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Visualizing WordPress plugins with D3.js(wordpresstoolbox.io)
1 points by jason_pomerleau 9y ago|0 comments
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by jason_pomerleau 9y ago
I believe 6 nines allows for just 30 seconds or so of downtime per year.
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by jason_pomerleau 9y ago
Author here. So I've created what I think is the best WordPress companion extension for Visual Studio Code. nearly 4,000 snippets covering the entire WordPress API. This one differs from the others in that I've added argument type
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The ultimate WordPress extension for Visual Studio Code(wordpresstoolbox.io)
2 points by jason_pomerleau 9y ago|1 comments
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by jason_pomerleau 9y ago
What will you tell your customers, exactly, while you go on a road trip with their data? And what happened to the data between the time you load Tape 0001 and Tape 1500? Moving 500PB on a live application is not a trivial task.
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by jason_pomerleau 9y ago
Once the machines are better than humans at a macro level, insurance companies will notice, and I think this will cause widespread adoption pretty quickly.
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by jason_pomerleau 9y ago
I used TileMill quite a bit in 2014-15, but stopped after Mapbox abandoned it. Last I checked it wouldn't even run on MacOS anymore. The latest release was in 2012, and based on commit history there hasn't been any movement for ~8
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by jason_pomerleau 9y ago
> Outsourced ops know your systems. I worked for a MSP for many years, and was well acquainted with our regional competitors. Our uptime and theirs was nowhere near AWS-level. You're getting a different engineer every time you pick
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by jason_pomerleau 9y ago
> 7. If you are given a choice, you believe you have acted freely. Dan Ariely has a great talk on "decision illusions"(1) that goes into more depth on this topic. He starts off with visual illusion as a metaphor for rationality
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by jason_pomerleau 10y ago
Most of my indie-or-small-team consultant peers have an anchor client that drives 90%+ of their revenue. And most of them make substantially better money than I do, as their billing utilization rates can be nearly perfect. I'm admitted
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by jason_pomerleau 10y ago
I don't think the friction has anything to do with screen size. It's the never-ending technical issues. Oops, you're frozen. Dang, we lost the connection. There's a really bad echo, do you hear that? Bob can't conne
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by jason_pomerleau 10y ago
Most of my customers are located in a different city than the one I live and work in. You'd think videoconferencing would be perfect for someone like me. But no, once or twice a month I rent a car and drive ~225km to meet with them per
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by jason_pomerleau 10y ago
I managed an IT team for awhile. While you may be working diligently on the task, the 'client' (whoever that is) has no idea that any sort of action has even started, which can induce a lot of anxiety, depending on the situation.
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by jason_pomerleau 10y ago
Thank you for this. Until now I had no idea how to explain the inconsistent behavior I saw with ⌘ + Tab, and it drove me crazy. It's one of a handful of things that triggered occasional (though short-lived) thoughts of going back to Wi
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by jason_pomerleau 11y ago
a radiologist might examine thousands of patient images a day Shudder. As a young man, I used to inspect new cars for shipping damage. It was well known in the business that an inspector's effectiveness dropped off dramatically as th
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by jason_pomerleau 11y ago
Back in the late 80s / early 90s there was a BBS in my hometown (Windsor, Ontario, Canada) called GB Hotel. It wasn't very popular, but if all the other BBS lines were busy, it was something to do. The owner of the BBS, handle &qu
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by jason_pomerleau 14y ago
This is really the classic features vs. benefits conversation. Don't build features, build benefits instead. I've spoken with lots of developers who swear that they understand this distinction, but most actually don't. You ask the question,