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by fatnoah 3y ago
I have a Garmin Marq that was my 20th anniversary gift from my wife. It's my second smart watch. My first was an Apple Watch that I wore for a bit and then left in a drawer and eventually forgot about it. (It was a great device and w
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I love that they talk about 40k people, possibly growing to 400k, and the only transportation improvements they mention are effectively that "most people who live there will work there" and that they'll upgrade some local roa
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Based on the descriptions, I believe it's designed to dupe anyone with far more dollars than sense. The copy doesn't even make sense. It benefits most from a drive with an OS installed on it? What if the drive just has data? Als
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> My computer is just a tool for getting things done - it’s not an expression of my personality. And this is one of the things that makes me a little wistful as I get older. My computers are like my cars. I remember my first ones, the
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Good advice, I've been doing a similar thing with good results. One thing I have done is to start more manually to establish the patterns I want to use for things like parameter validation, log lines, etc and Copilot seems to do a v
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> One paragraph of the article mentions parents in a poor neighbourhood not letting their kids play outside due to "discarded needles, homeless people sleeping in parks, and proximity to the sex trade and drug users". I lived i
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I, for one, am looking forward to paying 30% less for Spotify. reads post again Oh, never mind, but I'm ecstatic to be able to see the subscription price IN THE APP. I've been waiting for this for so long! :(
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by fatnoah 3y ago
At one of my internships in the 90's, a developer I worked with solved the problem by never indenting. Every single line of code started at column 1.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I'm pretty sure I've had all of the above happen.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I got laid off and my "severance" was the minimum mandated WARN act period and "don't mail your stuff back to us." Of course, the layoff happened the month before equity vesting and annual bonus happened.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
My very first full-time (non-internship) professional job in the late 90's was to adapt a COTS ATM protocol stack to run on VxWorks as part of a military project featuring a satellite equipped HMMWV to provide connectivity. Part of th
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Correct. In the past, they've pulled the "but I only take $75k out of the company" and "I pay for when I use the company jet for personal business" when discussing compensation in the past. While true, it ignores t
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Most importantly, they're choosing a path where they acknowledge that employees will receive less compensation for more work, while the management reaps massive benefits of improved stock prices.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Same here. I started with C64 basic as a kid and graduated to QBasic in HS.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I flat out never trust any numbers from startups. Some companies are still using the SaaS 10-13x revenue as an estimation, despite the current economic climate and often in spite of a) not reqlly being a SaaS and b) not growing that fast.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
The reason threads is considered a success at Meta is because it'd be a marketing failure otherwise. In days past, my team there owned a product that hit over 100M MAU, and it wasn't attention-worthy in any way. It eventually go
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> so you should also be able to take a train from Boston to Minneapolis Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but you can take a train from Boston to Minneapolis, with either one, two, or three connections.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
You should come to Massachusetts. We up the ante by adding stoplights, stop signs, left turns, and pretty much any permutation of road topology.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I absolutely refuse to book any flight with a MAX aircraft.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> Because by my personal experience, you totally can code a monolith in a strictly modular fashion, with clean interface-based API boundaries between the separate parts. This is my experience as well. In fact, that's exactly how we
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by fatnoah 3y ago
This is the correct answer. I remember the weekly ritual of scrounging change for the laundromat and going with handwashing things if we came up short. When my dad got a new job with a decent pay increase, getting a washer and dryer felt
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by fatnoah 3y ago
FWIW, I've worked with professional cartographers, and a huge part of their focus was designing _how_ the information was displayed. They weren't specifically experts on the geography itself, though naturally they did have some s
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> That has more to do with gaming than with software engineering, doesn’t it. I do use them for personal SW projects as well. > That sounds fine, Certainly, there's nothing "wrong" with that, but it does lead to specifi
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> Had it not been for the experience of "tinkering" with that PC and its predecessor (a ten year old 8088), I would likely have never become a software developer. Now that I'm 25 years into my software career, one thing th
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> My view is that automated testing is not a substitute for QA, but an additional tool. It lets QA focus on harder to automated tasks. This is my take as well. Automation is great for a lot of the repetitive work, but humans are better
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Interesting. Maybe I'm significantly older (graduated high school in the early 90's) than the poster, but math team was a big deal at my high school. So much so that my school fielded 3 teams (A, B, and C) for regional competit
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by fatnoah 3y ago
In many, many ways, assembly is more straightforward, but I went with CSS just because of the ability to see the results and to poke & prod with browser tooling.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I had an uncle that was huge into flight sims at the time, and I'd get his hand-me-down flight sticks & throttles. I spent soooo much time playing Falcon 3.0, and teenage me would get so sad when one of my favorite wingmen would g
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Yeah, I've authored assembly and CSS professionally (not at the same time) and would choose CSS all day long.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> or is the main incentive to be able to tout compliance? At the time I joined, the existing goals were around compliance and checking boxes on security questionnaires, which is exactly the problem I'm trying to solve. Specifically

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