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by skipkey 2y ago
It took me like two weeks to figure out the babel fish puzzle. I almost gave up, but I could only afford one game at a time then.
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by skipkey 2y ago
You used to be able to get uncleaned late Roman bronze coins from the Balkans for about a buck apiece in the early 2000s, so I’d guess they’d be maybe $3-5 each now. Then you get the fun of very carefully removing the encrustations to reve
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by skipkey 2y ago
So I can kind of understand where the confusion comes from. I used this to buy my wife and I MacBooks last year. When I started the checkout flow I didn’t initially realize I was just applying for an Apple Card, rather than just being a l
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by skipkey 2y ago
A pretty good rule of thumb was always, $_ is most likely the thing you need it to be. Oh, there are exceptions, but in my experience they were generally caused by code that had been made inappropriately clever.
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by skipkey 2y ago
There are still quite a few accessible mines on public lands in Arizona. Well, generally the mine shafts themselves are off limits for safety reasons, but you can usually get to the tailings piles. In the last couple of years I have pulle
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by skipkey 2y ago
Depends on the size of the team. Startup or small team? Yes. Everyone is on call all the time. Large number of developers? Someone on every team is on call all the time, and leads need to be almost always available for large outages. On
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by skipkey 2y ago
If it has beans it isn’t Texas chili…
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by skipkey 2y ago
It was pretty common say 25 years ago when you would be developing in a terminal. When you were limited in the number of lines displayed, it sometimes made it easier to follow the code when functions and control structures were large. I kn
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by skipkey 2y ago
So I worked for RealPage for a few years in the late 90s and again in the mid 2000s, and at the time they didn’t hold a majority of the market. But it would not surprise me now if they held a majority of the market in large complexes today
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by skipkey 2y ago
It could be an age thing. When I was taught grammar 40 plus years ago, for someone of indeterminate sex, “he” was taught as always appropriate, “he or she” was a somewhat clunky alternative that was situationally appropriate where you were
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by skipkey 2y ago
When I got my first cable modem in maybe 1995, there were about half a dozen of my neighbors computers in Network Neighborhood. Most with unprotected shares and printers. Basically everyone running Windows on my C block. It got cleaned u
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by skipkey 2y ago
Right. It’s just now that’s a goal, not something to avoid.
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by skipkey 2y ago
I have video from my dashcam of a Waymo taxi doing a sudden three lane change, in moderately heavy traffic, to do a left turn to enter a freeway. This was a month or so ago. I really hope a human was involved in that. If not, there’s no
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by skipkey 2y ago
Even worse, you can get caught with no return flight. In late 2001, I was flying back home to Dallas from Prague, connecting in Brussels. And the airline I was on, Sabena, declared bankruptcy the very day of the flights. I got lucky, if y
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by skipkey 2y ago
My wife and I had a somewhat similar thing happen, one week before our wedding. She had a debit card declined at Starbucks. Someone had printed a business check with our account number, made out to a name that matched a dead person on the s
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by skipkey 2y ago
The very first ATM card I ever got, in the mid 80s in Texas, had a 6 digit PIN. When I got to choose it, it let me put 4 to 6 digits so I chose 6. A few years later they sent me my first debit card with a note that it had the same PIN. I
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by skipkey 2y ago
Many years ago I knew someone who managed a bottled water plant. They didn’t use tap water, they had a very deep well pulling from an aquifer. They then filtered the heck out of it, and then added back in a very small, proprietary mix of
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by skipkey 2y ago
The important thing is, the style needs to be consistent over the whole codebase. If most of the SQL has uppercase keywords, a small portion that does not will be harder to read. I dislike the PEP8 style for python, but I use it anyways, m
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by skipkey 2y ago
Depends on the regulatory environment you work in. If you are in anything related to the financial industry, when CVEs are filed, you absolutely do have to upgrade to the version that doesn’t have them. The company I was working for at th
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by skipkey 3y ago
For me, 100 percent of the sets with over a thousand pieces have been missing at least one, during the pandemic. Now that’s only 4 sets, admittedly. The smaller sets have all been fine, tho.
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by skipkey 3y ago
And I’m probably going to decline future meeting requests from you. Your project probably is only incidentally related to mine. If you give me time, usually a few days, I can probably help, when I get some free time. But if you are pushy,
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by skipkey 3y ago
I vaguely remember reading about that actually happening some years ago. Control system written in C++, bad data comes in from a sensor causing a floating point exception which was not caught locally, and the outermost catch code was basic
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by skipkey 3y ago
I will let you in on a little secret. Very few devs, full stack or otherwise, remember everything on any non-trivial system. What the experience gives you is the ability to read and comprehend code that is new to you very quickly. And “n
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by skipkey 3y ago
I generally left around 3pm to avoid the Austin rush hour traffic. Sure, I would occasionally stay late but I generally didn’t work much more than a 40 hour week. But this was Facebook games, with a daily release cycle, so there wasn’t re
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by skipkey 3y ago
A few years back I was working in an open office setting at a games studio and I got in a discussion with the branch manager about it. He was convinced that open office was a productivity multiplier. I asked him who he thought the most pr
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by skipkey 3y ago
Yes, plus a bunch of warnings for unsafe type conversions where the compiler did pointer to int, back to pointer conversions. In the process of cleaning it up I found at least a dozen serious bugs.
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by skipkey 3y ago
Everyone who has been around this game for long enough has scars. At one point in the early 90s I was asked to take over maintenance of a vertical market accounting app that had a few hundred users. It had been written using Lattice C, bu
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by skipkey 3y ago
Or what I find myself doing often: cat “filename.txt” Up | grep “thing” Up | grep -v “not thing” Up | grep -v “other thing” Etc. it’s just easier to build this way even if the initial cat is unnecessary.
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by skipkey 3y ago
It’s just a WAG, but I bet someone used a timestamp as a unique key, or at least part of one, so you were unlikely to get collisions except under load.
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by skipkey 3y ago
I’m fairly certain that I have seen this in our hood. Basically someone or something will cause the motion detection to trigger, and then the video cuts out. Sometimes it goes black, sometimes it’s noise. In the most recent case it was s

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