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by fatnoah 4y ago
> Cursor.getColumnIndex(String columnName) It's amazing how performance killing patterns transcend the operating environment. I remember profiling a loop-intensive .NET app many years ago and noticed a massive number of framework-l
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> So a kid will always prefer to use a tablet than visit their fun friends or do something exciting? I'm sure it varies from kid to kid, but my (now) 15 year-old always preferred visiting friends over generally unrestricted access t
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> Good parenthood is about being present and giving them attention, helping them understand the world and so on My spawn is 15 years old, and this has always been my #1 goal. In fact, it led my family to sell our house in the burbs and
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> Not using an electric toothbrush. First time I used one it felt like I'd had a proper dental cleaning. Same here. It's completely changed my life. For mini-me, the built-in timer helps them be sure to brush enough.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> A big proportion of all the classwork and homework is now done on the screen. There is plenty of evidence that handwriting boosts cognitive processes - thinking on paper is something that the next generation will mostly lack. It's
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by fatnoah 4y ago
On my call, the rep put me on hold for a few minutes and came back saying that they could verify I'd removed the device, even though the activation screen was showing. It may have also just them giving me a freebie since I've bee
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by fatnoah 4y ago
For my own (PC) machines, I don't run any sort of AV or anti-malware. For everyone else in my family, they run Defender and an anti-malware tool.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I'll also add that, as someone with a tricky back, working (on personal projects at the time) via headset while lying on one's back is both possible and reasonably effective. Another that I'll add is that I'm nearsighted
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> Owners can now remove devices via web site I think. So if folks are saying these are just broken, have owner turn off activation lock I expect that some means to "phone home" is required. I just had to spend an hour on the ph
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I agree with this. .NET isn't sexy, but I can do it in my sleep. Throw in a reasonable front end framework, and I can spend my time getting feedback and iterating. Once I need to grow and scale, I'll put more thought into the r
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> larger companies must certainly be at least taking this into consideration. For many of them, it's probably a small compliance burden added to their already massive pile of existing ones.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> I would be able to give "impressive" answers to those questions I want to complain that they don't have a "won the state championship" answer for the math question. The allowed responses don't even captur
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I'm pretty sure I'd have great answers for those questions, but that was also 30 years ago and the fact that those questions are being asked tells me I don't want to work there. I've hired lots of software engineers in m
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by fatnoah 4y ago
My family is adept at forgetting passwords and losing physical devices. Keeping track of air pods is a complete nightmare. I can't even imagine adding extra physical devices where I'd have to manage the backups and constantly pu
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by fatnoah 4y ago
As a kid, my first trip to Disney World happened in April of 1986. I only have fleeting memories of that trip, but two stand out: 1) Chernobyl on the headlines of papers in Florida and 2) how the smoke-filled cabin of the airplane stuffed
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> This is what I often describe as doing agile vs being agile. I just started a new role leading a 30 person Engineering team at a company doing Scrum. My very first questions to everyone was why are we doing this? Answers ranged from
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Damage and returns are a huge cost for the company, on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Basically.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
From my recent past experience working on AR at one of the companies named in this thread, I can say that battery, display, processing power, heat, and user input are all among the biggest problems being worked on.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I fully support this as long as we keep confusing the hell out of everyone with the USB spec naming and versioning conventions.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I did, and I hated it. As it turns out, what I really loved about the "higher" level was the scope and impact of my work, and the more strategic view of things. In my case, moving "down" also meant a huge (like 200-300%
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I can't stand these as well.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
The bill itself is interesting. It opens with the absurd 30 day requirement, but then has some sensible language about (among other things) a) understanding the impact of remote work on cost and mission and b) defines criteria for the expan
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by fatnoah 4y ago
In that case, I'd expect that bounce rate wouldn't have been a big clue, but it's also possible that some of the owners of those real addresses would have replied in a way that indicated they weren't actual customers. O
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> Curiously, I always thought she was the owner of the house... Same here. I always thought she was the "mom" of the house. It wasn't until I was an adult that I had enough context to understand the undertones.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
That's a great observation. Back in the day, I'd buy many magazines for the ads almost as much as the content.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> Crazy that low open rate from a mass mailing campaign was a signal that something was amiss It was an extremely high bounce rate (i.e. invalid emails) that clued them in.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Speaking as someone who loves refactoring and has done many in my career. For the first step, I'd get VERY, VERY, VERY crisp on the problems I'm trying to solve and why I'm trying to solve them, and start from there. Then I c
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I double down and press 0 while shouting "Agent!"
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by fatnoah 4y ago
As someone that has a stove that uses propane as a source, I'm curious to see any information specifically about that. My 30 minutes of Googling seems to find things that are focused on natural gas and make no mention of propane. The

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