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by perlgeek 6y ago
I've been using Github long enough that I have my first name (not a terribly uncommon name) as a username. I have no idea what it even means to follow somebody on github. Why? I use github to host my code, to collaborate with others. I
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by perlgeek 6y ago
> Angular 2 shared a name for marketing reasons, but was/is 100% unrelated as every major idea in Angular turned out to be bad. Be that as it may, Angular 2 meant nobody was willing to commit to any fixed time span to support Angul
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by perlgeek 6y ago
angular.js -- 2010 - 2016 angular -- 2016 That's an example where, when you jumped on the bandwagon at the height of the hype, you were thrown into a backwards incompatible rewrite pretty quickly. And while npm has been around for quit
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by perlgeek 6y ago
> Once you understand that, you can comfortably adapt to any new library/framework/whatchamacallit relatively quickly. I disagree. If you know typescript, it's still quite a leap to be able to code with angular, and debu
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by perlgeek 6y ago
What's better about bottom navigator bar than top? I honestly have no idea which one is better, but after having it at the top (and all other applications seem to have their menu/nav on the top as well) for YEARS, it's a ver
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by perlgeek 6y ago
Does Pulp have proper support for Debian packages by now? Last I looked, it didn't supported signing repositories (and these days, it's basically impossible to get an unsigned repo into a Debian system).
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by perlgeek 6y ago
They are still several light years away from the sun, so "near" only on astronomical scales. "Brown dwarf" is an object bigger than a usual planet, but not big enough to spark and sustain nuclear fusion in the core. &quo
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by perlgeek 6y ago
Statistically speaking, most people who travel with babies travel with their own babies, and strong parental instincts prevents most humans from putting their babies into mortal danger. So, traveling with a baby and attacking the plane you&
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by perlgeek 6y ago
Funny thing is: once you travel with a baby, basically anything goes. 1L water bottle? no questions asked. Even though the baby won't drink 1L of water on a 2-hours flight. The whole restriction on liquids is fairly ridiculous, and e
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by perlgeek 6y ago
The notion that you need a cloud login for a piece of computer periphery to work is just unacceptable to me. "Want to print a page on your locally, USB-Connected printer? Log in at hp.com".
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by perlgeek 6y ago
It's easy for this calculated risk to misfire, if the platform gets a reputation for losing data early in its life.
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by perlgeek 6y ago
If you're doing async IO, I strongly recommend using a library that abstracts much of the pain away, like libuv. Deal with just the libc functions (or system calls) is a way too low level API for many applications.
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by perlgeek 6y ago
The "hit by a bus" thing is used for the most dramatic effect: there's nothing you can do, there's no grace period where a "poached" developer can give some wisdom to his/her successor etc. Managers know t
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by perlgeek 6y ago
> The EU for example has essentially instant SEPA transfers now and has done for a while. It seems that for me (in Germany) transfers still only arrive the next business day. Something must be going on there...
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by perlgeek 6y ago
My mother in law has a small freezer in the kitchen, and a bigger freezer in the basement. That way she can load the cooking ingredients into the smaller kitchen freezer before cooking, can keep most of the stock in the basement. Best of bo
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by perlgeek 6y ago
Same here. About two years ago we traveled through Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and had quite some insect gunk on the wind shields. When I told my parents, they said "we used to have that after an hour of driving" (and presumably they w
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by perlgeek 6y ago
I totally agree. When I write documentation. I'm often at a point where I ask myself: do I document this small inconsistency/inconvenience, or do I just remove/fix it? Often enough it's easier to make things more consist
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by perlgeek 6y ago
Two of the languages I use most often (Python and Raku (formerly known as Perl 6)) have named arguments, and it improves clarity of code tremendously. I don't know how well it fits into PHP, but if it's anything like in python or
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by perlgeek 6y ago
I cannot answer your question, but I have an idea for you: Before quitting, maybe try to get transferred to a different team and project? Maybe you just had bad luck with your team allocation. That said, if it's the same in all other t
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by perlgeek 6y ago
store txt/note in Dropbox, then you also have the sync.
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by perlgeek 6y ago
So, we should forbid all politicians to own stock.
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by perlgeek 6y ago
I agree. It's good to know a name of an algorithm/data structure, and rough characteristics (like bloom filter: O(1) lookup, super memory compact, statistical, can have false positives, no false negatives; perfect for caching look
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by perlgeek 6y ago
Please not. Sincerely, a programmer from a language that allows this. (To elaborate: Perl and Raku allow this. It's not a bad idea on its own, but it comes with lots of tradeoffs that, IMHO, don't fit with the design of Python).
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by perlgeek 6y ago
There's a huge distinction between "used" and "implemented myself". I've used quite a lot of features from RDBMs, as well as topological sorting, LRU for caches, Unicode normalization, graph traversal, bloom fi
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by perlgeek 6y ago
At least my publisher (Apress) is pretty open to giving away free copies for review (everything that helps bring reviews on Amazon is a plus), and limited discount vouchers etc. But yes, you don't have all the freedom that you have wit
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by perlgeek 6y ago
I've gone the traditional publishing route with three books so far. Making money wasn't the goal. A traditional publisher organized a technical review, editorial review, cover design, type setting and project management for me; th
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by perlgeek 6y ago
I've recently come across a situation where somebody couldn't log in with their AD credentials, turned out the account had been renamed... and nobody knew who (or what) did and why. I don't know if AD comes without audit logg
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by perlgeek 6y ago
I'd stay on Linux. I've had too many experiences with sysadmin automation working out of the box on Linux and being a total pain on windows to consider a switch. For example: a project at $work was to deploy osquery on all our ser
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by perlgeek 6y ago
> Instead, it is using the type of DRM implementation for fingerprinting/bot detection. Currently. Do we know that? Is that in their privacy policy? If it works well enough technically, will they use it for other things?
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by perlgeek 6y ago
I recommend using https://old.reddit.com/ plus the Reddit Enhancement Suite Firefox plugin. Makes it bearable :-)

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