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by nickjj 3y ago
The LIRR is the same way. As an occasional user every time I've gone the track number gets posted a few minutes before it departs and it's usually between tracks 16-21. Even if it's during the late evening (off-peak at 8:30pm
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by nickjj 3y ago
Fly.io is involved with YCombinator at https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/fly-io . One of the core contributors of Phoenix also works there and Fly.io tends to tie in with Elixir as a language. I'm just speculat
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by nickjj 3y ago
Remote ranks number 1 for me. Being flexible with working hours and PTO is another. Most other benefits can be solved with your base salary figure. For example, if you don't offer health insurance but you pay +$15,000 more than a compe
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by nickjj 3y ago
Whenever I see this reference it reminds me of: https://i.chzbgr.com/full/8488834304/h1BE216D8/trolling-russ... I don't speak or write Russian but someone once told me about Russian cursive and yep that
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by nickjj 3y ago
I don't think it's that bad? I'm not in IT directly but as someone who mostly does infra / SRE / platform / ops type of stuff I'd much rather run certain types of tools internally. For example, I'd ra
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Disable mouse accel by running this from the terminal: defaults write -g com.apple.mouse.scaling -integer -1 There's a setting in iterm2[0] to disable the terminal from growing and shrinking if you adjust the font size. By default iter
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by nickjj 3y ago
> During the pandemic there was a pause in theatrical releases and the little rental chains couldn't weather that, so they disappeared. Funny enough the pandemic was the reason I canceled my Netflix DVD subscription. During the earl
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> How often are you getting $30k contracts that can be done in two weeks? Often enough, but it's not always exactly 30k for 2 weeks. It's opportunities that lend itself well to making a client really happy while being able to m
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> Can someone explain what the appeal of solo freelancing is in the age of bountiful remote work? Income multipliers, flexibility and being treated like an adult are a few reasons that come to mind. For example, with salaried work your i
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by nickjj 3y ago
Let's Encrypt for taxes. I'd love to see the day.
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by nickjj 3y ago
SEEKING WORK / OPPORTUNITIES | NY | REMOTE ONLY 20+ years of experience building and deploying web apps mostly as a contract worker. I've worked with solo developers to 9 figure businesses. For the last ~10 years I've focused
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by nickjj 3y ago
> They could have just used different Java/Python libraries and changed the architecture for the same result. Yep, their blog post is carefully worded to say "The combined effect of better architecture and Elixir" but they
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by nickjj 3y ago
> Taking a break from the problem can sometimes be the faster way to a solution, illogical for modern bosses who believe only working on the problem will solve it. Yep this is the most important part. If you go on a walk or shower but th
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by nickjj 3y ago
I have 450 posts and about 300 more drafts with Jekyll. In development it takes Jekyll 32 seconds[0] to do a full build and I've done my best to eliminate as many performance killing nested loops as possible. If I use --incremental it
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by nickjj 3y ago
> Recently I (new to it myself) introduced Terraform on my team at work (my department historically mostly uses CloudFormation), and this whole license rug pull left me wondering if I'd made a mistake. Personally I wouldn't swe
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by nickjj 3y ago
I think there's different contexts around simplicity and what your goals are. For example, yesterday I was learning about VPNs in more detail and got WireGuard installed on Debian. It took 3 hours to get it working with no knowledge of
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by nickjj 3y ago
I've been using AHK to swap these keys for years, this script works (it's different than your linked StackOverflow answers): CapsLock::Esc Esc::CapsLock I wrote about a number of other AHK quick wins, such as launchin
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by nickjj 3y ago
> But that's making a PR comment into a meeting, which is something I'd kinda dread and want to avoid. Even if it's a new hire that you may not have met yet beyond a hello in Slack?
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You're right about the "unexpected" part. I think it really depends on the context and the person. Both factors play a big role here. Imagine being in a spot to review a new hire's PR and you've barely interacted wi
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by nickjj 3y ago
> But yeah it's still quite a bit more expensive, $2,000 is equivalent to about $5,000 now. It's not quite that much. You calculated inflation off 1989 when the sale happened in 1998. An inflation calculator puts $1,800 @ 1998
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by nickjj 3y ago
> Then don’t buy a new car? Buy used. In 1998 I bought a used 1989 Chevy Corsica for $1,800 all-in out the door. I'll admit I don't remember how many miles it had but it never had any major problems in all the years I drove it.
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> I've been commuting like 3h / day before WFH and I don't want to go back unless you pay me at least 2.5x I don't think this is even that crazy either. I do WFH but if I were to goto the office in NYC, here's wh
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by nickjj 3y ago
You could go further out to Long Island but rent isn't cheap here either and you end up trading time for money if you like visiting NYC. From about the middle of Long Island it's a 90 minute train ride that costs $28.50 round trip
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This is really good. It's exactly how I've been using Hotwire with Flask for quite some time now.
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> But let's be serious, they could have just said "99% of the top Python packages upgraded to our new packaging system" which would be much more informative and interesting title How about "99% of the top Python packa
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I made the switch too around 4ish years ago. It has worked out nicely and I have no intention on moving away from Debian Slim. Everything "just works" and you get to re-use any previous Debian knowledge you may have picked up befo
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Hah, it's a small world. That's the system we're using. I wonder if you could tell based on the terms I used in the post.
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That's a good point about the toppings being different, especially on different types of pies or slices. For example on their personal pizza, there isn't an option for half toppings, it's full or nothing. We do have bundles,
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Payment systems while working at a pizza place(nickjanetakis.com)
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Yep, personally I think that's ok too. It's mainly avoiding the "if not else" pattern in 1 condition. I haven't met anyone who fully agrees that it's easier to read than "if happy else unhappy" or ret

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