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by erichurkman 6y ago
Given how much the courts rely on case law, court records should be as free and publicly indexed as statutes are.
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by erichurkman 6y ago
In the future, just use https://mjml.io/ . Yes, the HTML it generates is god-awful-ugly, but it does generate responsive emails that render very nicely in almost every client back to Outlook 2010.
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by erichurkman 6y ago
The same product but different names and SKUs is a game the mattress industry plays very well which keeps prices elevated and the 'price match guarantee' game impossible to win for consumers.
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by erichurkman 6y ago
Until someone in design or marketing changes the font on you.
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by erichurkman 6y ago
It's used not just by spammers, but by sales reps, too. Dell recently did this to about half a dozen people on my team. 'Q2 Budget Review', which sounds official, but is really a Dell rep trying to sell you junk that magicall
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by erichurkman 6y ago
> and then sent the key to a well-known white-hat security researcher Would you like it if someone involved you in adjudicating potentially illegal (under CFAA & others) without your consent? This is clearly not a white hat hacker lo
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by erichurkman 6y ago
What about an alternate for these 'platform script includes' like Twilio and Stripe: <script src="..." report-integrity="https://cdn.stripe.com/report"> in which clients compute th
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by erichurkman 6y ago
A true CSS+HTML-powered print renderer is PrinceXML. https://www.princexml.com/samples/ Having used it for over a decade, it's a wonderful tool.
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by erichurkman 6y ago
I have a standard preface to start a live coding or technical session with a candidate to account for this. I look up stuff all the time, and expecting candidates to not do so is cruel. > We're going to go through a few technical ex
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by erichurkman 6y ago
If they had capital to begin with. If this is some individual hacker without much for means, swiping $100k of BTC in a potentially narrow window when a security vulnerability is in place is greater than $0 while trying to line up capital an
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by erichurkman 6y ago
+1 for date-fns. It's not uncommon to look at a downloads in a JavaScript bundle to find out Moment — and its timezone and localization files — are a huge percentage of a download for a single `moment.format()` call.
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by erichurkman 6y ago
There are already a number of opinionated issue trackers, like Clubhouse and Pivotal Tracker.
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by erichurkman 6y ago
> They just aren't allowed to have party affiliations Unfortunately wrong. https://ballotpedia.org/Partisan_election_of_judges
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by erichurkman 6y ago
M of N signatures on new version tags, or on ranges of commits?
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by erichurkman 6y ago
Counter-Counterpoint: if Microsoft made updates painless, users would notice them less, and defer them less, and be more up to date/secure. Updates are highly disruptive. An update happening at the wrong time forever taints a user&#x27
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by erichurkman 6y ago
Feedback: the screen shots showing how it works advance much too quickly. It's impossible to spot the helper text, look at the screen, and get any context before it flips. Image carrousels with important information are a poor UX.
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by erichurkman 6y ago
And in those large reformat commits, add a file like `.git-ignore-revs-file` that is checked in, so you can configure git to ignore that revision and pretend it never existed: [blame] ignoreRevsFile = ".git-ignore-revs-file
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by erichurkman 6y ago
Windows XP even before SP2 was a _delight_ compared to the true train wreck that shipped on consumer PCs before it: Windows "Mistake Edition" Me.
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by erichurkman 6y ago
Don't forget to account for planned obsolescence. If a fridge lasts 10 years, what happens when GE stops producing those filters? You start looking at new fridges. The GE fridge pissed you off, so you upgrade to Fisher & Paykel… tu
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by erichurkman 6y ago
Your preferred language's debugger. It really does show in coding interviews who has control over their environment and can debug rapidly. It doesn't matter if it's rudimentary pdb (basic python debugger) or LLdb, understandi
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by erichurkman 6y ago
We rolled out https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nod-reactions-for-... to all of our devices. The quick 'raise hand' button is great for what you're looking for.
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by erichurkman 6y ago
Does anyone know what an insurance agent makes? If I go to my local State Farm office to get a home owners policy, what is the cut that goes to the local office/agent?
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by erichurkman 6y ago
I wonder why they didn't just adopt it as a fictitious entry? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry
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by erichurkman 6y ago
Maven Clinic | Infrastructure, Engineering, React Native | New York, NY | REMOTE | https://www.mavenclinic.com What we do: provide high-quality personalized care using care advocates and telehealth / telemedicine for women
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by erichurkman 6y ago
> The Target experience is great even if they don’t have the same selection Amazon does. Sometimes this is nice. If I'm buying paper towels, I don't need to be overwhelmed with 800 options.
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by erichurkman 6y ago
Maybe that's why Welch said to measure against GE's future leaders if they are destined to forever underperform the S&P. :)
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by erichurkman 6y ago
To read that quote differently: 1981 • Jack Welch becomes CEO • $1.29 2001 • Jack Welch retires • $37.20 (down from its peak of near $60.00 in mid 2000) 2020 • Nearly 20 years post Jack Welch • $6.28. 20 years of Jack Welch - +2,800% increa
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by erichurkman 6y ago
This is the same reason I offer candidates remote screen share-based technical assessments. Part of what makes an effective engineer is mastery over tools: by putting you into Coderpad or Hacker Rank type tools, I'm handicapping you. N
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by erichurkman 6y ago
This was a lot more fun before Github started collapsing directories of one item!
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by erichurkman 6y ago
Now how can we reclaim `onpaste` events? If I'm in an input box and paste text, are there any legit use cases of _blocking_ paste of text in text entry fields?

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