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by slotrans 4y ago
when Google killed Reader it (should have) taught us that the interests of software developers and users are misaligned everything that's happened since just further reinforces that lesson but it wasn't always that way when softwa
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by slotrans 4y ago
Not since 2012. Company ran on a big Oracle DB on very expensive Solaris machines. They started in 98 or 99 so this was a vaguely defensible choice. Several times we looked at moving the DB to Linux/x86 but Oracle's pricing made i
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by slotrans 4y ago
$150k/yr
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by slotrans 4y ago
DBT is a good (not great) tool, but DBT Cloud just doesn't provide any value, much less enough to justify $100/seat. Unfortunately the business is doomed unless they can come up with a new business model. Two friends work there so
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by slotrans 4y ago
Yes. I'm doing it. It's not particularly hard. Any American software dev makes enough money to do so, as long as they avoid the high-cost cities, which is now easy.
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by slotrans 4y ago
My 2013 BMW has 8 physical buttons that can be easily programmed to do whatever I want. It's awesome. Unfortunately this feature has been deleted from the newest models...
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by slotrans 4y ago
If it costs 1 extra human 1 full year to build then you (roughly) broke even on that year and are up every subsequent year. And it doesn't cost nearly that much.
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by slotrans 4y ago
Please don't. CSV is one of the worst file formats ever conceived. Use (compressed) line-delimited JSON if you need a file of records.
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by slotrans 4y ago
Article itself is fine but the "conclusion" is loony. You can't draw conclusions about big data from toy experiments with small data.
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by slotrans 4y ago
Other than being owned by Paypal, it's fine. The APIs work and are well-documented. A company I worked for used them for ~7 years and never had any significant problems that I recall.
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by slotrans 4y ago
I did a similar one. For folks who signed into our app with Facebook login, we would go get all their Likes, all their Friends, and all their Friends' Likes. There was some vague idea that we could use this for marketing. The data volu
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by slotrans 4y ago
What annoyed me about Mighty was that it represented giving up on having fast, efficient software on our own machines. We COULD live in a world where 400+ tabs (typical for me) didn't require 32gb of RAM, but browser authors have cho
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by slotrans 4y ago
Employers lie. Every manager out there trying to hire tech employees -- unless they are literally at FAANG et al -- is struggling. All the good talent is being hoovered up by companies paying twice what you can pay. Your company makes somet
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by slotrans 4y ago
Article is just an okay-quality overview of what you'd learn in the first half of any 3000-level Money & Banking class.
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by slotrans 4y ago
It's not a fallacy. It's true, and obviously true. It may not be true everywhere , but every company I've worked in that had "unlimited" PTO had far fewer vacation days taken than companies with a limited allocat
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by slotrans 4y ago
That's... how people make friends. Did you have friends in school? Same thing. Neighbors? Same thing. Soldiers that fought together and keep in touch after the war? Same thing. Befriend someone you run into at the gym? Same thing. Som
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by slotrans 4y ago
I absolutely agree with you. I would take a _significant_ pay cut to work in an office again. But around here, those jobs effectively don't exist anymore.
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by slotrans 4y ago
Telling the OP that this is the case. Offering them the opportunity to supply evidence to the contrary. The standard line in cases like this (whether it's a frozen payments account, a rejected app, or a suspended social media account
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by slotrans 4y ago
Stop asking me to sign in. I will never, ever want to sign in.
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by slotrans 4y ago
We had lots of convenient user interfaces on the web without JS. "The most simple things" absolutely do not require it. Simple things can be done in pure HTML. That's what the web has always fundamentally been about. You shou
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by slotrans 4y ago
You can also just... $ clojure some_code_you_wrote.clj It's a shame that this is either missing or well-hidden in the official docs, common intro guides, etc. It's not how you make a "real" application or whatever
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by slotrans 4y ago
> 100% your own boss I don't think those words mean what you think they mean. A more accurate description would be that you are your advisor's slave .
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by slotrans 4y ago
I quit my (economics) PhD program after one semester. Best decision I've made in my entire life. Academia is a meat grinder. Choose not to throw yourself in.
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by slotrans 4y ago
I use mine frequently. Any phone without one is a non-starter.
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by slotrans 4y ago
> Nobody is saying there's no use case for cryptocurrencies. There is no use case for cryptocurrencies.
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by slotrans 4y ago
I quit grad school after the first semester, moved back home, and took an entry-level software job at an internet company. This was early 2005. Completely different life than I would have had if I'd stayed in academia.
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by slotrans 4y ago
The characters are just obviously incompetent and/or malicious. I know it's supposed to be a story about the power of DevOps transformation or whatever but like... you could also just not suck at your job maybe?
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by slotrans 4y ago
Relevant: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/05/11/california-water-you-d...
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by slotrans 4y ago
I've been trying to read The Phoenix Project but it just fills me with rage. I took a break to read At The Mountains Of Madness . That made me feel a little better by comparison.
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by slotrans 4y ago
If by "cancel" we mean have the CC issue a new card with a new number but the same account, this doesn't always work anymore. The issuer may supply the new number to merchants who perform recurring charges.

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