jdlshore

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by jdlshore 5y ago
My JavaScript screencast, letscodejavascript.com, made over $10K net profit per month at its peak. It costs $25/month for unlimited access to over 600 videos. I stopped producing videos in April 2018, but the site is still up, and stil
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I'm paranoid about data loss, so I have a (IMO) pretty darn good backup regime. It's robust and easy. The main thing I worry I'm not protected against is bit flips. My wife is the one who takes most of the photos in our famil
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It's among the best quality animation I've seen. Story is excellent in the beginning, though degrades to only decent towards the end as the video-game origins start showing through. Definitely worth watching, IMO. (I also have no
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by jdlshore 5y ago
There's viz.js. I use it at objectplayground.com to visualize JavaScript object layouts. This file shows how I use it: https://github.com/jamesshore/object_playground/blob/master/...
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Your comment seems like a classic ad-hominem—attacking the author rather than the point he is making. I don't see how it's relevant to the content of the video. I watched the whole thing and found it to be non-sensationalist to th
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I think GP's point was Reddit breaking Chrome would cause a big uproar and result in the issue being fixed quickly, not that Chrome has more engineers.
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You don’t have to be logged into Gather all the time, just for the time when you’re in the meeting. It’s effectively a better way of breaking into small groups that’s more fluid and natural than breakout rooms.
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Miro (miro.com) or a similar virtual whiteboard. Gather (gather.town) looks very promising as a tool for physicalized interactions, although I haven’t had a chance to use it for real yet. Meeting formats that aren’t just people taking turns
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by jdlshore 5y ago
Brother is a great choice. My wife had a black-and-white for years, and I bought a color a few years ago, replacing an HP PageWide that had been nothing but problems. Both have been fantastic.
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I was unclear. I meant the cost to hire somebody to do the work, including their salary.
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> If you're paying based on value derived from their work You're not. You're paying based on how much it would cost to find somebody to do the work. You're paying for time, not value. Profit comes from the difference
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Persona wasn't under the control of Mozilla, either. You could still use it today, if you were willing to set up your own identity server, and if you could find any websites that supported it.
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Several years ago, Mozilla/Firefox created "Persona," which was an open-source federated identity system that provided all the benefits described here. The idea was that it would eventually be built into browsers. I used it o
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> Are Gen-X’ers still thinking Please don’t do this. You can make your point without resorting to stereotypes.
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by jdlshore 5y ago
"Standard" ratio is 16:9, so calling it "16:18" draws attention to the fact that it's the same size as two monitors stacked vertically.
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This seems like a non-story. Tesla is selling older "demo" vehicles. They're clearly marked as such and discounted, although not as much as the article would like. It's equivalent to buying a floor model at a furniture s
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Very impressive work! Thanks for sharing it.
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The article takes a while to get to the point, so here it is: 1. Article author discovers "American MegaTrAnds" sticker on a chip in high-end switches. 2. Author fears supply chain tampering. 3. Author contacts American Megatrends
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The proper solution to SQL injection is parameterized queries, not input sanitization, to my knowledge.
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Depends on how you practice it. XP practices, in my experience, do lead to high technical quality. High stakeholder interaction and feedback tends to lead to improved fitness-for-purpose. Many teams professing to be “Agile” don’t do either
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Disappointed to see so many knee-jerk reactions to this. Vendoring dependencies is a simple way to ensure consistent build inputs, and has the bonus effect of decreasing build times. To respond the two major criticisms: 1) “It takes a lot o
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“Just ask” and “easily verify” are carrying a lot of water in your comment. Ask who? Verify how? How would someone with no programming experience do it, how long would it take them, and would it be a good use of their time vs. the old-fashi
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GP is making the rhetorical point that people take safety precautions against risk every day, such as wearing a seatbelt to protect against the risk of a crash, but don’t call it “living in fear.” However, taking the precaution of a Covid t
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Is your contention that web applications are slow due to lack of understanding of CPU cache, pipelining or assembly? Because that doesn't match my experience at all. In my experience, web sites and applications are most often slow due
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Formal research into software development techniques tends to be junk. It's very very hard to conduct a meaningful study of professional-scale development. The costs are too high, the confounding variables too many, and the industry de
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Capitalizing "Black" is part of the New York Times style guide. I don't think it's reasonable to assume ulterior motive. They could just be following a journalistically-accepted style guide. According to [1], the NYT sty
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You seem to have an axe to grind. Performance isn’t black and white. Optimizing your memory usage isn’t going to do you a whit of good if you’re constrained by your database queries. Optimizing your DB queries isn’t going to do you any good
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Are you sure about the short-lived allocations being a problem for the collector? My understanding of modern generational garbage collectors was that they performed quite well with short-lived garbage. Not as well as not creating the garbag
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In my experience, this is something a lot of “consultancies” (really, software outsourcing and staff augmentation firms) want to do, mostly as a way of absorbing bench time. It rarely works, because it gets treated as a second-class priorit
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As implemented in Canada, no; all carbon tax dividends (less an amdminisrration fee?) are distrubuted equally to citizens. At least that’s my understanding. I haven’t studied it deeply. The net result is that the people with the lowest carb

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