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by lbriner 4y ago
Something I read about in "Remote: Office not required" is a key issue and that is about having the means to measure productivity, even if very roughly or in comparison with colleagues in the same job. Many companies don't ha
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I'm not sure I share the view that Teams is terrible although I do occasionally have problems but I think it does share a lot of traits with modern software that I will call "spongeware" because it feels spongy. Back in the d
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by lbriner 4y ago
This article is from 2021 but this was on HN 5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16166419
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This is a common fallacy imho that if I am a good dev, I can easily cross-train. I have been writing C# almost exclusively for around 20 years and I am still learning tricks/tips/gotchas and not just for new language features. Tha
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by lbriner 4y ago
I agree. It's like when MS tell everyone just to "upgrade to dotnet 6" or 7 or whatever! Most of us don't have the funding, skills, time, priority to rewrite all of our old web forms apps even if we wanted to. Who is goi
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by lbriner 4y ago
Appeal to authority is when you claim something is true just because an "authority" said so. MR is clearly expressing an opinion and reasons for it and it is up to you to decide whether his experience qualifies him to make such bo
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"just use"! What if the API is shared between multiple domains? Do you need to reverse proxy it everywhere? What if it is a public API for third-party sites?
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Yes but 1) You would need a proxy to redirect the /api path to another application and 2) The API could easily be hosted separately so you would send your request via the main origin server just for it to actually go somewhere else. 3)
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by lbriner 4y ago
There still seem to be some many basics that FB and YouTube get wrong with their "automatic" video moderation. Use people's "report" button clicks as an early indicator that something should be looked at - a big fla
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I am still genuinely amazed about what was achieved in this era, bearing in mind that these things took years to develop so started much earlier when most people probably had never heard of a transistor. Despite the infancy of the industry,
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Yeah, I think that if this is the conclusion, at least partially, you might as well open the article with, "I have started a Community starter hub for people doing X and I want to explain why I believe it is useful"
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"Also considered safer"? The article is interesting and the solution great but saying it is safer because Rust is misleading. I wrote a Rust milter for Postfix incorrectly and although it didn't crash as such, it completely d
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I think this is a meme, the idea that someone is always going to decide to pay X million in fines instead of paying for security. The problem, surely, is that there is no "right answer" to what you need for security, no 100%, thin
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What happens is that as a company scales to this sort of size, all kinds of shortcuts are made, all kinds of compromise decisions are made because there is still little non-financial cost for getting it wrong. Imagine deciding to add some e
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by lbriner 4y ago
Then here's an idea. Have a profile picture and have a person picture. You can change one and not the other. You're welcome Twitter, no need to thank or pay me (unless you want to of course!)
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Agreed. There is an obvious downside to how cheap it is nowadays to "publish" something, whether on social media, in a blog or in something resembling a book, we are now surrounded by low-quality content and it can be hard to tell
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That's the thing. No-one wondered why they might want Crypto, the question was always "Why Bitcoin"? There are many deep subtle questions about Economics, even with stablecoins but the choice of Bitcoin was way off base, the
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Not someone who was specifically going to the event to protest though, so he could have read the room and stayed quiet. If protest is to make a point, it doesn't seem like the right thing to do amongst people who presumably support the
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by lbriner 4y ago
These articles annoy me. They pluralise it to try and make it sound like a large and worrying problem (I think there have been 3 cases). They also imply that somehow protest against the Monarchy is being stamped out when the most obvious an
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by lbriner 4y ago
I think there are lots of things that a Senior should be better at, in fact anything that is part of the job: * More emotionally mature * More pragmatic * More business aware * More recruitment aware * Better at whatever process you are run
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"HTML emails are mainly used for marketing - that is, emails you probably don't want to see in the first place." Stops reading.
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This is a strawman. How does plain text stop people abusing a medium?
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The Monarch has no power to force an opinion but that is not the point. Having a safe and secret place for a PM to discuss difficult situations with somebody who has probably seen most of them before is immensely powerful. I know some belie
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I think a struggle in many other countries, including the UK, is that the housing stock is old and was not built for energy-efficiency. We have Extinction Rebellion going on about insulating all the houses in Britain but this is not practic
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This is true but what is more shocking is that the powers-that-be in each of the major countries haven't been able to sit down and say: Nuclear option: Environment cost, land cost, resource cost, availability of materials etc. Renewabl
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> Get ready for a nice bandwidth bill if anyone actually watches your videos! This 100% I looked into it before and understandably, the badnwidth you can be using up for a relatively small amount of videos is always going to be pretty ex
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Just to nitpick, Plurals CAN have an apostrophe if it makes a word readable that is otherwise hard to read like MOT'S https://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punctuation/apostrophe/...
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How is it not the Government's business to manage supply to the entire country and step-in where people are not looking out for each other. That said, I think the idea is mostly unworkable, it would be much better to look at difference
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What is interesting is that microselectronics seems to have improved almost every aspect of our lives except the ability to drive down the cost of semiconductor fab machines. They were saying that a single wafer etching machine could cost $
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There are groups trying to solve the problem of drilling deep enough to tap into geothermal in countries that don't have fissures useable enough for this like NZ and Iceland. At the depths we can currently get to, we are looking at hea

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