manyxcxi

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by manyxcxi 11y ago
I've had two MBPs since 2007/8 and the first one still works just fine- in fact it works great with upgraded RAM and an SSD. The second is a late 2014... I was on a 2 year cycle with my PC laptops. Batteries, screens, the fact tha
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
BULLSHIT I live in the command line and use a modern toolchain. Package management has no bearing on my development. mvn, npm, composer, gem, and pip all work just fine. Home brew gets you the OS packages and I've yet to run into an ev
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
A 2007 (maybe 2006) HP EliteBook was the last non MacBook Pro laptop I had. I loved that thing and it was incredibly easy to add my own RAM and an SSD to. Pretty sure it maxed out at 8GB. I'm sure they're sleeker now but that thin
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
Was that in the story? Did I miss that part somehow? This makes way more sense and is certainly less inflammatory than just sending out debt collectors with military gear. Thanks for the clarification.
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
That's definitely true for me. If I'm writing a traditional web app using a language or framework I'm very familiar with then there the difference between 10% and 100% in cleanliness is nearly negligible. But those aren'
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
Random thought... Sending in a team of marshals to fetch a guy that owes $1,500- aren't you spending more than that to pay for all these people's time? If the aim isn't just to collect debts, but to send a message- what messa
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
I think you mean property tax. Income tax would not have anything to do with their property (unless they were renting it out).
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
I have a $60 no name generic z-wave thermostat that when paired to my Wink Hub (could be any z-wave compatible hub though) I get nearly all of the functionality of Nest with none of the headaches. It runs on a schedule I define instead of
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
I disagree on the phrasing. When I'm teaching beginners or juniors in a school or professional environment, as I said, I hammer that it doesn't have to be perfect. It never will be. Don't over engineer things. But everything
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
When I use the word done I mean done to the point that I'm marking the task/project/module done and telling someone it's done. It's not like a PM is checking the CI server and noticing the build is green and the uni
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
Yes yes yes. When I'm coaching junior developers (or developers that like over engineering) this is what I try hammering home more than anything. If you looked at my code at 10-70% solution complete you'd find so many egregious DR
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
To be fair about Interfaces and implementations- when you're using DI and Aspects, or really any type of framework that is going to be proxying your classes it is a good idea to code to an Interface, even if you only have one implement
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
So if I had to call in to the IRS and I had to wait on hold forever, would it be because this service is already tying up the lines ahead of me? I'm totally okay with Task Rabbit/On Demand type scenarios where I pay someone to dia
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Clever bank hack allowed crooks to make unlimited ATM withdrawals(arstechnica.com)
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
EXACT same experience. I bought the VZW Galaxy Nexus. Within a month I had 4 batteries as well. Not receiving text messages with low cell signal and WiFi enabled, couldn't get more than 4 hours of battery in LTE, so many radio issues.
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
I've never worked for a company with a sales organization that had a blatant disregard for what we could do, but everywhere I've ever worked there was usually a promise of something that we couldn't quite do out of the box, o
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
> Shifting IT/development staff to contractors is going to decrease the sense of ownership in the project which means the level of care and concern about the success of the project are going to decline I could not agree more. I have
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
I've only had one iPhone cable come apart on me and my power cable from my Thunderbolt Display shows some wear but I've never had a cord for any of my MBPs get loose or breakdown in any way. I've got at least two bricks/
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
Totally agree. I get people love to bash on whatever, but the author actually taught me a few things I didn't know. Well written, good examples of bad and better ways of doing things, I think this provided meaningful information.
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
What decisions are they making for you? It's your decision to opt in to their system by buying. As a technologist you have a good idea how to spot the crappy ones that can put you at risk- or would just (rightly) assume that something
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Ransomware Hits Three Indian Banks, Causes Millions in Damages(news.softpedia.com)
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
I'm definitely outgoing- I have no problem making myself the butt of a joke to get the laugh, but at the same time I'm not so outgoing that I'm one of those guys who could go on a trip by himself and make five new best friend
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
In my mind (has a hobbyist EE geek) I see the value that some of the things can provide. But just like you implied, the value is in spot use cases. 'Smart' TVs and fridges are a great example- sure the crap you bundled in to my TV
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
1. My wage is different now that I run my own companies, but the most I ever made as a developer or architect was well over $150k. 2. What pushed me there was a combination of things: - I am really good at software development and architect
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
To add: I write Java, Node, PHP, and Python primarily. I used Windows for years, but was alway frustrated by the differences of my development environment and my deployment environment (Linux web servers). Also the complete shitshow of comm
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
I agree with that. I'm much more in favor of punishing harshly when the mess up happens and could've been avoided but for willful negligence than trying to write a bunch of catch all regulations before we have a problem. I think,
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
I wholeheartedly disagree about letting regulators have anything to do with technology. It moves too fast and has too many interpretations to be codified into common sense law, leaving just the big pocket corps to write the regulations just
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
We use DeployBot for a whole host of different projects and I love it. EC2, ElasticBeanstalk, and DigitalOcean deployments with everything from Worspress, Java, Node, and Laravel projects. It's really nice how flexible it has been. Als
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
If you're just now looking into xdebug, how could you know the differences or make a valid comparison? For one, you can remote debug way easier than with JVM debuggers. For the 80% use case it is just as easy/just as useful. The J
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
Just because you've come across a shit code base doesn't make PHP an awful language. I've come across many more terrible Ruby projects than I have PHP. The fact that you think Ruby had better tooling and support than PHP, the

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