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by rukuu001 6y ago
In the last week I’ve gone from using org-mode grudgingly in conjunction with a wiki, to just org-mode and realizing I’ll never be able to live without it again.
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by rukuu001 6y ago
Admin software for schools - ran into an ex teacher making an absolute killing selling some admin software to schools. And he’s one guy selling to schools in one state!
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by rukuu001 6y ago
Similarly, my 2015 MBP huffs hot air out from between the keys on the keyboard when it's overheating. Horrible in summer (I got a heat rash, then an external keyboard) but great in winter. edit: formatting
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by rukuu001 7y ago
What happens in my brain: - "The Beatles are..." This means we're talking about those 4 guys in The Beatles - "Metallica is..." Means we're talking about the band, not the 4 dudes. And when that change happens
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by rukuu001 7y ago
After the keyboard debacle, I can’t feel positive about this, much as I want to.
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by rukuu001 7y ago
Yes! Mental models provide context and insight to build on current efforts. They can’t replace effort.
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by rukuu001 7y ago
I have experienced this in myself, and other people many, many times. I still get a little pinch inside when someone sits down to examine my work. Especially since I work with a very wide range of technology, so I never really feel I'm
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by rukuu001 7y ago
Hey, this isn't completely bananas everyone. I can think of some examples of software that's like this now. Like Excel, BI tools, workflow tools etc. They don't cover all the requirements outlined in the article (like the bit
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by rukuu001 7y ago
I mean, I get this. I don’t think students should start with Eclipse - it’s a while learning curve on its own. But they should definitely be familiar with it by the time they graduate.
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by rukuu001 7y ago
Excitement has waned a bit. Seen as verbose. Also it's been used in places it shouldn't have been, so 'REST sucks' Over the past few years, APIs I've had to use have been around a 50/50 split between REST &
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by rukuu001 7y ago
This article is perfect if you're just getting started. There's lore around design tricks to get the most out of a database, but it's often implementation or domain specific. You'll learn what rules to break, and why, as
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by rukuu001 7y ago
> politicians, corporations, etc have real conflicts over zero sum games. Of course, there are situations where there's are incentives to cooperate. I have a great example, called the ‘mating call of the banks’ (in Australia, don’t
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by rukuu001 7y ago
What. A. Minefield. Here's what we're trying - When she or I are upset, name the emotion at the earliest opportunity, e.g. "Hey, what you said back there hurt me, and I'm kind of embarrassed to be hurt by something lik
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by rukuu001 7y ago
The tone on IH seems almost.. surreally unconcerned about all this.
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by rukuu001 7y ago
I think both your and the parent's perspectives are correct for different startups. I don't think life is going to change much for pre-revenue startups still trying to find a market fit. Now, they're back to square one workin
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by rukuu001 7y ago
In my experience any team anywhere can turn any codebase into soup! Strong tech leadership that provides good examples, institutes code reviews, establishes & follows standards etc is where nice code bases come from (even in tiny teams)
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by rukuu001 7y ago
I love this. - I love the way it looks - I love what it does - I love that it introduced me to philosophy.life
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by rukuu001 7y ago
> At least 95% of the challenge in querying data doesn't come from the difficulty of writing SQL statements IMO, but from the complexity/brokenness of the data itself. More and more of our consulting gigs are this - collating a
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by rukuu001 7y ago
I know, right? I read this: "As a bank regulator, I’d be outraged to learn that an applicant had misled me in that way." And laughed out loud. I feel insulted just reading that.
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by rukuu001 7y ago
Looks like absolute trash. DDG is search of choice now, !g a last resort
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by rukuu001 7y ago
My latin in-laws shake their heads in pity because I can't 'get' García Márquez, even reading in Spanish.
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by rukuu001 7y ago
Clear thinking and good priorities. I found it difficult until recently to make decisions about career and money, mostly because of the way status and security are attached to them. Giving that up has been really hard, but as I’ve learned t
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by rukuu001 7y ago
> another language is an entire other way of thinking about the world This has been exactly my experience (with Korean first, then Spanish)
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by rukuu001 7y ago
Yes, used it for a government gig. Who knows why, but the gov dept wanted Apostrophe. It was mostly good to use. Admin UI on mobile pretty terrible, but they weren’t worried about that. Most of the work involved configuring the CMS, customi
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by rukuu001 7y ago
Let's just consider some of the 'non-technical' issues surrounding the use of foreign keys. I've encountered resistance because - Using them would require up-skilling existing devs - They'd highlight crap data comin
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by rukuu001 7y ago
Utter silence from Adobe on this (I'm a CC customer)
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by rukuu001 7y ago
I was a junior enterprise dev at the time, and was largely shielded from any fallout. Felt lucky to have work, but safe. Now, I’m highly exposed to startup economy, older and spend more time managing than coding, so...... feeling a little s
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by rukuu001 7y ago
Just wait, one of the sports supplement companies is going to bring a potatoes-in-a-tube product to market.
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by rukuu001 7y ago
Syncthing as a Dropbox alternative I keep looking at hosting my own mail server, but get scared off by tales of config/maintenance dramas.
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by rukuu001 7y ago
I assumed it was satire

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