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by mst 4y ago
Right, but in this case - as confirmed by Heroku when contacted - something went wrong at their end and the emails weren't sent in the first place. The fact that the failure to send a single warning email to this particular customer wa
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by mst 4y ago
It feels like it would've been better to have written things such that if it's attached to a still active account that's paying for other services things would be permitted to work a bit differently, but of course the relevan
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by mst 4y ago
I always got the feeling that because it's such a key product the Excel team was basically its own organisation within the wider corporation and as a result had a lot more freedom to make its own choices. (not that I'm arguing for
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by mst 4y ago
I much prefer https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo
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by mst 4y ago
I habitually start with 'touch .gitignore' and then committing that. Since an empty .gitignore doesn't actually do anything and has never been an issue to rebase onto, it works out fine for me. I should probably, arguably, sw
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by mst 4y ago
That's absolutely preferable but (a) you might not have done that -yet- (b) you might not be the person with permissions to do that and they might be too busy and/or unwilling to do so. The title of the article does rather make it
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by mst 4y ago
From my reading, the crucial difference from a QoL POV is not needing to have the branch you're targeting checked out like pull/merge requires.
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by mst 4y ago
"Function Oriented Architecture" is how I think about it. Whether this is more confusing or less presumably depends on how similarly you think to me.
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by mst 4y ago
Depends which register of english. If I'm in a mixed group down the pub I won't at all be surprised if somebody (usually female) walks up to the table and says "hey guys" as a greeting, intending to include male, female
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by mst 4y ago
I live and die by IRC and have often said "irssi is my panopticon." I've customised the hell out of how it highlights (between channels and queries I have over 1,000 open at any given time), but it doesn't get to send me
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by mst 4y ago
Look, mate, I do unironically appreciate a good enterforaprize sales pitch, but this is a nerd space so corporate marketing wank is in fact actively counterproductive for the purpose of evangelising what's actually pretty neat tech. To
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by mst 4y ago
One man's mandatory busywork is another man's separation of concerns.
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by mst 4y ago
I tend to write something like "You're awesome! ... pretend I figured out how to write something less trite here because I'm terrible at it." Anybody who's known me for more than a week tends to be entirely unsurpri
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by mst 4y ago
No implication that there wasn't also pushback internally was intended, my apologies for the fact that now I look at it again, my comment can clearly be read that way. I kept to a generic 'they' because the communications in
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by mst 4y ago
Ironic that libera's governance was set up under a similar spirit. Though frankly if Andrew Lee had ghosted freenode entirely that would've been a vast improvement overr what actually happened.
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by mst 4y ago
They pulled out of that pretty rapidly when they realised just what a disaster Andrew Lee was going to be. Took them a few days to realise their mistake though, so they still got to eat a bunch of reputational fallout anyway. (source: told
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by mst 4y ago
I suspect it's part that and part that after healthcare.gov all the public employees are scared shitless of being held responsible for another incident like that, and believe (probably correctly) that outsourcing it means they can get
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by mst 4y ago
I periodically still drop in to Subspace/Continuum Trench Wars and in a multi hour play session will generally spend the first hour dogfighting and then get annoyed with the performance of my assigned team and switch to a command ship
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by mst 4y ago
The topic of the geek/social IRC channel I run is currently Greg Bear and Fred Brooks. I don't think I have anything useful to add beyond that statement.
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by mst 4y ago
Right, "finding a provider whose reaction to an aggravating quantity of incoming packets was charging money rather than throttling the connection" was basically the load bearing part of the solution here. Fortunately, while said q
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by mst 4y ago
That's an extremely smart approach that I sincerely doubt the site operators would have been capable of dealing with. Part of the art of consultancy is, sometimes to my great annoyance, optimising for "within the customer's b
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by mst 4y ago
Internet security has, in my experience, always been about "being just hard enough a target the bad actors decide to go torment somebody else." It was true twenty years ago too, the only difference I can see between then and now i
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by mst 4y ago
ruby is basically a shinier cleaner perl with unfortunately castrated OO
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by mst 4y ago
I did two tranches of consultancy at the BBC. One, I fixed all of that team's problems but because I swore a lot under my breath about their existing code while I was doing so that team decided to be offended and made a decision to nev
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by mst 4y ago
I really can't stand PHP but as a veteran perl hacker I really do need to say "that's my personal opinion and I am -amazingly- impressed with what people have -done- with PHP even if I don't like it myself."
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by mst 4y ago
Most of us never considered Raku, even before the rename, to be Perl. A perl in the sense that, say, Common Lisp, Scheme and Clojure all count as a lisp. But no further.
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by mst 4y ago
> Why do I need to [declare variables prior to use] Given the zen of python specifically says "explicit is better than implicit" I've always been stunned that python doesn't require that. I've spent enough years
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by mst 4y ago
Having released SQL::Abstract 2 people are trying to convince me to port things. Since the SQLA2 expr layer was deliberately designed to be JSONable I have a horrible feeling I can actually do so and I might actually crack and do it, but if
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by mst 4y ago
Having an 'above the fray' (or at least apparently so) head of state -somehow- is pretty much the thing I'm endorsing here. Implementation details thereof I don't have a strong opinion on except perhaps "if I ever d
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by mst 4y ago
It's a Fight Club quote. Your points are absolutely true, but I don't think the person you're replying to was necessarily unaware of them. So I appreciated both your comments, albeit for completely different reasons.

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