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by gav 3y ago
I believe that one of the big things that diagrams help with is maintaining state while having a conversation. You don't have to keep track of so many things in your head and it works in a similar way to the "tell ’em what you’re
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by gav 3y ago
I like to make sure the "why" is documented, but it's hard to get people to care about that. I remember a former client tracking me down to ask about a bug that they had struggled to fix for months. There was a comment that I
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by gav 3y ago
If you're giving directions to somebody driving, like when reversing into a tricky spot, you can tell them to "turn driver" or "turn passenger" so there's no ambiguity.
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by gav 3y ago
I also think he's talking about tools where inferior means build quality vs. performance. You can go buy a bunch of cheap wrenches from Harbor Freight and they'll be just fine compared to Snap-On. > Quality is an issue, true. B
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by gav 4y ago
At my first programming job they were religious about the single `return' and followed a pattern that was bizarre and luckily I've not seen since--using a `retVal' variable declared at the top. int foo(int bar) { int
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by gav 4y ago
One of my early jobs was being the most junior "mechanic" in an repair shop, basically the guy that did all the low-skill things that nobody else wanted to do. Our shop foreman was very keen that everyone looked busy if you were c
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by gav 4y ago
> Kind of funny to read this, now that the practice is no longer a fantasy. I'm thinking of devs who have outsourced their jobs, and Amazon/Etsy sellers who simply resell/drop-ship goods from Alibaba. One of the issues wit
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by gav 4y ago
I stopped using Waze (I live in Los Angeles) because it would give a slightly faster route with unprotected left turns that was riskier, more stressful, and ultimately not much faster in reality.
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by gav 4y ago
Exactly, there's a huge appetite for products that allow Marketing, for example, to get things done without IT involvement; I'm not sure why people are surprised that other departments want to do the same. I think that low-code pl
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by gav 4y ago
> Instead, it's pointing out a risk that sometimes they are too good, leading to a system that can't function when the normal level of locality and memoization are not available. And at that point cache management starts to be
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by gav 4y ago
I was at my first post-Covid sales conference a couple of months ago and this is the only way that contacts was shared. I've been thinking about getting a QR code sticker that I can stick to my phone that has my LinkedIn url for easy a
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by gav 4y ago
I was a paperboy for a year or so in the mid-90s, for today's equivalent of about $4/day I'd get up at 5:30am to get to the newspaper shop by 6am and deliver for maybe 30-45 mins. It's pretty miserable work in the winter
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by gav 4y ago
FICO impacts a lot more than just how much borrowing money cost including insurance rates (except for CA, HI, MA) and a lot of rentals (both to deny, increase costs, and having to pay for your credit report to be run).
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by gav 4y ago
If you add a delay of say 30 minutes for one of your replicas, you have another option in a "drop table" type event.
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by gav 4y ago
Ignoring the cost, there's the risk/reward alignment you see in large enterprises. Imagine you're a new CIO. You know you're probably looking at a 3-5 year tenure at this new company and you want to lead with some big wi
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by gav 4y ago
I looked at FAB[1] to support this in the past, it would be great if it supported more platforms. [1] https://fab.dev/
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by gav 4y ago
I think that these cost-cutting schemes never really work out, they either cause the best people to leave or trade money for work-done. I worked for a bank where they had terrible coffee on our floor. We used to joke about how bad it was un
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by gav 4y ago
This isn't a new phenomenon, 70-years ago people thought serviette was posher than napkin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_and_non-U_English
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by gav 5y ago
The calculation from the NWS: https://www.weather.gov/epz/wxcalc_heatindex (see the linked PDF[1]) Given an air temperature (T) in °F and a relative humidity (rh). Indexheat = − 42.379 + (2.04901523 × T) + (10.14
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by gav 5y ago
I might be weird, but I find gron invaluable for figuring out what I need to pass to jq. gron log.json | grep https # see a json.log.entries[334].request.url jq -r '.log.entries[] | .request.url' log.json
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by gav 5y ago
Same process, you need to repeat it for each color that you would want printed. This video shows a bit of the process such as the Rubylith sheets used to create masks for each color: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxddg3dNK
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by gav 5y ago
The board shown was camera-ready and would be photographed like that, though maybe after cleaning off some glue with a rubber cement eraser. It's a monochrome camera that will only pick up blacks and reds, the lines are drawn with blue
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by gav 5y ago
Before DTP, paste up involve pasting content onto boards that were then photographed (with a stat camera) to create film negatives for printing plates. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwrePe4-ID4
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by gav 5y ago
This is the direction that I'd like to see more people moving in: pushing insights to users rather than expecting users to come to dashboards and get those insights. Nobody is saying "I'd love another tool that I am expected
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by gav 5y ago
Exact Target has been Salesforce Marketing Cloud since 2014.
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by gav 5y ago
My email was hacked and the attacker used that to reset my Delta password to clear out my points to use on the marketplace where you could exchange them for gift cards. What's interesting is that they logged into my webmail to create r
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by gav 5y ago
It looks like they borrowed the code from Intel. It's the code from Volume 3 9.10 "INITIALIZATION AND MODE SWITCHING EXAMPLE": https://github.com/cirosantilli/x86-bare-metal-examples/blob...
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by gav 5y ago
I use it on macOS and it works fine. There is a brew recipe for pwgen, but that's one more dependency to worry about.
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by gav 5y ago
If you change `openssl rand 150` to a bigger number, say 1000 or so, you can generate longer passwords.
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by gav 5y ago
My version of `pw', might be useful to those without `pwgen': function genpasswd() { openssl rand 150 | LC_CTYPE=C tr -dc '[[:alnum:]!@#$%^&]' | tr -d iIlLOo0 | cut -c 1-${1:-12}; }

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