fergie

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by fergie 11mo ago
> "It is unbelievable a private consultancy was paid $78 million to redesign the website," Mr Littleproud said. This is the crux of the issue. If you have outsourced software engineering competency, yet one of your core mission
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by fergie 11mo ago
Is it possible for hobbyists to set a hard cut off for spending? Like, "SHUT EVERYTHING DOWN IF COSTS EXCEED $50"
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by fergie 11mo ago
This line also gave me that vibe
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by fergie 11mo ago
I’m 25 years in and still firmly in the beginner zone
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by fergie 11mo ago
Emacs is probably the most user-friendly editor. Its just not very beginner-friendly.
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by fergie 11mo ago
"Collaboration as it stands today is considered alpha, and for the time being, is free for all to use!" This doesn't fill me with confidence.
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by fergie 11mo ago
Your informative, water-tight argument has convinced me.
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by fergie 11mo ago
Yes. This was literally a case study for my Sociology degree in the '90s. (I would also mindfully say that there is a lot of subtle political propaganda in the UK around this issue- the powers that be want the public to blame train dri
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by fergie 11mo ago
> They are expensive, but that is partly because rail workers are well paid This is in fact an interesting by-product of privatisation: train drivers became rarer due to shareholder reluctance to train and recruit them. They consequently
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by fergie 11mo ago
> It is supposed to be an answering machine, not some emotional support system. Many people would beg to differ.
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by fergie 11mo ago
Wait. Did Jyn just describe Emacs?
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by fergie 11mo ago
> At one point, Microsoft's QC was legendary I have been Microsoft-adjacent for 30 years, and at no point in that time have I been aware of Microsoft having a reputation for "quality".
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by fergie 11mo ago
> I called the app Residency and you can get it here. No subscriptions, costs less than an airport martini, and you'll likely regret it less a few hours later. The article is content marketing, so I wouldn't be surprised if the
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by fergie 1y ago
I mean fair enough, but I feel like S3 is one of the few AWS products that is actually pretty cheap for what you get.
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by fergie 1y ago
I’ve always struggled with this concept too. Respect yourself. Be kind to yourself. But _loving_ youself sounds kind of narcissistic to me (but yes, I get that this is probably a question of semantics and/or my working class catholic u
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by fergie 1y ago
Or walking/cycling
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by fergie 1y ago
> Joking aside, have you ever tried to use some of these tools No. > I use to not understand why people where using vim until I really tried. There's your problem. I respectfully suggest installing Emacs.
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by fergie 1y ago
grep -ri foo ./* Hits in hidden files is not really a pain point for me
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by fergie 1y ago
I basically live in the terminal. However, every single one of these tools offers a solution to a problem that I don't have; aren't installed on my system; and mysteriously have many tens of thousands of github stars. I genuinely
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by fergie 1y ago
Often wondered about this idea- its been kicked around in startup-land for like forever, but I have never seen a serious attempt at trying to make it work. It seems to provide a universal and sensible offer to members of the public: "I
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by fergie 1y ago
Pipes are great in environments where "everything is a string" (bash, etc), but do we really need them in javascript? I have yet to see a compelling example.
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by fergie 1y ago
As the OP in this thread, @gwd hit the nail on the head- there are potentially good arguments being made in this thread, but their tone and innuendo mean that they don't work as well as they should. (Also, FWIW I have an advanced degre
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by fergie 1y ago
To me, a total outsider, developing antibiotic resistant strains of TB sounds at least "gain of function"-adjacent. Are there any experts here who would like to hazard a judgement?
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by fergie 1y ago
I appreciate the response, and I essentially agree with your assessment that this has become the prevailing feeling in Israel. With that being said: surely Israelis understand that the current direction of travel leads to a dark place, not
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by fergie 1y ago
Moderate Israelis are the only people who have the power to peacefully defuse the situation.
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by fergie 1y ago
> top-3 departement I’m curious- what does this mean?
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by fergie 1y ago
I'm impressed that a 94 year-old has had the mental agility to (seemingly) embrace then reject Facebook.
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by fergie 1y ago
Huge props for point 13 which is basically the crux of the matter, and often overlooked. Personally I would like to see more awareness around the dangers of blindly trusting compiled javascript (and non-human-readable code generally).
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by fergie 1y ago
Whilst I basically agree with the general point you are making, I wonder if the time has in fact arrived when a greenfield project should choose Web Components over React?
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by fergie 1y ago
Ironic that 5 years from now we will yearn for the era of human-written tutorials.

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