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by prirun 4y ago
> Was there some other path you could have taken that would have been more fun or fulfilling in some way, but might not have brought the wealth? It's impossible for anyone to know whether taking another path would have been better o
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by prirun 4y ago
This summarizes the problem IMO: > As soon as I started being more open and expressive about my Christian religious beliefs at Google It's fine to have religious beliefs. It's not fine to espouse them at work. Do that on Sund
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by prirun 4y ago
$550 for refurb (like new) iPhone XR Sep 2020 on eBay. I hpreviously ad a BLU R2+ from 2017, but Google's updates (that I had disabled, but the did them anyway) broke so much stuff that I switched to iPhone. At the end, I couldn'
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by prirun 4y ago
The article didn't mention this specifically, but one reason Netflix may want Roku is to get more info on which streaming services consumers may be switching to or watching most. And maybe they can even get some info on which programs
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by prirun 4y ago
I was 19 and worked for Prime Computer (minicomputers) in the Detroit office in 1980-81 as an OS Specialist. In May 1981 I worked the Prime booth in Chicago at NCC (National Computer Conference), where Xerox first introduced their Star sys
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by prirun 4y ago
IANAL, but here's one way to at least discuss it with him. Let's say you own 40% of shares, he owns 60%. The code you want was developed by a single person (him) in 6 months. If you can agree that a reasonable developer salary w
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by prirun 4y ago
As a solo developer of HashBackup, good documentation allows me to work on what I enjoy - coding - rather than answering tech support questions caused by inadequate documentation. I actually enjoy writing documentation now, since it enable
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by prirun 4y ago
I've never understood why anyone would want to compel someone to do work for them. Regardless of the legalities, if any, the "compeller" is always going to get a bad result from someone who doesn't want to do the work.
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by prirun 4y ago
The problem for me with logging is that it's slow for production code: Python 2.7.15 Linux (logging is 60x slower): [root@hbtest ~]# py -m timeit -s 'import logging' "logging.info('something happened')&quot
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by prirun 4y ago
Paying for compilers was very normal. In the early 80's I paid for the Realia COBOL compiler for MSDOS and paid for a screen library, ScreenIO, that generated full-screen (80 chars x 25 lines) applications. I had already written a fi
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by prirun 4y ago
I wish we could remove braces from a lot of the new languages. Having a lot of symbols like {:abc:} or whatever might make parsing convenient, but it doesn't make typing, readability, or searching more convenient. Most search engines
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by prirun 4y ago
Database software often will create automatic indexes based on the queries it gets. Even SQLite has this: https://www.sqlite.org/optoverview.html#autoindex If your db is read-mostly, manually adding a bunch of indexes base
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by prirun 4y ago
I'm curious, when there is code like: case let matches: [][]regex::capture => defer regex::free_matches(matches); is there a gap between those two statements where memory for matches has been allocated in regex but won&#x2
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by prirun 4y ago
Suggestions: 1. Make colleges fund student loans instead of government. That gives them the incentive to make sure students graduate with credentials that allow them to get a job and pay back the loan. 2. If students didn't graduate,
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by prirun 4y ago
eBay handles their own payments for a while now. PayPal is still an option, but sellers are required to register a bank account with eBay.
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by prirun 4y ago
You could probably add something like #23 to the end of your street address and still get it. For gmail and fastmail, you can use jim+xyz@gmail.com and change the xyz for every new email signup.
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by prirun 4y ago
> When I hear an good musician now, I inevitably wish I'd tried harder and could do what they do. I listen to good piano performances on YT and wish I was as good. But then I think about how much time I have spent being good with c
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by prirun 4y ago
Unrelated to Twitter, but your post reminded me that consumer should also have an independent "account number" for lack of a better word that belongs to the user, like a telephone number. Electronic payments would come out of thi
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by prirun 4y ago
Figure out something you are interested in, and start your own project in a language you like or would like to learn. 13 years ago, HashBackup was my first Python project and I still enjoy working on it nearly every day. As a piano player
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by prirun 4y ago
Same here, except for me, the reason to switch to iPhone after many years with Android is: a) Google managed to shove an update onto my phone even though I did not have wireless configured and had it set to not use cellular for data. I onl
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by prirun 4y ago
There are a few ways to combat this: 1. Talk to your neighbors and see what their assessments are like. In our city, assessments are done by "neighborhood", which in my case is 1 street of 85 houses. 2. Collect sales literature o
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by prirun 4y ago
I did a similar thing switching from Vanguard to Edward Jones and back to Vanguard. The first year at EJ was great, so I switched the rest of my money to them. Big mistake. While the market was going up, my EJ stuff was going down. I co
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Being the big fish at your current job gives you some advantages. I would talk with your manager and explain that you need to work fewer hours so you can take better care of your physical health. Especially if you combine this with coachi
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by prirun 4y ago
I did some reading, and there are 2 ways to use the SQLite backup API: 1. call backup_init, backup_step with a step size of -1, then backup_finish. This will lock the db the whole time the backup is taking place and backup the entire db. 2
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by prirun 4y ago
I find it ironic that people often look at the EU as "privacy-focused", with things like the GDPR, while at the same time the EU wants encryption backdoors and photo scanning. IMO, the politicians just want more authority and powe
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by prirun 4y ago
Good, I hate Carvana. They told me I didn't have to use Docusign to buy a car, told me I didn't have to take a selfie holding my drivers license and send it to their random delivery driver, then 5 minutes before coming to deliver
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by prirun 4y ago
> I'm surprised a database schema lasted 9/12 years without ever renaming or dropping a column. I did have a couple of columns that were no longer needed and would have dropped them, but instead I just set them to null and igno
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Nim had this same problem a couple of years ago, and it's very annoying. I just checked some stdlib functions and it's still there: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/blob/devel/lib/std/
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by prirun 4y ago
* the big one for me: very limited migration support, requiring quite a lot of ceremony for common tasks (eg rewriting a whole table and swapping it out) I don't know where this idea of having to swap a whole table in SQLite came from,
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by prirun 4y ago
I ran public forums in a previous business. Customers paid us every month for other services; the forum was just a side benefit. It was great when we had around 1000 people able to post. Not all did of course, but it remained civil. Onc

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