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by macNchz 6y ago
Yeah after years of company-issued Macbook Pros I built myself a Ryzen 3900x dev machine last year and it was like waking up from one of those dreams where you need to do something urgently but your legs aren't cooperating. Given the b
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by macNchz 6y ago
It’s also just a more enjoyable experience to run Linux on hardware that’s actually supported...I’ve been using Macs since I was a kid in 1993, and have at some point or another run Linux on each of them. It has pretty much always been easy
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by macNchz 6y ago
See also: https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox
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by macNchz 6y ago
I've had an iPhone since 2009 and I'm definitely familiar with the "time traveling" effect of upgrading phones, but I think it has diminished a lot as the technology has matured. I've been using a 6S since 2015 (thi
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by macNchz 6y ago
I switched a high traffic Flask web app to PyPy a couple of years ago and we saw substantially faster response times across the board, and much higher task throughput from our background worker machines, many of which were pegged 24/7.
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by macNchz 6y ago
Code review and protected master are certainly important but not infallible. If I were a malware author with code running on an owned dev machine and my goal was to sneak code into a repo, I can think of a bunch of strategies that might inc
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by macNchz 6y ago
Yeah, I imagine this pressure from the top had something to do with the "90 hour weeks" cited in the thread...I've never worked in an org as large as Uber, but personally I have made some very bad engineering choices when in
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by macNchz 6y ago
> All gas stoves should be below a hood with a ducted outside vent, the more powerful the better. To my understanding, installing a very powerful stove hood in a tightly sealed house without proper consideration for a make-up air intake
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by macNchz 6y ago
I came across a pretty gross corner of this Google/IAC interplay a while ago. I was looking into the sources of our worst-quality paid traffic by various performance metrics, and found lots if of it coming through ads served on Google
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by macNchz 6y ago
Even my 5 year old passive-cooling Core m3 12" Macbook streams Netflix for hours on battery without getting hot.
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by macNchz 6y ago
Yeah I love my Instinct...great as a basic everyday watch (always on, easy to read, never have to think about charging it), full-featured as a GPS running watch, nice addition in the backcountry as it integrates with my inReach satellite de
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by macNchz 6y ago
I got a kick out of the sample interview questions...if I were asked them, my answers make clear the worst part about this kind of culture: >>> What’s the hardest you’ve ever worked on something? Lead-up to the holiday season as an
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by macNchz 6y ago
Yeah I pulled out d3 for a project recently, having used it before–quite a bit at one point–but not for several years. I just wanted to browse some basic examples for the current version, to refresh my memory and familiarize myself with the
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by macNchz 6y ago
Yeah my GPS watch syncs to several apps including Strava because my friends use it, but Smashrun is so much more interesting and valuable for understanding trends and patterns in my fitness. I had a premium Strava subscription for a while,
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by macNchz 6y ago
Yes I think you described this approach well. I've worked on a bunch of things built this way... as an overall approach it will certainly minimize the chance that you waste time building something totally un-sellable. On the other hand
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by macNchz 6y ago
Quite possibly, I did first play with Perl about 15 years before encountering jq. Some days I do feel as though my head is simply out of room, as my brain has been replaced by a large heap of curly braces, semi colons and stack traces.
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by macNchz 6y ago
I've seen these popping up in NYC but never used one: https://www.printwithme.com/
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by macNchz 6y ago
I spend a decent amount of time at the command line wrangling data files. It's fun for me to get clever with other tools like awk and perl when stringing together one liners and I enjoy building my knowledge of these tools, but jq has
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by macNchz 6y ago
I'm a big CLI user, but my primary gripe with these sorts of interfaces vs a GUI is when they have a huge number of nested sub commands. I often find myself searching through the tree of possibilities running --help on every single lev
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by macNchz 6y ago
Perhaps when submitting a password on a domain you've never been on before? I think that'd be super useful, actually.
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by macNchz 6y ago
Absolutely, if you're generating any kind of ad-hoc reports for biz/marketing folks it is often a much better to implement it in a way that they understand and update than to write your own code to produce it. "Paste the expo
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by macNchz 6y ago
Perhaps inspired by this story of a similar nature from 2014: https://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/87573867759/success-how-nyc...
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by macNchz 6y ago
I think the most common reason I’ve had in the past was to connect to the RabbitMQ web admin while dealing with some emergent issue with task throughput, a common problem area with hacked together web apps that start to get real traffic. It
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by macNchz 6y ago
A likely culprit. Having worked on a bunch of early-stage products where best practices are a distant future dream, I’ve developed a few “seatbelt” habits I use to avoid these kinds of things. One of them is to always use a random high-numb
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by macNchz 6y ago
My experience using a few similar competing platforms as a renter is that none of the management company employees using it ever seem to actually know how to operate it. I've seen it a few times, but one case really stands out–A few ye
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by macNchz 6y ago
A few years ago while working on a big redesign of a high traffic web app used by people on a variety of devices–where maintaining conversion rates was critical to the project–I bought my team a handful of the cheapest current-gen Android d
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by macNchz 6y ago
Given their tracking pixels are installed on at least 8 million websites(1), they are effectively watching everything you do on a large proportion of popular/commercial websites. They were also caught a few years ago asking users to &q
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by macNchz 6y ago
This is handy, thanks! Definitely one of those things I wind up badly/slowly reinventing the boilerplate for every time.
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by macNchz 6y ago
That’s awesome–glad it was helpful back in the day! Honestly I totally agree about iTunes 10, I‘ve come to mostly dislike the current iTunes but never thought to try downgrading. I still maintain my iTunes library with play counts and metad
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by macNchz 6y ago
It’s funny how trends change but Apple users’ appetite for icons stays the same...10 years ago Apple made the navigation icons in iTunes greyscale instead of color. I wasn’t sold on it so I fired up ResEdit and quickly edited the old icons

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