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by jmcgough 9y ago
I had a similar experience with a bug in a SaaS product that integrated with bank websites. They would send us the user ID and we would use that to determine whose account to log them into on redirect (and create a new account for the user
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by jmcgough 9y ago
> But otherwise, be clear-eyed: elections have consequences. We elected the party of deregulation. Take the bad with whatever the good is, and work to flip the House back. What I'm bitter about is that my vote, as a californian, is
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by jmcgough 9y ago
I can understand believing that, and it's likely true for some people. I don't think that all people with BPD are the same though - there's a wide range of severity, and comorbidity. She was actually the one who told me that
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by jmcgough 9y ago
I think it depends entirely on whether they're willing to work on it, and how they act when they're in a bad state. I have a partner with BPD, and she's put a lot of effort into getting better (and I've seen real progres
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by jmcgough 9y ago
Quit my day job, work on ideas for companies, build OSS.
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by jmcgough 9y ago
Codewars isn't being maintained very well. Some of the languages aren't current - their version of Elixir is over a year old, and they have no plans to upgrade it.
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by jmcgough 9y ago
Yeah, the intro is spot on - unhappy office worker leaves for a farm.
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by jmcgough 9y ago
I always keep mine on DND, but I find that I impulsively check news sites and social media. It puts me in this constant state of never really being bored, so I'm less likely to pursue new and interesting things (reading books, practici
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by jmcgough 9y ago
Like them or not, the NYT and WashPo do some of the best, factual investigative journalism in the world. Have they been wrong? Sure. But they have extremely high standards for publishing a story, so you can generally assume that they'r
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by jmcgough 9y ago
It's even more concerning now, considering how much control and visibility into our lives companies have, thanks to mobile phones and digital tracking.
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by jmcgough 9y ago
It's easy to dehumanize people when they live thousands of miles away, and are comparatively wealthy.
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Or even just install a porn blocker on the machine. He'd probably move to using his phone or something, but at least it isn't the same machine he does finances on.
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by jmcgough 9y ago
Me too. Being a script kiddy in those days was super fun.
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by jmcgough 9y ago
This seems more like an ad for DalmatinerDB. It's just weird to come up with a ranking and then (of course) give your DB first place. It does seem like an interesting tsdb though, love that it's built on riak.
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by jmcgough 9y ago
I thought it was just me - was about to head to a cafe. On comcast here in Berkeley FWIW.
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by jmcgough 9y ago
When Australia made it harder to get a gun, their deaths by suicide dropped significantly, even moreso than gun homicides in fact. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2704353/
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by jmcgough 9y ago
rails contributors actually, the core ruby contributors are all japanese afaik
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by jmcgough 9y ago
I've met a lot of extremely talented Elixir devs, and Elixir enthusiasts who're eager to work with the language full-time. You're actually in a really good position if you're looking to hire Elixir devs, because there&#x
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by jmcgough 9y ago
Elixir is a lot more readable for newbies (especially people with a Ruby background), which is what I assume they mean by "user friendly". Elixir also has some nice libraries as well... one I've been digging into recently is
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by jmcgough 9y ago
Phoenix is frankly a lot more than Rails. If you pop open observer on a running phoenix app (:observer.start), you'd see that it's actually a collection of dozens of processes. The power of phoenix is that it's really just th
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by jmcgough 9y ago
Tesla has been waging an internal war against union formation, so wouldn't surprise me if they were firing people they saw as pushing unionization.
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Habitica
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by jmcgough 9y ago
The people using Interviewing.io are typically using it as a means of practicing interviews in a low-pressure setting. Their goal isn't to get offers from companies, but if it leads to that, I'm sure they don't mind. Also, th
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by jmcgough 9y ago
also obligatory :) http://phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1174
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by jmcgough 9y ago
> On a related idea, 10-15 years ago, the news media was full of stories reporting on how doctors were underprescribing pain medicines. I remember around the same time, there were tons of stories about how malpractice lawsuits were out o
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by jmcgough 9y ago
People already know CEO salaries for publicly traded companies, and there's been no uprising.
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by jmcgough 9y ago
We're spending a quarter billion a year on a homeless population of about 7,500, so about $33,000 per person per year. Just because we have a problem doesn't mean that we should ignore all of our other problems. They can both be a
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by jmcgough 9y ago
I did the same, as well as using a chrome extension to block my feed on the non-mobile version. It's been a great decision.
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by jmcgough 9y ago
I started using a habit tracking app. I've always had things I've wanted to stick with (eating healthier, learning a second language, learning how to solve CS-heavier algorithm problems), and this has helped incentivize me to do a
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by jmcgough 9y ago
Was it hard to make the transition? I wish I could get rid of my smart phone, but I'm so dependent on lyft, my gps, etc, that it's hard to separate the addictive parts from the parts that are really useful.

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