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by jherdman 6y ago
I regret not entering the housing market in Toronto sooner. There was a brief period of time my earnings meant rent was cheap, but so too were houses. The average detached home goes for $1.2mm, whereas it was roughly $500k in 2010.
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by jherdman 6y ago
This is kind of interesting. I use the Contacts app in macOS to capture this data. It's worked quite well for me.
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by jherdman 6y ago
That's literally the point: it's silly.
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by jherdman 6y ago
This. Rubocop is first class. I'm just flat out done bikeshedding in code. If I'm writing JS, it's an ESLint + Prettier combo — or whatever your taste is, I just don't care. Let's write code and let the machine deal
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by jherdman 6y ago
Are you using Chrome? If so https://killedbygoogle.com/ . Google is guilty of the same.
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by jherdman 6y ago
I was burned a lot back in the 90s by Logitech's piss poor drivers. Has the situation improved much since?
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by jherdman 6y ago
> I think Twitter can be used for it... I'd argue that though this is an avenue your listeners MAY use, it's not one the author ought to encourage. It's far more valuable to try and drive traffic to a site you own and cont
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by jherdman 6y ago
Gaming IS a waste of time, as are a number of hobbies. The question is really if you care that you're wasting your time.
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by jherdman 6y ago
I didn't even make it past the first sentence. What a lame opinion! Tests are provably great, especially if you want contributors to your project, or give even half a hoot about documenting behaviour. I could care less if you don'
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by jherdman 6y ago
Boring technology that does great things has been a huge part of my career for the past eight years at Precision Nutrition. With that said, the following opinions are mine and mine alone. Here are some boring choices we made that paid divid
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by jherdman 6y ago
I'm in the same boat and agree completely. I haven't owned a machine this bad since the last Dell laptop I bought in the early 2000s.
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by jherdman 6y ago
I have some experience with this having been part of Precision Nutrition for seven years and counting. We wrote the platform as a remote team, and DID find it very helpful to have a series of important brainstorming sessions in person. At t
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by jherdman 7y ago
I'm breathing life into an old RSS/Atom reader project of mine as a means of learning Elixir.
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by jherdman 7y ago
Allow me the chance to try and change you mind just a little bit. The web is one of the most open platforms that has ever existed — period. Since the dawn of the smart phone the web developer has heard the following request: "I need a
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by jherdman 7y ago
This. The tooling and development environment for JavaScript has improved by leaps and bounds. As an early adopted I found JS to be a pain in the ass. These days I dare say it's one of my favourite languages.
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by jherdman 7y ago
Because sometimes the layer on top can express ideas more succinctly. A classic example is CoffeeScript's fat arrow syntax. It expressed a pattern in JavaScript we didn't, at the time, have a shorthand for. Example: https:/&
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by jherdman 7y ago
I'm busy writing a Spreedly integration for my employer. It's not in production yet, but I can tell you that their iFrame API is a bit clumbsy and gives you less out of the box than Stripe Elements.
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by jherdman 7y ago
In Canada we've had contact-less pay with our credit cards for quite some time. Usage of Apple Pay, etc., is near zero here. Frankly there's just no benefit.
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by jherdman 7y ago
> ... and I would go days at a time without talking to anyone besides my wife Would it be correct to assume that the majority of your time socializing is at work? I'm at a remote-only company now, and have been so for seven years. I
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by jherdman 7y ago
> Am I the exception? I think Remote work sucks. Not at all. I think that some folks just don't work well in such circumstances. A close friend of mine was much like you: he craved the social environment, and the immediate collabora
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by jherdman 7y ago
> My POV is ... Apple leads the Mobile OS market share ... by a huge margin. I'm having a really hard time understanding this statement. Does the author mean with respect to how updates are handled? It clearly cannot mean in terms o
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by jherdman 8y ago
I've switched my personal projects, and my employer has switched to Circle over the past year. Circle's dockerized strategy for building up your CI/CD platform means that they support the new version of X nearly the day it co
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by jherdman 8y ago
I gave Ubuntu a solid shot for a few weeks in 2018. I came running back to Apple without hesitation. At the end of the day end-user experience on Linux just isn't as nice, cohesive, or friendly.
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by jherdman 8y ago
Elixir was definitely a highlight for me in 2018 too. I'm more than a bit fed up with Rails, so I'm hoping it'll be a good fit for me. I'm eager to see what I can pull off with more or less just the native stack.
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by jherdman 8y ago
The project in question uses PostCSS, which is to CSS as Babel is to Javascript. The point of a broad set of utility classes is to have predefined and discrete classes that map to conventions your application uses. Here's a few example
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by jherdman 8y ago
On the topic of parks, "American History Tellers" ( https://wondery.com/shows/american-history-tellers/ ) has an excellent series on the history of parkland in the USA. I highly recommend it, and the rest
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by jherdman 8y ago
I'm in Toronto. 1) Housing. It's definitely not as bad as other "world class" cities, but it's bad enough that multiple parents are having to help their children buy homes. 2) Opportunity is too good. "Why not
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by jherdman 8y ago
You might enjoy "Containers", an eight episode podcast about the shipping industry too. https://medium.com/containers
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by jherdman 8y ago
> Content-based sites should be server-rendered. Why?
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by jherdman 8y ago
The fat arrow is the most obvious one that comes to mind.

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