - I think it assumes you're raised by a competent single parent or reasonably competent parent s . Having pa
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by eric_b 9y ago
The more I hear about the inner workings of Google, the less impressed I am. It seems their vaunted hiring process has let in folks who specialize more at internal politicking than getting things done. It doesn't take too many of tho
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by eric_b 9y ago
You're conflating Wall Street and public companies with capitalism. Thousands of small businesses provide excellent livelihoods for their owners with predictable stable income as you suggest. Until the media started harping about VC a
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by eric_b 9y ago
To add to this - people often equate energy with productivity. I see a lot of comments saying "it was the most productive I've ever been in my life". As someone who's been on both sides, I used to believe stimulants gra
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by eric_b 9y ago
I've lived in cities - they typically failed to provide better services than lower density suburbs, despite having a bigger tax base and "efficiencies". There are many reasons for this, but cities do not become magically mor
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by eric_b 9y ago
I work two jobs. I work 60 hours a week. I still find time to go to the gym 6 hours a week and walk my dog 6 hours a week. You know how I do it? I don't binge watch Netflix. In fact I don't watch any TV at all. I make exerci
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by eric_b 9y ago
They have less income to spend. This has mostly negative consequences. Lower economic stimulation is the most obvious. Of course, less income means other things too. Young men are living at home with their parents for longer, or in flop
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by eric_b 9y ago
Someone still has to plant, grow and harvest the crops to make the food you eat. Someone still has to ensure the sewers work, the garbage is picked up etc. Most necessary jobs will not be done by robots for decades if ever. And they certa
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by eric_b 9y ago
I don't understand the self-loathing that is so popular these days. Somehow we've convinced a generation of perfectly decent human beings that they are "exploiting" the weak and that their "privilege" is oppre
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by eric_b 9y ago
Meh, it's not really very serious in the average case. It's a lot of sky-is-falling rhetoric from the infosec community. Remember Heartbleed and how it was end-of-times bad? Yeah, turned out to be a non-event. Information disc
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by eric_b 9y ago
Prediction: This will be just like any vulnerability disclosure. The infosec people and media will scream hysterically about how game changingly bad it is. The OS vendors will patch, and business will go on as usual.
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by eric_b 9y ago
Is it really this bad in Portland? (I've never been) Based on the number of people moving there and the hype, I can't believe open defecation and rampant crime are tolerated? Is it really so bad? (And is it getting worse?)
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by eric_b 9y ago
As someone who wears jeans and t-shirts to work almost exclusively, this comes off as old fashioned and probably not terribly topical anymore. That said, he's not entirely wrong. What you wear absolutely affects how other people perce
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by eric_b 9y ago
> A goal for this project was to prove to ourselves that we actually could run production code in Kubernetes, to learn about how much work operating Kubernetes actually is, and to lay the groundwork for moving more things to Kubernetes i
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by eric_b 9y ago
I agree with you, and this is a hard lesson to learn. But I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing. Software should really only be measured by the value it provides. If a terribly buggy piece of poorly written code still saves
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by eric_b 9y ago
At what point do we hold people accountable? If a $10 fully refunded deposit is an insurmountable challenge (which, at least in the US does not at all apply to "many" people.) what would work? We can't just allow people who
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by eric_b 9y ago
Maybe these people want to leave because they realize they aren't adding value? I've worked in many Fortune 500's with "data science" or "big data" teams. These are well staffed, very expensive teams that
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by eric_b 9y ago
The 7k price would be for good land with quality soil and a high Corn Suitability Rating. But yes, 7k+ is certainly normal for Iowa. (The surrounding midwest states like MN, ND, IL and WI would be lower - in the 1-4k/acre price)
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by eric_b 9y ago
But I'm not talking about hospitals. I'm talking about clinics filled with general practitioners, dermatologists etc.
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by eric_b 9y ago
If I hire a web application developer who says they are proficient in JavaScript, I expect them to be able to get moving without checking documentation constantly. Certainly they should check it to confirm a hypothesis or to jog their memo

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