mgkimsal

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by mgkimsal 5y ago
I had a 2016 MBP for a while and never noticed it once. Interesting how we all get set in particular set of usage patterns. I might have liked it more if I'd ever even noticed that. Maybe it wasn't something that was as expos
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
A couple years ago, I came to terms with the fact that I wasn't going to be a Beatle. My family and friends had come to terms with that fact 30 years earlier - it just took me a little longer... "but I can’t convince myself that
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
To add to the house analogy... Someone is given a house building estimate of 6-8 months. They they proceed to have business cards printed up, and start ordering materials to be shipped to their house for their new home business, and they sl
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
> Why don't we all just look at the past 10 builds we delivered for them, admit that the best-case never happens, and stop pretending like it's unacceptable to take longer? The point here is that they keep accepting it. It&#x27
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
> The point is more that Ruby is still being used and improved upon all the time; far from 'dead'. Exactly the same with PHP. The handful of Rails devs I know bemoan the fact that fewer shops are growing their Rails/Ruby
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Thank you for the followup. And thank you for the writing (and the free option). I like what I've read so far, and plan to digest more in the next few days. You may have moved on, but I'd encourage you to try to wrap it up, and
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
I can't think of a single in-use tech/language that does not have a lot of complexities. And by definition, these will almost certainly be 'hidden complexities' for someone coming in to that ecosystem. What's bee
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
it's free to download. just set the price to $0. I've not finished it yet, but I can say I was a bit... wary because it hadn't been touched in ... 18 months I think? No shade on the author there - putting your work out ther
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
sure, but you may still have a landline. but... the whole "we need this for returns" line is just weird.
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
> Every React project that I've walked into has looked completely different from each other. Which, on its own, doesn't necessarily bug me as much as the attitude I've run in to. I've come in to a handful of React
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
> But I've never noticed the output of someone because they type slowly. I do, when I'm pairing with someone, or in any synchronous meeting environment. It may not effect the 'output' of delivered code (for a develop
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
"Oh, and they pay taxes on the profits." do they? or do they just keep doing 1031 exchanges, and doing cash-out refinances now and then to use the money?
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
> ... and the notes on the sheet music have these numbers. I grew up with a piano in the house, have had sheet music for loads of instruments (played sax, piano, guitar, family had trumpet/clarinet/misc in house too). Have tak
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Switching from Windows to Mac, you may have existing commercial software packages to deal with. There's a good chance that the commercial package is available on Mac, or there's a set of choices that are functionally equivalent,
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=sorela+architecture will net you something more useful for this discussion.. https://www.google.com/search?q=sorela is a music group.
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Doesn't matter if you're strictly an employee or not. I find myself doing this sometimes myself, as an external contractor. It's more about the dynamics of who you're working with and how you communicate. And... I&#x2
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
would have preferred that to just be a separate movie. it felt very disjointed to me. glad you liked it though - a number of people probably did.
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
I wanted the Laurel Canyon one to be more interviews and less "recreate the music". I'm sure there was far more interview footage that would have been more interesting.
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
there's the laws, then there's enforcement. enforcement is he harder part, and I don't see any easy wins there. you're right though - much is already "prohibited". it still happens.
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Dylan, Stones, Beatles and other evolved over time. Ronettes were primarily one-hit-wonder territory. I know they had multiple 'hits', but they were largely manufactured by Spector. The other examples were self-directed, self-
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Not quite 'wall of sound', but there was a lot of echo-y stuff added to early US Beatles albums per Dave Dexter Jr, "for the American market". I suspect there was an attempt to be "wall of sound" like, at leas
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
"I'm starting to feel that perhaps the python/django market is overly flooded at the moment?" Maybe it's just not as big as you think it is? I've heard for years about Django being some hotness, but I actually
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Why is "college kid skills" relevant for anything? Do you make tech and business decisions based on what your incoming jr people want to do? Many people in my circles use PHP for ... lots of stuff. I just got back from a PHP c
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
go further, and having 'hearing aids' that would let you rewind the last 5-10 seconds of a conversation to hear something again without asking people to repeat themselves...
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
It's not saying anything about why python is 'good' or 'easy' or whatever, which was the original claim. Personally, I find very little attractive or easy or 'good' about Python. I've used it on a fe
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Not trying to be snarky here, but... it'll probably come across that way. Will we ever see the end of beach balls? I've got an m1 Mac mini, and ... I see far fewer, but I still see them. I don't understand what with so many
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Are you asking "is PHP still relevant as a tool?". (the 'it' was slightly ambiguous to me. PHP is absolutely relevant, I'd think, by many peoples' measurements. But... we're on a 'hacker' site
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
I first came across the term 'shared nothing' in... 2000 or 2001? (John Lim from adodb project, but I'm sure he didn't coin it). There is a difference in thinking required for shared nothing, but as you say, it does
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... There's a small set of benchmarks between php8 and python 3.9. Your 'guess' isn't too far off.
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
I have a need for this as well. Many of the go-to packages from years ago seem abandoned.

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