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by marklubi 1y ago
> Beginners have to be nurtured through lots of context that builds up slowly. My son is 17 and very interested in programming. Had to explain to him public, private, internal, and also static the other night. I then joked, you should a
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by marklubi 1y ago
> what gives the most satisfaction (even though this kind of satisfaction happens very rarely) if I discover some very elegant structure behind whatever has to be implemented that changes the whole way how you thought about programming A
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by marklubi 1y ago
Said a little more crass/simply: A people hire A people. B people hire C people. The first is phenomenal until someone makes a mistake and brings in a manager or supervisor from the C category that talks the talk but doesn't wal
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by marklubi 1y ago
Might be a problem with Adblock, but also, Firefox just released an update that blocks social networks. I run a couple different privacy add-ons for various different levels of blocking things, but the Firefox update has seriously broken a
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by marklubi 1y ago
> It's not gonna pass any legal scrutiny Probably going to cost a lot to get to that point, probably more than they will scam you for. They're after the quick hit that gets them something right away while also believing that y
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by marklubi 1y ago
They have you acknowledging something at that point. Doesn't really matter what it is when they can take it out of context. Edit: Many of them are scammers, they don't play by the rules.
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by marklubi 1y ago
I make them hundreds of thousands a year even with their commission from my app sales. Still don't have a contact there (same with Apple). They're happy collecting their commissions and avoiding you. The only good thing is that (
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by marklubi 1y ago
Just to add on, never say "yes" when you get a call from an unknown number (or maybe from all numbers, just be careful). "This is he(or she)", or "who are you trying to contact" handle most situations. Just don
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by marklubi 1y ago
I worked with someone a little over a decade ago who worked directly with Jobs when they were building the NeXT computer. He had two interesting things to say about it. It was one of the hardest jobs he's ever had because the standard
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by marklubi 1y ago
That Reynolds 853... drool. When I raced mountain bikes a couple decades ago, that was what my hardtail was made of. Just 20.5 lbs for a steel frame bike was nuts at the time, and that bike was a rocket ship. Still have it. My son wanted
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by marklubi 1y ago
Many cities use TPMS monitoring/fingerprinting on highways to gauge traffic levels. Wouldn't be shocked if they started using that for traffic light timings
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by marklubi 1y ago
Interesting physics to know. Most of the places that care about the clear ice around where I live purchase pre-frozen cubes or spheres. They come from the vendor with each one individually vacuum sealed in a long strip. Cut one off the str
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by marklubi 1y ago
Shocking, not shocking. Worked for a company more than two decades ago that ran a lot of shortlines. Called out several different vulnerabilities that I found while researching how to make things more efficient (the company owning the trac
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by marklubi 1y ago
Rigid in the air is akin to crashing. Same goes with snowboarding. It's a weird 'what do I do now?' situation because they're not sure how to finish. Have a plan, finish it.
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by marklubi 1y ago
I always appreciated the truck scene with the water ripples in the glass. The backstory of the production of it is interesting. Involves a guitar. https://www.guitarworld.com/features/jurassic-park-guitar-wa...
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by marklubi 1y ago
Sorry to hear about losing your father, it's certainly hard to fathom. My dad lost his at a young age as well. I would give my life (or anything else) for my son or anyone else in my family or group of friends. No questions, no hesitat
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by marklubi 1y ago
Crap article. Please flag it so people don’t waste time reading it. As an adrenaline junkie, this is like a Big Bang Theory version of the stereotypes that people have of something that they aren’t. Live big, or go home. If you haven’t exp
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by marklubi 1y ago
While similar, I think the culture more involves the attitudes that's been fostered by the company itself (likely decisions made by their board and upper management). Most of my colleagues are really nice and friendly one-on-one or eve
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by marklubi 1y ago
Culture is a fourth one. Currently working towards the end of a contract/earn-out at a company where people just toss stuff they don't want to deal with over the fence for others to handle with usually zero communication about why
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by marklubi 1y ago
> I don't get tempted to smash the sell button during major dips, I get tempted to smash the buy button. Same. Not quite dollar-cost averaging, but when I'm confident in the long term outlook of a company, if they dip, I like
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by marklubi 1y ago
This would be like cutting off their nose to spite their face. Apple profits from phone sales. The more distribution channels, the more phones they can sell, and more organizations spending the money to advertise iPhones. If Apple bought a
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by marklubi 1y ago
In an app, if you have a string of network requests to your own services, there's no particular point in logging multiple (or any) 'no internet connection' errors. They won't make it to you, and having those doesn't
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by marklubi 1y ago
Totally agree with finding the source of the bug (there are some that I've spent weeks tracking down, there are millions of people that have my fixed code on their devices). If you've going to catch an error with a noop, there bet
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by marklubi 1y ago
Having interviewed a number of graduates from code camps, they're definitely just chasing the salary. Most of them have no actual passion for computing, their scope of knowledge is superficial, and they're asking for six-figure sa
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by marklubi 1y ago
Worked with Brent for a number of years more than a decade ago. Excellent engineer and all around good person. Congratulations to him on his retirement!
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by marklubi 1y ago
Perhaps consider seeing an upper-cervical (Blair) chiropractor. I know I'm probably going to get dog-piled for mentioning the word since so many people think it's nonsense... a lot of the practices are, but the Blair system is ve
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by marklubi 1y ago
So many people complain about the high cost of housing, but the government keeps adding more and more requirements, regulations, and hoops to jump through. Currently in the process of expanding my non-attached garage, and had to expand powe
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by marklubi 1y ago
To be quite frank, “vibe coding” is junk. Don’t know what they’re doing and get poor results. Spent several hours troubleshooting some support emails yesterday. As it turned out, they were using AI to try to write the code, despite having
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by marklubi 1y ago
Doesn't matter if they don't sort other things out. The physical buttons they do add are tied in to the operating system. My son thought I was crazy when I complained about the window down buttons not registering when I fully push
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by marklubi 1y ago
Currently working for a company that jumps from new-hotness to new-hotness every couple of years. They're currently pushing Next.js, and they've been wrong almost every single time. There are plenty of proven frameworks/lang

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