indymike

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by indymike 3y ago
You should see what they look like after a 25kph breeze. Which isn't too far off from what templated YAML generates after someone commits a bad template.
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by indymike 3y ago
> We are not told any information about categories being weighted and therefore we cannot pay special attention to the low safety score." And this is why we have debacles like the 737max.
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by indymike 3y ago
YAML is the Bradford Pear of serialization formats. It looks good at first, but as your project ages, and the YAML grows it collapses under the weight of it's own branches.
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by indymike 3y ago
In the mean time, Epic did win a similar suit against Google.
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by indymike 3y ago
Google no longer cares about search. It is open for disruption.
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by indymike 3y ago
There will be lots of confusion and litigation on this exact issue.
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by indymike 3y ago
> VC money really seems like the beginning of the end. For a lot of businesses, raising VC money is a mistake because rapid growth just isn't the right strategy. VC is expensive - you give up a lot of equity every round and are bett
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by indymike 3y ago
Most of the time, it's more painful to receive money than to donate it.
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by indymike 3y ago
Taking away already earned compensation is wrong. And probably illegal. Even if it is just points that convert into cash.
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by indymike 3y ago
> whatever command-line parsing tool you use Hmm. Writing a wrapper that uses autocomplete definitions might be more useful... There's also the approach of Zenity that gives you the ability to create GUIs from shell scripts. When yo
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by indymike 3y ago
Bosses blaming RTO mandates for poor performance is really a signal that leadership is disconnected from reality. It should be expected company wide that the RTO mandate will cause systematic issues, and after the mandate is completed, a ne
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by indymike 3y ago
That's going into the required reading folder for new devs at my company. Thanks for writing that!
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by indymike 3y ago
Early on (late 90s and early 00s) there were a lot of command line to gui kinds of tools (there were also a lot of tries at web-ifying, CLI tools also). I can't remember the name, but there was even a terminal emulator that tried to pr
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by indymike 3y ago
I think Neon is KDE's Linux distribution.
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by indymike 3y ago
Steam's refund policy makes this a non-issue. It takes way less than 2 hours to figure out you have a bad game.
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by indymike 3y ago
> steam is going to be flooded with massive amounts of games that are nothing more than AI generated trash. How is this different than the floods of human generated trash that shows up from time?
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by indymike 3y ago
AI is just more software to manage and operate.
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by indymike 3y ago
> Is it the legacy rails/mysql stack that is the largest culprit or is there systemic rot in the engineering org? The culprit is change. Infra changes, config changes, new features, system state (os updates, building new images, re
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by indymike 3y ago
My iPhone 15 was advertised as meeting IP68 under IEC standard 60529 (maximum depth of 6 meters up to 30 minutes) and Apple even publishes a handy list of their products and how water resistant/proof they are: https://suppor
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by indymike 3y ago
Neon is a very confusing name, and honestly needs to be changed to something that can be distinct in the marketplace.
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by indymike 3y ago
> Actually we did from the decades surgeons wore masks to prevent the spread of airborne diseases. I remember asking my dad (who was a doctor who performed surgeries - mostly c-sections and appendectomies - often) about masks, and his an
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by indymike 3y ago
> Sometimes “no evidence” means that we haven’t found compelling evidence yet. Most of the time when no evidence is used, it's to drive political or business activity. For example: “There is no evidence that Asbestos is unsafe.” I w
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by indymike 3y ago
> The problem with modern development is having to nail down the data model first. Schemaless was one of the original drivers for NoSQL databases. Now, when I need something schemaless, I start with a Postgres table with an ID and a json
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by indymike 3y ago
How many baseballs is that?
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by indymike 3y ago
> what makes it crap? Parent of five here. Crap = glorifying bad behavior, teaching bad values (this will be different for every family), depicting no consequences for poor decisions, and/or resolving conflict using only violence. I
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by indymike 3y ago
> Bluey very clearly punches her dad square in the stomach, he lets out an audible sound of pain, and......nothing happens. What would you like to happen? I’m not sure I understand here. I’m completely ok with Bluey’s dad not retaliatin
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by indymike 3y ago
Testing can be pretty contentious until you live through a few weeks or months of bad deployments and delays. As an application matures and complexity increases, you'll need to ensure that a benign change in one component doesn't
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by indymike 3y ago
Needs function keys to be useful for my use case... but I love it! Also... love that the connection is not Bluetooth and is lightning or usb-c. Nice!
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by indymike 3y ago
There are actually four buckets: 1. Research and Development. Special tax treatment and tax credits usually apply to R&D. 2. Sales/Marketing - Pre-sale sales engineers, sometimes implementations 3. Maintenance. Developers that fix
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by indymike 3y ago
> I'm starting to dislike the phrase "the science" I dislike it when it is used to describe something that is not science. > I don't have kids, and don't really care when schools start As a taxpayer, your mon

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