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by manyxcxi 8y ago
Pretty much same, the Wink integration lets us turn on/off lights and do other things like “Turn on Movie Theater” which dims certain lights and turns off all others. We use Alexa to play music when we just want something going in the
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by manyxcxi 8y ago
Except you’re implying that they are doing better in the first place... Look, I’m pretty much an obsessive workaholic myself (getting better now that we’ve got kids) and I was making about 5x of what my wife was making when I met her. She’s
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by manyxcxi 8y ago
Serious question: what games would you fine folks recommend to get my kids started with modding? The oldest loves Minecraft, Zelda BoTW, and Smash Bros on the switch. I’ve built a Raspberry Pi Retropie NES clone and they’re all over super b
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by manyxcxi 8y ago
I’ve seen people suggest this and then the horror on other engineers faces that follows. In my opinion, the difference between a good eng/dev and a great one is that they recognize when the effort is too big to chew in one bite, too un
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by manyxcxi 8y ago
CloudFlare makes their money differently than Google though. Google wants figure out how to most efficiently put other people’s ads in front of me, and to sell my attention for the most value. Even if they have absolutely no ulterior motive
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by manyxcxi 8y ago
Contact is in the profile, reach out and I’ll make the time.
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by manyxcxi 8y ago
> you also had a good client I had a fantastic client. I don’t know if it’s because the rigging industry is full of “holy sh , we gotta think on our feet” situations or what, but for a seemingly “low tech” client they grasped on to an i
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by manyxcxi 8y ago
> Watch them work. This x1000! I took on a freelance project for a heavy machinery hauling company. They were a year into transitioning away from some customized off the shelf Enterprise scheduling and dispatch system into some custom bu
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by manyxcxi 8y ago
I specifically chose Ecobee for two reasons: 1. It works like a programmable thermostat when there’s no network 2. The additional remote sensors (our original thermostat wiring is in a crappy spot for keeping the house at even temps) I’ve s
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by manyxcxi 8y ago
I had the same issue, sent an email to support and they moved us to a different node/cluster/whatever immediately. I’ve never had another problem on a free or paid tier.
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by manyxcxi 8y ago
To anyone wondering about carbon buildup on direct injection, my best (although generically broad and not 100% perfectly accurate) explanation is this: Traditional fuel injection systems spray a fine mist of fuel in such a way that it washe
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by manyxcxi 8y ago
TL;DR I know what I should be doing, do mostly the right things, but still am obese. — Speaking as an obese person that knows the dangers and generally does the right thing re: diet and excercise- it’s crazy hard. I entered freshman year of
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by manyxcxi 8y ago
It’s name recognition. Whenever I have to help a company, friend, or family that doesn’t really know “tech”, their domain is, without fail, hosted by GoDaddy.
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by manyxcxi 8y ago
Amen, I know exactly how you feel. I historically have had zero patience for incompetence or bullshit. My temper generally flashes and goes away pretty quickly, as in I can get pissed at you and use some crappy tone/attitude and then w
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by manyxcxi 8y ago
This is the approach I (try, and try and try and try) to take with my kids (6,4,2). I repeatedly tell them I will never be mad at them for mistakes, but they have to help fix them- whatever that may be. I also tell them I will get mad if th
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by manyxcxi 8y ago
To agree with you and wilsonnb3 at the same time- I highly value OWNING the things I buy and am also willing to pay extra for the privilege of convenience. When I buy movies I generally buy the Blu-Ray with digital download. If it’s a kid’s
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by manyxcxi 8y ago
Kids get FaceTime and video calls way easier than voice only. My kids (2,4,6) are completely uninterested in a voice only call, but when I FaceTime them we can have 15-20 minutes of interaction. When it’s voice only my kids will still try a
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by manyxcxi 8y ago
I’ve been complaining about this for a few years as well. When I went to buy a new TV last year my options were so horrifically limited that I gave up, bought a highly regarded model and have purposefully never connected it to any networks.
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by manyxcxi 8y ago
I laughed, likely too hard, at this. We’ve got three kids under 6 and our current living room furniture does in fact allow crumbs to fall through and I was praising them just yesterday for that accidental function. They’re a pretty nice lea
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by manyxcxi 8y ago
Interestingly, I had a similar bite in Portland growing up. I assume the hobo spider got me in bed, but I definitely needed medical intervention, and a little over 20 years later I’ve got a nice silver dollar size scar on my butt cheek. Tha
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by manyxcxi 8y ago
You can always send a cardboard one from ShipADick[0], their newsletter is hilarious as well. [0] http://shipadick.com
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by manyxcxi 8y ago
I’d like to find something friendlier than Jenkins, but the trade offs with the other CIs have made them not worth it or just plain not possible. If you want or need to host your CI internally, a lot of the shiny new ones are off the table.
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by manyxcxi 8y ago
I think you’re looking at it wrong, but I’m still just as annoyed. We’re giving the developer money for a bucket of features. It should be okay if a new feature comes along that I have to pay for it (upgrade cost). By paying when I did I wa
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by manyxcxi 8y ago
We use Sonatype Nexus OSS to host private as well as mirror public Maven, npm, and Docker repositories. It took a small amount of fiddling but in less than a day we were up and running, using our LDAP for auth, and it’s been pretty much tro
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by manyxcxi 9y ago
Since we use a lot of Java we use Flyway. It’s got different ways to use it, one of them being straight command line- so you don’t have to be a Java shop to use it. I like Flyway over some others I’ve tried (like Liquibase) because it suppo
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by manyxcxi 9y ago
Just because it’s LED doesn’t mean it doesn’t use any power at all, so it’s still a waste of energy. Every light in our house is LED and I still teach my kids about not wasting energy and turning things off when not in use. Maybe it’s becau
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by manyxcxi 9y ago
This sounds like the rantings of someone who has had some pretty bad managers and has never managed anyone else. My schooling was Computer Engineering, my career started as a Software Engineer and has wound all the way up to Director level.
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by manyxcxi 9y ago
Like your son, I’ve also been tested to have an IQ of 160. Like you, I certainly don’t feel like I’m a genius in any particular facet of life. I’ve known a few people that I’m absolutely sure were geniuses (or near it), the big difference b
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by manyxcxi 9y ago
It got so bad with the AMZN delivery company that we finally requested they ship to us with anyone but them. - Delivery dates constantly getting pushed back 1-3 days (why even have prime?). - Delivery notifications for packages that were ne
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by manyxcxi 9y ago
I don’t recall ever encountering an explicit “you can not exceed a vacation longer than X” policy- but most places I’ve ever worked have had a policy that generally sums up to “if you’re going to be taking a long vacation we need to review&

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