mdekkers

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by mdekkers 10y ago
Ugh, the Drupal community strikes again. I have been working with Drupal for roughly 10 years, and outside of an initial flurry of commits rarely engage with that cesspit of a "community". I have the misfortune to have to do a sig
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by mdekkers 10y ago
RTFA - Data is actually being deleted, along with citations.
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by mdekkers 10y ago
He is for real, no doubt. Also he is correct. I have seen this depressingly often. Anecdote from the trenches: A dev team of about 15. They are working an an algorithm that did some language-type matching. One guy was regarded as the expert
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by mdekkers 10y ago
She hired Geek Squad to repair the machine And that is when it all started to go seriously wrong....
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by mdekkers 10y ago
Yeah, did the same things. I only work with "Western", Eastern European, and Russian developers. I speak and read a bit of Russian, and sometimes screenshots are a dead giveaway. I also have the interviews, with a surprise coding
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by mdekkers 10y ago
That is exactly the issue. It mostly comes down to code review, i.e. to make sure they produce functional code in a reasonable amount of time, where the code doesn't look like it was written by a crazed monkey on crack. The last few ye
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by mdekkers 10y ago
...here come the ads....
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by mdekkers 10y ago
I'm not sure that the issue is with Upwork itself. I have been a long-time Odesk user, almost since day 1, and have sourced many, many freelancers from there. Currently, I'm pretty much done with Upwork (and related platforms). I
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by mdekkers 10y ago
that is a serious dealbreaker
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by mdekkers 10y ago
Facebook sends their ads along with the actual page content I use Swipe Pro on my android, and it blocks those just fine
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by mdekkers 10y ago
What's the alternative? If every web user blocked all ads, content creators couldn't get any revenue and would stop making content. I understand the problem. I just think that this is a stupid solution. As for content creators g
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by mdekkers 10y ago
I see some major hurdles before this takes off. The understatement of the century...
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by mdekkers 10y ago
Any idea that starts with "and first, we get the user to switch their browser" has immediately raised their own barrier to entry so ridiculously high, were you to stand on top of it you'd be able to see the curvature of the E
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by mdekkers 10y ago
Looks interesting. Has anybody here used this?
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by mdekkers 10y ago
The best place -- ever -- to get Linux help was, and will always have been, the Gentoo forums True! However, obligatory "Gentoo is rice" link: https://fun.irq.dk/funroll-loops.org/
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by mdekkers 10y ago
Hey, come and tell my bank in Cyprus. I am getting ripped off for literally hundreds of euros in fees every month on SEPA charges. I actually looked into this when they were finally forced to offer SEPA (still a hidden thing in their onli
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by mdekkers 10y ago
cost, and clunky yubikey support. I can enable a yubikey with some hoop-jumping but this will impact ease of use on my mobile clients. I still need to look into the team functionality. I have used Lastpass for many years privately and for m
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by mdekkers 10y ago
cool, thanks - I'll have a look!
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by mdekkers 10y ago
Tavis has a documented track record of poor interpersonal behavior. It's time that people stopped focusing exclusively on the quality of his discoveries and started to ask if his behavior is one we want to implement. Given what he do
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by mdekkers 10y ago
same here. Trialling Dashlane, but not quite convinced yet..
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by mdekkers 10y ago
US officials said bombs could be hidden in a series of devices. Bullshit. If an effective explosive could be hidden, they would be banned from all planes, from everywhere , period. Not in the hold, not in the cabin, not even anywhere c
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by mdekkers 10y ago
First to Cyprus, now to Spain.
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by mdekkers 10y ago
I have been looking to move away from Braintree for a while, they are eyewateringly expensive, and are now Paypal, which I am extremely uncomfortable with. I was previously based in a country where there is no Stripe support, but that is ch
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by mdekkers 10y ago
I've lived in the UK 30 years and I've never heard any nostalgia for the empire at all I have lived there for ten, and heard it all the time.
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by mdekkers 10y ago
I don't know why I still let my connections exit in the U.K., or live here really. One of the reasons I left years ago. One of the best moves in my life.
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by mdekkers 10y ago
I recently read this quote somewhere: "If you think a pro is expensive, wait until you have to fix the work of an amateur"
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by mdekkers 10y ago
...that went over my head depressingly quickly....
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by mdekkers 10y ago
oh, shiny. I wonder if there is a way to make this run on my Synology...
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by mdekkers 10y ago
ah ok, yeah - so business as usual :) (...shuffles back to work...)
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by mdekkers 10y ago
Tell me more about how great these kind of companies are, where they can terminate aspects (or all) of a service you have come to rely on. These kind of shenanigans are exactly why I don't trust Google with anything other than core ser

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