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by mdtusz 4y ago
I've found Microsoft documentation (Azure services specifically) to be a weird mix of marketing and semi-technical walkthroughs that seem targeted to point-and-click users following their happy path. As soon as you get to the technical
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by mdtusz 4y ago
I'll echo the sentiment that helix is great, but I still think the default behaviour of selecting words as you navigate with w,e,b to be strange and a bit counterproductive in most text editing (at least for me). There's a few oth
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by mdtusz 4y ago
I've gotten into the habit of adding comments for what the code _should_ do in high level terms, as abstracted from the implementation as makes sense, so that the implementation can change to fit whatever may be needed by a neighbourin
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by mdtusz 4y ago
I'm a bit surprised and amused by the comments here. It seems like suddenly everyone is an expert in industrial design, mechanical engineering, and product development while simultaneously missing the entire point of the product and be
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by mdtusz 4y ago
Something I've noticed in this space is that there exist "standards" which are intended to make systems compatible and useful and modern, but all of these standards are extremely poorly written and cling to outdated paradigms
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by mdtusz 4y ago
It makes a big difference. Imagine watering your favourite plant once per month with 4 litres of water, vs watering weekly with 1 litre of water. The snowpack melt cycle allows for gradual watering of the surrounding areas. Not directly ans
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by mdtusz 4y ago
I've always just dreamed of an entirely accessibility focused API that doesn't rely on the DOM and html elements. Most accessibility concerns are for visual impairment, so why do we still base it on what in practice is a visual mo
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by mdtusz 4y ago
Let's not make ham radio operation out to be some complex Voodoo that requires months of training. You tune your radio to a given frequency and press the ptt button. Yes sure, there's repeaters, and other details to know about, bu
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by mdtusz 4y ago
I'd also argue that adding MFA with TOTP really isn't _that_ hard either. There's a bit of setup work to be sure, but it's a feature just like any other that has a pretty easy to grasp flow once you do a bit of reading.
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by mdtusz 4y ago
I think it's a silent market at this point. The company I'm at is using it, and anecdotally, many other companies are as well in small greenfield projects, so I anticipate there will be growing demand for developers that know rust
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by mdtusz 4y ago
This is true in a local context, but entirely breaks down when a codebase becomes larger than a single person can fit into their brain-RAM. Not arguing or saying you're wrong - just presenting the very quickly reached boundary where th
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by mdtusz 4y ago
While balena is great for getting up and running quick, you'll quickly run into issues when more specific application requirements arise, or you need to tighten down security. It's fantastic for small-scale IoT deployments, but yo
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by mdtusz 4y ago
Next time you need to map out roads like that, try Caltopo. For any _map_ use cases, things like Caltopo and Gaia are miles better. Google Maps is great for following directions they give you, or finding businesses and well known places, bu
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by mdtusz 4y ago
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by mdtusz 4y ago
It's an extremely common and useful way to use git if you are making small and directed commits. This allows you to write code for some feature which includes multiple changes to a file, then make a few different commits with useful co
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by mdtusz 4y ago
Language is only one of the issues. The Quebecois see themselves as fundamentally different and _not Canadian_ - they don't celebrate Canada Day for instance (at least not in a significant capacity). Even if the RoC made French a manda
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by mdtusz 5y ago
I'm curious where 128bit floats become a significant concern? My understanding is that any critical numerical things would be done using integer arithmetic to eliminate any imprecision errors, and anything else likely is fine using dou
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by mdtusz 5y ago
As a counter argument, it's much easier for a developer to write code that does the right thing when that code is readable. Too often I see code that is _maybe_ correct, but the reviewer can't actually be sure of it without manual
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by mdtusz 5y ago
This may seem somewhat silly to most people but if it isn't vaporware and can actually meet demand and fulfill procurement needs, could be a solid choice. Choosing and sourcing SBC's for hardware is an absolute nightmare these day
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by mdtusz 5y ago
This is still visible on a fair bit of beer - Sleemans sticks out in memory the most as always having wear rings on their clear bottles.
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by mdtusz 5y ago
What are the steps to agile? If you read the agile manifesto, there are no specifically prescribed steps or rituals, and in my experience, most teams implementation of scrum is entirely counterproductive to actually being agile. The core te
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by mdtusz 5y ago
Reading code in one language in one codebase often doesn't even necessarily transfer to other codebases in the same language. I find this particularly true in academic python codebases and C++ for some reason where single letter variab
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by mdtusz 5y ago
I completely agree! What I intended with my comment was to point out that the idea of new frameworks being created every week is a bit of an exaggeration and that it being the reason frontend development is fragmented is just totally incorr
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by mdtusz 5y ago
I continue to see this idea posted in HN and Reddit programming threads and it comes across as ignorance more than anything. The reality is that nearly all new modern web applications will be written using react or vue, with a long tail cho
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by mdtusz 5y ago
The quick and dirty solution to this is to have a client response handler that checks for a header set on responses to ensure its a compatible version, then prompt a page refresh if not.
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by mdtusz 5y ago
I think we're well past the period of a new framework every week - at least in a "real world" sense. Nearly all companies will settle on react or vue these days with a long tail choosing others, but this is no different than
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by mdtusz 5y ago
This is a fairly significant issue for mysql, but does the same issue exist when using postgres with a UUID pk type? At my last job, this was managed by using two ID's on each row - a serial one that was basically only used for databas
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by mdtusz 5y ago
What do you think enabled these things?
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by mdtusz 5y ago
This is extremely difficult to convey to non-developers though because they often look at software as a house and think "there's tons of houses (ecommerce sites) built every day and it's down to a science - how hard can a hou
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by mdtusz 5y ago
Another benefit (imo one of the biggest ones) is not having to constantly create releases across all your repos and manage their states when jumping around during development. My previous job used a collection of about 6 repos for different

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