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by jsdalton 5y ago
It’s also the time that most closely aligns solar noon to clock noon. People who advocate for “summer time all the time” basically just want to wake up earlier but want clocks to trick them into doing it. (The more legitimate argument is fo
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by jsdalton 5y ago
For #4, I know for a fact that my wife’s WhatsApp automatically stores pictures you send her to her iCloud. So the grey blob would definitely be there unless she actively deleted it.
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by jsdalton 6y ago
Out of curiosity where are you finding high returns on capital today? I just don’t see them. (As an engineer, conversely, I see very high returns on my labor.)
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by jsdalton 6y ago
You're not the only one. What you describe is actually hypothesized in the concept of the "uncanny valley effect": "...as the appearance of a robot is made more human, some observers' emotional response to the robot
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by jsdalton 6y ago
The person who wrote the article is named John DeFeo, while the username of the HN submitter is josephjrobinson. While it is possible they are the same person, it seems unlikely. This seems to be a common mistake on HN, and I point it out b
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by jsdalton 6y ago
As someone who absolutely needed sugar in coffee before I considered it drinkable, I can tell you that you can wean yourself off it. It took me several months before I stopped noticing its absence but nowadays I don’t miss it. I still use m
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by jsdalton 6y ago
The “whys” here all sound sensible, but I’d be even more interested in _how_ people are implementing a process around ADRs, where you’re keeping them, etc. At work we have a decent PR template that prompts people to provide context, alterna
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by jsdalton 6y ago
Interesting observation, although it should be noted that in the case of infrastructure, the future generations that are obligated to pay for its construction will also be in a position to reap its benefits.
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by jsdalton 7y ago
There appears to be far more details on the main website: https://www.asyncapi.com/ Not sure why the Github repo was submitted.
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by jsdalton 7y ago
I have for the most part stopped using the term technical debt, especially when talking to non engineers. There are many reasons why I believe it is an exceptionally poor term, not the least of which being that, unlike monetary debt, techn
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by jsdalton 7y ago
Which book?
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by jsdalton 7y ago
Is that 99% of software all the same? Like, have you really not observed huge differences in the readability of the code you encountered? Have you not found that sometimes it is painful (or close to impossible) to extend or build more featu
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by jsdalton 7y ago
It’s a nice thought. But imagine there was a giant flood in your neighborhood, and your solution was to grab a spoon from the kitchen and start scooping spoonfuls town the drain. Maybe your example would inspire your neighbors to reach into
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by jsdalton 7y ago
Hard disagree. That’s like not taking someone’s position against excessive government budget deficits seriously because they don’t voluntarily pay excess taxes to pay down the debt. Climate change is a collective problem and will _only_ be
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by jsdalton 7y ago
The Peter Principle has always struck me as an unnecessarily pessimistic way of looking at the world. Why should we find it surprising that when workers are promoted into a role with a greater -- and often vastly different -- responsibiliti
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by jsdalton 8y ago
Amazing that the entirety of human civilization as we know it fits in a smaller time scale than the very first event on this timeline (10,000 years from now). So while these time spans are minuscule on an astronomical scale, they are enormo
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by jsdalton 8y ago
I often repurpose a famous quote from Mark Twain (about letter writing) for the topic of simplicity: > I didn't have time to write a simple program, so I wrote a complicated program instead. This is in my experience more than just a
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by jsdalton 9y ago
I wear a T-shirt (under my jacket in winter) and bring a shirt to change into in my backpack. My T-shirt is usually pretty sweaty but once I change into a fresh shirt it’s fine.
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by jsdalton 9y ago
Interesting that the author highlights CodeClimate's "support" of TODO comments via the FixMe engine. The problem is that the TODOs get flagged as failures in the context of a pull request and require a manual override. The o
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by jsdalton 10y ago
> Everyone in my bubble is a customer of either Sparkasse, Volksbank or ING DiBa. As an aside, do you have any opinion on the merits of these institutions for personal banking? (I assume you are in Germany.)
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by jsdalton 10y ago
Yes, I like this approach and it creates the opportunity for a hybrid approach between stateless JWT tokens and stateful sessions: * JWT tokens can have a "short" expiration time, as you suggest, and within that time can be used i
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by jsdalton 11y ago
Services such as the one you describe do exist, e.g. [Contentful]( https://www.contentful.com/ ). I've used it on a few projects and it's pretty awesome. The only thing it's missing from your description is gra
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by jsdalton 12y ago
Perhaps surprisingly -- or perhaps not -- a strong plurality of Americans actually think prison life is "too easy": https://today.yougov.com/news/2014/07/21/many-americans-thin...
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by jsdalton 12y ago
6) Insulin response. Carbohydrates trigger insulin production, which causes cells to store more fat. See http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/opinion/sunday/always-hung...
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by jsdalton 13y ago
While true, the actual data presents a different picture: http://i.imgur.com/FXMlOZB.png [source: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind14/content/chapter-7/c07.... ] So actually, the U.S.
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by jsdalton 13y ago
I'm not sure why you're referring to it as a "joke." Humans.txt is definitely an earnest effort to standardize a means of giving the people behind building and maintaining a website credit for their work.
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by jsdalton 13y ago
That's really sucky, but I'm surprised that they didn't give the opportunity to download the source content? We got the exact same notice but were given 30 days to download our videos. This is the relevant part of the email I
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by jsdalton 13y ago
Or another way of looking at it: "You Ain't Gonna Need It" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it )
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by jsdalton 13y ago
Do you have good tests? I've done this pretty recently and it got somewhat messy -- though I had great test coverage on the project that I upgraded, so it probably only took a day or so. The main road bump I hit was Django Piston. It&#
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by jsdalton 13y ago
Thanks that's actually a helpful tip. It doesn't quite solve the whole problem for me, which is that: * I like to scan conversation threads (of all conversations I'm having presently, not just those involving a single perso

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