motogpjimbo

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by motogpjimbo 5y ago
Same. Our Node applications can take up to 10 minutes to build and deploy from a pipeline, but our PHP applications are deployed in <2 seconds by executing `git pull` on a VM.
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by motogpjimbo 5y ago
I'd be interested to know what you think PHP got wrong with respect to web development? The majority of the web is running on PHP to this day, so at least in terms of popularity it seems people don't feel this way generally. Furth
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by motogpjimbo 5y ago
Based on my experience, I think you may be underestimating the problems with arranging returns for unwanted items. I don't work at Amazon but I did used to work for an online retailer that shipped luxury items (think several hundred UK
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by motogpjimbo 5y ago
Oh yeah, Royal Mail are annoying for that, especially since the sorting office around here is in the middle of nowhere. Every other courier will try a neighbour though. My wife and I used to live in a street where we were usually the only p
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by motogpjimbo 5y ago
In the UK, delivering to neighbours is standard if the parcel doesn't fit through the mailbox. I'm surprised to hear that's not the case elsewhere?
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by motogpjimbo 5y ago
For anyone interested in this genre, there is a very large collection of 60s/70s library music available on Spotify. Searching for "KPM 1000" will get you started. There is also a documentary on the subject: https:/&#x2
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by motogpjimbo 5y ago
How does this work for deaf or hearing impaired users? Surely even in the US there must be a way to cancel a subscription without having to speak to someone on the phone?
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by motogpjimbo 5y ago
> It's deliberately so [confusing] This is not true. Public schools pre-date modern state schools and what made them "public", by the original definition, was that they were open to any child - provided that their parents
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by motogpjimbo 5y ago
I've never worked with a Javascript developer who was responsible in any way for their employer's adtech and dark UX patterns strategy. In my experience, those decisions are always made by PMs and approved by the board. Your comme
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by motogpjimbo 5y ago
For precisely the reason being discussed here: GET requests can be performed automatically for many reasons. For example, if you've ever pasted a URL into a Slack channel (or similar) and seen the link converted into a thumbnail of the
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by motogpjimbo 5y ago
I've been thinking about getting one since they first came out because while I enjoy the tracker workflow, I don't enjoy making music at the computer these days, especially since working from home during the pandemic. Like you tho
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by motogpjimbo 5y ago
By way of compensation however, a few years later PC gamers could enjoy the FM synthesis of the Sound Blaster card or the PCM-based sounds of sound modules like the Roland Sound Canvas. A lot of PC game soundtracks from that era have aged v
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by motogpjimbo 5y ago
It was possible for a TV channel to encode a small amount of data in the vertical blanking period between video frames - this is how subtitles were transmitted, for example. Teletext exploited this feature by encoding entire pages of text i
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by motogpjimbo 5y ago
It was essentially like having a text-only version of the web built into your TV, but back in the 80s. TV channels would broadcast the data for the pages in the gaps between video frames and a TV with the appropriate decoder would cache the
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by motogpjimbo 5y ago
I work in a legacy codebase (in PHP, not Perl) where the previous developer often wrote functions to be excessively flexible with regards to their parameters - many of the parameters are optional, some of them behave differently depending o
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by motogpjimbo 5y ago
I've never written Perl code, but I'm going to make a wild stab in the dark here and guess that the "flexibility" you're talking about involves putting the `shift` keyword half way down the function body, putting it
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by motogpjimbo 5y ago
There are two windowing systems on Linux - the old one and the new one. GUI toolkits are irrelevant to games.
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by motogpjimbo 5y ago
Just about everyone in the UK defines a billion to be 10^9. I've heard about the 10^12 definition but never encountered anyone who uses it - I think it must have been an older usage that fell out of favour.
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by motogpjimbo 5y ago
But your app reached the point of popularity before you started needing to worry about provisioning and maintaining the infrastructure for it? That sounds like a win to me.
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You're ignoring GP's "busting their ass" observation, which is probably key to this. No-one is going to hire someone to write or direct a movie based on their having a degree from some institution. It's either going
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by motogpjimbo 5y ago
Based on your industry experience, which high-profile filmmakers owe their careers to posessing an MFA degree?
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by motogpjimbo 5y ago
He did edit his comment, but unfortunately didn't acknowledge the edit.
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by motogpjimbo 5y ago
Did you mean to write HAVING in your first query? Otherwise your second query is not equivalent to the first, because the WHERE will not be performed prior to the aggregation.
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by motogpjimbo 5y ago
The biases must be subtle indeed if you are unable to describe one and have to resort instead to an absurd thought experiment.
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by motogpjimbo 5y ago
So is "STEM degree". Perhaps we should stop recruiting anyone with a STEM background?
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by motogpjimbo 5y ago
Node is required for a lot of modern webdev tooling because (a) Node and NPM are usually bundled together and (b) people who write tools for JS development usually like to write the tools in JS too.
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by motogpjimbo 5y ago
You've never inherited a terrible, unmaintainable React or Angular app? I have on multiple occasions, and in fact my team is dealing with one right now. I'd prefer a jQuery mess to an Angular/React mess any day of the week. W
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by motogpjimbo 5y ago
The BBC News website similarly disables comments on any article that's even remotely controversial. While some would undoubtedly consider that a good thing to protect the quality of the conversation, I'm not so sure myself. UK cit
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Trackers allow note data to be annotated with various "effects", triggered via special codes. Some of these effects are things like pitch bends and filter adjustments, which can easily be done in any sequencer. However, effects li
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It's a terrible thing to say, but many young women today, if judged by the same standards as men, would be considered losers. They have nothing going on in their own lives, yet have sky-high expectations of what men are supposed to pro

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