mgbmtl

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by mgbmtl 4y ago
There are lots of threads on consulting/freelancers on HN, and lots of great advice. Don't go freelancing lightly, do a bit of reading first, and ideally connect with others in the same jurisdiction for tax/billing advice. I
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
To be honest I never understood the ubiquitous use of the word engineer. To me an engineer has a degree in engineering (including software engineering, which focuses on large-scale infrastructure, not algorithms). In many countries engineer
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33076821 (20 comments)
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aha I should have googled that. Thanks for the info :)
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The Onion defends right to parody in Supreme Court brief(theguardian.com)
99 points by mgbmtl 4y ago|71 comments
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
Could it be related to the age of buyers? Folks 16-25 usually have a bank account, but may not qualify for a credit card. In my work there was pressure to enable PayPal when Netflix became popular (and they accepted PayPal, but not direct d
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
I think of you say "genuinely happens a lot" you should give some examples, because this seems odd to me. More likely sites get cloned, improve their SEO over the original, and distribute malware.
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I'd be curious though, in 20 years, what kind of technical debt SpaceX will accumulate. I mean, as vendors, part of the debt we inherit is that of our customers. Then our customers switch to something else. As vendors, how do we suppor
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
I'm a big fan of Q&A, but I really hate conferences where Q&A is where people go and promote themselves or their project (or fake-influencers, as you say). "I work on X (usually with a 10 min intro) and would really love h
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
Refunds used to be free, but for a few years now Stripe keeps the transaction fees. Although I guess doing lots of refunds would mess with anti-fraud and other systems. I just do special pricing/discounts to do a $5 transaction (too sm
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
They used to have very good phone support (at least in Canada), but I think that changed and they now sell premium support packages, sadly. They also used to assign us a sales rep, which I never really understood what the purpose was, but I
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Can we escape the tyranny of WhatsApp groups?(theguardian.com)
19 points by mgbmtl 4y ago|3 comments
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"Strategies on how to lodge complaints against books are traded on Facebook and shared among branch chapters of parental rights groups. One of the most influential of these groups is the Florida-based Moms for Liberty" Yet another
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
I tell clients that identifying the problem is at least 50% of the work, and that includes meetings. Well, I call them "work sessions", and I don't think it's an euphemism. And then they can pay 100 hours for a narrow sc
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
I'd use it :) Writing tests is tedious, and this reminds me the nicer bits of Selenium IDE (which I otherwise don't miss).
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Omegle put in the spotlight after U.S. court decision involving Manitoba man(cbc.ca)
1 points by mgbmtl 4y ago|0 comments
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
Merging that PR can take a lot of time for testing, and also risks locking in some feature into the project, which the maintainer does not need or use, but they're now stuck supporting (owning) from here on. Typical conversation: - con
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
Even if you're paid, they're still not entitled to your time, unless they have a contract (support, hosting, etc). As an OSS dev on a small project, when I started getting paid (part time, for specific things), I tried being nice
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
"no tiktok" is short, and easy to understand to non-native English speakers.
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
Technically, it's the place of provision. So in-store vs delivery, or online event vs in-person, etc. Most entertaining: where I live, we have to charge the client's tax rate if it's consulting work, but our provincial tax ra
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
I was wondering who uses this in production, and how much should I worry about data corruption or rootkits?
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ByteDance Working to Make It Faster Kexec Booting the Linux Kernel(phoronix.com)
3 points by mgbmtl 4y ago|1 comments
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The Yellow Brick Road of Free Software Contributors(bidon.ca)
1 points by mgbmtl 4y ago|0 comments
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
I also had my first encounter recently because I bought a new home router and the OpenWRT 22.xx beta now uses nft. Fortunately, the web interface works fine, but I had trouble with IPv6 forwarding, for some reason (I think the default just
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
Just curious, which OSS CMS would you recommend for that kind of site? I work with Drupal and WordPress, but would not recommend them for user data or transactional data (although in my case, we bridge Drupal/WordPress with CiviCRM, an
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
Meanwhile, a friend was posting suicide notes on Facebook, and Facebook did nothing about it. She was already in a hospital, but for some reason she had access to her phone for a while. She also posted a fake death announcement by her mom.
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
In-person networking, depending on location, can be efficient. You build trust pretty quickly, agree on the base requirements, etc. I usually switch my brain off after hours, but for example, recently at a baby-party event, someone was aski
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According to the docs, it uses sqlite as the backend: "Currently only SQLite is supported (see launchbadge/sqlx#1225 for what blocks us from supporting more SQL backends)." although presumably it would be better to query the
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
With icinga2 (or any nagios successor) you could write a custom check command that does a ping check on both IPs (and return an error status only if both are down).
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Cars built in the last 15 years usually don't need to be warned up: https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/car-technology/a19086/... But yeah, icy/foggy windows are a pain to clear. I live in Montrea

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