riaandewit

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by riaandewit 4y ago
This one time, I doubled the speed of our bulk mailing app by reading the template in, setting as a variable, and using that instead of reading the template inside the loop each time. Biggest bang for buck change ever :)
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by riaandewit 4y ago
What worked for me: come up with a bit of patter or a general “surrounding script” that you wrap your answers with. JFK did this sort of thing to buy himself time to think. You can also use it to build in your disclaimers: you’re just givin
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by riaandewit 4y ago
For me, portability trumps pixel count at the moment. I haven’t used a multiple monitor setup for about 10 years now, and that works just fine - adding another monitor adds only the ability to keep an eye on things out of the corner of my i
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by riaandewit 4y ago
Making the case (and sounding like an oil exec) that we need to be consuming more energy. I agree: access to energy is vital to our future, but if we’re boosting efficiencies and being less wasteful that’s going to have an effect. So we can
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by riaandewit 4y ago
So, don’t ship cars then. Tweak cities for micro mobility and walking. Also: a couple of burned and sunk ships is a much cheaper price to pay than climate change. If the cost of the odd lithium fire is a lot, wait till you factor in the cos
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by riaandewit 5y ago
This could be tricky! More and more, programmers are moving away from the stereotype of white dude who likes to play computer games in their spare time, and is always on the lookout for a gadget. I’d opt for giving them a gift voucher for a
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by riaandewit 5y ago
I lerned to touch type using Dvorak in 2001. I’m useless at Qwerty! If it’s the only way you can realistically learn to touch type, stick with it. Absolutely no RSI - but I might just be lucky. I don’t have Emacs pinky either… :)
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by riaandewit 5y ago
At this one job I had, the org basically ran on stored procedures. Like thousands of them. So I whipped up a couple of functions and keybindings so if the cursor was on the name of a stored proc, I could surf to it. And then back and so on.
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by riaandewit 5y ago
At one job, the order came on down from on high that we had to do timesheets, but we had to log precisely 7.2 hours a day. So I made a little emacs lisp function to adjust my times proportionally. Hot key was C-M f (for Fraud) :)
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by riaandewit 7y ago
S3, cloudfront, route53 for the hosting. Your text editor of choice for generating. Git for version control :)
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by riaandewit 7y ago
Global logistics service, with side aim of distributing surplus food to areas that need it. Big data backed surgery scheduling for units with high contention, to minimize patient loss.