jleach82

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by jleach82 6y ago
Safari support (and even chrome, FF on macs) is horrible. They've become the new IE in terms of typical web programming that works everywhere except that platform. In the past year, every browser-based support issue we've had to
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by jleach82 6y ago
I got fed up with Win10 last year and finally switched to a Mint distro. I run a software development company that works on the MS stack. I stuck with Mint for six months and finally switched back to Windows. I didn't find it particu
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by jleach82 6y ago
It comes from many different places and is cross-correlated at many levels. From credit card purchase history to social media to phone location data, across multiple agents and brokers throughout the data market. See: Data Breaches, Crisi
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by jleach82 6y ago
Part of the problem is that this type of data collection and market environment evolves much more quickly than legislation can ever keep up. They're trying, but..
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by jleach82 6y ago
I don't think so. Read this: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mg9vvn/how-our-likes-help... I am fairly confident they can easily tell which way someone leans on the matter.
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by jleach82 6y ago
The data is all over. It goes through brokers and agents and multiple companies that perform various aggregations and shapings... Data Breaches, Crisis and Opportunity (ISBN 978-0-13-450678-4)
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by jleach82 6y ago
Data Breaches, Crisis and Opportunity (ISBN 978-0-13-450678-4) I always "knew" that mass data is evaluated for many things, but I had no idea how much I didn't know. That book - besides being an excellent reference for anyon
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by jleach82 6y ago
I completely disagree. A good full-stack dev knows SQL pretty well: at least well enough to be able to work through the general questions in the document. Good SQL skills are essential, and the lack of good SQL developers I would attribut
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by jleach82 6y ago
This isn't rote memorization at all. They're typical real-world problems to solve, and the point is to ensure the candidate can "think their way through" the problem to come up with a solution: not to come up with a sol
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by jleach82 7y ago
Uncle Bob is overrated. He's the personal embodiment of the "for dummies" series of the industry. Quick to say what everything should look like, he's given many people a false sense of direction by making no mention of
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by jleach82 7y ago
Last year I got an iPad, my first Apple device (I needed ForeFlight for flying, and it's only available for iPad). I downloaded a few manuals for ForeFlight, which apparently went to Books. I pulled one up in Books, spent a few minut