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541.
by scruple 4y ago
It's not Emacs fault that CSV is a garbage format. Anyone who has spent time dealing with CSV understands the hell that is lurking in it's shadows. I don't think the rants solution, though I did not finish reading it because
542.
by scruple 4y ago
Thanks for the clarification, I appreciate it!
543.
by scruple 4y ago
Can nano or pico do it? Can vim do it out of the box? For that matter, how does VSCode stand up to "very large" CSV files? I really don't know but I suspect this is less of an Emacs "problem" than it is a matter of
544.
by scruple 4y ago
Having worked in embedded, debugging through an Oscilloscope is a cherished memory that I sometimes talk to junior colleagues about. Knowing these things are possible can sometimes help people find more novel ways to think about debugging t
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by scruple 4y ago
I've worked with these people "on the inside." My belief is that, yes, some of them do fake their way in and manage to hang on for a shockingly long time. I also agree that some of them panic from the induced stress of interv
546.
by scruple 4y ago
Same here. In the places I've experienced with poor management and engineering cultures, what I've seen is management dictates all sorts of horrible, asinine things (like story points being treated as deadlines, etc.) that leads
547.
by scruple 4y ago
Where's the pragmatism? I personally don't open GB size files (that's not true, I sometimes do but it depends on the format and I tend to use vim (which is a very minimal configuration on my system these days, since I've
548.
by scruple 4y ago
Yeah, I've seen it, too. It's terrifying. Some of the candidates I've rejected over the years have verifiable years of experience yet can't actually produce very, very basic working code.
549.
by scruple 4y ago
I seem to recall reading recently that Go was showing up in their org. May be mistaken or misremembering.
550.
by scruple 4y ago
Not fib, but... I've written tests like this semi-recently for an algorithm that I had to devise. I went to Excel to generate the test data, based on a data pull from our production database. So, real production data, using a sequence
551.
by scruple 4y ago
I used my Copilot trial to explore writing tests more than writing code. I found that it actually worked well, especially for data and boilerplate heavy tests, like table-driven tests in Go. It was saving me quite literally dozens, if not
552.
by scruple 4y ago
> maintaining your course and hitting the object at a lower speed Growing up in the Midwest, I remember being taught (not sure if this was official or something I got from my father, older brother, or maybe an uncle) to quickly assess if
553.
by scruple 4y ago
My first role had machines like: ob-la-di for the reporting services server, ob-la-da for the nightly build server, etc. I always hated it. In aggregate the services on these servers belonged together. The sysadmin was just extremely casual
554.
by scruple 4y ago
It's a good read. Can be found here [0]. [0]: https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hu...
555.
by scruple 4y ago
Maybe she should've spent more time at the playground as a child.
556.
by scruple 4y ago
It wasn't money, specifically, but when I moved to CA back at the start of 2008 it was because I was in a similar situation. I was effectively trapped in a rural place without the funds necessary to relocate and development jobs near m
557.
by scruple 4y ago
FWIW, Basic Fantasy RPG [0] is in the process of converting to CC BY-SA right now [1]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Fantasy_RPG [1]: https://www.basicfantasy.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=
558.
by scruple 4y ago
Doing risky things in an environment where you can get help vs. an environment where you're on your own . There are good lessons to learn by taking physical risks in more controlled environments. Like learning not to take dangerous an
559.
by scruple 4y ago
My experience in embedded was great except for the: more work, less pay, more irrational management part. I doubled my salary moving to web backend services.
560.
by scruple 4y ago
Replaceable cogs, yes, that's been the push regarding programmers since the 80s? Earlier? Plenty of articles and rants online to read about the phenomenon as it specifically relates to programming going back to the 90s, also probably e
561.
by scruple 4y ago
And network, network, network!
562.
by scruple 4y ago
My direct experience with combating scaling issues in Rails applications always comes back to Rails itself. (ab)uses of Active record, specifically. And sometimes they're very hard to detangle. After well over a decade of doing this so
563.
by scruple 4y ago
> Aggregates are too heavy. You need to make the decision about what is or is not an aggregate way too early in the design process. Boundaries are fuzzy. I've had the exact same complaint. I think there's a lot of great stuff t
564.
by scruple 4y ago
Same. Hard stop at 40 hours. I have a family today, I have more important things to do. I wish everyone had the ability to not be afraid of their employer, it's liberating.
565.
by scruple 4y ago
I learned (the hard way), early in my 20s, to visit the facilities of every prospective employer and more than once I've declined to continue forward with interviews based on what I found. If they're not getting the fundamental ba
566.
by scruple 4y ago
We have 3 kids, 3 and under, and I maintain this rule in our household, as well. Once the kids are asleep, I clear the counter, clean it, and make sure the sink is clean and any dishes that need to be washed by hand are cleaned, dried, and
567.
by scruple 4y ago
I ran a team where myself and the TPM were local in SoCal, QA was remote in NorCal, and developers were in Texas, Chicago, Argentina, and the Netherlands. It worked surprisingly well but that boiled down to 80% having the right set of perso
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by scruple 4y ago
A former manager remarked to me one day that my one year old twins slept better than his 8 year old son. We've sleep trained all 3 of our children and I can't imagine our lives otherwise. I think we'd just manage to survive i
569.
by scruple 4y ago
With Calibre it's basically set it and forget it, as the DeDRM plugin (when installed) will strip DRM on import.
570.
by scruple 4y ago
Same device and set up. My children have gotten ahold of my phone when I wasn't looking and triggered it twice now. I have a box that I keep my phone in now, on top of the refrigerator. I used to leave it face down on the counter top b

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