jamescodesthing

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by jamescodesthing 3y ago
dislike
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by jamescodesthing 3y ago
Why don't we all just chuck a post in a gist and use the comments to chat?
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by jamescodesthing 3y ago
The last code I wrote is both the best and the worst. All code is just sitting in prod to become tech debt. I'm always learning how to do it better.
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by jamescodesthing 4y ago
I use a similar thing that also handles when you forget -rf, with confirmation & stuff; https://github.com/MikeDacre/careful_rm
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by jamescodesthing 4y ago
My kid’s no longer on roblox. We originally locked the account down to try and keep her safe. With commuication off and the account limited to only th Roblox verified games we thought we were okay. It turns out that even in those games ther
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by jamescodesthing 4y ago
Get rid of toblox entirely, kids bypass the chat block by changing their names or the names of their pets/items in Roblox verified games.
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by jamescodesthing 4y ago
Haven’t had any major issues since switching. Still easily able to get on with my day job and toy around as I always would. Glad that the world is catching up a little but it’ll take time like anything else. Biggest issue for me early on wa
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by jamescodesthing 5y ago
Not my current employer. For jumping into new codebases I stick to the Jetbrains toolbox because it’s usually a consistent enough environment to investigate a new codebase. I also greatly appreciate the indexing.
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by jamescodesthing 5y ago
Same works for urls.
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by jamescodesthing 5y ago
In the UK all of my final stage interviews had me bring in an ID and National Insurance Number for a photocopy for their records. Has been for over a decade. Seems a simple enough solution, it’s expected and it’s something the company needs
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by jamescodesthing 5y ago
I develop things for iOS devices. So I gotta pay the Apple Tax. Enjoying my M1 though, and I like the *nixy bits of OSX so it’s an okay compromise.
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by jamescodesthing 6y ago
Someone offline stack overflow for me before I paste half our source into it. Agree with the author btw, just like the idea of taking it to a really far fetched conclusion.
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by jamescodesthing 7y ago
Hey man, I saw no PRs at the minute but I wanted to play on the train with save/restore so I knocked out a quick Cordova wrapper. It’s here; https://github.com/jamescodesthings/devShop-cordova If you do go commerc
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by jamescodesthing 8y ago
What’s your alternative tracking mechanism? And what does it report? Truth is you might be so good because you’re not at scale, they may be looking to scale you up which is great... you just have to get them the numbers. Jira as a tool suck