scabbycakes

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by scabbycakes 3y ago
I get what you're saying, in effect a chicken and egg paradox with cars vs public transit. I think that's a fair argument when it comes to commuter transit, but ultimately the horses have already left the barn. The vast majority
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by scabbycakes 3y ago
Mass transit sounds utopian but is mostly nonsensical to Canadians who live outside of the few big cities and understand how goofy it would be to put thought into it. Toronto and Ottawa and Montreal don't represent the rest of the cou
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by scabbycakes 3y ago
I was writing code for a Raspberry Pico and a beginner at it. The Pico is hooked up to a little display with no documentation other than a few horrible convoluted and broken-english examples with hundred line functions, and I had no idea wh
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by scabbycakes 4y ago
I've been in the web development industry for roughly 17 years and loved most of it until Agile took over. Now everything is reduced to ticking off tasks and almost zero room for creativity. Meetings after meetings. Overcomplicated d
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by scabbycakes 5y ago
I've always seen this as a weird argument. Are people just opening and quitting their IDE/editors constantly all day? So what if it takes 30 seconds to start if it's done once or twice a day (or once a week or less in my cas
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by scabbycakes 5y ago
It sounds like I had a similar experience as you, I'm also 6'4". I had the largest Aeron and it was terrible, especially the hard plastic sides that pressed/cut into my outer thighs. The seat hurt after an hour or two w
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by scabbycakes 5y ago
Yeah I had been issued an Aeron at my office and although it wasn't the worst chair I've ever had, it did cause me a lot of soft tissue pain. After about eight months with the HM, I couldn't take one more day of it so I bough
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by scabbycakes 5y ago
What's more likely though: military experts who can't possibly know everything going in all aspects of not just the entire US military but also all of the world's militaries AND the private sector - OR - things are extr
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by scabbycakes 6y ago
I call it Made-By-A-Macitis because it's so common in this industry since MBP's are issued by default almost in web dev companies, which inevitably leads to weird scrollbars here and there on their startup websites until someone e
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by scabbycakes 6y ago
I imagine Trump's installed someone in charge of the USPS to destabilize it in a hurry in order to erode confidence in the USPS to be able to handle mail-in voting. Perhaps he'll get the public behind him enough to somehow stop ma
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by scabbycakes 6y ago
Oooh, good question! Anyone able to answer this?
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by scabbycakes 6y ago
Seconded - the code integration is fantastic as well. Intellij magically complains when I'm typing a SQL query in a string and get a column name wrong and all sorts of weird little things I miss when I don't have them, IJ is unbe
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by scabbycakes 6y ago
I can agree on the points you made about the system not having any need to be efficient, a government ran system is just not able to be lean - but as far as people just getting whatever they can for the heck of it, that's probably not
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Dramatic air traffic statistics resulting from Covid-19(flightradar24.com)
1 points by scabbycakes 7y ago|0 comments
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by scabbycakes 7y ago
Looks like it's scraped or coming from https://weworkremotely.com/
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by scabbycakes 7y ago
Whoah, Scrollbars abound! Feedback: Have a look on a Windows PC once before soliciting a million eyeballs.
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by scabbycakes 7y ago
I suppose as a user you could definitely look at it that way. As an investor I'd be worried about losing their churned-out merchants to other platforms like Etsy and Woocommerce and Weebly and about ten other platforms hacking away at
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by scabbycakes 7y ago
REALLY hard. What you might be seeing a lot of these days is that app dev companies go around buying up other well-established apps and/or their development companies just because they can't find an app to make or get traction wit
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by scabbycakes 7y ago
As someone who worked developing Shopify apps (NOT a Shopifyt employee to be clear), I can attest to the incredibly high percentage of shops that evaporate from the platform on a nonstop basis. Something like 80% of the people that would in
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by scabbycakes 8y ago
Great comment, your one paragraph really changed the way I think about East Asia. Thanks!
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by scabbycakes 8y ago
Mnn 360 years of United States coleslaw.
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by scabbycakes 8y ago
As a business owner I'd be VERY interested in something (fad or not) that cuts development time and complexity by a substantial amount. As a developer I want to use things that make my life vastly easier and lets me focus on the produ
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by scabbycakes 8y ago
Take all their time that you need and don't hold back. If due to all your questions they realize their onboarding process is weak then they'll at least know they have to put more thought into it. If you avoid asking questions th
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by scabbycakes 9y ago
There are other things, that's just an example of the startlingly poor decision making skills.
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by scabbycakes 9y ago
Try Nuxt. It has easy-peasy server side rendering. If you know Angular then you'll be at home with Vue (used in Nuxt), which is much nicer and a bit faster and smaller and a bit more useful for actual app-building than React.
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by scabbycakes 9y ago
Newish CTO who puts technical concerns before common sense decisions in a small company. Example: App is already crashing due to server load a month prior to black friday, his decision instead of optimizing things and finding the problems
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by scabbycakes 10y ago
ahahahahahah I tried the same https://i.imgur.com/dYcPDkX.png
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by scabbycakes 10y ago
Web dev here, 60% server side and 40% front end most of the time. - Windows 10 + Ubuntu (but never really use Ubuntu any more) - 2600k CPU - 16GB RAM - GTX 970 - two 27" monitors I used to have a Macbook Pro an
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by scabbycakes 10y ago
For web apps I would use anything BUT jQuery. For adding simple functionality to a web page , I would probably ever ONLY use jQuery. (Assuming plain js was going to be a hassle.) FWIW I haven't used much jQuery for about the last 3
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by scabbycakes 10y ago
I can see how that's annoying for sure. Some people like me see the discrete accounts as a definite positive though!

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