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by paledot 6y ago
Sounds like fun! Drop me a message if you get it going and want a collaborator.
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by paledot 6y ago
Given W3C's emphasis on URLs as a permanent reference to content, I'm surprised they use a CMS at all. My next blog-ish project will be static HTML compiled from markdown. When I move on, so long as I keep paying for hosting, it&#
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by paledot 6y ago
I came to vim (years ago now) because I was experiencing RSI from all of the chorded keyboard shortcuts I was using in Coda. Emacs doesn't help with that, but vim does (if you `map ; :`). Any editor feels clunky for the first week of u
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by paledot 6y ago
No system is 100% reliable, though. Some systems are close enough that we grit our teeth and pretend they are and wave away the inevitable outages that have nothing to do with our app and everything to do with an unreliable dependency. In a
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by paledot 6y ago
I don't think this is a coincidence. Salt water, after all, is present in effectively unlimited quantities in many of the world's major cities. If the price of desalination drops, competition (in an imaginary world) will drive dow
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by paledot 6y ago
Sure. Radioisotope thermal generators are standard issue on deep space probes but nearly unheard of in terrestrial applications, because there are so many easier and cheaper sources of energy on earth. If the best they can manage is a large
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by paledot 6y ago
This sounds awesome, and I'm glad it's worked well for you. Too many people dehumanize "service workers", or abuse them in their role as the face of a company that cares even less for its employees than its customers. Th
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by paledot 6y ago
You did yourself a huge favour by not playing SimCity 5. The sequel to SimCity 4 came out, and it was called Cities: Skylines.
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by paledot 6y ago
Correctly 100% of the time, as long as all of your contacts have names that match "Firstname Lastname". Google Contacts has separate fields, which enables "Vince" but at the expense of assuming that his full name is &quo
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by paledot 6y ago
Okay, but - "programmatically determine the users name" is one of the classic foibles of inexperienced programmers. It's not that it's a hard problem, it's an impossible problem that people shouldn't be attemp
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by paledot 6y ago
The souls who labour there, in life, posted PDFs to websites when HTML would have sufficed.
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by paledot 6y ago
If I got that question in an interview, I would write a program that asks the user what their first name is. That's the only correct solution to that problem.
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by paledot 6y ago
There's an idea. MM/DD/YYYY (or worse, YY) should be an indictable offence.
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by paledot 6y ago
My employer carved out a standalone PHP script from a dark corner of a legacy application years ago. We show it to candidates and talk through what they'd do differently. I like it because I can judge not just the candidate's tech
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by paledot 6y ago
Nope, but there'll be a TCP packet that's been re-sending over and over for the past 100 years.
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by paledot 6y ago
I live in Montreal, which is 6 hours' drive due north of NYC. It is actually farther south than Portland, OR. In fact, by far the majority of Canada's population is south of the 49th parallel. The border is weird to the east.
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by paledot 6y ago
I know you're angling for option 2 here, but honestly, default churn still sounds like the best choice. Don't like it? Have a one-line config Defaults=1980 and let people like my father-in-law keep using their Shift-Delete, while
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by paledot 6y ago
I'm here for this. Zapier is super overpriced and IFTTT is hampered by its attempted "ease of use". As an individual, I need something in between, which hopefully IFTTT Pro is/will become. The 3-applet limit is weak, tho
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by paledot 6y ago
I suspect it's more accepted in Europe than in the US. Here in Canada, we're somewhere in between. Not quite the same workaholic culture that parts of the US suffer from, but we haven't been as successful as many continental
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by paledot 6y ago
Unless you're getting a car specifically for road trips, the increased inconvenience of a 20-minute fast charge over a 5-minute stop at a gas station is more than offset by never needing to stop for gas on the way to/from work aga
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by paledot 6y ago
A smart government would have increased their carbon tax to absorb the dip in price. (Here I'm assuming, of course, that a smart government already has a price on carbon.)
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by paledot 6y ago
While I respect sticking to your guns, I don't think we're putting that genie back in its bottle. Maybe a reasonable middle ground, like a less-fraught version of the HTTPS redirect, would be to have any requests containing unknow
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by paledot 6y ago
There are achievable numbers between 1-5% and 100%.
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by paledot 6y ago
My understanding is it's complicated because of benefits. 32 hours is considered full time by my employer's insurance company, any less is part time. You can pro-rate salary, but benefits are mostly either there or not.
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by paledot 6y ago
Thanks for sharing. I also negotiated a 4-day week (and love it), but it was after I'd been at my current company for 4+ years. It's encouraging to hear that employers are open to hiring people at 4 days off the bat, because I&#x2
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by paledot 6y ago
I mean, not if one is oilprice.com, but yes. Hopefully demand never rebounds. Unfortunately, cheap oil does have repercussions on the value proposition for electrification of transportation. However, electric cars are now mature enough that
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by paledot 6y ago
It's a common misconception that free speech has no legal limits, and that it affects private companies. Neither of these are true. Hate speech is not protected, and companies certainly aren't obligated to enable it.
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by paledot 6y ago
Welp, I've had a lot of emotions about Apache httpd over the years, but this is the first time over felt sorry for it. Poor lil' thing.
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by paledot 6y ago
Seconded. I've been learning on SO heavily lately as I'm writing my first real Rust program (an IRC bot/client/server/not sure yet), and I was impressed by how many questions and answers had been updated with notes
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by paledot 6y ago
I'm looking forward to seeing StarLink go up against the Great Firewall. Although Tesla is booming in China right now, so the CCP would probably just retaliate for making service available to Chinese citizens by going after Musk's

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