jenscow

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by jenscow 2y ago
you can turn some of that crap off: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/schemas/appxpackage/ua...
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by jenscow 2y ago
For >1 minute incremental compile times? No thanks.
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by jenscow 2y ago
Those colour settings are not aware of Windows 11's "Dark mode"
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by jenscow 2y ago
that's my ip address!
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by jenscow 2y ago
Linux doesn't require cutting edge hardware.
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by jenscow 2y ago
Yes, one of the questions I ask is "what do you hate most about X?". However, in this case the person lacks "basic skills".
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by jenscow 2y ago
We better start doing some work, just in case.
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by jenscow 2y ago
That's "constructive dismissal", which is not allowed. Firing for "performance" is ok in the first year or two (country specific)
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by jenscow 2y ago
This is why we need to have coding tasks during the recruitment process. It helps both sides.
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by jenscow 3y ago
Because the chances of Google closing accounts or losing data is much lower than a consumer's usb drive being damaged or lost.
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by jenscow 3y ago
It could be wise to favour the candidates with poorer interview skills, as they're less likely to be able to leave.
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by jenscow 3y ago
I know at least Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle, Glasgow and Edinburgh all connect to London.
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by jenscow 3y ago
Not disagreeing with you, however some mergers can be good for the consumer. With your example, the local stores could have joined forces to compete against their bigger competitor: the supermarket.
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by jenscow 3y ago
An extension ecosystem and video tutorials really aren't needed for an in-house framework. Also, with 3rd party extensions, they tend to be poorly made/maintained, and at most do 80% of what I need. If lucky enough to find an exte
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by jenscow 3y ago
For sure. While tables went out of fashion, there was nothing usable to replace them. I was not really interested if those doing a "View Source" are going to be offended by my "incorrect" use of tables.
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by jenscow 3y ago
To mitigate that, recently there was something posted on HN that checks your shell script for those types of bugs. However, let's not produce any software at all, in case someone introduces a bug in it later.
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by jenscow 3y ago
There's only so much spoon-feeding that can be done. We already have so much information at our fingertips. If people just want to copy+paste it then mark a jira issue as complete, that's up to them. However, for those of us who w
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by jenscow 3y ago
So no updates after 2025? Many would call that a feature.
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by jenscow 3y ago
1 yes (company closure) 2 Not great short-term (got the first job I could), but turned out better in the long run (got a much better job few months after) 3 Not really: Was unemployed for under 1 month, and was honest about the interim job
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by jenscow 3y ago
Nothing to do with the fact that the company his wife has a $400 million stake in, has a $1.5b contract with BP, and other arrangements Shell.
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by jenscow 3y ago
For a fee, I could get you in touch with a few people who are able to find middlemen
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by jenscow 3y ago
small shavings: * If there are less than 32 bits set in the bitboard, the item list is shorter (rather than ignored). * Probably not worth it, but: When there are 32 bits set on the bitboard, stop processing the bit-board.. however, if you
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by jenscow 3y ago
But then it would be a lowest common denominator type thing, or a "Homer Simpson car" I just want to automatically share my transferable preferences between IDEs
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by jenscow 3y ago
You're not wrong, but I think now the majority don't want an understanding, they just want answers.
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by jenscow 3y ago
While not answering the question, prefixing the query with `site:docs.python.org` will get you what you need. If you're doing this a lot then I recommend at least adding a search shortcut to: https://www.google.com&#x2F
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by jenscow 3y ago
unlimited PTO - rewards slackers, punishes workers and when you leave, you won't get paid for any untaken. Also, it's BS: unless I can take a year off on my first day, then it's not unlimited. IOW, "come work for me if y
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by jenscow 3y ago
You should think about what the alternative was at the time: Mostly C/C++ VB6 you would have connected to the db by the end of the day. C/C++ you're still trying to handle WM_ERASEBKGND
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by jenscow 3y ago
Be careful what you wish for: https://www.wix.com/
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by jenscow 3y ago
wow, sdf.org - another blast from the past
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by jenscow 3y ago
finding another straw-man?

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