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by ljm 3y ago
Funnily enough my experience of politics was far worse in a larger, more established company than a smaller one. Maybe a different kind of politics, but it was toxic as fuck and my career was basically at the mercy of heads and directors th
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by ljm 3y ago
> Of course, the Scrum proponents will rush in and tell me that we were doing it wrong I don't think it's helpful in any discussion to try and pre-emptively dismiss people who might disagree. People have been doing that for the
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by ljm 3y ago
I've never really had the chance to try it, but buildah seems like a decent enough choice to build images using basic shell tooling. At least then you don't need to muck around with build-args or other limitations of the dockerfil
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by ljm 3y ago
In a professional context I would avoid both. I don’t want to join chat servers for various SaaS I pay for where I just want a simple support question answered. At least with a forum, the questions and answers are indexed so I might find ex
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by ljm 3y ago
In London I’ll just go into town and do high street shopping the old fashioned way. For anything too big or unwieldy then John Lewis is a safe bet and their return policy is great. In some cases I’ll just go direct to the brand or some othe
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by ljm 3y ago
I love how Amazon has gone from customer obsession to the lowest of the lowest common denominator. Easiest boycott of my life to stop buying tripe from them. They’ve successfully pivoted from customer obsession to obsessed customers.
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by ljm 3y ago
I'm in the UK so that kind of compensation package is completely unheard of. In London it's still feasible to pull in 100k+ without running the gauntlet.
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by ljm 3y ago
> It's always important to look at numbers before you get trapped in your bubble. The irony. I didn't realise that the UK (and in fact a large portion of Europe) wasn't part of the western world.
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by ljm 3y ago
The more experience you rack up in your career, the more likely you are to walk away from jobs with laborious hiring processes too. I will politely decline any opportunity that requires me to do multiple code and architecture tests and seve
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by ljm 3y ago
I love how the internet collectively discovers obscure git config and writes about it. I wrote this about 3 or 4 years ago detailing exactly the same: https://www.leemeichin.com/posts/conditional-git-config.html
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by ljm 3y ago
I was curious too, and I'm sure Rama is amazing for some use-case, but ultimately I think suffers from being more of a puff piece to market the tech. I don't want to be so dismissive right off the bat though. The author of this po
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by ljm 3y ago
Given the collab with Teenage Engineering, and the price, I think this is pretty much in line with the kind of stuff they do. Will it change the world? Unlikely. But there is definitely a niche that will love this, even if it's just fo
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by ljm 3y ago
May I suggest replacing the screenshots of code in your readme with just the code? I mean, it's hard to tell but it basically looks exactly like Rust but without lifetimes/borrow checks.
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by ljm 3y ago
I think people with an eye for design are going to be much more interested in showcasing that through their blog. In that sense it's pretty neat (and I'm curious about the Tailwind stuff used because I could see myself using that
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by ljm 3y ago
I wouldn't go that far; we all want to be lazy. Using it as a crutch and assuming everyone else uses GPT so it's all good - well, nobody is going to understand it any more. Half of the stuff GPT comes up with in the reviews I coul
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by ljm 3y ago
I just checked in Postico (Mac) and got a syntax error when trying to execute a statement when the one a few lines above wasn't terminated. Making newlines significant by default is... well, yeah. OP should beat themselves up a little
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by ljm 3y ago
Not quite in the same theme, but as far as gaming goes I'd put both videogamedunkey and MandaloreGaming there. Dunkey doesn't post hour long video essays, but I find that apart from the occasional filler and joke content, his focu
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by ljm 3y ago
I honestly didn't feel I'd be so emotionally moved by this send off, but here I am. When you're done you're done, and 10 years of persistent, meaningful and education videos(not merely 'content'), published wee
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by ljm 3y ago
The only thing I've used GPT for is generating commit messages based on my diff, because it's better than me writing 'wip: xyz' and gives me a better idea about what I did before I start tidying up the branch. Even if I
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by ljm 3y ago
I don't agree with your proposed solution (make all drugs legal), but I do think that the pharma industry in the US basically gets to socialise their losses while privatising the gains. The Sackler family's opioids, for example, h
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by ljm 3y ago
No, not even close :)
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by ljm 3y ago
It reminds me of one of my earliest ventures into freelancing, where all I had was a tiny VPS that supported PHP. I had to process a large spreadsheet which had maybe 5/10k entries in it. Small potatoes these days, compared to that tim
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by ljm 3y ago
Is the first Python example correct since it strips out non-alphanumeric characters? An errant space or punctuation in one half of the string will turn a non-palindromic string into a palindromic one. Never mind the lowercasing! def i
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by ljm 3y ago
It’s almost as if US legal systems actively facilitate cultural appropriation, particularly with DMCA generally being applied by brute force. Using US copyright law to protect an influencer’s appropriation of a 3000 year old name to market
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by ljm 3y ago
I'd say this is the typical case for most languages, especially if they try to compile the entire codebase and only report errors at the end. Take TypeScript, for example: if you bugger up a type definition or function call in one file
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by ljm 3y ago
It reminded me of orxata, which now gives me a craving
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by ljm 3y ago
I had a bit of a mental shift after I turned 30, realising I'd spent the best part of a decade building up my career in various ways. I'm still in the typical 9-5 job since I'm way too young to retire (and we don't get p
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by ljm 3y ago
I would still call it 'the spec' though because the RFC doesn't mean shit when incumbent mail providers are refusing to modernise email. The spec is just the most compatible way to send an HTML email. All that's required
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by ljm 3y ago
Plenty of powerful or unique alternatives were built and became popular over the years, only for them to be snubbed out by big tech acquisitions. Remember Sparrow? (acquired and killed by Google, turned into Inbox then killed again) Remembe
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by ljm 3y ago
Ever since the dawn of 'trickle down economics', wealth has only continued to be distributed upwards and is becoming increasingly concentrated at the top. This is because the cost of everything except labour has increased, forci

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