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by skittleson 7y ago
It's been like this for years. Been losing trust in those major news sites. Ad blocker helps. Avoiding them is better.
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by skittleson 7y ago
Oh cool! Going to check this out. I've been using the node red dashboard for ui.
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by skittleson 7y ago
I'm dumbfounded... this totally makes sense. I know what my holiday reading will consist of now. Business books with no actionable or repetitive content bores me after awhile. The last few years I've been getting the cliff notes f
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by skittleson 7y ago
Those insights are right on. I respect those dev managers beyond measure... they have to say no often and deal with the org red tape.
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by skittleson 7y ago
I started with home assistant then moved to node red. Both have rich communities and plugins. If you want to do more javascript, use node red.
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by skittleson 7y ago
First thought as well. Didn't see a way it could determine that tho.
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by skittleson 7y ago
I can relate to the author. Worked for now acquired payment gateway that was for PCI compliance level 1 (over 6 million transactions a year). Getting upset over outdated practices by either the company or the security company testing our s
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by skittleson 7y ago
"Give each person a carbon ration" agreed. Achieving this with each individual could be the hard part where as enforcing a company to "behave" and/or limit consumers from buying excessively could be quicker win th
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by skittleson 7y ago
Raising prices does this but the side effect could be putting individuals that really need a product in hard spot. Creating laws on single use non-biodegradable material and/or the amount of it could be beneficial. This will increase
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by skittleson 7y ago
wordpress is great for quick sites. Long term maintenance is where I have been bitten.
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by skittleson 7y ago
Agreed. The answers always seem like cliff notes. Just enough to point me to other resources. Also, that expertsexchange drove me crazy... we gave in as a company to buy a subscription.
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by skittleson 7y ago
After using all the popular static and non static site builders, I ended up creating a single utility js with nodejs. Some markdown and handlebar support... a little scrappy but proud of it. Opensource too... https://docodethatma
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by skittleson 8y ago
Thought this book had good detail without going too deep for some dev work I was doing: "Practical Statistics for Data Scientists: 50 Essential Concepts" https://amzn.to/2MUmZt7
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by skittleson 9y ago
"a rather unique conversation with our investors about organically growing the business with it’s own cashflow and we structured a deal that accommodates that. So we’re not in a position where there is tremendous and urgent pressure to
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by skittleson 9y ago
I wonder that too. Even competing code review tools are very similar.
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by skittleson 9y ago
Being customer obsessed is what this implies in my mind. "The renewed focus on quality is designed to make sure the company can fulfill promises made each summer at the annual developers conference and that new features work reliably a
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by skittleson 9y ago
The biggest challenge for us was a bunch of small tasks that we HAD to do. It was driving us nuts until we realized we could either find a service, make it dead simple (MVP style) or just not do it until we absolutely needed to do it. We w
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by skittleson 9y ago
I had 3 screens for 2 years. Thought it would help but ended up being too many distractions. As a coder, i like 2 screens (IDE in one screen, testing in the other).
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by skittleson 9y ago
Working Effectively with legacy code ( http://amzn.to/2CazEm5 ) and The Design of Everyday Things ( http://amzn.to/2H23a0R ) Both have a huge impact on how I work with code and design them. Trying to explain
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by skittleson 10y ago
Based on fanboys complaining, a lot.
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by skittleson 10y ago
At least they are providing fraud protection. They handled it fast instead of just sitting on it.
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by skittleson 10y ago
Subjective. I actually like this design