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by mgkimsal 4y ago
The pricing may be 'low', but you may help foster a larger 'avo' ecosystem if more people are using it (AKA, keeping the price lower). What was/is attractive about Nova and Filament in the PHP world is that both ha
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I suspect it won't be for long. The concept of the programmable/standard 'resource wrapper' around the models in a framework like laravel or rails provides a decent separation for adding on standard behavior without act
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Seems reminiscent of both Nova and Filament for Laravel/PHP. Nice work :)
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Years ago I ran a service with multiple charge points, and had 2 PayPal accounts. When the payment was under... ~$5, I'd use the micropayment account, and fallback to the 'regular' account for prices over that. I realized I
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> I think our project management would totally give us the time to improve something, if we can argue that it's needed. You shouldn't have to argue for it. It's something "project management" should care about a
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
We'd need to define 'paycheck to paycheck' more precisely, but... I'm aware of multiple families in my area that used to have something left over in each check, that went in to beefing up some savings. Fuel, food and re
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Just watched a video of C64 "Seven Cities of Gold" with a colleague yesterday, trying to convey just how... exciting that was in 1984. Watching on YouTube, I had forgotten just how small the playing 'viewport' was. It
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
(not from the article) but from a quick google search... "businesses that contract with S Corps do not need to issue them a Form 1099-MISC" I'm an s-corp, and yet I still have people 1099ing me. It's more annoying than
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I worked at a fast food place where our power went out. They forced us to keep ... open and selling anyway. The 240v was out so no grill, but 120 outlets worked so we could make coffee/tea. That was about it. Cash registers didn&#x
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Plenty of us didn't always have 'a couple hundred cash' at all, much less 'free' to just carry around 'in case of emergency'. I can now , but don't for the most part, partially because of decades of
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Had expected NC to show up on that list somehow, but with respect to raw % deltas, those other areas might still be having larger % growth (or shrinkage).
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Mid 80s. We were in a 'newer' school district - the middle school was less than 10 years old at that time. All equipment was relatively 'new'.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
In 7th grade, our wood shop teacher lost a finger on the table saw, in the classroom. Not when I was there, and I'm not even sure it was during a class or with kids around, but she'd lost a finger, and that room was closed the re
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> but are you really impacting the world more? You're impacting your own world more. It may be for better or worse, but you're giving yourself more control. For many folks, that's not a good thing - there's value in
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> ... but people with "TDS" make him a central part of their identity ... What do you call people who make Trump a central part of their identity and constantly look for ways to work their hatred of Biden/Democrats in to e
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
not the parent, but... I had to give up past Pitfall, Asteroids, Donkey Kong and others. One stick... 1-2 buttons - that's ... all I can handle. The switch to Nintendo and the "A-BB-B-UP-UP-X-Y-AABBA" key codes people would
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
To go further, it seems to make things look 'cleaner' from a 'look at this screenshot' standpoint, and I understand that. But, this design style has an interaction load which makes it harder to use day to day, and I bet
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Father, not brother, gifted me a guitar. Now, we're both amateur guitarists, as are some of my other brothers. In the last 5-10 years my dad has started to collect more guitars. He's nerdier than some of the tech details on gui
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
You could, and I think it would help. It would also shift the type of themes/plugins we see, because the discipline in making compatible themes/plugins would weed out certain types of producers.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> and then learning that the great leap forward for Angular 2 was "yeah we're going to throw all that bullshit out we were wrong." By the time I was done I genuinely had no interest left in me for another new framework, pa
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> What specific, immediate, measurable benefit is that extra field going to provide? As more people turn to automation, I've seen people triggering actions based on field values or changes. And... the ever popular "reporting&q
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Perhaps a separate 'session' database table for... database-backed sessions vs storing stuff in wp_options? Last I looked that still seemed to be the default. For low volume scenarios perhaps it's not a big issue, but... se
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I started with php and msql back in ... 1996. Then in 98 took a job and much was perl. This was a web agency, and there was one client running Oracle on a sparc (IIRC), and some folks were tested out 'asp' and using MSSQL 6.5 (a
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I went through 2 ARMs between 2013 and 2021. In both cases the 7 year ARM was at least 1.5 % below the traditional 30 year I could get. Between lender rebates and such, in both cases we had essentially $0 out of pocket and in both cases a
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Well... our stuff costs more because we're having to pay so much extra for the social safety nets like universal health insurance... Oh... wait... nm.
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I was surprised they didn't have this 10-15 years ago. I sort of wonder if Jobs had lived if he'd had pivoted towards this enterprise/support direction.
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> and the component suppliers have also been looking at the trendlines so they are building bigger and bigger but... aren't they influencing the trendlines by doing this? if the only things manufacturers make are bigger and bigger,
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I stuck with the 12 mini, vs going to another SE (had SE for years). I miss the Touch ID. A lot. Having to look at something, then swipe up, then ... do other stuff to get back to the home screen, instead of literally just putting my thu
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> Margins may be poorer with Mini, But they don't necessarily have to be. We've never had an option where, for the same price, you could choose screen sizes. There's a sizable portion of people for whom larger phones are
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I had a method around... 700-800 lines. I extracted a bunch of things in to smaller bits, and the resulting block was around 140 lines, with generally understandable names. It's 'doing a lot' because... well, we have a comp

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