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by ljm 3y ago
Aside from the occasional lunatic post the feed's been pretty decent for me. A lot of it can be noise but I think the fact that it's kind of basic and doesn't manipulate you into constant engagement is what makes it better -
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by ljm 3y ago
This is a useful thing to consider when using social media or, say, dating apps in general, come to think of it. Like you, the choice of messaging app is quite beside the point (except FB Messenger being out of the question for reasons I&#x
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by ljm 3y ago
The joy of LinkedIn is you don't need to spend your life scrolling through it. Go in, spend 5 seconds seeing what's new or if you have any non-spam messages, then close the tab. Ignore it for a week or two and repeat, no excessive
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by ljm 3y ago
Probably more about not caring than being proud - can't really call someone stupid for not caring about office productivity software when their profession couldn't be more distant from it. Not to mention - using tech and computing
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by ljm 3y ago
I don't think that's on Rails, more that people with less experience tend to use more indirection in their solutions because each step of the problem is seen as independent and breaking everything down into its own class or method
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by ljm 3y ago
Can't say I've ever heard the name in the UK, but also Evernote itself might as well have faded into total obscurity a long time ago.
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by ljm 3y ago
I feel like the embodiment of Confused Travolta when I'm holding an accessory and aimlessly trying to make contact with someone who isn't busy
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by ljm 3y ago
I do similar with K8S and RBAC. The most common action in a repo is going to be to update a deployment with a new image or resource config, so that’s all it can do. Still need a more permissive role to manage the cluster in other ways but y
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by ljm 3y ago
I would add that intuition and knowing how to question it is also vastly important. My main driver is Ruby - I have a good feeling about code that can be refactored to use Enumerable more effectively; but I also know that Enumerable offers
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by ljm 3y ago
I'm no fan of Meta/FB because of their attitude to privacy and their own brand of toxic social media on Facebook but it's hard to argue against the approach taken with the launch here. I don't believe the approach is con
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by ljm 3y ago
You need a few stinkers on your shelf to offset any suspicion that you don't actually read your books and just buy the ones that make you look intellectual from the background of your video call.
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by ljm 3y ago
The books themselves feel a bit flimsy though, compared to well-printed books that have a sturdier feel. They still cost £30+ each and the quality of the finished product doesn't really match up with the price. And we're not just
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by ljm 3y ago
One version of that even got its own jargon: acquihire. One incredible journey later and the product is already on the sunset.
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by ljm 3y ago
I tried uninstalling Adobe software from my PC a few weeks ago. Clicking on ‘uninstall’ booted up their cloud launcher app, and then I had to log in with an account, and then it had to install four or five different updates in sequence, and
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by ljm 3y ago
Uniqueness and the context is that we were modelling a chat conversation, so the limited precision presented issues with messages occasionally appearing out of order. That also applied to our test suite so the choice was to use KSUID but s
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by ljm 3y ago
As has been the case for the past 10 years or so, UX consistently plays second-fiddle to analytics.
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by ljm 3y ago
Like it or not, for some it’s also just their preference and they happen to have decision making power over it. Not everything is a conspiracy and some people do actually prefer working from the office. The problem is being offered that fle
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by ljm 3y ago
I’ve worked with ULIDs a bit but honestly haven’t operated at a scale where you might run into issues. And the main reason for choosing ULID was because I could only find experimental support for UUIDv6 or UUIDv7, and KSUID (another alterna
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by ljm 3y ago
I think they're saying that an honest man doesn't cover for anything, so there were no honest people left in Sodom. They couldn't even find 10 honest people. Similarly, an honest journalist doesn't cover for their newspa
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by ljm 3y ago
And doing the equivalent of partial compilation by just dragging and dropping your php install over FTP and telling it to ignore the unchanged files. Then writing .htaccess files everywhere to tell Apache what to do if you had a 'front
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by ljm 3y ago
I can also thank phpBB for kicking off my career. In the mid-2000s I spent a lot of time on a few specialist gaming forums, but also a webdev forum where I was sharing what I learned about XHTML and the new CSS with other newbies. JavaScrip
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by ljm 3y ago
When I finished reading this book I felt like Johnny Truant ruminating on a non-Euclidean house.
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by ljm 3y ago
With that amount of experience I imagine GPT is explaining stuff you already know and is thus saving you time. For something completely novel, or as someone with little experience, it’s going to be harder to get that kind of result in terms
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by ljm 3y ago
> I have been already working nearly at a burn-out level for many years to reach this comp. I think you might want to give yourself a break or change of scenery because your post sounds like the burnout is doing all the talking for you a
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by ljm 3y ago
Smaller companies can be happy with Ruby as it is while enjoying the incremental improvements. They're hardly going to invest in hiring C-proficient engineers to bolster the language - it's simply good enough to start a business f
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by ljm 3y ago
I'm not sure even that Reddit has a genuine value prop beyond being a new walled garden to gather data and serve ads. But it might be too big to truly fail, now, because newer generations of internet users have only experienced the feu
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by ljm 3y ago
I’ve had a lot of fun with Ruby’s support for functional paradigms but that stuff is unlikely to get through code review when the status quo tends towards ‘Clean Code’ style OOP over-abstraction. Ruby being a type 2 lisp is a fun one - crea
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by ljm 3y ago
This would be more elegant if there was a better way to do `&object.method(:method_name, …)`. Unbound method support has been around for a long time but converting a method call with arguments to a prod is still not simple to do… unle
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by ljm 3y ago
Yeah, I feel like there was a bit of an expectation mismatch around that. `using` makes a lot more semantic sense than `include` or `extend` in a lot of cases but it didn’t play out that way and we’re still living with the unusual conventio
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by ljm 3y ago
This reads a little too high on the conspiracy meter but regulation in the spirit of GDPR would be welcome (in which automated decision making with no human input is unlawful).

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