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by seanc 6y ago
"Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live. I usually maintain my own code, so the as-if is true. " http://wiki.c2.com/?CodeForTheMaintainer
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by seanc 6y ago
This shows up in a few other places as well; Casino card dealers do all sorts of meaningful gestures Lifeguards do formal sign language things to each other Amusement park ride operators Astronauts and pilots do almost everything out loud i
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by seanc 7y ago
Yes, very much so. Abusers arrange for various forms of leverage over the people, ranging from emotional to financial, and then children or other dependents make everything that much more complex.
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by seanc 7y ago
In the worst case, yes. Most often as a creditor they get something like 20-50% of their pension. Then people often are forced to sell their house. It's devastating to be sure. And "super basic healthcare" might actually b
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by seanc 7y ago
I assumed the same thing. Quite the co-incidence. And yes, Bayard Rustin is absolutely one of the great heroes of the 20th Century.
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by seanc 7y ago
rsync most often uses ssh under the hood. And 'scp -c' will automatically compress and decompress your file, and 'scp -R' will walk a file tree for you.
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by seanc 7y ago
Who are you kidding? The way modern bankruptcy works (largely a good thing, btw), no individual is _really_ liable for the company's losses.
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by seanc 7y ago
I've been using Ubuntu on my primary work laptop for years now, and the only real sticking point is video conferencing. Skype for Business and Webex barely work. Google hangouts is n't bad, but often runs into audio trouble with
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by seanc 8y ago
To my reading, the article suggests that the reason why we have waterfall style development is because some guy at the DoD misread Winston Royce's paper. "In 1985 the US Departement of Defense wanted a documented process for softw
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by seanc 8y ago
I don't know about an accident, necessarily. It's got two important things going for it. 1. It lets everyone involved cover their ass. "All I'm responsible for is my function. There was a problem with my inputs, so n
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by seanc 8y ago
FOOF!
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by seanc 8y ago
If it's anything like the smaller ISP's in my area, his advantages are: - Vastly superior customer service - Simpler contracts; straight fee-for-service without any bullshit - Likely better price overall
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by seanc 8y ago
For those who want to support this work Grant has a patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/3blue1brown
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by seanc 8y ago
I can certainly say that no one else has made me tear up.
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by seanc 8y ago
emacs magit is the exception that proves your rule.
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by seanc 8y ago
Python regex library does this, optionally
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by seanc 8y ago
How is one of these different from an ordinary piezoelectric crystal oscillator?
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by seanc 8y ago
No docker containers?
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by seanc 9y ago
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " - Don Knuth
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by seanc 9y ago
The irony is that they were originally supposed to provide all of those things: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-gruen-effect/
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by seanc 9y ago
I am a father and I agree 100% IMO maaaaybe you could be married with no kids and do this ethically. But with kids? You're rolling the dice on a very important promise. I do struggle with what that line of thinking means for soldiers
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by seanc 9y ago
Unless the contestant is an ass about it, in which case they blow the secret wide open. That part's fun too.
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by seanc 9y ago
Those guys do come on the show, and very rarely win. The winners are most often low-profile professional magicians who make a significant income consulting for the famous ones. Inventing and selling tricks is an important revenue stream fo
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by seanc 10y ago
The Twilight Zone? Looney Tunes?
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by seanc 10y ago
Apparently many people are cheating on the capital tax: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/vancouver/out-of-...
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by seanc 10y ago
My understanding was that they might be able to crossbreed, but offspring are not fertile, e.g. hybrids such as mules and ligers.
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by seanc 10y ago
In google spreadsheets I can do something like: =count(filter(a1:z30>0)) where in Excel I'd have to make an extra column to store the result of the filter, and then count those.
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by seanc 10y ago
Forgive me, but without DKIM, reverse DNS and such, aren't these messages destined straight for the spam folder?
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by seanc 10y ago
The big win in Google spreadsheets is that functions are nearly universally composable. Unlike Excel.
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by seanc 10y ago
Plenty of people would just borrow against their BI stream, effectively blowing it all at once.

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