mcovey

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by mcovey 7y ago
First one was an immediate turn-off. Duplicating code once is fine. With the given example, there's no need to start building an abstract billing method and a data structure to encapsulate the differences in billing between different c
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by mcovey 7y ago
It took me about a year before I stopped getting any legitimate email at my gmail address. Start changing everything you can to your new email address at a domain that you own, and start forwarding your gmail to it. Every time a legitimate
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by mcovey 7y ago
Maybe I'm just getting old, but the internet does not entertain me like it used to. There used to be so many fun communities, now everything is Facebook, Reddit, etc. We used to make fun of people who took the internet too seriously, b
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by mcovey 7y ago
I simply don't like DoH because I use a DNS provider that I have chosen - OpenDNS - specifically because they log my DNS queries and let me see that log . I don't mind DNS lookups from my network being logged, as long as the prov
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by mcovey 7y ago
My phone is going on 3 years. No removable battery, but I followed the iFixit guide and managed to replace the battery anyway a few months ago, since it had lost a lot of capacity. I intend to keep it for another 2-3 years at least.
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by mcovey 7y ago
I love the stable UI too, because I've applied my own custom CSS to it, and written a userscript to give myself some extra functionality I want, like some highlighted tags in the popup window, and it never breaks. Even without any twea
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by mcovey 8y ago
Firefox defaults to remembering where you last downloaded a file for each site. This is useful for things like image sharing sites when you always want to drop pictures into your pictures folder, but you can disable it and always use the de
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by mcovey 8y ago
I have my documents organized by topic, my code repos organized by... well, each folder is a repo in ~/code. Stuff like bills and receipts I don't usually download, I just keep copies in my email archives and purge old ones once a
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by mcovey 8y ago
A lot of NIMBY-ism is because of money. Having an apartment complex go up in your backyard often reduces property values. It's not that people don't want other people to have a place to live, they retain want to retain their prope
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by mcovey 8y ago
This is very true. I had a fantastic apartment that I got by walking in and asking about availability. They always seem to have something available within a few months, but don't advertise at all, anywhere. Yet remain at near-100% occu
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by mcovey 8y ago
I also think I'm non-24. Unfortunately its only considered a real disorder in the blind. Taking melatonin helps a bit -- I'm convinced my pineal gland is broken somehow.
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by mcovey 8y ago
For every job I've had, I never had a coding challenge during the interview. I had one where I had a homework assignment beforehand that we discussed during the interview, and mostly just talking interviews discussing my experience etc
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by mcovey 8y ago
Even though I'm much better at expressing myself with writing than through speaking, I get some anxiety about bothering people or keeping their attention that makes it difficult to "work through" a problem remotely. When I kn
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by mcovey 8y ago
I had to negotiate working several days a week remote, because my job doesn't pay enough to live in or within 45 minutes of the city it's in. Starting this July I'll be working in-office 2 days a week and commuting over an ho
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by mcovey 8y ago
I don't run a MySQL server on my personal computer. I don't want to run one. If I want to start writing code right away to flesh out an idea, SQLite is the tool I can use, it enables me to develop locally with no SSH/FTP over
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by mcovey 8y ago
Sure it can. Almost every website on the internet right now has undiscovered security holes. Obviously you won't be leaving them open on purpose, but not using a framework is a legit choice and "it provides security that you can&#
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by mcovey 8y ago
I spent a while not carrying a phone with me at all. It was kind of a pain. I went back to carrying the dumbphone, turned off. I turn it on during my breaks to check if I missed anything.
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by mcovey 8y ago
For some reason I can only run the snap with sudo, and thus any processes it spawns (clicking links or opening a file manager for example) run as root.
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by mcovey 8y ago
I like being able to use it in bed with one hand, and occasionally to have pocketability, to bring it to things where I'll have to do a lot of waiting, like doctor appointments or being a passenger on a long ride. I looked into small t
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by mcovey 8y ago
YouTube killed it's new subscription videos feed a few years ago, it's no longer possible to get a single combined feed of new videos from all channels you're subscribed to. The only alternative is to export the entire subscr
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by mcovey 8y ago
I prefer disconnected by default. I connect when I want/need to.
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by mcovey 8y ago
Yes, of course many people still use phone calls and SMS. You can also email via SMS if you so desire, both sending and receiving works, although finding out your SMS email address usually involves sending yourself an email from the phone f
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by mcovey 8y ago
I own a smartphone, but I use it like I'd use a tablet - wifi only, at home. My primary phone, the only one I take with me to work most of the time, is just a pay-as-you-go flip phone. In fact, I didn't downgrade to this from a sm
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by mcovey 9y ago
It's certainly possible using BitlBee - https://www.bitlbee.org/ But as far as I can see nobody has written a Slack-API plugin for it, yet.
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by mcovey 9y ago
I think it's asking how much you've saved for retirement, not what your net worth is.
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by mcovey 9y ago
All this does is scare me. I honestly hope I die before I have to retire, because there's no way I'm going to have saved enough money to live off of, even modestly, and no way I'm going to remain sharp enough to continue earn
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by mcovey 9y ago
Having to get out of bed and go turn the switch off with your hand builds character.
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by mcovey 9y ago
It looks like this is called "Level 3 data" and primarily for corporate cards, not standard consumer credit cards. I'm not sure if that data is still collected for consumer purchases - I've never been offered any opportu
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by mcovey 9y ago
I understand they know where I shopped, that is clear on my statement each month. But they don't know what I bought, unless I shop at a store that only sells one thing.
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by mcovey 9y ago
I've never had one, and it's as difficult for me to understand why people think they need one, as it is for them to understand how I survive without one.

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