mgkimsal

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by mgkimsal 4y ago
grift: petty or small-scale swindle.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
It was the longest I've ever heard him speak somewhat coherently without insulting someone.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Trump's done speaking fees. And years of overpriced merchandise. And routine/regular appeals for donations (save America, etc) - to the tune of 3-5 emails and texts per day. Regardless of how much I 'unsubscribe'. So.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Thanks!
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
mostly what others said already. for most day to day stuff, iCloud sync and whatnot is decent and works across devices. safari dev tools are... horrid imo, so chrome/ff for dev work, but general browsing, it's great.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I choose it every single day. I have chrome, Firefox, edge and safari at my disposal. Safari is my day to day for most regular usage. For tech/dev work, Firefox and Chrome are usually in flight at the same time. EDIT: "Safari d
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I only learned about Zevon's letterman appearance a few weeks ago and watched that. Quite ... powerful, in a very low key way. Was never a huge WZ fan, but had friends who were always in to him - his work is making its way in to my r
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Have you listened to Brainwashed by George Harrison? It was his last album, knowing he had cancer and had limited time... wondering if you may have similar resonance with that one.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
"let Postgres generate the JSON for API responses" would have been a far less confusing way of expressing that idea. I had read the linked stuff and none of it looked like front-end code hitting a PostgreSQL db directly. yes, if
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> Use Postgres to generate JSON in the database, write no server side code and directly give it to the API. Who does this? "give it to the API"... ? Still sounds like there's "server side code" there if there&#
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I have that machine! Akka is... weird. And slightly ugly as the default attract mode. I normally select millipede and let that run in attract mode. I thought it was default because it was just alphabetically first...
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> that asked explicitly for a huge set of the users Facebook permissions which then led to scraping and spam. I seem to remember early 2010s... I had written a few small FB apps, and ... the minimal permissions it would ask for from pe
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
>The association of Stripe with simplicity and good dev experience could be more due to Stripe's marketing/PR ... I don't think it's marketing/PR so much as a halo effect and reputation from years ago. My experi
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
using an ORM "library" was just as problematic, because data access is something that gets fairly deep in to a project. Had we tied the project to, say, symphony, there would have been a better upgrade path (but that brought its
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
IIRC the parameter order for some parameters differs between mysql_* and mysqli_* functions. But as someone else said above, built-in PDO or some other abstraction library for data access has been the way to go for more than a decade (more
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Outside of 'frameworks', I've tied projects to specific libraries that also were abandoned, and it's no better. Having every single query/dataaccess go through an abandoned library is not all that much different fro
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
You must have more than just 'sleep' bothering you. What would you start a project in today?
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
It's the 'wordpress' part of PHP that is 'mostly not great'. Projects started in the past few years with any major framework will generally be cleaner and easier to understand, and easier to extend with composer&#x
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
The 7 series is 'done' with security updates as of now. https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php So there's some argument to be made to be in the 8.x series. It's probably not something you should be
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Can you give some specific examples? I can't think of too many 'fundamental breaking changes' in PHP between major versions. Some things that will be changed in 9 are now deprecated in 8.2. PHP has gone through a few change
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Possibly a sense of betrayal? There was a time when FF seemed like it had a future of being a large player in the browser market. Hanging in single-digit usage seems like that time has come/gone, yet we continue to see loads of thing
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
That still seems low for any big4. Those were numbers I remember seeing 25 years ago for large consultancies personnel.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I didn’t sense all of that from the comment, but you’re definitely anti-consultant. Sometimes consultants are brought in specifically to bypass whatever internal processes are in place. Those internal processes are sometimes the very reason
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
It will be impossible to do any real comparison because the bad stuff is relatively entrenched at most large places. Small quality issues for users would reduce errors, and get expense data reconciled faster. But… by how much? 10%? 20%?
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Found one at a conference for small business, used him for a few years, then switched to another that came and did a small presentation/Q&A at our local coworking space. Couple of us switched to him and his firm has been fine. Wor
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Couple states I've lived in, missed payment penalties are 10% of what was owed. Parking, say, $3k at 3% for a few months to net ... $100 to then pay a $300 fine doesn't seem to make much sense. I've missed payments, and paid
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
We have 3 different sets of things on keyboards (well, us/western ones, anyway)... () {} and [] Typically I've seen/read [] as 'brackets', () as 'parenthesis' and {} as 'curly brackets' or '
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
FWIW, the initial email is showing up in my gmail as 'promotion', not spam. Hope that helps some.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
There may be a bigger pressure to 'switch off'? dunno - I'm not a police officer. But there is a different work environment, and being 'at home'... you can replay issues in your head, but to what end? You can&#x2
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> I'd try to get everyone who agrees to a 40 minute workout in the middle of the day a few times a week. followed by a nap period, please.

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