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by shireboy 5y ago
I think one point missing in these discussions is access to markets and wealth creation. As a “thousandaire” I’m not too concerned about what percentage of whatever anyone else has, as long as I have the ability to provide for my family an
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by shireboy 5y ago
Interesting concept. One thing that stands out as highly annoying to me is that the app breaks the back button. If I zoom into something, the URL changes as I do. However, if I then hit "back", nothing happens.
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by shireboy 5y ago
It’s all just strings. Make the right strings happen in the right place and the computer does things.
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by shireboy 5y ago
I'm pretty sure this is exactly how my ATT DSL comes in.
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by shireboy 5y ago
Most people don't know that the first bit of an area code is the evil bit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit
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by shireboy 5y ago
I’m a dev who got sucked into some ops/sysadmin work. Not a whole department, but I think my advice would still apply. The most effective thing I did was a custom script to test everything I was responsible for and send me a nice for
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by shireboy 5y ago
I’ve done all my dev work in a remote vm in azure for 3-4 years now and really like the model. I can start coding on one machine, pick back up on another, and zero dev-cruft on my local machine. I’m interested in container based ides for
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by shireboy 5y ago
I do ASP.NET core + vuejs for work and like it well enough. I’m also doing some projects in nodejs+Fastify+vuejs One weird thing: I prefer not using Webpack, full spa frameworks etc if I can help it. Just add vuejs from cdn and use it to a
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by shireboy 5y ago
I actually just did my first production serverless project and didn’t find the first point to be an issue. I banged out some nodejs, can run it locally for dev or at lambda for prod. It’s a small one-endpoint service, but it works great i
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by shireboy 5y ago
How is it powered? Also, it occurs to me that a hexapod may stir up less muck. Maybe a reason crabs evolved like that?
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by shireboy 5y ago
I'm in a position to recommend similar for a large organization, but am on the fence. They have SharePoint on-prem and Office, and are being pulled to Office 365 by MS sales folk. I'm definitely pushing to linux containers for a
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by shireboy 5y ago
I came here to post what you say not to, and was informed by your comment. Serious question though: what _should_ one say or do to help those who may be suicidal, both in the public and personal? I’ve known several people who committed sui
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by shireboy 5y ago
I could have used something similar recently, but that persisted to disk as json. I ended up just storing a wad of JSON on disk and memory, loading and saving as needed. Will only ever be 1M or so and only 2 users.
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by shireboy 5y ago
I think that's true even for kids in the same family. That in itself is a challenge though. When kid 1 gets A because it works for them, but kid 2 gets B because it works for them, inevitably jealousy and accusations of unfairness ens
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by shireboy 5y ago
> Above all, I read to my children. I did it every night without fail, except when I had to travel. This is the single most important thing I did for their intellectual development I second this. I'm pretty sure I'm getting a
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by shireboy 5y ago
I don’t think that’s an apt analogy. You have very little to loose by taking a few hours to spin up some new tool and see what it’s about. Even if you don’t use it, you know what it’s about and could if you wanted/needed. You don’t loo
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by shireboy 5y ago
How well did it work? I’ve often thought of doing this, but never had the time. In addition to north I also thought about having it point to an arbitrary location or to another person’s location. The latter could be used for hunter safety
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by shireboy 5y ago
This would allow for telepathy (send audio to someones ear by thinking it) and telekinesis (control smart devices with thought).
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by shireboy 5y ago
> Clearly these apps/platforms enable non-developers to solve a bunch of problems which would otherwise need a software engineer. I'm not sure that's as clear as it seems at first. Everywhere I've been involved with t
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by shireboy 5y ago
You're right - I think this is the only real way out of the dilemma. There are still some challenges with this approach, though: * stakeholders often need or think they need a whole estimate up front. A developer may explain MVPs, sp
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by shireboy 5y ago
I have a system that has worked for 10+ years but is failing somewhat. This thread is a treasure trove of things for me to try next, but this is what I do today: Pile up things to scan on dresser Periodically scan them into Evernote using
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by shireboy 5y ago
I’d point out this isn’t a problem with estimation per se but with requirement gathering. The students didn’t press him for more specific requirements before offering an estimate. The real challenge though comes when the customer doesn’t
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by shireboy 5y ago
I think about the 2010 article often as I develop- often little line of business apps etc I have to put first/last/middle on the ui and database because that’s what the paper form always had. I really wish for this, as well as ot
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Facebook takes down Nicaraguan troll farm(reuters.com)
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by shireboy 5y ago
Out of sheer curiosity, how does one go about reserving an IP address like this, or the ones CloudFlare and google dns use?
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by shireboy 5y ago
I don't really like the way attribution for these sorts of things happens. Conspiracy theories aside, we do have a history of questionable attribution (Gulf of Tonkin, Iraq WMD to name two). So a rational mind is right to be skeptical
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by shireboy 5y ago
Both require drilling that is a major factor in their cost and inhibit adoption was my point. Ground source heat pumps are called “geothermal” systems even though they don’t generate electricity.
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by shireboy 5y ago
Anecdotally, I looked into this when building our house, and can confirm - the bulk of costs was drilling, and it was expensive. When I did the math at the time, the cost of ground source heat pump over air source heat pump was several tim
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by shireboy 5y ago
That would be a really cool approach. Start the project by listing, in plain text, test criteria. Build out the app and tie it back to the test criteria in some meaningful way.
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by shireboy 5y ago
Who knows what the next 500 years will bring in terms of communication. I know some artists have experimented with aircraft grade aluminum and titanium as a medium for long-lived artwork. If I had to do something digital today, it would pr

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