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by shireboy 1y ago
Stealing from the comments: “I bet the eggs taste better”
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by shireboy 1y ago
Was thinking the same. Not only would shifting industry to ECMAScript or something else get around trademark nonsense, but now that I think about it I do hear non-techy manager types get confused to this day and call it Java. Also seems l
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by shireboy 1y ago
I did same at first but then recognized it as something that has affected family members. Would be nice to find a name that is a little more respectful to the victims. I can tell you victims already have guilt/shame for falling for th
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by shireboy 1y ago
I have a family member falling for these on a regular basis. In their case it’s possibly tied to mental health issues. They are able to drive, converse, care for self, but are sending money to groups that are clearly not real (example: fun
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by shireboy 1y ago
Right- “where are all the aliens?” is answered by either “they don’t exist” or “they do but physics of the universe prevent them from moving between solar systems.”
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by shireboy 1y ago
This is interesting to me because somehow I’ve had in my head that if we develop the ability in the next couple centuries to send probes interstellar it would be a longer list of possible targets. What this makes me realize is the list of
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by shireboy 1y ago
Excellent! I’m a .NET developer who dabbles in Node and have been looking for a Hangfire alternative for a while. This looks like just what I would want.
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by shireboy 1y ago
One gotcha with roll your own task scheduler is if you want to run it across multiple machines. If you need 5 machines running different scheduled tasks, you need a locking mechanism to ensure only one machine is processing the task. In th
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by shireboy 1y ago
I dunno. I pretty much skipped over XAML, which is very similar for .NET desktop UI. Maybe this sticks better because it’s not MS? I certainly think current frameworks tend to be too much cruft for LOB/forms-on-data apps. But a spec
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by shireboy 1y ago
Well, sometimes I will, but for example take a simple list+form ontop of a database. Instead of building the UI and the database and then showing the stakeholder, who adds/renames fields, changes relationships etc. I will intentionall
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by shireboy 1y ago
This pretty much exactly describes my strategy to ship better code faster. Especially the “top down” approach: I’m actually kind of surprised there isn’t like a “UI first” or “UI Driven Development” manifesto like w TDD or BDD. Putting a n
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by shireboy 1y ago
My first intranet job early 2000s reporting was done this way. You could query a db via asp to get some xml, then transform using xslt and get a big html report you could print. I got pretty good at xslt. Nowadays I steer towards a repor
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by shireboy 1y ago
I’ve wanted this for a while. I worked on a bank app where the home rolled solution was atrocious. Line of business apps don’t make sense in Microsoft store. But really where I land is to greatly prefer web apps deployed to IaaS because
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by shireboy 1y ago
Totally understand why it’s not in the post, and it did help me understand mcp more. That said, that’s the issue: most articles I’ve seen are geared toward how to do a local-use-only mcp. In the ones I want to build I need to deploy into
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by shireboy 1y ago
I’m trying to wrap my head around mcp but auth and security is still the confusing thing to me. In this case, I get there is an oauth redirect happening, but where is the token being stored? How would that work in an enterprise or saas en
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by shireboy 1y ago
As bad and annoying as this is, I do think “we won’t pay the ransom but set up a reward fund in the same amount to find the perps” is an interesting approach. It turns the tables such that any of the criminals or associates now are incenti
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by shireboy 1y ago
.NET has made great strides in this front in recent years. Newer versions optimize cpu and ram usage of lots of fundamentals, and introduced new constructs to reduce allocations and cpu for new code. One might argue they were able because
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by shireboy 1y ago
Yeah, this resonates, and not just with software. I have a “jack of all trades” attitude passed down from my father and grandfather. If I don’t know how, I learn. I do my own large tree work, electrical, plumbing, car repair, and haircut
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by shireboy 2y ago
Interesting article. I’m currently trying to justify “tech debt” to upper management. The way I try to communicate it: we can move faster and better on business requirements if we delete unused code/upgrade legacy dependencies/
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by shireboy 2y ago
" It’s easy to blame the user's missing grasp of basic version control, but that misses the deeper point." Uhh, no, that's pretty much the point. A developer without basic understanding of version control is like a pilo
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by shireboy 2y ago
This take has a few problems: Poor people in the US are capable of using fluoride toothpaste and flossing. At least at homeless shelters at outreach things I’ve been to, toothpaste and toothbrushes are freely available. Your argument hinge
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by shireboy 2y ago
Speaking to the immigration point, as a US citizen who knows several non citizens I still believe you will have no problem and be completely welcomed as long as you enter legally through a port of entry and don’t overstay visa or conduct il
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by shireboy 2y ago
Yeah, I often have this problem and want some better way than a <hr/> (which doesn’t work in table rows or multi column)
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by shireboy 2y ago
This comes at a good time for me as I’m being threatened with a promotion from dev to management. But I have a question: I am being told that for SOX compliance, the manager approving a release can’t have any code in the release. Any devs
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by shireboy 2y ago
We homeschool our son and after a lot of trouble with an online course that used Saxon math, we landed on Math Academy. I found it much easier to use than Khan both for the parent and student. I do sometimes wish there was video content a
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by shireboy 2y ago
My read of this post is it's just this guy's word vs doge's. Doge says they allow nulls for TAS, author says they don't. I'm pretty sure in the author's example, though, the payment _could_ be created with a
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by shireboy 2y ago
I know. I like to think my compass points my humor in the right direction, but maybe it got turned around.
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by shireboy 2y ago
I’d like to. The whole field is in flux and it’s nearly impossible to find balance.
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by shireboy 2y ago
It is an attractive industry, but sometimes can be repulsive.
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by shireboy 2y ago
Yeah, I've landed on similar, although I wouldn't say it's bad for all dev scenarios. For small tweaks, or cases where I want a junior dev to do something I say explicitly ("add a bootstrap style input field for every p

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