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by l0b0 8y ago
In my experience IRC is absolutely the worst place to ask technical questions. You have to be there at the same time as someone who knows the answer, you have to stick around and be ready to respond if someone replies, all the while multi-t
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by l0b0 8y ago
I did the offline check yesterday and wrote up how to do it: https://stackoverflow.com/q/54249403/96588
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by l0b0 8y ago
It's a problem similar to the tragedy of the commons - why should I pay for something when company X, my competitor to boot, would not only benefit but clearly has more money/uses the software more/whatever other reason I f
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by l0b0 8y ago
Folder Git[0], a quick hack to for example pull all my 100+ repos in one go. First version eight years ago, and I still use it every day. [0] https://gitlab.com/victor-engmark/fgit/blob/9575803b3bf277d5...
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by l0b0 8y ago
sudo pacman -S glhack
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by l0b0 8y ago
Don't scream please.
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by l0b0 8y ago
Extremely interesting to read how data availability is very often (in the military, no less) more useful than both confidentiality (because any eavesdroppers are unlikely to be able to act on the information quickly enough) and authenticity
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by l0b0 8y ago
Although I completely agree about the general premise, it's borderline intellectually dishonest to include a link to your own web site as a reference (the "infrastructure" link). Just include the direct references to third pa
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by l0b0 8y ago
My simple take on this is "holy shit yes!" Apps are the new desktop client, as far as I'm concerned, with their "innovative" UIs, inscrutable error modes, inevitable lack of support for still usable phones, and stup
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by l0b0 8y ago
This site reeks of amateur hour scam. > Purchase of NC_1 will be available through the Necuno Solutions web store (<necunos.com/shop/>) on 3rd of January 2019. And that URL is even unclickable. The Q&A page contains n
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by l0b0 8y ago
I believe GP's point was that this is a geneticist making very broad statements about IQ test results, a very much debatable measure of general intelligence, and using anecdotes like “people who have to deal with black employees” as a
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by l0b0 8y ago
As a Norwegian with no affiliation, a huge shout-out to Sbanken (earlier Skandiabanken) for providing anyone with no setup fee (at least when I got mine almost 20 years ago), free unlimited accounts, no credit or debit card fees (even abr
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by l0b0 8y ago
Related is something which bug me about online ratings: there is just no way to know which of the people who voted on a category of products have anything like the same idea of "quality" as you do. I've certainly bought absol
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by l0b0 8y ago
One thing I've found even better than code review is pair programming. At the recommendation of the tech lead we all did it for the four years at my last job, and it was a fantastic way to spread knowledge around. For thorny prpblems w
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by l0b0 8y ago
This fits really well with a pet peeve - that "data" is used by various frameworks to mean everything from a request body to file contents to a stream of database records. It is always possible to be more specific than "dat
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by l0b0 8y ago
This. Think code review: - Voluntary and encouraged. - If done at all competently, all involved learn something. The reviewers get familiar with some part of the system, and everybody learns from comments and their responses.
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by l0b0 8y ago
Even on a purely technical level every organization has unprovable things its members believe in. Challenging any of these openly is a surefire way to get told in office-ese to STFU noob. Quietly demonstrating that they were wrong results i
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by l0b0 8y ago
I specified "TortoiseSomething" rather than "TortoiseGit" because I specifically did not expect the developer to be familiar with all VCSes. This needs to be agreed upon in advance - it shouldn't be hard to create
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by l0b0 8y ago
I would give them opportunities to show their skills at real-world tasks: - Version control. Given a terminal (or Explorer with TortoiseSomething) and an existing project, make some simple changes and commit. - Testing. Given a simple piece
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by l0b0 8y ago
This. After 15 years as a professional developer I have a fairly good idea where my boundaries are, and that's about it. Expect to learn new things every day, and from every conceivable source: your fellow developers, junior and senior
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by l0b0 8y ago
An English translation would be interesting - all the jargon and abbreviations makes this hard to read.
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by l0b0 8y ago
Came to say the same thing. I'm not exactly an audiophile, but being able to listen to an audio book at less than 110% volume while walking next to a busy road is fantastic.
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by l0b0 8y ago
Something else that could make the placebo effect seem real: Only publishing positive results. There seems to be this unspoken agreement that once the efficacy of a treatment is shown in scientific studies there is no placebo "factor&q
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by l0b0 8y ago
At an earlier job we installed a VC history plugin (I don't know which one) to at least have basic history of configuration changes, but it had several problems: - It would often get into an unrecoverable state, and we would have to SS
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by l0b0 8y ago
Physical computing sounds like an incredibly limiting environment, like using FrontPage rather than HTML, CSS and JavaScript. How do you do anything abstract on a platform like this? How do you i integrate any two arbitrary pieces of softwa
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by l0b0 8y ago
Immediately, but only because most web sites think it's OK to show all of these things at once, making it a good 2 second task to work out which parts of the page is the content (if any).
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by l0b0 8y ago
While I agree it must be higher, the population does not consist of anywhere near 90%, let alone 99%, men over the age of 16.
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by l0b0 8y ago
Oh man, phone books. It's so weird that those are still delivered to possibly millions of households world wide. Why not save the environment a bit by asking to get off their delivery list?
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by l0b0 8y ago
I'm not an English native speaker, but I though "foo can be bar" was equivalent to " some foo are bar".
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by l0b0 8y ago
A recent experience from a hackerspace showed me how incredibly thankless people can be. After working really insanely hard to build an inclusive space with loads of features, every little hobby revolutionary in the community just shits all

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