mr_tristan

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by mr_tristan 5y ago
Yeah, I chuckled that page didn't apply the fixed width that it recommended. If you just apply the width rule, it seems to mess up the right column. It's like a microcosm of how challenging CSS is to get right. The actual book thi
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
Reminded me of the "Rules of Comfortable Measure", from The Elements of Typographic Style, quoted here: http://webtypography.net/2.1.2 I always find myself fighting this on practically every website. But it makes
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
I've now successfully gotten two teams to put statuses in a daily Slack thread, so other managers can keep up on the progress of different work. One place basically used that thread to go around the room and basically announce question
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
It's really "open core", but they use one code base, so commercial-licensed code is "available" but not under an open source license. https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/strategic-m
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
This seemed like a great rundown on why event sourcing is complicated: https://medium.com/@hugo.oliveira.rocha/what-they-dont-tell-...
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
Due to quarantine restrictions, a number of parklets were created for outdoor seating arrangements here. What I wonder, is how many cities are considering making the arrangement more frequent and common now that it's been done. My hope
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
In terms of a "whoopsie" without guard rails: lost data because I was in a production database and didn't create a transaction. But, to be honest, I shouldn't have even been able to do that in the first place. Otherwise,
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
I didn't say documentation shouldn't be written; writing is just one of many media types. Many people do not stay focused with longer formats in writing. So adopting a variety of media is a good idea, especially for the fuzzier &q
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
I've found that the higher-level docs often don't even need to be writing per se. I'd stick things like the 3-5 minute overview video, 30-60 minute presentations, and code examples in this type of category. Who maintains thes
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
I know this feeling, having moved from the US to Austria, where I lived for 3 years, and moved back, basically selling everything I had twice. There's a shift in perspective with possessions. I'm less attached to anything, but at
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
It's the pragmatic solution to a hard problem. Supporting distribution for all the different kinds of Linux package mangers alone isn't easy, and you take in how macOS and Windows do things, I'm not even sure where you start.
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
I'm in a similar boat: if Stadia isn't here, I'm pretty much praying that Luna continues, because honestly, the other option is mobile games. A gaming PC or console does not interest me any more. It's a different kind of
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
I've found that many developers do not pay attention to dependency management, so this approach of "it's either in the repo or it doesn't exist" is actually a nice guard rail. I'm reading between the lines here
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
What's important here is that I'm using diagrams mostly in high level, explanatory documents. For example, the decision nodes will be somewhat vague, e.g., "Does event have good location data?" The details of that questi
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
I found there are two types of diagrams I lean on, almost always for higher-level explanation-style documents: 1. System architecture 2. Flowcharts NOTE: I don't try to mix the two. Architecture diagrams are the what, not the how. I fi
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
I find that I mostly use diagrams for "explanation documentation". This is by far the best description: https://documentation.divio.com/explanation/ > Explanation should do things that the other parts of t
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by mr_tristan 6y ago
Java really hasn't had great social stewardship for some time. Oracle has really just kept the tech going, but there's a number of very real issues: Newcomers get no real guidance on what to do. What do you install? It can be an
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by mr_tristan 6y ago
PostgreSQL wasn't developed by a single company, in fact, it came from Berkeley, with public funding: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/history.html Even today, it's contributors come from all over the
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by mr_tristan 6y ago
I haven't done a lot with it, but VMWare Fusion has a `vctl` command you can execute in Terminal: https://github.com/VMwareFusion/vctl-docs/blob/master/docs/g... Looks like it supports doing so
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by mr_tristan 6y ago
I'm not really arguing that the JetBrains ecosystem is equivalent, or necessarily better, than the LSP approach. It's just that this article seemed to base the existence of the LSP as some evidence that JetBrains' approaches
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by mr_tristan 6y ago
Yeah, I didn't mean to say that Eclipse "wasn't" open source, just that these other ecosystems are also . It's not like you have a choice between "Eclipse and commercial".
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by mr_tristan 6y ago
People act as if the language server protocol has no equivalent in JetBrains ecosystem. There are, things like MPS: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/mps/mps-user-s-guide.html , or the platform: https://pl
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by mr_tristan 6y ago
Yes. And Intuit's lobbying has helped ensure that never changes. https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f... Most Americans are simply unaware that other countries have dramatically simplified
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by mr_tristan 6y ago
Yeah, I found the article to be a little annoying in that it's mostly attacking WeWork. My recommendation for anyone new to the area, is the streaming systems book: http://streamingbook.net/ , which came after two excel
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by mr_tristan 6y ago
Because most thefts are probably of older vehicles. https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-auto-the... > The Honda Civic was the most frequently stolen passenger vehicle in 2017, with 45,062 thefts amon
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by mr_tristan 6y ago
To tie this a bit more into the actual article: It might be even more accurate to just ask people in a post mortem for some feedback, instead of trying to build some data set based on estimates and SLOC. Like an exit poll.
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by mr_tristan 6y ago
AFAIK, Maven allows you to reference multiple builds like the Gradle composite build feature, but, I don't know of any kind of official dependency substitution mechanism. I'm very far from a Maven specialist, though. I suspect wit
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by mr_tristan 6y ago
I wish as much attention was paid to perform post mortems regularly then to only do estimation. You know, actually look at "hey, this is what we guessed and this is what actually happened". I've had to fight to actually hold
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by mr_tristan 6y ago
I suspect that Android and Kotlin have really helped Gradle adoption. But even before this, Gradle has a very easy "customize it" approach. Though... honestly, it might just be that people hate XML. Personally, I've stuck wit
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by mr_tristan 6y ago
Is the MongoDB SSPL license an example of such a "royalty friendly" license? https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license I've heard of this in a couple of other places, I'm not awar

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