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by no-s 5y ago
>but if you want to rewrite the codebase into a different paradigm you need to clearly demonstrate what we'll be getting out of it. Well, that all seems reasonable until that upstart competitor comes along and upends the market with
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by no-s 5y ago
>nor do I want an AWS outage to keep me from making nachos. This is a keeper.
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by no-s 5y ago
>I knew a few elderly who managed to program their VCR I tease my wife about not figuring out email until 2005. Of course I date back to the era whence we had to run down to the data center and take turns on the operator console to send
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by no-s 5y ago
>Whirlpool refrigerators are designed so that the light inside fails after a year, requiring replacing a >$100 power controller board. I’ve run into several microwave controllers with a similar misfeature. All used the same controller
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by no-s 5y ago
heheh...“A Modest Proposal”. Kids, stay away from the free lunch, it’s made of people... I think it might be in the genre of HaHaOnlySerious.
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by no-s 5y ago
Seriously. I bought a house to renovate and the painting turned into a drywall refactoring thanks to the chemical peel used by the previous owners…I fixed up one bathroom that actually needs a tear out just to make a deadline for move in…ba
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by no-s 5y ago
haha. I don’t have any direct experience with tadalafil... Sildenafil and it’s ilk conceivably could fall into the category of “smart drug” if my anecdote is typical... The article reports growing in vitro brain tissue from stem cells enhan
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by no-s 5y ago
I read /new and /comments first. I also search to see if there’s anything new in topics I’m interested in.
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by no-s 5y ago
there is an interesting item in this: “...researchers grew neurons from stem cells derived from AD patients. Exposing the cells to sildenafil led to increased growth of neurites, which connect neurons to each other...” So although Viagra mi
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Viagra associated with reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease(nih.gov)
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by no-s 5y ago
> We're well beyond- "does my appearance detract from my work". Of course it does. We're at "does my appearance justify not just complete erasure of my work but constant attempts to deplatform and defund me"
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by no-s 5y ago
I wonder if Doctorow is aware that Medium hides this post behind the paywall for registered users?
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by no-s 5y ago
“Starting wages at the bank now average $44,000 annually with full benefits” Hmmm, could be a clue…
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by no-s 5y ago
hah, exactly. “application-specific views...Going back decades”, or “substitute Stored Procs for views”. It’s not really much extra overhead to use a schema+views. I ask developers to avoid creating views with “Select *”, always specify the
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by no-s 5y ago
It’s impressive how many developer misconceptions I see cropping up in these articles. The point of the query planner is to replace an army of programmers, not evade design faults. Using a server RDBMS it’s trivially easy to decouple schem
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by no-s 5y ago
>> had a few cases of two senior devs reviewing my PR at the same time and going back and forth to tell me to revert what the other dev had me put in As a senior guy reviewing code I’ve asked for reversion of stuff i made the dev put
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by no-s 5y ago
I always like to suggest this is the best way to create a startup friendly environment in your state. OTOH I sorta wonder if the investment in semiconductor fabs and sales orgs in say Arizona is partially founded in the lure of effective no
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by no-s 5y ago
hack++ I will try this ASAP with the instant pot. My Kitchen is being overcome with specialized cooker gadgets. Instant pot, rice cooker, immersion cooker...I wish I still had a convection oven, I may get a countertop version. Considering h
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by no-s 5y ago
I feel like I should flag this, except I’d be fascinated to know if it generates a revenue stream...
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by no-s 5y ago
Looks like the COVID vaccination policy of Canada[1]. Can’t really follow a rational discussion about it on social media. Further comment: "The policy that's being implemented is one in which no discussion of the risks is allowed.
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by no-s 5y ago
haha I started using a Windows 10 laptop from work recently and had a similar experience. I asked IT why they didn’t suppress it in their controlled deploys and they said no one knows how to do that...thankfully it’s not my only computing p
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by no-s 5y ago
I think I would prefer to work with someone who optimizes their strengths the way kevinburke describes in his post. However as a manager I would structure phone screens to quickly filter out candidates who would never work out, no matter h
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by no-s 5y ago
When I have to game an obviously flawed interview because I want the job, I try to drive the interview. Make no mistake, this is a social skill. It’s not something I enjoy, it’s just a learned skill for me. But I do it because I want the jo
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by no-s 5y ago
> We need a PBS/NPR of search engines. PBS/NPR like solutions would be subject to co-opting forces as with other search engines. Look at wikipedia, touted as a “social good” but undermined by collective activism edits in the na
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by no-s 5y ago
you.com looks good. I am USA and English centric. I’m annoyed at the futility of google search for ordinary technical topics. Bing, duckduckgo are also more futile as time goes on. What are the ways to direct more air into the likes of you.
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by no-s 5y ago
> How does the moral calculous work for Americans? Genuinely curious. Is it “something bad is being done to me, I am therefore justified to use any means necessary” kind of thing, or there is something else/more? In some sense, it’s
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by no-s 5y ago
> but there is not complete incompetence as the recruiter did indeed accurately match candidate-to-vacancy Good point. The employers often BS the recruiters because “they don’t need to know that”...
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by no-s 5y ago
I’ve been in the industry for 40 years; The absurdities keep repeating.
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by no-s 5y ago
This is amusing as fuck. This happened to me once after I left what looked like a sinking ship. At the new job I made 20% more for roughly the same position. On the interview at the old place, I learned the req was from new management “buil
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by no-s 5y ago
I read the document for gems to add to BuzzwordBingo. However this little element caught my eye instead: "Projects may have to migrate from Open Source projects” Looks like net FUD shrouded in laudable concerns. Wondering how much I ca

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