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by james-skemp 6y ago
Heh. We ran into this when we were looking at creating Confluence plugins: https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/confluence-templ... We're not a Java team, so it took us far too long to release this was the
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by james-skemp 6y ago
I didn't run outside last week, but that's because we can get a good view of the circle we live on from our front window. We've had a number of thefts in our city, especially since the pandemic started, so we've been kee
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by james-skemp 6y ago
That and the old InQuest Magazine. I've still got a couple physical copies, but I really wish I hadn't recycled all the old issues I used to have.
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by james-skemp 6y ago
Punishment is meant to deter others from doing the crime (whether or not that works is another issue), so I think you're correct. If people/organizations are committing a crime, then one reason may be that the punishment/dete
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by james-skemp 6y ago
Agreed. I think the PS4 Pro and equivalent Xbox model really muddied the water when it came to the newest consoles, especially since both the PS5 and related Xbox version are at least backward compatible with the previous gen. Target PC, ma
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by james-skemp 6y ago
> I don't know what the equivalent of building a 'mobile-first' website is in game development or if it's possible [...] Sounds like the old 'progressive enhancement' (at least I think that phrase was '
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by james-skemp 6y ago
Having read this in middle or high school (back in the 90s), and having picked up a copy of the book years later when I saw it at a Half Price Books, this comment makes me really sad. A 5 sentence version of this story would not have stayed
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by james-skemp 6y ago
> Just how much difference that makes, battery-life wise, compared to just leaving them, unused, out of the case, I can’t say. I’ve only had them a day and I’ve spent a lot of that time wearing them. I realize that this is going to get b
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by james-skemp 6y ago
> I also want to say that I strongly encourage people interested in reading and learning philosophy to do it in a class or group setting, at least initially. My bachelor's is in philosophy and I second this. Read the original source
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by james-skemp 6y ago
Glad to see accessibility covered in one of the first comments on this. The relevant WCAG 2.0 information: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/G201.html PowerMapper has some more information (not affiliated, just a
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by james-skemp 6y ago
Source? All I found was in line with https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/botulism-outbreak-gav... that covered olives being part of the scare, but no source said black olives were only to be sold in came because of
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by james-skemp 6y ago
Likely depends on the service. About a month ago I got a 'still interested?' email that I could click on a link to say I was. Looks like they were using ConvertKit. Issues with email tracking has been a known issue for over a deca
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by james-skemp 6y ago
Windows Server having file extensions turned off by default still drives me crazy. I get it for the desktop versions, but it would be fantastic if server editions had it on, or it saved and picked up the toggle from your AD account/pro
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by james-skemp 6y ago
Surprised a search for caffeine doesn't find anything on the page. Having given up soda around college (and never getting into coffee, and rarely drinking alcohol), almost 20 years later I'm glad I have the ability to drink just a
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by james-skemp 6y ago
Additional benefit: could be printed. In high school I had to print off pages because we could only use the Internet late at night (dial-up), and definitely couldn't have the computer up and running while we were also playing a game. P
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by james-skemp 6y ago
It's slowed down, definitely, but if you tweak what you're looking for you'll still find it, just spread out more. Being older, I don't have as much time as I used to to play games, so I'll generally look at the var
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by james-skemp 6y ago
Used the Android version, but I agree Play had/has a much better interface. I know it's my age talking, but there are some people that still prefer to listen to entire albums. Make it easy for our kind to find albums, and then don
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by james-skemp 6y ago
I'm not sure that's unrealistic. Once upon a time software and services were supported for multiple versions back. Usually two major versions, the current and the last. (Granted, this was as a technical user, using technical tools
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by james-skemp 6y ago
A penny is a percentage of a dollar, a hundred dollars, and a thousand dollars. That percentage matters less the smaller it gets.
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by james-skemp 6y ago
Do you have kids? Are they still able to attend daycare, if age appropriate? If they would be at school, will they be attending in the fall remotely, or in person? Or still to be determined? Do you have a yard? How much open space do you ha
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by james-skemp 6y ago
HN: I think yes. I maybe check HN a couple times a day, have never added a new item, but have posted comments. Due to this after however many years (Edit: almost 8 years) I don't have enough points to down vote. Like SO was at the begi
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by james-skemp 6y ago
Whoops. Red flag = warning sign, not anything related to Git flags. OJFord is basically correct, though. It's 2020, so if you're interviewing for a developer/programming position, you should at least know something about the
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by james-skemp 6y ago
> Asking anything about VCS seems a bit off in general if the person has any experience under their belt developing software... Why so? We don't go into great depth, but every hiring committee I've been on I make sure that we a
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by james-skemp 6y ago
Yup. With the ability to add a separator (like a space, -, .) I'd switch over to this. Currently I use and recommend https://preshing.com/20110811/xkcd-password-generator/
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by james-skemp 6y ago
Not OP, but I completely agree with their statement that "it definitely significantly impacted the usability of the web." As others have noted, a ton of sites seem to have just thrown the necessary JS on their site without actuall
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by james-skemp 6y ago
I spent an extra 10-15 minutes trying to debug an issue with Shibboleth last week with two other devs that had never set it up on a server before. Why? Because we weren't forcing https yet in IIS and while I thought I had told it to go
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by james-skemp 6y ago
Isn't that exactly why claiming you're a recently released criminal would work? Who would use that as a fake story, in our society? It's people who beg for money that have a story that makes them sounds like they're down
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by james-skemp 6y ago
No comments, but duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23402316
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by james-skemp 6y ago
How long did you flip burgers for? Depending upon the location/business, it means standing on your feet in a hot environment for hours. They've hopefully gotten better, but plastic gloves are also murder on the hands. Maybe less c
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by james-skemp 6y ago
See also Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence. There's a lot of hacking going on in that one leading to some very interesting scenes. Granted, they're not comatose, but the sensations their minds are receiving do not match reality.

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