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by scardine 7y ago
It is one of the first skills you should master. - it is hard to make good money if you are not good talking about money. - talk money first - do not spend days writing a detailed proposal just to discover later your proposal is way over th
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by scardine 7y ago
Even when the ORM models start to get cumbersome I like to use sqlalchemy.sql to assemble SQL queries. It maps pretty much 1:1 to SQL and for me it beats the alternative (using text interpolation for composing queries).
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by scardine 7y ago
I can't remember the last time I started a project using MySQL, may be it is catching up - but PITR, partition tables and document-oriented columns are some features I use a lot. Postgis also used to be stronger then the MySQL counterp
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by scardine 7y ago
My pet peeve is the default clipboard behavior, personally I hate when I select text and it overrides the previous content in the clipboard.
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by scardine 7y ago
Interesting, may be I have some setting that prevents Cortana from annoying me and prevents windows from placing ads on the start menu. Not that I use the start menu often, generally I just hit the search box and start typing the name of th
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by scardine 7y ago
While all my servers are Linux, on the Desktop it is my last choice. Interesting enough I used to love customizing the window manager to death but I'm older now and I just want something that is consistent and works out of the box. Mac
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by scardine 7y ago
I think there is no way around it, good freelancers and good clients will cut the platform leaving there the naive workers and problematic clients. They survive by making you work for cheap when you enter the platform (kind of unwritten rul
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by scardine 7y ago
tl;dr: a very entertaining account of climate-change beliefs across history. Personally I found the writing style very pleasant.
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by scardine 8y ago
The "slowly boiling frog" is a good metaphor for failing to perceive a threat when change is gradual enough, but according to Wikipedia it is not real: > Modern scientific sources report that the alleged phenomenon is not real.
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by scardine 8y ago
Well, it is understandable. Winds are changing though... The lack of (enough) incentive for upgrading used to be a good excuse but with 3.8 we are getting a few performance updates that are hard to ignore. Also, many projects in data scienc
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by scardine 8y ago
I think you nailed it - I wonder how many of those installs are from CI tools.
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by scardine 8y ago
What I find most curious about Django/Python is that about 30% of the new installs are for legacy Python/Django (2.7/1.11): $ pypinfo --start-date 2019-01-01 --end-date 2019-03-31 -- percent --markdown django pyversion
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by scardine 8y ago
I think you may like the book "Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It" by Chris Voss. There are pretty insightful tricks there for dealing with extreme situations (the guy used to be a hostage negot
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by scardine 8y ago
The hardest part for me was learning how to spot good clients from bad clients. Reading the "Win without pitching" manifesto"[1] transformed my business (I'm not affiliated in any way). "Breaking the time barrier&qu
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by scardine 8y ago
We hire remote software engineers to work with Python/Django/Vue. We believe talent can be anywhere. Many companies will ask you to invest a couple hours of your life writing some toy project as a code exercise (often unpaid). Ins
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by scardine 8y ago
I guess you are getting downvoted because it would be really really hard to know if the all of the right 1s and 0s you need are there without restoring.
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by scardine 8y ago
Volunteering at Stackoverflow is a win-win game for me. When I answer questions there I'm improving my English communication skills while earning online reputation. I'm spreading knowledge and making the Internet a better place an
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by scardine 8y ago
For anyone interested in the history behind the NT kernel I recommend a book called "Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft" by G. Pascal Zachary - really enjoyed it. I think th
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by scardine 8y ago
My father abandoned the family when I was 13. I started working as an apprentice in the railroad at 14 in order to help supporting 3 younger brothers. My salary went straight to my mother. At night I was studying to become a certified elect
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by scardine 8y ago
In a neurotypical person the "GPU" of the brain is used for face and body language recognition. I like to think the "GPU" is used for other things when you fit the AS - it seems logical that when using different circuitr
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by scardine 8y ago
In the late 70's the rich boy of the neighborhood got a zx-spectrum clone (rich kids toy in Brazil at the time) but I was the only kid of the bunch that thought programming in basic was fun - all of my friends just wanted to load Kung
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by scardine 8y ago
Python's way is a good compromise IMHO: with open("/tmp/test.txt", "w+") as test_file: do_something_with(test_file) And you get test_file closed for free at the end of the block.
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by scardine 8y ago
The parent is pretty cynical and sarcastic but unfortunately I can't say it is far from the truth.
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by scardine 8y ago
Like almost half the globe I have astigmatism: > People with astigmatism (aproximately 50% of the population) find it harder to read white text on black than black text on white. Part of this has to do with light levels: with a bright di
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by scardine 8y ago
Your preference is backed by science: > However, most studies have shown that dark characters on a light background are superior to light characters on a dark background (when the refresh rate is fairly high). For example, Bauer and Cavo
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by scardine 8y ago
tl;dr: despite being relatively slow Python is a fantastic glue language. Some people thing rust is well positioned to steal Python's dinner.
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by scardine 8y ago
The thing I like about Django is that it is an opinionated framework so lots of decisions were already made for me. Flask is a not too distant second place. With aiohttp you can make neat things it is operating a level below Sanic - in my e
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by scardine 8y ago
There is an async Flask in the form of Sanic[1]. Looks quite usable compared to raw aiohttp or twisted spaghetti I had to help maintain a couple months ago. [1] https://sanic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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by scardine 8y ago
The point is that unless you are fiddling with the kernel, a Windows laptop with WSL makes for a great workstation for software developers. Even if I only develop for Linux, for me it is either a Mac or Windows on the desktop (my pet peeve
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by scardine 8y ago
The Linux Subsystem for Windows is good enough for my software development needs - the Docker Engine does not run in WSL but you can tell the Linux docker client to use the Windows server by setting an environment variable: export DOC

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