mikekchar

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by mikekchar 6y ago
What is allowable as a deduction for taxes is not really based on logic or fairness. We don't have King Solomon sitting there adjudicating what is the reasonable course of action. There are just coarse rules. I'm in Japan, so my
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by mikekchar 6y ago
The 12 practices of XP are not XP any more than a finger is not the thing that it is pointing to. XP is intended to be a minimal set of practices that generate a method. Rather than specify a method (which will dependent upon circumstan
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by mikekchar 6y ago
> Finally, customers are going to change their minds There is actually a type of orgnaisation that does not change their mind. They have a vague idea upfront what they want. They ask for a plan and an estimate. They never actually t
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by mikekchar 6y ago
My comparison is usually nurses who have an actually hard job where people's lives are on the line (and lately their own lives). If someone thinks that software developers are notorious for accepting low pay, I can't imagine wh
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by mikekchar 6y ago
Speed was definitely a big deal when git first came into being. However, as far as I remember, the main thing that made git popular was actually Github. Before Github, various souce repository sites were awful (and in the case of what S
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by mikekchar 6y ago
I have a legacy app that uses CouchDB under the hood. It's not actually appropriate for how it's being used, but I can see how it could be used in an appropriate way. Over time I got to respect and even like CouchDB (just not
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by mikekchar 6y ago
I think the thing is that because the IntoIter consumes the collection, you are right that it is turning it "into" an iterator... I guess. But for me that's not the intent of what I'm doing. If I use iter() or mut_iter
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by mikekchar 6y ago
I always say, bakers get up at 3 am to go to work. Night club owners work until 3 am. There are lots of jobs in the world that are not 9-5 even if you are working 8 hours a day. There is no particular reason you have to work those hours
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by mikekchar 6y ago
Before say anything too stupid, let me say that I'm very worried about the short to middle term economic impact of Coronavirus. However, I live in Japan having moved here in 2007 -- nearly a decade after the bubble burst. We've
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by mikekchar 6y ago
I read this article with caution. I don't want to upset the delicate balance that is my intuition of how the borrow checker works. Articles that say "Don't think of it like X" are double edged swords ;-) In reality, th
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by mikekchar 6y ago
Generally speaking, I've found Rust terminology confusing. For example, why does the `IntoIter` iterator gives you owned values? What the heck does "Into" mean to a Rust developer? There are lots of things like that. I&
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by mikekchar 6y ago
So I tell myself ;-) However, the reality is that it's pretty hard. I live in a rural area of Japan. There are few world-wide remote jobs at the moment and so hanging on to my contracts is pretty important to me. There are times wh
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by mikekchar 6y ago
I work from Japan and my colleagues are in the UK. I agree that it's very difficult. Having a few hours of overlap almost every day is crucial. Usually I work until 8 or 9 pm (sometimes later). Probably for someone who has a shifte
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by mikekchar 6y ago
I've got to say that I don't agree at all with the teacher analogy. People get so caught up in thinking that teaching is about the subject that they are teaching. It's not. It's 100% about the student. If you are a t
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by mikekchar 6y ago
I have always been under the impression that myopia was caused by growing too fast as a child, leading to misformed eye balls. Basically children with too much food get myopia. Surely that fits the same data pretty darn well... I wish I
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by mikekchar 6y ago
This may be a bit challenging -- especially I can appreciate how most Americans would fear a world where China is the world that "they" create. However, for a lot of people in the world, there is actually a gap of values where A
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by mikekchar 6y ago
I don't think so! It's just a different point of view. For a lot of people, having to scrape by with a small amount of money is a really frightening situation. And truly if you are in debt (especially if you are in a cycle of d
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by mikekchar 6y ago
> If a coffee here or there is going to break your budget, it's already broken and you need to go in to panic mode. I understand exactly what you are saying here, however, there have been several times in my life where buying a coff
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by mikekchar 6y ago
I never really understood universal basic income until this crisis. Many people really need this basic income now. So you could print money and give it to them, but ideally I guess you need to replace that money from the tax base. But
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by mikekchar 6y ago
The biggest one I've seen with my own eyes is smoking outside in public. When I first came to Japan you would see lots of people smoking while walking, or smoking on outside train platforms. Then one day somebody put up a big billboa
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by mikekchar 6y ago
I may be missing something... Surely post-COVID19 work will see an increase in hot-desking. Remote work is going to be on the up, but not everyone will relish working every day from home. So you're going to get large numbers of wor
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by mikekchar 6y ago
While crazy, this shows another example of the ways things change in Japan. Nothing ever changes until one day it changes overnight. April 23rd someone tweets the bleeding obvious. May 17th (apparently), the entire country is using a dif
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by mikekchar 6y ago
> or am I checking too frequently? Your unit tests are running too slowly, otherwise you wouldn't be checking so frequently. Oh, wait. That's me.
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by mikekchar 6y ago
I work on a legacy CouchDB application and the same problem exists in that area. CouchDB is actually really amazing and is wonderful for some types of applications. It really sucks if you want a relational DB. Keep in mind that I don&#x
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by mikekchar 6y ago
I'm over 50 and don't have kids. It is incredibly unlikely that I ever will have kids ;-) Has it helped my career significantly? I don't think so. I know lots of people who are more successful than me in objective terms t
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by mikekchar 6y ago
I think the point is not that you disbelieve in your own consciousness but rather that you misinterpret what it is. It must exist: cognito, ergo sum, but this does not imply that you understand its nature.
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by mikekchar 6y ago
Given that, I wonder if there is an opportunity to provide the ordering service and leave the delivery up to the restaurant... It would be dramatically easier to start up, require far less capital, require almost no human resource challe
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by mikekchar 6y ago
The GoF book is literally a dictionary. I wish more people realised that. It is an attempt at describing a specific "pattern language". A "pattern" is a solution to a problem that comes up repeatedly in different cont
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by mikekchar 6y ago
Here is an idea that I've always wanted to do, but will never have time for: A curated search engine. Basically the idea is to have people band together and "recommend" links. You then do your normal spidering of the website
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by mikekchar 6y ago
While I completely agree with you, there is a compelling argument for governments spending tax payer money on goods from local companies rather than competing with them. Of course, I don't think I would class MS as a "local compa

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