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by scardine 10y ago
In consulting/freelancing it is better to know many things, but market yourself as a specialist instead of a generalist.
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by scardine 10y ago
Python saved my but 10 years ago when I was transitioning from operations to be a full time software developer. Back then I made the wrong technology choice for a project (OpenLazlo, a discontinued RIA platform on the frontend and PHP at t
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by scardine 10y ago
The real problem is: the conflict resolution process at Upwork is utterly Kafkaesque. Even if you have a perfect five stars reputation for two years, all it takes is one upset jerk and you are done at Upwork. Eventually you will step on som
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by scardine 10y ago
Families with one autistic child do have an increased risk of having a second child with the disorder. There are some evidence that hints to genetic factors. For example, we know that boys are at much higher risk than girls, but we don&#x27
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by scardine 10y ago
For anyone wondering what is PerfView like I was, let me spare you a trip to google: > PerfView is a performance-analysis tool that helps isolate CPU and memory-related performance issues. > PerfView is a performance analysis tool foc
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by scardine 10y ago
That is why I never talk about what people should or should not do - I talk only about some mind tricks that work for me. That said, I can concede a lot without pretending the universe somehow cares for me. I eat good food, and drink good w
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by scardine 10y ago
You just make up some meaning from thin air. All meaning is made up. Meaning is a human construct, as any other concept. Even if you disagree with me, you may concede that for all practical means the universe is infinite and the human mind
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by scardine 10y ago
Existence IS meaningless, this is the very beauty of it: you can give it any meaning you want. You can even give your superego a face and think there is a big guy in the sky that loves you and cares about what you do.
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by scardine 10y ago
I can't - and hell, I barely understand anything they say - but the style reminds me of how Asimov would picture an academic dialogue between two rivals.
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by scardine 10y ago
Probably RDS is just a layer over EC2, but I'm not holding my breath waiting Amazon disclose much information about their setup (I wouldn't). For Postgres at least you are not the god-like DBA, so I just trust they have all bases
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by scardine 10y ago
"No" is the second best answer you can hear, and many times it is the best one. The devil is in all those "may be".
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by scardine 10y ago
Thought it was about the Pony ORM (python)[1]. Perhaps the title should say "Pony Language". [1] https://ponyorm.com
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You made me picture a brain evolving some sort of internal lisp in order to build language processing optimizations. :-)
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It is hard to prove a negative (it is easier to prove the brain is something else). As much as Turing completeness seems to emerge relatively easy, given how the analog complexity of our nervous system contrasts with the deterministic simpl
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by scardine 10y ago
I think the primary difference between CMYK and RGB is that CMYK is a subtractive color space, while RGB is cumulative (I don't know if these are the correct terms in English). The first is used for reflective surfaces, while the other
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by scardine 10y ago
If only a clunky name was the worst problem with some software (even closed source) we have to deal with.
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by scardine 10y ago
The relevant question is "Why so many humans kill themselves?". Because asking the other way around implies suicide is natural, which is a ratter extraordinary claim.
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We know the court order is abusive and will be voided by an appeal in a few hours, so nobody cares. While it is blocked we may use telegram or resort to plain old SMS. The problem is that a Judge here in Brazil cannot be fired based on the
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by scardine 10y ago
If you don't understand why GOOD startups do this, take a look at the "Doing things that don't scale[1]" lecture from "How to Start a Startup" series by Sam Altman at Stanford. [1] https://clip.mn&#x
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by scardine 10y ago
As someone who have to deal with crappy proprietary software for some of my work, all I can say is that with open source at least I can fix a problem or implement a feature that is lacking - instead of bang my head on the wall waiting for t
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by scardine 10y ago
I use Django ORM and SQLAlchemy on a daily basis. The Django ORM is somewhat limited, but it is OK for what it is used for. SQLAlchemy is a joy to use, it maps SQL 1:1 but is way more secure and easier to use than string-based composition o
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by scardine 10y ago
Krita is for art, not for simple things - comparing it with paint is kind of disrespectful even if meant as a joke. It has an amazing selection of preset brushes and my personal experience with it is joyful.
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by scardine 10y ago
Developers are not bullshit-proof - they just tend to be lured by another type of bullshit. Many fall easily for the last shinny new technology.
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by scardine 10y ago
> Senior/Lead devs need to carefully curate what a projects foundation is. A strong, well designed foundation means you have something solid to build on. If you don't understand what's in your deps, haven't read their
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by scardine 11y ago
I'm a Python programmer. In Python, trailing comma are idiomatic, so I welcome this. Perhaps I'm just a lazy bastard, but it makes cut & paste a lot easier.
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by scardine 11y ago
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy[1]. Including water (water overdosis exists). A couple guys went into coma in a nearby Buddhist temple a few years ago. A dozen friends
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Pay $35 once and get a VPS for life: too good to be true?(cloudatcost.com)
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by scardine 11y ago
Now that my 2 years old son is officially diagnosed in the spectrum, I wonder if I have a toe in autism as well. I have to spend a lot of mental energy to get all the social clues and body language and all the things that seems natural to m
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by scardine 11y ago
I don't know back then, currently "they" are: $ whois fullscreen.com | grep Registrant Registry Registrant ID: Not Available From Registry Registrant Name: DNS Admin Registrant Organization: Fullscreen, Inc
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by scardine 11y ago
According to the wikipedia article[1], the Polish lacked resources to automate decryption once the Germans upgraded Enigma. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma#Po...

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