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by rietta 6y ago
As a decades long FreeBSD and Linux user, I can say no, I would not use Windows on a server come hell or high water for jobs that are already better served on open source platforms. It is seldom the best tool for the job and Microsoft'
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by rietta 6y ago
For clarification, you mean Google Tag Manager?
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by rietta 6y ago
For commercial scale products you need more than that. The full address. Is the address residential vs commercial with a loading dock? That and more factors impact the shipping price a lot! Logistics companies have people who have to resear
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by rietta 6y ago
I've just always practiced mousing with both right and left hands. It's good to have some balance in one's life. :-p (I follow this philosophy in my martial arts as well. Which turned out well enough when on my black belt tes
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by rietta 6y ago
I've been very pleased with my 2018 model of the XPS 13 Developer edition. Highly recommend.
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by rietta 6y ago
What has been done for a few decades, software emulation of another CPU. It's slow but it works. QEMU can do it quite well.
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by rietta 6y ago
I don't know about that. I live in Alpharetta that is an hour commute from Heartsfield Jackson International airport in Atlanta. In the last year, I had three business trips to the Bay Area - where I flew and took Lyft and Caltrain&#x2
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by rietta 6y ago
With the Titanic it was "Women and children in the life boats first" (setting aside massive lack of preparation for the event and locking 3rd class people below decks - despicable). Historically it would seem that this gesture is
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by rietta 6y ago
I love this. How to keep a working older printer going and make it useful!
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by rietta 6y ago
I find myself throwing !g when I want to find a programming specific thing. Not sure this is because Google's results for niche tech sites is better or because I am more familiar with how to craft these as Google queries having used it
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by rietta 6y ago
That's awesome. I actually have GW Basic from my first computer available. Copied from the old 5.25 inch floppy to a 3.5 inch floppy via a 486 and then to a USB hard drive about 20 years ago into a folder i called "Diskette Collec
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by rietta 6y ago
I find my work to be enjoyable and am glad it supports my family and my team members who work for us. It started out as literally me working crazy sleepless hours coding freelance using the self taught skills.
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by rietta 6y ago
I SURE am glad my parents didn't limit my screen time as a kid. I taught myself how to program from age 14 spending countless, countless late night hours staring at the DOS computer screen programming whatever caught my fancy. My caree
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by rietta 6y ago
I remember starting to use and learn Visual J++ just to find out that if one wasn't really careful the code you wrote didn't run on other systems. If I was going to keep making a Windows only program, I preferred to stick with Vis
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by rietta 6y ago
Brilliant! I found this as well https://www.fosslinux.com/24381/how-to-install-davinci-resol... .
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by rietta 6y ago
I would say the vast majority of business documents, proposals, contracts, etc are collaborative editing with others. I didn't mention it but basically Google Docs and Sheets rules the world with these given we have a 50 user grandfath
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by rietta 6y ago
Great list additions! Thank you.
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by rietta 6y ago
I had totally forgotten about Blender since I never really understood 3D animation. But great idea. Thanks for both suggestions.
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by rietta 6y ago
Thank you for the suggestion. I'll have to try it out.
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by rietta 6y ago
I do my development work and run most of my agency (with multiple employees) with Linux. For some of the business things that most people don't assume Linux can do, I use: 1. Xournal to annotate PDFs (aka sign contracts without printin
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by rietta 6y ago
I write CSV code all the time in different languages. It's a fun challenge that incorporates several nuances. It has been a form of code kata for me over the last 20 years. Biggest lesson, one does not simply split a string. You have t
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by rietta 6y ago
In my 30s, married, with kids, and a dog. Will NEVER willingly commute into an office. I'm significantly more productive and have build a life style around getting my work done, quick lunch break, walking the dog is get up from my desk
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by rietta 6y ago
I have all my domains on autorenew, probably many I should have let lapse now, and some of which I have regretted letting go of.
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by rietta 6y ago
Advanced PostgreSQL and NASA data ... sold. Shut up and take my $30. Instabuy :-)
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by rietta 6y ago
Seriously. This fits directly one of my go to examples of a user story that needs security constraints: "As customer service, I need to be able to help my customer regain access to their account easily so that they can continue to do b
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by rietta 6y ago
I'll be using this example for years to come with clients who push back on why certain logging and alerting functionality has to be part of customer service related user stories as an acceptance criteria! There is always the insider t
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by rietta 6y ago
I'm struggling to see how this is anything but using feed lines to the antenna. We've done this for decades to attach rooftop high gain antennas to an equipment closet or if you are a HAM radio operator and want to have an outdoor
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by rietta 6y ago
In Ruby on Rails, ActiveRecord has a method called pluck that returns the result set as an array of strings or as an array of array of strings. I've totally done this in areas that need performance. In my experience, if you are concern
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by rietta 6y ago
Nice! I've done #1, but #2 is a neat trick.
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by rietta 6y ago
I sometimes feel in the minority. I love databases. When I work in the Ruby on Rails ORM ActiveRecord I can actually visualize the SQL it is generating in my head and also do all sorts of tricks when needed.

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