mikeappell

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by mikeappell 5y ago
Stories like this make me glad my company has yet to accept VC money. We're a five-person legal tech startup and the work environment is far and away the best I've ever experienced. Granted, I've only been a developer in tota
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by mikeappell 5y ago
I tend to open multiple windows instead. Though, to be fair, I usually do that on a per project basis. I try to close tabs once I realize I'm not going to be using them in the near future. Basically the exact opposite of my browser hab
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by mikeappell 5y ago
I wonder what it would take to get us to the point where we can oxygenate sufficiently without needing to use our lungs at all. Tons of applications there.
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by mikeappell 5y ago
I think this is only partially true. There are aspects of coding which can be abstracted away, either because they're essentially boilerplate or because a simpler description of the solution is sufficient. Ideally if a more complex des
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by mikeappell 5y ago
> That's where the volume is. There's a big demand for programmers to do web stuff. That demand may or may not continue. It's so stylized that it should have been automated by now. Have an exit strategy. This is highly var
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by mikeappell 6y ago
Funny point, but I assume they mean ten years for a problem they throw whole, enormous teams at.
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by mikeappell 6y ago
Fascinating. I'll do some research; appreciate the input.
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by mikeappell 6y ago
Huh, fascinating. Re: the salmon roe, do you take a supplement which contains the lysophosphatidylcholine, or do you just down the eggs? Ice baths: that's for mental acuity, or overall physical health? I know it's used frequently
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by mikeappell 6y ago
I actually decided to try vaping nicotine to test whether it indeed was a cognition enhancer, and here I am months later addicted like it's nobody's business. Turns out trying this with an addictive personality isn't the grea
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by mikeappell 6y ago
Only tangentially related, but: has anyone found a drug/supplement/etc which aids them in memory retention, cognition, alertness etc? The only thing I've found effective is modafinil for alertness and some general mental shar
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by mikeappell 6y ago
I'm pushing back on describing them as 'mental self-gratification', as that seems like it implies a lack of value in them, potential if not immediate.
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by mikeappell 6y ago
> until there is confirming evidence that assertion is just mental self-gratification. I'd say this is a bit overly negative. There's value in developing theories and frameworks which aren't yet provable but should be as s
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by mikeappell 6y ago
> If you laid all the people I contacted end to end along the equator, they would die, and you would be arrested. Possibly the best line in an article full of really fantastic lines.
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by mikeappell 6y ago
Aaand now I can't un-hear it. Thanks a lot.
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by mikeappell 6y ago
Gonna disagree there: green circuits (and their descendents) are needed often enough and in high enough volumes that it absolutely makes sense to bus them. I've got four full lanes being almost completely consumed, much by red circuit
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by mikeappell 6y ago
> Don't leave valuables in your car, don't lock your doors - they'll just open, rifle through, and leave. I've had my car rifled through tens of times and the most they ever got was some quarters I left in there. Not
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by mikeappell 6y ago
This was my experience as well. When I started as a developer, my team was fully remote (I was the only developer in NYC, most of the rest were in Portugal or elsewhere in the US.) I found it very difficult to ask questions remotely for sev
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by mikeappell 6y ago
No clue how important they are in the ecosystem, but from the perspective of insects which piss me off, I'm on board 100%.
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by mikeappell 6y ago
I've heard that mosquitoes are believed to be completely replaceable in the food chain of the various species which prey upon them. Considering how mosquitoes are a vector for _numerous_ diseases, malaria being the most deadly but stil
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by mikeappell 6y ago
Oh hey, just saw your response =) Not something I'm likely to be looking at in the nearish future, but the next time I need to do some refactoring/rolling out a new Stripe feature, I'll definitely drop you a line with my thou
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by mikeappell 6y ago
> - There seemed to be 3 or so quickstarts/tutorials for the same developer flow, at varying levels of detail (good), but they all had similar names and were difficult to distinguish from each other. My impression was that they were
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by mikeappell 6y ago
That's really cool. I wonder what would have happened if you'd called that number.
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by mikeappell 7y ago
I know AE offers different types of soles, including some very weather resistant ones. You probably know this, but just in case; and you might have more options for different soles if you buy online. That said, I've heard their QA and
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by mikeappell 7y ago
Not only that, but it blindsided European leaders. You'd think one would want to communicate an incoming travel ban to our allies before announcing it on live television... https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world&
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by mikeappell 7y ago
I think it's important to learn and understand, absolutely. But a default installation/configuration which both works correctly and is easy to set up is pretty damn valuable.
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by mikeappell 7y ago
You can set this up as a shortcut. I forget exactly how I did it, but here's what seems to be a similar guide on macos: https://coderwall.com/p/h6yfda/use-and-to-jump-forwards-back...
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by mikeappell 7y ago
From what I was reading, many of the people responsible for reporting the results hadn't even downloaded the app until the night of, or if they had, hadn't ever logged into it on their phones. Ridiculous.
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by mikeappell 7y ago
So what you're saying is, they're "not even wrong."
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by mikeappell 7y ago
I'm not sure if it was so much the flavor profile as it was being used to thin out the product using an inexpensive thinning agent. THC concentrate is very viscous, and needs to be cut with something to be viable for cartridge use. I
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by mikeappell 7y ago
It's funny: we were required to do a Google Sheets integration recently where we had to get a list of all the user's sheets as a part of the flow, and I didn't even realize there was a way to do so using a non-drive endpoint.

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