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by pards 4y ago
There are a few small but critical errors in the article. > Imagine you have two sales teams. One produces unreproducible and unpredictable revenue spikes, while the other generates consistent and continuously improving results. [...] Wh
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> not in creating reliable, secure and easily maintainable software Every online banking system I've encountered (4+) was built in Java. None of them have been breached. Please cite a counter reference
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There are a few options for spaced repetition: * Org Mode [0] is an Emacs plugin * Anki [1] is a standalone app [0]: https://orgmode.org/ [1]: https://apps.ankiweb.net/
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by pards 4y ago
I bet that fails all email address validation code
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Democratizing Context: Communicating in public by default(builds.metaview.ai)
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> difficulties during data migrations It's not difficult; it merely requires that you think about the order of the migration operations. > He'd rather have a smooth data migration process than having an unexpected error This
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by pards 4y ago
Many ATMs in Canada now allow you to choose which notes you'd like for cash withdrawals. Anything from $100s to $5s are available, including specific quantities of each
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by pards 4y ago
This.
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> I don’t care how good you are at chopping vegetables, how efficiently you handle the ingredients while cooking or how modern your kitchen appliances are – if the food tastes like crap, I’m not coming back to your restaurant! This. Your
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by pards 4y ago
The Twilio exploit allowed the hackers to add a new device to existing Authy accounts. This allowed them to sync the keys between devices within the same account
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Remote start is a basic feature in cold climates like Canada, especially if you have young kids. It's hard enough to wrangle kids into the car, let alone when it's -40°C outside. Remote start allows the interior of the car to warm
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by pards 4y ago
> can you explain the learnings from your recent project? I've seen a lot of organisations publish "learnings" as an artifact of the retrospective on a project that went pear-shaped, but IMHO they can only be classified as
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by pards 4y ago
Spotify has supported this for many years - it's called Spotify Premium Family[0]. You get 6 separate accounts for $16/mth. It is worth the price of admission just to keep my listening history / algo feed clean. [0]: https:&
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by pards 4y ago
Fucked up 503s, Batman!
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GFC! Australian? Australians are the only people I've heard referring to the 2008 crash as the "Global Financial Crisis".
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One week per year is standard in Canada, too
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by pards 4y ago
What about useful, generic skills like typing, scripting, or Unix tools? Learning those will pay dividends for decades.
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by pards 4y ago
>> Having a branch run for even 2-3 weeks means that you are not practicing continuous integration ... as originally conceived. Unless you're updating the feature branch from the main branch frequently (at least daily), thereby c
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by pards 4y ago
The major Canadian banks offer this as a standard feature.
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by pards 4y ago
I tried to "plant my flag" at the Canadian sites for Equifax and Transunion. * Equifax failed with a server error [0] * Transunion requires payment [1] At this point, it falls into the Too Hard basket and will not get
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by pards 4y ago
The root cause is that the Gregorian calendar is illogical and unsuited to today's needs. I wish the International Fixed Calendar [0] had gained traction. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Cale
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by pards 4y ago
> I've seen a lot of hot garbage for code because people were too busy to write the test. I've seen a lot of hot garbage for code because people were too busy writing the tests and ignoring the readability and idiomatic norms o
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by pards 4y ago
Stephen King's "On Writing" [0] is one of the best examples of this [0]: https://amzn.com/dp/1439156816
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by pards 4y ago
Signal also requires a phone number, IIRC
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by pards 4y ago
It's not idempotent - the same source URL entered multiple times yields different shortened URLs. Not sure if that's a feature or a bug ...
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by pards 4y ago
I bought an RF pet tracker last year that comes with rechargeable CR 2032 batteries and a charger [0]. The rechargeable batteries factored highly in my decision-making process. [0]: https://www.girafus.com/en/products&#
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by pards 4y ago
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1522599896066396161.html
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by pards 4y ago
Same in Canada. The regulation is called "access to basic banking" [0] [0] https://cba.ca/newcomers-to-canada
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by pards 4y ago
Weeks? Take a few months and travel if you can! You can backpack for several months for the same price as a week in an all-inclusive resort. Head to South America or SE Asia - stay in hostels, travel on local buses, swim in waterfalls, hike
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by pards 4y ago
>> it's amazing how small a volume of trash we throw out now that we're putting foodstuffs into compost. Toronto introduced its green bin program in 2002, where organic waste (food scraps, mostly) is collected separately and

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