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by l_t 8y ago
I haven't used either, but I've seen Miniflux [0] and FreshRSS [1] recommended on HN before. [0]: https://miniflux.net/ [1]: https://freshrss.org/
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by l_t 8y ago
I don't see a strong reason for a software developer to need a phone: - Async communication (slack/email) can be checked at your computer. - Voice calls are usually done with your computer anyway. - If you are on call, an old-fash
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by l_t 8y ago
If you're already "serverless" (or want to be), it's not that easy to just "add a process". Usually if you're running a process, you're maintaining one or more virtual servers, which can be a lot more
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by l_t 8y ago
There are a couple Clojurescript interfaces to React: Om ( https://github.com/omcljs/om ) and Reagent ( https://reagent-project.github.io/ ) are two I'm familiar with. For an example of how a Clojures
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by l_t 9y ago
The JS code in question: console.log([1,2,3,4,5,6,7] ^ 2); This produces 2 because ^ is the bitwise XOR operator in Javascript. Arrays are not numeric types, so they appear to be coerced to 0 for this comparison. In short, they are effectiv
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by l_t 9y ago
I would try to think of it from a first-principles approach. You can begin with a blank slate, for instance, a single HTML file with a <script> tag. Only when "doing it yourself" becomes tedious do you start to look for libr
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by l_t 9y ago
Wow, sounds like some fascinating side effects (weirdly shroom-like, actually) that I definitely would not have expected. I guess they're vaguely related to "overstimulating" the parasympathetic nervous system. I'm &quot
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by l_t 9y ago
What kind of negative side-effects are you referring to? I've heard a fair number of people talk about high-level Yoga stuff being dangerous, but I've never really understood what they meant. Is it related to the suspension of bre
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by l_t 9y ago
On Android, you can open your Google account settings and disable their always-on location tracking "service". Of course, you have to take Google's word for it, and that doesn't stop GPS from working for apps like Maps w
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by l_t 9y ago
While I haven't personally worked at such a company, I've observed some "toxic" workplaces and found that typically it is, in fact, the senior staff who are the biggest part of the problem. Only certain types of people a
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by l_t 9y ago
I don't necessarily think his comments should be ignored, just treated like what they are: childish rants that don't have a strong connection to reality. Foreign governments are going to do what they do either way -- we are past
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by l_t 9y ago
Thanks for this, seems appropriately cutting. The whole situation has put Twitter in a weird place, and I can understand why they don't want to cut Donald off, but it's clear that this post is just "We don't want to&quot
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by l_t 9y ago
Sure -- AFAIK the problem was that Mailchimp was hacked, and the hacker was able to see and intercept the password reset links being sent to the customer by looking at Mailchimp log data. This option indicates that links should not be store
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by l_t 9y ago
It's the opposite. That is a link to the section of the Mandrill docs, not the Mailgun docs. The view_content_link option fixes the security problem. (In theory, anyway).
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by l_t 9y ago
I'm also not a DB expert, but I definitely think locality is a concern with UUIDs (at least in Postgresql, which stores records in sorted order). But, storage locality has always struck me as a use-case-specific optimization, in the se
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by l_t 9y ago
Good point. I imagine most smaller companies are specifically looking for people who can build things in a self-directed environment using the latest tech. Maybe it's only the larger, older orgs that care about legacy code wrangling. I
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by l_t 9y ago
How so? (edit: I wonder if we're talking about slightly different things here. The "notes" I'm referring to are primarily code commentary -- the same kind of material we cover in pair programming. As far as I know, we do
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by l_t 9y ago
Whether or not you feel proud about them, I would suggest trying to look at some of your accomplishments from a different perspective to see how they can actually be impressive. Things like cleaning up terrible legacy codebases are valuable
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by l_t 9y ago
IMO, there's an ethical upside as well. Doing the right thing is its own reward, emotionally speaking.
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by l_t 9y ago
Well, it depends. At my job, we do give feedback to all our candidates. Basically, we condense our notes about the candidate down to the most important points and send it to them. We've found that candidates appreciate getting this kin
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by l_t 9y ago
Devcards is great. A good alternative for non-CLJS apps is storybook: https://github.com/storybooks/storybook .
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by l_t 9y ago
If we can distinguish "progressive" and "regressive" ideas through reason, that can only happen with an open discussion that gives both sides' advocates equal, fair treatment. If an idea is universally considered re
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by l_t 9y ago
Can't agree on number 2, because it's a false dichotomy. The gender imbalance cannot be simplified to being because of any one specific cause (like a difference in personal interests). There is a whole cluster of causes, including
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by l_t 9y ago
The problem with Bash functions is that they aren't really functions -- more like subroutines. You can't even return a value from a Bash function (just a numeric status code). Most of the functions the author wrote wouldn't e
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by l_t 9y ago
I notice this as well. I think a lot of it comes down to modern society being so complex that most people are unwilling or unable to do anything "extra" like that, at least not regularly. Not only that, but companies and governmen
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by l_t 10y ago
Interesting that I don't see a single positive comment here. There's definitely an absurd amount of marketing-speak, but this seems like a good idea to me, and a logical progression for Creative Cloud. Photoshop (and probably othe
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by l_t 10y ago
An assertive person could easily say, firmly and with confidence, that "I don't have an opinion on this topic, because the evidence isn't definitive." If you can't do that, then there is something in your scenario
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by l_t 10y ago
Unless you want to focus exclusively on Web development, I wouldn't recommend picking Javascript as your first programming language. The ecosystem is fragmented, and the language itself is probably not the best for teaching. Have you c
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by l_t 10y ago
Excuse me? Did you even read the NYMag article you posted? Allow me to provide some quotes: "Now, as Hoffner and Salon surely know, things live forever on the internet, so you can still read the original Nickerson article here. And doi
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by l_t 10y ago
I think (good, thorough) documentation is probably a good example. Unnecessary early, when everything is in flux, but critical later, when there's too much for one person to know.

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