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by jtdev 6y ago
We must start asking: is this good for the bottom line and the country. Fiduciaries, including business executives are currently required to do everything within the law to maximize profits for shareholder - even if that means doing thing
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by jtdev 6y ago
Avoiding rust atm myself. Just seems too clever for its own good.
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by jtdev 6y ago
Love this quote: "Imagine an operating system where all software development must be done in QBasic; it's an operating system that downloads, installs and executes any program the moment it is encountered, without your permission,
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by jtdev 6y ago
If the IDE broadly reduces the efficiency of developers, and causes developers to waste time contorting their workflow to the IDEs poorly conceived approach to doing things - especially in relation to other IDEs... I'd say that's
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by jtdev 6y ago
Theia developers: The Eclipse brand in the IDE/code editor world is toxic to many developers; You may want to disassociate Theia from Eclipse if you’re hoping for wide usage or pulling devs away from VS Code.
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by jtdev 7y ago
Every developer that works with relational data should learn the basics of ANSI SQL and at least one or two of the major SQL platforms (Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, etc.). It’s really not that complicated (if you can figure out redux...) an
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by jtdev 7y ago
Yes, and that AD LDAP interface is riddled with MS specific deviations that require complying with MS’s way of doing LDAP.
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by jtdev 7y ago
Is it possible that China is actually gleaning foreign IP from Zoom customers?
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by jtdev 7y ago
For one product...? I’m sure they have a great deal of internal software and versions for numerous OS and platforms - but we’re not talking about a company with hundreds of consumer facing software products.
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by jtdev 7y ago
This is cunning PR diversionary bullshit.
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by jtdev 7y ago
You mean the .vscode dir? Yeah, that typically contains 2 incredibly sparse , readable, and useful files... the same cannot be said for Eclipse workspaces in my experience.
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by jtdev 7y ago
If it has borrowed any concepts from Eclipse IDE (like workspaces and hidden dirs stuffed with XML)... it’s a hard pass for me.
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by jtdev 7y ago
Not sure what your point is... are you defending Zoom's behavior here?
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by jtdev 7y ago
Fuck these guys. This isn't the first time they've been caught being dishonest and deceptive: https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/daily-news-roundup-mac-exploit...
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by jtdev 7y ago
Seems like maybe there are systemic issues with the economy...maybe concentrating wealth in the hands of so few doesn’t make for a robust economy that can handle some punches.
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by jtdev 7y ago
Don’t blame the drunk driver, blame the auto manufacturer...
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by jtdev 7y ago
Yeah, WHO seems to have lost some credibility during this crisis as well...
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by jtdev 7y ago
I find it incredibly hard to believe that China has stopped community spread within the country - I hope I’m wrong, but I think we’re getting PRC propaganda when we hear about “all new cases we’re imported”.
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by jtdev 7y ago
There’s zero evidence that I can find showing that a single N95 mask is actually currently manufactured in the U.S. Quote from a Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal article related to the mask manufacturing ramp up at 3M for COVID19:
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by jtdev 7y ago
Quote from a Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal article related to the mask manufacturing ramp up at 3M for COVID19: “‘We're seeing increased demand for our respiratory protection products, and we're ramping up our product
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by jtdev 7y ago
Does 3M actually manufacture masks in Minnesota, or anywhere in the U.S. for that matter? Or do they simply buy masks from a white-labeler overseas?
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by jtdev 7y ago
U.S. leaders of industry along with our political establishment have undermined American security by outsourcing the production of critical resources to an authoritarian, communist nation (China). It’s high time we wake up and hold these pe
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by jtdev 7y ago
Can we all agree that outsourcing the production of critical medical supplies to China over recent decades was a bad idea? I understand the “golden arches” theory, and the intent if globalism, but I feel that COVID19 has revealed what a sho
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by jtdev 7y ago
We’re not talking about Coca-Cola Corporation there buddy, we’re talking about non franchise restaurants, bars, hotels, salons, etc. A year of no income for these businesses will cripple them, and coming back to a mountain of debt (even if
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by jtdev 7y ago
Yes, being healthy is enjoyable. Sometimes protecting ones health means not doing those things that provide superficial, temporary feelings of joy (junk food, artificial sweeteners that could lead to cancer and other health issues, smokin
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by jtdev 7y ago
I like smoking a pack of cigarettes a day and eating candy bars - I'll just switch to vaping and granola bars so I can still do what I enjoy.
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by jtdev 7y ago
Again... WTF
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by jtdev 7y ago
Great job burying the true cost at the bottom of the article: “Jennifer Kates, the director of global health and HIV policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation, said in a phone interview, ‘there could be other costs incurred.’ Visits to the doc
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by jtdev 7y ago
Oh, and many of these 45000 attendees are in fact healthcare workers! So following the event, any attendees exposed to COVID19 are likely to bring it back to the healthcare facilities and communities where they work, creating many additiona
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by jtdev 7y ago
Seems like social distancing and a recommendation from the CDC of cancelling mass gatherings of > 5000 would be a great measure to slow the waves of infection that are likely to hit and overwhelm healthcare systems if such measures are n

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