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by mabbo 4y ago
I think it's important to remember that Shopify doesn't have a singular ad product. It's a platform to build a web store on, and merchants can add whatever they want to their shop, but Shopify doesn't collect any data ac
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by mabbo 4y ago
String name = "Joan"; String info = STR."My name is \{name}"; I don't love it, to be honest. `STR` is a bit much. Requiring the \ for the first but not second brace. I want string templates in Java, but th
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by mabbo 4y ago
I need you to understand that I think about this comment all of the time . Every time someone asks for something ridiculous, I think "I could be making furniture out of wood". I doubt that I am alone in that.
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by mabbo 4y ago
A few years ago I was similarly burned out. A friend invited me to interview with his tech deployment team. I spent a really fun 18 months on it before coming back to coding. The job entailed flying on site to warehouses (Amazon), different
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by mabbo 4y ago
The greatest such story I've ever read is this one from a GitHub issue comment: https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149... > Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago. I no l
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by mabbo 4y ago
Most don't. There are some very talented recruiters that are very well-connected, very good at what they do, and very hard working, and they can make quite a bit of money. But most recruiters are working for one company or one agency o
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by mabbo 4y ago
Shopify's salaries are pretty competitive. They aren't "Bay Area" levels, but you can also live wherever you want, so your after-housing take home pay works out better. Amazon Toronto doesn't pay much better than Sh
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by mabbo 4y ago
For a decade at Amazon, nearly everyone I worked with was following the linear, expected path. High school, university, degree, FAANG job. Amazon basically didn't interview SDE1s unless they were new grads. For a number of years that p
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by mabbo 4y ago
If you want a fun read, "Delta V" by Daniel Suarez is a fantastic near-future hard scifi novel on the topic.
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by mabbo 4y ago
At some point in the next few decades, I expect to see humanity use this technology to divert an asteroid away from the Earth. And that's pretty neat. Chelyabinsk was only a 20m asteroid, yet thousands were injured and a lot of damage
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by mabbo 4y ago
> There are also technical issues to consider. Clocks run faster on the moon than on Earth, gaining about 56 microseconds each day, the space agency said. Further complicating matters, ticking occurs differently on the lunar surface than
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by mabbo 4y ago
I mean, I could accept that 2035 was 12 years from now. I cannot accept that 2011 was 12 years ago.
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by mabbo 4y ago
2035 is 12 years away. That's not immediately, but a significant number of politicians will still be around in 12 years.
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by mabbo 4y ago
Your CBC news link is dead. Looks like it got truncated?
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by mabbo 4y ago
That's where I read that! I had forgotten, but of course it was the delightful Bret Devereux. Still, that was just for iron . Steel requires even more energy- higher heat I believe?
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by mabbo 4y ago
I suspect steel making was one of those pieces of knowledge that got lost frequently. The reason: it's incredibly expensive, in terms of energy requirements. I have read that Roman legionaries, covered in armor, took acres of wood pe
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by mabbo 4y ago
I don't disagree that the balance is shifting towards "why is this taking so long". There's ebbs and flows in that ecosystem. But overall, I think you overestimate how much time you spend loading the website and how much
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by mabbo 4y ago
I think the author is taking general advice and applying it to a niche situation. > So by violating the first rule of clean code — which is one of its central tenants — we are able to drop from 35 cycles per shape to 24 cycles per shape
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by mabbo 4y ago
Market it however you want, but when I lived in Scotland I never watched anyone pour any into a glass, or close a bottle back up. They opened it. They drank it. Chaos followed.
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by mabbo 4y ago
It sounds as though you need to be more persistent. Keep replying. Ask to meet in person for an interview. Maybe see if any reporters would be interested in writing about your experience. Make it painful for the MP to be an asshole.
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by mabbo 4y ago
270mg of caffeine and 112ml of alcohol per 750ml bottle. Like three strong coffees and seven shots of vodka in a single serving. I truly think it ought to be taxed heavily to repay the costs that society bares for it's existence.
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by mabbo 4y ago
Is it? Have a look at this article from 2002: > With the cuts, the wholesale cost of a 733-MHz Pentium III drops 3 percent, from $776 to $754, while the 700-MHz version drops 3 percent from $754 to $733 in volume. https://www.
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by mabbo 4y ago
As others have already said, it's tidal locking. But to be more precise on what that means, on a long time scale, the rotation speed of one object orbiting another tends to either speed up or slow down until one side is always facing t
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by mabbo 4y ago
Incredibly damning of Microsoft if they were making deals after 2014 to help the Russian aggression against Ukraine. That they would still be participating in this deal is even worse.
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by mabbo 4y ago
Having only started using ruby professionally recently, I have a vague idea of what you mean about "what the syntax allows". But I'm curious if you have specific details? Are there good references for how I can make my cowork
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World of Warcraft did something that I've always found delightful: hidden stenographic watermarking on all screenshots. It took like a decade before anyone noticed, but all screenshots were very very very slightly modified to hide (in
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by mabbo 4y ago
There are so many different metrics that are important in a battery. wh/kg is a key one, definitely, but the standard Lithium Ion battery meets a bunch of important ones. What's the wh/volume? Maybe it's light but it&#x2
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by mabbo 4y ago
This case was the one with an Amicus Curiae brief from "The Onion"[0] > The Onion files this brief to protect its continued ability to create fiction that may ultimately merge into reality. As the globe’s premier parodists, The
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by mabbo 4y ago
I need to temper my excitement. What Webb is seeing is some red dots. We didn't expect to see those red dots (not so red, not so big, etc) but they're there. One interpretation is that these are older (more red shifted), larger (m
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by mabbo 4y ago
I thought it was 6% but my brain said "No, you're inflating that number. There can't be that many crazy people" but THERE ARE.

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