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by jamie_ca 4y ago
Honestly, I think Agenda [1] had a brilliant take on this - a free version with baseline features, and a continual improvement of "Pro" features. Pay for it once, get all the current pro features plus whatever they release as pro
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by jamie_ca 4y ago
I don't have a lot of direct experience, but one of the big draws is that by running on top of OTP you get a lot of stuff for free that you'd otherwise need to hit external dependencies for. Caching and background job management t
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by jamie_ca 4y ago
Hash the IP so you can tie sessions, and do frequency analysis for abuse, without having the raw IP that can be geo-decoded?
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by jamie_ca 4y ago
> Merged a pull request without a review - 100% toxic. There's a case where this is not just ok, but healthy (especially on smaller teams) - if you're comfortable doing trunk-based development then you can use a PR to "sna
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by jamie_ca 4y ago
For a similar project, someone put together a spec for a basic clone of Medium split into a frontend design and backend API, and now has over 100 different components where you can pair any frontend with any backend (plus a few fullstack im
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by jamie_ca 4y ago
The big one as a layman is they've invested in tooling for "edge" compute - similar to CloudFlare distributing your static assets worldwide for faster responses, Fly gives you the tools to do the same for your app servers. If
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by jamie_ca 4y ago
Then you need to deal with levels of rate-limiting that are fine for individuals but make it not feasible for spammers. Keeping with the cloudflare topic, if Cloudflare only permits you 10 requests per second (HTML + JS/images) that&#x
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by jamie_ca 4y ago
Longtime rails dev here, the biggest problem I keep running into is testing at inappropriate levels. For example, writing two cucumber (or system) tests to confirm conditional rendering or search filters or some such. These are more appropr
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by jamie_ca 4y ago
They called out in the presentation that it's also got an ambient temperature sensor just underneath the display, to help calibrate body-temp vs room-temp for the overnight "difference from baseline" temperature measurements.
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by jamie_ca 4y ago
It's not just taxes, though. It's the difference between salary and what's called Fully Burdened Labor Costs. Say you're comparing eg. a FTE with $115k salary, and 4 weeks vacation. Naively, a contractor working those ho
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by jamie_ca 4y ago
I read that sentence as "where everyone can contribute a little [to the overall ecosystem]". Absolutely maintainers don't need to accept your contribution of a patch, and that's what forking is for - both are part of the
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by jamie_ca 4y ago
No, it looks like the same situation as 3.x: Godot is MIT licensed, and they don't believe it's possible for them as an open-source project to sign NDAs with console manufacturers and build in native compatibility without violatin
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by jamie_ca 4y ago
They can both be problems? US Teen suicide looks like around 8-11 per 100k, age 15-19, depending on year (source: https://www.americashealthrankings.org/explore/health-of-wom... ), with 9 states over 20. Compare to Germ
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by jamie_ca 4y ago
I went through a Layoff a few years back (pre-covid but working remotely). Phone call with my manager + HR, all access terminated immediately (though I did get to say goodbye to a few coworkers via Linkedin). I'd been there a while so
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by jamie_ca 4y ago
I think a lot of the adoption of git in the industry at large is in _spite_ of its distributed nature - it just so happens that the decentralized design made it care much more about branching and merging, and it got adoption because even fo
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by jamie_ca 4y ago
Canadian here, I also would like to see multi-member districts of any variety rather than the status quo.
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by jamie_ca 4y ago
Victoria BC area here (practically next door), it wouldn't work for us. My annual hydro bill was $2400 in 2018 with baseboard heating, and $2050 for 16,500kWh in 2021 after we put in a heat pump. 3 bedroom detached. A recent article su
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by jamie_ca 4y ago
This isn't an rspec problem, it's a Factories-for-ActiveRecord problem. The two main options to mitigate are: - just work with in-memory objects (FactoryBot using build or build_stubbed, or just MyModel.new) and stub/mock fin
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by jamie_ca 4y ago
I've got a Kia Soul EV, not a Tesla, but... not really. ICE engine needs coolant for the transmission, which I don't have. Break fluid technically (and keeping up to date on pads & rotors & so) but regenerative braking mea
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by jamie_ca 4y ago
I'm willing to give this the benefit of the doubt if there's a lack of english-language reporting, and I don't want to trivialize as it's tragic wherever it occurs, but - Wikipedia[1] has six events dating back to 1983 p
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by jamie_ca 4y ago
Totally agree. If streaming video could get the same terms as streaming audio/radio (standardized mandatory licensing fees) and services could compete on encoding (cost efficiency on their end) and UI/UX (which Netflix is... not g
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by jamie_ca 4y ago
The one thing I'm really missing after looking at a number of hosts (Fly and Render being top of list otherwise) is a free database tier. For a toy app, 10k db rows (across all tables) from Heroku was enough to get the app running and
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by jamie_ca 4y ago
Not schemaless, but typeless. SQLite will let you declare a column to be an integer and then dump a string into it, but you're still defining a table with specific columns. It's like the opposite problem Mysql has when you try to
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by jamie_ca 5y ago
Sounds like what Canada Revenue Agency has up now as well, their 2FA setup gives you a 5x5 grid of random 3-letter combos, and when logging in they'll ask you for a specific three of them. Honestly it's a PITA (I need to keep said
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by jamie_ca 5y ago
> Yes.. the U.S. is not NATO.. it just funds NATO more than any other member state, provides more troops to NATO than any other member state, provides arms more than any other member state They also have more of a population base than an
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by jamie_ca 5y ago
Given her twitter handle is DaniElainaFore I don't think it's unreasonable that Cassidy calls her Dani in this post, after working closely together for what, 7 years? Is there more context? (edit: nvm, found the tweetstorm from la
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by jamie_ca 5y ago
Yeah, he's commented many times that his scanning is sometimes terrible (especially I notice when he's working with brand-new puzzle mechanics), but I remain super impressed at his ability to not only work out the complex logic, b
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by jamie_ca 5y ago
Not to mention a level pension funding obligations that no other government agency has to suffer through.
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by jamie_ca 5y ago
Pretty sure "start sharing the opening keynote stage with other contributors" doesn't mean "DHH cannot contribute any keynote at RailsConf" and he's blowing it out of proportion for drama's sake because he
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by jamie_ca 5y ago
Depends on your definition of left I guess? Dems held a majority in both houses + presidency 2009-11, and also 1993-95, and 1979-81...

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