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by schneems 1y ago
I feel that respecting the focus of others is also an important skill. If I'm pulled 27 different ways. Then when I finally get around to another engineer’s question “I need help” is a demand for my synchronous time and focus. Versus “
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by schneems 1y ago
The flip side of focus (to me) is responsiveness. A post to SO might deliver me the exact answer I need, but it will take focus to write the correct question and patience to wait for a response and then time spent iterating in the comments.
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by schneems 1y ago
I wrote and released a similar concept in 2012 in response to co-workers constantly breaking my code and not running tests before committing. https://rubygems.org/gems/git_test/ That was before we had a reliable C
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by schneems 2y ago
Pee drains still smell bad and require extra cost to plumb more drains. Nasty urinals are a compounding problem as the grosser the bathroom the further people stand from the urinal which means the aim is worse and the bathroom gets worse. Y
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by schneems 2y ago
Thanks for the apology, sounds like it was unintentional.
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by schneems 2y ago
FYI the post is from she/her.
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by schneems 2y ago
Look for a lead abatement company. The surface test kits only test the surface. A dedicated company should have a X-ray device that can determine if there is lead that has been painted over. Also get soil tests since houses with lead paint
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by schneems 2y ago
I work there. We are still around. Maybe not making waves as much as we used to but still hacking on stuff. Right now I’m in the progress of rolling out a new platform powered by Cloud Native Buildpacks that allow you to build an OCI image
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by schneems 2y ago
I was on a panel with the President of Wikimedia LLC at SXSW and this was brought up. There's audio attached https://schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/PP153044 . I also like Anna's (Creative Commons) framing
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A Daft Proc-Macro Trick: How to Emit Partial-Code and Errors(schneems.com)
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by schneems 2y ago
You can also brew install tools like gnused which have the same arguments. Not a viable option for all situations but if you just need to execute it on Linux and your local machine for dev you can use those.
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by schneems 2y ago
> truly revolutionary interfaces tend to require equally revolutionary hardware to match The prime examples given were about mixing and matching capabilities that most hardware already has. Most computers and tablets already have a micro
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by schneems 2y ago
Last time we changed ours (recently, maybe a few months) it gave us a message saying we were using untrusted ink and it now prints a black line down one side of the page. First time I’ve had any issues in years. TBH my first reaction was th
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by schneems 2y ago
> Cedar Park, Texas For those who don’t live in Texas, many people who live in Cedar Park would say they are from Austin. It’s a suburb to the North. I know an engineer from Firefly from years ago. She was always fascinating to talk to.
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by schneems 2y ago
Heroku (I work there) recently announced support for .NET on the platform https://blog.heroku.com/dotnet-support-on-heroku
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by schneems 2y ago
Speaking generally: It’s assumed that your contribution will be licensed with the current license (generally). Maintainers can change the license but that wouldn’t affect prior contributions. Basically anything up to that license change wou
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by schneems 2y ago
Thanks!
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by schneems 2y ago
This is interesting. One of the first ideas I had for an app was a calculator that represented digits like shown in the article but allowed you to write them with variables and toggle between symbolic and actual responses. A use case would
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by schneems 2y ago
What ended up happening? How did they get it out? Removed the moulding or something else?
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by schneems 2y ago
I liken this to the experience of playing an old school fighting game in the era before the internet. You would be mashing buttons when suddenly your character would do a power move. Then spend the rest of the day trying to figure out how t
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by schneems 2y ago
I consider any companies that would blanket prohibit open source contribution out of scope of my statement. With those that won’t even allow employees to open a bug report or post on a forum to be an extreme outlier. Especially in the conte
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by schneems 2y ago
I went to All Things Open and asked booth staff (of corporate booths) “do you contribute to open source at your day job?” All were a little surprised by the question. Most interpreted it as “do you release and maintain your own open source
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by schneems 2y ago
To add some nuance to the word "fast." When we optimize Ruby for performance we debate how to eliminate X thousand heap allocations. When people in Rust optimize for performance, they're talking about how to hint to the compi
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by schneems 2y ago
There’s a reason that storytelling is so powerful: The best information delivery is one you’ll remember. The two have a synergistic effect.
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by schneems 2y ago
I’m sorry you went though that. I had a friend die by suicide. Shortly after I met him for the first time IRL. It messed me up. I’m sure you’ve heard it before but for the gallery, there’s the “in the moment” suicides where the thought come
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by schneems 2y ago
That sounds like it could be interpreted two ways. On one hand you’re not the first to discover something, on the other hand your invention is validated as being worthwhile. In times like those (depending on how much work I put into it) I m
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by schneems 2y ago
That’s a wonderful and visceral story. To me science is about defining the bounds of the possible. To do that you also need to push the bounds and occasionally update everything you thought you knew. In the case of CS where we find new, low
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by schneems 2y ago
Sounds like a bit of survivorship bias. Every success from people following well known principles does not translate into a blog post or research paper. You also don’t hear about all of the people who failed because they tried something nov
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by schneems 2y ago
Are you disagreeing with the analogy by accident or on purpose? All metaphors and analogies are imperfect. They were refuting the idea that self healing == immortal. Your nitpick over the 30% number doesn’t really diminish that. Or if you’r
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by schneems 2y ago
I think part of what makes an artist stand out in a medium like this is that they are able to stand out in a medium like this. Going and seeing something like “the fountain” (Duchamp) is surely accompanied by many people remarking “I could

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