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by s_kilk 10y ago
>> but the problem is that this laptop can wake up randomly and if it's in your bag it can overheat. And there is no way to tell if it's on. Deal-breaker, right there. I had a hard enough time with a previous dell/ubunt
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by s_kilk 10y ago
I wonder if these kinds of teams are lead by extroverts, who appreciate having a captive audience for their peopley, extroverted shenaniagns. Having a stable of people who are contractually obligated to put up with their outgoing personalit
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Eh, it's pretty good, but as another commentor noted, Ardour has tended to lag behind other DAWs. For example: Ardour didn't get full Midi support until 2013, approximately twenty years after Pro Tools 1.0 launched with MIDI suppo
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by s_kilk 10y ago
It seems this kind of mistake just keeps cropping up again and again, from api results to programming language features. For some reason, people have this real, buring desire to return something that __looks__ useful, even in the most abjec
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by s_kilk 10y ago
One huge downside would be that older people tend to skew to the more conservative end of the political spectrum, and can end up drowning out the voices of the young. See the age breakdown of the recent Brexit vote for one example. I also r
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by s_kilk 10y ago
> If its less than 2-3 a week, I'd probably just opt to wait until the season is over. Apparently it's going to be twice per month
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by s_kilk 10y ago
We had pretty good (but not amazing) unit and integration tests in many of those systems, and a willingness to manually test the systems where we didn't have tests. If we had to lean on a QA department to get this stuff done, I'm
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by s_kilk 10y ago
It's pretty steep, and I'm not sure I'll be keeping the subscription going in a few months time. Yeah, yeah, "professional development is priceless", "it's less than the cost of a $whatever", herp der
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by s_kilk 10y ago
This is how we ended up with the "Shadow Sprint" at a previous workplace. A whole bunch of utterly essential engineering work was left out of the sprint process, so many of us would just go ahead and do what needed to be done anyw
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by s_kilk 10y ago
> To me, in ASCII, that's not a playful, smiling, stick out your tongue at your friend sort of thing, but rather an exasperated "Just found out I had to refile all my TPS reports. :-P". I'd wager you're in a pret
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by s_kilk 10y ago
"Ok, one last time... these are small, but the one's out there are far away" - Fr. Ted Crilly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS12p0Zqlt0
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by s_kilk 10y ago
... and risk of it escalating into a (potentially career-ending) Internet knife-fight.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
My point is that these are intelligent beings, capable of doing all sorts of amazing things. We can't presume that our users are no more than slavering beasts, incapable of understanding even the simplest things.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
I... I mean... these fuckers can drive, right? They pilot tonne-weight vehicles, at speed, amongst peers. And some of them are responsible for running the power grid, the government, food production, a bunch of other important stuff. They c
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by s_kilk 10y ago
> To see what I mean, load this Travis log in Firefox and compare with Chrome Wow, that one brought FireFox Dev Edition (OSX El Capitan) to a dead stop over here.
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Buzzfeed Minus Gifs(buzzfeedminusgifs.tumblr.com)
1 points by s_kilk 10y ago|0 comments
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by s_kilk 10y ago
As another commenter pointed out, not doing Brexit would be politically un-tenable, as it would basically hand power straight to UKIP, and further enflame right-wing/fascist sentiment in the UK. Denialism is not a useful response to ou
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by s_kilk 10y ago
> ...if you can mentor them... and if they'll take a mentoring. I suspect these "genius" programmers are damaged beyond all hope :)
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by s_kilk 10y ago
We could change "competent" to "capable", which may better capture the spirit of the argument :) The point is, this engineer, for all they're many, glaring faults, can get stuff done. Impressive stuff, even. And tha
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by s_kilk 10y ago
It's usually a combination of a competent but misguided senior engineer and a fleet of buisiness dudes who aren't qualified to assess whether the engineers work is actually any good. He'll seem to weave magic initially, and t
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by s_kilk 10y ago
> ...a government website that kept 9am-5pm hours... Sometimes this is done because the "opening times" are baked into existing process, (or in some cases, legislation), and so the digital replacement for the old meat-and-paper
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by s_kilk 10y ago
I got the same impression when I started looking at CouchDB in January this year. Seemed like it had been ages since the last release, and very little activity. Looks like they've just been busy for the past while working on this merge
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Follow up and responses to comments on the linked arcitle: https://medium.com/@theonlytoby/a-response-to-some-of-the-co...
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by s_kilk 10y ago
You go into insert-mode (by pressing 'i') and type whatever you need, then press ESC to get back to normal-mode. It takes some getting used to, but I could never go back :)
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by s_kilk 10y ago
> It's waking up the complacent establishment who thinks they can keep shitting on the working class. How so? Theresa May has just formed the most right-wing, anti-working-class Cabinet in living memory, while Labour are busy tearin
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Sure, if they want riots. Actual, people-dying-in-the-streets riots. Anything is possible, but not everything is politically tennable.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
As much as I'm opposed to Brexit, we can't simply un-ring this bell and pretend it never happened. The issues which lead to the Leave result aren't going to disappear, and ignoring the result will just add further to the (alr
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Why We’re Post-Fact(granta.com)
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Funnily enough, this is exactly what lead me from Clojure to Elixir. Parallel programming in Clojure is nowhere near as well developed as the glory of OTP on the Elixir/Erlang platform.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Re datetime filters: If the datetimes are ISO formatted strings, would regex matching not work for basic filtering? where json_field.datetime similar to '2016-07-.*' Of course, it'll probably be slow-tastic, and less

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