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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> So today you get 9.62% for 6 months, so you'll technically earn 4.81% interest on your money after 6 months from the date of purchase. That doesn't seem correct. If I have $10k, and it earns an annual rate of 5%, for 6 months
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
and... I've never yet been in a team/project where being able to track/view/find issue/code pairings from years ago was ever remotely useful or helpful. If it was something in the last few months, sometimes people
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
If... you're being intentional about your time/schedule, do 'weekends' matter as much? EDIT: I can understand 'kids' aspect. Outside of that, if I'm doing the things I want to do at the times I want to do
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
A for-loop in vanilla anything will do. Nothing special about PHP. Ruby, Python, Java, etc...
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Hrm... that article just says "protestors" - doesn't mention party affiliation.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> false information Can we normalize just saying "lies" when things are lies?
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
We investigated 'russia' election interference allegations. Some 'interference' was found, largely pushing down HRC and aiding (even if indirectly) Trump. We investigated claims of 'stolen election' (Arizona,
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Not sure I'd say 'no evidence' at all. It wasn't "hacking" in a technical sense as much as "social media hacking" - bots, trolls, huge numbers of lies spread via memes, etc. Some (much?) of that was
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Don't forget people getting arrested for registering to vote.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Is the entirety of the whole company just 3 people? It doesn't sound like it. That 3 person team is just 'tech' it seems - there may be 5-10 managers/sales/support/etc people. And... $20m is revenue, not pro
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> But you just told me they built a $20M revenue product with 3 bozos. That sounds unbelievably productive. This doesn't indicate how profitability, and seems to ignore that management/owners might have had something to do with
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Many tools allow you to set the existing output as a baseline. That's your 0 or 100 or whatever. You can track new changes from that, and only look for changes that bring your number over some threshold. You can't necessarily fi
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> Currently software developers are often not learning from previous security disasters. Perhaps some developers aren't, but many are. It may also be that their recommendations or efforts are ignored or overruled ("that'l
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Others replied already, but I'll chime in too. There's "testing" * manual during development * automated testing And there's "testing" * smoke checking processes in production In most cases, the "test
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> Do you know what phrase I NEVER heard during those days? "What, you didn't know that?" I loved that collaborative feeling. There was also far fewer variations of things to confound that info sharing. You had a c64, or 1
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> Next time I build something with Stripe I'm going to test it in production before launching I'm genuinely curious why you wouldn't have done that anyway? I pretty much always do, precisely so I can experience a full end
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
AHA... That helps clarify a bit. Thanks.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> By this standard, a CEO would need decent expertise in every aspect of running their business, which as a business scales becomes impossible. I didn't read that at all.. "A VP/Executive is a level above managing it, as t
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
agreed. until bluetooth earphone batteries can go for a few days between recharging, and can quick charge in, say, 15 min or so, I'll keep my wired. I also have AirPod Pros, but I keep my Bose qc20 around and still find myself using
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> lean further into theme parks rather than shopping hubs And yet, it's still 'shopping' in a sense. You're mostly just buying experiences vs buying 'stuff'.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Too many people doing that will mean that what you're looking for just won't be in the main (GPL?) plugin area. My own experience years ago was that for many folks, if it wasn't in there, it didn't exist. Downloading a
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> Using any specific CSS - scoped or unscoped - for a particular component is not a good sign. This might not always be avoidable. I don't generally disagree. Component-level CSS is something I don't do all that often, but whe
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
The majority of my Vue SFC have no css/styling in them - using the utility classes of a general library (bootstrap/etc) is generally pretty good. There are times when you do need some override, or something custom local to a spec
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> the hard bit of being a developer is deciding in precise, pedantic, utterly exact detail on what needs building to solve the business problem The process seemed to involve have a test suite to write against. So, essentially, you had s
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
There was a test suite to work against, so some standard notion of things that needed to be in place to be 'working'.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Might be a dumb question, but would they be profitable? I worked at a small company that had $1.5M in 'backorders'. But it was going to take more than $1.5M to fulfill the orders, which ... is not a place you want to be in (regar
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Acquired by HP? I've been out of that world for a while, and I still see the compaq name now and then, but it looks like it's more of just a name licensing deal now?
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
2001-2007, I had multiple bad experiences with Compaq, Lexmark and HP. These were so bad in terms of cost and frustration I vowed I would never buy their products or services again. It's been... 15+ years. The tech world of today is
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Have had people do that to me when I'm buying from them, and first time it felt awkward. Typically, that's the last time I do business with them as well. 2001, I owed someone some money from a business transaction. They'd
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Was reminded of Bob's Burgers episodes with Mr Branca, the school custodian. Multiple times he refers to being president "before the coup" in his home country.

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