mgkimsal

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by mgkimsal 2y ago
Can't tell by the docs (but I've not dug in much yet) but... @nhatcher... here's a use case question. Admins use the ironcalc UI to create their formulas. Is there a way to get those formulas to a backend and run the calcs o
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
I have to imagine most of that safari is mobile safari / iPhone traffic?
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
That's the first thing I thought of! I wonder how used these are. Are there any sources or data points indicating that this commonvoice data is being used, and if so, where/how? I think I may have contributed to this a few time
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
Is it? Or is an employee's job to just do the work they're asked to do? "It depends" is, of course, the common answer, but in most places I've worked, "please help find operational optimizations that can have
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
Many make the same argument about Laravel, Symfony, ASP.NET, etc. There's a huge amount of value in having an ecosystem of components that are designed to work together, and randomly choosing "oauth X" and "smtp Y"
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
because it's nothing something that ever surfaces in the first page of google when searching "how to use npm" and it's never discussed in any youtube videos or bootcamp programs. it's only ever something 'foun
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
I thought they'd also modified revisions to have a limit, instead of unlimited. Even when 'enabled', it's not how the rest of the wp installs would behave (iirc). Likely there was some code change there to enable that
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
Cactacea Shrugged Before I made a judgement about someone making that claim, I'd need to know in what way it 'changed their life'.
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
No it wouldn't be 'interesting'. For years , wordpress stored user session data in 'wp_options'. Moderately trafficked sites needed to come up with regular purging hacks to 'clean' their wp_options table
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
Unrelated point of contrast: I got an email a couple weeks ago from a vendor I'm using telling me about 2 hours of downtime I didn't even know about. They certainly could have only written to customers known to have been affected
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
Other discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41613628
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
> I find plug in hybrids make no sense: electrification is the future. They make sense depending on how far away that future is, and I think that 'future' is way different for different parts of the world.
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
I hear you on "yeah, the patch works, but I don't want it" - or..., as I've had a few times "that works, but it's not the way I want it done - redo it my way". Had that happen a couple times, in tech stac
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
> For example, the end of life of the old java versions (1.5, 7 and 8 etc) - plenty of companies simply just paid a support fee and get support, while others paid to upgrade (or even change stack) And plenty others simply keep using the
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
and... it would keep everyone on their toes a bit more, vs just having a group of folks that nod and say 'yes', 'no' or '3 points' a few times at the same time every day.
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
My threshold includes time/delay. Knowing that asking for some fix is going to delay this thing getting done by a long time - sometimes days - impacted my caring about certain things. Sometimes it was easier to just make a small fix
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
"Price last checked June 5, 2023" for stuff around me.
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
Why does it matter? If you send troops to block the enemy from advancing, if those troops block the enemy from advancing, they've succeeded. Even if those troops didn't "win the war". Even if they all died in combat.
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
If the goal is to stop a competitor from slow or stop a competitor from gaining market share, and you slow or stop them from gaining marketshare, how is that failing?
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
Amen, yes. Greylister here too, and password reset/magic links sometimes end up being painfully slow.
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
> given couple of months working on those problems I would get proficient rather fast - but no one wants to wait couple of months ;) yet they'll take a couple of months interviewing folks, and generally not find the unicorn they&#x2
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
What if there isn't one?
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
We've also seen a rise (or maybe I just notice it more) of stories of "I changed these 3 lines in 5 minutes and saved my company $40k/month!" And then you'll get responses like "pfft.... that's hardly the
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
"scaling makes the engineers lazy to optimize" I've lost track of the times I've heard "compute is cheap! engineers are expensive!" Except... that compute cost will live forever. The time it takes someone to
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
I'm paying $2.99/month. Got mine last year, and used it, then didn't, and started again earlier this year - was using it daily for about 4-5 months. My daily routines changed and I've not used it as much, but will be p
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
Is the landfill actually 'in' the city, or in a rural area outside the city limits? I had a similar interview years ago - something like "how many windows are there on houses in our town?". Wasn't quite that, but I
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
Ideally there'd be some sort of ranking or scoring that would happen to sort by. FooQux(BarQuux) would seemingly rank much lower then FooBar when searching for FooBar or "Foo Bar" but might still be useful in results if rank
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
Assuming I get another apple phone, I'm really hoping they still do something with touchid. That was heaven compared to faceid. I don't think I can use apple wallet payments without faceid, otherwise, I'd ditch it.
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
> As a result, minified code still remains comparably human-readable with some note taking and perseverance. At least some of the time, simply taking it and reformatting to be unfolded and on multiple lines is useful enough to be readabl
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by mgkimsal 2y ago
One more followup. I don't think we should be organizing our society in such a way that "staying alive" is considered a "benefit" that is largely at the whim of employers who can revoke that "benefit" at a

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