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by marpstar 9y ago
I'm in Iowa and people really do think Olive Garden is "fancy". I got an Olive Garden gift card for Christmas and my and I even cracked a joke about going on a "fancy" date there, because so many people here think t
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by marpstar 9y ago
Lots of casting variables as `any`. This is an anti-pattern in TypeScript and, while convenient, basically destroys the key benefits of using TypeScript.
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by marpstar 9y ago
Why are "Electron" and "nw.js" listed on the mobile section?
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by marpstar 9y ago
Assuming you're in the USA: 1. No real tax benefits vs. sole proprietorship. You can deduct the same amount of stuff. In fact, you're taxed in exactly the same way as you are today. 2. I formed an LLC after a few years of freelanc
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by marpstar 9y ago
that was only a "notify me" sign-up, not an actual pre-order.
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by marpstar 9y ago
Agreed. It wasn't until about a year after it was released that I realized it was a different system. It seemed like a new controller for the original Wii.
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by marpstar 9y ago
Are there any known instances of a company dropping support for Oracle? My employer supported both Oracle and MSSQL for our now-legacy desktop offering but opted to support MSSQL-only when we rewrote for the cloud. Our testing and operation
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by marpstar 9y ago
This is an awesome idea. We have so many useless battery-powered chunks of plastic. My 7-year-old would LOVE deconstruction lessons.
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by marpstar 9y ago
I totally forgot about the Firefox shirts I owned in college until I read this. I can't believe they closed it.
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by marpstar 9y ago
Best Buy. I worked as a Geek Squad agent and she worked in CD/DVDs. Found out we had similar taste in music and I won her over with my long hair and shitty rock band. 10 years ago next summer.
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by marpstar 9y ago
Exactly this. We're constantly told not to "roll our own X", making paid offerings like Azure App Insights, which is more robust than any hand-rolled solution we could ever develop, so appealing. We're not trying to sel
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by marpstar 9y ago
Same here, and also take advantage of the geofenced notifications, e.g. "Hey Siri, remind me to pick up milk when I leave work".
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by marpstar 9y ago
I used LogoJoy [1] a year or so ago to create a logo for my side business. This appears to have a lot of the same "designs" available as LogoJoy, but with a much less intuitive UX. [1]: https://logojoy.com/
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by marpstar 9y ago
I’ve got two Markus chairs. Agree about the lack of adjustability, but mine are both fairly silent after about two years of every day use. YMMV
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by marpstar 9y ago
I had low expectations when I bought the Series 3 because of what has been said in the past about the battery life but my findings are similar: I put it on in the morning at 7:30am and it's still got ~65% when I'm getting ready fo
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by marpstar 9y ago
Had my (parents’) AOL account terminated when I was 11 years old (1999) for pirating Visual Basic 4 from an AOL mail server chat . Listened to that sweet dial up connection sound before being greeted with an account termination message. Had
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by marpstar 9y ago
We use Jingo ( https://github.com/claudioc/jingo ), which is inspired by GitHub's wiki (i.e. is a git repo itself) but with has search function. It's not the best experience on the planet, but it works and is e
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by marpstar 9y ago
Apple provides an adapter, I believe.
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by marpstar 9y ago
The two big things are the ability to reason about your logic with a consistent mechanism (asynchronous streams) as well as the very rich set of supported operators for those streams. This allows you to treat asynchronous inputs (AJAX callb
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by marpstar 9y ago
Agreed. Let's not forget that a huge portion of software written is games.
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by marpstar 9y ago
Get a bluetooth adapter for the car. Save yourself from ever having to plug it in (or even pull it out of your pocket) unless you need to charge it. I did this pre-donglegate and plugging my phone in has only been an inconvenience ever sinc
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by marpstar 9y ago
I'm not sure it's much different than in the 1990s and people buying singles of their favorite songs instead of the full album. I may even go as far as to say that more people have access to the full albums today than ever before.
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by marpstar 9y ago
TFS (even Team Services) is lacking behind just a little bit as far as features go. Specifically, No user interface for forking repos (though I think Team Services is getting this soon).
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by marpstar 9y ago
I had working internet in IE5. You have to walk through the internet connection setup for LAN, but it works.
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by marpstar 9y ago
Another thing is that users also have a lot more applications running in the background, calling servers, caching data, disk I/O.
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by marpstar 9y ago
This, and the fact that most companies don't have the luxury of having the choice. Sure, maybe in the Valley you can find expert front-end and back-end devs just around the corner, but in the Midwest USA, you take whatever competent de
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by marpstar 9y ago
wow. I had no idea about this, but it correctly calculated my DL number.
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by marpstar 9y ago
"Cancer" is such a broad term, with ~200 different "types". I agree that "cancer" is a huge problem (my brother had childhood leukemia at 9 months until he was about 6 years old), and its effects on the family
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by marpstar 9y ago
So wait...the school uses Facebook for communication? Gross. My kids' school uses something called ClassDojo, which is exactly like Facebook, but geared towards classroom settings. It works well enough.
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by marpstar 9y ago
I've microdosed mushrooms maybe a dozen times and generally the last thing I want to do is work. Would not recommend to anyone looking for a productivity boost. With that said, they're a great stress reliever.

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