midnightmonster

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by midnightmonster 11y ago
I keep it like an unopened fifth on the mantle of a recovering alcoholic: a symbol of the triumph of rational resource allocation over obsession. But maybe someday I'll relapse, and you'll find me red-eyed and half-delirious at 3
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by midnightmonster 11y ago
They're high-quality JPEGs with SVG path-based masking. It's a technique that can work well in Firefox, but it can also be buggy. I have a site that uses this technique on the front page and fails the same way in Firefox--but only
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by midnightmonster 11y ago
No. There's an important difference in tone or attitude and also in content. "I have little to nothing to learn about/from this" vs "I can [will be able to] do this". Kids can be arrogant and they can be childi
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by midnightmonster 11y ago
> an offensive display of superiority I suppose people may differ as to whether arrogance that corresponds to actual excellence is more or less irritating than arrogance that corresponds to no actual excellence, but surely we've all
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by midnightmonster 11y ago
Arrogance which bothers me in my children and of which I am ashamed when I display it is a strident confidence in one's judgement about some matter that's out of proportion to one's actual knowledge and experience. (It's
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by midnightmonster 11y ago
So, no, developers on windows are not stumbling in the night. But also, no, your skills and familiarity are not transferable from OS X to Windows. In contrast, I was a desktop (laptop) Linux user until a year or so ago, and found my skills
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by midnightmonster 11y ago
That's really not so weird. In taste decisions (order a drink for me, decide what movie we're going to watch) I'm often glad to get outside my own head and try whatever you're into. In practical but short term or roughly
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by midnightmonster 11y ago
Frost's duplicity (sometimes triplicity, maybe more) is part of his charm. Yet if there were not also insight and beauty, I think the charm--the mere pleasure in being as clever as the speaker (if not as clever as the poet)--would wear
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by midnightmonster 11y ago
The title and description don't match the code there. As you say, the code sample is actually to prevent XSS, not SQL injection. stripslashes is used to undo the effects of PHP's old, terrible magic quotes misfeature, b/c the
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by midnightmonster 11y ago
I implied a slightly scrambled chronology. To clarify, we kept the expensive COBRA coverage from my wife's old job in MD, because prior to ACA there were no good individual insurance options for her and the kids. Now, with ACA, we have
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by midnightmonster 11y ago
uBlock killed subscribe for me, too. Didn't occur to me until I saw others mention it.
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by midnightmonster 11y ago
I am male, early thirties, married with children. We have a high-end ACA-compliant plan purchased directly from Florida Blue. At almost $1600/month, it's really freakin' expensive. But we have various health issues between us
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by midnightmonster 11y ago
I'm very curious to know what your ethical dilemma is. I've read the man who was Thursday a couple times, and I'm having a hard time thinking what you might find objectionable about it that isn't giving away pretty earl
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by midnightmonster 11y ago
The father brown mysteries are (afaik) all short stories, now available in collections. Blue Cross is excellent and also introduces two characters besides father brown who have arcs over some of the other stories. Try also The Trees of Prid
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by midnightmonster 11y ago
If you're in the position of being able to refund any money you have received for which you didn't already clearly deliver whatever you promised, you can walk away with reputation in a pretty good place. E.g., I got in way, way ov
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by midnightmonster 11y ago
Suppose I call a plumber over to fix my sink, and I say, "Hey, I've also started building a guest house out back--I'd like the interior plumbing run and the whole building connected to the city water. Can you get started on t
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by midnightmonster 11y ago
I agree that the youtube video you linked is not at all convincing as an example of genuine communication. I don't know anything about Philip's path to get where he is now, but there are a number of videos of Philip using his curr
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by midnightmonster 11y ago
Thanks. Maybe I'll try it again. I've read it once, and my memory of what I read is a major contributor to the entire enterprise seeming beyond exhausting.
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by midnightmonster 11y ago
If you received or find good ways to actually make these changes, please write about it.
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by midnightmonster 11y ago
Author's 'before' picture is me very often. I'm nearly ego-less in pursuit of the truth--more than ready to be shown wrong myself--but that doesn't mean that coworkers and loved ones end up feeling good about the co
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by midnightmonster 11y ago
I've been a daily timely user since August 1 2014. At the moment, they're still recovering from a major update that shipped with tons of bugs, and core functionality is still missing. (Most of all, there's no visual planning
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by midnightmonster 11y ago
The CEO also owns the company. "Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?"
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by midnightmonster 12y ago
I find it unreasonable that the author is getting flack for promoting his cycle.js. If he had just criticized react.js and offered no solution, everyone would be saying, "well, what am I supposed to do if I'm not supposed to use r
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by midnightmonster 12y ago
Not arguing with fit2rule--he/she can buy what he/she chooses--but I think a subscription model is Just Fine. If I'm making money or even pursuing a hobby, $300/yr is completely worth it. But FWIW, I'd be happier ab
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by midnightmonster 12y ago
Suppositions: * You can't keep this up. You'll either quit or be fired sooner or later. * You really do have a lot to learn from your coworkers. If you believe those are true, a radical change of strategy is in order, and you shou
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by midnightmonster 12y ago
Learning how to build a product business alongside my consulting via [the latest version of] Amy Hoy's 30x500 course.
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by midnightmonster 12y ago
It's also a really naive calculation in that it assumes you will be able to fill nearly every working day out of the year with a full day's worth of paying work. When are you going to pursue leads, develop your sales funnel, learn
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by midnightmonster 12y ago
For me on iPhone, the page would be fine if only the entire almost-full-screen-size navigation didn't switch to fixed positioning and block most of the page once I scroll past it.
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by midnightmonster 12y ago
Summary: If your goal is a software development position, I would move "Highlights" above "Experience", move "Professional Skills" to the bottom of "Highlights" (who doesn't say they have excelle
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by midnightmonster 12y ago
Clients generally don't care about or understand your technology choices. People and process management are at least as important to freelance success as programming or design skill. That much I definitely agree with. I wouldn't d

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