flukus

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by flukus 7y ago
> But developers often don't appreciate the importance of presentation (and other) details in reports for managers. Your reference to "a minimalist UI" is telling. We're talking access here, at best it's ugly and
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by flukus 7y ago
90+% of the good use cases for filemaker are at places with no DBA's, it's meant to be a database tool for non-technical people and small businesses. If you had DBA's they'd just want to lock it down and eliminate the re
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by flukus 7y ago
Unfortunately it silently fails. Years ago I worked for a company that claimed to have largest Filemaker Pro database in the southern hemisphere. One day there was some sort of disk issue and filemaker silently failed, then for months it ke
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by flukus 7y ago
Agreed, I think it's because developers like to over engineer everything and the managers like to over engineer the processes. So many of these access excel solutions should be a days worth of work, simple perl cgi scripts with a minim
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by flukus 7y ago
I don't know where you're getting no impact from, countries like Bangladesh are often being flooded ( https://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/01/asia/bangladesh-south-asi... ), in 1998 they had 68% of th
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by flukus 7y ago
I'm surprised they still grant mortgages, a lot of coastal places can't get insurance anymore, a responsible lender wouldn't grant a mortgage on an un-insurable property. Of course government can always mandate a head in the
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by flukus 7y ago
The main issue was that this is for internally hosted enterprise instances, so no they can't just pass along the same data on the backend because they don't control the environment the backend is running in. In the hosted gitlab,
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by flukus 7y ago
You can theoretically have the best of both worlds, apples strong vetting without their draconian control. Strong vetting and allowing side loading are not mutually exclusive. It's basically how linux systems work, most stuff comes fro
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by flukus 7y ago
> I think now (2019) it's rather silly that you de facto must learn three languages to use C:. C, C preprocessor, and make. That's basically the case with nearly every language. Most will have some sort of equivalent of the pre
820.
by flukus 7y ago
Is the on premise one different? The hosted one leaks data to google and cloudflare.
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by flukus 7y ago
> Yeah, if the outcry continued even after their rollback & apology, _then_ it would be unwarranted. The outcry may stop but the trust is now gone and will take years to rebuild. Next time I'm considering/recommending on-pr
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by flukus 7y ago
Usually you pay the memory locality price twice too, once for the index and once for the actual data, especially in OO languages. Thankfully fitting in main ram has never been an issue for me, but I've seen the results when some of tho
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by flukus 7y ago
If they spent $$$ on gaining those customers instead they'd still have to spend time researching and monitoring where and how to spend those $$$ and that could easily require the same time investment. Few things are as simple as exchan
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by flukus 7y ago
Another common one is see is conflating constant-time with no-time. It's near enough to true for a single lookup, but 30,000 individuals lookups in a tight loop and you've got some real performance issues that are relatively invis
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by flukus 7y ago
There's the general risks that they have your data and in future can change what they do it. They can be bought out in future like fitbit, which is obviously laughable at the moment but it's not the first time we've seen appl
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by flukus 7y ago
And account deletion is somewhat hidden, it's under settings -> personal info -> delete account (at the bottom). When logging in I noticed there's a consent form the I was auto redirected from. Presumably this is for EU cust
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by flukus 7y ago
No, the government supports those groups by granting them a monopoly on a lucrative industry. Get rid of prohibition and those narco-terrorist groups disappear.
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by flukus 7y ago
> What seems to be perpetually missing from the FOSS philosophy, especially among people who love tinkering with Linux (note: I am one of them), is a valuation of time. This is perpetually missing from SaaS evaluation as well. You have t
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by flukus 7y ago
Thanks, was trying to remember that first trick just last week. For log files I had to make a slight adjustment to filter the time at the front: !seen[gensub($1, "", "g", $0)]++ For anyone wondering, it filters ou
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by flukus 7y ago
With google, facebook and just about any other ad driven company you know well before day 1 what their record is like when it comes to respecting privacy. So developers obviously don't care, which leads us back to regulation as the onl
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by flukus 7y ago
Notifications/interruptions don't tend to be at a good time and get swiped away, if you get an email you can check it at an actionable time, assuming you disable email interuptions. It's easy to keep in git along with other c
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by flukus 7y ago
Android is a spyware delivery vehicle for google and others, I want an open and free phone that works for me not against me. Development on android is absolutely horrible, tonnes of xml and java just to get a simple hello world working, a h
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by flukus 7y ago
Humanity adapts, humans die en masse and take societies and nations with them.
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by flukus 7y ago
A bit like wix a bit like dreamweaver/frontpage and a bit like myspace rolled into one, free hosting and an applet based WYSIWIG editor. Also a bunch of components like chat, guestbooks, webrings, etc. The also had a virtual community
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by flukus 7y ago
I thought it was more to do with the type of person that read papers more than any price signal. If I were to generalize my experience with people reading papers it's that the poorest 20% of society never read them, the next 20% read t
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by flukus 7y ago
> The receptionist accidentally moved her task bar to be oriented vertically on the left and couldn't get it back to the horizontal bottom position. A lot of people hate the lack of features in gnome, but this is why I think KDE&#x2
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by flukus 7y ago
Well not banned, but they added a 15c charge for thicker ones, so now I spend more and waste more plastic than I was previously. The thicker bigger ones and the smaller thinner ones that used to be free got reused as garbage bags nearly 1 t
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by flukus 7y ago
Surely that's a soon to be former CFO considering the reputational damage he's caused. Gitlab on premise was an easy sell to companies and now they've lost trust and their main differentiating factor from github. How could I
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by flukus 7y ago
Honest question, Are Japanese any more likely to be racist against black people than white people? Or a Chinese person? Usually racism (the hatred variety at least) comes from a degree of familiarity. You won't find a lot of KKK member
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by flukus 7y ago
Ridiculous that they're trying to secure cookies but their blog requires you to access at least 6 domains to get more than a title. They push out other ad providers with the comfort of knowing they can use their CDN's to harvest u

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