mgkimsal

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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Are they not letting people inside? a couple around me still seem to be 'drive through only', which accounts for 'line of cars' I see, which... just seems like it's people sitting around wasting more gas idling. M
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
> There seems to be this notion that if the users don't immediately understand the interface, then it's a bad interface. This might make sense for b2c public services, or areas where a high cost of training on continually &#x2
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
agreed - white noise is too tinny. I use a mix of brown and grey throughout the day. I use Bose sleep buds for sleeping. It was life changing. The 'warm static' mix they offer is a great brownish noise for masking out external s
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
You can easily get locked in to some theme builder or UI toolkit. half the WP folks I know swear by X (genesis theme, etc) and will just rewrite everything in theme X if they take over a project. You're not 'locked in' to W
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Maybe there's some new dirt-sensing algorithms that can use crowd-sourced info to improve the efficiency for your specific dirt patterns and water type and detergent combination.
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
It wasn't 2 full years, but... certainly, multiple stints of 8 hour sets for weeks on end - it's basically a full time job. Other 'factors of the time'. They wanted to play rock and roll. There just wasn't THAT MU
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
> were still a long way from their greatest work a few years later. Their whole existence was really only a few years. That said, even "I saw her standing there" kicking off the first album is a really good 'basic rock&
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
1997... I'd built an extremely basic 'ecommerce' type system, using php/fi and mysql... 3, IIRC (slight chance this might have been mSQL). This was run off a shared hosting system, and... after running for a couple mont
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
I started at a company in mid January, and they did annual reviews in June/July. After review, I 'merited' a 4% raise. But... because I'd only been there since January, they prorated the 4% raise to 2%. I never quite
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
I've had to do 'subscribe to calendar' work on a few projects. With iOS, I can just give someone a link to ical data, and it checks whenever they check. It seems , in the google world, you giving a google product your ics&
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
And without relatively comprehensive tests, you can't ever tell if a 'refactor' (in the structural sense of the word) actually worked. Did you change internal implementation code without affecting the consumer output? Witho
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
> Too little attention given to integration tests and end-to-end tests leaves systems exposed to critically bad edge case bugs. From my POV and experience, the middle ground is often what people refer to as 'integration' tests.
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
There's a bunch of things about 'being in an office' that aren't so much about 'being in an office' as they are 'not being in your house'. Cynically, you could point out some power dynamic - symbols
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
I paid $400 (or more?) for what was billed from google as their premier nexus device (I just got whatever the lowest RAM was). I got it for a testing device. What was lauded was "doesn't come with carrier bloatware/apps&quo
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Taking an even wider swerve... Listen to "One After 909" from Anthology (or the 1963 'bootleg' release). Then listen to the version from Let It Be. "Production" such as it is is, I'd think, 'minimal&#
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Nexus "Devices in the Nexus line were considered Google's flagship Android product"
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Life on Mars suffered a similar US translation, IIRC.
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Coromoran Strike? Was a bit of a slow burn, but grew on me after a bit.
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
> The halo effect that "Netflix Original" used to have thanks to shows like House of Cards... It wasn't even 'original' in that it was a UK series years earlier. I understand they made changes, and, IIRC, milked
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
> I told my bosses I could make the same system over a weekend, and support it myself... Kronos threatened to sue, saying we were attempting to steal IP. If you were going to steal IP, stealing from Kronos would probably be pretty low on
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
> To a small business, every dollar is critical, so they are compelled to micromanage. We'd need to define 'small business' size, but more importantly, who you're working with. Working with the owner of a small bu
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
A friend of mine has been in software development for over 10 years - possibly closer to 20 but I'm not sure on that point. We chat a few times a month about work stuff, and routinely he will express amazement at being disappointed
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
I've worked with ... 4 in over 25 years that I would work with again. They were helpful middlemen. Only 2 landed me anything, but I know the other 2 put in some effort and things just didn't work out. There's been dozens I
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
But then he did conceive of an idea, pitch it, then it was stolen by Calvin Klein! ("Beach...")
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
porting numbers is a royal PITA with some carriers. "legal" and "usable" are worlds apart, and the cost of screwing up a number port is potentially gigantic.
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
For me it's usually more the quality of the film/print/color/etc. Most 70s pics have a certain color/tone/hue/saturation that says '70s'. 60s too. And so on. There may be easier determination
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
yeah, but... you know... of course they're prioritizing all the COVID patients first, before anyone else, because they get more money from the government for 'COVID' patients! /s That was an actual exchange I had with so
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
If you didn't get sick from it (current formulation or perhaps new ones in future), would you just take it and move on? Known downtime of a day or two (and not feeling well) is, to me, still a tradeoff to make compared to the potential
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
> I've taken to putting a link to the Confluence docs Middle ground I've found on some projects: very detailed code/data-oriented notes are in markdown in the repo, tied to a PR. Those doc files may reference external ite
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
I always found the ability to draft confluence docs then create jira tickets from within confluence to be the 'obvious' use case, but I don't often see people do it. Or... I've seen some orgs do it a lot, and some not a

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