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by pdmccormick 3y ago
Correction: Canada is a country with a small number of large cities that determine the national government. There are whole regions of the country that have no representative voice within the governing parties.
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by pdmccormick 3y ago
Could someone start some kind of judicial investigator process over how terrible Teams is?
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by pdmccormick 3y ago
After many years, I’ve come to the same conclusions and can heartily recommend these suggestions! Another similar suggestion I’d add is make a settings module with a base collection of configuration (i.e. myproject/settings/common
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by pdmccormick 3y ago
Last week I signed up for an annual subscription to MDN. I didn’t realize it at the time, but paying subscribers get the option to enable offline mode (it currently downloads about 630 MiB of content). I generally have fast connections wher
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by pdmccormick 3y ago
I once purchased a FireWire multi-channel audio interface with the express intent of reverse engineering the protocol in order to add Linux support. I purchased a specialized PCI card that was intentionally non-standard (not OHCI 1394) but
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by pdmccormick 3y ago
A Go vendoring pattern that I've found very useful is to use two repositories, the first for the main "project" repository, then a second "vendoring" repository that imports the first as a module, and also vendors e
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by pdmccormick 3y ago
Sounds like an interesting problem to have. Would something peer-to-peer like BitTorrent work to spread the load? Utilize more of the networks' bisectional bandwidth, as opposed to just saturating a smaller number of server uplinks. I
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by pdmccormick 4y ago
Kudos to you for the correct use of "decimate".
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by pdmccormick 4y ago
There is a great quote from Terence Parr, creator of the ANTLR parser generator: Why program by hand in five days what you can spend five years of your life automating? See https://www.infoq.com/presentations/
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by pdmccormick 4y ago
I scanned the replies to see if this comment specifically had been made. Thank you.
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by pdmccormick 4y ago
I vividly remember watching videos of the 2011 Japanese tsunami rolling inland. Seeing cars and bicyclists that looked like small toys that were completely oblivious to the torrent of water that was about to be upon them gave me such a sick
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by pdmccormick 4y ago
I had not expected to spend 5 minutes learning about this today, but thank you nonetheless for the tip off.
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by pdmccormick 4y ago
So add a very little bit more mark up to ship it correctly and to account for some percentage of returns due to shipping damage.
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by pdmccormick 4y ago
I’m sorry to hear this, and you’re not alone (I’ve been WFH with young kids for half a decade so far). I know that feeling of pulling your hair out because the house is so _alive_ and distracting. Would you have any opportunity to go to a q
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by pdmccormick 4y ago
In the mid 2000s, the wireless network infrastructure at my university authenticated your device based on SSH'ing into a server. But the specific SSH server used at that time did not support password-less logins via keys, so it require
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by pdmccormick 4y ago
I've never understood the argument that you should not optimize your own working environment (IDE/editor customization, alternate keyboard layouts, shell aliases, custom hotkeys, scripts, etc.) because it could be unfamiliar to so
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by pdmccormick 4y ago
Thank you, I think that is exactly what I was looking for, and just what I had secretly hoped someone might suggest in response to my comment. Thanks again!
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by pdmccormick 4y ago
Thanks for mentioning the last major outage. That one was memorable for me as my son had just been born a few days prior. If that had happened the day of, I honestly don’t know how we would have managed it logistically.
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by pdmccormick 4y ago
Am I the only one who thinks that Git's UX is fine, and maybe even rather enjoyable? It has taken time to learn, and I am by no means a power user, but its model is now in my brain so, for better or worse, it's how I think and wor
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by pdmccormick 4y ago
If I ever see a resume or a job description that lists "C/C++", that's a red flag to me that either someone might not actually have that much experience, or someone doesn't actually know what they are looking for.
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by pdmccormick 4y ago
A practise I’ve found very fruitful in my programming journey is to do deliberate practise, even when (especially when) I’m knee deep in another problem. For me this looks like an explicit “learning” directory structure where I write short
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by pdmccormick 5y ago
I can still remember discussing the case while hanging around the student union office at school. I wanted to believe he didn't do it, in part because there would be a chance that the children might be reunited with their mother, and a
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by pdmccormick 5y ago
I just have one question... does Netcraft officially confirm this?
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by pdmccormick 5y ago
Has anyone ever stopped to consider the ethical question of applying the latest unproven fads of educational theory to unwitting students? Ideally before large scale rollouts? As someone who grew up during a tumultuous time for the public e
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by pdmccormick 5y ago
I wonder if that means they don't pay all that much compensation on a case by case basis, or if there isn't that much fraud occurring to begin with.
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by pdmccormick 5y ago
Steve Jobs passed away 3666 days ago.
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by pdmccormick 5y ago
But were Go modules a better solution in that space? Should we have stuck with a less better approach (not casting a judgement on dep necessarily) just because it was an earlier attempt to deal with the same problem?
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by pdmccormick 5y ago
This reflects my experience as well. When I more or less know what I’m doing (where my typing is essentially the rate limiting step), playing familiar music helps me to focus, but when I really need to stop and think about what I’m trying t
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by pdmccormick 5y ago
That is a pleasantly concise announcement.
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by pdmccormick 5y ago
Definitely writing that one down...

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